The what's for dinner thread
 

It just dawned on me that nobody has mentioned what they're cooking / cooked for dinner, tea, call it what you want ???

So here goes, Tonight I cooked 2 meals ( kids :shrug: )

1 ) Pasta with cajun chicken in a hot and sour sauce

2 ) Rice with garlic chicken in a garlic and mustard sauce

Now, I cooked for 4 peeps ( just enough ) when the g/f's youngest decided she was coming over :mad:

What did I end up with ?????????? Ox tail :erm: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: not everyones cup of tea but to me, mothers milk ;)

So, what did you have / make tonight ?????

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I did a buffet sort of thing for all the family coming over (except for the youngest who is at uni :cry: )
And chocolate birthday cake! :drool:

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Oh yeah, birthday cake, was that cake or cakes ( for all the candles )

:p: :Sprint:



Happy b/day Chim :)

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it was something from morries , spicy chicken and fries

and for me it was a garlic cheese bread :drool:

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Thanks Bop - one cake and no candles - at my age with that many, the icing would melt! :Yikes:

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Hash browns, salad, and steak cooked to perfection. Bloody that is :)

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I'm one of the fortunate ones, I can eat my steak all ways and enjoy it, at the mo i'm leaning towards medium well

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I had my Grandad over tonight so: me, my brother and our grandad had steak & kidney pie with mash and green beans while my mum & dad had chicken with rice. For dessart we had mince pies with custard.

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it has to be at least, warm, so a 'nearly raw' steak has to be small & tender?

but, yes, medium well, especially when that means the inside is still 'pink', while the outside is 'slightly charred' - :drool:

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Pie an' mash.... :D nout wrong :tu:

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Been to Blackpool for the day with friend from work so cooked sod all, we went in Yates's for rump steak with all the trimmings :drool:

now feeling a bit peckish so stuck some hash browns in with loads of salt on

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I was shown a way to cook a steak on a braai ( bar b que ) that i've not been able to reproduce. The method is simple enough, but it must just be experience / timing, produces a rare steak, but well cooked on the outside

It goes like this, get your bbq well lit, make an oil based marinade and soak the steak, when the flames of the bbq are well above the grill slap the steak on, leave for 30 seconds, soak in marinade again and slap on, other side of course. Sounds easy ( flame grilled steak ) try it and see.

I loved it, just can't get it right :(

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Warm is nice yes :), but I like the inside to be red rather than pink. Unfortunately, in this country it's virtually impossible to get that in a restaurant. I order rare, and 9/10 times it's not even pink :(

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If / when eating out I always like my steak plate warm/hot, there's nothing worse IMO than getting half way through a rare steak, only for it to go cold :mad:

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30 seconds each side sounds a bit too raw, but otherwise I'm drooling :)

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For lunch I made something quick. A chopped in half croissant filled with cherry tomatoes, cucumber, a slice of ham, and a slice of cheese.


Tea.... Chinese style pasta with chopped up pieces of chicken and mixed vegetables stir-fry style.

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A warm plate is a good idea, but what really bugs me, is when you know it's a good steak, but it could have tasted so much better if it had not been cooked to death (even though you ordered rare).

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An over cooked steak is like trying to eat a piece of plastic.
Un-eatable !!!

(On a similar note, we won a barbecue today so will be doing some nice grilled food at the weekend I think)

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I do cook most of the meals and on tonights menu it was.

Fresh Salmon ( great fish stall on our local market)
cooked in white wine with Dill.
Potatoes au gratin
Brocolli
Carrots with Tarragon
Hollandaise sauce.
Washed down with a White Zinfandel ( lovely fruity rose) and an Aussie Merlot.

And I did the washing up afterwards. :angel:

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You would think so, but the results ....................:drool: of course, depends on the thickness of the steak, as you well know :tu:

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As the actress said to the bishop.;)

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ohhhhh sounds lovely and I know my way to Shaw ;)

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:rolleyes: sigh, it always boils down to this on here :p: how did you turn dinner around to sex ????? :D

EDIT : never mind, its the question all lads want the answer to :D

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IMO the best way of turning anything into sex is cooking the lady a nice dinner ;)

Is that my coat?

Edit: and I wrote that before your edit :)

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Ahh, great minds :tu:

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Well it must be me cooking for England ( again ) tonights speacial is

Strips of spicy beef with mushrooms, peppers, and spring onions in a spicey garlic sauce with pasta twirls ( the g/f likes pasta ) :shrug:

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More sex then, Bop? :Sprint: :D
Dunno what we are having yet, something veggie once I have collected himself from work! :PP:

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In from work - starving, want something quick & easy - so it's going to be Sausages, Chips & Beans ;)

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Was that an offer Chim :naughty: :Sprint::p:

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:erm: And what wine would the gentlman be having with that :shrug: :D

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Oooer!!!! :Yikes:
I'll be too busy cooking dinner! :rofl:
Actually I might take a leaf from Homer's book and have sausages chips and beans - Tesco Vegetarian Lincolnshire sausages of course! ;)

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With all this talk of cooking, I just remembered my days as the naked chef :Yikes:

Live on the www :D

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Erm chips were last night ;) No doubt I will think of something nice for dinner, since I cook it more often than not :p:

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:nono: :D
Well I would have said it's more 50/50 but then I would, wouldn't I? ;)

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That's right 50% of the time you decide on what's for dinner and 50% of the time I do ;) :p:

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Must be the night for sausages were having sausage casserole! :D

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just finished the washing up & will now partake of a nice smooth South African Shiraz Pinotage (red of course ;) ) :D

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Now there's spooky....

mine's sitting in the oven now... don't think it's going to be ready when the recipe says it is though...

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:idea: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: will have a look see what i have in the cellar :D :rolleyes:

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Get a room!! ;)

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hopefully its not Chim! :D

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I've just been fed plastic chips,bacon and toast ;) :D

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You've been to Mc Donalds then :rolleyes: :D :p:

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talkin' of sausages.....we just had toad in the hole, one veggie one not:)

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hmmmm Steak and Kidney pie washed down with a few glasses of Brouilly

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Vegetarian toad in the hole for us (courtesy of Tesco! ;) ) and we have a whole house Gary!! :PP:

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how about a nice tempura battered prawn sweet and sour with rice :D :D :D

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lol - there is something wildy decadent about having Beaujolais with Steak & Kidney Pie - sounds great :drool:

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Beans on toast with Cheese and Brown Sauce (just had mmmmm!)

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You wait till the 3rd thursday of November. It'll Pie and Nouveau :D

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uh huh, some things just best kept in a cellar :D

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- that's not a bad idea :tu:

- sometimes it's difficult getting the hostess trolly down the stairs ;) :D

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I'll be off to Waitrose that day as they normally have Nouveau from Georges Deboeuf and imho he does the best beaujolais

http://www.duboeuf.com/

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Mum's steak with fried mushrooms, swede, jacket potato and mustard sauce.

Yummy. The sugar-fried onions, on the other hand? :(

To me they smell of that horrible smell of new cheap plasticy stuff that gives you a headache, if you know what I mean!? :shrug: :D

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Nearly as difficult as getting the hostess upstairs :naughty: ;)

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thats harder, gravity fighting you as well!!

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Just gonna have Salmon Fishcakes with Garden Peas/Sweetcorn and New Potatoes boiled in Mint Sauce

in between trying to watch The Matrix on channel 5 :D :D

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Beaujolais Nouveau...... :sick: Thats almost a Chav drink.:p:

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It all depends on the year Jim :D

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Tonight's Menu.

Seafood Tagliatelle.

Diced Onions, Peppers and a small amount of Broccoli.
Fresh (live until they hit the boiling water ) Mussels.
Extra large King Scallops.
Large Prawns.
Fresh Egg Tagliatelle
Tomato & Mascarpone Sauce.

A Nottage Hill Chardonnay, a Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon & a Californian Merlot should wash that down a treat.

Have not decided what to give the others to drink yet.;)

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:drool: - well except for the Chardonnay ;)

- Spaghetti Bolognaise for us tonight, Mrs Gaz in charge :)

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Were having a quick dinner today as I want to get drunk. Just got back from my last exam of the year (well only had 2 but it was bad enough) so its scampi, chips and mushy peas :yum:

Oh and for wine, I've got a loverly Shiraz Mataro by Banrock Station :D

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Chicken and rice, don't know what sauce i'm gonna knock up yet :shrug: not really in the mood for it

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curry/korma one veg one chicken

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Good choice of wine, dellwear, a nice fruity Australian ;) - enjoy :cool:

- our spaghetti was yummy, been using wholemeal spaghetti, recently - good if you like your 'al dente' to lean on the chewy side ;)

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Well its Thursday, so it is fish again, the stall on the local market never ceases to amaze me with the choice but today I played safe,

Fresh Sea Bass, cooked in the oven in foil with wine and Dill.
got to be Hollandaise sauce again with this fish.
Seasonal veg, carrots, peti pois etc.

To drink I had a very nice, crisp and ultra dry Frascati, the wife is not into vin blanc so she had an Antipodean Chiraz Reserve, nice choice, it goes really well with a mature Cheddar and a couple of pieces of Cadbury's finest.

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last time we had sea bass, it was the wrapped in wet paper & baked in the oven method - bit of fennel & some dill & lemon juice, lovely :drool: - yours sounded lovely, too :drool: - but if you do it in wet paper, the skin/scales should come off, stuck to the paper, when you unwrap it :)

and watch out for the escolar - 'fake' sea bass that cause all sorts of gastric chaos :eek:

- oh, & currently asda south african red ;)

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Salmon, potatoes, mixed vegetables and garlic muchrooms.

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Bacon Sandwich, washed down with a cuppa :tu:

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Sausage on toast with a cuppa :drool:

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you dont mean sausage and beans on toast do you :drool:

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no, thought about that but decided to give the beans a miss :erm:

also loads of brown sauce on the sausages ;)

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All these late breakfasts, its quite funny but I have just had, bacon, sausages, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans with an oven bottom muffin and a pint pot of tea.

To tell the truth I normally do this for Sunday lunch, but we took my daughter and her boyfriend out for a meal last night to celebrate her birthday, the food was excellent and the wine flowed........and flowed...........and then the brandy ......got in very late and did not feel up to tackling my usual Sunday lunch until now.:)

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Noooo the first christmassy avatar :Yikes:
Well we just had home made vegetarian spaghetti bolognese with garlic bread pizza :) Didn't taste too bad ;)

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It was the sound of a Cuckoo that made me do it,;)

I bought a pack of Simpsons sausages yesterday and even they have got Seasons Greetings on the label.:rolleyes:

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Tonight's offering was:

Salad, Grilled Lamb's chums with Gorgonzola butter, and chips (proper chips: slice potato, deep fry for 6 mins at 160 Celcius, and then a few more minutes at 180 Celcius) :drool: Oh, and a nice bottle of Rioja :)

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for my tea tonight i had a home made Pasta Bake :) very nice to

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mmm had Spag Bol and a glass of Brouilly mmmm

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Mother in laws home made tater pie.;)

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lol - we had spag bol, too, mines an Australian Shiraz :tu:

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just cooking some battered sausages i got from tesco's , supposed to be like the one's you get from the chippy , they look nice :drool:

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Tonight, I 'ave been mostly eatin' burritos & beer.

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Tonight -

Some Broadside in the pub after work, & then, to eat, battered sausage & chips from the chippy on the way home

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damn nice i fact :D :D :D

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Chips too? Can't have battered sausages without chips!

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no just the sausage in a bun , with chips and curry sauce next time :drool:

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No cooking tonight for me, McD's on the way home from work. Quarter Pounder meal :drool:

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I can smell the mother in law's stew and dumplings.....

MMMmmm :)

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:LOL:

just had to laugh at the last few posts, with battered sausages & chips & McD's etc - on the day this new Govt. white paper comes out, on the health of the nation. I'm not having a go, it just seemed ironic ;)

oh & last night we had deep fried battered scampi, deep fried chips, & beans ( which can contain loads of salt & sugar) :D

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ASDA's Chicken Tikka Masala in the microwave :rolleyes:

Haute cuisine or what?

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just make sure it is piping 'haute' - we mean it man, even if the pack says 2 minutes, if it is still cool, don't eat it. :D

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lol :D

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I read: I can smell the mother in law's stew and dumpings..... :erm:

Must be me ;)

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Due to laziness, I'm not cooking anything tonight...

...Just ordered a pizza instead, plus some profiteroles :drool:

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Being the sad, lonely, muppet that I am (not to mention lazy and v.busy with getting my new flat straight) I opted for a Birdseye Microwave Sunday Roast (for 1). Mmmmmm, processed veg, reheated chicken and dodgy gravy, drool........

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Roast leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary, thyme and lemon stuffing, roast parsnips, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, cauliflower with butter drizzle and flashed under the grill and green beans, all topped with 'proper' gravy.

Late lunch I know, but I've been on nights :) and 'eat when I'm hungry'

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Batchelor's Super Noodles To Go - Chicken Chow Mein Flavour.

Got Physics coursework due in tomorrow so I'm going to stay up all night to do it. I've left it until the very last minute, as usual :rolleyes:

The exact same thing has happened with my Maths and Biology Coursework before now.

Ah well, I enjoy it in a strange way.

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Nothing fantastic, gonna do me a pot noodle, beef an' tomato...... hey, i'm knackered, so its quick and simple time ;)

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Yesterday, we had someone over for dinner, so I cooked Gambas al Ajillo (Prawns with chili and Garlic cooked in sherry/lemon juice), followed by Paella with drumsticks, prawns and Mussels, and some Manchego cheese for dessert.

Today the missus cooked squid in an Italian tomato/parmesan sauce.

YUM :)

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I think i need to come around yours for dinner. :)