Who cooks?

[kay-jay]

i cook all kinds of stuff. wife is hopeless and i cook every meal. yes that means i get home from grafting all day sometimes 7pm and i have to cook for myself.


good thread this. i shall post loads of my recipes with photos of the steps as i cook it. but for now a couple of points

1) a curry paste is brilliant and is very much one of many genuine authentic ways to make a curry. hwever you need to make the paste yourself. it will keep well in the fridge in a mason jar.

2) the best tip for a decent chilli con carne is add 2/3 of a tsp of smoked paprika.

 

[Toxic Ted]

Im the son of a butcher steak everyday pretty much as carnivores as they come in my next life I'm coming back as a lion

Better be a good boy or you're coming back as a cow.

 

[rpm]

Been working late recently and what with pool, darts and the quiz 3 nights a week It was a struggle to eat anything proper so went back to student mode.
Sunday > little oil heated in saucepan, add chopped oinions on their own and cook, add mince and Brown, then add sauce of choice with chopped red & green peppers (cut top & bottom off, slice around the inners & pop out and bin, then slice & chop peppers to desired size). Simmer gently and stir for around 20 - 25 mins, then place 2/3rds in plastic containers (get mine when I treat myself to a Chinese).
Add Worcester sauce to pan and stir then serve & eat with rice.

When cool place 2 containers in freezer, then on desired morning remove a container from freezer to defrost. That evening is a quick re-heat and add tinned beans (even baked beans without the sauce) or whatever you fancy with a splash or 2 of Red wine and change rice for pasta or chips or salad. 3 easy meals from 1.

 

[zeebeedee]

Been working late recently and what with pool, darts and the quiz 3 nights a week It was a struggle to eat anything proper so went back to student mode.
Sunday > little oil heated in saucepan, add chopped oinions on their own and cook, add mince and Brown, then add sauce of choice with chopped red & green peppers (cut top & bottom off, slice around the inners & pop out and bin, then slice & chop peppers to desired size). Simmer gently and stir for around 20 - 25 mins, then place 2/3rds in plastic containers (get mine when I treat myself to a Chinese).
Add Worcester sauce to pan and stir then serve & eat with rice.

When cool place 2 containers in freezer, then on desired morning remove a container from freezer to defrost. That evening is a quick re-heat and add tinned beans (even baked beans without the sauce) or whatever you fancy with a splash or 2 of Red wine and change rice for pasta or chips or salad. 3 easy meals from 1.

See that migh not be gourmet food but it is relativly free of processed rubbish. Apart from the jar of sauce it's decent food

 

[rpm]

See that migh not be gourmet food but it is relativly free of processed rubbish. Apart from the jar of sauce it's decent food

You can always dump the sauce and just use Red wine with more veg Lol

 

[rpm]

Gently cook Chicken breasts on low heat in large saucepan until starting to Brown, add Bachelors chicken soup then add chopped peppers, oinion, celery etc. Serve with rice or salad or new potatoes.
Heat & serve, less than 20 mins all in.

 

[turnpin]

Fry up some onions and mushrooms in a little oil put some linguine /penne/or rice on to cook add Loyd Grossman tomato and chilli sauce to the onions and mushrooms chop up mixed seafood pack from supermarket when pasta is nearly ready add seafood to sauce and simmer for a few minutes only or it will turn rubbery plate up pasta/rice add sauce ....demolish with crusty bread.......if time allows make sauce with your own fresh ingredients....regards Turnpin....enjoy😛unk:

 

[Whyme]

Just had kebab meat and chips, Made by somebody else. My favorite way.

 

[Ray Stafford]

The nice thing about both wine and cheese is that no-one expects you to make your own.

Just finishing a very tasty cheddar "Tickler" courtesy of Mrs Tara P's recommend, and a bottle of yellow tail with its usual rich shiraz flavours.

Really noticeable how much more the Aussie Shiraz sticks to the glass, compared to the South African pinotage that I had been swilling recently.

 

[kay-jay]

Fry up some onions and mushrooms in a little oil put some linguine /penne/or rice on to cook add Loyd Grossman tomato and chilli sauce to the onions and mushrooms chop up mixed seafood pack from supermarket when pasta is nearly ready add seafood to sauce and simmer for a few minutes only or it will turn rubbery plate up pasta/rice add sauce ....demolish with crusty bread.......if time allows make sauce with your own fresh ingredients....regards Turnpin....enjoy😛unk:

if time allows? surely you need to wait for the water to boil for rice or pasta plus time to cook it, i always use this time to make a fresh pasta sauce.
always always always absolutely no excuse not to. jars of sauce are evil, full of salt and/or sugar. make your own and you know exactly whats in it

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Me to Kay-Jay, bacon mushrooms onion garlic and a good old tin of chopped tomatoes and you've got an easy sauce, oh and basil and pepper.

 

[kay-jay]

i use a bit of olive oil sweat some finely chopped onions or shallots and a bit of garlic, mushrooms finely chopped a fresh chilli and passata as a a sauce base season with salt and pepper. its well nice with king prawns and linguine or mackerel or chicken

fresh basil to garnish and a ton of parmesan😛unk:

 

[kay-jay]

horrendous punctuation in above post. but you get the idea.

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

Your right about jars though, they are expensive and often filled with carp!
i did start making my own pasta but it's quite time consuming and my missis said she doesn't want to eat pasta every day!

 

[kay-jay]

nowt wrong with dried pasta. i use napolina or if i can find it DeCecco.
i can only see a benefit to making your own if you eat fresh pasta.
if you do as the italians and i do and dry it then you may as well just buy it dried as its only pennies

 

[Ch4 plumbing]

It's not just the taste it's the whole making it and sense of achievement that I like mate.

 

[zeebeedee]

if time allows? surely you need to wait for the water to boil for rice or pasta plus time to cook it, i always use this time to make a fresh pasta sauce.
always always always absolutely no excuse not to. jars of sauce are evil, full of salt and/or sugar. make your own and you know exactly whats in it

Sometimes I would use a pasta sauce for ease until I looked at the ingredients. Countless chemicals I couldn't even say and 27 grams of sugar!!!!!!!! Never again.

 

[kay-jay]

yup and who knows what all the additives and preservatives are doing to us.

i cook everything from scratch including soups. only thing we have in tins is tuna and baked beans,

 

[kay-jay]

i do buy the occaisional jar for time saving but i dont get the crap from supermarkets. i only buy these ones
pics to follow

 

[zeebeedee]

yup and who knows what all the additives and preservatives are doing to us.

i cook everything from scratch including soups. only thing we have in tins is tuna and baked beans,

Giving people cancer basically!! Look at cancer rates in our nans time it was considerably lower. I'm a big beliver that's because they didn't have chemicals in everything. In the air in the water in food basically all around us. I had this conversation with my nan the other week and used a bottle of mint sauce as an example. It was full of chemicals where in her day they would have made it fresh from the garden.

I was reading an article about a study done on people living in isolation I'm tribes and at the time Inuit people before they became westernised and cancer rates where practically non existent.