Cooking a new meal every week for the next 6 weeks, suggestions?

[smit101]

Any Roast meat,Sprouts,Broccoli and cabbage,butter on veg with salt and pepper! If you roast a chicken shove an onion and a few cloves of garlic in the carcass,also put butter on top of the chicken to stop the breast drying out. I can't stand shrivelled,dried up breasts!

Ridiculously simple and lazy but it's good food and tastes great,so what the hell!

I don't usually bother with potatoes but if you want roasties,par boil some spuds,put some oil on them,I prefer goose fat or oil from whichever meat i'm cooking and shove 'em in the oven until crisp and brown.

I probably do 3 or 4 roasts a week! Loads you can do with the leftovers too,curries,omelettes,stir frys. Never clean the oven,it adds flavour to the meat.

 

[vicisthebest]

I make a really nice cod and chorizo sort of stew thing...

To serve 2/3:

1 onion,
1 red and 1 yellow pepper,
clove of garlic
1 pack of chorizo slices (about 75-100g)
1/2 teaspoon of paprika,
1/2 fish stock cube (but I've done it without)
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 tin of chickpeas
2 pieces of cod loin (about 300/350g in total), cut up into large chunks
flat leaf parsley to serve

1. Cook your onion for about 10 mins, add your chorizo, cook for another 5 mins and then add the peppers, garlic and paprika. Cook for about 3-4 mins.

2. Dissolve your stock in 100ml water. Pour into the pan with the other ingredients. Add the tomatoes and chick peas.

3. Season with S+P then cover and cook for about 10 mins.

4. Put the cod on top, ladel a bit of the mixture onto it, then cover again and cook for about 8-10 mins till the fish is cooked.

5. Put the parsley on top and voila.

Absolutely delish. I've served it with rice, and have also just had it by itself. Depends how many you're cooking for.

Haven't read the whole thread so hoping you don't hate fish.

Enjoy

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Pork shoulder ,chopped onions ,garlic,carrots,BBQ sauce of choice and a tiny bit of water put it all in the slow cooker for 12 hours on low yum yum

 

[ash_scotland88]

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Unfortunately I can't eat dairy (yes I've been diagnosed ) so please don't suggest things where milk/cheese are fundamental to the dish.

Is it actual Dairy or just lactose? You get lactose free milk and cheese, cheese is a rubbery mild cheddar mixed with mozzarella taste.

 

[jamesblade]

Tuna pasta bake, use plenty of pepper and worster sauce, you'll need to use the false cheese to put on top half way through though, finish off with mixed herbs, tomatoes and mushrooms sliced on top.

Takes about 45mins in 1 dish = result, 25 mins with pasta and sauce, then 20 odd mins for toppings to get done.

Add a nice flat garlic bread to eat along side it.

simple and nice if seasoned well ..

 

[Inquisitor]

Risotto!

 

[Mark A]

Steak and ale pie is very easy to make. Just cook beef, onion, mushrooms in your favourite ale till the meat is tender, then plonk it in the oven covered with some puff pastry. Also add salt and black pepper, worcester sauce and English mustard to add a bit of taste.

Serve with mash, carrots and broccoli and onion gravy.

 

[HungryHippos]

Sausage Pasta is good too, pretty easy to make, I make it all the time

Requirements:

Sausages (want 2-3 medium sausages per person, I normally just freeze the rest).
Onion, pref. Red Onion.
Chopped Tomatoes - you can get these in little cartons or cans.
Tomato Puree
Herbs (Oregano is good)
Salt/Sugar
Garlic
Pasta, I normally use Penne, but you can use Linguini or something instead.

Method:

1. Heat a frying pan with some oil for 2-3 mins until the oil is heated.
2. Take the skin off the sausages, and cut into small sections.
3. Using your hands roll the sausage sections into small balls.
4. Add the sausage balls to the pan
5. Cook on a medium-low temperature until the sausages are done. Turn occasionally to keep them cooking evenly. Meanwhile:
5) a. Chop half a red onion into small sections.
5) b. Chop a couple of garlic cloves into small sections.
6) When the sausages are roughly done add the onion + garlic and allow it to cook for 2-3 minutes.
7) With the onion and the sausages ready, add your chopped tomatoes.
8) Mix it all in, then add your herbs (Oregano), Sugar or Salt depending on preference, and your tomato puree.
9) Cook this for a little while on a very low heat, Sausage Paste is best cooked slow. To get best results you will want to leave this to cook for anything up to 30 mins.
10) Roughly 10 mins into cooking above cook your pasta, so it should be about ready to serve when your sauce is ready.
11) Once everything is done you can eat, you can either mix in the pasta and the sauce or place the sauce on top of the pasta. Normally I mix it in.

w000

 

[WoZZeR]

Every Saturday recently we have tried a different Waitrose recipe from the cards you can pick up in the store, so far our favourites are:

http://www.waitrose.com/recipe/Fragrant_chicken,_kale_and_lemon_grass_stir_fry.aspx

and:

http://www.waitrose.com/recipe/Chinese-style_salmon_parcels.aspx

It is fun trying these recipes.

 

[Makhaira]

Personally I'd pick dishes that you can either make as a big vat, giving you frozen "easy meals" for the future, or something like a roast where you have sandwiches for several days after.

So, I'd suggest:

- Chilli
- Bolognaise
- Curry
- Roast ham (criss-cross the outside with a knife, and rub with a mixture of honey and mustard, plus stick a few cloves into the outside, it takes 5 minutes to prep and it's fantastic)
- Also, when you do roast poultry, get into the habit of making stock with the leftovers. Get a slowcooker (less than a tenner new if you don't have one), throw in the carcass of the bird, with a good measure of salt and pepper, a quartered onion, and a carrot. Leave overnight, and you'll have some beautiful stock that you can freeze down for other recipes.

 

[Gustov]

So I did the Prawn Curry last week! I added 2 tins of tomatoes though when you're only meant to add 2 thirds of a tin

I'm about to pop out and get ingredients for this weeks meal, not sure what to do yet though!

 

[Nathan]

looks good!, brown rice is better

 

[Mark A]

Nothing wrong with adding more tomatoes, i often add a lot more than is stated in the ingredients list.

 

[boxman2000]

There's a curry thread around here somewhere - well worth a look at if you're short on ideas. I'd certainly second the BBC Good Food website too!

Agree with Nathan as well, brown rice much nicer (although can take up to twice as long to cook so double up on the water). Rice is trial and error though.

Noodle dishes are worth a go as well - very filling too!

 

[Gustov]

Decided to cook this!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/thaigreencurry_67788

I just made the paste ready for tomorrow Smells amazing!

Here are some of the ingredients, sorry for the blurry pic.

4-6 medium green chillies, de-seeded and roughly chopped
2 shallots, roughly chopped
5cm/2in piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
small bunch of fresh coriander, stalks and roots attached if possible
2 lemongrass stalks, chopped (if unavailable, use 2 tbsp dried)
1 lime, grated zest and juice
8 kaffir lime leaves, torn into pieces (if unavailable, use the grated zest of 1 extra lime)
2.5cm/1in piece galangal, peeled and chopped (if available)
1 tbsp coriander seeds, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed
2 tsp Thai fish sauce or light soy sauce
3 tbsp olive oil

 

[nin9abadga]

Have you tried Scouse, it's becoming very popular in West London I here.
Nandos do some good recipes too

*looks at time posted - game just about finished*

Smoked haddock and leek risotto - dead easy. chop up leeks, 1 onion, garlic, mushrooms and soften in butter. stick in the risotto rice and some stock and cook as per the instructions on the rice packet. in the meantime poach some smoked haddock (i guess any smokey fish will work - in fact you can put almost anything in it that's nice) in some milk (don't have to use milk), flake, then stir into the risotto at the end. i like to finish it with some cream and parmesan or some other hard cheese that's not so strong, but given that dairy is out don't put it in.

the beauty of a basic risotto is that you can add loads of stuff to it to improvise and change the flavour, white wine and chicken, chorizo etc etc.

 

[Jonny69]

Thanks guys, in particular acidhell

I'm going to try this first!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17798333&highlight=cooking

Awesome, let us know how it goes

Edit: ah, you overdid it on the toms

Thai green curry is also easy to do. I put the following into the blender and blitz to a smooth paste: 2 cloves of garlic, one piece of ginger or galangal about the size of your thumb, one shallot, one green chilli, one stick of lemongrass, a handful of fresh coriander, teaspoon of salt, tablespoon of vegetable oil.

Fry that off, add meat or prawns, add vegetables of choice (broccoli, carrots, baby corn etc) pour over a tin of coconut milk and simmer until the veg is cooked. Finish with chopped coriander and squeeze half a lime over it. YUM!

Caribbean curry goat with rice and peas is good, I used this recipe: http://www.jamaican-recipes.com/currygoat.html

Someone mentioned corned beef hash. I did a cooking thread how I do mine: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17651736

 

[Azza]

Remember to experiment and mix and match stuff. If you see a few things you want to try, just throw a bit of one in with a bit of another and cook something seriously nice. You'll soon end up with a huge collection of spices and herbs as well and wonder what the hell you're going to do with them all.

 

[Gustov]

Thai Green Curry!

Was lovely!