Everyday Home Cooking

nathanael91 · 16 Jan 2021 at 10:12

So I've just left the military as a chef, I started to lose the love of cooking. This week I'm trying to get back into trying things that I enjoy eating rather than cooking with a recipe card with terrible ingredients.

Last week I did French Crepes really easy and everyone loves them. This week I did a Cottage Pie which was really good just didn't add the cheese. Today I will be making asparagus and broad bean risotto with a half bottle of wine.

What does everyone make during the week? Do you just make something fancy on the weekend?

nathanael91 · 16 Jan 2021 at 15:10

BUDFORCE said:
I made a stuffing pie the other day that was damn tidy.

Sausage meat, sage, apple and onion baked in pastry, mmmmmmmm.

Stuffing pie that sounds really tasty I might give that a try.

nathanael91 · 16 Jan 2021 at 15:11

Ahleckz said:
This thread comes up from time to time, and I always remember how awful I was at meal planning until I moved in with my girlfriend. We now plan every weeks (or 10 days) meals and do a single shop. Not only am I saving a fortune, but it's nice to have a weeks menu so you can pick what you want. This is this week (worth mentioning it's all vegan). All recipes should be online somwhere, we just have a big folder full of food we like the sound of and pick from that each week:

Beyond Meat Bolognese with Zoodles
Whole celeriac with caper brown butter raisin sauce and turnip roasties.
Spicy peanut butter doodles.
Aubergine larb.
Walnut meat tacos.
Tofu in purgatory.
Tofu Cesar.
Cauliflower pizza.
Gado Gado.
Hot & Sour Soup.

Are you vegan? I couldn't eat vegan all the time I think it would drive me insane.

nathanael91 · 1 Feb 2021 at 11:29

I tried making Chocolate Lamingtons which is an Australian desert. Pretty much square sponge cake pieces dipped in chocolate icing coated in desiccated coconut.

I was an absolute disaster I used a recipe online which used 6 eggs and 3 types of flour, it was an absolute massacre. So I redid the sponge and now I have a sponge that is too fluffy and falling to pieces.

I think I'm going to give it another try later on in the year.

As meat is expensive without knowing it my wife and I are having more vegetarian dishes. You know living in NZ where meat is eaten twice a day coming to Europe has really changed loads of aspects of my life.
Also saving money is a key factor.

I have yet to try the stuffing pie but it is certainly a dish I want to try sooner rather than later.

Have you made anything that has turned out to be a complete disaster?

nathanael91 · 3 Feb 2021 at 15:33

I have never work with Oxtail but I am tempted. I've tried using cows tongue before into a nice stew but the misus hated the strong meaty flavour that came out of it.

nathanael91 · 4 Feb 2021 at 15:28

So last night I made a Chilli Con Carne and thinking I was amazing at cooking I put in 140g of tomato puree. So later on in the cooking period whilst I'm talking with someone I double-check how to make a Chilli and it says just to put 2 tablespoons on Puree. What a complete fail so now I have a Bolognese with the spices of a Chilli. What a complete moron I am.