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Mr Larrington

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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3625 on: 31 December, 2023, 06:22:36 pm »
Cassoulet.  The smells emerging from the kitchen are making this Unit and hungry Unit.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3626 on: 01 January, 2024, 01:12:15 pm »
I usually have duck confit for dinner on New Year's Day, but I'm breaking the habit by having a crack at doing ragoût of pheasant with walnuts, per a recipe in Pierre Koffman's Memories of Gascony.

ETA - there was slightly more meat on the bird than I had originally thought, so I have a portion of breast meat left over for use in a risotto or hash with some black pudding tomorrow night.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3627 on: 01 January, 2024, 02:07:37 pm »
We will not be breaking with habit, but will be having our usual NYD goose risotto.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3628 on: 01 January, 2024, 06:40:31 pm »
MOAR cassoulet but not until b-i-l gets back from That London which will be at least another hour chiz.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3629 on: 01 January, 2024, 10:41:27 pm »
I usually have duck confit for dinner on New Year's Day, but I'm breaking the habit by having a crack at doing ragoût of pheasant with walnuts, per a recipe in Pierre Koffman's Memories of Gascony.

ETA - there was slightly more meat on the bird than I had originally thought, so I have a portion of breast meat left over for use in a risotto or hash with some black pudding tomorrow night.

I want to have a go at confit duck this week.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3630 on: 06 January, 2024, 06:06:56 pm »
A Jack Munroe curry. Chickpea and peach. This is either going to be really good or I will be on the way to the chippy!

ETA: no trip to the chippy required. The curry was rather good.  :thumbsup:
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3631 on: 06 January, 2024, 06:38:19 pm »
Fish pie.  Fish in a white sauce, with a mashed potato topping.

and brussel sprouts...
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3632 on: 07 January, 2024, 12:19:22 am »
I had a mum-made fish pie for tea yesterday. It was only as I was shovelling in the last forkful of my second helping that she casually mentioned that the ready made sauce she had used was best before November 2019.
Now, my mum had also eaten this pie.
She didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with this until she saw my reaction.
I’m not a slave to best before dates, but even I think that a 4+ year old sauce containing cream and butter might be better binned.
We are both symptom free which is a relief, but I hope it doesn’t encourage her to delve further back into her cupboards…
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3633 on: 07 January, 2024, 03:11:00 pm »
If it was still properly sealed with the “button” down it won’t hurt you, and obvs tasted ok!
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citoyen

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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3634 on: 07 January, 2024, 04:36:06 pm »
Agreed - a jar of shop bought sauce should be inert until the seal is broken.

Otherwise it would have a “use by” date rather than “best before”.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3635 on: 07 January, 2024, 04:40:09 pm »
Waitrose had PE "sloppy Giuseppe" on at half price yesterday, so I'm having one of those.

Except we never call it supper.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3636 on: 07 January, 2024, 05:43:22 pm »
Agreed - a jar of shop bought sauce should be inert until the seal is broken.

Otherwise it would have a “use by” date rather than “best before”.


Indeed, the sauce is cooked and sterile and the jar sealed and airtight, there's little to go off (same for canned). Eventually, they'll succumb to entropy and start to taste off, but that's a slow chemical process that won't kill you unless if falls off a high shelf and hits you square on the head.

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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3637 on: 07 January, 2024, 05:44:53 pm »
Home made pizza, assuming the dough and oven temperature (or whatever the problem with my bread ATM is) behaves itself.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3638 on: 07 January, 2024, 07:00:22 pm »
Fish and chips, on the quay at New Quay. 
A beautiful evening. As long as you're wrapped up warm, which we were.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3639 on: 07 January, 2024, 07:10:54 pm »
Fish and chips, on the quay at New Quay. 
A beautiful evening. As long as you're wrapped up warm, which we were.
Sounds sweet.

Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3640 on: 07 January, 2024, 07:14:58 pm »
Fish and chips, on the quay at New Quay. 
A beautiful evening. As long as you're wrapped up warm, which we were.
Sounds sweet.
Excellent fish and chips I remember.
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citoyen

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What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3641 on: 07 January, 2024, 09:17:48 pm »
Ham and pea risotto.

I added the stock a ladleful at a time and kept stirring throughout.  I don’t care what anyone else says, it’s the way I’ve always done it and I’m sticking with it.

Very tasty it was too.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3642 on: 08 January, 2024, 05:20:32 pm »
If it was still properly sealed with the “button” down it won’t hurt you, and obvs tasted ok!
It came in a tear-the-top-to-open sachet. Would that make any difference?
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3643 on: 08 January, 2024, 07:13:41 pm »
If it was still properly sealed with the “button” down it won’t hurt you, and obvs tasted ok!
It came in a tear-the-top-to-open sachet. Would that make any difference?

No, still sealed and not bloated with gases of doom!
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3644 on: 13 January, 2024, 01:52:15 pm »
A sausage sandwich (well 1 1/2). Wife’s out to dinner and I can’t be bothered cooking a meal for me tonight, so will grill some “Wendover Royal” sausages that I got cheap at the farm shop.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3645 on: 13 January, 2024, 02:18:52 pm »
Mussaqa, Muhammara, Hummus, olives, Fried Butter beans with chilli and spring onions, Romano peppers marinated in coriander, parsley, garlic and olive oil, bread.

Someone else is bringing pudding

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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3646 on: 16 January, 2024, 09:36:59 pm »
Tried the relaunched beanburger from Burger King.  It's a different shape but tastes just as good  :thumbsup:
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3647 on: 21 January, 2024, 09:51:14 am »
We had cottage pie. The filling was 60% veg (courgette, carrot, red pepper, onion, mushrooms), the topping 50% potato and 50% swede and carrot. Served with sprouts and purple sprouting.
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Re: What are you having for supper tonight?
« Reply #3648 on: 23 March, 2024, 06:53:42 pm »
Chicken and mushroom risotto, seasoned with a couple of handsful of chives and wild garlic.
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