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Anything from mundane to magical - let us know what you’re eating this week!

I prepped and froze a bunch of smash burger patties last week so we’ll be having burgers at some point. I like bacon and blue cheese on mine. Might do some tater tots on the side.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tonight is likely going to be a quick quinoa salad with feta, pine seeds and dried tomatoes.

Tomorrow I'm planning harissa chicken wrap that I picked up on reddit last week.

Tuesday probably some bulgur patties with scallions, parsley, tomato and egg.

But it's getting hot here so we might just raid the fridge on some evenings...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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It's not a dish but I love making garlic puree as mise en place and I did that today :) it's super convenient to have a soft, non pungent garlic that practically doesn't spoil. I can't recommend it enough! And definitely will keep doing it even though no one asked!

Recipe

Requirements

  • peeled garlic (I don't mind doing it myself but buying it pre- peeled will save you a lot of time)
  • your choice of neutral cooking oil
  • immersion blender
  • small pot or saucepan with a lid
  • optional sieve

I like to use about 8 bulbs of garlic on ~0.4L of oil and that lasts me about 2 months in a 2 person household.

Steps

  1. Put garlic into a pot and add oil until almost covered. The oil expands during heating so use a little less than you think you need.
  2. Heat up the oil on low-medium until you see bubbling.
  3. Cover the pot and turn the heat to low. Let it cook for about 45 mins or until your garlic is golden brown and completely soft (try with a fork).
  4. Drain the oil from the pot into it's own container. Congrats you got yourself some bonus garlic oil that you can use to fry stuff in :)
  5. Puree your garlic with your immersion blender.
  6. Wait for everything to cool down before covering and refrigerating. This prevents condensed water dripping into your garlic which forms kinda gross grayish spots.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember reading that homemade garlic and oil can cause botulism! It may have just been when made with olive oil, but be careful!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow I didn't know about that. It shouldn't really be an issue though as long as you heat everything enough to pasteurise it 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's an absolutely scorching 26 degrees here on the West coast of Scotland and it's an obscene heat for here and I am currently struggling to think of things to make that are suitable for this weather.

I made slow cooker chilli on Saturday as that didn't require slaving over the cooker, so didn't mind. Next night was 5 spice chicken salad and then BLTs last night, which went down a treat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was 26 here yesterday and let me tell you, I have never regretted my decisions more than I did 20 minutes after putting that pasta bake in the oven.

It's 29 today and I WAS thinking of soup :/

Cannot survive cooking indoors so I'm going to BBQ something or other and try not to start any wildfires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pasta / potato salads are nice when it's too hot to eat anything warm

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The world's plainest, most comforting food ever: Grilled cheese.

I also plan on making macaroni with ground turkey in it mixed with mushroom soup.

Basically we're a little frugal this week :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I love mushroom mac and cheese (mac and cheese made with canned condensed cream of mushroom soup). My go to cheap meal used to be eggs baked in frozen diced potatoes with cheese but the price of eggs went up so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with that. Some of my favorite meals are struggle meals. Are you going to do tomato soup with the grilled cheese?

That second meal I call lazy man's beef stroganoff. I do use ground beef vs turkey tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not too sure if I have tomato soup but I Do have a kinda gross (in that "this is probably not healthy for me, im eating it anyway" way) can of spaghetti that is calling my name, so thank you for the idea!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't say no to those spaghettiOs 🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wanna try out a macaroni like that. Sounds delicious and like you could do it in one pot with minimal cleanup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Today was my turn to cook for my family on vacation. I made a vaguely Thai-inspired curry with local veggies:

  • Three kohlrabi, peeled and cut into slices
  • Leaves from the above, deveined, chunked
  • 1" young turnips cut into pieces no more than 1/4" wide
  • Leaves from the above, chunked
  • Ginger, garlic, shallot, chopped
  • Cooked shrimp, peeled
  • Coconut milk
  • Curry paste

I sauteed all the veggies, then heated up the paste and coconut milk, and mixed everything all together. Served with rice. Really good!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds good - what type of curry paste did you use for it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Green, but other varieties would work fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

made a pizza with ricotta, chicken sausage, cherry peppers and oaxaca cheese!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've never had pizza with ricotta, sounds messy but delicious!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My set up for the week

Today - paninis made with cheddar jalapeno bread

Tomorrow - chicken teriyaki with broccoli

Wednesday - Sagg paneer

Thursday - burritos with homemade tortilla or nachos if I don't end up making the tortillas.

Friday - chicken, mushrooms, and rice

Saturday - always soup day, homemade bread

Sunday - day of rest AKA cook for yourself or starve day

Edit: mobile edit to make it less of a wall of text

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yesterday: Cauliflower with yellow bell pepper in a gochujang cream sauce with a side of pig tenderloin.

Today: an aubergine, tomato and olive Tajine.

Tomorrow: some kind of pasta with tomato sauce and a kind of fish, topped with Creston

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I made Sabich Sandwiches and Zhug for dinner this evening. It turned out really well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Both of these look amazing! Definitely going to have to give it go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tomorrow is pasta primavera, inspired by another post on this community. Later in the week my boyfriend is making tater tot casserole with chicken bacon cheese sausage homemade by his family. Friday is blackened tilapia with roast potatoes and I’m roasting a chicken Sunday because it was on sale. I’ll probably do broth with the carcass sometime next week. We had originally been planning to enchiladas Sunday, but those got crowded out by the unexpected chicken.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good menu! I always forget about tilapia, I need to remember to make that soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I picked up a 3lb bag of frozen filets from Costco. Ended up being 6 USD/lb which isn’t bad at all considering ground beef is at least $4/lb. I was looking for something a little healthier, and fish cooks up really quickly. The lemon garlic one from last week turned out pretty well, picture below. The recipe also called for paprika and thyme, not sure I would add those in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks delicious! I'm gonna have to see if I have any in my freezer haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Made some chili yesterday but it's honestly not great. I'll try a different recipe next time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Baked a frozen costco lasagna last week. Working through the leftovers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just made some glazed salmon tonight. It was pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Today I had lentils, rice, olives, sardines, and some bread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still working on this week's menu but last week was pretty eventful:

  • grilled individual pizzas
  • zucchini slice (sorta a crustless quiche)
  • buffalo chicken Nachos and queso
  • prosciutto and Fig Sandwiches w/lemon artichoke quinoa salad
  • beef dragon noodles w/roasted broccoli and almond salad
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s garlic scape season so I’m trying to include that in everything I cook lately. Last night was added while making pasta sauce with stuffed shells and meatballs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried yesterday the eggplant saganaki recipe of Akis. Very good!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

trying to pickle cabbage today, hope will not die of poisoning ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did some hot sauce sunday.

I have some watercress in the fridge to do a pie, but it's too warm at the moment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of hot sauce? I've thought about making my own but never tried it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

undefined> What kind of hot sauce? I’ve thought about making my own but never tried it

Basically, here is what I've done. Diced roughly 2 tomatoes, Diced roughly 5 small thai chilli, added a carrot which was aging in my fridge, some vegetable stock, garlic and parsley (would be even better with cilantro) pre-cook everything in a pan, I put in a blender and added vinegar.

Like a home-made industrial hot-sauce that you can eat with nachos, nuggets, nems, fries or whatever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, that sounds like something I could do. Gonna have to give it a try soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I ate puertorrican style arroz con gandules (rice with pigeon peas) yesterday, the day before I don't actually remember 😅

I want to see if one of these days I make some Pasta Alfredo ideally with chicken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bought 3L of gazpacho for the morning and some shrimps for the evening

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I made a thai vegetable curry the other day with chickpeas that was so good. There's a thai restaurant in town that does a curry dish that is topped with raw red onion, and I've been super into doing that and tons of lime when I make it too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never had curry but I like onion and lime! Is it hard to make?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

not the person you asked but: generally no.

Chickpeas (and really anything dried larger than lentils) can be a bit tricky. Definitely check the instructions on the ingredient to see if it lines up with the recipe. We had one attempt where the chickpeas were still inedibly tough when everything else was cooked. I've never actually managed to get dried beans to properly rehydrate with less than multiple hours of cooking so I stopped bothering.

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