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KL1887

Vegetable bao buns, mixed pepper rice with bean sprouts and pak choi

LazyBlondeChef

Chicken vegetable curry over millet/brown rice ramen.

acpgee

Primo of rigotoni with pesto and secondo of kid rack with sauteed spinach.

LazyBlondeChef

Bresaola w/arugula, shaved parm, capers and lemon. Bruschetta w/whipped ricotta & lemon on whole wheat bread (added some prosciutto to it). Rigatoni w/slow cooked pork ragu, roasted garlic & basil topped with burrata. This was from a newer pizzeria but we didn't want pizza so split these three dishes instead.

acpgee

A friend came over for dinner. Confit du carnard, roast potatoes, sauteed green beans, green salad, creme brulee.

acpgee

St Patrick's day dinner for Xmas. Salt beef, horseradish mash, sauerkraut, glazed carrots, gherkins.

acpgee

Copycat kraft dinner, copycat KFC done in the air fryer, tomato salad, courgette namul.

janicemlove

Fettuccine Alfredo (from a box), roasted broccoli(garlic powder, s&p), roasted chickpeas (za’atar) and candied carrots for something sweet.

janicemlove

Last meal at work before vacation: mushroom gnocchi

LazyBlondeChef

Speck, pecorino cheese (with truffles) and avocado on a gluten free roll. Salad of romaine, the rest of the avocado, Kalamata olives & cherry tomatoes spritzed with olive oil.

acpgee

I wonder at my mom who managed to put 3 Chinese stir fries on the dinner table every night. Cucumber and minced pork stir fry, cabbage and Chinese sausage stir fry, Indonesian tempeh sambal goreng, sticky rice.

Safari_Gal_

Happy last week of 2021!

A few pics from the last few days:

A veggie quiche, 🎄 roast duck, leftovers meat pie, liver with Calabrian chili & spinach juice & a dish from the feast of the seven fishes : Madagascar shrimp, salmon, scallops.

It was a mélange this week of Scots, Frenchmen, Romans and lots of leftovers..

Hope everyone had a great holiday.

LazyBlondeChef

Trying to work all the Christmas appetizer/charcuterie leftovers into meals this week. Tonight a salad of romaine, avocado, cherry tomatoes & pre-made Greek salad components (feta and two types of olives). Added a couple of pieces of prosciutto and two fried eggs (over easy). It was surprisingly filling.

acpgee

We had a junky dinner tonight. Clean the pantry salad using up stale bread for croutons, the last of the prosciutto languishing at the bottom of the fridge, some leftover cherry tomato salad, and some old candied nuts that needed crisping and got a little burnt in the process. Followed by some homemade Vietnamese spring rolls brushed with oil, cooked in the air fryer and dipped into PB2 based satay sauce.

LazyBlondeChef

Gluten free penne w/meat sauce (topped with pecorino w/truffle) and garlic bread. The penne was made from zucchini, lentil and pea flours. The penne has an awful texture and not a flavor I particularly liked but the meat sauce overpowered it, thankfully. The bread was a gluten free baguette. Meat sauce was wild boar, lots of fresh sage & rosemary, tomato paste, red wine and onions. It was quite savory which is what I like. While I try to do gluten free my partner doesn't so he had pappardelle instead. He thought the gluten free baguette was fine with the butter/garlic that we used. It's the same brand (Against the Grain) as the gluten free roll I had a few days ago. First time he's ever had any.

janicemlove

One good thing about this staycation is cooking in my own (well-stocked) kitchen. Moms friend tested positive for COVID a few days before Christmas so mom and I cancelled our plans.

acpgee

Leftovers management. We had rich mash, sauerkraut and salt beef left over from the St Patrick's day dinner we had at Christmas. Put that with the open packet of feta cheese lying in the fridge into pierogi's that were brushed with butter and air fried. Sides of roast radishes and blackened hispi cabbage as well as yoghurt and caramelized onion to dot on the pierogi's. The tortilla press for rolling and the food processor for kneading make easy work of pierogi's if you also have a dishwasher.

janicemlove

Tostadas:refried beans (from a can), two types of cheese, tomato, onion, lettuce, jalapeño.

makinlifehappen

3-4 eggs this time hard boiled, with sea salt and crushed red peppers.
Mixed salad, half avocado, lemon juice and balsamic vinaigrette for dressing.

acpgee

A friend came round for dinner. Txuleton steak cooked in the sous vide and seared on cast iron, glazed sous vide carrots, pan fried turkish peppers. air fryer roast potatoes, hollandaise and stilton butter. Mango pavlova for dessert.

LazyBlondeChef

Playing with our new air fryer. The two on the left are fish cakes (more or less) with mashed potatoes, flounder, chives and egg. The two on the left are crocchette with mashed potatoes, two types of cheese (gruyere & pecorino), fresh sage, prosciutto and egg. I used some Primal Kitchen garlic mayo aioli as the dipping sauce. I was quite pleased at how these turned out. Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. Salad of romaine, olives, avocado and cherry tomatoes.

Originally I bought a small cheap air fryer because I wasn't sure how much I'd actually use it. After a number of months we decided we used it enough to justify an upgrade so we got a Ninja Foodi at Costco last week. I'm a lot happier with this one than the old one after only a week of use. It's much more versatile and the size allows us to make the full meal instead of having to do three batches for a simple fish & chips meal.

acpgee

Leftovers management. We had a dinner party last night with a huge 1.6 kg Txuleton steak (bone in ribeye of retired dairy cow). Leftover steak went into Pho Bo tonight. Starter of an air fried Vietnamese spring roll dipped into PB2 based satay sauce.

cmsienk

Dinner: Venison meatloaf cups, Yukon gold garlic mashed potatoes, garden peas and a cauliflower garlic bread stick (a new frozen food find - it could've used more garlic).

acpgee

Managing leftovers. We had some turkish peppers leftover from our dinner party two nights ago so pan fried them as a side to go with spaghetti aglio olio enriched with finely slivered leftover salt beef we had leftover from Xmas.

Cat0703a

Leftover pizza and veggies for lunch

Cat0703a

Trying to incorporate a lot more vegetables in my meals. Tonight I had stir fry, fried rice and shrimp.

BarbaraHelen2013

Moroccan Chickpea Soup with a serving of Doritos.

Best way for me to use up the snacky stuff I bought for guests over Christmas is to incorporate them into my meals. Doritos are something I prefer not to have in the house because I can’t be trusted! 😂 This way I know I’ll be accountable as the big batch of soup *needs* the Dorito accompaniment, which will prevent indiscriminate munching. Mind Games! 🤷‍♀️

acpgee

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

Moroccan Chickpea Soup with a serving of Doritos.

Best way for me to use up the snacky stuff I bought for guests over Christmas is to incorporate them into my meals. Doritos are something I prefer not to have in the house because I can’t be trusted! 😂 This way I know I’ll be accountable as the big batch of soup *needs* the Dorito accompaniment, which will prevent indiscriminate munching. Mind Games! 🤷‍♀️

You can make a fat free version of tortilla chips in the microwave. Remove once they start to brown a little as the margin of error between browning and burning is small. Don't fret if they are not crisp when you remove them from the microwave. They turn brittle as they cool.
https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6544-microwave-tostadas

janicemlove

For lunch this week! It’s actually a chicken tikka masala recipe I found online years ago, but I eat mostly vegetarian these days so used chickpeas instead.

acpgee

Some microwave tostadas I made with stale leftover corn tortillas to dip into store bought guacamole.

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