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I like to think of it as "too old for clowns, too young for golddiggers."

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:07 (9 years ago) Permalink

Do 21, do 21!!!

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:08 (9 years ago) Permalink

No no, I was really bad at being 21.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

I had some Thai Beef Salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, grilled beef and hot pepper sauce), some flank steak fried rice with jalapenos, steamed pork dumplings and a reeses. (nb, i cooked none of this however I supervised it's cooking.)

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

I had a slice of pizza and ice cream. But I made bread last night and corn pancakes. I also made roast vegetable and black beans this week.

I am going to try to make chicken stock and with that make matzo ball soup again.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 13 September 2003 05:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

Today we'll have pasta with aubergines and olives for lunch. This morning I had a banana smoothie, peach yoghurt and chocolate paste toast. This evening probably salad with tuna or sth.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 13 September 2003 06:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

a Sloppy Guiseppe Pizza Express pizza.

which I must defrost! thanks for reminding me, Tep.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, speaking of reminders, my new watch -- once I learn how to wear it (I'm taking it to a watchatician) -- doesn't have an alarm, so I'll be burning more things, I guess.

On deck today: ribs. It's Saturday. Ribs.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

about to make a hearty breakfast w/ eggs and toast. just made some extra-strength coffee.

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

had scrambled eggs, toast, hash browns and sausage this morning. Should've eaten something else as I'm now on my way to work and will probably regret not eating again shortly. oh well.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

pad thai. now cleansing my palate w/ rainbow ices.

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Paging Jode: clean the kitchen, it's a shithole, I can't cook in it.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:36 (9 years ago) Permalink

pizza was nice. Just had some peanut butter sandwiches. And an apple. I discovered today that there was one tree which i'd somehow failed to notice when I picked the apples a couple of weeks back, so once again I'm inundated with the things.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

a boiled egg

― duane, Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

breakfast: two crumpets with cream cheese and guavas.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

we just woke up
i made some espresso and vogels toast with either marmite or tuna but i dont feel like eating the toast now. the coffee is v good tho

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

i made bread pudding w. caramelized bananas! 's good! i also poured in a little whiskey and now it's uber-good! mmm whiskey

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:41 (9 years ago) Permalink

The girlfriend ended up staying in instead of going out, so ribs might wait (depends on how late I work). Chicken pot pie's about to come out the oven.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 00:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

coffee, H2O,
tofu with corn peas garlic
pineapple hot sauce,

huge salad dinner
with sourdough, fresh tomatoes
(mac and cheese for kids)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 14 September 2003 00:25 (9 years ago) Permalink

Pasta with a homemade (uncooked) tomato (homegrown), onion, basil, garlic, vinegar, olive oil sauce. With garlic bread and a bottle of red.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 14 September 2003 01:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

Dumpster delight. A 50 cent can of Heinz cheezy beans, with home grown tomatoes, on some of the bread rolls found in a dumpster (a few hundred of them), and some Lay's BBQ chips also found in a dumpster (a whole van load.) Next week a hundred or more people are going to get free meals from this stuff.

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

It's Sunday! So, sausage butties, obv.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 14 September 2003 13:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Matt, you need to post recipes. Any time you mention food, it sounds like something out of a Roald Dahl book. In a good way, though!

(I say this having made toad in the hole before, of all things. Why? Because it's frickin called toad in the hole, how could anyone need another reason?)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:06 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sausage Butties: Cook a sausage, butter a roll, add the two. Apply ketchup.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well, admittedly that sounds less exotic.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:20 (9 years ago) Permalink

getting ready to make a simple sunday dinner treat.
the lamb chops, in my throw-together simple style--in the pan, olive oil, garlic, shallot, rosemary, a few Cabo tomatoes, throw it on a bed of greens and sprinkle some cheese over it (haven't decided which kind)

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

Since my vow to start doing more cooking, I bought a filet of tilapia at the market yesterday. Trouble is, I dont know what I'm supposed to do with it. Someone help.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:21 (9 years ago) Permalink

boiled egg again
not as good as yesterday, didnt boil it long enough

― duane, Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

pad thai with american broccoli and tofu. not spicy enough thouhg . .

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:30 (9 years ago) Permalink

I bought a filet of tilapia at the market yesterday. Trouble is, I dont know what I'm supposed to do with it

This is one of my favorite fish to cook, but I haven't done very many things with it because it's so well-suited to my favorite way to cook fish that isn't salmon: simple coating in either crackermeal (breadcrumbs or Panko are substitutes) or sesame seeds, with a little salt and often whatever spices sound good at the moment, searing on both sides in a hot pan with enough oil to coat (they're not very thick, right? Searing will do nearly all the cooking), and then serving them with a squeeze of lemon, greens (collard, kale, mustard, what have you, washed well and dried, either cooked for several hours with beer and soy sauce and tasso, or stir-fried at as high a heat as the oil can stand with a little garlic thrown in at the last minute), and occasionally Teptartar sauce: bit of mayo, bit of chopped up pickled hot peppers, bit of green onion, bit of garlic.

Alternately, you can substitute tilapia for the chicken in my Blackened Chicken With Satsuma Vinaigrette recipe, on the "hit me with your best sauce" thread.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

As a more useful/general note: tilapia is vaguely sweet, in that fish-that-isn't-salmon-or-tuna way, and usually mild. Any recipe that calls for catfish can use tilapia instead. It pairs well with tropical fruits, especially citrus, and takes well to spice (but I think that of all fish and most of everything else).

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

Tep you are my hero.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

But we don't need another hero!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

You're my hero anyway ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

I made my garlic pot roast.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:47 (9 years ago) Permalink

Describe!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sausage Butties: Cook a sausage, butter a roll, add the two.

There is an art to cooking sausages however. None of this grilling nonsense unless you want to lose the flavour. They should be fried very gently in a heavy-bottomed pan, turning regularly to ensure even cooking. On no accoutn whatsoever pierce the skins as this reults in a disastrous loss of moisture (this is also why I don't hold with piercing chicken to see if it's done), this is why the cooking needs to be gentle. Cooked in this way the sausages should a ccrue an intensely savoury and sticky gel around their skins. Should take about twenty minutes to half an hour.

Then you put them between two slices of bread.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

reheated chinese from last night, it reheats quite well, cos the food is very high quality to begin with from the place near here.

later I was thinking lamb chops, there's a nice rosemary and salt seasoning down there.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Matt,, I do sausages for about an hour! lowest light with a diffuser, turn every 15 minutes or so, nummy caramelized skins.

I won't be cooking tonight as I'm out boozing, but tomorrow I'll make some Thai green curry and also I'll marinade some chicken in yoghurt and spices for Wednesday as we picked up a big box of free range chicken pieces at the weekend.

Last night it was a small rack of young lamb, pink in the middle, puy lentils braised with pancetta,garlic and shallots, carrots done in a mixture of (a small amount of) water and butter and a few carraway seeds, and roast beetroot with red onions. It was weird to make a dinner with no rice, couscous or potatoes, but it worked quite well.

― chris (chris), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:16 (9 years ago) Permalink

Huge culinary excitement all round as our new flat has a gas cooker. Actual control over temperature! Woo!

So far we have cooked: a potato gratin thing, spinach and potato curry (divine as always), big pasta and tomoato sauce thing, and yesterday an ill-advised risotto with porcini, sage and orange. It had quite a delicate flavour but was really too orangey, and in case I don't want delicacy when it comes to risotto, just nice rough comforting buttery, cheesy, mushroomy bite.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

I was pretty proud of the veggie kebabs I made on the grill for Sarah's birthday party. Squash, zucchini, cherry tomatos, onions, and red and green peppers.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

I made my garlic pot roast.
Orbit: Describe!
1) Get a big slab of roast, preferably 5 to 7 lbs.
2) Slice a head of garlic into tiny slivers.
3) Cut tiny slits into the pot roast and stuff the garlic slivers into them.
4) Heat up at least 2 cans of beef broth and 1 can of french onion soup.
5) Sear the pot roast in olive oil and then roast it in the soup mixture for at least 6-8 hours.
6) When the meat is almost falling apart, add:

a pound of small, whole red potatoes
a pound of small, whole boiling onions
very coarsely chopped celery
Baby carrots
Baby corn or canned corn (optional)
A teaspoon of red vinegar (optional)
1 fresh tomato, coarsely chopped. (optional)

7) Season with freshly cracked pepper and simmer for at least 30-45 minutes (or until the potatoes can be cut with a fork (don't let them get mushy.)
Serves an armored cavalry division.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

addendum:
4a. add enough water to cover a pot roast. Keep the water level up to at least 2/3s of the way up the side of the pot roast. Baste often.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:32 (9 years ago) Permalink

OK Tep. I'm gonna try your recipe tonite when I get home.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 15 September 2003 20:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Note to self: Remember to print out thread for dinner ideas.

I'm prolly buying: a huge bowl of chili (with shredded cheese and tortilla chips, natch), salad and juice.

No cooking for me, tonight

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 15 September 2003 20:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

YUM! Thanks Tep. It was really yummy. I'm pretty surprised that it actually came out okay. I went to the grocery store - got a lemon, some Sylvia's seasoned salt, and I had to call Rosemary to ask if there exists such a thing as packaged breadcrumbs or if i should buy a loaf of wonderbread... And I got some haricot verts and fried those with garlic. I'm very proud of myself.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 15 September 2003 23:34 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's the best way to make green beans, too, for my money. Excellent!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 15 September 2003 23:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

I'm prolly buying: a huge bowl of chili (with shredded cheese and tortilla chips, natch), salad and juice.
I have a very good chili recipe, if your interested.
(Warning: Complicated. Requires a good crockpot.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

FISHFINGERS! Made from scratch by the fair breadcrumby hands of Matt. (Hopefully.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

tonight it's going to be the chicken pieces which we put in to marinade when we got back from the pub last night, it was made of oil, lime juice, pimenton, grated garlic, a couple of grated shallots, salt, pepper and some cumin and coriander seeds n(roasted and crushed). No idea what we'll be having with it, the state I'm in after today at work I'll probably just put them in a bowl and stick my head in and gnaw at them.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:45 (9 years ago) Permalink

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