What's For Dinner?

Tell ILX what you're having for dinner tonight.

Planning on making a batch of this.

Pretty sure I'm making/having beef Stroganoff, because of the chuck steak waiting to be despatched in the fridge. Forgot the mushrooms at Waitrose; BRB..

I have half an hour between a rehearsal and dancing, and home is 20 minutes from both, so I'm going to have to grab something on the way...probably a piece of pizza, hope there's a tons of spinach and mushrooms option tonight.

how 'bout this dudes?
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From Mollie Katzen's Get Cooking.

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter (I substituted 2 bacon strips here)
1 medium red or yellow onion, minced
1 stalk celery, minced
1 teaspoon minced garlic (about 1 good sized clove)
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 cups water
2 or 3 medium - small waxy potatoes (about 3/4 pound), cut into 3/4 inch dice
1 pound frozen corn kernals, thawed
1/2 cup milk or heavy cream
Freshly ground black pepper

1. In a soup pot or Dutch ove, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the onion, celery, garlic, and salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, or until the onion and celery begin to soften.

2. Add the water and the diced potatoes. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat all the way down to the lowest possible setting. Partially cover and simmer gently for about 15 minutes or until the potatoes become completely soft (It's okay to err on the side of their becoming falling-apart tender.)

3. Add the corn and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in the milk or cream and heat the soup very gently for a minute longer. Season to taste with pepper, ladle into bowls, and serve.

linguini with prawns and a big dollop of nduja mashed through it...pretty good...and a bottle of london pride plus two slices of bread

pizza (sorry NNs)

"nduja"
how to say this?
in doo ya?

hey ned thanks for the link to that blog - can't top my mom's minestrone recipe but some of the other stuff on there looks fantastic.

not sure...i say n-doo-jah but not really sure, it's this italian spicey pig face sort of spreadable sausage stuff...really fucking good, so much flavour. you get a massive parcel of it for about 7/8 pounds over here...think it's growing in popularity.

Where did yours come from? I'm wondering if it's available from fab Italian deli on Farringdon Road because I don't know if I can face Borough Market during December.

Yeah mine is Borough Market, from De Calabria!

one of the things I liked about working 6am-2pm was going to borough market on friday afternoons when it wasn't too busy. no more of that shift now tho...

ahh sausages made from the heads

you'd never really eat it on its own, it's almost like a condiment, you might spread on toast tho...

pig face pate

bruschetta made with feta, tomatoes, and farmer's market asparagus on a toasted baguette.

Two grapefruits.

salad of quinoa, spinach, red onion, cucumber, roasted potatoes & brussels sprouts (with paprika, thyme, rosemary, garlic), with a balsamic dressing.

i made chili with white beans, chicken andouille sausage, ground beef, brown sugar, tomatoes, onions, many spices.

a soup! with broccoli, romanesco, aged cheeses, mustard seeds, other good things. gonna serve with hard pretzels as "croutons" (gonna start a franco-bavarian food truck based around just this concept).

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Dance 10, Looks 3

(would dip my pretzels into)

that looks absolutely delicious!

that soup was awesome btw. i would say "perfect for a winter day" but it looks like i made it in august!

craving some sort of heirloom-tomato caprese thing tonight. with grilled bread.

Sardines and cool ranch Doritos

100° weather here, so it's leftovers tonight, to avoid cooking.