Last night was delivery pizza (I had bacon, Thai chicken, mushroom and pepperdew; MrsDibble had Margerhita w/pepperdews & garlic)
But
the day before, we made a chicken, courgette & marrow rissoto.
and the day before that, was fish (seared tuna and butterfish), caramelised onion and cheese focaccia, and a green salad, all homemade.
Last night was fresh spagetti pasta, with a tub of mascapone sauce to which I added red peppers, chopped up bacon and red onion. For dessert (or ‘afters’ as its known in my part of the world) I chopped up a fresh pineapple and had that with a bar of luvverly Green & Blacks dark chocolate.
drool… I’m really hungry now!
The most regular items on the menu at our home come in pairs:
Sunday dinner; consisting of a roast - usually chicken, but may be anything, with lots of different vegetables roasted, boiled and steamed; last week it was:
Roast potatoes, onions, beetroot, celeriac and Jerusalem artichokes
Boiled diced carrots and swede(rutabaga)
Lightly steamed spinach
Part 2 is that if the roast meat contains bones, I will make stock; the vegetable peelings go into the big pan, followed by the picked bones and some more onions, garlic and herbs at the end of the meal. I simmer this for a few hours and reduce to one pint.
So the following day, it will often be risotto, made with the stock, leftover meat and some mushrooms and peppers.
A typical dessert would be apple and blackberry crumble with custard. I’m working my way through about 20 pounds of blackberries I picked back in the autumn.
A typical weeknight dinner might be some kind of casserole (liver casserole being the firm favourite) with jacket potatoes, peas and one other veg. Yoghurts or cake for dessert.
I’ve only heard of veal schnitzel, but I bet my mum would copy the recipe, substitute in whatever meat she had to hand, and name it accordingly. Authentic Italian cooking ain’t her specialty!
Meals for the last week:
tonight - small fillet steaks on the bbq with salad (lettuce, cucumber, carrot). Possibly some lemon sorbet later on.
last night - ordered in pizza
Tuesday - baked beans on toast (what we have when we’re being slack)
Monday - baked marinated chops with baked potato and carrot (store-bought marinade - honey, mustard and herb flavour)
Sunday - Nando’s chicken burgers
Saturday - invited friends around for lamb & rosemary sausages and corn on the cob on the bbq, had a salad with it, and they brought a chocolate cake around for dessert
Friday - pasta with tomato, garlic, red wine and capsicum sauce.
The last few days:
Salmon and sweet potato with pepper and tomato:
Two salmon tail fillets, wrapped in tinfoil with some olive oil, black pepper, thyme and salt, cooked in oven.
Boiled sweet potato mashed with garlic and lemon juice.
Panfried red pepper and cherry tomatoes (with garlic and thyme).
Chicken n’ bacon n’ pasta n’ sauce:
Chicken and bacon panfried with garlic, add jar of amatriciana sauce, serve with four cheese ravioli.
Stirfry pork and rice:
Diced prok with ginger, garlic, scallion, fried up with pepper and broccoli, served with rice.
Chilli con carne
One Monday we ate at a friend’s house: he made king prawn, chilli, garlic, baby spinach and red pepper salad, followed by spag bol.
Good thing, as Wiener Shnitzel is German/Austrian cooking, not Italian 
Slight hijack - do you get any of the South African Nando’s ads? They’re a SA chain originally, and their ads are often the funniest on TV
That would be known as a “Napolitan Milanesa” (go figure, it´s original from Argentina :dubious: ).
And “veal schnitzel” means, veal veal… :smack:
It is, honest!, cotoletta alla milanesa it´s the original name.
UK here. Last few days have been
Mon: Pasta + sauce + garlic bread. All ready packaged from supermarket. Was going out to pub so needed something quick.
Tues: Low calorie veggie curry that my dear partner threw together. Very nice, but not enough “oomph” for my tastes.
Wed: Roast chicken, roast tatties, swede, fine beans and brussels.
Thu: Think some kinda pork dish tonight.
You put tourtiere on the regular rotation?!? Can I move in with you?
We make 'em here, too. My grandfather was French-Canadian, and we’ve made them around Christmas for as long as I can remember. But they’re a lot of work! I can’t imagine having them as an every-day thing.
Then again, I bet it’s easier when you’re making one or two, instead of twenty.
Hmmmm… tourtiere and maple syrup pie…
“You People” must refer to Quebecois or something. I’m from Alberta - no sugar maples, and therefore no maple syrup unless you sell your firstborn.
MrDibble writes:
> Slight hijack - do you get any of the South African Nando’s ads? They’re a SA
> chain originally, and their ads are often the funniest on TV
Nando’s does great food. I want them to start opening up restaurants in the U.S. I ate at a Nando’s in Oxford in England several times when I was there last year.
I can’t remember what I made when, but this is this week. I am slightly embarassed–I really have given up on cooking. These are the main entrees.
Kielbasa and potatoes au gratin.
Homemade mac and cheese
Aranello’s stuffed pizza, sausage (take out)
Cheese melts–open faced broiled cheese sandwiches, with some garlic for flavor
Scrambled eggs.
Tonoc–who knows? I have some chicken, so I might get ambitious.
Just not into all the prep and clean up right now.
That’s better than the first couple times I read it, when I kept seeing ‘chien’ :eek:
(though, I guess that could be Chinese as well).
Heheheh about the T-shirts, well, about the last one about the “Haggis Hurling Team”. I am really unsure whether the people who made the T-shirt are deliberately using a pun about the hurling/camanachd/shinty/camogie games of chasing a ball with sticks and hurling as in slang for vomiting.
I haven’t had haggis for a while, but I will probably get some next time in supermarket. Reading threads about food often has that effect. 
This evening’s Celyn-cuisine is dish-without-a-name that is rice and veggies. Imaginative, or what?
Beside me I have two peanut-butter sandwiches that I made earlier (very Blue Peter) and then didn’t feel like eating, so now I am hungry for the rice-thing.
So I take it you usually use molasses instead? Personally, I prefer the maple syrup version, too, but it’s quite possible to have baked beans with either.
Being a bachelor, my usual supper is something along the line of Ramen or mac and cheese (made according to package directions, plus a slice of American cheese and maybe some salsa). The next step up from that, when I’m feeling a bit motivated (but still not special occasion) is either an omelette (3 eggs, splash of milk, hot sauce, two slices of cheese, and salsa, plus ham if I have any in the house) or kielbasa, saurkraut, and instant mashed potatoes (Kraut and kielbasa in the pot together, with enough water to cover, for half an hour on high, then dish up the meat and kraut and use the leftover water-and-kraut-juice to make the potatoes).
Since I have a girlfriend now, I have gotten adept at making pseudo-fancy meals that are actually very easy to make. So last night was Chicken Piccata, over fettucine, and a couple of nights ago was steak with a red wine pan sauce, and mushrooms thrown on top.
Basically, dinner is usually some sort of meat, and then some sort of sauce improvised from said meat, usually made with shallots and garlic and wine.
Or I just make Thai food, which, since I am Thai, I can do with my eyes closed.
This is a big step up from my bachelor-girl days, when I would just get a piece of meat, grill it, and eat it. Usually with my hands. While grunting.
buncombe, what sort of thing would you make for a Thai dinner at home?
Oh, lessee. Well, my girlfriend really likes Yam Nua, grilled beef salad. I have a bastardized version of my mom’s which is quick-and-dirty, and my dad actually prefers it to the traditional way. I just cut out most of the fancy stuff and use extra lime. This is the one I make most often.
Sometimes I make my dad’s pork and cabbage soup, which is just pork bones in their own stock, and cabbage thrown in, and light soy sauce added for flavor. More of a “it’s snowing outside, lets eat this with a baguette” sort of thing.
Hmm, what else? Steamed fish with ginger, thai peppers, and a soy-miso sauce. I guess it’s sorta half poached and half steamed, and made “Thai” by the addition of the peppers and a very light amount of fish sauce at the end.
Used to make Gaeng Massaman all the time, the quick way (using the curry in the container) but don’t really do that since I realized my girlfriend doesn’t actually like it that much.
Also, Thai soupy rice. Leftover rice in a spicy broth, with whatever leftovers are around thrown on top and lots of chopped cilantro, scallions, and chilis. Also ground peanuts.
Hmm, and Thailand’s version of fried chicken. Basically, you cut big slices in the chicken pieces, stick a mixture of coriander roots and garlic into them, then fry as usual. Garlic fried chicken. Messy, but easy.
Those are the ones I’ve made recently. In the summer, I’ve also also made a watermelon soup. My mom’s recipe. It’s a really spicy salty broth, and towards the end of the cooking process you put slices of watermelon in it from near the rind, you know, the not-too-sweet parts? And the combination of the hot spicy soup with the cool, barely sweet watermelon is just fantastic. But I can’t find the recipe-- time to call mom.
That sounds pretty good. Could another Indian spice blend be substituted for the dhana jeera (garam masala is now readily available in the local groceries)?
Then again, cumin and coriander seeds are available as separate items, so maybe those would do, as well.