What have you had for dinner

[Mottie]

Chicken risotto. Every day, Avril, puts me on the spot, to ask me what I fancy for dinner the next day, so she can attempt to organise it. Stuck for ideas, I plucked out of the air - chicken risotto. I'd never made it from scratch, nor had she, so she Googled and came up with an authentic recipe....

She had collected the ingredients, we'd had a roast chicken for Sunday dinner, with a breast going spare, so she decided to make the risotto yesterday, for dinner. It turned out absolutely spot on.

We often have chicken and pea risotto on a Monday with leftover chicken from the Sunday roast. I make my own stock on Sunday using the chicken frame and leftover vegetables. I use this recipe and also add some mushrooms. Very tasty.

Easy chicken and pea risotto recipe

This cheap and cheerful chicken risotto is quick and easy because all the stock goes in at once. It's also brilliant for using up leftovers.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

We often have chicken and pea risotto on a Monday with leftover chicken from the Sunday roast. I make my own stock on Sunday using the chicken frame and leftover vegetables. I use this recipe and also add some mushrooms. Very tasty.

Easy chicken and pea risotto recipe

This cheap and cheerful chicken risotto is quick and easy because all the stock goes in at once. It's also brilliant for using up leftovers.

www.bbc.co.uk

That was the very same recipe she used. She was a bit worried it seemed to sloppy at the end of step 3, but it ended up just right. Two helpings for us on Monday, two more put in the freezer.

 

[Mottie]

She was a bit worried it seemed to sloppy at the end of step 3, but it ended up just right.

You can always tell if a risotto has come out just right. Put it in your bowl and it should be sticky enough to make a mini-mountain but not so sticky that if you give the bowl a couple of shakes, it will level off.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Avril still away, so today, with leftover chicken breast in the freezer from last Sunday - I'm having a go at making chicken a la crem. Chicken, mushrooms, onions, garlic, white wine, and of course cream. This morning, I got everything cooked, in the pan, just need to add the cream and simmer it, when I am ready to eat. I was planning to have rice with it, but there is no basmati rice, and so chips it is.

The dog gets the leftover chicken thigh meat, and a few surplus chips.

 

[JonathanM]

Avril still away, so today, with leftover chicken breast in the freezer from last Sunday - I'm having a go at making chicken a la crem. Chicken, mushrooms, onions, garlic, white wine, and of course cream. This morning, I got everything cooked, in the pan, just need to add the cream and simmer it, when I am ready to eat. I was planning to have rice with it, but there is no basmati rice, and so chips it is.

Sounds yummy. New potatoes or roast potatoes would be my choice.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Sounds yummy. New potatoes or roast potatoes would be my choice.

It was, it just came together perfectly - nothing measured at all.

 

[Mottie]

Raja. A mixed meal from our local Indian. You get:
2 Poppadoms
Onion salad
Mint sauce
1 Naan
Tandoori chicken leg
Chicken tikka masala
Chicken Jalfrezi
Mutton curry
Vegetable curry
Pilau rice
Very tasty and more than enough for two - we couldn’t finish it all. All for £16.50 - thats near on a tenner cheaper than fish and chips for two. Order it over the phone and get there early and they sometimes give you a small beer on the house while you’re waiting.

 

[JonathanM]

All for £16.50

Amazing!

 

[Andydevon]

Left over home made lasagna and some oven chips. Is home cooked food always tastes better the second day?

 

[JonathanM]

Is home cooked food always tastes better the second day?

Often. Stews and casseroles especially. More time for the flavours to mingle?

 

[Mottie]

I sometimes do a batch cook of Bolognese sauce or chill con carne and freeze a few portions. Always tastes better after freezing I think.

 

[securespark]

Left over home made lasagna and some oven chips. Is home cooked food always tastes better the second day?

Curries, Bolognese and ratatouille all taste better after a couple of days in the fridge.

 

[Stivino]

Curries, Bolognese and ratatouille all taste better after a couple of days in the fridge.

Home made soup, too.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yesterday evening, and alone, I felt a bit peckish, but fancied having something without cooking, so I looked at something I don't usually even consider - a take-away. I've not had any sort of take-away (apart from F&C's) for a good decade, and never had one delivered. I ordered an American burger, delivered, along with an order of chips, and a coke, just to make the cost up to minimum for delivery. It took me an entire hour to work out how to use the order site, then work out how to pay for it with a card. The site then, eventually, said it would be delivered in 50 minutes. There was a screech of brakes 20 minutes later, and it was delivered. What I hadn't realised was, the burger included a great pile of chips, so now I had two great piles of chips. It was quite enjoyable, nice chips too, so I put the surplus in the fridge, thinking to perhaps reheat them with today's dinner, as there would be enough chips for two - Avril is back.

I suppose the process would be much slicker, if you are used to the process..

Today's dinner is Chinese flavoured pork chops, salad, and reheated chips. It was intended to be a BBQ, based on yesterday's warm weather, but it seems a bit chilly and windy, for that.

 

[Mottie]

We're still without a hob during the kitchen refit - can’t fit it until the worktops are fitted which will be hopefully this week so we've been living on ready meals. We're getting sick of 'em. The ovens are connected so tonight I’m doing a Mediterranean vegetable tray bake with some haddock. It’ll be the first meal we've cooked with fresh ingredients for a month.