What's For Dinner?

[LadyCG]

I'm making a pasta bake, and what's left will be frozen in batches ready for the winter.

What's on your menu and is anyone else batch-cooking for winter?

[Ken4155]

For starters i'm having spiders on toasted croutons with a crushed-cockroach dip.
Main course will be whatever i cannot keep down from my starter, with a side dish of lettuce and tomato #healthy eating.
And if i've got any room for afters, perhaps a wafer-thin-mint, all washed down with a pint of water from the nearby Leeds and Liverpool Canal, preferably from the straight-mile stretch as i have found that to be more to my palate.

[bhg481]

Ken - I believe the spiders harvested from the derelict cotton mills in Burnley are the best. Are they the ones you use?

[Bobbisox1]

Can’t wait for my new Ninja foodie coming ( anytime soon)
Sold my Airfryer and skillet £75 for both,the new gizmo air fry’s,has a hot plate and many more functions, so it just might be good old chips,egg,sausage,bacon & tomato's tonight

[Ken4155]

Can't afford those, bhg. Far too pricey for my pocket. I catch my own by hiding in the grass and making a noise like a trapped fly.

[Barmaid]

I'm going out for dinner to my neighbour's. Yes, I have been batch cooking for weeks. Until the ****** freezer broke at the weekend and all my efforts wasted. I swore and cried in equal measure.

New freezer should be here this afternoon.

[Barmaid]

You can have all our spiders. We have monsters and then we have their mothers.

[bhg481]

Oh dear, Ken; this inflation is affecting everybody.

[Ken4155]

Yes bhg, gone from £1.05 a leg to almost double that in just 2 weeks. Something to do with the war in Ukraine?
I don't eat house-spiders, BM. I welcome them with open arms as they keep the flies down. Though if i ever got really peckish.............

[bhg481]

I'm sure I read somewhere that the scientists are trying to mutate a 10-leg spider, clearly inspired by the increasing value of the legs.

[nero2024]

anything quick and microwavable from iceland

[LadyCG]

Oh ***, BM, that's awful. I am sorry you lost all your cooked meals.

Love my Ninja, Bobbi, I'm sure you'll love yours too x

[Bobbisox1]

I tries to get it out the box but it weighs 12 kilos so I’ll have to wait till OH comes in

[bednobs]

dirty rice for me, beef in red wine for him, probably pizza for her

[DTCwordfan]

colannon here....made by me....followed by meringue, raspberries and a brilliant coulis, rasp & vanilla made by Waitrose.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry, my spelling - colcannon!

[naomi24]

Cold roast chicken, salad, and baby new potatoes - and no, I’m not batch cooking for winter.

[Barmaid]

New freezer just arrived. He who is in charge of measuring such things, obviously did not measure correctly. We are a few cms out. We now have to gut the entire room and move everything round.

He who is in charge of measuring such things (since I am not trusted to do so) may well find that this freezer will take a whole male body.

[LadyCG]

Colcannon is lovely, DT. I like making colcannon cakes which you can serve with practically anything. I do the same with bubble and squeak too.

If you wanted to make your own coulis, you can put a punnet each of raspberries and blackberries into a pan with 1tbsp of walnut oil and 2tbsps of honey and put it on the lowest possible heat until it has completely broken down. Squeeze in juice of one pomegranate and then push the lot through a sieve. It's amazing!

I batch cook anyway, Naomi, because it's always useful to have cooked meals for the little one and something we can just take to work if I'm too busy to make sandwiches or cook when I get home.

I've got a nice recipe for spider risotto, Ken. Just shout if you want it.

[LadyCG]

If it doesn't BM I know someone who needs to get rid of a very large chest freezer.

[naomi24]

If I make spaghetti sauce or something like that I’ll make extra and freeze some but I can’t say I’ve ever cooked more of anything specifically for winter. I don’t anticipate being snowed-in or anything like that for any length of time.