Need a new recipe...

[claire85]

Hi! Can anyone help? I see my boyfriend every weekend (long distance) and we always eat the same kind of thing- fajitas! They're lovely but I'm sick to death of them. I like these sort of meals that you kind of put together at the table and love to cook so it doesn't need to be anything necessarily quick and easy. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[nickmo]

Best thing from Switzerland - get a fondue set. The heavy based ones are better, so try to get the best you can afford. Get one anywhere.

Cheese one with different colours of cheese like red cheese for a change, use beer, wine, sparkling wines, red wines for the liquor, or apple juice for a non alcoholic version - plus use various stringy cheeses in the mix which you can have fun with at the table. Dip bread, veggie things, sausages, ham, bread, and then have domestic about who gets the crust at the bottom of the pot! Lots of different recipes for this all over the place, plus a few good books you can get to try out ideas.

Option - use oil - carfully - and dip battered thingys - tempura veg, seafood, poultry etc. or dip meats and ahave a few different dips. Pieces can be battered or not.

Option - use a stock (this is a Mongolian hotpot) and poach veg, seafood, poultry and serve with a hearty bread and then drink the stock as a finishing soup at the end.

Option (heres the fave) use chocolate - cheat and use Toblerone, melted with cream for a liquor, and dip marshmallows, fresh fruit in season - cherries with the stalk on, pears, apple - brioche chunks, other chocs, candied fruit. Thin with a little water if too sticky (but doubt thats a problem though) Use a good dark chocolate for a grown up 'bitter' flavour.

Fonduea are great 'cos you can have fun with various versions so there is lots of variety, you choose how much to eat - no 'sick feel I ate too much comments ' - and you have to drink as wel! Perfect.

[JB]

Why not have an Indian curry night, or a Chinese night?

For the Indian, you could do your main curry dish and have sides of rice, poppadoms, naan bread, chutney, bombaty potatoes, raita etc

For Chinese - main dish (eg beef green pepper) and sides of rice or noodles, prawn toast, spring rolls, sea weed etc

Or Caribbean night - jerk chicken, macaroni pie, rice and peas......lots of rum!

I could go on and on!!

[wee_angel]

Why not try tacos? You can choose what you like to put in them-mince, cheese, onion etc.