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Post by ivyplus on Feb 12, 2008 11:54:31 GMT 12
Often I don't know what I want to cook for diner and I would appreciate any ideas.
Here is what I will cook tonight:
Oven roast veges. I wash the veges and cut them into pieces. Put them in an ovenproof dish sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic and roast for about 45min to 1hour at 200oC or till they are ready. Lamb chops Salad
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Post by certegy on Feb 14, 2008 23:07:20 GMT 12
;D I cook a pretty mean roast beef, oven roasted kumara, yams, pumpkin, parsnips - served with honey glazed carrots, corn and minted peas with generous helpings of my lemon/ginger stuffing. Brocolli with hollandaise sauce. Roast beef gravy - or instead of beef roast chicken Serve cranberry sauce.
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Post by mamamia on Feb 15, 2008 9:03:46 GMT 12
I often do beef olives with my own stuffing using lots of fresh herbs, chopped ham or bacon, almonds, sundried tomatoes or dried apricots chopped even prunes are nice in stuffing Chicken breasts I sprinkle Morroccan seasoning and stuffing mix (dry) and wrap in bacon and bake with the rest of the stuffing rolled into balls. One of my favourite vegie dishes at the moment which goes with just about everthing is, sliced onion, celery and capsicums ( bit of each colour) in a pan with some butter and then add sliced courgette and mushrooms, we also do this on the BBQ, so yummy
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Post by ivyplus on Mar 4, 2008 10:15:59 GMT 12
I got this recipe from a friend and thought I will share it with you:
+500 g beetroot 10 cloves garlic handful fresh marjoram or oregano if not available use dried marjoram salt and fresh pepper to taste 10 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 6 tablespoons olive oil
Wash beetroot and cut into golfballsize pieces. No need to peel. Put beetroot into oven dish with other ingredients. Cover the dish with lid or with aluminium foil. Put in oven on 200°C for 1 hour.
Enjoy.
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Post by ivyplus on Apr 3, 2008 14:07:02 GMT 12
Just thought what I could cook for tonight. I guess I will make some roast vegetables and I got lamb steaks.
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Post by OasisNZ on Apr 3, 2008 19:59:50 GMT 12
And what a fantastic meal it was. Lamb steaks with nigh a touch of fat, tender and juicy, not quite "melt in the mouth", which I like as meat should be chewed, roasted vege's in the way that only you know how, and steamed Brussels Sprouts, (disliked these as a child, can't get enough of them now, will try growing some next season, thought we had some this season, but it turned out to be some sorta mixed up cross dressing brassica that never quite made up it's mind want it wanted to be, and just decided to go into flower instead, LOL!) Tip for the day, if you want to keep your own seeds, don't let your brassicas, ie cabbages, cauliflowers, broccoli etc go to seed anywhere near each other, or you will end up with a weird crossbreed that won't produce anything and/or go straight to seed the next season. And herein lies the reason why so many people, (it's not just a vocal minority) are cottoning on to the importance of rejecting the genetic engineering of world wide crops. It's already a happening, let's do everything we can to stop it happening here!
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Post by ivyplus on Jul 22, 2008 9:19:14 GMT 12
PolentaThis is the recipe, Certigy. It is cheap as chips! and I love it. 1 onion 1 cup corse maize meal (kibbled corn) 2 cups water 1 teaspoon salt some cheese (optional) Saute the onions in some butter and add the water. Bring to the boil and add salt. Solely tip the maize into the boiling water and stir all the time, otherwise it can give lumps. Turn donw the heat to the lowest and stir regularely. It will take about 10 - 15 minutes till it's cooked. Add some cheese before serving and stir the cheese into the polenta. What you don't eat put in a dish and leave to cool. Cut the cold polenta into slices and fry in a frying pan. Tastes wonderful as well.
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Post by certegy on Jul 22, 2008 18:24:09 GMT 12
Looks delicious sweet - we are having sausages with gravy and onions, honey mustard carrots, red buttered potatoes corn and brocolli
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Post by ivyplus on Jul 23, 2008 15:42:36 GMT 12
As a fish eating vegetarian I am not a good meat cooker. Tonight I want to make a roast and thought to be safe I will call bigOs mum for the recipe.
It seems to be quite simple and quite cheap than other meats. And because I have the wood stove going I can roast it slowly in the stove.
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Post by aztec on Oct 6, 2008 11:47:33 GMT 12
PolentaThis is the recipe, Certigy. It is cheap as chips! and I love it. 1 onion 1 cup corse maize meal (kibbled corn) 2 cups water 1 teaspoon salt some cheese (optional) Saute the onions in some butter and add the water. Bring to the boil and add salt. Solely tip the maize into the boiling water and stir all the time, otherwise it can give lumps. Turn donw the heat to the lowest and stir regularely. It will take about 10 - 15 minutes till it's cooked. Add some cheese before serving and stir the cheese into the polenta. What you don't eat put in a dish and leave to cool. Cut the cold polenta into slices and fry in a frying pan. Tastes wonderful as well. First time we have ever tried this Ivyplus and it was delicious. I'm going to keep this recipe, thankyou Ours looked much more finely ground than yours but that was all we could find
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Post by ivyplus on Oct 7, 2008 10:49:56 GMT 12
Hi Aztec! I am glad you like it. You can buy fine or coarse ground maize. Both are usuable. I get mine from BinInn. I think it is called there coarse meal.
Another idea how to use cold polenta is:
Cut it in slices and put them onto a baking paper. Cover with your favourite pizza topping and bake them in the oven like pizzas.
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