Enening all, and goodnight, for it's been a long, hard day and something similar seems to be looming tomorrow.
But, afore I go, enough of this cooking malarkey. Let's talk proper modern eats!



Anyone care to post their guilty fast-food, brand name comestible pleasures?

And let's not forget...

t-p,

I fear you have confused my breakfast with martle's.   

Best wishes,

Martin

(PS. About time we heard something by Egon Toast on Rob Cowan's Breakfast Show  )

Tonight is a green stir fry.

You will need:

Spring greens (or anything else that takes your fancy)
Some carrots (I've cut them into batons)
Onion (probably just one, though see how big it is) sliced
Garlic (now I like to add 2 or 3 cloves, you might like to add less/more) sliced
Spices (today I've chosen mustard seeds, sesame seeds, crushed chilli flakes, and some fennel seeds)
Soy sauce

Fry the spices until the mustard seeds start to pop.
Add the onion and garlic and fry them until they are how you like them (I like them translucent).
Throw in the carrots and greens and a glug of soy sauce.
Cook until it looks right and then serve with an extra splash of soy sauce to taste.

Simple and delicious.

I have a final question, and that is: what music are you choosing to accompany your cooking tonight?
I thought that I might try to find my tape of Scriabin's 3rd symphony, but failing that I'm feeling in a Mahler 2 kind of mood.

I couldn't find the Scriabin and couldn't be bothered to dig out Mahler 2, so I'm listening to Mahler 5.

I forgot to tell you about the noodles (straight to Wok ones) which should go in near the end.
If you don't like them or have them, do some rice.

Do you mash your squash tp?
I quite like roasting butternut squash (and I do mean roast squash enchilladas)

It was salmon. I roasted everything. A friend told me to put a little bit of water with the fish.
Cat loved it too, he had some left overs.
Yes, it was butternut squash. I looked at the name (I have another one). I did not mush it. It tasted like sweet potatoes. Mr tp thought it was sweet potatoes which I am fund of roast now with potatoes, carrots (I boil it first a little for speed). That squash was really good. I am glad I bought it.
I love chinese food. I have soy sauce and I can try your recepy with noodles or rice. You are probably very slim (and healthy I hope) hh. You have a good dietary habits.

I'd love to post a picture of the curry I made for tea but it's inside my stomach! I do have a further 2 portions in plastic tubs to go in the fridge/freezer but they don't look half so appetising as when they're on a plate with the rice, pickle, yoghurt.

Here, however is an early stage of a red lentil/mung dal curry I made about 4 months ago.



btw hh, if you've got a big picture like yours, you can easily make the small image you post into a link to the full sized picture (quote mine to see how)

While I was cooking tonight I listened to Joyce DiDonato and Julius Drake on Sean Rafferty's programme (show? )

I love your dinners, hh and Andy D.
I have been in chilly mood for a while, but I made it the way a friend tought me: I bought ground lamb with spices from the pocket, tomatos from the can, onions, beens for chilly. That was good. Andy's spices look better.

I love hh dinner. It is just like in chinese restaurant. And I never thought to make semolina puding like that. I think I am going to like it. Semolina is good with raisens.

You are so talaned in more ways than one. You are creative in everything.
And now another good idea from Morticiaa.

A friend of mine has given me a book on Lebanese cooking but I haven't actually had the time to deal with it properly...
Yet another project for post-PhD.