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What are you munching on? v. Noodle nights n greedy monkeys

I don't think I'd like chips and a pasta dish together at dinner, bit too much stodge. Not had macaroni cheese for ages, so comforting in winter.
 
wibble said:
I don't think I'd like chips and a pasta dish together at dinner, bit too much stodge. Not had macaroni cheese for ages, so comforting in winter.
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ha ha ha, my best mate hates it too. She can't get her head round two carbs on the one plate. My o/h's favourite meal as a child was mac & cheese and chips. True not somthing I would have come up with but I'm glad he showed me the light. Its tasty beyond sin.
 
Whats wrong with my dinner tonight Sadie? Sometimes the simplest things are the best. I've got the chicken in the oven, I've got frozen micro rice that only takes 3 mins and I'm gonna stirfry some peppers and onions in the wok with some chinese style spices. Mix the veggies in with the rice, stick the chicken on top and have some mango & sweet chilli sauce for dipping. Sounds great to me, I'm salvating thinking about it.
 
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Sounds nice Spade.

I had these lovely savoury pancakes out today - spinach, ham and cheese yum yum. Just had a handful of chicken crisps there :)
 
Had a CT pepperoni pizza (again) but different to the one the other day. I really need to stop buying pizzas this often but they're forever on offer at Co-Op and make for a cheaper than chips dinner. Why is nice food that isn't made of heart attack so damned expensive? :!

Yes, I know I could actually make food from scratch but that is also hideously expensive when cooking for one with no freezer to store the fuckton of leftovers that are unavoidable if trying to do it and make it financially viable :\

Also, after sleeping 24+ hours I'm still bloody starving even after a (not especially big) pizza :X
 
Shambles said:
cooking for one with no freezer to store the fuckton of leftovers that are unavoidable if trying to do it and make it financially viable :\
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That - a freezer is what makes it viable. I bought a load of fresh veg from a wee greengrocers today to make soup, cost £1.09 and it'll make loads but it'll need frozen to last.

Nowt wrong with pizza for a hungry growing lad! :)
 
Yes, I know I could actually make food from scratch but that is also hideously expensive when cooking for one with no freezer to store the fuckton of leftovers that are unavoidable if trying to do it and make it financially viable
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What happened to that microwave cookery book I bought you? ;)
 
Ha! I still have it, Spadey Baby <3

Same problem though - buying ingredients for one is seriously expensive even though the variety of options is greatly increased. I actually have a cooker now - almost a proper one but it's electric so still a bit shit - so can cook if I want to and even do. Just the lack of freezer I'm working on. Not that I have room for one 8)

Kate: I'm kinda hoping not to grow too much more ;)
 
In related news, a question for the foodies...

Have loads of jars of (Sharwoods? Pataks?) biryani sauce in me cupboard and I frickin' luuurve biryani so would like to make use of them. Works out cheap enough cos I only really need to add rice, meat and whatever veggies are to hand. Question is, was looking at beef earlier and bog-standard stewing steak was £3 a pack (just enough for a biryani that should do me two days so no need to freeze :)) or they have Aberdeen Angus on special offer for £3.49 for a slightly bigger pack. Have never had Aberdeen Angus so fancied treating myself but would it be ruined with the longish cooking (fried with spices then baked with rice for an hour or so) of biryani? It's cubed so looks like it's meant for stewy kinda things but thought I'd ask the experts :)
 
Think you'd be better off with thinner cuts of beef and not chunks for biryani.
 
My culinary skills extend to cutting meat if necessary, Spadey ;)

Have always used cubed meat for biryani anyway. Never seen it with anything but cubed meat, to be honest and have eaten it all my life - mostly cooked by Asians as it happens and I presume they would probably know how to do it right.

Wibz: Erm... dunno. The fact that it was pre-cubed rather than in a steak made me think it must be one of the tougher cuts though. Plus it's pretty cheap.
 
I've eaten it loads as well and with beef I've never had it as big cubed chunks of steak, always thinly sliced, smaller bits of beef. Dunno what's the proper way but seems to me that thinner bits would work much better.
 
I never use those packs because i need to know what cut it is to cook it nicely dammit. Stupid supermarket!
 
Aberdeen Angus is the breed of cattle you'll be munching....need to know the cut, but at that price for a larger quantity it sounds like a long-slow-cooker.

It's a tasty cow :-)
 
Indeed. I think I may have answered my own question a bit there - cheap (although is on offer) and cubed so likely a slow-cooker. I'm now slightly concerned it may be tough cos it won't be cooked long enough :D

If I have a looksee in the next day or so I'll check the cut and report back cos it probably does say. Thinking it must be a stewy cut though so should be okay :)

Spadey: Thinly-sliced meat will be takeaway biryani I presume - they use it cos it's quicker and stretches further so looks generous but it doesn't produce such a good end product.
 
I just can't see how thick cubed chunks of meat would work with biryani Shambles, frying it then baking it would just make it tough I think. Think chunks of meat work better when slow cooked in casseroles, curries etc.
 
Just cook it for longer and slower. Aberdeen Angus is a laid back breed, so liable to be nae too tough if handled properly :D

What you need is an actual wee slow-cooker. Magic things, ask Spade %) They use very little electricity unlike a leccy-cooker and you can leave them on for hours, just walk away and return to a lush tender meal.

*takes a note for Shammy's xmas*
 
Funnily enough, Kate, Occasional Mrs Shambles has a slow cooker she's never used that I could probably borrow. Always assumed they'd cost a fortune in leccy for being on for hours on end but are only lil things so surely cheaper than a cooker. May have to prod her :)

Spadey: That is how you cook biryani - it's meant to cook slowly and the slower the better. Cut it thinner to knock up a quicker version - a la takeaways and ready meals and that :)
 
Shambles said:
Funnily enough, Kate, Occasional Mrs Shambles has a slow cooker she's never used that I could probably borrow. Always assumed they'd cost a fortune in leccy for being on for hours on end but are only lil things so surely cheaper than a cooker. May have to prod her :)
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Prod her indeed :D They use the same as a light bulb, while a full leccy-jobby unless you have the oven filled to the brim uses a lot more.

Easier to clean too :)
 
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