Show us your food! Corona Cooking edition

[Hobbes]

All the food looks good, but that egg and chips looks especially spot on Disco - I really love egg and chips for decent comfort food.

Eldest made us Katsu chicken this week, from Wagamama’s released recipe, it was amazing.

[Epponnee Rae]

Amazing last couple of pages, especially the katsu, chicken, gnocchi and pork. I love a good quality pork chop, there’s a place here actually called Pork Chop, which serves a mammoth sized one as its signature dish (yes way!), and it is amazing.

My displacement baking now includes sourdough. I said I wouldn’t but caved and decided to give a starter a go. In hindsight a terrible idea as it’s just added to the highs and lows, mainly lows, of the last couple of weeks. It took a solid two weeks to get established and my first loaf attempt was an unmitigated disaster (more curling stone than bread ). But the second attempt was much better!

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I don’t think I’ve made any kind of bread since I was at school in Home Economics, so I’m feeling quite proud of myself. It felt far more luck than judgement though so it will be interesting to see if I can repeat it!

[Heebie Jeebie]

Goat's relatively new egg love amuses me. I wish I could catch it.

Pasta with garlic ciabatta. I'm making my garlic butter with oregano instead of parsley, and I prefer it.

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This doesn't look all that amazing but was really lovely. Chicken marinated in garlic, thyme, lemon and olive oil, with an extra salted herb butter, and slightly crushed new potatoes.

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And a Chinese style beef stir fry.

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[Cerise]

Got enough chilli in that, Heebs?

[Heebie Jeebie]

My meals are only about 90% chilli. It's not enough.

[wendy james]

What sort of bread will you make? I made terrible baguettes today. The texture was fine but I piled too much dough in the baguette holders and they spilled out as they baked until the "baguettes" became conjoined with the oven shelf.

Oh dear!

I just made a loaf, which I didn’t get to snap as P sliced it and the girls demolished it at lunchtime. They’ve asked for more.

[Mountain Goat]

That sounds like a resounding success if ever I heard of one.

[emma_p]

The loaf looks great Epp! Great holes.

I made Alison Roman's salty chocolate cookies and they are delicious. They're described as like the edge of a chewy brownie but in cookie form and they really are. I'd add a little less salt next time but they are SO moreish. I can't stop eating them. Also they contain no flour!

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[baargain]

God, they sound amazing. Recipe link, please!

[emma_p]

Here you go: https://www.stephaniedickison.com/artic ... ies-recipe I didn't add any nuts but I think pistachio would be so good in them.

I've been making them into ice cream sandwiches for the kids using a really easy no churn vanilla ice cream recipe I found on Jude's Ice cream website. It's like good old fashioned ice cream and is just cream, condensed milk and vanilla.

[Squirrel]

Corrrrr! Does bittersweet chocolate mean dark chocolate?

[emma_p]

I did use bittersweet because I have a stash of Guittard chocolate chips. It's usually around 60% cocoa rather than 70% that is standard with British dark chocolate although that would totally work too.

[Rosa]

Those cookies look amazing!

[baargain]

Oh my.

[Chicky]

Those cookies look amazing.

Disco - could I have your thai sweet potato curry recipe please? I'm craving some vegetarian options and it looks very tasty.

[Disco]

Epp's bread and Emma's cookies look the business.

It was really tasty, Chicky. It was this although I had a half a jar of red curry paste in the fridge and didn't have any spinach. https://pinchofyum.com/creamy-thai-sweet-potato-curry

[Chicky]

Perfect, thanks Dics! That's the recipe I was eyeing up on the web so I'm glad its the same one!

[wendy james]

I saw this and thought of the SP eaters. It’s an IP recipe that I’m sure could be adapted if anybody wants it.

[olive]

The loaf looks great Epp! Great holes.

I made Alison Roman's salty chocolate cookies and they are delicious. They're described as like the edge of a chewy brownie but in cookie form and they really are. I'd add a little less salt next time but they are SO moreish. I can't stop eating them. Also they contain no flour!

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Oh wow! I will definitely be making these!

[Mountain Goat]

I missed the lovely bread earlier! And cookies.

Here are two dinners in a new series I call "food without an egg on top".

Kofte, and then venison with spiced sweet bloody potato mash, mushrooms and port/fig sauce.

Yes, there is watercress on everything I've eaten this week. Just a tiny bit left in the bag now.

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