The Mock Turtle

Disco wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:48 pm Wild garlic meals for rest of life

This week is:

Chicken and spinach rogan josh
Lamb cutlets with roasted pumpkin and green beans
Bombay potato frittata
Chilli con carne
Chicken fajita salad

In no particular order:

Fry up for dinner
Chicken & Chorizo pasta
Burritos
Pork chops
Roast chicken
Chicken gyros or shawarma (haven't decided yet but we have chicken thighs)

Stuffed pasta shells
Fishless fingers, JP, corn on the cob, beans
Potato and sweetcorn chowder
Black olive pesto pasta
Veg curry and rice
Sweet potato tagine
Burger/sausages, hopefully barbecued

Disco wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 4:48 pm Wild garlic meals for rest of life

My SIL has given me a jar of delicious wild garlic pesto that she made.

I made a big batch of fridge bottom veg curry and a vat of red pepper and tomato soup on Monday, so that's my meal plan sorted, pretty much.

Chilli and mash
Tandoori cauliflower, lentil and chard curry
Spring greens, white bean, orzo soup, coriander pesto
Salmon tom yum
Quorn mince shepherds pie, parsnip/pumpkin topping
Leftover shep maybe wi' on egg on it

Some carried over from last week:

Shwarma, gyros salad(L)
Beef and black bean
Sweet and sour Chicken
Keema(L)
Cous cous salad with chicken (L)
Roast chicken dinner

I was going to ask what does (L) mean but now I reckon it means lunch?

This week I will be considering cardoons. So if anyone has any good recipes featuring them, I've seen fried, frittered and gratinated and all of that business bodes well with me.

The L is for lunch as I am incapable of making a small amount of food so there's loads of leftovers.

I'm off to Google cardoons.

I suffer the same affliction.

They're from the thistle family and are fibrous stems as far as I can gather.

Are they a bit like artichokes? I've never had one.

Artichoke/ thistle family but more like celery visually. They are stems not flower-heads. As far as I'm aware.

I am interested to know what you think of them.

In unusual fruit/veg news I spotted that the place I buy my corn tortillas had fresh tomatillos and jicama so I've ordered them. I am planning to make a roasted salsa with the tomatillos and some maybe this salad with the jicama: https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/sum ... nd-avocado

I need to plan. I am thinking (it's quite ricey):

Spicy salmon with stir-fried courgettes and carrots with rice
Korean beef and veg with rice
Eating IN A RESTAURANT
Haggis, baked potato and spinach
Chilli con carne with rice and some sort of veg
Roasted chicken thighs and tenderstem broccoli with tagliatelle with wild garlic pesto
Fish fingers, chips and veg

Mushrooms, spinach pasta with wild garlic pesto
Spinach, parmesan orzo with pork chops
Kedgeree
Chicken, purple sprouting broccoli with fried gnocchi
Leek & blue cheese risotto with pangritata
Giant pigs in blankets with mash, peas and onion gravy
Cardoon gratin with crusty bread and salad

How many of us actually keep to our meal plans? Mine has just been scuppered as I fancy chips and omelette instead of whatever was planned.

I do 90-95% of the time although I keep moving the kedgeree - I've just added to my post - as I need to use the fresh stuff and kedge is store cupboard.

Pretty much, as that’s what the food shop is based on. Things get moved around and if there’s leftovers to use up, something might get bumped.

Yes I’m the same as Wendy. I do bump things quite a lot but usually I’ve shopped based on whatever’s on the list.

Beef teriyaki
Pulled pork
Risotto
Bean chilli
Fish & chips
Veggie curry