What did you have for dinner?

Can you spot pete?

 

Tonight, I am doing a BOF Cobble (Back Of Fridge Cobble )

Putting the shopping away last night, I rediscovered a pack of rather fine free range eggs which had gone a wee bit over their date, so decided that they should be checked and used today if fit. They sank in a pot of water, so are clearly fine, so just about to start cooking:

Spam - small diced (yes, spam - about half a tin)
1 red pepper finely choppped
1 onion finely chopped
1 potato finely diced and parboiled
Mixed herbs
Garlic
Paprika
Butter
Oil
Salt
Black pepper

Drain potatoes, melt butter into pan, and coat - then dust in paprika to taste and set aside; Put a healthy knob of butter into a frying pan, heat, and add half the spam and let it start to fry off; then add half the pepper, onion, potato and garlic and let it fry off some more - whisk three eggs and pour in, seasoning as desired.

Repeat with the other half of the spam etc to make a second, and wallah! Dinner for two.

 

I'm still in the middle of cooking but taking a few minutes break.

I've made a veggie Tagin (not for today) with onion, garlic, leek, celery, carrots, turnip, courgettes, chick peas, freshly roast and ground cinnamon, cumin and coriander, tin of plum tomatoes, veggie stock, fresh coriander and parsley leaves (I left out the dried apricots as we keep off sugars).

Also bought a large chicken and a pack of chicken wings. Cut the chicken up into skinless breasts (frozen for stir frying), leg and wing portions (for roasting) and using the carcass and pack of wings for the soup.

Used carrots, turnip, onion and celery in the soup and made a big batch - which will keep in fridge and be used each day for most of the week. I made very light dumplings to go with the soup and made them using the fat skimmed off the top of the soup (gives them a good chicken flavour). Sarafi smelled the soup cooking and came for his favourite titbit - chicken wing. It's his all time favourite and tries climbing up the back door when he can smell it.

Chicken is roasting, flavoured with a touch of garlic and herbs and crispy roast potatoes cooking in the same pan. This will be accompanied by swede mash flavoured with French mustard, Brussel sprouts and mushrooms sauted in butter.