What's for Dinner?

Give me a bit.. They are Dan Toombs recipes from his books but he has a website with some recipes on it. Ill see if they are there.

Just made this (minus the smoked duck fat, substituting the sambal for gochujang, and plus some veggies and some sliced Quorn nuggets): www.joshuaweissman.com/post/uncle-roger-s-fried-rice-but-better

Reader, it was good.

Instead of working, I did some naan bread research this summer, to try and recreate the perfect restaurant naan at home. I think most naan recipes I see in the UK are just flatbreads. You don't want yeast in it. And it's self raising flour. I found the recipe in the Dishoom book is spot on. Cooked in a pizza oven on a flat plate to get the heat. And lots of brushing with oil/ghee.

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That looks good. We do flatbreads frequently in my house- 50/50 self raising flour and yoghurt, perfectly baked and warm after 3 minutes on a hot pan. One of those things where you wonder why everyone isn't doing it, it's that simple.

Also, for any coeliacs in the house (such as Mrs hedben), they're just as good with gluten free flour. Shop bought GF bread can be awful so we tend to make our own if it's to be eaten straight away (it doesn't keep well)

I made chicken bhuna in a slow cooker for the first time last night. Was decent but not as good as the normal version. I don't think I should add water that the slow cooker recipe said I should, it was a little too watered down.

Was great just leaving it simmer over time instead of attending to it every 10 mins after the initial 30 min like the normal version.

Anyone know any decent slow cooker recipe's?

Yeah I added corn flour. I'll try taking the lid of next time too!. Thanks.

Nom. Did you use a pizza stone or something?

Yeah, pizza stone in an oven I set to max for about an hour and a half. I think the trick was three-day fermentation in the fridge, taking it out on the morning I wanted to eat it so it could do a second bulk prove, shaping it into balls for another prove, and then a final half hour after I'd shaped it into pizza before topping it. Also used a bit more water in the dough, so it was stickier then usual but god it got results.

Beef and mushroom noodles today - my new, quick and easy go to dish.

Not dinner obviously (unless you're a wrongun who calls lunch "dinner")

Chopped up whatever crunchy veg I could find in the fridge (pepper, radish, some chard stems from the garden) and a tomato, added a tin of tuna and mayo + some freshly chopped basil. Toasted a couple of pitas and then piled the mix in.

The best part of it though was topping it with a few forkfuls of a fresh batch of pickled red onion. Absolutely adore the stuff and it's so quick and easy to make (the only real faff is sterilising the jar)

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I do like pickled red onion, have to say.

Meanwhile, I'm going to try this -




www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/oven-roasted_chicken_13123

It wasn't too far off that.

So what I did was marinate some bits of chicken thigh in some soy sauce, ginger, MSG, and some chinese chilli and peanuts in oil

this stuff - www.yaubros.co.uk/products/laoganma-peanuts-in-chilli-oil-l-chilgm107.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1ouKBhC5ARIsAHXNMI8kfXEfPSJQbW5yMbdJYOlfJCVZXv89W_1HrTdNY-Hoi6cKZrtG-SUaAiJkEALw_wcB

I baked the chicken in the oven till it was done.

Then for the rice, obviously had precooked some actual rice. Stir fried some garlic then added shallots and chilli, chucked some egg in there, then added the rice, soy sauce (dark and kepap manis), MSG, a bit of red pepper I had leftover, a few frozen peas, then cooked that bitch. At the end I threw in the cooked chicken and some sliced spring onions. Really very nice.

I'm having toad in the hole.

Two tacos, chicken con cola with cassava crisps, and green chorizo with a fried egg.