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Cooked macaroni and cheese this evening, but due to an underestimate of the amount of pasta was still hungry afterwards. Earlier in the week I'd bought some halloumi knowing that I wanted to do something with it, but not sure exactly what.

Popped to the shops round the corner which were still open at 2230 on New Years Day &emdash; impressive. I ended up doing the following:

Finely chop a red onion.
Thinly slice 3 cloves of garlic.
Roughly chop 2 green bell peppers.
Chop some halloumi into strips about 1cm thick.

Put a oil in a frying pan over a high heat and get the oil really hot. Add the onions and garlic. When the onions soften add the cheese and peppers. Cover with a lid to keep the steam in and stir occasionally. Allow the onions to caramelise a little, remove from the heat and serve.

Serves 2-3.

It worked really well and I'd do it again. That said, it was on top of another meal so I suspect it's not overly filling. Anyone got any ideas for how to bulk it up? (Or perhaps it should stay as a small dish to be used as a starter)

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Tonight's dinner was turkish in style. I feasted on a huge amount of tabouleh and tzatziki-filled pittas. (I was going to have it last night, but I was feeling lazy and had a curry instead.)
( Anyway, a recipe for tabouleh and tzatziki lie beneath )

I've added quite a lot of people to my flist in recent weeks. I keep my IM details in a locked post at [http://www.livejournal.com/users/matthewp/86958.html] so that google won't link my name with my journal. I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later, but I've managed so far. For this reason, please don't refer to my surname in public posts. (I'll screen you otherwise ;-) Do many else of you use Y!M/ICQ/MSN/AOL ?

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I love red cabbage, but for whatever reason had never cooked it before tonight.

Recipe for those who are interested:
Wash and roughly chop a red cabbage. Fry it in a load of butter (2 tb.sp. or so) and add a roughly chopped onion shortly after.
When the onions have softened add about 200ml of malt vinegar, a chopped apple, some sausage meat (e.g. garlic sausage, chorizo, kebano) and some sultanas. Add sugar to
take the edge of the vinegar (I used muscavado). Reduce heat and simmer for 45 mins-1hr allowing it to reduce down.

Serve with pasta.

Thoughts:
Could also add sultanas.
The sausage can easily be left out for the veggies amongst you.
Muscavado sugar isn't necessary; any kind will do. Just that muscavado has a nice flavour.

I really need a chef icon. Me in a chef's hat, perhaps, or maybe a photo of something I've cooked. My camera is in Manchester else I'd take a photo of tonight's creation. Does anyone have a photo of something I've made?

angmalina - perhaps of the meal at Whitby? Or

jenbird - the cake I made for NYE 2003/4?

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mhw and

valkyriekaren you come to mind, but I'm sure there are other cooking gurus on my flist.

I have an idea for what I want to do, but not how to do it.

I have some chilli chocolate, and I'd like to cover orange peel in it to make a snack. My question is how to sweeten the orange peel. If I boil them in sugar water will they just go soggy, or will they (as I hope) caramalise and become less sharp? What can I do with the flesh of the oranges?

It's beginning to sound a bit like a jam or marmalade, but I've never made either of those so I've noting to base it on.

Does anyone have any bright ideas?

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This is the recipe for the dish I cooked Monday night at Whitby.

Serves: 4

Ingredients: 1 fresh pineapple, 1 onion, 2 carrots, 1 capsicum (yellow or orange work best, as it's quite a sweet dish), a few cloves of garlic, some fresh ginger root (half an in length or so)

Preperation: Boil some rice.
Finely chop the garlic and cut the ginger into thin strips. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a wok or frying pan, then add the garlic and ginger, allowing the garlic to brown. Add the onion, chopped, the the carrot, sliced. Cut the half pineapple into large chunks, and squeeze a portion of the remaining half into the pan, topping up as it evaporates. (If you want, you can cover the wok slightly so that the carrots and pepper steam to aid in their cooking).

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I came up with a recipe a couple of weeks ago but didn't get around to posting it, so here goes.

Chop a few cloves of garlic and a couple of chillies. Looking back I don't remember whether I used an onion or not. I'm sure it'd work fine though.
Stir fry some diced chicken in a pan or wok.
Add the garlic and chilli and onion if you used any.
Add 2oz/5og of butter and squeeze in the juice of two limes.
It reduced quickly so top up with a dash of water if it gets a bit dry.

Serve with rice.

I must get around to making the recipe site I keep mentioning.

Clicky.

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I've never been particularly good at making sauces - a roux tends to end up being gritty or a gravy being weak. Last night, I was cooking a stiryfry and noticed some oranges in the fruit bowl adjacent to the hob, and came up with the idea of making a sweet'n'sour sauce. Slight panic partwaythrough when I had problems with the thickening agent, but a well-experienced mother was available for telephone advice :-)

Ingredients:

500g of turkey,diced
2 carrots, thinly sliced
2 bell peppers,chopped
1 large onion, chopped
50g sugar
150ml malt vinegar
1 orange
Some arrowroot or cornflour

Directions:
Stiry fry:

Heat some oil in a wok / large frying pan on a moderate heat.
Add the turkey, allowing it to brown but being careful not to let it burn.
After 15-20 minutes add the onions and stir.
Heat until they start going clear, then add the carrots and peppers.
Reduce the heat, stirring occasionally. (Keep an eye on it whilst making the sauce).
Optionally cover slightly it with a saucepan lid to reduce cooking time a little

Sauce:

1/4 fill a mug with water and stir in about 2 heaped teaspoons of arrow root. (It should dissolve really well). Put this to one side.
Take another pan, and add the vinegar. Don't let it boil, but when it starts to steam add the sugar in small amounts. (It can be a little uncomfortable if the vapour gets in your eyes, so those wearing glasses are at an advantage. I prefer to use an extractor fan :-)
Once well dissolved the syrup has reduced a little, slowly add this to the mug of arrowroot solution. (Not the otherway around, else you might end up with a lumpy sauce).
It doesn't matter if it won't all fit in the mug; pouring it this way around is simply so that you don't give a temperature shock to the arrowroot. Then pour back in the contents of the mug to the sauce pan.
Heat it slowly; it should be about the colour of a weak tea. After a few minutes, but suddenly and without warning it will thicken up into a syrup.
Grate the rind of the orange and add it to the sauce, then halve the orange and squeeze in the juice.
Add maybe half a level teaspoon of cayenne pepper.

Serving:
Serve with rice, and ideally eat immediately because the sauce thickens when it cools.

I realy need to start coming up with imaginative subjects. Not least so I can find posts when searching through comment email. Unless anyone knows of any decent email indexing and searching solutions for Linux?

A friend of my two housemates that I vaguely knew in halls of residence at uni has been over for the weekend. I decided to cook dinner. I roasted veg for the first time which may not sound like much but I've only ever used the hob for cooking, so it was quite an achievement.

( recipe beneath )

Later in the evening I went to

jillys with

softfruit. It was a surpriseing quiet night for a Friday, but I did manage to see

neuromantix (welcome to my flist :-)),

msbhayvin,

db85 and Jay.

Saturday I was going to go flying for my first lesson after a 10 year hiatus, but the poor weather prevented it. Had 2 hours of ground school instead. Watched QL all evening and made it through to the final episode.

Today I have another booking for a lesson, but having just checked the weather I don't think it'll happen.
( METAR weather report )

No plans afterwards, though maybe I should tidy my room and do some laundry, as the place is a sty.

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I cooked dinner again this evening. I enjoy preparing food, but don't do as much as I'd like. Tonight's delight was Vennison steaks with a red wine gravy. Sorry, robinbloke and hardened meat eaters, but I added some veg to it also.

( Recipe here for those who are interested )
My culinary knowledge isn't that great, but I think it's the sort of thing which might be typical of France/Belgium.

One of these days I'll sort put some of the recipes I have online. And for geek factor, I'll add a "verbosity" setting whereby it will give varying amounts of detail, depending on your confidence in the kitchen :-)

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YAY! I have a 3 day week :-)

Tuesday: day off
Wednesday: hopefully seeing

david in the afternoon/evening.
Thursday: Might go to

jillys
Friday-Monday: off work. Going to Reading/London for

faerierhona's birthday celebrations..

Contact details at http://www.livejournal.com/users/matthewp/96078.html for those who need them.

Still feeling a bit congested. I've been drinking plenty of my ginger tea, which is the only hot drink compatible with my palate.
( recipe under here. I might have sent it to you in a comment )

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Is the same thing I cooked for

emmy_mallow and

louis_mallow on Sunday night. You both expressed an interest in the recipe, so I finally got around to writing it up.

( salmon, onion, lemon, butter and rice goodness )

was once again at my place.

dineleeeee,

snowyowlofdoom,

poisonlipsterar,

mynameissmurf

softfruit,

ruth_sedina and 3 others (non-LJ users, the heathens ;-) were in attendance. T'was a shame not to see

kingginger,

mhw, Ian, Paul and John.

I cooked a cheese fondue and then we feasted on a load of chocolate cake. ( recipe beneath here for those who are interested )

To count the new year in I played the U2 Best of 1980-1990 album, with "New Years Day" timed to start on the stroke of midnight ;-) We wandered outside and watched the neighbours' fireworks.

Some time after midnight a cat wandered in the open door. It took immediate liking to

mynameissmurf's mini remote control car ;-)

Around 2am people wandered back, so

softfruit,

ruth_sedina and I stayed up spodding and chatting.

Looking back, 2002 has been a fantastic year. I've been happy, for the most part, and progressed far on a personal level. Let's hope 2003 continues in a similar vein.

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I made dinner tonight, instead of eating take-out. I'm capable in the kitchen - but don't try new stuff often. I tried cooking something new today; the idea was straight from my mind - no recipe book or anything, so I'm feeling proud and productive.

Tonight's creation

Poach some salmon steaks, and boil some rice.
Meanwhile, heat a couple of table spoons of butter in a pan, taking care not to burn it.
Add the juice of half a lemon and drizzle in a little olive oil.
As the rice and fish become ready, add a tea-spoon or so of thyme[1]. (they should be ready at roughly the same time)
Pour away the fish-water [2] and put the steaks on plates. Add the rice and drizzle over the sauce.

Footnotes

I'd rather use dill since it combines better but there was none in the house
It does seem wasteful, but I can't think of anything to use it for; it might be a bit weak from which to make a soup or stock.

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