Cooking Vegetarian Tonight
Discussion
The chop dodging mother-in-law is staying over and I'm in charge of dinner though this is the preferred option over putting the kids to bed.
Trying a new autumnal recipe, a roasted butternut squash, chickpea and leek casserole with a potato scone top. Sounds nice (ish) on paper, basically the whole lot is combined with onions, garlic and a creamy white wine sauce with some tarragon in, then put in a casserole dish and then 'scones' made with mashed potato and flour are used to top it. Whole lot then goes in the oven to brown. With some chicken in it I'm sure it would be even better.
Luckily I have some sirloin steaks for Friday or Saturday and a pork shoulder in the fridge which I'll be slow roasting for Sunday dinner so that should cure the meat withdrawal
Trying a new autumnal recipe, a roasted butternut squash, chickpea and leek casserole with a potato scone top. Sounds nice (ish) on paper, basically the whole lot is combined with onions, garlic and a creamy white wine sauce with some tarragon in, then put in a casserole dish and then 'scones' made with mashed potato and flour are used to top it. Whole lot then goes in the oven to brown. With some chicken in it I'm sure it would be even better.
Luckily I have some sirloin steaks for Friday or Saturday and a pork shoulder in the fridge which I'll be slow roasting for Sunday dinner so that should cure the meat withdrawal
mattdaniels said:
When you stay at hers, does she cook you meat?
Nope, although she's not that bad, she's got me ham in for sandwiches and stuff like that but I normally tell her not to worry (so long as there's a beer or three in the fridge). The year we spent Christmas day with them she managed to procure some roast turkey off a neighbour to go with my leek bake or whatever the hell it was we were having 
If we have a takeaway curry with them we'll order our own meat dishes and that doesn't bother them.
Buy yeah I agree it is a bit of a one way street. Could be worse, got a friend who is vegan and that is a PITA though fortunately we don't see them that often.
Well it turned out ok, certainly edible but could do with a bit more punch with regards to flavour. The mother-in-law liked it anyway.
Heres the recipe is anyone is interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpea_and_but...
Needed a bit of tweaking though, when it says it serves 6 I would have to assume they mean 6 mice and not humans. I put a whole butternut squash in which was well over twice what the recipe suggested. Stuck with the two leeks and can of chickpeas though. I also did quite a bit more potato as the quantity suggested looked very meagre. Upped the amount of sauce to compensate. Ended up with something that would serve 4 hungry adults.
The timings were also way out. Roasted the squash for the 15 minutes suggested and it had hardly started cooking, needed over twice that time though I went for chunky so maybe smaller cubes would have done quicker. Also the final cook in the oven to brown the "scones" was way more than the 15 minutes suggested.
Back to meat eating tonight
Heres the recipe is anyone is interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chickpea_and_but...
Needed a bit of tweaking though, when it says it serves 6 I would have to assume they mean 6 mice and not humans. I put a whole butternut squash in which was well over twice what the recipe suggested. Stuck with the two leeks and can of chickpeas though. I also did quite a bit more potato as the quantity suggested looked very meagre. Upped the amount of sauce to compensate. Ended up with something that would serve 4 hungry adults.
The timings were also way out. Roasted the squash for the 15 minutes suggested and it had hardly started cooking, needed over twice that time though I went for chunky so maybe smaller cubes would have done quicker. Also the final cook in the oven to brown the "scones" was way more than the 15 minutes suggested.
Back to meat eating tonight
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