Pretending to eat out

[w1bbles]

Now that we're all locked down, we decided to try an experiment. There are 5 of us: one person gets to decide on a restaurant with an online menu. We download it and then everyone picks what they would have. I'm the cook. First choice was the Canny Man's in Edinburgh. I produced SMØRREBRØD to order (sorry for shouting - CTRL C+V) and we had smoked salmon with prawns, curried egg and prawns and then chicken/bacon with cheesy potatoes (potato fell off):



Home made soda bread. There were 15 open sandwiches in all (SMØRREBRØD - sorry for shouting again). We're now going to work out which other restaurants have online menus we can pretend to order from.

Anyone want to join in?

[anonymous-user]

Love the idea, but I'm going through the what we have in the freezer stage at the moment. By god it's a lot though

[Drive it fix it repeat]

Like the idea but sounds like a PITA having to have loads of quite specific ingredients. Especially when we aren't meant to just pop to the shop willy nilly for half a gram of saffron or whatever.

[FWIW]

That looks great, despite the pøñçŷ (sorry) description.

Not what I’d choose from a menu but great idea for a thread.

Bookmarked for inspiration.

Thanks.

[madcowman]

wsurfa said:

Love the idea, but I'm going through the what we have in the freezer stage at the moment. By god it's a lot though

Don't feel bad about freezer diving! This is a great opportunity to give it a clear out.

I suspect we can hold out for a fair few weeks, though we will be going keto after a while as I have a lot of frozen meat compared with the veg stocks!

[DeltonaS]

wsurfa said:

Love the idea, but I'm going through the what we have in the freezer stage at the moment. By god it's a lot though

Strange place to keep the bog rolls.

[ZedLeg]

Not really the same thing but my partner is a chef and never usually cooks at home.

She’s been bored during the lock down though, so I’ve been eating very well

[sidekickdmr]

Great idea, although having not left the house for 10 days and no home delivery slots at the supermarkets for the next 3 weeks, it would be a little bit more Littlechef menu from the freezer/tins than Sushi Samba

[PositronicRay]

Corn on the cob hotpot.

Corn on the cob.
Stock
Sliced potatoes.
Season to taste.

Good job we all order same thing.

[PositronicRay]

Also some vegetarian chilli. I substituted with stewing steak cause tins of mixed beans were running low.

[22s]

Great idea! As above though, bit faffy with specific ingredients.

I'm holed up at the family house with my mum and sis (have been here for 10 days now) and we've agreed on a cooking rota where each of us cooks every 3 days.

It's been really fun as in London I'm always so flat out that, though I love cooking, I just end up doing bulk cook on a Sunday afternoon and eat the same thing every week day, week-in, week-out (which is this with added veggies: https://www.daringgourmet.com/misir-wat-ethiopian-...

Nice to add a bit of variety!

[anonymous-user]

DeltonaS said:

wsurfa said:

Love the idea, but I'm going through the what we have in the freezer stage at the moment. By god it's a lot though

Strange place to keep the bog rolls.

Left my wallet in there once when drunk, so perhaps at the back there....

[Riley Blue]

sidekickdmr said:

Great idea, although having not left the house for 10 days and no home delivery slots at the supermarkets for the next 3 weeks, it would be a little bit more Littlechef menu from the freezer/tins than Sushi Samba

Same here and with little but the basics on the larder shelves the best I can conjour up is a Hairy Bikers' spaghetti bolognese. Exotic cuisine is but a distant dream for the time being.

[Chester35]

Played this with the dog

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