Saturday 12/1/2013
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Diary and Notes
How many different ways are there of cooking meat and potatoes for dinner in which the resulting meals are all completely different? There must be millions. You could spend every day for the rest of your life eating meat and potatoes and never have the same dinner twice. I Googled it and found a gastropub with the name Meat and Potatoes but was a little disappointed to find the menu was heavy with salads, pastas, risottos and flatbreads. Only two of the seven main courses for dinner actually had meat and potatoes in them - what a bloomin' jip.
This is more like it - (click here).
What we want is meat, meat and potatoes.
There's a Belle and Sebastian song about this too - but again it's not about meat and potatoes but slapping your girlfiend to get her aroused. I wonder if the gastropub has this on their playlist. I'm going to email them to find out.
So today it was good hearty food, nothing fancy with balsamic vinegar or black truffle. Since starting my new blog I think this is my favourite dinner by far. I really enjoyed it. Of course the picture above isn't all the food I ate. I managed four potatoes and all the meat was gone by the time I had finished.
And if you are wondering whether Isis is feeling better: For breakfast she ate a bowl of cereal and a bacon sandwich and drank a glass of juice and a big cup of milk. She had an apple about 10.30 then three bowls of home made macaroni cheese for lunch. She went to a party in the afternoon where they gave her fishfingers and chips before returning home to eat a chicken drumstick and two pork ribs, then more milk before bed. I think she nibbled some other stuff during the day as well - oh and the odd cake.
I think she's fine.Toni and the kids made some cupcakes today - very tasty.
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The BBQ sauce recipe may seem a little odd. If you read around there are thousands of sites with recipes for authentic Southern Style rubs and marinades, involving twenty or so ingredients, two days cooking and your own smokehouse. This recipe is very simple, but is really, really tasty. It's sweet and spicy and very sticky and I wholeheartedly recommend you have a go.
Menu
Ingredients*
| BBQ Ribs/Chicken 1 Rack Baby Back Ribs Chicken Pieces - legs and wings 2 tsp Chinese Five Spice Powder 2 TBSP Hoi Sin Sauce 2 TBSP Tomato Ketchup 1 TBSP HP Fruity Sauce 1 TBSP Water |
Note; The hoi-sin sauce sold in Chinese supermarkets is not the same as the stir fry sauce sold in most Western supermarkets (ie Blue Dragon or Sharwoods). I'd recommend Lee-Lum-Kee. I think I've tried every brand available in Britain and this is my favourite by far.
I used the breasts from a chicken on Wednesday and today it was time for the legs and wings. The rest I'm boiling for stock or soup.
Preparation
Chop the ribs into individual pieces and the chicken into drumsticks etc. Sprinkle the five spice powder over the meat and leave covered in the fridge for at least four hours.
Today’s Ratings:
Isis: Chicken, Pork - yum. Peas and Sweetcorn - OK.
Eve: Potatoes - yum. Peas - OK.
Olias: One day Olias will choose not to have a great dinner, but it wasn't today.
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*All quantities are very approximate and for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 kids aged 4 years, 3 years & 6 months)
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