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It's my turn to cook dinner. I've got an hour to get the shopping list to my butler before he goes to Tesco's.

RECIPE ME DO!

Note - no mushroom, sweetcorn or tomato (tomato sauce or paste is fine). And we had pasta last night, so I don't really want it again.

Oooh, well-timed, I have to cook dinner tomorrow, and unless I can think of something quickly it's going to a cop-out "2 can dine for £10" job from M&S.

Bangers and mash?

Fajita kit? Had those last night with refried beans on the side and a bit of salad. TEH YUM.

If I was at home I'd post my recipe for mussels steamed in a bag with chillies. but I'm not.

MaliCurry, natch.

Cottage Pie? Easy, warm in the winter and very nummy

chicken or sausage casarole!!

steak pizzaiola!

Veal.

is ewww

Chicken Chasseur?

A couple of mates are coming over tonight so I'm doing curry (from a jar) with chicken and rice with a variety of awesome store-bought desserts

Do what I do and get a game bird in.

Spit roast?

Uh...Carol Vorderman?

awesome/10

For some scary flu induced reason I typed in 'Spit Roast Carol Vorderman' into google....safe search off

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...

Good luck with dinner Grim... whatever you decide to do

EDIT:
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A risotto is nice and easy and never fails to impress the ladies.

If you're going for fancy then do pan-fried seabass fillets on a chorizo and clam risotto.

That's a euphamism, right?

We had risotto last week, and fajita's too. I think I'll go with MaliCurry, if I can find the thread.

My work here is done.

Fucking high 5.

How about a nice Goulash to warm you this evening - takes about 30 mins to prep and you let it simmer for an hour and half. That's what I'm making tonight.

1lb of chuck or rump steak, cut into cubes about 3/4 inch
2tbl spoons of Paprika
1/2 tsp of Cayenne
1 pint of stock (oxo cubes will do just fine)
2 onions
2 garlic cloves
Salt to taste
1-2 tbl sps of tomato puree
350ml passata

coat the beef chunks in seasoned flour, brown in a hot heavy bottomed saucepan in batches then remove them to one side
turn heat down, put finely chopped onion and garlic in and simmer until soft (always takes about 15 mins by my reckoning
Add the beef
add the tomato puree - simmer for 3 mins
add the paprika - simmer for a minute or two
add the cayenne
add passata and stock, bring to boil, turn down and simmer for an hour

then try it and season it to taste - it will need salt for sure, might need some more paprika or cayenne, may need some thyme
put rice on

eat!

edit: oh yeah, some sour scream goes nice with it

Mmmmmm goulash.

That MaliCurry was aces!

Don't suppose you have a dairy-free recipe for my dairy-intolerant chums who are coming for dinner?

I couldn't do the rice because Mrs Grim... bought Uncle Bens Express Rice instead (t'was bloody nice, though).

Can't see why you couldn't replace both the cream and yoghurt with coconut milk, from the look of it. Probably be a little thinner, but would work.

I don't like coconut milk

Then make it in two pots - cream and yoghurt in yours, coconut milk in theirs.

Come play CS, you.

Yeah, can do.

Pleased you enjoyed it.

Cook!

Buy a George Foreman Grill. There is nothing a man cannot cook on one of those things. They make cooking fun again.

Tell them to belt up and don't be so soft. Works for nut allergy suffers as well (subs please check).

Fixed.

Soya Milk?

Yes Dave. Squeezed from the pert nipples of the free range soya herd.

Tonight I am going to make a lasagne. But, to save time, I am going to use a jar of bechamel sauce. I AM LAZY.

I use jar sauces a lot, particularly when making curry or pasta on weekday evenings. I don't think it's cheating as such. Having said that, bechamel sauce is particularly easy

You might as well make a bechamel in the 3 hours cooking time a proper ragu will take anyway

Grim...'s top tip is to put your lasagne together the night before you cook it.

I'm using a quick (read: a bit shit) recipe that takes about an hour, and I intend to use that hour to clean and tidy the house (and to try to top it smelling of burn - fell asleep with some pasta on the hob on Sunday night and it still fucking stinks).



Still haven't bought the mince yet...

I have no idea how it's made, but we have (due to someones dairy intolerance) soya milk and soya cream. They work fine as substitutes (Soya milk tastes equally as rank as normal milk, soya cream tastes pretty much the same as normal cream(i.e. a bit less horrible than milk, but actually edible), and can be used in pretty much all the same places as normal cream.)

Plus, you can keep them for longer than cow dairy.

Based on the contents of one of your cupboards, you're keeping the Bisto people in business.

Haahaa! I really need to take the three 1/4 full jars of each flavour and combine them.

You might create a singularity of flavour that will destroy us all!

Also, you are the chilli fuckin' MASTA.

Ha! I do make a good chilli, I hope. I ate some more of that sour cream on my chicken balti last night. I thought it would be off but it seemed OK.

We made a ruby last night as well... we'd had one of those 'roast in the bag' chickens and had saved the rest for future use... it was gorgeous.

My lasagne was far nicer that I'd feared it would be (jar bechemel sauce and all).

Afterwards, my girlfriend confessed that she didn't like lasagne.

Ah, well! She was polite enough to eat it!

Beef, cheese, pasta, tomato, onions, garlic? How can you not like lasagne?!