These past few months without kiddo around has made me boringly regimented as to cooking food, with a lot less haddock & a lot more rice, salmon & bushels of brocolli so that wife will eat more healthily even though it is late at night.
The positive being a lot less processed bread, the downside, way less mackerel on toast breakfasts. ..less butter though.
The other day I sous vide 2 bags of nothing more than liberally garlic powdered bone in chicken thighs at 63 ? c for a few hours before crisp finishing them (colour & bite) ..sampled one when cooling late at night the moist but not heavily stringed meat ..flavoured salt on the skin to adhere.
Considering that was intended for the dogs I don't think it will be shredded for them, going to us instead, certainly makes for better portion control & 4 veg to one meat ratio, ..I think I'm over cooking whole birds for a while as that really delivered, the connective tissue cooked well with no awkward.gelatinous bits left over, just need to tweak the airfryer time.(doesn't help when you cook for 8.20pm plating up & she walks in at 8.45)
The downside, is that the now heavily garlic laden water needed a premature change (garlic permeates soft plastic too easily) ..anyone know if it is ok for my tomato plants? ..I was able to cook some eggs in the water with the chicken ready for a simple on toast meal later this week. ..marinating the cheap salmon offcuts (as per sweet & sticky the other week) I get to warm the eggs for a meal & cook the salmon off same time ..or slap it straight in the a/fryer
I do miss a rich & creamy "heart attack" mashed potato generally opting to microwave steam my veg last minute, but anything for a quiet life, seeing joes piled high plate did make me miss it, ..says the man who had flaked salmon , seaweed, sesame + steamed rice for breakfast
Our daughter became potato adverse for maybe 10 years after having a few potatoes in one week & swearing off them, so it's something I might need to re-visit when she gets back in april, ..a few double baked (scooped & filled) should do the trick. ..have you done that in the A/fryer yet joe? ..bloke food par excellence that can be batch made for a couple of re-heated fridge meals,
Does anyone else's dogs appreciate the broccoli stalk? ours go mad for it in the same way they do apples (eaty-balls) I cannot believe the wife threw them into veg bin all those years, great fibre, vits + minerals.
When is aubergine season here folks? I went against my (rotten) judgement a few weeks ago & had immense pleasure from a "too good to go" M&S bag which had stuffed aubergine (gastro range)? that was incredibly good (had me kicking myself as another long avoided veg) longing for a decent "get over it" ratatouille to break the back of another one of my own veggies pre-conceptions, ..& yes, I did air fry that delicious sucker
Last of my winter stored carving pumpkin & several squashes in the larder .. do I halloween carve it or eat it. (kitchen temps rising to 18 yesterday) preservation borderline dicey.
I'm going to try it sous vide (2 hrs, 85c) all in a bag & see how it fares, suffice to say I love joes wbs heat n' eat but I donr have the space.on ours
so low energy mainly insulated container cooking is our best option compared to an electric oven.
so low energy mainly insulated container cooking is our best option compared to an electric oven.
