What are you cooking today?

[Cuilidh]

I am totally fascinated by all your tomatoes, Margaret - are you keeping some seed for next year or are you working on a less prolific plant?

Chookie, good to hear that you are not gluten intolerant after all.  That must truly be a huge relief to you, but I think you discovered several good gluten free recipes that you could use for GI friends.

[cookie1]

Wow Mab. Your tomato is amazing. I started some rye SD today but it is on a go slow.  It’s in the fridge until tomorrow.

[achookwoman]

Marina, yes, some of the GF recipes were ok but the readymade stuff was pretty awful. One bread was ok, it had whole chickpeas in it. One chocolate mint biscuit was also ok. Most bread ( $8 to $10 ) awful. I ended up eating rice cracker and corn thins as a substitute for bread.
I’ve been using a Microplane to process garlic. Good move, better as you don’t get lumps .
Think I might try something from Cookidoo.

[judydawn]

That’s good news Chookie.

[achookwoman]

Just made this and had to post it.
Crispy Quinoa and sweet potato fritters. Minimalist baker recipe. I cooked Quinoa in TMX, also Sweet potato in TMX.
Think, use 2 eggs and spray with oil and bake in hot oven.  I did fry these. I tried reheating in AF, good. https://minimalistbaker.com/crispy-quinoa-sweet-potato-fritters/

[cookie1]

I cooked the SD that had been in the fridge overnight.

[Cuilidh]

Thanks for the link Chookie, I use a lot of her recipes and really like them - although these days the recipes are full with adverts (the last one I looked at had 13 different adverts throughout the recipe - some static and some 'rolling' - and I found it very off-putting - I understand the income from advertising, but she may find that such a heavy load of unwanted adverts might lose her more followers than they are worth - just my view, anyway).

[achookwoman]

Marina, I agree about the adds. I also find them annoying on this site.
I did try the above recipe , baked. Worked wel with a lot less fat.

[cookie1]

About 11am I realised we needed some everyday bread. ( I don’t eat it, only DH and DD do) it was too late to feed a SD starter up so I made a Thermomumma Seeded Wholemeal loaf.

[judydawn]

Big and beautiful cookie.

[achookwoman]

Beautiful, Cookie.

[cookie1]

DH says he has to eat two slices of Thermomumma bread if I make a square loaf, He prefers high top ones.

No cooking here today.

[achookwoman]

Ha Cookie, you give him too much choice. I love the look of your very square loaf. It’s probably the crust he likes.
I’ve made a mixture of scallops, prawns, mushrooms and green capsicum ( from the Garden) in a white sauce. It lacks a tasty punch. I will divide the mixture in half and try mixing curry into one half and lots of parsley , onion tops and dill into other half. Seafood pies out of the curry mixture and add more  veggies to the other mix and make spring rolls.
The fruit vinegar that I make has resulted in very different responses. People either love it or hate it.

[mab19]

Yesterday DS brought home half a very large pumpkin and a cauliflower.  I roasted them and then made cauliflower soup and some pumpkin soup.  My freezer is very full with tomatoes and premade meals so I will have to try and squeeze the soups in.

[K Atie]

Ok do some dinner suggestions for the following hot hot days ! Think I’ll have to firstly make soba noddle salad . Any suggestions .