Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #8

[Seni]

We have had some simple meals over last days, probably will do for Christmas as well, as no kids here. It will be New Year when we celebrate BIL's birthday and burn the effigy of 2025.

Anyway, yesterday made grilled tuna steaks, rice (long, whole grain), steamed baby carrots, arracacha which translates as Peruvian carrot, bit like a cross between sweet potato and swede, onions, before a brief oven session with cream and parsley.

Tomato and basil salad.

Today I made fried rice with the leftover rice, sesame oil, more onion, almonds and sesame seeds.

Plus briefly steamed cauliflower, then cooked in the oven in a sauce of sour cream, harissa, peanut butter, some cilantro.

Big green salad as my husband thought I overdid the harissa.

 

[iamshadow21]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

 

[ilovewings]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

Congrats of 25 years!!!!! your brownies sound delish--- I love lamb but never cook it---
Merry Xmas

 

[iamshadow21]

Congrats of 25 years!!!!! your brownies sound delish--- I love lamb but never cook it---
Merry Xmas

Thank you!

I hope they taste as good as they smell. I think I overcooked them a little, but them being a bit more cakey isn't a deal breaker for me.

It's an Australian institution. I don't have it all the time, but it does slow roast very well and feeds a crowd.

 

[PayrollNerd]

It's midnight, and I'm making Peppermint Brownies. Using my tried and tested brownie recipe with peppermint essence, and tomorrow I'm planning on drizzling the top with different coloured chocolate and sprinkling it with smashed candy cane.

It's partly because we suddenly have six people to cater for rather than four for our Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, but mostly because I wanted them. Partner helped make them and approved of the peppermint level. I just got them out of the oven and they smell great. As of midnight, we've officially been a couple for 25 years! And we have brownies. That's pretty awesome.

(Fortunately, mum was able to go out and buy a leg of lamb this close to Christmas because the chicken we had would not have stretched to six. So we'll slow roast the lamb the day before, and do the chicken the day of, because that will give us time and oven space to to it all right.)

Congratulations on 25 years! That’s quite an accomplishment these days. Your meal sounds delicious too! I’m not a fan of peppermint but that actually sounds pretty tasty.

 

[iamshadow21]

Congratulations on 25 years! That’s quite an accomplishment these days. Your meal sounds delicious too! I’m not a fan of peppermint but that actually sounds pretty tasty.

Thank you! We became friends at seventeen, a couple at nineteen. We've been together ever since.

Most mint I'm not a fan of either, especially common mint and spearmint, but I do like peppermint hard candies and peppermint with chocolate.