Dinner Log and Menus
Big notes
just one showstopper desert better than buffet, ie that chocolate cake
if showstopper is lemon tart or a bit more adult like, have some chocolate thins or individually wrapped miniature lindt or other high quality chocolate on hand to produce
dinner works if just a simple non overly abundant main like a tasty but simple pasta or pie, somnething that you can prepare ahead and an array of vegetables and salads ( most of which can prepare ahead) and sourdough.
In and out burger, master the art of getting the dinner done and experienced in short time
always have
lemon curd in the freezer
sweet shortcrust in the freezer
ingredients for that chocolate cake
miniature lindts or the like
ingredients for those brownies
Just write them all because as Dr Falk Says, dinner menus could be very popular and the ultimate in making it easier for people
26/12/20
Great to bring to someone house
Spinach feta spiral roll, pan of roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes with shards of red onion and french shallot and thyme strewn over after cooking, cauliflower salad (like little jean) but with dill dijonaise dressing instead of tahini remember pecans and raisins, Brussels sprouts with maple, wild rice salad
24/11/20
Zucchini fritters, fried potato, green goddess, hummus, lebanese bread,
27/10/20
Spinach and ricotta agnolooti with either glada de laurentilis marina sauce or creamy mushroom pesto, alongiside a leaf and capcisum salad with dressing of 2 tbs white balsamic, a splash of white wine vinegar, 1/3 cup olive oilm shaken to emulsify, garlic bread and blanched asparagus.
26/10/20
ottolenghi, Spring onion soup (very tasty and very very healthy) , the two chicken salads, potato salad, green beans with freekeh and tahini, vegemite scrolls.
23/10/20
The mushroom sauce (once usually used with steak) and pasta, and pangrattato with wide batons and sauce with mushroom mixed and using leek. This is very very good. thinly sliced leek fried in butter in oil on high until starting to brown, 3-5 mins then off heat and cover to sweat them. Render the wide bacon batons. Fry thin sliced mushrooms in butter and oil, undisturbed so bottoms brown and want them to start to soften, Add 300 ml thickend cream and stir, add bacon. amazing!! This also works without mushroom for people like ella/.
21/10/20
wraps with sweet potato fritters and sauce, little jean (roasted cauliflower) salad, creamed spinach (creamed spinach wasn’t superb with this, lettuce, roasted caulilflower with roasted chickpea hummus (ie tahini, lemon and crushed roasted chickpeas.)
20/10/20
Quick Minestrone, small dice, toasted sandwiches aw dippers, sliced capsicum, greek lemon potatoes
13/10/20
Gigi hadid, roast potatoes (small pieces), roast sweet potato red onion and fennel, salbitxada sauce, capsicum and cucumber,
7/10/20 -
Fillet sliced and pan seared and fried (don’t crowd pan) and thyme mushroom sauce and beans and cauliflower cheese
4/10/20
Salmon steaks (some with soy honey marinade and sesame and spring onions, (try this with lemon sour cream dill dressing as well), tabouli, potato salad, green salad
Andrew dinner 3/10/20
zucchini fritters (make sure properly cooked), potato salad that works, tabouli (make sure not too liquid), greta anna cabbage and pineapple, pumpkin halloumi rocket, lebanese bread, hummus.
Lucia Birthday Party 1/10/20
Margeritas, taco tortilla with beef taco sauce, been chilli sauce, grated cheddar, diced tomato, shredded lettuce, guacamole (tasted a bit weird, maybe we are over this or less white onion?), tortillas, onion coriander salsa.
28/9/20
gigi hadid, with mushrooms on side (fry mushrooms in oil not butter, the butter clashes with the cream in the sauce), moroccan orange salad, pile of raw vegetabl;es, tiramisu.
Tom Barlow 19/9 Margerita and mushroom Pizza with rocket salad as starter and pesto blobs as well as tomato, , Burgers cheeseburger and full
Burger, and fast brownies 2 batches and cloud cake. And ice cream, and strawberries and watermelon, and the big fat chocolate cake
16/9/20
Capsicum, green beans, broccolini all near to raw or blanched
POtato salad that works
Salmon Steaks
Texas Vegetarian Chilli with sour cream
Chana Masala with youghurt
15/9/20
Italian tomato sauce crudo (warmed), mushroom eschallot wine cream sauce with toasted pine nuts and basil oil, mixed if desired with the crudo sauce over a plate of pasta and or ravioli. Salad of sweet potato haloumi and mint, shredded white cabbage with white vinegar and olive oil dressing and toasted sesame seeds, steamed asparagus, capsicum and cucumber.
14/9/20 - Marks beginning of small tasty, super yum salad, piles of veggies
Avocado Salsa with Potato Hand Pies, salad of rocket, capcisum, red cabbage shredded and cucumber, minestrone
13/9/20 MEatball subs
meatballs that work, or eggplant meatballs, tomato sauce ( new uncooked tomato), mozarella cheese (melt before adding rest), zucchini, lettuce, fried mushrooms, avocado as an option if not too big already
1/9 Mexican dinner
taco sauce, texas bean chilli, roberto guacamole, shredded lettuce, grated cheddar, diced tomato, sour cream, tortillas, corn chips
31/8
crispy honey chicken (and tofu) , mushu vegan, fried rice, steamed broccolini, blanched snow peas,
quite popular, ella loved it liv really like it
30/8
Sunday my family
Pastizzi use them up
Party pies
Mushroom party pies
The chocolate cake with strawberry and ice cream.
Brownie three layer easy / from freezer.
Maybe deep dish pan pizza yes. Mushroom one and a margarita one.
Cheeseburger party pies, ?
Banana bread,
Salt and vinegar potatoes?
29/8
Ann and Gl lunch
Veggies
Caramel croissant pudding
Mushroom pan pizza. Super tasty and onion and red pepper, toast sliced onion and red pepper in pan and add to pizza for last 5 minutes of cooking then add Parmesan.
Sourdough
Zucchini and mint fritters
Big green salad
Dreamy coleslaw.
Drinks etc with con tribe 15/8/20
pastizzi, deep pan pizza 2, msmen with dips, Salt and vinegar potatoes with sour cream, Mushroom hand pies with feta,
Plain veggie type thing leaves - in separate bowls.
Sourdough
Desert Lemon tarts, No bake brownies ,Croissant pudding , Tarts with chocolate, Nutella, strawberry
Strawb , cream,
3/8/20 - Lebanese banquet
msmen, lebanese bread, the meatballs that work with spice change, cabbage with dijon dill mayo, fried potato, taboulli, zucchini dill fritters, felafel, creamed spinach, wilted spinach, brilliant
1/8/20
Dinner with Richard Katie et al
Burgers (woolies)
on milk buns, brioche, standard buns, pita
with
shredded iceberg, american cheese, jalapeno cheese, tomato, beetroot, diced onion, sliced pickle, fried mushrooms, fried onion, mustard
served alongside
sourdough, dijon coleslaw (with a hint of apple as well) (also works great on burger), salt and vinegar potatoes
desert - the best highest chocolate cake ever, with ice cream and strawberries
This was a hit
Learnings (i don’t like chopping strawberry in front of people), toast insides of buns by spraying oil on insides and placing in frying pan inside face down on high heat. Sourdough alwasys not always needed dont have to bring it our everyt ime. Remember to bring out chopped strawberries!! And pineapple bacon addition could work, suggested by Katie N. Plus potato salad that works also alongside salt and vinegar potato.
24/7/20
Dinner with Josh, Ines and Maria
Gigi Hadid
Salt and vinegar potato
Sourdough
Brussels sprouts
Leaves
Cranks bulgur wheat salad
Shredded cabbage with dill Dijon\
Better than creamed spinach spinach!!!
Chai banana bread with honey mascarpone
Meringue with strawb, cream, Nutella, lemon curd,
Chocolate brownies
Healthy brownies
Lesson here is just do a ssingle howstopper desert like killer chocolate cake or cloud cake rathher than a buffet of options or even mini citrus tarts with chocolate lining, have curd in the freeZer to make it simple even frozen pastry in freezer as WEL.
23/7/20 m- first logged meal at balfour
mini margerita pizeetes (dough 1) , with pesto and chilli and balsamic and oil drizzled over the top, simon johnson pasta sauce with fresh basil and pesto with penne for gl low salt.
9/7/20 - Sienna and Ellen - gigi hadid sauce with pennette, mixed cabbage with dijon lemon dressing, salt and vinegar potatoes, brussels sprouts with maple and pistachios, chai banana bread, chocolate cake that cures everything, fresh sourdough.
23/6/20 - Party pies, spaghetti bolognese and liv’s zero calorie noodles baked with bolognese.
22/6/20 - Beef stew with salt and vinegar potatoes and green beens and red and yellow capsicum
18/6/20 - tornachos - beef taco sauce, diced tomato, sour cream, grated cheese, chipotle guacamole, corn chips and tortilla, quick refried beans
17/6/20 - - Rendang Rigatoni, Fried rice with egg peas and cabbage, rendang rigatoni fried rice
16/6/20 - msmen with grated pumpkin, shredded pork, avocado, halloumi (or mozarella for GL), lemony baby spinach probably better as rocket, caramelised onion and toasted. in sandwich toaster. sprinkled with pine nuts and parsley after being cooked.. This is very good and some very great ideas to play with. Maybe drizzle yoghurt or tahini yoghurt over the toasted insides. Getting the order right is tricky. and its a bit tasteless. overall not really worth the effort and the pumpkin doesnt really add much value.
15/6/20 - spiced jollof rice mixed with fried egg, baby spinach leaves, fried paneer, nigella salt and vinegar potatoes, celery soup, green beans, capsicum, small beef fillet thinly sliced into steaks and fried.
14/6/20 -Msmen with wilted silverbeet, red onion steeped in lime juice, arlington beetroot humus, classic hummus, lemon wedges, diced tomato, grated mozarella, grated feta
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