Bank holiday cooking: Inspire me!

[shaithis]

Looking for some inspiration to do some new dishes over the bank holiday.....

Only one requirement: No seafood!

[Jowsey]

I'm hardly a chef but recently I've really enjoyed home-made burritos. Grab a shoulder of pork, rub with some dry spices (salt, pepper, cumin, oregano and a small amount of brown sugar) and leave over night. Early next morning, seal the meat then through in the oven in a tin foil sachet. Give a squeeze of orange or lemon a couple hours in to twist things up. Leave for 6-8 hours low down, 140 - 160c. Remove from oven and shred. Some homemade salsa and gauc, bit soured cream and packet of your preferred wraps and you are good to go. Great for feeding lots of people. Also, the pork freezes great.

[Infinite]

Looking to cook any type of specific dish? Main course for 2, large share-able dish, dessert, quick and easy, etc?

[excalibur2]

Chile carne carni
Chinese bean sprouts, prawns\chicken, and noodles
curries
All easy to do at home

[r_j_k_p]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4QU...dex=11&list=WL

[Domestic_Ginger]

My Mum is cooking bihriani. Salivating atm

[Splash]

I'm going to make an adzuki bean and puy lentil cottage pie (with sweet potato and potato mash to top) with green beans and brocolli. Nothing too exciting, but it's lovely while it's still a little bit cold outside.

[Dareos]

patatas bravas

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1177/patatas-bravas

[kalniel]

patatas bravas

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1177/patatas-bravas

Wow that's like the diet version

Shaithis: Iranian. Was introduced by a lovely local restaurant that sadly found that Iraqi and Iranian food wasn't much of a draw by the name, so had to market itself as 'Mediterranean' to get people through the door.

[Splash]

patatas bravas

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1177/patatas-bravas

Off the back of that I feel like breakfast tomorrow might well be Huevos Rancheros

I found a reasonably decent Iranian (I think) restaurant a couple of years back the the Fringe in Edinburgh, but as a vegetarian who doesn't really go for aubergine I found the menu a bit of a struggle. All my meat eating buddies thoroughly enjoyed the place though.

[Zak33]

ok here goes

peel and cube one sweet potato and two regular spuds. Boil and then mash them up with butter. Add tin of tuna and sprinkle of dried herbs and chilli flakes.

mix really well.. it's a fish cake mix.. should be thick and a bit like pastry/dough, so you can nearly roll it out.. but sticky.. but nearly.

roll or press out about one inch thick and using upturned cup or glass, cut out a few large fish cakes or hand cut smaller ones.

Heat good frying pan, lightly oil... grind black pepper into oil (love that smell) and then fry fish cakes.. don't move them about much.. let them brown as stationary as possible..


Flip and once cooking the other side grind salt over cooked side.

And off you go... serve with raw broccoli and mayo to dip.

If you've got any chilli sauce, mix that with the mayo first to make a hot dip

[Splash]

ok here goes

peel and cube one sweet potato and two regular spuds. Boil and then mash them up with butter. Add tin of tuna and sprinkle of dried herbs and chilli flakes.

mix really well.. it's a fish cake mix.. should be thick and a bit like pastry/dough, so you can nearly roll it out.. but sticky.. but nearly.

roll or press out about one inch thick and using upturned cup or glass, cut out a few large fish cakes or hand cut smaller ones.

Heat good frying pan, lightly oil... grind black pepper into oil (love that smell) and then fry fish cakes.. don't move them about much.. let them brown as stationary as possible..


Flip and once cooking the other side grind salt over cooked side.

And off you go... serve with raw broccoli and mayo to dip.

If you've got any chilli sauce, mix that with the mayo first to make a hot dip

needs spring onions, surely?

[Dareos]

i just linked to the first recipe on google, i do love Patatas Bravas and Canaris tho.

[Zak33]

needs spring onions, surely?

gawd no.. not with tuna!