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18 hours ago, AlanHo said:

Chicken Kiev with paprika roast potatoes and an assortment of winter veg

Accompanied by my version of Marsala pepper sauce 

Sounds interesting, Alan. 

I have taken the liberty of including your recipe in the Recipe Thread.  HERE

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Home made beef and onion pasties with boiled spuds, cabbage, sprouts, carrots and cauliflower. Lashings of beef gravy.

 

Management is a volunteer every Wednesday at a hospice charity shop 100 yards from home. Hence I get a chance to use the kitchen unsupervised.

 

I pre-cook the beef and onions in a pressure cooker and use a food processor to make the pastry (I can't do it by hand). Though I say it myself, the pastry will be lovely and crumbly and the meat succulent and not chewy.

 

I have pre-cooked the pies and will finish them off just before dinner this evening. Here they are - with a Valentine's touch for management's pie

I never grease a baking tray when doing pies - I prefer to sit them on a bed of flour to stop them from sticking. This explains the flour in the tray.

 

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^^^^^^Very nice looking, Alan. Hope they taste as good as they look^^^^^^

 

When I did the bubble & squeak yesterday, I made the mash from potatoes that I had baked in the oven with the intention of having the skins crisply baked in a little fat served with a beef chilli con carné - which is for today.

 

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5 hours ago, AlanHo said:

We cheat when we do baked potatoes - microwave them first to cook them through (but not quite fully soft) then stick them in the fan oven at 250oC to crisp the skins.

We have a combi oven,that when set to baked potatoes, asks how many. It then starts up with microwave and convection combined. It does two taters in twenty minutes.

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We also have a combi microwave - but the tater skins are not as crispy as done in the oven - hence I finish them off there. The innards are just as fluffy as traditional baked spuds. I much prefer King Edwards or Maris Piper spuds - they are dry and fluffy. I don't like the waxy spuds supermarkets sell as baking potatoes at all.

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The Chilli beef I did yesterday was a portion of a beef ragu from 750 g of steak mince with added chilli, spices and beans. The next third of the ragu will be served more appropriately with linguine.

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16 hours ago, AlanHo said:

We also have a combi microwave - but the tater skins are not as crispy as done in the oven - hence I finish them off there. The innards are just as fluffy as traditional baked spuds. I much prefer King Edwards or Maris Piper spuds - they are dry and fluffy. I don't like the waxy spuds supermarkets sell as baking potatoes at all.

When the program has finished ai give them about another four minutes st 250 degrees. This crisps the skins up nicely 

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