What are you cooking/eating right now?

[*Deidre*]

A veggie burger and normally I love these, but this one is terrible.

[Astreja]

Halfway through cooking Moroccan lamb stew.  In addition to the lamb it has onion, garlic, cumin, a bay leaf, cinnamon, ginger, pepper and sumac.  About to take it out of the oven, add yams and dried apricots, and finish on the stovetop.

Can I haz resipee?!?

Seriously, that sounds awesome!

Start with some lamb (I buy frozen cubes of stewing lamb, and thaw in fridge the day before).  Dredge the meat in flour that's been seasoned with a bit of salt and pepper, then fry in a little bit of olive oil in a Dutch oven.  When the meat is browned, clean the oil out of the Dutch oven and put in a bit of clean oil.  Sautée a chopped onion for about 5 minutes, then add the cumin, and then the rest of the spices (garlic, ginger, sumac, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, but not the yams and apricots).  Throw the meat back in, add some broth (beef is fine) plus enough water to cover.  Bring back up to a simmer.

At about this time, preheat the oven to 250F.  When the meat and liquid is starting to bubble, put the lid on the Dutch oven and stuff it into the oven for at least an hour and a half.  Slow cooker would probably work too.

When it comes out of the oven, add the yams and apricots and cook on the stove at medium-high heat till the broth thickens and the yams are cooked all the way through.  Add salt to taste, and serve.

[Angrboda]

Just had special pho (pho with everything).

[Astreja]

Made a Greek village salad (cucumber, tomato, red pepper, Kalamata olives, feta cheese, and a dressing made from olive oil, lemon juice, oregano, garlic and black pepper. No lettuce. Can contain onions but I forgot to put some in.)

Served the salad with boiled bratwurst. They're less greasy than if I pan-fried them, and simmering them in water for about 25 minutes ensures that they're cooked all the way through.

[Astreja]

10 minutes away from a pot of Boston baked beans.  

[c172]

I had toast and veggie sausage for dinner.

I boiled a big thing of tart cherries with sugar, butter and rum, thinking I'd do cherry dumplings, as per this granny from South Carolina:





...but my flour isn't self rising. Self-rising flour has baking powder and salt in it, and I don't have the former.

[Fireball]

For lunch, I grilled chicken leg/thigh pieces and Portobello mushrooms with a little garlic and Parmesan cheese. Damn, that was good! It would have been better with Muenster instead of Parmesan, but we didn't have any. Sliced fresh beefsteak tomatoes on the side. Braised chicken and eggplant for dinner. Easy-peasy...and tasty. I have enough eggplant "spears" left to grill for lunch tomorrow.

[Little lunch]

I'm eating this amazing chocolate I found.
It's called Cadbury's Mad 4 Mint.
Each line has four different flavours, original (white) mint, peppermint, choc mint and spearmint.
Fucking genius and delicious with a glass of milk. :-)

[Jesster]

I'm baking peanut butter cookies 

[Joods]

Made bbq chicken, baked ranch potatoes, corn, orange cake and vanilla ice cream and orange sherbet.