Challenge #3: Squash!

[miss_s_b]

Ended up using the squash with a healthy roast dinner:



That's pork roasted in cider (with crackling om nom nom), beetroot likewise roasted in cider round the pork, cauliflower & leek in cheese sauce, mixed variety steamed carrots, potatoes roasted in goose fat... and mashed butternut squash. So, you know, the squash wasn't really central to the meal, but it WAS yummy, and very easy to prepare once the ballache of peeling it was over. I steamed it till tender and then mashed it with a bit of butter. That's it.

My cheese sauce recipe, btw, is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Ingredients in the order of adding to the pan:

One small onion, finely chopped and gently fried in butter till clear.
A pint of milk.
A garlic cube.
A teaspoonful of wholegrain mustard.
Some cornflour to thicken.
And once it's thickened, lots of cheeeeeeeeeeeese.

Thai Sweet and Sour Vegetables

[davegodfrey]

Today I followed a recipe.

Ingredients:

1 can water chestnuts, drained
4 Spring onions, roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
1 tomato, eighthed
250g Mange tout
1 cucumber, halved deseeded and diagonally sliced 5mm thick
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
Groundnut oil
4 tablespoons vegetable stock
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Thai Fish Sauce or Soy Sauce
5g sugar

What you're supposed to do:

Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Add all the ingredients except the spring onions and fry for 2-3 minutes turning continuously.
Add the spring onions and fry for 30 seconds.

Serves 4

What I actually did:

Decide there wasn't any protein, so buy some prawns.
Forget to buy the onions, and rushing out at 8pm to get them, decide not to bother with the ordinary onion.
Heat the oil in the pan, add the garlic and fry until golden brown.
Boil some noodles with a stock cube and use this instead of vegetable stock.
Add all the ingredients, replacing "a tablespoon" with "a slosh" and "4 tablespoons" with "probably too much but I don't care".
Decide not to bother with the extra onions at the end.
Realise you've forgotten to add the water chestnuts until after you've served.
Stir fry these for about a minute in the rest of the stuff you haven't served.

Serves 2.



Verdict:
Needs more garlic and more vinegar. Goes quite nicely with DBC's "Chesil", a "straw-blonde Pilsner-style real ale".

ETA:

5: Discover cucumbers don't count for this week's challenge, cry.

3 for the price of 1

[el_staplador]

Just catching up here; hope that's OK.

( Week 1: Naleśniki Nadziewane z Jabłkami )

( Week 2: Italianate Fridge Salad )

( Week 3: Squash Goulash )