Making do with what you've got

[desperance]

I wanted to make a fish pie tonight (comfort food!), despite having no milk for the sauce and no potatoes for the topping. So I poached the fish with mushrooms in a velouté made with fish stock and cream, and topped it with parsnip and celeriac mash; and y'know what? Of course you do. Best. Fish. Pie. Evar.

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[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

well derr

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

We had ultimate comfort food - sirloin steak, rosti, yorkshires filled with garlic cream mushrooms, sprouts and peppercorn sauce. I have some chocolate with pink peppercorns for a treat later.

[chilperic.livejournal.com]

Both types of comfort food sound wonderful to me (even though I have just eaten a perfectly adequate meal!), but I think I yearn for the fish pie...

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

My fridge is almost empty. I had a bag of onions, a couple of carrots and three red chillis left by Number One Daughter, plus one chicken breast because yesterday I defrosted a pack of three accidentally when I only needed two. So we had a meal made largely of fresh air. I made curry with: onions (4 small), carrots (2 medium), chilli (1 red small), apple (i, green, slightly wizened, peeled and chopped), can of chopped tomatoes in garlic, 4 teaspoons of Jalfarezi curry paste, 1 chicken breast, chopped into very small chunks, 2 heaped tspoons of ginger marmalade. Served with basmati rice. It was deliciousand I really enjoyed making it up as I went along.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

You don't have milk, but you do have cream.

I love you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That sounds delicious. We had not completely successful artichoke soup.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Well, indeed: what else can you do with your not completely successful artichokes, other than to soup them?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I suspect that the cats write the shopping list...

(Well, no: but I don't have a lot of use for milk, as I don't put it in beverages. Cream, on the other hand, has so many uses...)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

We love artichokes as they are, with a little butter. The artichokes were fine. It was the recipe. It's just a bit bland: it has been filed under 'don't bother with this again'.
On the other hand, Saturday's experimental meal -- an Indian fish dish with cashew puree and a poppy seed crust -- was heavenly and has gone straight into the 'feed to visitors' file. The marquis is very happily resting (still) on the laurels from that.

[anef.livejournal.com]

I made Jerusalem artichoke soup from my new Robuchon cookery book, as they were what I had to hand, and it was delish.