Last Saturday I somehow ended up having arranged to have two different groups of people over for lunch and dinner respectively. While you might think that this would result in economies of scale such that it would have been possible to save time by serving both groups the same food, my desire for culinary adventure (wanting to try new recipes and not wanting to eat the same meal twice in one day myself) and the dietary preferences of my different friends (one group vegetarian and not into spicy food, the other containing at least one dedicated carnivore and a few chilli-heads) made this less of an option. Combine that with a slight hangover, a morning visitor, a plan to go out for a bike ride for several hours during the day and a kitchen still resembling a bomb site from recent fridge installation and it could have been a disaster requiring dial-a-pizza -- in fact I'm still not quite sure how it wasn't, but instead we had two fairly successful, tasty and varied meals!
For lunch I made:
Sweet potato, ginger and coconut soup (vegetarian, non-spicy version)
Slow-cooker vegetable lasagna
plus garlic bread
For dinner:
Spring rolls and vegetable wontons (a cheat as these came out of frozen packets from the Chinese shop)
Sichuan belly pork with chilli sauce (based on this recipe from The Grubworm)
Fish-fragrant spicy aubergine (based on this recipe from Hollow Legs, but with minced pork)
Tofu with Thai three-flavour sauce (recipe from SheSimmers)
Crispy orange chicken (a combination of the Orange chicken from No Recipes and the Serious Eats orange-peel shrimp recipe)
and, as it turns out, for probably the first time in the history of the universe, Not Enough Rice. But that's ok, because there was plenty of other food and chocolate cake for dessert!
All in all a successful food venture, though less successful as far as food blogging goes, since as usual I forgot to take any pictures!
Recipes to follow shortly...
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