Monday 17 August 2020

The Quarantine Food Diaries: master list

Is it possible to cook something different for dinner every night? How many things do I know how to cook, anyway? These weren't questions I deliberately set out to answer, but after a few weeks of cooking every single day, the Quarantine Food Challenge was on, whether I meant it or not!

(The answers, it turns out, are: yes, with a couple of exceptions (because eating something different every night would also mean only eating your favourite things once, so Lee's preferred pasta bol and ham-and-pineapple pizza have made a number of appearances); and "more than I knew how to cook before, and counting"...)

Here, then, is the growing list of all the things we have eaten for dinner since lockdown record-keeping began:

  1. Ham and pineapple pizza. Of course. (Usually with a veggie section for me: onion, peppers, sweetcorn, pineapple and olives.) x 4
  2. Oyako donburi
  3. Lemon and lime chicken
  4. Thai Panang curry with fried tofu and pineapple
  5. Kung pao chicken and spring onion pancakes 
  6. Dutch kale stamppot with smoked sausage (thanks Gerard!)
  7. Hainanese chicken rice (thanks Thorfinn!)
  8. Chicken ramen with gyoza
  9. Broccoli and cauliflower cheese casserole
  10. Indoor picnic with roasted cauliflower, squash and quinoa salad
  11. Pineapple chicken 
  12. Pasta bolognese (x 3)
  13. Baked potatoes with cheese and bolognese sauce
  14. Fried rice and yuzu cabbage salad
  15. Pork (or seabass) piccata with mash and peas
  16. Teriyaki chicken with sesame kale and cabbage salad
  17. Gammon roast with vegetables (x2)
  18. Coconut-crusted pork (or salmon) with pineapple salsa 
  19. Beef and bacon stew
  20. Crispy chicken with Japanese curry and salad
  21. Mujadara (thanks Bronwyn)
  22. Beef and bacon pie
  23. BBQ chicken mini-drumsticks and salad
  24. Homemade burger and potato wedges
  25. Pizza with chorizo, ham, pineapple and olives
  26. Bacon-wrapped chicken stuffed with mozzarella cheese
  27. Vegetable bhuna curry (using up a jar of leftover sauce)
  28. Soup and toasties
  29. Chicken romanesco pasta (thanks Tom and Ali!)
  30. Toasted buns with ricotta cheese and tomato salad
  31. Gammon with broccoli cheese
  32. Halloumi, tomato, cucumber and olive salad
  33. Beef and ale rendang 
  34. Chicken schnitzel
  35. Rendang pie
  36. Sweet & sour tofu
  37. Flatbreads, hummus and salad
  38. Crispy orange beef
  39. Chana masala (thanks Alasdair) with swede
  40. Tofu red curry with sesame beans
  41. Vegetarian chilli and rice
  42. Halloumi, pea and edamame salad with mint and butter msemen
  43. "Corned gammon" hash (thanks Nic & Cat!)
  44. Chicken and gammon pie
  45. Spiced lentil stew with grilled chicken
  46. Chorizo and white bean stew
  47. Chicken and prawn noodle soup
  48. Bol pizza
  49. Pineapple beef & prawn stir-fry
  50. Miso-glazed grilled pork (or salmon)
  51. Paella
  52. Bol and béchamel pasta bake
  53. Pasta salad with spring vegetables (leeks, peas, asparagus)
  54. Satay chicken 
  55. Tomato and vegetable soup
  56. Pita breads with halloumi and salad
  57. Veggie tamale pie
  58. Falafel burgers and chickpea soup
  59. Tapas - patatas bravas, prawn-stuffed peppers, smoked salmon, prawns, chorizo, olives
  60. Vegetable coconut curry with Korean sticky potatoes
  61. Creamy tomato and pea pasta 
  62. Vegetarian cottage pie 
  63. Ham, pea and dill cakes
  64. Vegetable pie
  65. Tomato, olive and potato bake 
  66. Chicken with olive and lemon sauce and roasted grapes
  67. Polenta vegetable tart
  68. Pan-fried chicken with haggis
  69. Roast beef and yorkshire pudding
  70. Thai beef salad
  71. Tuna nicoise salad 
  72. Butcher's burgers (x2)
  73. Grilled gammon steak (or seabass) with roasted pineapple
  74. Kofta curry (thanks Tom!) and gobi masala with peshwari naan
  75. Steak dinner
  76. Roast pork shoulder with crackling
  77. Black pepper beef & bok-choy stirfry with beansprouts and spinach barchan
  78. Mango and avocado salad with grilled chicken
  79. Nasu dengaku; fennel, endive, orange and avocado salad
  80. Haggis supper with neeps, tatties and whisky-pepper sauce
  81. Steak teriyaki with sesame greens
  82. Roasted fennel and endives with blue cheese
  83. Aubergine, mushroom and snow pea stir-fry; sweetcorn soup with noodles; spicy zucchini
  84. Chicken (or zucchini) parmigiana
  85. Meat-lover's pizza (ham, chorizo, meatballs, and bacon with pineapple)
  86. Chicken katsu curry
  87. Farmfoods crispy duck 
  88. Instant white curry mee
  89. Steak fajitas
  90. Tonkotsu ramen
  91. Gammon and pineapple wrap
  92. Okonomiyaki
  93. Chicken paprika, filetitos and patatas bravas (thanks Nic and Cat!)
  94. Beef bulgogi bibimbap
  95. Pork fillet with honey sauce
  96. Pork noodle stir-fry
  97. Tofu and squash green curry
  98. Slow-cooker beef, olive and tomato stew with dumplings
  99. Vegetable katsu with zaru soba
  100. Chicken with pineapple and sweet ginger stir-fry
  101. Chorizo and pepper pasta
  102. Beef and tomato pie with mash
  103. Vegetable chilli burritos
  104. Cheese and split pea curry, spiced cabbage and tomato
  105. Steak with whisky-pepper sauce and potato wedges
  106. Chicken with hot pepper sauce (a Lee special!)
  107. Fish (or chicken nuggets) and chips
  108. Pulled pork buns and caulibroc cheese
  109. Caulibroc burger-with-the-lot
  110. Sweet soy pulled-pork noodles
  111. Chorizo-cheese panini
  112. Spaghetti on toast
  113. Ham and chips with salad
  114. Tom yum soup 
  115. Miso-marinated pan-seared duck with pickled ginger, soy-sesame veg and green tea soba
  116. Nachos with chipotle beans
  117. Cauliflower curry katsu cheese bake
  118. Gammon and chips / lentil & beetroot salad
  119. Coconut curry noodle soup
  120. Sausage and apple bake (thanks Tom and Ali!)
  121. Beef hor-fun noodles
  122. Slow-roasted chicken and potatoes
  123. Crispy siew-yoke pork belly, drunken chicken and rice
  124. Chicken, fennel and mushroom tagliatelle
  125. Tiger salad with crispy pork belly
  126. Hoi-sin pork belly pizza
  127. Tofu bibimbap
  128. Bacon and pepper pasta bake