friday night

If anyone is in melbourne and can volunteer to make a casserole for the msfc on friday night, you should tell drjon or mireille21
You will be paid in fame! and glory! and not having to hang around me when I'm sick!
Dammit, we had everything sorted and then my immune system said: nahhh, emilly, you're staying home this week!

receipes

microwave is on high, (chicken) stock means cubes or powder or even water if you want.

basically, they tend to be:
fry chicken, garlic, spices,
brown meat, or main veg.
add extra vegies and just enough stock.
I'm thinking stew, really, but less wet.

beef and tomatoes and eggplant or
beef and anchovies and tomatoes and mushrooms or
lentils and more lentils...

Chicken, Bacon and Mushroom:
fry onion, celery, garlic and bacon.
brown some chicken pieces.
Throw them into a pot with:
mushrooms (many as you like, whatever type you like, but cut up the big ones)
carrots, zuchinni, eggplant, even pumpkin if you want.
Don't quite cover with stock, cook until cooked.
You'll need more stock if it's on the stove, and more time if it's in the oven.

peanut chicken microwave casserole:
cut up onion and a clove of garlic, some butter, microwave for three minutes
for five/six: 3 breast fillets, cut up, 1/4 cup crunchy peanut butter, tsp curry powder, tsp grainy mustard, 1/4 cup honey, cup chicken stock, splash tabasco
mix in with the other stuff, microwave for six minutes, stir it up, turn the chicken over, microwave for six more minutes.

Chilli con carne counts, of course
or ratatouille, or rogan josh or moussaka,
can you google them/use your own book, my head hurts.

or pumpkin and chickpeas for vegetarians:
for 6-8:
fry and onion and some garlic, add 2 tsp red curry paste, tsp each ground cardamom and cumin, cook about two minutes -- soft and smells nice.
add 1.2 kilos pumpkin, cut up, stir about,
add 2 cans coconut milk (do one to start with, it might be too wet)
bit of stock if you want it, about 1/4 cup soy sauce, cook till pumpkin is soft
add 4 cans of chickpeas and cook till done.

they are all the kind of recipe you can bugger around with so they are the way you like -- extra/less spice, water, add potatoes for more solidness. the first has no quantities (uhhh, 1 kilo of meat and about seven or eight large mushrooms without many other vegies serves six people), the others are the ones we make for the family, with or without leftovers.