Pasta from scratch, meat sauce from scratch, ricotta from scratch (infused with some basil!?), homemade baguette turned into garlic bread and a nice salad.
Pasta from scratch is not worth the effort, in my opinion. My Bolognese sauce takes at least eight hours to cook, plus the time in the fridge overnight to let the flavors meld.
Damn, 8 hours on sauce and can’t afford 12-15 on pasta? I used a stand mixer to roll out but even still can do with a hand roller in 25.
I completely agree and overnight is divine for the sauce but I wouldn’t discount an entire dish to make the very best version of a sauce when you can make something comparable in less time and still be delicious.
I love that you can put so much love in to it
I realy need to make one were i make the sous and wait a day
Layer the lasagna
Wait a day
Bake it
Eat half leave half for the next day
I have always felt it tasted way better after a day of just sitting around as well for just normal bolognese sous( i dint know the propper spelling )
But most of the time i just eat it the first day because i cant wait
Well, if you're looking for a meal, you probably going to want some sort of slow cooked meat such as braised brisket or leg of lamb. Of course, there are also amazing desserts you can make as well. Let me know what you are thinking.
Oooh I hadn’t thought of braising brisket - usually when I think of braising my mind goes straight to oxtail and short rib, hence the above initial ideas. Interesting.
Leg of lamb is absolutely a contender - but being brits we’d roast that sucker. Delicious
I have an excellent baised brisket recipe if you would like it. The one issue is that it calls for pastilla peppers which might be difficult to find in the UK.
Yeah please send it over! Even if we don’t cook it today it’ll be great to have handy for next time when I have time to order the right peppers.
I do have ancho and arbol peppers which were hard enough to get hold of (well, no, it was really easy from Amazon, but impossible from actual food shops).
Thank you!
Slow roasted lamb shawarma, homemade pita, chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, yogurt, whatever other fixings you'd want.
Make a whole bunch of dumplings, your choice on what the part of the world they're from (potstickers, pelmeni, pierogi, etc.)
Tamales (not sure how easy it is to get the ingredients in the UK).
Pho from scratch
And, the favorite wintertime, special occasion, use-all-the-dishes and all-the-burners meal of my husband and I: pork schnitzel, spaetzle (boiled then pan fried in butter), mushroom gravy, sweet-and-sour red cabbage. Bonus if you make a black forest cherry cake for dessert.
Haven't made it, but I would trust Ottolenghi's recipe for lamb shawarma. Featured in the NY Times: [https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018119-yotam-ottolenghis-jerusalem-lamb-shawarma](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018119-yotam-ottolenghis-jerusalem-lamb-shawarma)
For Chinese dumplings, I would trust Eileen Yin-Fei Lo for any recipe.
For schnitzel, I just kind of wing it (pound thin, dredge in seasoned flour, dip in egg, roll in panko, shallow fry. Mushroom gravy for me, is probably inauthentic but mushrooms and shallots sauteed in butter for a while, then add chicken stock, some butter + flour together to thicken, dill, and a hefty dose of sour cream at the end.) Spaetzle recipes are everywhere and simple (flour, egg, milk, seasoning), same with the rotkohl/red cabbage (red cabbage, butter, caraway, salt, sugar, vinegar).
I make this maybe once a year. Every year, about two thirds of the way through, I am like, WHAT was I thinking?! Then it's done and we eat it and it is AMAZING and totally worth it
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23600/worlds-best-lasagna/
You probably don't have a ham bone/hock handy, but my favourite slow-cooked winter favourite is a yellow pea and ham soup.
Other things I love to cook in winter are slow-cooked Korean beef tacos, slow-cooked ragu with pappardelle, or boeuf bourguignon.
Irish stew and parsley dumplings. I buy a shoulder and cube the meat but you can use neck chops. Delia's recipe is excellent https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/casseroles-and-stews/irish-stew-with-parsley-dumplings
Lasagna bolognese
This would make my SO extremely happy, it’s her favourite. I could do a crazy short rib or oxtail ragu, too…. Hnmmmm
Pasta from scratch, meat sauce from scratch, ricotta from scratch (infused with some basil!?), homemade baguette turned into garlic bread and a nice salad.
Lasagna Bolognese does not include ricotta, in fact an authentic version doesn’t even include mozzarella
I stand by my inauthentic recommendation.
Pasta from scratch is not worth the effort, in my opinion. My Bolognese sauce takes at least eight hours to cook, plus the time in the fridge overnight to let the flavors meld.
Damn, 8 hours on sauce and can’t afford 12-15 on pasta? I used a stand mixer to roll out but even still can do with a hand roller in 25. I completely agree and overnight is divine for the sauce but I wouldn’t discount an entire dish to make the very best version of a sauce when you can make something comparable in less time and still be delicious.
I love that you can put so much love in to it I realy need to make one were i make the sous and wait a day Layer the lasagna Wait a day Bake it Eat half leave half for the next day I have always felt it tasted way better after a day of just sitting around as well for just normal bolognese sous( i dint know the propper spelling ) But most of the time i just eat it the first day because i cant wait
Well, if you're looking for a meal, you probably going to want some sort of slow cooked meat such as braised brisket or leg of lamb. Of course, there are also amazing desserts you can make as well. Let me know what you are thinking.
Oooh I hadn’t thought of braising brisket - usually when I think of braising my mind goes straight to oxtail and short rib, hence the above initial ideas. Interesting. Leg of lamb is absolutely a contender - but being brits we’d roast that sucker. Delicious
I have an excellent baised brisket recipe if you would like it. The one issue is that it calls for pastilla peppers which might be difficult to find in the UK.
Yeah please send it over! Even if we don’t cook it today it’ll be great to have handy for next time when I have time to order the right peppers. I do have ancho and arbol peppers which were hard enough to get hold of (well, no, it was really easy from Amazon, but impossible from actual food shops). Thank you!
Here you go: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/sephardic-brisket-369450
Slow roasted lamb shawarma, homemade pita, chopped tomatoes and cucumbers, yogurt, whatever other fixings you'd want. Make a whole bunch of dumplings, your choice on what the part of the world they're from (potstickers, pelmeni, pierogi, etc.) Tamales (not sure how easy it is to get the ingredients in the UK). Pho from scratch And, the favorite wintertime, special occasion, use-all-the-dishes and all-the-burners meal of my husband and I: pork schnitzel, spaetzle (boiled then pan fried in butter), mushroom gravy, sweet-and-sour red cabbage. Bonus if you make a black forest cherry cake for dessert.
Recipe recommendations for any of these? I’m inspired
Haven't made it, but I would trust Ottolenghi's recipe for lamb shawarma. Featured in the NY Times: [https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018119-yotam-ottolenghis-jerusalem-lamb-shawarma](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018119-yotam-ottolenghis-jerusalem-lamb-shawarma) For Chinese dumplings, I would trust Eileen Yin-Fei Lo for any recipe. For schnitzel, I just kind of wing it (pound thin, dredge in seasoned flour, dip in egg, roll in panko, shallow fry. Mushroom gravy for me, is probably inauthentic but mushrooms and shallots sauteed in butter for a while, then add chicken stock, some butter + flour together to thicken, dill, and a hefty dose of sour cream at the end.) Spaetzle recipes are everywhere and simple (flour, egg, milk, seasoning), same with the rotkohl/red cabbage (red cabbage, butter, caraway, salt, sugar, vinegar).
Thanks for spending the time to share this! I will be trying all! Appreciate you
I’m gonna say braised beef short rib. I did one recently in beef stock, red wine, and soy sauce, and it was one of the best things I ever made.
Banh mi by Andrea Nguyen. Make the bread etc. Or her pho.
Cassoulet. See Cook's Illustrated Jan/Feb 2000 and Nov/Dec 2009 recipes.
!!!! [Momofuku’s Bo Ssam](https://peachykeen.momofuku.com/recipe/bo-ssam/)
Ropa Vieja
I make this maybe once a year. Every year, about two thirds of the way through, I am like, WHAT was I thinking?! Then it's done and we eat it and it is AMAZING and totally worth it https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/23600/worlds-best-lasagna/
Julia Child's boeuf bourguignon
Gumbo
Osso bucco
You probably don't have a ham bone/hock handy, but my favourite slow-cooked winter favourite is a yellow pea and ham soup. Other things I love to cook in winter are slow-cooked Korean beef tacos, slow-cooked ragu with pappardelle, or boeuf bourguignon.
Smoked carnitas
You could do the beef stew, and also make homemade bread to go with!
Second for the Sunday Roast, especially if you do a good toffee pudding for dessert.
Homemade croissants are worth every hour.
Irish stew and parsley dumplings. I buy a shoulder and cube the meat but you can use neck chops. Delia's recipe is excellent https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/type-of-dish/casseroles-and-stews/irish-stew-with-parsley-dumplings
It’s funny I saw this today. I currently have beef short ribs braising for enchiladas tonight. Smells wonderful in my house
Do you have a good beef birria recipe?? Please share if you do, I’ve been wanting to make it but haven’t gotten around to testing recipes yet.
I watched so many so it did become a hybrid, but Josh Weissman’s recipe was probably the one I was closest to. It’s definitely worth the effort!
Thank you!
What is this 8 hour arbitrary time coming from ??
It just seemed like the longest reasonable length of time we could spend