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What's your weekend food?
What's your go-to weekend dish? Whether it's a fried breakfast or eight hour smoked pork shoulder, what do you love to cook on the weekend?
Personally it's split between bacon and egg sandwiches on homemade bread; my chili recipe, loosely based on SeriousEats Best Ever Chili and potato, chorizo, and cabbage hash with a runny egg on top.
I think that weekends are the best time for lazy, irresponsible breakfasts like chocolate chip pancakes that are more chocolate chip than pancake batter, served next to bacon with a healthy serving of a mimosa and some extra-strong coffee.
Ah yeah, (British) pancakes, with Nutella, whipped cream and a ton of chopped fruit are another favourite of mine.
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Huh, I've never thought to make muffins, but I've been on a bread baking odyssey this year, so I think I know what I'll be making next. Eggs Benedict is divine.
Pan fry some thick slices of sourdough in a pan with copious amounts of real butter.
Slow-scrambled eggs (slower than you think is even logical, makes them creeeeamy) with some grated parmesan mixed through at the end.
Salt flakes, lots of fresh ground pepper, and some fresh herbs from the garden.
Espresso pot coffee with just a splash of milk.
That's my breakfast every weekend. I love simple stuff done well.
Cheese-stuffed croissants, caramel coffee, a side of grapes
About once a month when I get a weekend to myself I love to make veggie chili. I make it ridiculously hot, usually using whatever the hottest chillies in the shop are but often I've been able to get hold of carolina reapers or something equally insane for a treat. I make a giant pot of it that keeps me going all weekend.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow night, I've a big bag of really fruity scotch bonnets sitting in the kitchen that are going to be delightful in a batch. I'd post the recipe but I'm fairly sure my masochistic love of extreme heat would probably damage a normal human.
Do you Chuck in any TFP? I tend to make a lentil curry which I love, but I have been missing a good chili
What's TFP?
Ah, sorry! I was on my phone and thought I had the acronym correct (I couldn't remember the full name). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein.
I actually don't, what I do instead is mash one of the tins of beans and then chop up some mushrooms quite small and that seems to do the trick along with a bit of nutritional yeast to emulate the fat that would have come from the mince. It's basically a glorified super hot rice and beans.
I tend to avoid most meat replacements as I don't find them to be nearly as good as the meat was or just more veg is. But then I'm a newbie to veganism maybe a couple of years down the line I'll have a real craving.
That sounds pretty tasty! I'm am still to try Nutritional Yeast, it's been on my list for ages but never get around to it... I feel it's one of those things I will consume in vast quantities when I get around to it. Mushroom is a great base!
It's quite expensive for what it is so I don't use it often, I'm still on the same tub that I bought at the start of the year but if you do have a taste for it oh it would be so easy to over use.
I'm definitely going to go searching for some this weekend! Thanks for the heads up about price. I will have to be more conservative
It probably would be too hot for my tastes, but I'd love to see the recipe regardless.
For a six meal pot of chili, I'd usually use one or two ancho/poblano chilis; three whole chipotles, or one of those small imported cans of chipotles in adobo that are painfully expensive and then either a couple scotch bonnets or habaneros.
Weekend mornings - Pancake time.
At least 4 eggs
pinch of salt
500g (1lb) flour
1l Milk
Mix
Small apple slices (3ish Apples)
Mix again
Fry in butter. Should be thinner than American Pancakes, about twice as thick as crepes. Apple slices should lieber flat. You've found the right heat when they're crisp and juicy and have lots of small ridges.
Too much work for weekdays. Just fine for weekends. Serve with cinnamon sugar.
That sounds really good. Being British that's a standard pancake mix, but I've not tried cooking it with apple slices before.
It really is. The pancake mix isn't unusual for Germany either.
Ideally, you want the apple slices to be a bit thicker than the pancake. And not so large they endanger the structural viability of your pancake mid-flip - been there ^^
I like going out for breakfast on weekends. Nothing like 2 eggs over easy with a killer corned beef hash and a bloody mary!
If I'm eating breakfast out, there's a British café chain called Boston Tea Party, that does an incredible jalapeno cornbread/egg/chorizo/bacon/guacamole/salsa/sour cream thing. First time I've ever had cornbread and I'm hooked.
Kinda ironic to have a British restaurant called boston tea party. I’m liking it.