Camp cooking

[nopseud]

This is the current food plan for dinners at Camp:

Pen will supply pies on Friday. We have the Afternoon Tea booked for Sunday, so we thought that in the evening we'd go for DIY-topping pizzas. On Wednesday we'll have a Somewhat Moderately Tidy Dinner, which is more-or-less a normal dinner only with cocktails and nibbles and dessert. If the weather is nice, it might be a BBQ -- we can determine that once we've got a better idea of the forecast (currently not great, sorry!) Thursday is traditionally eating up of leftovers day.

So that leaves us with a need for dinner on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Volunteers and offers to minion below, please!

Comments

[rikes]

Happy to minion on Sat & Sun!

[turlough]

I can cook on Monday! Hopefully everyone will be happy with the Halloumi Tikka Masala I've made before.

[nopseud]

I'm sure they will! Please could you let me or Pen have a list of the ingredients you need, and we can put them on the shopping list?

[turlough]

How many will I be cooking for?

[msktrnanny]

I'm happy to cook if somebody tells me what to make? Anybody have requests?

[nopseud]

Monday night will be 10 people.

[nopseud]

Anything you fancy! If it's inherently vegetarian and gluten-free, that will make it easier.

[turlough]

Then I'll need:

5-6 medium to large carrots
2 onions
8 cloves of garlic
5-6 centimeters fresh ginger
2-3 tablespoons garam masala
3 vegetable stock cubes
8 tablespoons tomato paste
1000 gram passata
500 ml creme fraiche (or cream)
5 cans black beans
600 gram halloumi

And to serve: basmati rice and salted peanuts or cashews

[nopseud]

Brilliant, thanks!

[chalcopyrite]

I can do a night -- the usual pasta plus a salad? Saturday or Tuesday would be fine.

[nopseud]

Let's say Saturday, then, as we need the ingredients list so we can get everything in the Friday shop. Could you email it or leave a comment, please?

[chalcopyrite]

Cool. So let's say....

Olive oil (I'm taking it as a given this will be somewhere around anyway)
8 tins chopped tomatoes
a tube of tomato paste concentrate or a couple of tins if they have them (this is optional)
2 medium onions
A packet frozen quorn mince
3-4 cloves garlic
Basil
Veg bouillion cubes or concentrate
about 500g mushrooms - whole or pre-sliced
A red bell pepper
Jar or can of black olives, pitted (whole or sliced)
Parmesan-ish cheese for topping . . . I actually don't know how much. Er, some?

Pasta:
GF fusilli - 500g packet if it's just me and Turlough (both Lidl and Aldi have quite acceptable ones, idk about UK-specific shops)
Er . . . spaghetti or fusilli for as many other people as will be there Saturday!

Salad:
3 bags of either baby spinach leaves OR salad mix OR a couple of heads of romaine or gem lettuce
Olive oil again
White wine vinegar
If you think a premixed dressing is likely to be popular, go for it, I was thinking just oil/vinegar/salt

And extras/leftovers can be incorporated into the pizzas Sunday

[turps]

I'm quite happy to minion if needed on Saturday.

[nopseud]

Whoops, I forgot to give you numbers! There will be 14 people on Saturday.

Are you GF, now?

[chalcopyrite]

Also GF now. I miss spaghetti. :( (But at least it turned out milk wasn't the problem, so yay cheese!)

Make that 10 tins of tomatoes, a couple of tubes or 4 tins of tomato paste, and two bell peppers, should do fine.

[nopseud]

Thanks for the amounts, I'll add them to the list.

(And call the hotel about afternoon tea!)

[chalcopyrite]

Oh cripes, had forgotten about afternoon tea! Thank you!

On 29 Jun 2023, at 16:31, nopseud - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:



nopseud replied to a comment you left in a Dreamwidth entry "Camp cooking". The comment they replied to was:

Also GF now. I miss spaghetti. :( (But at least it turned out milk wasn't the problem, so yay cheese!)

Make that 10 tins of tomatoes, a couple of tubes or 4 tins of tomato paste, and two bell peppers, should do fine.

The reply was:

Thanks for the amounts, I'll add them to the list.

(And call the hotel about afternoon tea!)

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[ephemera]

Would you like a minion to assist you? Happy to volunteer for that slot!

[ephemera]

Oops - this reminds me - is afternoon tea location expecting a lactose-intolerant vegetarian? I can probably eat around the creamiest elements of said tea, if not!

[nopseud]

They're not, but I'll give them a call and see what they can do.

ETA: The terrifyingly efficient Falcon Manor receptionist has told me that she's made a note of it and it will be fine.

[ephemera]

fab - many thanks to you, and to them! (I keep low-key forgetting, and then being reminded that this is a terrible idea..)

[turps]

Just having a quick read of posts and didn't consider the afternoon tea booking. Just in case they need to know, I've been eating vegetarian for a long time now, though wasn't at the last Camp.

[nopseud]

No problem, I'll call them and let them know.

ETA: Sorted!