What's For Dinner Tonight?

Nutes and Nugs said:

That looks like a Sunny.
We catch them here in the east but you need a few fish per person.

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yeah that's me

Tried something new last night. Tagine Lahm Bil Batata Helwa, which is basically Beef Tagine with Sweet Potatoes. Takes about 3 hours to make but was real tasty. The meat is cooked in various spices, then the sweet potatoes and slices of tomato are added then it's put into the oven to finish baskiong the tatters and toms......I only have left overs now so again...sorry no pics. We also had flat bread and couscous mixed with nuts, raisins, cucumber, apricots, and pine nut seeds. Got this recipe from "The Food of Morocco".

Cheers TTT, if I ever see a green coconut in the UK i'll snap one up lol.

i do love me a good tagine, I was lucky enough to see a typical cook house in Tunis, the clay pots all with their owners names/ marks. in the morning the womenfolk deposit their families food for the evening in one massive oven type thing and the men collect on their way home after their day. sadly didn't get to try any obviously haha.

I like the apricots in with the beef n sultanas, stick of cinnamon and a spoon of honey. Lash a fresh chilli or two in and leave it be for as long as you can bare the glorious smells filling the house haha.

I ended up going to a new indian joint. had a badami chicken dish. food was bang on, sadly it was quiet and the owner kept coming to talk to us. I don't mind a little chat but it gets on your wick after a while.

Would like to go to Morocco someday, been to Tunisia when I was a nipper but that was too many moons ago. Communal cooking sounds the business, I bet the food is spot on, slow cooked food always is. And here's to waiters being chatty, but discreet! ffs.

Tunisia is pretty much ruined now man, they've relied on tourism for too long. To experience it properly you need to know the lingo and venture out the safety of the cities, the bedouin folk are lovely and friendly for the most part though, much more so than the average city folks, you can see in their eyes they hate having to rely on europeans spending what's to them a years wage in two weeks.

I have reservations about Morocco, on one hand I'd love to see it but on the other i hear it's pretty lawless in most places. and generally the Moroccans are known for being shifty tea leaves.

I had quite possibly the worst racist taxi driver I've ever had yesterday. i don't think he took a breath between slurs it was some bad shit and guess what the bell only lives up the street from me. ex para, fought 'them' all over the world he said l first time i've met a true xenophobe.

yet it was perfectly fine to go to an indian restaurant. ffs you couldn't make up the drivel he was spouting man.

I've had a few taxi drivers like that. I guess they kind of feel the right to spout their nonsense to anyone who gets in their car. I employed a Moroccan lad at my last company, a nicer bloke you couldn't meet....apart from him always being a bit sleepy, lol. He didn't come from the North of Morocco which is where you associate the shiftyness from I think. He told me the Morrocans he met in the Dam (and there are a lot of them) are not the kind you generally meet at home. He's offered to show me around if I ever go. He was surfing crazy that dude.

Lol a bit sleepy eh!

Yeah I'm sure there are loads of nice Moroccans man and yeah tbh most of the bad word about them is about the ones that leave and get into doing crime. The apaniards have no love for them.

I presume he was surfing at home not on the canals hahaha

There's some good surfing on the canals

I made shrimp scampi my way.....everything I make is pretty identifiable,huh?
As fancy as i get..lol...even my wife was like "Did you make that?".

I had to grill me some though...with BACON and jalapeno...

try a little cream cheese in those jalapenos before the bacon. one of my favorite camping snacks.

dangledo said:

try a little cream cheese in those jalapenos before the bacon. one of my favorite camping snacks.

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Lol....I don't like cream cheese.....but I will buy the premade ones with cream cheese for my wife every now and then.It seems when any type of cheese is used it always melts and mucks up me grill,even if I freeze the cheeze

shrimp and bacon FTW.

@DST, I can imagine the cloggies loved that man. haha is there not a 15km an hour limit or something. Not that they care like.

B166ER420 said:

Lol....I don't like cream cheese.....but I will buy the premade ones with cream cheese for my wife every now and then.It seems when any type of cheese is used it always melts and mucks up me grill,even if I freeze the cheeze

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it does it does. i like to save them for other peoples grill or my camping cast iron skillet. just toss it on the fire.as i usually don't make them just for myself and the ol' lady wont touch them. soooo good. i usually line my gas grill with foil between the burner and grate for anything messy. helps a bit.

shrimp was my fav ...like literally my fav, i miss seafood a lot i think ..i was a big seafood eater.
surprisingly i dont miss bacon....

I've converted two girls back to eating meat with bacon sandwiches. there's something in the smell that speaks to the soul.

Minty Lamb kebabs last night. Sadly a little dry but still tasty I wanted asparagus but they were out...

Nutes and Nugs said:

That looks like a Sunny.
We catch them here in the east but you need a few fish per person.

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That looks nothing like a sunny! Well to anyone who's caught hundreds anyway. Some of the lakes around here have very cool hybrid sunfish (color wise) caught some with blood red bellies before. And purple blue gills. Normally just a pumpkin seed though.

dangledo said:

it does it does. i like to save them for other peoples grill or my camping cast iron skillet. just toss it on the fire.as i usually don't make them just for myself and the ol' lady wont touch them. soooo good. i usually line my gas grill with foil between the burner and grate for anything messy. helps a bit.

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I've been letting my jalapenos get big as they can so I can make some poppers. Should be soon. Want to try this recipe.

STUFFED JALAPENOS.......God's gift to fried food


@The Outdoorsman,yeah we have some cool looking hybrid sunnys here too..the norm is a yellowbelly greensided black spot on the gill sunfish...lol
That's a good video,i've seen it before.You can also grill the peppers a little,let them cool off,then stuff and bread them. Just frying them quickly the pepper is still fresh,like he said though finishing in the oven is good too.

B166ER420 said:

STUFFED JALAPENOS.......God's gift to fried food


@The Outdoorsman,yeah we have some cool looking hybrid sunnys here too..the norm is a yellowbelly greensided black spot on the gill sunfish...lol
That's a good video,i've seen it before.You can also grill the peppers a little,let them cool off,then stuff and bread them. Just frying them quickly the pepper is still fresh,like he said though finishing in the oven is good too.

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I've noticed your bass are a bit white. Is that the Texas sun bleaching the color right out or they some introduced hybrid?

The Outdoorsman said:

I've noticed your bass are a bit white. Is that the Texas sun bleaching the color right out or they some introduced hybrid?

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I believe it has to do with the muddy water,the clearer the water the more color the fish have