the other week I made some air fryer wedges, and couldn't believe how quick and easy they were to make (kinda wish I'd take some pics so I could have done a post with the recipe, but I'll do that next time I make them!)
It got me thinking though about wedge based foods I could do in the air fryer...sweet potato wedges...squash wedges...root veg wedges...and then I thought, oooh, apple wedges as a pudding!
many of us love a barbecue, but I think many of us also, a lot of the time, can't be arsed to have one.
Getting out the barbecue, realising we didn't clean it well enough last time we used it over a year ago and having to give it a good clean, or realising it's gone rusty and having to rush out to buy a new one if you have people coming over.
You then have to get the charcoal for it, which you struggle to light, go back out to get firelighters, wait for it to get up to temperature, then finally when you can start to cook you have to fiddle around with the food because of the temperature due to hot and cold spots, and then about eight hours late you finally get to eat.
Of course, you can always just buy an electric barbecue, but then you miss out on the lovely smoky flavours a barbecue brings, and honestly at that point just buy an air fryer that can grill as it's cheaper and easier to store, plus you can use it indoors all year long...that's how I felt anyway, until I learnt about the Ninja smoker.
it's time for another charity shop meal, and boy do I have an interesting recipe to review for you today!
When I was visiting my parents earlier this year I popped into town to look around some charity shops, when I came across the cookbook, Classics of the American Midwest, presented by Lancaster County Medical Auxiliary Lincoln Nebraska.
I've watched the TikToker That Midwestern Mom who makes those Minnesota salads that aren't really salads videos lots of times, so when I came across this honest to goodness classic style Midwestern cookbook, there was no way I was leaving it behind.
Because I've always been intrigued to try a Midwestern salad, I decided to go for one of the savoury salads. After a quick browse I came across the hot chicken 'salad' recipe, which had one of the most interesting collection on ingredients I'd ever seen!
A few years back I started collecting recipe books I thought were interesting. I have a few from regular shops, but most are from charity shops.
We've cooked from some of the shop bought books but we've not really done a lot with the charity shops ones, so last week my partner proposed we start cooking with them more, starting this week!
My partner was the first to choose a recipe, and decided to pick one from A New Style Of Cooking by Anton Mosimann.
The recipe he ended up picking at random was poached sole fillets with smoked salmon sauce (filets de sole a l'ecossaise.)
We love white fish, smoked salmon, and creamy sauces, so what's not to love eh! My partner wanted to try and plate it as closely as possible as the image example. He wanted to try and plate it as close to the image in the book as possible, and this was the result!Super-galactic travelling friends, why is receiving a delivery so dang hard!?
