Tonights Dinner

[slinky.kate]

going to make fresh,curried pumpkin soup,cheese and onion toasties,am going to make fig cookies.

[slinky.kate]

what is shortening,its for the fig recipe

[woofgang]

shortening is hard cooking fat. The commonest kind found in the Uk is Trex but I would prefer to use butter.

[stuey]

Shortening does make a flakier type of pastry; however, I agree with Woofgang that butter or margarine is just about as good. Woofgang, is your middle name Amadeus?:)

[kloofnek]

OMG..sounds wonderful!!!
I love pumpkin soup...make it a lot ...and figs...scumptuous!!!

[janbee]

Ok, Kate what time do we have to be there? I'll bring the wine.

[kloofnek]

Can I come too..?

[EcclesCake]

I made a batch of Thai spiced squash soup the other day, squash is so good in soup.

I'm contemplating ratatouille and something, jambalaya or minestrone soup - although as I have no bread in the house the soup is unlikely to get to the table this evening.

[kloofnek]

Squash is what I use for soup,very similar to pumpkin.It is lovely roasted too.

[stuey]

The best pumpkin soup I ever tasted was in Jamaica. Their pumpkin has a different taste to it and they use coconut milk and of course their unique blend of spices...Excellent.

[kloofnek]

Sounds gorgeous!!!

[stuey]

Here's a recipe for it.
http://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/recipes/2010/03/10/spicy_jamaican_pumpkin_soup.html

[kloofnek]

Thank you very much,stuey

[stuey]

The chef suggests that if you can't find Jamaican pumpkin, use squash instead. I say no: you HAVE to have Jamaican pumpkin to get the real taste.

[jaynethepain]

Squash and red pepper curry, only 4 ingredients.......squash, red peeper, curry paste, tin coconut milk. Very quick, exceedingly tasty

[marval]

Not sure what we ate having, it will be something with the leftover roast chicken.

[stuey]

A closed-face hot chicken sandwich with peas and gravy. Left-overs from a Thanksgiving dinner we had yesterday...Left-overs are MUCH better than the original meal.

[Tilly2]

Poached egg on one slice of toast for me. It's a fast day.

[EcclesCake]

Have to agree with Stuey re leftovers; all of the joy and none of the effort.

I'm very torn between a burger and a steak sarnie for supper tomorrow. A big bowl of mind strain/minestrone is also pulling at my coat tails.

[tonyav]

Got to be a steak sarnie, Eccles.

[pastafreak]

Stuey...is it Thanksgiving in Canada already??

As for that Jamaican squash...not too common round these parts.