To Those Who Enjoy Cooking - A Challenge

[DTCwordfan]

And different to 'Wots for Dinner!' Instead of 'Masterchef' - its AB Chef!!

Imaginations to be switched on hopefully.

Here are some of the contents of my fridge

400g of beef rump
1 chicory
Button mushrooms
Tomatoes
4 spring onions
2 Romano peppers
shallots
onions
red and green chillis
green beans
green asparagus
lemon thyme/dill

the usual range of mustards/plenty of dry herbs, garlic/lemon and even wild garlic and a wild garlic oil.

Fries or pasta as well...

Ideas for dinner please - can use any of the ingredients listed......

[retrocop]

Spanish Traybake. Normally done with chicken but I reckon rump beef can be substituted. All the other ingredients will go together in one roasting pan. The chillies would make it a Mexican tray bake. Roast all together in tray for 45mins on 200c. I did a Chicken traybake last night strangely enough.

[Redhelen72]

Beef cut into slices, green beans cut into thirds, stir fry, add a crushed garlic clove, chopped chilli to taste - cook for 2 mins.
Add couple of chopped tomatoes, a splash of soy sauce. serve with rice and a slice of lemon to squeeze as served.
Even better if you have a packet of salted nuts - crush a few and sprinkle over the top

[roadman]

chicory salad with beef strips

pan sear the beef rump and slice into strips toss together the sliced chicory diced spring onions and chopped romano peppers mix with lemon thyme and dill dressing top with the beef strips and garnish with sliced red and green chilis

[roadman]

grilled beef and veggie skewers

marinate cubed beef rump with your favourite marinade then skewer the beef with cherry tomatoes and sliced romano peppers and button mushrooms then grill until cooked to the desired doneness and serve on a bed of grilled asparagus and green beans you can garnish with a sprinkle of lemon thyme and dill

[roadman]

beef stir fry with mixed vegetable

stir fry sliced beef rump with button mushrooms and chopped peppers and onions and green beans and the green asparagus and sliced chili peppers then season with some minced garlic soy sauce if you have it and a touch of lemon thyme

[Barmaid]

Bash the hell out of the rump (rolling pin or meat mallet - very cathartic) and cut into 1cm strips. Marinade with minced shallot, chilli, ginger, garlic and soy (only needs about an hour).

Drain off marinade and dredge in starch (potato flour is best, but cornflour works just as well). Dust it twice - the first time, the moisture will suck up the starch.

Get a wok smoking hot, add about an inch of oil. Stir fry beef for a couple of mins, then remove and drain on kitchen paper.

Make up a sticky s/s sauce with random cupboard stuff (honey or brown sugar, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, rice wine, oyster sauce, splash of water) and thicken with a cornflour slurry.

Fry beef again and this time you can add in some of the veg (peppers, spring onions and green beans - or do these separately). You can then either throw in the sauce or serve it separately.

[roadman]

stuffed peppers with beef and mushroom

ground down the beef and brown with diced onions and shallots with sliced button mushrooms and add the chopped tomatoes and if you can also add the chillys then i would boil some rice you can then mix it all together the mixture and cooked rice and then stuff that into halved romano peppers you could sprinkle with cheese and bake in oven until cooked and tender

[roadman]

you could make a chilli con carne

[DTCwordfan]

got that sitting in the freezer, roadman and a load of bol sauce too! Plenty of stocks as well.

some great ideas, all. Not sure which I am going to use!

[roadman]

stuffed peppers sound nice dont it or i guess you will end up doing a stir fry

[DTCwordfan]

like the idea of your beef and chicory salad too - I'm a great fan of chicory, ever since living in Belgium....and I used to love their white asparagus too. Not easy to get both of those down here, Waitrose selling the chicory when I can get there!

[Tilly2]

Beef stir fry

[DTCwordfan]

possibly, Tilly, given the amount of beef I have, I may make two dishes out of it - and barmaid's recipe looks good for one of them.

[bednobs]

steak frites with cafe de paris butter

[roadman]

so what did you have in the end let me guess a take away