Turkey tamarind

Last night we ate turkey stirfry with brown rice and tamarind sauce. I marinated the turkey in a jar of Bart's tamarind paste, the juice of a lime and lots of finely chopped garlic and ginger while I cooked the brown rice. Then I started some tenderstem broccoli off in a wok (just the thick, hard ends of it) before adding the meat and its marinade, then later on the stirfry veg, the tops of the tenderstem broccoli and some extra baby spinach leaves. It was delicious, and we each had a pot of leftovers for lunch today - even cold it tasted good. I normally have prawns when I cook tamarind, but turkey was tasty too.

Another turkey stirfry

This was good - we'd eaten a load of crap like crisps and pistachio nuts when we'd come in, so we thought we'd have a proper load of veg and the rest of the turkey for our main meal, without rice or noodles as we couldn't be bothered to cook them. We used an M&S stirfry pack - it was pretty luxurious, if that could ever be an appropriate adjective for a stirfry pack, with spring onions, strange oriental green leaves, baby corn, mangetout, courgette, red pepper, and much, much more. No beansprouts meant it seemed posh, as there was no apparent filler, but it did all shrink down to not very much.

Turkey and green veg stirfry

This was a turkey and green veg stirfry that my boyfriend made for us last Saturday for lunch. It was really good - I hadn't had
any dinner the night before and I needed something big and nutritious. I don't think you can really see them, but we had egg noodles too, and it had a sort of oyster sauce. Very nice and filling. The veg included leeks, broccoli, a green pepper, an onion and a couple of turkey breasts.

You'd think it was still Christmas...

It's been bloody cold today, our heating's screwed, I've had a craving for indulgent food all day and we had turkey curry for supper. And I was feeling lazy. I couldn't be bothered to make my own curry sauce tonight so we used a Sharwood's jar of rogan josh sauce, and I cooked it up with turkey, peppers, onions, garlic and a courgette - the usual veg suspects. There's enough to freeze for another night and it was quick and easy. Sometimes the ready made stuff feels so indulgent.

Boxing Day Turkey Curry

And here is the Boxing Day turkey curry, made by my brother to a secret recipe - I'll get it out of him soon. We had it with daal (lentil curry - pulses aren't my favourite food, but I'll try most things), a delicious onion salad (made with white onions, tomatoes, cucumber, cumin and lemon juice, I think), yoghurt and tortillas and pittas instead of rice. I was too full to appreciate it really, but it was good.

Christmas Lunch

Turkey, roast potatoes, sausage stuffing balls, veggie (walnut and apricot) stuffing, bacon rolls, sausages, sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta, peas and gravy (not seen, but I did have some on the meat), bread sauce (not seen either as it wasn't on my plate yet).

Christmas pudding (some burning booze made a run for it and burnt along the table - a scary Christmas moment there - and it was alight for so long we thought the plate might crack) and the tastiest threesome on the Christmas table - brandy butter, oozing rum butter and cream. I don't even like Christmas pudding much, but I don't need much coercing to eat these three.