WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Bruff]

Butcher has goat in now, so we had a rich goat stew last night. Lovely. Pasta and beet tops tonight.

Made the first of the chutneys this weekend - courgette and green tomato. They'll be ready for winter. A load more'll be done this weekend. Crab apple jelly and rosehip syrup to come and given we're in line for a bumper elderberry crop, I'll do some elderberry sauce. All foraged.

Plus, loads of blackberries in parts of Wirral - seems early?

That carrot and bean burger is a recipe from the blog 'A Girl Called Jack', a young woman who through force of circumstance found herself having to feed her and her child on a tenner a week. She documents this in her blog; there's a book coming out. Worth checking out....

Richard Broughton

[Stanley]

Blackberries aren't set here yet Richard but plenty of them. Had two potatoes hanging about, half a tin of baked beans and a black pudding in the fridge. Chip butty with olives for dinner and Chips, beans, tomato relish, black pudding and a heggy on top for tea. Two pears for pudding.

[Bruff]

What's a 'heggy'? New one on on me that. Some form of egg?

Richard Broughton

[Tizer]

...given we're in line for a bumper elderberry crop...

You're lucky, your weather must have been different from here - the elder trees have no berries this year, it was too dry at the critical time. A bumper crop of apples though and the wasps are loving it!

[Stanley]

Richard, just a play word, one of my kids used to call an egg a heggy.
Got so involved in attacking my LTP problem yesterday that I forgot my dinner. Fish finger butty for tea and three peaches. 24 hour fast slimming programme!

[Stanley]

More discipline yesterday. A pork chop and tomato relish butty with olives for dinner and a high class cheese and tomato butty for tea. Fruit for pudding. I fried the pork chops in olive oil and it was a nice change.

[Marilyn]

Odds and Sods...clearing out the freezer.
I had a Curry Pie ( which was awful and ended up in the bin)...Febby had some little party pies and son had some of those and a Pastie. All served with Chips.
Not the nicest meal, but cleared a bit of room.
Shopping day tomorrow.

[Stanley]

Got a wrap up from Stewart yesterday as they finish for a week. There's at least one cut in there I don't even recognise! I was on ham butties yesterday....

[Thomo]

Individual Steak pies with suet crust pastry, crispy chips, garden peas and gravy, lots of it.

[Stanley]

Funny day yesterday as I had three steak puddings in the fridge from the wrap-up. So it was steak pudding, mash and peas twice.

[Stanley]

My portion control has been slipping lately and has been made worse by having to catch up on the short date items in the fridge from the wrap-up on Friday. To put it bluntly I've been eating too much and can feel it. Almost there now, only some roast ham to deal with. Yesterday I finished the boiled ham in butties for dinner and just had sliced bananas in cream for tea. I shall be watching myself carefully for a few days. So easy to let the weight creep back up!

[Stanley]

Roast ham butties X 2 but thin slices of bread! Made some tomato relish, powerful stuff!

[Stanley]

Last of the roast ham for dinner in a butty. Tea was two burgers and an egg on toast.

[Stanley]

Burger butty for dinner, sausage butty for tea.

[Stanley]

Roasted a blade of lamb so Lamb butties X 2 for dinner and tea.

[Marilyn]

When was the last time you digested any green, leafy vegetables?
When did you last eat a carrot?
Mother is not pleased, Stanley.

[David Whipp]

I can report that Stanley has been buying veg recently - though I didn't see what was in his basket - when he shopped at Chaudrys the other day. With his ingrained frugality, I doubt it has gone to waste.

[Stanley]

Don't worry Maz.....



Broke the rule of a lifetime yesterday and got some Jus-Roll pastry to save time. Had the last of the lamb on butties for dinner and baked a meat pie and currant sad-cake with the left over pastry. Meat pie and sad cake for tea. David is right, today I shall have meat pie, broccoli, peas and mashed potatoes.

[Stanley]

Had too much at dinnertime so tea was a bit of sad cake and some fruit. Plenty of pie, mash and peas left for today!

[Marilyn]

Home-made Shepherd's Pie, Carrots, Baby Peas, Sprouts, Broccoli.

[hartley353]

On offer was a roast chicken dinner, but all I could eat was a chicken sandwich. The reason having a full English breakfast of Eggs Bacon Mushrooms Blackpudding Haggis Potato cakes, and Tomatoes, with a couple of Sausages at gone 1100. Truly an allday Breakfast.

[Stanley]

Pie and mash X 2 and enough left for one meal today. I think I may do a bit of extending and make it two! (That'll be chips Maz!)

[Marilyn]

Nay...you can't teach an old dog new tricks...

[Stanley]

The meat pie bit the dust Maz. It did both meals because I extended it with Deep fried parsnips and cabbage. But in act of rebellion against your nagging about green leaves I used red cabbage!

[Marilyn]

Hah..( love a rebel)...we are having GREEN cabbage tonight...carrots and Roast Spuds...with crumbed chicken breast.
Made a white sauce with Parsley and Chives and Fresh Black Pepper.
Almost ready. Expecting the boss home shortly.