WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Maz, nutmeg is very powerful. I like it and once used so much in an apple pie I had heart palpitations after!
I put a loaf in the machine yesterday but was so engrossed with the shed I forgot to cook anything for my butties. I had to go to the Cathedral of Choice at dinnertime for milk, flour and coffee and so I treated myself to one of their high quality pizzas for dinner. Very expensive, dry and not a lot of ingredients in it. If I ever get another I'll reinforce it with added cheese and tomatoes. I cooked some bacon ribs very slowly for tea and filled up with nuts and fruit.

[Stanley]

Slow cooked burger butties for dinner and then I put sausages in the same gravy and had some of them on a butty for tea. Too busy in the shed for cooking!

[Moh]

Just called at the fish & chip shop in Settle for lunch, so I will not want anything else today - hubby will have a butty.

[Stanley]

Two sausage in gravy left so I had them for dinner with chips and peas. Too busy to cook so tea was an old fashioned bacon and egg butty. Still hard to beat! I've put some two shear chops in the oven under foil and on a bed of onions. I have no doubt something will occur to me later!

[Moh]

More fish - white hake with oven chips & garden peas.

[Marilyn]

Fresh Veg day tomorrow, so I cleaned out the crisper and the fridge today. Found a perfectly good small cauliflower so made Cauliflower Cheese which will be divided and frozen...with one serve had tonight with Chicken Strudel, Baby Peas and Spuds.
I've just finished all the dishes from my frenzy of cooking. Kitchen clean! So I intend to upend Febby from his chair and drag him for a walk on the beach. ( he has been sat at the computer for the past 6 hours so I shall bully him into moving)

[Stanley]

Maz, tell Febby that Margaret told me yesterday that sitting is the new smoking.... You do right to make him walk!
The chops and onions were ready at dinnertime and so I had half of it with chips and peas. Decided to save the other half for today so had a whole steamed cauliflower with Whey Butter melted through it on to the spuds below. Lovely! The cauli cost 49P and was cooked on the steam from the spuds so it must be one of the cheapest and most nourishing meals ever! Waste not went not!

[Stanley]

Butcher's day tomorrow so it's clear up day. I had some of the two shear and onions I cooked yesterday and some boiled spuds. I also had a couple of spuds that needed eating so I sliced them up popped them in with the boiled spuds, tipped the two shear and onions on top, added some frozen peas and a bit of seasoning and there you go. At least two helpings of left over stew. I love cooking economical meals like this... War time cooking!

[Moh]

Looks good enough to eat Stanley !! Gammon, oven chips & steamed mixed greens tonight.

[Stanley]

It was Moh! And as always it aged well just left in the pan on the hob. The secret is not to put it in the fridge. A good reheating of each portion kills any bugs! There was enough to do two helpings for dinner and tea but I'll admit to having cheese on toast to fill a corner for supper. Usual pudding of fruit. During the war my mother used to make us stews based on very little meat as in this case, but plenty of spuds and veg. I could almost hear the sirens as I ate it.....

[Moh]

We used to have meals of just veg for example cauliflower chopped with a little marg. (no butter as rationed) with a slice of bread or maybe a swede the same way. I suppose we had eaten our small meat ration.
Shepherds' Pie tonight.

[Stanley]

I still like 'just veg' meals Moh. That's why I enjoyed the cauliflower so much for tea earlier in the week. Nothing with it but salt and whey butter... Just like cream! I often have spuds, carrots and peas as well.
Yesterday I had a bacon and egg butty for dinner to use up some bread and the last of the bacon. For tea I had a steak pudding and peas and the last crust as an egg butty to fill up.

[Moh]

Irish Stew & dumplings tonight - good cold weather grub.

[Stanley]

Moh, my mother called dumplings 'little lads'.
Boring but effective yesterday. Pie and baked beans X two for dinner and tea spiced up with some onion and tomato sauce I made in the morning.

[Marilyn]

A warm day today, and we had our favourite evening meal of Prawns and Chips, eaten out of the paper wrappings, on the beach, as the last of the sun's rays cast a golden glow about us.
I have to say these meals are very special to both of us.
Who needs expensive high dining with costly wine? Something about that Summer Evening light and fighting over the last of the crunchy chip bits at the bottom of the greasy paper is quite magical as you sit with toes in the sand.

[Moh]

Sounds wonderful.
Slow cooked brisket with cauliflower cheese, roast parsnip & sweet potato, carrots, mash, yorkies & gravy tonight.

[Stanley]

Fish and chips on the beach.... Unattainable in Barlick I'm afraid. I always said that if Barlick had the Indian Ocean and level crossings where the Union Pacific sirens wailed during the night it would be perfect!
I had a freebie loaf that needed eating so the tomato and onion relish with burgers cut up in it became butty fillings X two for dinner and tea.

[Marilyn]

Pasta Salad with Red Alaskan Salmon forked through tonight. Yum.

[Stanley]

I extended the sauce with six chilli sausages grilled first before chopping up and dropping in. Boiled spuds and carrots and had veggies plus sauce X two for dinner and tea. Plenty left for today....

[Marilyn]

Toasted long rolls, filled with sliced steamed Chicken Breast, Roasted Red Capsicum, Roasted Purple Onion, Cheese, Baby Spinach and Mayonnaise. They were really YUM.

[Moh]

Is there only the three of us that eat?
Potato Hash tonight with remainder of brisket.

[PanBiker]

Braising steak out of the freezer, mixed veg and chips, 2 slices of buttered chia bread.

Not sure what I'm having tonight yet.

[Bodger]

Im not having this for tea but i think its the best sandwich ive seen for a while
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle ... s-sandwich

[LizG]

Is there only the three of us that eat?

We eat, but the meals I make always sound very boring compared to the posts I see here. Last night it was chicken with quinoa salad. See what I mean?

[Wendyf]

Quinoa sounds exciting to me Liz!
Sausages in onion gravy with chips, cauliflower & peas. Slicing the onions was a bit tricky with my left arm in plaster, but I managed!