WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

I had a pizza for dinner and for tea I fried 3 sausages and two eggs and had them. Russets for pudding! They are lasting well this year.

[Moh]

Liver & onions done traditional way not in cream as I have done lately, with baked beans & chips.

[Stanley]

I had chips as well Moh. Sweet potato chips and mushy peas with a steak pudding for dinner and a meat pie for tea.

[Marilyn]

Salmon, Broccolini and Baby Peas.


You guys have your "comfort food" going on, and I can't say I blame you. Lousy weather your way. Tuck in and enjoy it, I say!
I often wish I lived in a climate where I earned the calories, just keeping warm, to enjoy my food. Not so here 95% of the year. I get sooooo sick of Cold Salads.

[Moh]

We need it to keep warm - not salad weather here.
Chicken legs with Spanish potatoes - new potatoes, chorizo, tomatoes, onions, garlic, paprika, chilli all cooked in olive oil.

[Stanley]

Moh is dead right Maz. This is not the weather to be worrying about fats or calories! I had exactly the same menu yesterday as the day before. It might seem like lack of imagination to many but it was two lovely meals that I enjoyed. I started a mutton stew with a blade of Mutton on a bed of onions with a tin of chopped tomatoes, Olive oil and the usual condiments. I Put the gravy in the fridge overnight and skimmed the fat off this morning before returning it to the slow cooker. I also de-boned the meat and cut it up into bite size chunks. Some water added and more salt together with frozen peas and a tin of small new potatoes. It's sat there warming up now and I shall let it argue with itself until tea-time when the meat will be like butter. Dinner is catered for......
Later at 06:00. I have just had a secondary de-fatting of the stew and harvested more fat. It will do now..... I like fat but too much can dull the taste...

[Moh]

Roast lamb, new potatoes, cauliflower cheese & gravy.

[Wendyf]

Home made spicy lamb burgers with a plateful of salad, coleslaw & gherkins sprinkled with olive oil, sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Our usual pud of berries in full fat Greek Yoghurt with a splash of double cream. Filling, warming and slimming!!

[Stanley]

I boiled a pan of carrots and steamed a small cauliflower on top. (90p) I put most of the carrots in the stew but had some and some gravy from the stew on the cauli for dinner. Mutton stew for tea.... lovely stuff!

[Stanley]

Mutton stew with veggies for dinner and tea with Russets for pudding. One bowl left in the fridge and a ham hock cooking in cider in the slow cooker......

[Moh]

Yesterday we had cold lamb with roasties & cauli. Tonight is shepherds' pie with the remainder of the lamb fillet.

[Stanley]

I had the last of the mutton stew for dinner and at teatime the ham and veggies was ready. Superb! No salt in, even though I pre-boiled the hock there was enough salt in it. Lovely stuff and I added more string beans last night. It will be better still today.....

[Moh]

Haddock, chips & peas tonight.

[Marilyn]

Doing something with Noodles tonight. Not sure what!
We love Noodles, and I usually buy the fresh ones and "melt" them into Spicy Beef. Last week we hovered around the array of dried/long life noodles, and our interest was aroused with the variety on offer.
Bought a couple of different ones, which will sit in the pantry forever if I don't try them out. So tonight we experiment...
(she says wringing her hands with a manic look in her eyes...and a quiet cackle to herself)

[Stanley]

"Eye of newt....." I can see you stirring a large black pot!
I had ham and veggies for tea and Fish chips and mushy peas for tea...... Lots of fruit.

[Marilyn]

Yes...big black pot.
One eye watching the pot...other eye looking up the chimney!
( that's an old saying isn't it? )

[Stanley]

Never heard that one Maz but they say a watched pot never boils!

[Wendyf]

It was a song from our chidhood but I can't remember any more of it. That line has stuck in my head though!

[Marilyn]

mixed reviews re the dried noodles ( which were Pad Thai)
I absolutely loved them....the Master was less enthused...eeeee.....so there you go.

( can't live with 'him/can live without him )

[Tripps]

It was a song from our chidhood but I can't remember any more of it. That line has stuck in my head though!

Indeed it was . I had no idea where from, but it's a phrase that sticks in your mind isn't it?

Harry Belafonte

[Moh]

meat balls, pasta & corn tonight.

[PanBiker]

Lamb Kleftiko constructed by myself for me and our Jack which will be followed by bread and butter pudding. Sally has a veggie casserole and has made the pudding with a seeded GI fruit loaf, should be interesting.

[Stanley]

I like the seeded loaves, I stick to Borgen. I freeze the loaves and just toast them as required so no waste.
I had the slow cooked ham and veggies twice yesterday for dinner and tea. That has finished it off and it's butcher's day today.....

[Marilyn]

I've just wiped the fridge out, ready for shopping tomorrow - cleaned the crisper etc.
The only thing remaining in the crisper this week was 4 carrots. That is what I call efficient shopping! Everything else got used. (And I always do keep a few spare carrots, as hubby loves raw carrot as an afternoon snack if he gets peckish)
Pies, Mash and Baked Beans tonight.

[Moh]

Toad in the hole, dauphinoise potatoes & garden peas tonight.