WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Finished the stew/thick soup at dinnertime and had pressed beef butties on free out of date bread for tea. Waste not want not!
(Oh, and a late night meat pie to fill a corner!)

[Stanley]

Haslet butties for dinner and the last of the frozen stew for tea. The freezer is empty now and Stewart has a two shear whether that has been living a life of luxury after escaping culling last year. He says it will be a bit fat bit that's OK. I'm afraid its days are numbered.....

[Marilyn]

Just gearing up for a BBQ out under the verandah.
I've done my bits...marinated the chicken breasts, made salad, made Damper (bread), cut the onions, prepared the meat.
Hubby and son can do the traditional Australian thing and cook it ( basically involves talking rubbish with a beer in hand whilst everything gets charred beyond recognition).
Having done their bit, they then retire to the couch to watch sport, whilst I clean up...( and clean the BBQ).

[hartley353]

The BBQ has never held any attraction for me, throwing food on an open fire makes no sense when I have perfectly fine cooking facilities in the home. For most of my life I have enjoyed camping now that has been spoilt by the ever pervasive smell of outdoor cooking every evening. Walks in the countryside reveal scorched ground melted picnic furniture charred wooden seats, and abandoned disposable barbecues. There was a time when we ate in the home and went outside for bodily functions, now in this topsy turvy modern world we do the reverse. When I mentioned this problem with barbecues to a friend in Canada he suggested that I go live there as they have legislated against it.

[Marilyn]

BBQs aren't my favourite thing either, though I do enjoy going to other people's BBQs.
My hubby tends to grumble all the way through the process of cooking, and I am constantly reminding him that things don't need to be flipped again and again every twenty seconds.
I do enjoy sitting outside, soaking up the garden though. Lovely on a warm evening.

[Stanley]

Survived on nibbles during the day because at 16:00 I was kidnapped by Margaret and Mick and taken over the manorial boundary to the Bull at Broughton where ten of us, almost all family had a noisy four hour meal. Not the kind of table you wanted to be near in a restaurant but we were in a small annexe so Joy was unconfined. Good food, I had cauliflower in batter for starters, then fish pie and apple crumble. I treated myself to a good bottle of Gewürztraminer and shared it. Nice meal, nice kids, one of the better evenings!

[Stanley]

Sausage and burgers in a casserole with tomatoes and baked beans. It filled a butty at dinner time. Pot roasted my last piece of lamb from the freezer and after removing the fat from the gravy added some peas, broth bits and lentils to make a thick soup. Had some of that for tea. Plenty to go at today, no cooking needed.

[Sue]

Tonight was home made pizzas and lemon buns all made by Eve and myself . Briony helped by er...washing up and everything else in sight plus herself. Only one more day to go, but they are back at Christmas and I will love it.

Hmm I wonder if I will lose weight with all thus activity.

[Stanley]

I combined what was left of the casserole with the thick soup and had that X2 for dinner and tea. Enough left for today. That's the problem with cooking for one, good job I don't get fed up with my own cooking....

[Marilyn]

Picked up an Asda recipe leaflet when in the UK recently and made a recipe from it tonight. Cheese and Potato Pie...YUM

[Stanley]

I always liked cheese and onion Maz. My mother was a dab hand at making them.... Finished the thick soup and the pot roasted lamb yesterday. Defrosted the freezer as well so I'm ready for the refill of two shear when it comes....

[Tripps]

Speaking of Cheese and Onion Pie - Here's an award winning version.


Cheese and Onion Pie

[Bruff]

Last night, we had pasta with cauliflower and anchovies and sun-dried tomatoes and red chilli and garlic.

This is right easy, and packs a real thump of flavour; I reckon you could leave out the anchovies, but not the garlic (sorry Marilyn....).

So, feeds four. Biggish cauliflower and boil the florets 'till soft. Drain and set aside to dry. Meanwhile, in a frying pan, sweat off the chopped chilli and garlic in a good glug of olive oil. Add 2 tins of anchovies (chopped) and a good few sun-dried toms (also chopped). Saute together for about 2/3mins. Add the florets and mash up with a fork. Mix together and season to taste, and cook for 10mins or so. Boil your pasta and drain, and then add to the cauliflower mix. Toss and stir in, and loosen with more olive oil if needs. Then at the end add chopped fresh basil and serve with parmesan and more oil to loosen for those that like.

Do it with broccoli too, but leave out the sun-dried toms and don't mash the broccoli, just split the florets as small as you can.

Bangers tonight - yum!

Oh and cheese and onion pie is one of my favourite things - it was by making one of these that my mum taught me pastry-making.

Richard Broughton

[Julie in Norfolk]

Too much!

[Stanley]

Not at all Jules, as long as you like strong flavours. Sausage and high class mash X 2 yesterday. One helping left, ready to m wave and today is butcher's day so I shall be enjoying myself....

[Julie in Norfolk]

Sorry, I answered the question "what did we have for tea?" and my response was "too much!" "Good belly hold all" as I've heard my mother say at the dinner table.

[Bruff]

The sausages were good last night.

It might just be me, but it does seem you need to go out of your way to chance on a bad sausage these days. The supermarkets' 'own' sausages seem generally fine to me, and all the butchers' 'own' round my neck of the woods are good.

Meeting my now student wife in the 'Pool tonight for a few drinks so it'll be a takeaway this evening - probably an Indian.

Richard Broughton

[Marilyn]

Our deep sea fishing friend gave us three packets of fish the other week. Tonight we used the second pack, which I crumbed and fried, and served with Calamari and Salad ( plus tartare sauce and sour cream). Delicious!

Bruff...not a huge sausage fan, but can manage them occasionally, especially if cooked on the BBQ. ( like them crispy on the outside and hubby burns everything on the BBQ.) wrapped in a bit of bread with "dead horse" ( sauce), and some incinerated onions.
How is your wife going with her studies? ( mature students usually do really well)

By the way, the Cheese and Potato Pie ( with onion) was delicious. My lot gave it the thumbs up...

[Stanley]

I got some of Stewart's sausages this morning together with other bits and pieces. A small p-acket of oxtail will get some veggies with it later in the week and I got some home-cured bacon as well. Naughty but nice!
Never could get on with Calamari Maz. Perhaps I was never given the good stuff!

[Stanley]

Pie and peas for dinner and the last of the sausage and mash for tea. Old-fashioned favourites.

[hartley353]

Home made Mushroom soup with crusty bread, followed by two pancakes with honey.

[Marilyn]

English Muffins ( toasted) , with Ham and Cheese.

[hartley353]

Babies head chips, and mushy peas sheer luxury.

[Stanley]

I had some very big Garlic bulbs, three of these plus three strong onions, a tin of chopped tomatoes, a tin of tomato purée, salt, pepper, vinegar and sugar and simmer for a couple of hours. Some really strong tomato relish. (Sorry Maz!) So haslet butty for dinner and pressed beef butty for tea, both with relish. Good stuff! I've just popped a loaf into the machine....

[Cathy]

OK Hartley, enlighten me... babies head chips... ???