WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Maz, one way to a son's affection is through his stomach.
Finished the meat stew and started another. Onions, a piece of rolled two shear shoulder and three full roots of garlic. (Sorry Maz!) When the meat was cooked I de-fatted it and cut it up, squeezed all the garlic out of the cut in half roots I cook whole and added peas and spuds. It was ready for tea but I fancied a fried egg butty....

[hartley353]

Defrosted some shore caught cod, and as an accompaniment made a cheese sauce, then served with a small tin of potatoes. Very nice meal, then Mary arrives home and tells me she had left pasta in the fridge. Looks like Italian today.

[Tizer]

A friend says she has been called out for an emergency visit to her son's house in France. Daughter-in-law has to go on a course for a week and the grandchildren know dad can only cook pasta, so they asked if Grandma could come...please, please! So Grandma has packed and now only needs to pick up her essential cookery items that she says can't be got where the grandchildren live - corn starch, gravy browning and custard powder.

[Marilyn]

Good old granny. She will be very popular.

Hartley...sitting in lamp light reading my ipad mini...I read your post as shore caught coal.

[hartley353]

Good old granny. She will be very popular.

Hartley...sitting in lamp light reading my ipad mini...I read your post as shore caught coal.

Cod came from the Solway, for coal on the shore Whitely Bay is the best.

[Moh]

Meat & potato pie with mushy peas tonight.

[Stanley]

Meat, onions, spuds and peas X 2 yesterday. One small helping left.... (But it's butcher's day!)

[Marilyn]

Could only pick at food today as my appetite decreases in the heat.
But have just thoroughly enjoyed a small bowl of plump, fresh cherries. Really hit the spot. Last night was a similar pleasure, with fresh Kiwi Fruit.
42/43 C degrees tomorrow.
I am so over Summer.
( one would think that one's waistline would reduce due to eating less and surviving on salad for months, but that is not the case)

[Moh]

I am so over Winter!! Haddock & chips tonight.

[Stanley]

Commiserations Moh... Not long now, it'll soon be March!
One very small helping of the meat and onion left so I dropped a steak pudding and some of Jack's dog meat in and finished up with a lovely bowl-full that was so filling all I wanted for tea was a small pressed beef butty.

[Moh]

Spanish chicken with mixed peppers, roasties & cauliflower tonight.

[Stanley]

Egg Butty for dinner and burger butty for tea. I cooked the burgers on a bed of red onions and when the burgers came out I dropped some bacon ribs in the gravy after boiling them twice to get rid of the salt. It sat on the stove all evening and is ready for de-boning and shredding. It will make good butty filling!

[Moh]

Duck breasts marinated in garlic & herbs, wedges & cauliflower chopped up with butter tonight.

[Stanley]

Breakfast was a butty made with the shredded rib meat cooked in the onion gravy from the burgers. Tea was half a bowl of the same. Very tasty and filling....

[Wendyf]

Roast lamb with rosemary, roast potatoes, mashed carrots & swede, green beans and gravy. Only the gravy not from the garden or next door's fields...we are very lucky!

[hartley353]

A very nice steak dinner, in reward for services to rabbits.

[Stanley]

Finished the rib stew at dinnertime and had a simple mashed boiled egg butty for tea.... With fruit of course!

[Marilyn]

Fish tonight, with Salad and fresh Baby Beets.

[Stanley]

Good for your long chain Omega3 levels!

[hartley353]

Pancakes for tea last night, with lashings of heather honey. Probably not good for my health, but definitely soul food.

[Stanley]

Chucked 12 sausage, onions, baked beans and tomato purée in the pan yesterday and put it on the stove early in the morning. Popped a new loaf in as well. So yesterday was sausage butties in tomato and onion gravy X 2. Enough left for today.....

[Marilyn]

Threw together some marinade and made Chicken Shaslicks, which are now sitting in the marinade. Shall grill them and serve over a Pasta Salad.
Weather extremely hot. Not much appetite after all the gallons of water I have enjoyed today.

[hartley353]

Had a strong fancy for Gammon steak, chips, and egg for my tea. When I grilled it the white stuff that ran out completely spoilt the meal. Prior to cooking I had washed and dried the steak too. The pineapple rings helped it go down.

[Marilyn]

White stuff?
Sounds Gross!
( what do you think it was...meat glue? I hear they are using a lot of that now. I don't eat Steak, but I've cooked enough to know that white stuff isn't normal)

[PanBiker]

It's saline injected to bulk out the meat, you don't get this if you buy from a good butcher. Pre packed stuff from the supermarket is the main culprit, goes for bacon too.