OneGuyFromBarlick

Burger and onion gravy on a butty for dinner and two poached eggs on toast for tea. Plenty of fruit of course!

I have made Beef Wellington. It is in the oven as I type.
Will serve with mashed potatoes, green beans, Baby Peas, Carrots and a light gravy.

Steak pudding chips and mushy peas, with two slices of bread and butter.

Meat and potato pie with a suet crust and served with mushy peas.

Roast Chicken, mash, mashed carrot (with horseradish), green beans and overcooked marrowfats (they went rather mushy) so mushy peas here also!

A night off from cooking tonight...going on "date" with my son. We are going to the John Farnham/Lionel Ritchie Concert.
Febby didn't want to come.
So he can stay home and make himself packet pasta!

Meanwhile...I must dig out the glad rags...

I had two good slices of home cured smoked back bacon and a black pudding in the fridge. Put some vinegar and Worcester Sauce in the pan, chopped four small onions Then cut the big rashers in two and laid them on the onions. A scattering of Molasses sugar to balance the vinegar, laid the blood pudding on top and dropped a can of baked beans over the lot. Popped it on the stove in the front room and left it to argue gently with itself for three hours. At dinnertime the blood pudding had burst of course but I hadn't stirred anything so I lifted it out whole to make a big butty with the last of the old loaf. New loaf came out of the machine at 13:00 and so I had a bacon onion and beans butty for tea. Very tasty indeed! Plenty of the filling left for today.

Lamb chops, dauphinoise potatoes & garden peas tonight.

Two pics I didn't get round to posting last Saturday, individual steak pies a la Thomo.

Bacon, onion and beans on butties X 2. I popped some sausage on the stove with onions, beans and garlic. It was cooked by bedtime and cooling in the kitchen. Here's the way I deal with the garlic, I hate fiddling with it to strip it out of the bulbs. One of the advantages of cooking on the stove is the even heat so you don't need to stir the pot. That means you can slice the bulbs in two and sit them on the top till they soften. Then just fish them out and squeeze the individual kernels of garlic out with no trouble at all.

...And if I'm not mistaken, pot roast kindling also!

A new slow cooker was purchased at the weekend and tried out yesterday with a warming Beef and Greens casserole recipe from a book purchased earlier in the week. It was one of those recipes I didn't think I'd like but the others thought would be ok. It was far better than ok. I sit at my computer corrected!

Ham hock sitting in our slow cooker overnight. I think Sally will be using some of it in a ham, cheese, leek and potato pie for tonight. I think we might invite the lad home for tea tonight.

Mmmmm...some of those meals are looking good and sounding good. ( apart from Stanley's garlic)
The pies look brilliant, Thomo.

I fell asleep on the couch this afternoon...woke up and it was after five...Febby nowhere in sight. I remembered promising pasta for dinner, but found a note on the kitchen bench saying " have gone to get Fish and Chips" with a ( reasonably sized) love heart drawn next to it.
So I was treated tonight.
Got home very late from the John Farnham and Lionel Richie Concert last night. ( Febby was still awake watching Sci-fi movie in bed).
Had a brilliant evening. Concert was amazing. Well worth the money.
( yes there were knickers thrown on stage, which I find slightly tacky)

Used up the remainder of the pancake batter. To have pancakes two days running is a great treat, one of my favourite foods.

Thomo's pies look lovely, and reminded me of mums when we were a family of seven, they used to look like desperate Dan's without the cowhorns.

Change of tea last night, hubby came home with some fresh liver, so we had liver & onions with chips & beans. The lamb chops are tonight but I have changed the meal to a one tray bake with chops, potatoes, onions, garlic & tomatoes.

Hubby came home with "fresh Liver"?
I envisage a modern day Jack the Ripper...turning up at the back door with a knife in one hand and a lump of dripping meat in the other.
Pasta for us tonight, with Red Salmon flaked through the White Sauce.

You're right Jules, I put the wooden spoon on top of the kindling! Moh, never heard that phrase before, 'One tray roast' but I know what you mean. Vegetables are so good when roasted with the meat! Maz, garlic is so good for you!
Liver. When I worked at the dairy and delivered skim milk for pig-feeding to Marshall's at Bradley they used to give me warm liver straight out of the slaughter house. I often called in at home and we had it for breakfast, nothing nicer than really fresh liver!
Had the sausage and onion with boiled rice for dinner. I intended to have the rest on a butty for tea but at the last minute I fancied cheese on toast instead.
08:00. Fresh loaf just come out of the machine. We shall not starve today even though the butcher's is closed while they install a new floor in the shop.....

Thomo's pie making had a profound effect on me, and yesterday I made a large meat and potato pie for tea, and yes I am right to call it so plenty of meat in it. The dogs tails nearly wagged off their bums when I put a spoonful each in their bowls.

One tray bakes are very simple to prepare and not much washing up. I put the chops, potatoes & shallots on in a roasting tray, doused with olive oil & seasoning. Later adding garlic cloves & cherry tomatoes, drizzling balsamic vinegar over them - very tasty.
Tonight it is monkfish tails with a sweet chilli sauce, wedges & garden peas - first time I have cooked monkfish.

Meat and potato pie again, should have made a smaller one.

Lad could not make tea yesterday so I have finished off the cheese, ham, leak and potato pie tonight. Comfort food

I had the last of the sausage and onion with basmati rice for dinner. I was thinking about sausage for tea but at the last minute decided on a St Augur butty because I fancied it and had two wedges in the fridge after a good offer at the Cathedral of Choice the other day. A nice cheese but not the best keeper in the world....

Crumbed Fish ( Whiting), which I shallow fried...with mashed potato and Garden Salad.
It was Yummy.

The dogs got the last of the meat and potato pie, and I settled for two hot cross buns lavished with butter. Mary wasn't feeling well this morning and left the breakfast to me what i put on my plate was truly an all day breakfast. Two sausages, black pudding one slice of haggis, two rashers of bacon, mushrooms,one potato cake, two hash browns,one egg, and two grilled tomatoes, with a fried slice. Burp!!