OneGuyFromBarlick

Two shear stew and rice X 2. Dead easy!

Made a hearty chicken soup for tonight's dinner and a slow cooked ox tail stew for tomorrow. The stew is now in the fridge and I'll take off the fat tomorrow before I add more veggies and heat it up again.

It always tastes better on the second day doesn't it. Another argument for slow food.

I added some slivers of fresh ginger to the monkfish - goes well with chillies, it was lovely. Beef casserole tonight made with rump steak.

Last of the two shear on a butty for dinner and cheese on toast for tea. Then I sat there munching Elaine's walnuts and sultanas for a snack. Of course I ate them all......

I am sitting here trying to work up enthusiasm to get up and cook dinner...I have a few choices...just don't feel like cooking!
I get like this from time to time.
Perhaps if I lay here on the couch a little longer, the desire to cook will descend upon me?

Nice bowl of home made onion soup, with a french stick, the recipe for the soup came from Countrymans weekly, The Baroness De Wint has a weekly column with some lovely ideas.

Don't know what Sally has planned yet for tea tonight, but there is all the meat from the Ham Hock that was in the slow cooker since tea time yesterday, lovely smell when we got up. Nice jug of stock as well so looking forward to whatever it turns into. Couldn't resist pinching a bit of the meat, it's like butter so whatever is planned will be good.

Plump black pudding for tea, I fancy a nice plate of beans with this one.

Two small pressed beef butties for dinner and two small haslett butties for tea plus a small pork pie. Fruit for pudding of course.

Two burgers cooked slowly on the stove on a bed of onions, garlic and tomato paste. So a small burger butty for dinner and another for tea....

The veg are dropping off your menus again, Stanley.

You're right Maz but remember lots of fruit!

Steak & kidney pudding, chips, mushy peas and onion gravy. Mary wanted to eat out, but changed her mind when I offered to cook this, and wash up.

Sausage mash and peas X 2.

Same as yesterday but with beans..... Sausages are finished now!

I had some mashed potato left over so I whipped a couple of eggs in and three small rashers of fried bacon chopped up. Dropped some baked beans on top and fridge tidy. One slice of cheese on toast for tea and the last of the fruit.

There was nothing obvious to eat yesterday so I looked in the fridge. I ended up taking all my favourite ingredients, black pudding, onion, garlic, tomatoes and baked beans, chucking them in a pan with the usual seasoning and put it on the stove to argue. The result looked like brown sludge but tasted lovely! So I got some spuds, parboiled them in wedges and then deep fried them. So, the sludge plus wedges X 2 for dinner and tea. Plenty left over.....

Finished the sludge and chips X two yesterday. I have to admit that it looked terrible but tasted good! Not much left at teatime so I treated myself to a St Augur cheese butty! Fruit for pudding and I have to admit that even though the Cox apples have lasted well this year they are past their best. I think I shall have to switch to Braeburns....

Home-made Barbeque Chicken Pizza....Yum!

( Stanley...your sludge sounds pretty awful.)

It looked like cat vomit Maz! Due to the blood pudding.... but it tasted good!
Two small haslett butties for dinner. Two small St Augur butties and a small pork pie for tea. Fruit for pudding!
Late last nigh I put a bed of onions in a pan with some garlic and Worcester sauce, popped three Cumberland sausage round the edges and two burgers in the middle. It has sat on a slow stove all night and will be the basis for something interesting today!

Cat sick?.
Brilliant!

May I suggest a few episodes of Masterchef/Nigella/Jamie Oliver/Hairy Bikers....

I am cooking Tapioca this afternoon. According to the destructions, the "pearls" have to soak in milk for an hour before cooking, so they are doing that now. I am going to add some Cream after cooking too.
All pretty simple, but it have only ever had Tapioca as a child and I've never made it.
Hubby will probably be searching for some Jam to put in it, but we don't have any. Sweet foods and desserts are extremely infrequent at ours.
If anyone mentions frog spawn, I shall gag...

When my sister was a trainee nurse at the Manchester Eye hospital they used to call macaroni pudding 'Cataract Pudding'.

Surely Marcaroni is Worm Pudding Stanley? Tapioca definitely reminiscent of Frogs, sorry Maz.

Now what about bread and milk (pobs), with raisins or currants, Sally thinks it's dog food!

Sago was the pud with the bigger cataract sized bits.
Fish pie tonight with a mashed potato & leek topping served with carrots and purple sprouting broccoli. All veggies home grown. Cooked, after a stressful day, with the help of a quite a bit of white wine (from Aldi).