WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Old favourite, a cheese and tomato butty with Heinz salad cream and plenty of salt! Filled up with a small pork pie and an apple for pudding.

[Moh]

Sausage, mash & onion sauce tonight.

[Stanley]

Wasn't hungry after a big sausage butty for breakfast and a meat pie and some currant bread at dinnertime so I just nibbled on three cold sausages and an apple.

[Stanley]

Cheese and tomato butty with currant bread for pudding with whey cream butter and strawberry conserve. Bugger the diabetes!

[EileenDavid]

Just had the weirdest chicken burger in Brittany. It wasn't a burger it was chicken pieces in curry sauce on a burger bun. Eileen

[Moh]

Steak Diane, oven chips, grilled tomatoes & onion rings tonight.

[EileenDavid]

Shark curry Eileen

[Stanley]

Ham butty and dates for pudding.

[Moh]

Roast lamb, cauliflower, new potatoes and roast parsnips & potatoes.

[Stanley]

Another quality ham butty and dates for pudding! Will roast some Middle White pork today for butties.....

[Stanley]

Roast Middle White pork is a goody! A lot of fat but meat is tasty and most. Lots to be said for the rare breeds.

[Stanley]

I took the fat off the gravy from roasting the pork and popped it in the deep fat fryer. Then used the stock to build a veggie stew with lots of spuds in it. Good stuff and cheap!

[Moh]

Cottage oie tonight.

[Stanley]

Veggie soup going down well. Hot X bun for pudding!

If you've got a stove lit, the leccy flickering doesn't worry you....

[Moh]

Liver & onions tonight.

[Stanley]

Veggie stew bit the dust. Butcher's day today so little treats!

[Moh]

At one time they would have been closed today. Baked trout and new potatoes tonight.

[Stanley]

Moh, Barlick has never recognised Bank Holidays, a hang over from the days when we consolidated them all in the general September holiday.
I've found a new use for the stove during the day when it is running at low fire. It's ideal for simmering a pan for slow cooking. I experimented with dried peas yesterday and tea was pea soup with bread pobs and a meat pie cut up in it. I often think that one of the advantages of being reared under rationing during the war means that we accept much plainer food quite happily. I can well imagine younger people not accepting such plain food, they need more excitement, food as entertainment not fuel.

[Moh]

Slow cooked lamb shanks tonight with mashed potatoes.

[EileenDavid]

Roast chicken dinner today and we are having veal tomorrow never had it before but classed as a white meat?

Stanley your right about the rationing, I was just born after the war into a large family 7 kids mam and dad and grandma lived with us too. Mam and Grandma were both good plain cooks nothing fancy but wholesome. If you didn't like what was cooked there was nothing else.

Eileen

[Stanley]

Sounds harsh these days doesn't it but it's generally accepted now that this is one of the reasons why my generation is so healthy.
Used pease pudding as part of the base for a sausage and beans casserole. Froze three helpings for use in future stews etc. A cheap and nutritious filler for extending a dish. Good food can be so cheap!

[Moh]

we are having roast chicken today with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrot & swede, roast squash & gravy.

[Stanley]

The bean casserole bit the dust last night. I have a burger left, plenty of eggs and cheese and a loaf baking as I write. I shall not starve!

[Moh]

Cold chicken tonight.

[Stanley]

Roasted a piece of Middle White pork for butties. Did it the old fashioned way, not covered or wrapped in any way. Because it's old fashioned prk with plenty of fat in it it didn't dry out and the fat that came out of it went straight in the deep fryer. Nice warm pork doorstep butty for tea!