OneGuyFromBarlick

Two poached eggs on a butty made with two pieces of toast for dinner. A small bowl of hot pot for tea followed by half a beetroot and cheddar butty. One helping of hot pot left.....

Easy tea tonight - when we had chicken & choritzo paella a couple of weeks ago I made double quantity and froze half so we shall have that.

Not a pretty sight! I had two onions dying and a veteran black pudding in the fridge so I fried the onions in olive oil added the black pudding, vinegar and seasoning and produced this! I admit it looks terrible but it is a superb sandwich filling! So, I left the last helping of hot pot in the fridge as it is sealed with melted butter from the veggies and had black pudding and onion butties X two for dinner and tea.

Steak pie, mash & peas tonight.

I pass, thanks...we had salad...and it is unfortunate but I simply couldn't eat another thIng!
Well... Truth is we had guests for lunch and had salad left over, so we polished it off in front of TV tonight.
Easy meal, and we weren't up to eating much as the weather was quite tropical today. Takes away the appetite when it is so warm and humid. I am sure I would be thin as a stick if I lived at the Equator.

Nowt like cold weather for the appetite!

I still have my hot pot in the fridge but yesterday I had the black pudding and onions on a butty times two for dinner and tea. Bit of an incident at dinner as two of my daughters turned up as I was eating my butty. I put it on one side and as we were engrossed in our conversation Jack stole some of the butty! First time ever he has done that. Shows how good the evil looking spread was. So at teatime I allowed myself a pork pie for a filler after the butty....

Chilli slow cooking at the moment - hubby's with jacket potato & garlic bread, mine with just garlic bread.

Ham and cheese pie last night made from the leftovers from New Years day family meal. We got a large ham joint which we had with all the trimmings on the day. There was a surplus of ham and cheese sauce so we turned these remains into 3 pies and shoved them in the freezer, first one retrieved for tea, had it with oven chips.

Tonight will be chicken probably turned into a pasta bake. I have a large chopped up chicken breast in the slow cooker with onions and a basic stock. I'll probably use half of it, maybe curry it up a bit then decide tomorrow what to do with the other half.

I had a small helping of hot pot in the fridge. Friday is the day I cook Jack's weekly ration of 2lbs of steak mince and I had put a bit too much water in it. When it was cooked I ladled some of the liquor out of that into a pan containing the hot pot and chucked a handful of lentils, split peas and pearl barley in. Thickened up nicely by dinner and very good. Had two poached eggs on a butty for tea.
Amazing how things stick in your head from early years when your brain was like a sponge soaking everything up and remembering it. Mrs Ackroyd at Hope Memorial School used to teach her four year old class about food and I can never use pulses without reciting the mantra she taught us: "Peas beans and lentils are flesh-forming foods!"

Sausage, onion & potato bake tonight.

Mrs Tiz has made `Acid Rain Cake' today....otherwise known as Lemon Drizzle!

Tamarind curry chicken on rice last night. I'm thinking plain tonight; maybe poached eggs on toast.

Mrs Tiz and I must be sharing the winter blues, I baked two apple pies....

Cooked four sausages on a bed of onions. Sausage and onion butty for dinner and then the last of it on fresh cooked spuds and carrots for tea, Guess what pudding was!

Different weather conditions here, Stanley, so we had Pasta Salad with flaked Smoked Tasmanian Salmon.
( all cold of course)
Sent a pic to Stanley...
No pudding for us! ( we don't need extra calories for body heat, and we are always trying to limit calories though it doesn't seem to do any good!)

Maz salad.....

Roast lemon chicken, new potatoes, leeks in a white wine sauce, carrots & gravy tonight.

Steak pudding with spuds and carrots for dinner and tea. Apple pie and evaporated milk for pudding at teatime.....



As I sat watching TV last night I had a ham hock on the stove. I boiled it once and then washed it to get rid of the salt and then allowed it to simmer slowly for four hours in water with vinegar and pepper. I tipped it out this morning as I was brewing my coffee and it's ready for de-fatting and boning.... Could be a straight ham butty day!

Cold Vegetable and Pasta Salad, with Marinted Chicken Skewers ( served on small plates to make us feel we are not dieting! And I even cut the wooden skewers down so they appeared to have more on them.)
Hubby has lost 3 kg since Christmas, so he is happy, though it was impossible to do the " one eighth of a dinner plate serve" that the doctor suggested.
I refuse to weigh myself so don't know if I have lost anything. Don't feel like I have...

Maz pic.....

I had enough spuds and carrots left to make two meals yesterday when some frozen peas were added to extend them. That took care of dinner and tea. Finished the last of the apple pies for pudding at teatime.... The meat off the hock of ham sits there in the fridge.....

Meat & potato pie tonight.

Had a ham and beetroot butty for dinner. At teatime I had a crust left off the loaf so I toasted it, cut it into pobs, put a can of baked beans and chopped ham on top and it made a good tea. I've just taken some caramelised onion and pork sausages out of the freezer......

Simmering chicken carcass with a view to making chicken soup - that will be two dinners, chicken sandwiches yesterday lunch and chicken soup tomorrow from a £4 chicken!
Lamb chops, roast potatoes & carrot & parsnip mash tonight.

'Jewish Penicillin' Moh!
I didn't want to start baking bread yesterday. I had some Maris Piper spuds and so I got 6 sausages out of the freezer, part grilled them for a bit of colour and them cooked them slowly on the stove on a bed of onions with the usual condiments. I cut the spuds in wedges and deep fried them as needed. So. Sausage casserole, wedges and peas X two for dinner and tea. Very tasty.... I shall go to the butcher's this morning, I don't like the look of tomorrow's weather! I was wrong last week but better safe than sorry.....

Chicken & leek soup for lunch, then I have a ham corner for tonight which I will roast and serve with chips & peas and use the rest for butties.