OneGuyFromBarlick

Shin beef, carrots & onions slow cooking to make a meat & potato pie.

You must have an old fashioned butcher Moh. You seem to be able to get all the cheap cuts the supermarkets don't bother with because their customers wouldn't know what they were. By the way, have you ever heard of a Lamb Henry? I hadn't until yesterday but Kath had some. I've never come across them before and evidently they are a small cut out of the shoulder.
I had lots of steamed green cabbage and swede left over so dinner and tea were both steak pudding, cabbage and swede. Maz will be pleased.....

Lamb henrys are very good but often have too much meat on for me. I use two butchers depending where we are - at home I go to the butchers on Lyndhurst Road or if we are out and about or coming & going to the caravan we call at Huntleys on Salmesbury.
Duck breasts, crushed potatoes & garden peas tonight with a bottle of white wine.

Small roast ham butties for dinner and tea while I built a stew using a ham hock and a pack of oxtail. These were de-fatted and boned, the gravy de-fatted by freezing and the stew reunited with peas carrots and sweet potato. Slow cooked on the stove for 4 hours and rested overnight. No cooking today!

Had roast lamb shoulder, roast potatoes & parsnips, broccoli, garden peas & mint gravy.

I took a chance and while I was adjusting the seasoning in the stew I chucked in a big spoonful of curry powder made up for me from individual spices by Gulam, my greengrocer who hails from the Punjab. Total success. Cold stew on what was left of the small loaf Kath gave me on Friday to make butties for dinner and then a big bowl of the real thing for tea. Lovely grub and dead easy!

Stew for dinner and tea. This avoiding carbohydrates is all very well but I succumbed to my craving for a fried egg on an oven bottom as an extra after tea. I think it was allowable.... Like all stews, this one improves daily.

Home made mince & onion pie, mashed potatoes & mashed carrot & swede.

Stanley wrote:This avoiding carbohydrates is all very well but I succumbed to my craving for a fried egg on an oven bottom as an extra after tea. I think it was allowable....

You are very much like Mary Berry from time to time Stanley. Next episode shows her proudly proclaiming (with a wink) that her triple layer Victoria Sponge cake with cream and jam at every level and on the top which is also garnished with fruit has absolutely no calories at all.

Well, she's slim enough.....
Stew X 2 for dinner and tea. The bowl at teatime was small so supplemented by two oven bottoms using one sausage and two fried eggs as filling. I do not feel guilty..... The stew had reached its peak! I love the way they get better and better.
I was thinking at teatime that apart from meat spit roasted on an open fire, 'a mess of pottage' must be one of the most ancient cooked meals.

Peri Peri chicken here tonight. Thanks to Maz for introducing me to this great sauce.

Ha! Liz! Hubby and I have been struck with a gastro virus ( still scratching our heads over where we got it but did visit a large shopping complex on Saturday and ate a Salad Meal).
So anything "spicy" fills me with dread at present.
Hubby seems to have recovered before me, and is happy to have lost a couple of kilos, and wanted a normal meal tonight. I'm a bit behind him and felt apprehensive when he requested Onion Gravy. ( I don't even feel like cooking let alone Onion Gravy!) I did try it and am still not sure about the state of play in regard to my "innards".
I regret to inform that, despite gastric troubles, I do not seem to have lost any weight....
and I find that quite annoying...

We have used peri peri (or as the Portuguese say piri piri) since we first visited Portugal in the early 1980s.
Other half of the meat pie with chips & mushy peas tonight.

We tried Mary Berry's roast cauliflower with a lemon & caper dressing together with trout fillet, green beans and sprouts. Very tasty.

Sounds yummy, Wendy.
Still slightly delicate in the tummy department. Can't think what will be suitable to eat...so I might leave it until this evening and see if anything takes my fancy. I am not particularly hungry anyway...and I shan't fade away!

Sorry to hear you have been hit by the Oz handicap Maz. Those bugs are the disadvantage of living in such a warm climate.....
I got the two small bowls of stew out of the freezer, augmented them with a tin of beans and some peas and had stew for dinner and tea. I weighed myself yesterday and found I had put a couple of pounds on. I am evidently slipping a bit and being too kind to myself. Action this day!

Chicken & prawn stir fry tonight with onions, peppers, oyster sauce, soy sauce & rice.

Have made a big pot of Vegetable Soup. Can't go wrong with that...

Wise choice Maz.... Get better soon.
I went to the butcher's yesterday dinnertime as I (rightly as it turns out) didn't like the way the weather was stacking up. So I had one small fried egg butty for dinner and two with pressed beef for tea.

Casserole steak with veg & mashed potatoes tonight. Just been to butchers and stocked up again in case we are snowed in. (they say it could last until Easter!!).

Young people don't think that way today Moh. As long as they can get to the local take-away they don't bother about food in the house. Dinosaurs like you and I could survive for months on what is in the cupboards. (Reminder, must get another sack of oatmeal and one of dried peas....)
I had pie and peas for dinner and two ham butties on extremely thin slices of bread from the small loaf Kath gave me on Thursday. (She looks after me.... She pointed out on Thursday that it's just a year since I gave her a shock by keeling over in the shop one Friday morning. She remembers it because it was the day before her daughter got married... Time flies!)

Between my walk-in Pantry and my chest freezer, I reckon we could survive a couple of months. I might need some long life milk (which I hate, but it does for camping and dire emergencies), but apart from that we would survive quite nicely.
I think we would run out of soap/toothpaste/toilet paper before we ran out of food.

Chicken and Leek Pie tonight...
Tummy has recovered!

Good! Take it easy for a day or two though.....

Chicken Kiev with chips tonight.

Steak pudding and chipped sweet potato for dinner. Two small roast ham butties with coleslaw for tea.