OneGuyFromBarlick

Pork pie with beans for dinner. Like Moh I had the slow cooker going. Leg of mutton on onions. For tea I had two oven bottoms with meat and one with a fried egg on. de-fatted the mutton and added veggies, we have a warming stew building!

Roast chicken, apple sauce, roast potatoes, carrots, leeks in a white sauce & gravy.

The stew is wonderful, it would raise dead men. Had it for dinner and tea and there are three bowls in the fridge as ready use ammunition.....

I had two small fried egg butties on Borgen for dinner and a small bowl of stew augmented with peas for tea. Russet apples for pudding after both, my favourite apple and they are magnificent this year. The only problem is that they are not keepers and their season is short. If an apple a day keeps the doctor away I am all right thank you!

I mashed smoked mackerel fillets and had them on Borgen Butties for dinner. A bowl of mutton stew for tea, one bowl still in the fridge as a new mutton stew develops in the slow cooker!



November cooking! 3 onions, a leg of mutton and three bags of broth bits. The mutton has been de-boned and shredded and it is all arguing quietly with itself in the slow cooker with the usual condiments. This would raise dead men and conforms with Wendy's strictures, no carbs in it at all!

Plenty carbs in root veg Stanley! We do use the odd carrot or swede but have to be careful with the amount, they spike Colin's blood sugar. I use celery and leeks to fill out a stew.

Hubby doesn't like Celery, but I use Leeks and Zucchini to pad things too...and I always scrub the Zucchini and chop it with skin on ( because there is always suspicious digs on Zucchini skins...they are fragile..but I worry what the picker had under his fingernails!)

I have a chicken carcase in the pan to make soup. Chilli, jacket potato (hubby), garlic bread for me.

Step-son popping in for a late lunch, so I shall make Pizza.

We had a meal at a country pub last Friday night (whilst away in the van). It was passable, but not the best. (It didn't help that D ordered Crumbed Prawns and they bought him a plate of Garlic Prawns! Can you imagine our reaction?! Neither of us can stand Garlic...and we had checked when we ordered our meals that there was no garlic in either of the dishes we ordered.) Out came the "chef" (shifty looking character) and the manager to investigate.
turned out it was the manager's fault. he said he pressed the wrong button on his screen. Hubby's dinner was replaced with the right one, but by then I had finished mine.
Manager kept hovering, and we began to talk about food in general, then how prices of things had risen due to the recent floods...particularly the price of potatoes (which were already steep and are now pretty much at luxury prices).
"Doesn't bother me" replied the manager. "I get potatoes cheap because I only buy the green ones that no one else buys."
(oh really...well that put me off the potato salad for a start...but it had some really weird flavours in it so I had already decided it wasn't for me.)
"Yes...they don't hurt people" he said.
"Unless you are a pregnant woman!" I replied. "You do know they are harmful to pregnant women?"
No...he had never heard that...
I also asked him about the crumb coating on my Chicken, as some of them have Garlic in them. He said he used one without (phew) but only because he noticed the one containing Garlic took on a strange smell if the meat had been crumbed a few days in advance! That turned my stomach...wondering which day this week my Chicken had been crumbed!
(Taxi !!!!)
It was about then that I heard a customer ordering Garlic Prawns at the counter. Guess she got hubby's reject meal!
This pub was as dodgy as!

Oh dear Wendy..... never mind, a lot of green in it. That sounds like the meal from hell Maz. Lots to be said for home cooking!
I had mutton stew for dinner and tea..... Boring for some I know but I like it and it's warming! Plenty of apples.

I put three of the bowls of mutton stew in the freezer so I could have the luxury of a different taste! I had Mutton stew for dinner and an apple but treated myself to an enhanced Co-op £3 pizza for tea. I pushed the boat out and got a piece of rolled beef rib at the butcher's this morning. £11 but we all need a treat every now and again. I can see some good old fashioned beef butties later today and bugger the carbohydrates!

Home made fishcakes - made with cod loin.

The rib was beautiful! I had three small butties on thin sliced wholemeal bread for dinner made with the beef straight out of the oven and rested. I wasn't really hungry at teatime so I just had two small pork pies, some cheese on biscuits and fruit for tea.

Sirloin steak, grilled tomatoes, onion rings & chips with a bottle of Malbec.

I love seeing what you are feeding Fred! He is a very lucky man!
I lifted the fat off the gravy from the rib roast and dropped the gravy on top of a bowl of mutton stew I had in the fridge. That made a lovely dinner. For tea I had three small butties with beef and mustard. Even though I say it myself I made a good job of roasting it the old fashioned way in the oven with no covering. Russet apples for pudding, I love 'em!

A bowl of the mutton stew for dinner and a Russet. Beef butties for tea and cheese on biscuits with more Russets for pudding. I fear I am enjoying my food too much. The waistband of my trousers tells me I should be eating less. It's a bugger isn't it!

Spicy Beef Noodles tonight.
Tea towels at the ready to tuck under chins...

We had roast pork with crackling on, apple sauce, s & o stugging, roast potatoes, brussels & gravy last night - same again tonight with the meat cold.

Chicken Stew and Dumplings...

I extended a bowl of stew in the fridge into two smaller helpings. I had one for dinner and for tea had two small Borgen butties with spicy mackerel filling. Fruit for pudding!

I had a steamed cauliflower for dinner with grated Parmesan cheese and an apple for pudding. Tea was a small bowl of mutton stew and more apples!

Suet pudding, chip & mushy peas tonight.

I will make Pizza.
Friends in town for a few days and they are popping in this arvo for Coffee and Cake.
If they linger, I shall do Pizza for 4, but I've thrown a bit of Piri Piri (hot) into my special Pizza Sauce, so I shall allow them to decline gracefully if it is not their kind of taste. ( some folk are lightweights when it comes to Chilli).

Book me down as a 'lightweight'. I am very sensitive to chilli and have to use it sparingly. The worst experience I ever had with it was when I had tortilla chips and dip in a cafe in California. I had just eaten an apple and my mouth must have been perfectly clean. The effects lasted for hours!
I boiled carrots and mashed them and used the result to extend a small bowl of the mutton stew. I had the result for dinner and tea.

Steak & veg. casserole with dumplings & mashed potatoes.