OneGuyFromBarlick

Made a sausage, onion, beans and garlic casserole and fished three of the twelve small sausages out with some onions for a sausage butty for tea. Casserole will go down well today after 24 hour's maturing and I fancy little boiled potatoes with it.

Boiled spuds and sausage casserole for dinner. Chip butty and a meat pie for tea with fruit for pudding.

Sirloin steak, chips & onion rings for tea with salad on the side. Just picked our eating apples, we have 2 cooking apples on our other tree. Usually we have a glut which I freeze etc. and give away, but not this year. Our neighbour's tree is the same and a crab apple tree down the lane, which was full last year, has none on. We went to a pick-your-own on Thursday and they said it was a bad year for damsons because the bee poulation was down, so no pollenating.

Same with our pear tree Moh, loads last year, so many that we had to give them to jam a chutney making friends once we had filled our freezer. We have two pears on the tree this year and those are quite small compared to last years examples.

Lived on sausage casserole and boiled spuds all day......

Tea was a disaster nothing was right on the main course had to make up with a pudding Eileen

Roast Duck tonight not decided on the sauce yet, nor the accompaniments - rhubarb crumble and custard for hubby.

Hard luck Eileen! Finished the sausage casserole yesterday. When you live on your own you have to get used to eating the same thing for several meals or else live on snacks.....

Stew for tea last night cooked all day in the slow cooker. Eileen

I had a first last night. During the day I had been quietly soaking a batch of dried peas destined to go with the two ham hocks when I have cooked them to make some ham and pea soup. They had got to the stage where they were almost soft and smelt of peas and I quite fancied some so I toasted the last thick crust of the loaf, spooned some peas and liquor on to it and topped it with two poached eggs. Looked good and tasted even better. Not a combination I have tried before but it works. Ham hocks will be rendered down today in the PC and the fat taken off before adding to the peas.....

Still on the soup.....( getting terribly tedious)
But hubby has now lost 4 kilos in the last fortnight and I feel a bit slimmer but have not lost a pound.
Made a 'two night' pot of Soup again today, but think I am going to have to bust loose and eat a proper meal the following night after that, before my teeth lose the ability to chew...

"What did you have for tea" ( literally )
I have treated myself to an order from Twinings Tea mail order. - Very quick delivery.
Started with a box of Yunnan tea bags - result of watching a TV programme about the area in S. China where the tea comes from. I think member chinatyke lives somewhere nearby? Well it's different! Quite a strong smokey taste. Might take a bit of getting used to.
Next Ceylon Orange Pekoe. Very nice flavour. I'm a bit out of practice at the tea pot with leaf tea routine though.
Finally a large tin of everyday breakfast tea. That was a bargain as its sell by date is November so half price.
The tins are works of art - so I won't be able throw them away - more junk in the cupboard.

Minted lamb shanks, new potatoes & cauli. tonight.

Ham and pea soup. Sticks to your ribs and does wonders for the bowels!

We had a choice last night of Lasagne and salad or Bombay chicken with rice, followed by Apple tart and fresh cream or Pineapple with whipped fromage fraise. Food to rich for the other half he was up half the night with indigestion now he's still in bed. Gives me time to catch up on OGFB Eileen

It's going to be ham and pea soup for a while! Beefed up with boiled spuds to make it even cheaper. I will freeze some after I give it a good boiling up today.

last night was steak night. I am not fond of steak but can't deprive Dave so I had a tin of Tuna. We had it with potato wedges peas, baby asparagus and side salad. For pudding I had tiramisu and Dave had a Ile de float. Eileen

I gave my visitor a sirloin steak sandwich but was a good boy and continued with the current project, finishing the bloody ham and pea soup!

Ham and pea finished! (Must make smaller quantities!) Light tea of currant bread with apricot conserve and Lancashire cheese with fruit for pudding! Nice change...... I fancy a bacon butty for dinner!

Bacon, tomato and egg butty for dinner, banana butty with fruit for pudding for tea.

Bacon butty at dinnertime. Two poached eggs on toast and ripe plums for pudding.

Last crust off the loaf toasted with a tin of baked beans and two poached eggs. Economy is the Household Mint! (baked beans 25p, eggs 10p each)

Stew cooked in the slow cooker. Only way to cook the meat over here Eileen

Cheap cuts cooked slowly beat expensive steak any day Eileen! I had two meat pies and cheese on oatcakes with an apple for pudding.

The stew was the cheapest cuts available over here. Bourguignon meat which was shin made a good stew. I have been having Turkey steak, but Dave has tried the steak bit tough. The cut the meat across the grain here strange as our old butcher said meat shouldn't be cut that way. Also the meat is bovine not beef? Last night we had Chicken & Potato wedges and almond croissant for pudding. Eileen