WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Guess what? Cabbage soup. It's good stuff and will end today.

[EileenDavid]

Cabbage soup eh, one of weight watchers favourites. Last night chicken curry using up the leftovers from the roast dinner. Eileen

[Moh]

Steak puddin, chips & mushy peas - just the sort of food for this weather.

[Stanley]

Not the way I make iot Eileen, every bowl a complete meal! Finished cabbage soup for dinner and had ham and pea soup out of the freezer for tea. Butcher's day today but nothing fatty!

[Moh]

Wendy's chicken with fennel & tarragon tonight.

[Stanley]

Pressed beef butty for dinner, small meat pie for tea with fruit. Doc commented yesterday that I looked a bit more streamlined! Fancy porridge for dinner, it's a cold morning!

[EileenDavid]

Lightly battered fish with half portions of chips and peas. Took the batter off. Dave and I were fancying porridge now it's getting colder. Eileen

[Marilyn]

A very cold pasta salad is chilling in the fridge.
I've made chicken torpedoes to have with it ( long, thin strips of chicken breast which I have crumbed and will fry, then throw through the salad). Served with a cold glass of Beer.
Too warm here today to eat much.

[Stanley]

Black pudding and egg butty for dinner, bowl of frozen ham and pea soup for tea. I put a little joint, rib of Dexter Beef, in the oven last night on a slow roast. It's just right this morning and I have a loaf baking. Guess what today will bring!

[Marilyn]

How long does it take to eat a bowl of frozen soup?

Guess it is a beef butty for you today...

[Stanley]

Not long Maz, I'm hot stuff.
Yup, just cleaned the gravy and fat out of the roasting tin, it's in the fridge and when the fat sets I can lift it off. Loaf will be cooked in an hour.... All is well!

[Moh]

Lamb chop, new potatoes and cauliflower cheese tonight - fancied a change from a roast. Got some lovely meat from the Roosters farm shop at Fence on Friday.

[Stanley]

Had a warm beef butty at dinnertime and it must have been filling, only had fruit at teatime!

[EileenDavid]

Roast chicken plenty of cabbage and carrots and a few roasted potatoes. Roast white meat and plenty of veg is one of the least calorie meals its the roasted potatoes but we dry roast them sometimes not as good but a great substitute. Eileen

[Moh]

chilli con carne & jacket potatoes.

[Marilyn]

Plate of Salad, with a small piece of grilled Tasmanian Salmon on top....which was ever so yummy.
Not eating much on these hot days. Will have something similar tonight.

[Stanley]

Porridge at dinnertime and a thin beef butty for tea. Definitely eating less..... Roll on the new wardrobe, all the clothes I haven't been able to wear for a while!

[Moh]

Did not make the chill last night, we had gammon egg & chips instead. Tonight is liver & onions with mustard mash.

[Stanley]

Moh, you are a shining example of a woman who believes in traditional cooking! You make my moth water at times, now then, Liver and Onions....
I had the last of the rib in a butty at dinnertime and for tea had a butty made with tomatoes grilled in olive oil.

[Stanley]

Last of the tomato spread with a heggy on top in a butty for dinner and a nice piece of rump steak casseroled with onions (Moh set me off on this with her liver and onions...) and eaten in a butty at teatime. Several butties left in this one yet so I've put another loaf in.

[Stanley]

Cold casserole on a butty for dinner and hot portion with peas for tea. Still enough left for today....

[EileenDavid]

Stanley you really are frugal, we had different meals last night Dave had gammon I had a jacket potato with Tuna Mayo filling. Eileen

[Moh]

We do enjoy tradional meals (especially at this time of year - need good warm meals to keep the body warm)) but I also enjoy experimenting some times.
Plaice, new potatoes and parsley sauce tonight.

[Stanley]

Eileen, I suppose I am but I enjoy my food and the habit of feeding as cheaply as possible suits me, it's a form of control I suppose and also a hangover from the war when we were satisfied with very little. Yesterday I had the last of the beef casserole with rice at dinnertime and at teatime I had a lovely pressed beef butty with my own tomato relish. When Doc had done the light in the kitchen I rewarded him with a little spoonful of it and it was good to see his face! It took him a moment to christen it but he thought it was so good he asked me how I made it and he's going to make his own version. If you want to try it here's how to make it.

Melt some butter in a small grill pan with a spoonful of mint sauce on it. Slice three large tomatoes and lay them face up in the pan. Sprinkle of molasses sugar, good sea salt, plenty of pepper and then drizzle with Worcestershire sauce. Grill till the edges are turning black, basting it once then turn the tomatoes over and grill the other side. Let it cool under the grill so it thickens and then have a taste! I promise your tadte buds will do a little jig!

[Marilyn]

Willing to give that recipe a go Stanley. Not keen on Mint Sauce, but will follow it faithfully.
What do you do with it when cool...blitz it, squash it with a fork and mash it...or leave it chunky?
And how long would it keep ( a question I dread to ask, because I am sure you will tell me you keep it for years!)

Treated myself to a copy of " Mrs Beetons Book Of Household Management" the other day. A reprint of course, though I have had the pleasure of examining a very old copy of the same. No doubt she will have a recipe for Mint Sauce, and I have Mint growing in the garden.