OneGuyFromBarlick

Sausage and veggies X two for breakfast and tea.
A culinary tip for those of you who don't like sprouts because of unfortunate experiences in childhood. The new season's sprouts are just coming in and are superb. They are nothing like the sprouts of 50 years ago. The plant breeders have been at work and if cooked properly the sprouts are like small sweet cabbages. By 'properly' I mean as little as possible, just dropped into boiling salted water for a minute or two will do. And don't cut crosses in the stalk, just cut the dry cut stem off them. Well worth trying, you could be missing out.

Have you tried steamed sprouts? Delicious! ( I do cut crosses on the bottom and put them in the steamer with the bottoms down when steaming). Sprouts aren’t very nice here at this time of year of course. They are way too big and are £7 a kilo.

I almost always steam sprouts but occasionally do them the old-fashioned way. Not everyone has a steamer.
The best sprouts of the lot are dropped into the salted water with the frost still on them from the garden. That's how my old gaffer Lionel Gleed used to cook them when I was farming in Warwickshire.

I think I could eat sprouts any way you want to cook them. I love Cabbage and almost any veg. But I think steaming is my favourite method, with all veg. ( I even steam frozen baby peas and pumpkin...added to other steamed veg just 10 mins before serving).

Sausage and veggies twice for breakfast and tea. I cooked a new starter batch of veggies and will be veggie shopping later today.

Hog-roast pork and apple burgers and veggies X two for breakfast and tea. Very nice, I shall try them again.

Yesterday was a burger day, burger and fried tomato for breakfast and Burger and Egg with veggies for tea. I did my veggie cooking in the afternoon.

Burger and two eggs for breakfast. Steak pudding and veggies for tea.

Same as yesterday. Burger and two eggs for breakfast. Steak pudding and veggies for tea.

Meat pie and veggies for breakfast and tea.

Sausage and eggs for breakfast and sausage and veggies for tea.

Thai inspired Veg Soup with Prawns...bloody marvellous if I may brag! Contained Ginger, Chilli and Curry Powder. Simply wonderful, though you can’t see the Prawns as they settled to the bottom before I could take the pic...

Sausage and veggies X two for breakfast and tea.

Sausage and fried egg with veggies for breakfast and tea.
At the moment I am roasting Pigs in Blankets which are my Xmas roast!

A quick drink with just one neighbour...then our Christmas meal...pretty good for two Diabetics!

Looks good enough to eat....

Well, neither of us could eat it all...and Christmas is no different. Our kids could eat that as an entree....but we don’t have big appetites. I hope to see other folks Christmas dinners...

Pigs in blankets.... Just having two for breakfast. They are lovely and so is the gravy!

Enjoy the rest of them!

The tray of starters that kept on giving, there were chicken skewers, tandoori fish, chicken pakoras, spicy lamb kebabs, fish pakoras, a pepper stuffed with very tender bits of lamb and some veg and salad to keep it healthy
After a bit of a rest we moved onto mains, a keema balti, chicken tikka and some mixed veggies.
No room for any tea so just a whisky and sugar free lemonade, as it's Christmas.

I had two Xmas Dinners, one for breakfast and one for tea. Both of them Pigs in Blankets and veggies.

Quiche and Salads...

I had two Xmas dinners again for breakfast and tea. I have cooked a ham shank, defatted, skinned and boned it and the meat is back in the gravy with the onions and frozen mixed veggies. That'll go nicely with the cooked veggies in the fridge.

Cooler weather tonight, so Spicy Beef Noodles, with lots of Chilli...and Chinese 5 spice.
I must add that today we had another long uphill walk, so we felt we earned extra calories!

The ham and veggies with extra veggies for breakfast and tea. Why is it that the best tasting ham always come from the hock?