OneGuyFromBarlick

My lunch with the bacon and cheese in a couple of spatchcocked croissants was different, sweet and savoury together, acceptable and filled a hole.

Our trustees dining out at the Tempest was a different kettle of fish. I had a starter of pigs in blankets with brown sauce. My mains was a buttermilk chicken burger and triple fried chips. The burger was enough actually without the chips. I passed on a pudding.

Yesterday I was faced with the last of the chicken and veggies so I had a salad on teacake for lunch from Babs at Barlic bites and saved one lot of chicken and veggies for today. I did some veggies shopping at Chaudrey's and of course it's Co-op early doors today so I shall have a veggie cooking day.....

I had my veggie cooking day and so breakfast was Sausages and baked beans, the rest of the day was fresh veggies.
Today is chicken roasting.....

Scotch egg and veggies X three. Today is the first chicken day.

Off to The Barlick Raj, it's been over 10 days so I'm getting withdrawal symptoms

It will be Pea and Ham soup with dumplings, proper Winter fuel food for us tonight.

Chicken and veggies X three....

Guess what.... Chicken and veggies X three, lovely and so easy. 4 minutes in the microwave for each meal....

Guess what! It gets better each day. It takes me 5 minutes to portion out three meals and as I said before, 4 minutes in the microwave and I have a hot substantial meal.

Chicken and veggies X three.

Chicken and veggies yesterday. Today will be the last of them and cooking a fresh batch of vegetables for the next week.

I think I will make a home made chicken curry tonight.

All the ingredients for a full English in the fridge here, just need to decide if it'll be lunch or tea.

It was lunch

The last of the chicken and veggies and forbidden fruit, a reduced price expensive Pizza from the Co-op. (They are quite good actually....)

Beef burger egg and veggies for breakfast and tea. Straight veggies for dinner.

Barlick Raj Buffet for Christmas lunch with P and middle offspring and then a brew at eldest offspring's house to follow, most enjoyable. Off to Harrogate tomorrow for lunch with youngest offspring.

A nice quiet day on my own with chicken and veggies for breakfast and tea and a Scotch Egg and veggies for lunch.

Family get together at Silsden. A couple in "The Counting House" pub with friends which has new landlords in the old bank. Then at our Carla's for a traditional Christmas Dinner (Teatime), present openings and games with the kids.

Chicken and veggies X three.....

That's right, you've guessed it and it gets better as the week goes on..... I'm so lucky I am so easily satisfied. I put it down to being reared under rationing when we were grateful for anything and ate all that was put in front of us!

Chicken and veggies X three and today I put my order in for my New Year chicken!

We had a roast pork dinner last night for our two kids and grandchildren. There is an odd slice of pork left which I think I will turn into a rissole for tea. We have few spuds so I can chuck the whole lot in the air oven.

Haven't seen 'rissoles' used for a long time.

I was fed what was called rissoles in childhood, but mine were really a beef burger with just minced beef and onion - no potato and breadcrumbs etc. Wiki says for UK -

In Great Britain during and after World War II, rissoles were typically an economy measure, made from cooked meat remaining from the Sunday roast dinner. They are not pastry-covered. Rissoles are sold in chip shops in south Wales, north-east England, and Yorkshire. Rissoles and chips are a common choice of meal. These rissoles are meat (typically beef), or fish in Yorkshire, mashed up with potato, herbs, and sometimes onion. They are coated in breadcrumbs or less frequently battered and deep-fried.[2]

Spuds will be oven chips, my rissole will be minced roasted pork, onion and an egg to bind it all together. I have a spare pork sausage as well which I might as well cook and have a piggy fest.

I will be baking a spud in the air fryer (8 mins in the microwave, 10 mins in the air fryer at 200C). We'll have half each topped off with some chilli (leftovers from last week) and some grated cheese.