WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

What is it?

[Marilyn]

The master enjoyed the Gnocchi. ( possibly more than I did as I wasn't that hungry).
We sit now, finishing our glass of wine, before doing the washing up.
( phew...belly bulging...) ate too much...though I left about a third of it.

[Big Kev]

What is it?

Consult the oracle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnocchi

[Marilyn]

Sorry...thought everyone knew what Gnocchi was!
Made with cooked Potato/Flour/Egg (and a lot of spinach in my version...lots of Spinach!) you mix the mashed spud, flour, egg, spinach into a ball, and roll it into a sausage shape. Chop the sausage into half inch segments and boil them for a few mins. They float when they are done. Then chuck them in your sauce.
Served with a minced beef/tomato sauce. Not a huge amount of meat in mine as I only use 150g of Beef Mince ( I can feed 4 people with that amount of minced beef in a tomato/veg based sauce!.) Cheese melted on top.
Rather delicious but slightly "belly busting".

[Marilyn]

I am contemplating making a Chicken Curry tonight.

[Stanley]

Thanks for the explanation. Too much carb, Wendy would kill me!
Black pudding and beans for dinner. Scotch Egg and beans for tea. I'm eating too many nuts!

[Big Kev]

Too much carb, Wendy would kill me!

Unless the carbs got you first

[Wendyf]

I've resigned from my advisory role!

[Big Kev]

I've resigned from my advisory role!

[Stanley]

Oh no she hasn't! Anyway, I was saying I wouldn't be trying the recipe.
Dinner yesterday was one medium Cumberland sausage and two fried eggs. Tea was another sausage with peas and olives, fairly safe there on the carbs front I think!

[Big Kev]

Eggs, bacon, sausage, black pudding, mushrooms and tomatoes in my house last night, it went down very well with a bucket of tea

This is the bit that went in the oven, the bacon went under the grill and the mushrooms were fried in a bit of salted butter. The eggs fried in 'first press' rapeseed oil.

[Stanley]

Proper Full English.......
I wasn't hungry at dinnertime and so just had some nuts to cushion my Metformin. Tea was exactly the same as yesterday, sausage olives and peas.

[Marilyn]

Made another "2 night" pot of Chicken and Veg Soup.

[Stanley]

I did a repeat of yesterday, just a nibble for dinner and sausage and peas for tea. I know, not very imaginative.....

[PanBiker]

I have some sausages that will be morphed into a sausage and beanie thing for Jack and myself for tea. Chief cook and bottle washer today, Sally is away in Leeds on a WASPI crusade and will not be home for tea.

[Stanley]

I had a large Spanish onion that needed using so I fried it up, added bacon bits and a tin of chopped tomatoes and made a nice bowl of thick savoury sauce. Very tasty.....
I had a nut nibble and a pill for dinner and for tea I had battered cod with peas and a slug of the onion, bacon and tomato. Lovely....... Having nothing but a small handful of nuts for 20 hours sounds crazy I know but it seems to suit me! Could I be an android?

[Marilyn]

Stuffed Red Capsicums tonight. I've made the filling with Onion, 100g Minced Beef, ripe Tomatoes, Chilli, Italian Herbs, Spinach and a dash of HP Sauce. Threw about a tablespoon of rice into the mix too. ( way to much filling for the Capsicum I bought, which I shall cut in half, fill with the mix, throw some shaved Parmesan on and into the oven.) Not sure what to have with it yet...( possibly Baby Peas and some Crinkle Cut Chips.)
after 2 nights of Veg Soup, I think I've earnt the few Chips!) I'm not hungry today, but the old tummy keeps rumbling..

[Stanley]

Funny thing that Maz, my stomach never rumbles...... But I still eat too much!
I had a steak pudding and peas for dinner and as a consequence wasn't hungry enough to eat all my tea which was a rerun of yeaterday, BaTTERED COD, MIXED VEGGIES AND A SLUG OF TOMATO, BACON AND ONION. (Bugger caps lock!)

[Stanley]

I just nibbled for dinner, a few nuts. During the day I was cooking in the slow cooker. I bought the closest thing to a ready meal you'll ever see me tolerate at Kath's on Friday. Ready prepared meat balls in tomato sauce. I cooked carrots and steamed sprouts and added them to the meat balls in the cooker with a tin of chopped tomatoes. By teatime this was ready and so I put some of the gravy and some veggies with the half bowl of battered cod I couldn't eat last night and gave it a good boil up! It was lovely and I hadn't wasted anything.
The sprouts were bit of a surprise at Chaudrey's but they are lovely if a bit out of season.

[Marilyn]

You do push culinary boundaries, Stanley. ( left over Fish in with Beef Meatballs?)
I struggle with your decisions at times!)

[Stanley]

Maz, my mind goes back to wartime when we hadn't got a fridge. Any left overs were always used again and we survived. The left overs were in the fridge at the right temperature and I gave them a good boil before using them. on balance fairly safe I think and I hate waste! As for fish with meat, try putting Anchovies in a stew sometime, they give a wonderful deep flavour..... Sardines do the same thing but not as powerful.
I had a steak pudding on its own for dinner and a bowl of the meat ball stew for tea, I had put the remains of the tomato, onion and bacon sauce in it, it was superb!

[Stanley]

I cooked more carrots and sprouts yesterday and added them to the slow cooker. I had a small bowl of veggies only for dinner and at teatime I had a bowl of the stew and it was lovely. The veggie content is very high now and it fulfils all the low carb criteria I think. I think I have enough for the next three days!

[Stanley]

The veggie stew X two for dinner (half a bowl) and tea. Some nuts for a filler. I note that my nuts are 17% carbs..... A price worth paying I think for the nutritional value.

[Marilyn]

Is this the same stew you put the left over fish in ( with the Beef) three days ago?

I do worry about you...

[Stanley]

No no no! Keep up Maz, this is the meat ball based stew. Actually after extensions it's almost vegetarian now..... Mind you, only good for sprout lovers!