WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Marilyn]

I have to say that it depends on your definition of "pizza". It depends on the base. You can pack a lot of veggie goodness on a very thin base, and there are many types of thin bases ( even veggie bases).
I find pizza very filling and just a couple of slices is a meal sometimes.
I don't like mainstream takeaway pizzas that are all about the puffy yeasty base.
I've only eaten one pizza in UK...in a hotel...and it was disgusting. Put me off ordering pizza again.
If you take a homemade pizza apart and know what you have put on it ( I make my own pizza sauce)...the humble pizza gets a bad wrap that is undeserved.

I stand by my pizza as a wholesome and nutritious meal.

[Wendyf]

I'm sure your home made pizzas are very nutritious and delicious Maz.

[Marilyn]

(Sob...sniff...weep...sniff...dab eyes)
Thankyou Wendy. But it is true. I pack the veg in and on...no added salt...only use a spray of Olive Oil. Loads of herbs...
Everything you need and nothing you don't...
I really do defend my pizza.

But I can't say what our bad boy STANLEY has been eating.

[plaques]

Garden activity has brought me down to Stanley's fighting weight. 169 lbs. Time for more home made blueberry muffins and custard tarts. You can stick to your 'pressed felts' but I know which I prefer.

[Moh]

We had sweet & sour pork steaks - marinated in sweet chilli sauce & balsamic vinegar - dauphinoise potatoes & garden peas.

[Tripps]

Can I ask how you cooked the pork after marinading? Sounds like 'fusion' cooking.

[Marilyn]

Eggs Benedict. Delicious!
Cooked jointly...his nibs poached the eggs and I assembled the rest and poured the Hollondaise over everything once he had positioned the eggs.

[Wendyf]

Sounds yummy Maz. We had lightly battered fish with a few chips and mushy peas. A Friday night treat, but I can only manage half a fish and don't really enjoy the chips anymore. Pud was delicious though....cold stewed rhubarb with thick double cream.
Col goes food shopping on a Friday then calls at the Cemetery Chippy in Colne on his way home. I get a phone call when it's time to warm the plates and put the peas on...."I'm leaving the Cemetery now". I'm going to record it to play back for comfort when he's gone.

[Marilyn]

Yes, that is a good quote to tape.
We always shop together on a Saturday morning. ( always there before 9am and usually park in the same spot. We take it quite personally if we get there and find someone else parked in OUR spot!)
I can't eat more than a few chips these days. We buy the minimum, without salt, but always have too many to eat. I prefer them from the Air-fryer actually.

[Wendyf]

The dogs and hens benefit from our lack of enthusiasm for chips, one small portion feeds the whole "family".

[Stanley]

The pizzas I was getting were from the Co-op and quite a respectable ingredient list but they are now verboten. I cooked cabbage, onions and carrots and added fried lardons. That was the addition yesterday to a small pork pie for dinner and a rib eye steak for tea that had been marinading in Worcester Sauce, salt and pepper for two days because I forgot it was in the warming oven! I fried it in butter and can't describe how good it was!
By the way, I jumped on the scales for a check yesterday at the same hour of the day I did it when it shocked me and found it was 177 pounds, much better result! The other day must have been a glitch.....

[Stanley]

I had a cooking fest yesterday on free leccy. Mutton roasted, transferred to the slow cooker and deboned and defatted before the day was out. A bunch of dried peas converted to mushy peas and added to the cabbage, onions and bacon. Dinner and tea were both a scotch egg reinforced by the peas and cabbage.

[Stanley]

Mutton with peas and cabbage X 2 for dinner and tea. I confess to adding some 'baby Jersey Royals' (Much nicer that 'small misshapen spuds that didn't pass the grader') to the mutton. Strawberries and single cream for pudding at teatime.

[Marilyn]

Do you make your own Scotch Eggs?

[Tripps]

I got some Jersey Royals yesterday. I noticed they seem to have changed their marketing strategy. In previous years the first arrivals were sold loose, with skin and soil on, - now they are all washed and pre-packed. Good texture, but the flavour - not quite there. That could be down to me rather than the spuds though. Overall - good.

[Moh]

Trips - I put the pork chops in the oven basting them and turning them and they absorbed all the marinade and we tender & tasty.
We had roast pork, apple sauce, mediterranean veg. & roast potatoes on Sunday - last night was cold pork with cauli. taking the place of the mixed veg.

[Stanley]

Maz, no because my butcher sells excellent ones that I couldn't do any better.
I had mutton X 2 for dinner and tea and the last of the strawberries and cream for pudding.

[Marilyn]

Alaskan Red Salmon tonight.

[Stanley]

Two part bowls of mutton for dinner and tea. I allowed myself Stilton and oatcakes and an apple for pudding.....

[Moh]

Meat & potato pie.

[PanBiker]

Our Jack comes round for tea tonight, we will be having Hunters Chicken, Jersey Royals and roasted vegetables, a glass of red to accompany.

[Stanley]

Last of the mutton for dinner. Cod and peas with two eggs for tea and Stilton for afters.

[Moh]

As we had our kitchen painted yesterday and there was a smell of paint we went to the Ram Inn at Cliviger for tea. We both had the Scampi which was very nice with a bottle of Merlot to wash it down.

[Stanley]

I must have had a funny turn yesterday in the butcher's, when I got home I was surprised to find that instead of two Scotch Eggs I had two pork pies! So I had pie and mushy peas for dinner and pie and baked beans for tea.....

[Moh]

We had hake cooked in butter with Morecambe Bay shrimps, garden peas and what were supposed to be Jersey potatoes - I don't think they had seen Jersey.