WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Bacon and egg butty for dinner, half the casserole and mash for tea.

[Stanley]

Boring I know but the same as yesterday!

[Stanley]

Stew out of the freezer and an Eccles Cake for dinner. Cheese and tomato relish butty for tea.

[hartley353]

Two large barm cakes with bacon and wild mushrooms, followed later by roasted chestnuts collected whilst mushrooming.

[Stanley]

Another frozen stew for dinner, bacon and egg butty for tea.

[Stanley]

Bacon butty for dinner and frozen stew for tea. Only one frozen stew to go! Butcher's day today so treats are on the horizon....

[Marilyn]

Made a Beef Rogan Josh Curry...Jasmine Rice...and Herb Bread.

[Marilyn]

Am thinking along the lines of a salad, with Deep Fried Calamari ( squid). A small dish of Tartare Sauce on the side and some crusty bread. Possibly a nice glass of vino...possibly enjoyed under the Wisteria covered verandah as we watch the sun set.
Should be a lovely sunset tonight...if last night is anything to go by.

[Stanley]

Pressed beef butty for diner and pie and peas for tea beefed up with some chopped haslet as I bought quite a large lump to tidy up Kath's cooked meat section....

[Stanley]

Haslet butty for dinner. I hit the sack of dried peas and made some splendid pease pudding and had that with the last of the haslet and a meat pie for tea. Lots to be said for good pease pudding! (It's cheap as well....)

[Stanley]

Sausage and chips with pease pudding X 2 for dinner and tea.

[EileenDavid]

Peri Peri chicken and rice. Eileen

[Stanley]

Burgers and caramelised onion with pease pudding and mashed potatoes X 2 for dinner and tea.

[Marilyn]

An easy night. Baked Beans for him, and Spaghetti for me.

[Bruff]

Nights are drawing in, and so last night was the first outing this autumn and coming winter for one of our favourite stand-bys this time of year: lentil and mushroom gratin. Have been doing this for years - easy, filling and warming. Can we do recipes? I will anyway:

Chop up a carrot and celery stick and small onion into small pieces and sweat in a little oil. Add red lentils. Stir for 30s and then add boiling water to cover lentils and then cook 'till they soften. Add a little more water if it's too thick/burning, but you do need the mix to be thickish. Season a little. Then slice up a load of mushrooms and cook in butter in a separate pan. When done add chopped parsley and garlic and season this well.

Then in an oven proof dish, layer the lentils, then layer all the mushrooms, then finish with a layer of lentils. Top with grated cheddar. Pop in oven and bake for 20mins of thereabouts. Done.

Serve with greens (any) and the magic ingredient.............lots of tomato ketchup!

Tonight - a garlicky, chicken broth with beans and greens

Richard Broughton

[Marilyn]

( minus the garlic) , I find recipe interesting.
Am trying to think of another flavour I could use instead of the garlic..

[Tripps]

"Then slice up a load of mushrooms"
Would that be a metric load or an imperial load?
I've got the ingredients - I'll give it a go. Seems a bit like the red bean and carrot thing I did a while ago. That was OK.

[Bruff]

A 'load' is one of my standard measurements. Along with 'a bit of', 'some' 'a handful', and 'half a bag of'. As I'm not the baker in the family (that's Mrs Bruff), I can generally get away with it.............(fingers permanently crossed!!)

If you try it, remember: ketchup. Oh, and it's good made a day or two in advance.

Marilyn - the heavy 'hit' of garlic chucked in at the end of the mushroom cooking is quite integral to this for me. I'd struggle to think of a subsitute as garlic's well, garlic. Do you not like it at all? You could tone it right down and just chuck a clove in and then fish it out after a stir or two. The green bit of a spring onion might be OK. Or you could add a few drops of soy to the lentils.

I should start a new thread - 'Bruff''s Recipe of the Week'.......only joking. Actually, didn't we have one of those?

Richard Broughton

[PanBiker]

We have the Cooking thread here:

Cooking

[Stanley]

I don't see anything wrong with recipes in this thread.....
Still eating my way through the pease pudding and mash. The added ingredient yesterday was a black pudding and at teatime I fortified it with a fried egg. Some of both still left.... Penalty of cooking industrial quantities when you are a singleton!

[David Whipp]

As a veggie, will try out Richard's recipe.

I made a large batch of three bean chilli on Sunday (which went in the freezer as 6 meals), a lasagne (which we ate on Sunday and Monday) and a broccoli soup (Sunday dinner). In all, about two hours on the stove.

I had to stand in at the Rainhall Centre reception due to staff illness at tea time yesterday.

Alison had made tea when I got home; a frozen pizza...

[hartley353]

Smoked Haddock poached in milk and butter accompanied by two slices of brown bread and butter Delicious,but I will have to live with the kitchen odour today.

[Stanley]

Margaret and Mick brought an enormous portion of fish and chips for lunch. I had strawberries and evaporated milk for tea....

[Stanley]

On Thursday I took stock of what needed to be eaten. So, cooked two pork chops, stripped the meat off and put in a pan (with the gravy) together with some mashed potatoes, the remains of the pease pudding, a tin of beans, some lentils, a bag of broth bits and the usual seasoning. It became a very good thick stew/soup and did two meals yesterday and one today. Waste not want not! Butcher's day today so it will be treats!

[David Whipp]

Well after 6pm when we got back from Southport yesterday. Apparently following her mother's lead Lucy had made some small pizzas at school, which we had for tea.