WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Stanley]

Daughter Janet turned up for a visit so I roasted a roiled rib of beef and they had beef butties on home made bread. So did I!

[Thomo]

In our family, this meal is known as "Loaves and Fishes". and it has more to do with feeding many quickly. But it can be scaled down for just two, nor does it have much to do with fish, as having spent hours cleaning main circ strainers on ships, and working underneath ships on hot days in dry dock, I am a bit fussy about fish! What we have here is this:- For two people, four pork sausages and four rashers rind-less middle bacon, grilled and cut into pieces, four eggs, scrambled, two crusts of brown bread and a number of good chipping potatoes, diced. Do the potatoes in the deep fat fryer and add the bread when the potatoes are nearly done. You need to have an ovenproof bowl hot and ready. Add all of the finished ingredients to the bowl and mix, on the table there should be a frame to stand the bowl on with a lit tea candle underneath, two hot plates and help yourself! Very tasty and filling.

[Stanley]

Simple yesterday, beef butty X 2. Enough left for the same today.... Just put a loaf in.

[Marilyn]

Sounds like an interesting dish, Thomo. (though we don't eat Pork...and I am not sure about the scrambled eggs with the Pork)
But that is just me and my funny old taste-buds. I am sure it is very enjoyable.
My 'loaves and fishes' meal is a combination of Rice and Veg and Chicken (and a heap of Chinese Spices) which I stick in my biggest oven dish and cover in foil. It cooks itself, smells great and tastes "wicked" according to the kids.
One pot to wash. Suits me...

[Stanley]

Ah, but who has to wash it?

[Stanley]

Beef butties and six small sultana scones for a treat!

[Marilyn]

Veggie, Beetroot and Cheese stuffed Spud. ( yum)

[Stanley]

Finished the rib on a butty for dinner and had a treat for tea, Sausage and poached egg on a Frisbee, bit too much but what the hell......

[Stanley]

Enjoying me butcher's bits! Haslet butty for dinner and steak pudding and peas for tea.

[Wendyf]

I had some spinach that needed using, so I tried yet another "River Cottage Veg" recipe for a sort of spinach and pasta souffle...it was delicious, but left loads and loads of pans, bowls, whisks etc to wash up afterwards.

[Marilyn]

SNAP!
I had a big bunch of Spinach to use too, so I steamed it and then made Ricotta Cheese and Spinach flans ( mini ones) for lunch...

[Thomo]

Individual steak pies, with crispy chips and cauliflower florets plus sumptuous gravy. The remainder of the gravy will surface again tonight as we are having a Turkey breast joint with roast and new potatoes, chopped carrots and swede, sprouts and pigs in waistcoats. Oh yes, and Yorkshire Puds.

[Stanley]

Half a cream cheese butty and a meat pie for dinner and Burger and beans on toast butty for tea. Fruit for pudding as usual...

[Stanley]

Rest of the beans and a poached egg on a butty for dinner and a smoked mackerel and egg butty for tea.

[Stanley]

Fish finger butty for dinner and a very thin jam butty for tea followed by an apple and a pear.

[Stanley]

Fish finger butty for dinner and a smoked mackerel butty for tea with fruit for pudding. A new loaf is working in the bread-making machine. I emptied the fat out of the deep fat fryer yesterday and if I tell the truth, about time! Will get some oil this morning.....

[Marilyn]

Am making Beef Strog tonight...one of son's favourites.
Also a large casserole dish full of various veg ( spuds, carrots, broccoli, zucchini, onion) cooking under a layer of buttered cabbage on a low oven heat.
Now it is all assembled and in the oven, I have done the dishes and have nothing to do for the next couple of hours except add the mushrooms and sour cream to the Stroganoff about twenty mins prior to serving.
Easy peasy meal. Smells divine.

[Stanley]

Decided on lard for the fryer. Bacon Butty for dinner and fish finger butty for tea with fruit and some black Kalamata olives.... Butcher's day today..... I like my goodies!

[Marilyn]

Kalamata Olives are ripening here at present...those who have bushes growing over their fences are getting some fruit dropping to the pavement and they are a bit of a hazard to pedestrians.
wish I had a bush. Might take a discreet cutting on one of my walks, as there are some bushes growing over the fences of homes marked for demolition. When they demolish the post war homes around here, EVERYTHING goes.
It would be nice if developers saved the mature trees and fruit trees. We only have one "butter-box" house left in our street now (timber clad post war bungalow)...

[Stanley]

They are lovely and very nice for you. Why not get permission to dig up a whole bush?
Had a good do at the butchers. Kathleen gave me a loaf that was going out of date and Stewart sold me a bunch of hogget chops and steaks for £4. They weren't moving very fast because the meat was unusually dark, he said the whole animal was like that and people don't trust their ability to judge meat. The darker the meat, the better the flavour. I can see some good hot pot coming out of them.
Had half the free loaf with Haslet for dinner and the other half with three sausages and an egg for tea. Ate a bit too much really because I was enjoying myself, will make up for it today.....

[Stanley]

Bacon and egg butty for dinner and a haslet and olives butty for tea.

[Marilyn]

Have crumbed some chicken breast strips in a spicy mix. I will fry them later. They will be served over a plate of veg and rice. Sweet and Sour sauce drizzled over. ( though I like a dob of sour cream with mine)

[Stanley]

Bitter cold this morning, have made porridge! Tea will be a bacon butty.

[Marilyn]

Small ( gourmet) Beef and Red Wine sausages...I could only eat one...they are pretty filling little things.
Febby couldn't even eat one. He came home from work sick this morning ( man flu type thingy. )He took one look at dinner and went back to bed with a tot of Whiskey!
Lucky our temporary resident son has a big appetite.
Might even get to watch what I want on TV tonight.....

[Stanley]

Tea was a bowl of stew out of the freezer and then half a butty of olives and cheese. From the look of the weather it's going to be stew again today, cold weather grub!