What have you baked/cooked today?

Nothing - totally easy day.

Frozen soup for lunch
Cook vegetarian for evening meal

Roasted a gammon joint with a honey glaze for later
Made a leek, bacon, mushroom and cheese bake for lunch.

I have made a batch of fruit scones. I don't bake very often these days.

As we speak Mr J has made a Greek lamb dish which is bubbling away in the slow cooker. We are both looking forward to eating this later and there should be some to freeze.

Not me but my husband is cooking up a beautiful lasagne as we speak. It will be portioned up and frozen. Yum.

Porridge in the microwave!

I have not actually made anything today yet, but plan to cook Beer Battered Fish and Chips from scratch for tonight's tea. The batter is a Gary Rhodes recipe from about 30years ago when he had his first TV series, the Fish is Cod Loin defrosted from the freezer. Chips are from fresh Maris Piper Potatoes, cut quite chunky.
I do cheat and buy frozen Mushy peas though, and a decent jar of Tartre Sauce to go with it!

The one thing that I miss is my old deep fat fryer, it had a Batter plate in the base that covered the heating elements, and stopped the raw batter sticking to them as the food was lowered in. So the modern ones that I have looked at its only the chip basket that separates the food from these, and raw batter just sticks to them like crazy! They are really only good for Convienience foods, hence I have reverted back to using a big deep base saucepan with a smooth bottom!

My creations today

Made my son in law an apple cake ? for his birthday which I handed over as a doorstep delivery with his card and present and had a 5-minute socially distanced conversation with my daughter and GS too. Made a 2nd apple cake for us which I cut in half and took half to other daughter’s house. Another excuse to set eyes on her and my GD for a few minutes... they joke that I’m still a ‘feeder’ even during lockdown! SO miss seeing them properly, but I’m lucky they live close enough for even this.

I’ve got a pan of corned beef hash simmering away. I make it using a tin of tomatoes, onion and fresh carrots. I add a handful of frozen peas 5 minutes away from eating - extra vitamins and a bit of colour! I don’t like corned beef cold but love it in a hash with generous dollop of Lee & Perrins sauce.
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Well, I heated up some left over chilli and rice, in the microwave, for DH's lunch.
Tonight I shall cook baby new potatoes, to go with our Cook Shop Moroccan Chicken.
( Idid make a Lemon drizzle cake a few days ago though.)

Does toast count?

I made a Ukrainian borscht soup in half the time because I used a pack of beets from shops. It’s hot delicious and very nutritious.

Trying not to bake in January as we both have a few pounds to shed, but I cooked a pan full of potatoes this morning and turned it into portions of mash for the freezer. Hate throwing potatoes out, but they do go soft or start to chit if they hang around.
Lemon coconut cake sounds way more delicious than mashed potato maydonoz