It’s been a while so I will start us off…….whats for supper and why?

Chicken tray bake. Easy to prep and little clearing up.

DH brought home our first Jersey Royal potatoes today. I shall cook them to have with cold chicken and salad tonight. I live in hope but know they won't taste as good as they always used to. From what I read that's largely down to not using seaweed as fertilizer and that so many are grown by large corporations not the small farmer of yesteryear.
The best I've ever tasted were years ago on holiday in Jersey when they would have been harvested that day or the day before. That and the local tomatoes were food of the gods

Two of our families came round, with salmon.

We cooked rice noodles, veg, soy, ginger - salmon on top.

I had a different menu for us.

Delicious.

Cauliflower -cheese fry with ketchup. Drink of water with luxury elderflower cordial .

Two grandchildren here, we all had pasta, gluten free for GD, tomato and garlic sauce with Toulouse sausages and mushrooms. Then they had ice cream afterwards. I had a couple of glasses of Viognier after dinner sitting in the garden enjoying the evening sun.

Today

Boiled egg

Pitta bread filled with small chunks cheddar, apple and salad.
Pear

Chilli con Carne - Greek yogurt, honey and summer berries.

Homemade burgers, with whatever veg I’ve got, because the minced beef needs to be used.

Pancit, fruit, bread.

Bakes potato - the insides scooped out and mixed with cooked bacon and onion, grated cheese, butter and cream. All put back in the skins, topped with more grated cheese and baked a little more. DH is away so I am indulging myself.

I ought to say why I suppose - but it is what I plan and shop for that’s the main reason. But I will deviate if something needs using up. Like tomorrow will probably be chicken salad - to use up some roasted chicken. I’ll freeze the rest.

kitty that sounds delicious!

Pad Kra Pao made with left over chicken and cherry crumble.

Co-ops offer of an Irresistable Pizza and a 500ml tub of Haagen Daz for a fiver. 🤗

I had a fish cake out the freezer
My husband heated up some yuk sing I cooked yesterday and had it with salad

I'm on my own so Charlie Biggam came round.

Lasagne because DH wants to learn how to make it.
Lime mousse because it is easy to make.

We had fiery prawns with spinach and wholemeal pasta. Why… ? we are eating as healthily as possible. It took about 30 minutes to cook and wad superb.

What fancy meals some of you cook!
I used to cook for a large family and there was not one meal which everybody liked, so umpteen variations needed. Now I’m on my own I aim for something vaguely nutritious and quick, with heavy use of the microwave.

Me too. Plus a lot of raw chopped salad and raw vegetables which I do like (green peppers, mange routes, I adore raw carrots so I buy posh ones) and gives me the 5 a day easily.

I sometimes stir fry the chopped up stuff

Baby potatoes do well in the microwave, as do the quantities of fish I love too, poached effect with butter.

sp toutes not routes!

Today we are having a full English for brunch- with fried bread - it is a Bank Holiday after all.

Nigel Slater's braised sausages and mashed potatoes probably with minted peas this evening. Not at all fancy but all quite easy.

Today

Poached egg on toast
Chicken and salad wrap - using last of chicken
Liver, bacon, Jersey royal, broccoli and peas.

Poached egg for lunch here too.
Faggots, peas and a small helping of chips tonight

A substantial minestrone, with plenty of veg and a can of butter beans as well as pasta. With garlic bread - I have some bake at home baguettes, and leftover garlic butter in the freezer. 😋

For lunch homemade vegetable soup with home made soda bread.
For dinner lasagne left over from yesterday followed by apple fool.