Simple eating

There is a half leg of lamb in the oven for dinner tonight which we'll have with gravy made from the meat juices, carrots, and broccoli.

Lovely, Bags! I had tinned brisling on toast and a mug of tea.

We had lovely fish cake things from M & S with salad, piece of Camembert and fresh pineapple with yoghurt for lunch.
This evening DD, SIL and DGD are due home from a holiday in Brazil ( visiting SIL family) so I have big pot of coq au vin ready and veg prepared for cooking when I know their ETA and a fancy ice cream pudding I bought.

Nimble ww bread tin of ww tuna with coronation sauce for lunch.
Now ----- voka

DH has gone out for the evening to a chaps-only dinner, so I shall be having prawns with noodles and leeks from the garden, plus . And then watch a DVD that I know he wouldn't enjoy

Scrambled eggs and mushrooms on toast for lunch, steak, salad and jacket potato for supper.

Poached eggs on a toasted muffin for lunch. Prawn salad for dinner. (Have seen possible outfit for daughter's wedding and want to buy it in a smaller size . )

Ham and Tomato on Granary bread for lunch and I had a cornish pasty (I've been fancying one for simply ages) with green beans, cauliflower and new pots...

Asparagus risotto made with asparagus from the garden.

In my circle of friends, I am known as the 'Keep it Simple' girl - and I never do puddings.

Oeufs Florentine sounds complicated but it is just buttered spinach with a few eggs cracked into gaps (two for him, one for me), a sprinkling of salt, pepper and nutmeg, a dash (or two) of cream and a layer of grated cheese (whatever's in the fridge). Heat 'til bubbly. Then eat with crusty bread. Delish.

Tonight we're having salad with little tartlets (thank you M&S) as I've been shopping and cooking for friends who arrive tomorrow and will stay with us until Saturday. As the forecast is foul we'll probably have spag Bol for lunch (have just made Bol sauce) and salmon and stir-fried veg for supper.

And the wine will flow ...

Fresh baker's granary rolls and ham, apple and cup of tea for lunch. Pan-fried salmon steak, new potatoes and peas and fruit corner yoghurts for dinner. Why is it always called "pan"fried? Where else could you fry it?

Fish & Chips tonight..exceedingly simple for me as DH went to buy it!!

Before I went for my walk this morning, I put a skinned chicken leg, one large potato cut into cubes, some frozen carrot, leaks, onions and mushrooms in a big pan, made stock with two chicken stock cubes, added garlic powder, black paper and a very small amount of salt and when I got back I put it on to simmer for a couple of hours and added macaroni and tinned peas for the last 15 minutes. It was absolutely delicious and will make my main meal for at least another day - possibly two more days if I eat it with some French bread.

'black paper'?

I think you know what I meant! I was distracted by Coronation Street!

Soreeeee!

DH had upset tum, might have had something to do with drinking almost a pint of tomato juice which was wildly out of date! So on my ownsome for tea.
Dry fried some sliced mushrooms [try it, you get a really good flavour] and popped in an individual pouch of Lloyd Grossman's Tomato and Marscapone sauce. Boiled some Riggatoni. Stirred in a tsp of good pesto and topped with mushrooms in sauce. Yummy. DH back on form today. So I defrosted some beef casserole and whizzed up some dumplings. Will need another pasta fix soon!

Annobel - no need for an apology - I knew you were joking!

I must have shared my supper with Phoenix last night!

Lunch will be ham, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on multigrain bread. Supper will be griddled chicken breasts stuffed with pesto, new potatoes, cauliflower and gridded tomatoes. I don't do puddings, except when we have dinner guests, but there is ice cream in the freezer and home-made grape jelly in a cupboard if Mr absent fancies that (In fact, they're still in the freezer and cupboard even if he doesn't fancy them.)

In the interest of trying to lose weight I am 13st 8 lb and 5ft 7 today i am eating
Porridge with stewed rhubarb - rhubarb from the allotment

spring vergetable broth with some bread - leeks from the allotment

fish stew - leeks from the allotment- and cinnamon pancakes I suppose I should leave out the pancakes really but I do like a pudding

Dover sole bought on the quai at Ouistreham straight from the fisherman, "chips" made from new potatoes parboiled and cooked in olive oil in the oven, home made tartare sauce with chive and parsley from the garden, frozen peas because the salad in the fridge had gone too limp!

Lunch was nice and easy chicken rolls and hummus with a hot cup of tea,and for dinner it will be a quick and easy chilli and rice put together in five minutes earlier to-day,followed by some M&S ice-cream which shouted buy me when I went past the freezer !!