TONIGHT`S DINNER

Salmon steaks with herby roast veg and saute potatoes. It seemed to involve more oil and butter than I'd hoped. Lots of lovely raspberries and strawberries from the allotment to follow, with ice cream.

Salad nicoise followed by fig yoghurt

I too need a lie down Sparkygran just spent two days withour two GSs, three year old never stops asking why and 1year old has been sick on me and sneezed on me about 20 times. I am sure we will get the dreaded lurgie !

My DinL has cooked us a casserole, excellent. Uncork that bottle quickly.

Nigella's belly pork slices with chili and fennel seeds, baked potatoes and salad. Lovely!!

A quickie tonight - pre-cooked lincs sausages and new potatoes in a pot of tomato/basil sauce, with a can of sugar-free ginger beer on the side. Not bad!

Tell me honestly PapaO is the sugar free ginger beer acceptable ? I love ginger beer but the thought of a sugar free one does not appeal

NanKate, had a Fenteman's ginger beer (with a dash of lime) the other day and it was very hot! Gingery I mean, not warm. Lovely. But tried Bundaberg and it was not gingery at all, I was disappointed.

Thanks Rose for the recommendation. Will try some Fenteman's.

Cold home baked ham and home cooked beetroot with tomatoes and crusty tomato and chilli bread. That was one good buy that ham it`s lasted all week and still going strong

DS is here for tea. We are having chicken fajitas with mexican beans and a salad. DH has returned from visiting DGC in Scotland so there are three of us tonight. I wonder if I'LL should open some .

Home made pork and mozzarella burgers, (very) garlic wedges and coleslaw.

Hilda - I would because we are

Okay - once again the feeding of the five thousand: Pizza (x3 large and NOT home-made this time), pesto pasta, potato salad, coleslaw, mixed salad. Plain vanilla ice cream with (home grown) berries to follow.
My visitors (from Slovakia) raved over a simple summer pudding a couple of nights ago.
More interesting than dinner is what they eat for breakfast though. Yesterday we were only seven for breakfast and my guests - having been told to help themselves - prepared it. They then proceeded to eat, in the following order: Fresh fruit (appx 2lb mixed berries from the allotment, 6 apples, 2 mandarins, whole punnet of fresh apricots), cereals with milk and/or home-made yoghurt, one large wholemeal loaf (home-made) and one medium sized tiger loaf (bought) with an assortment of jams, spreads, nutella etc., ten boiled eggs, a whole packet of cheddar, packet of cheese (brought from Slovakia), one whole packet of honey roast ham, chopped spring onions(!!!), baby plum tomatoes and one and a half cucumbers. Oh - and one pot of coffee and one pot of green tea (and a cup of builder's tea for me). In all my life I have never known anyone with such prodigious appetites - and yet they're none of them overweight.

Crikey, ga, shall we send food parcels?

Good heavens ga - so your guests are not believers in the continental breakfast then? Sounds like they have completely cleaned out your fridge!

Dinner tonight for me is pasta with a tomato and veg sauce, followed by jelly and raspberries from the garden. Very virtuous because I had put on a pound at the weigh in this morning.

hilda why would hesitate open the bottle. You have the heart of a lion grannyactivist anyway everyone keep cooking

I'm in grannya do they have a mid-morning snack?

My meal tonight, 3 ryvitas with cottage cheese and black pepper! :-(

Home made celery soup, followed by meatloaf, sweet corn and peas. Raspberries and cream choux buns.

Having had double egg and the most wonderful Chips at the pub where our knitting club meet. I am having Gazpacho tonight. Egg and chips is my once a month treat.

Mixed Italian salami with tomato and Italian mixed pickles

Baked squash with rosemary, garlic, sunflower seeds and cheese, with Anna potatoes and green salad.
Started on the prosecco already

Tuna steaks with mixed salad and sourdough bread followed by Orkney oatcakes and cheese

Off for a week in the New Forest tomorrow so it is a case of finishing everything that is fresh in the fridge. 2 eggs, some tomatoes - I can see a fry up coming on.

Tonight I'm having pork snitzel (sp?) - ie a pork chop bashed flat, egg and breadcrumbed and fried in Frylight. With that goes sauté spuds, green beans and a sort of apple sauce made with Bramley apple, Greek yogurt and mustard. Feeling hungry now, but first have to iron and rehang the bedroom curtains I chucked in the machine this morning in a fit of enthusiasm.

The potato wedges I cooked for my grandson because no one told me he wasn't coming here this afternoon ....

Low fat mozzarella with sliced tomato, drizzled with good olive oil from organic five hundred year old trees in the Tuscan hillsides. A little salt and black pepper and homemade bread.