TONIGHT`S DINNER

Last night was roast chicken and roasted mediterranean veg (all from the garden). Tonight is cold chicken with the leftover veg in a salad with pearled spelt, goji berries and nuts. Tomorrow will be the last of the chicken in a pie with leeks and some hedgehog mushrooms that OH picked today. I will make a small amount of pastry crust with wholemeal spelt flour for the top.
Waste not want not!

Oh, seeing this thread has reminded me that I have not thought about tonight's dinner, taken nothing out of the freezer!

Egg and chips?

Bloody he** you don't half eat some good nosh you Gransnetters.

SueD your roast sounded like what my Nan used to cook on a Sunday and very nice too.

Kitty you do have some exotic meals up in you neck of the woods - tagine, curry etc

DS went back to Uni yesterday, and I really can't be bothered to do roasts for just two of us. Not as we know them, anyway, with masses of mixed veg. So I braised big pork chops in red cabbage and apple and lots of spiced red wine, served with roasted broccoli, and butternut and potato mash.

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb topped with a crust of mint and garlic, served with runner beans, baby courgettes, purple routing broccoli, mashed carrot and swede and roast potatoes, not forgetting the gravy and mint sauce. This was followed by fresh strawberries and raspberries. Really delicious even if I say so myself!

We had hot smoked salmon with lemon rice and fresh raspberries and home-made meringues with some clotted cream. Delicious. Prefer raspberries to strawberries these days.

Tonight we had Chicken Tikka Masala which I will freely admit I used a bought sauce but when I added my own special ingredients and chicken served with natural yoghurt and rice was very good. I`m not adverse to using a basic shop bought sauce and improvising.

I must confess to macaroni cheese. My ultimate comfort food.

Baked potato and a big salad; Theseus had baked haddock fillets and sourdough bread. (Prefers bread to potatoes.)

Mary Berry's chicken tagine with rice and salad and, if it's not nice, I shall get very, very mardy as I didn't have lunch!

We used "mardy" in West Yorkshire too and it meant being sulky or a cry-baby. Is that what it meant in the Midlands?
Yes, it is Gagagran
I remember my mother telling me not to be so mardy, and have used it on my own children ("What I can't stand is a mardy child, especially when it's my own!")

Salmon, a courgette and tomato bake and a few of DH's chips.
To be followed by yet another baked apple (with icecream this evening).

Yes mardy is definitely sulky and a dropped bottom lip.

Kitty the coconut curry from The Spice Tailor was fan-dabby-dozy as the Crankies used to say.

I added dried apricots, sultanas and fresh coconut and DH has waxed lyrical about it.

We had a very nice Pilau rice with it too.

Being slovenly we watch the final programme about the Taj Hotel in India whilst eating our curry.

Mardy I knew, and mithering, from my Mancunian landlady at uni, but pithering?

We used "mardy" in West Yorkshire too and it meant being sulky or a cry-baby. Is that what it meant in the Midlands?

Home made thick veg soup with crusty bread. Melon with cinnamon.

Th'art a right Mardybum, as the children in my first class used to say to each other.
It is, I believe, linguistically related to merde.

All the time I lived in the Midlands, I could call DS2 'mardy'. Funnily enough when we moved to East Anglia, he was never called 'mardy' again.

feetle I am ambidextrous!! (Probably can't spell either)

Tonight just a bowl of soup - ate a M&S at Mum's at lunch time which wasn't too bad - Salmon and Tarragon Sauce with asparagus.

NanKate, I once tried to explain 'mardy' to a southerner and couldn't for the life of me remember any other word.

What fabulously exotic food we now eat compared with a slice of ham, half a tomato, some cucumber and bread and butter for my Sunday tea in the 1950s. Perhaps with tinned fruit and evap for pud (or sweet as we used to call it in Brum).

It's Friday so I think I will have a small bottle of cava, beats brown ale any day.

Spicy lamb, chard, date and borlotti bean casserole. I am drinking pink fizz to celebrate the fact that our low GI diet has resulted in OH now completely out of pre-diabetes and has a huge drop in cholestoral levels.
No sugar, full-fat diet. Interesting eh?

Salmon salad with a baked potato tonight.

Our main meal is at lunchtime. We had Butter chicken with rice and spiced potatoes and naan bread, followed by plum bread and butter pudding. I know, too much bread, but it's diet day tomorrow. I love my food, but hate the extra weight I've put on since retiring.

Oh how good it is to be back with you all haven`t been dieting backed off from all that long ago and of course am not as willowy as I would like more trunky/chunky. Tonight it`s beef stirfry with rice and no pud.

I once told a non-Brummie friend to stop pithering and she had no idea what I meant lol