TONIGHT`S DINNER

Yum to all of those, Galen, GJ and Kitty.
We are having monkfish, sage and bacon kebabs with aioli and salad.

Tonight we are having stir fried ginger beef and egg fried rice - really easy! Probably eaten in front of the tv - feel like slobbing!!

We have our main meal at lunchtime now we are retired- and we had my first attempt at making 'pici'- Tuscan farmhouse eggless pasta, rolled- with 'left-over' sauce- whatever was lurking in the fridge- a couple of onions, a green pepper, left over dried tomatoes in oil, mushroom, a little white wine and cream, with a bit of arissa and pepper- great. I love russling up a dish out of bits- and must practise for next week when grandson will be here, highly allergic to egg.

I've some veal medallions. Think I'll cut one in half horizontally, bash the living daylight out of it. Coat it with egg (white only) and breadcrumbs, pan fry in butter/oil, serve with lemon and anchovies!

I'll freeze the other three medallions.

It`Tesco`s Finest Fish Pie tonight for us (I should say 2 one each) they really are good and I feel like a relaxing Saturday night and have no guilt pangs at all!!

Vegas, hope your knee is soon ok again. We're also having M&S, salmon en croute, baked potatoes, and M&S veg. Lazy Friday, great. Even though I'm retired, I still love the different feel of the weekend.

It sounds lovely Veg hope your knee is better soon.

Marks and Sparks ready meal tonight - roast pork loin and veg. I'm suffering from a very painful knee at the moment and having mowed the lawn, can't face anything more complicated. I don't often have ready meals and I must confess I am quite looking forward to it - how sad am I?

A very simple dish of spaghetti, garlic, fresh chard and mushrooms. We have a huge crop of rainbow chard and OH found chanterelles up the lane.
OH is cooking as I have been clearing up after the departure of the family (do loom bands get everywhere?) and making 14lbs of damson jelly (we picked over 20lbs yesterday)..

Tonight it will be Salmon with new potatoes and peas. Lemon curd tart and custard or cream for pudding. Can't do anything interesting cos the DGC won't eat it. When I was young it was eat or go hungry and the meal was reheated for the next meal. Deep joy!

Home made chicken curry with Indian style potatoes, poppadums, raita (home made), tomatorelish (home made), two sorts of mango chutney made by that nice Mr Sharwood!! Lemon creams with raspberries and/or fresh fruit salad made a la Mary Berry and in the company of DD3 and my brother and his wife. No doubt he'll be rude about something!!

And, after this flipping week, one or two

Tonight we are STARTING with a small dish of whelks with plenty of salt,pepper and vinegar.

Then we are having Fresh prawns, with a MARIE-ROSE SAUCE, followed by Pizza.

All washed down with a glass or 10 of PINO GRIGIO[just kidin" about the amount]!

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Toasted cheese sandwich

Your my kind of cook Charleygirl. Mine's a Merlot please.

Roast chicken and roast new potatoes (me), swiss chard cooked in two separate ways (stalks in garlic and parsley, leaves in butter and pepper) by OH. Followed a hard day stacking 8 cubic metres of logs in heavy wind and rain.

Sainsburys "taste the difference" sirloin steak, fried onions, mushrooms, celery, sweetcorn and potato croquettes for the thoroughly bone idle with a couple of glasses of wine.

Roast chicken with thyme, boulangere potatoes cooked under the chicken, and salad. The salad seemed like a good idea when I planned it!

I'm happy to say that I will be having roast lamb with all the trimmings, cooked by a friend whose speciality is the roast dinner! My only contribution has been to pick some mint from the garden and make the mint sauce.

Tonight its salmon cooked in lemon and butter with creamed potatoes and carrots.

Simple and easy to make

Ryvita, cheese, apple.

Strawberry yoghurt and flaked almonds.

2 Thornton chocs sneeked from fridge.

Had sausage, mash and onion gravy at an NT property today.

Very boring soft boiled egg, toast and soldiers. Need to go shopping asap.

Boring but tasty grilled bacon, carrots and mash - must do better

See the weigh in thread. I put it there in error.

OH has spent 6 hours preparing fourteen different vegetables from the garden for minestrone for tonight's dinner. Happily there are about ten portions to go in the freezer.

Lamb, chilli and mint (a la Nigella) and pasta - it's delicious!!