TONIGHT`S DINNER

Grilled pork chops topped with apple sauce and cheese, new potatoes, green beans (from SiL garden) and carrots. Stewed plums (from SiL trees) and custard. Nice glass of white wine.

Have we all been on a diet ?

Steak and ale pie, new pots, runner beans and carrots. Followed by stewed apples from my friends tree with some sultanas soaked in rum covered in low fat custard.

Turkey Tagine with couscous followed by melon soaked in ginger syrup and may I add I have had terrible wind ever since.

Sounds good whitewave (apart from the wind!)I have some couscous I don't know what to do with so what is turkey tagine ?

Serves 4
So fry off 1 onion in olive oil 10 mins then add bite sized turkey fillet (14oz)+ 1tsp ground coriander +1tsp ground cinnamon cook for a couple of mins.
add 5oz ready roasted red peppers - chopped, 17fl oz chicken stock I use a couple of cubes 400g chopped tomatoes and 400g chickpeas (drained and rinsed) 3oz dried ready to eat apricots (chopped a bit) + pepper and salt if stock isn't salty. Simmer for 15 - 20 mins. Mix in 2 oz of flaked almonds toasted and large handful of chopped coriander.

Serve with couscous

300g of this, 14oz of that... a complicated life you lead!

Have we all been on a diet ?
Sadly yes, NanKate, which has resulted in me losing half a pound over the past week and DH (despite drinking some beer) losing four pounds.
Salmon, small jacket potato, grilled tomatoes (from the greenhouse) and green beans (from the garden) this evening, followed by baked apple (from the tree) stuffed with raisins and some custard.
And a small glass of white wine which is probably why I will only lose another half a pound by next week.

We had Nigella's lamb steaks with thyme, anchovies and pink Martini. Sounds odd but it's delicious!

Thanks whitewave. Sounds delicious. I can't wait to try it but will have to buy some turkey first and some apricots.

Hi Kitty just bought the Tailor made kit you suggested. Couldn't get the Korma but got the mild Coconut one instead. We are really looking forward to our supper tonight.

Flipping heck, I hope you enjoy it!!

As we say in the Midlands (where I was born) I will be Mardy if I don't like it Kitty.

Don't worry I like my food too much to be picky.

Mardy

I haven't heard that for years

To be honest Holly we used to say Mardy arse !

Dunna be mardy, duck. Chin up, stop yer whingeing.

To be honest Holly we used to say Mardy arse !

I know

NanKate I used Mardy arse in leicester no one knew what I meant in the Bristol.

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

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.

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.

Salmon salad with a baked potato tonight.

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?

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.

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

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.