TONIGHT`S DINNER

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

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

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

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

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.

Crikey, ga, shall we send food parcels?

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.

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

Hilda - I would because we are

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 .

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

Salad nicoise followed by fig yoghurt

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.

I need a lie down

blimey granny

Italian chicken cooked with herbs, peppers etc. and served with pasta and a green salad. For eleven people.

Mother has just gone home she is 96 at the end of the month so we ate early on roast beef - veg - raspberry and redcurrant tart with creme patisserie and cream!!!! So slimming.

PS if it does split, just add a tsp of flour.

I use this one.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12838/garlic-mayonnaise

But I use as much garlic as I feel like, anything up to four.

Janer recipe for garlic mayonaise please?

A homegrown globe artichoke with a butter and lemon juice dip.
Homegrown rhubarb with low fat creme fraiche.