TONIGHT`S DINNER

Oh, my mouth is watering. My father always grew gooseberries and made jam. Just love gooseberries.

Tonight is Saturday, DH is playing lawn bowls and will be home shortly around 6.30pm. But as they have tea and sandwiches after bowls we always have dinner latish on a Saturday, we will have rib-eye steak (£7 for 2 in Asda) and they are superb cooked on the George Foreman Grill for about 7 minutes and then left to rest for about 5 minutes. Asparagus (reduced) popped onto the Foreman Grill for the last 3 minutes, and probably salad. If in doubt pull out some salad All made in about 15 minutes.

Think if I look there might be some crusty bread to warm slightly (cos it's yesterdays -and maybe a bit stale-)

Please stop talking about gooseberries. They make me do a 'lemon mouth'

Take \away curry tonight for us!!

That sounds like my kind of food preparation Rose thanks so much.

10 Nankate (easy). Finding the right recipe could be the problem though. I usually stew them gently, whiz in the liquidiser then sieve if you don't want pips, don't sieve if you like some texture. Add thick sweet custard and fold in whipped cream. Or use thick Greek yogurt and sweeten to taste. Sorry it is not more precise but you get the gist I hope.

Gooseberries also freeze well, top and tail and freeze in poly bags or plastic boxes.

Always welcome NanKate as long as you bring crumble with you

I'm not much of a cook - on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard is it to make a gooseberry fool please ?

NAN we were given a HUGE bag of gooseberries by a friend.

#I am going to make gooseberry fool , which I love .

They are gorgeous, and of all the fruits seem to be the ones we can"t get all year round !

I made a goosegog crumble today yummy.

Next time you are cooking fillet steak vegas can I come to tea/supper please?

Treated myself tonight to fillet steak, new spuds, asparagus and mushrooms.

tonight we had home made chilli con carne with rice [I made enough for 2 days as DH has hospital tomorrow.]Then lemon jelly with ice cream as it's so hot.The chilli is hot too.

Sorry, he's at work!!!

For dinner today we had lamb rogan josh, rice and naan bread. For supper, since DH is a work I wil be having a sandwich of some sort, I haven't decided yet. Bon appetite.

Started now, but I do eat early.

NanKate - yes, it's always tough when they go, isn't it? Are you sure about that wine?

Sorry I spelt your name wrong and I haven't had a sip of wine yet.

Vegasmagas it is always sad when our family leave us. My 3 year old grandson threw me a kiss from the car as he left and it finished me off !!

Sparkygran I too will be having a glass of red tonight AND one cheese straw. Plus my supper of course !

I hope you enjoy the book Merlot (though maybe it should be Shiraz?). I bought it for my DD too.
Tonight we are having whatever is on the menu in the Premier Inn!

Having seen off on the train my DD and beautiful 7 week old DGD, I will be consoling myself by eating all the high calorie leftovers from their visit I don't usually indulge in - French cheeses, home made scones with clotted cream, the last remaining Magnum. I will certainly be having a glass of wine or 3 tonight to help me get over that empty feeling. I'll be OK tomorrow, but the house is horribly quiet right now.

Chicken and chick peas in ras el hanout sauce with couscous or brown rice and roasted peppers. Summer pudding with home grown fruit to follow.

Pasta with tuna and cheese could be boring but I fancy it DH will have sausage, beans and potatoes.
Not taking as a criticism Ninathenana but I`ve been through the mill for the past year and the goes down a treat and I don`t feel guilty at all

DH's homemade chicken korma and brown rice.
I note some of you regularly have with your meal. We only have wine on special occasions, or sometimes on a Sunday with roast. Not a criticism in any way. I'm just slightly surprised

Scrambled egg cause my tooth disintegrated yesterday when I ate a rice cake....

I've got a Marks and Sparks Count on Us beef thingie and DH has got a non-Count on Us lamb thingie. We will have mange-tout as an accompaniment.