TONIGHT`S DINNER

monkfish wrapped in parma ham with crushed fried potatoes, and beans then autumn fruit pie and custard

DH is taking more of an interest in cooking and is building up a bit of a stash of recipes. Tonight we had a mixed mushroom risotto. really yummy. He's very methodical and also washes up as he goes along - bliss!

Before breakfasting this morning, I loaded tonight's dinner into my slow cooker... casserole beef, in red wine with onion, garlic, carrot and celery and a pierced red chilli...

I congratulated myself on the excellence of my dinner!

Had substantial lunch out today so have just had a bowl of the leek and potato soup I made yesterday. Very yummy, though I say it myself.

I've just had a coronation chicken sandwich.

I made lunch for DH and DS. Beef stew with roast potatoes, mash, carrots, peas, cauliflower and brocolli, and of course yorkshire pudding.
For dessert we had apple crumble, made with the last of our home grown apples and custard. All very yummy, but I can feel the five pounds I lost on the 5:2 diet quietly returning.

This weeks Dine in 4 £10 was really good .Tonight we had the Gammon Shanks in Orange and Cranberry sauce,very satisfactory.(I'm talking M&S).

I won't be having anything tonight! I made lamb shanks in gravy with roast veg for a late lunch. I'm afraid I was a real greedy gertie, DH wasn't hungry so I ate the lot bar a few bits of veg.

Just about managing to lie back and watch a film now

It's smelling good! I'm doing it with neck fillet in the slow cooker and made a raita to go with it and the rice.
Might try more of these spice tailor ones.
Thanks whoever recommended them.

Roast beef, roasted mixed veg, mash and gravy. Comfort food for DBH's cold.

Roast shoulder of lamb, with usual veg and dried spiced fruit salad with bananas and yogurt

I'm trying out a spice tailor rhogan josh. Not sure about this as I normally cook curries from scratch. But just feeling lazy

I do all the cooking these days as my wife is unable to stand unaided. Tonight's dinner will be beef and beer casserole. In the past I have cooked this from scratch, but then I discovered Sainsbury's own brand Beef and Ale Cooking Sauce! So a pack of Asda Diced Beef, browned in the frying pan then in the casserole dish with the sauce for about an hour-and-a half. Aunt Bessie's Duck Fat Roast Potatoes and some fresh broccolli. Job done!

lefthanded

Oh dear.....

Around here people cut the heads off and leave them by the side of the road. Our favourite is hare. I had never had it until we came up here. I would love to nab a deer though.

And venison is third on my roadkill list. It's a bugger trying to get the antlers in the recycle bin. Our binmen are used to finding pheasants in the food bin, I never pluck them, just take the breast & legs off.

Venison is almost a "super food" low fat, low cholesterol, high vitamin B and either potassium or magnesium (can never remember which!)

Those of you who love natural British woodlands might be interested to know that they are under threat, mainly because the proliferation of deer, which have no natural predators. This means that saplings of native trees are getting eaten by the deer, if you have any Forestry Commission land any where near you, they grow pine type trees for timber but the native trees are not doing very well!

Add the fact that venison cannot be intensively reared or "farmed" therefore they have a very good quality of life (more than can be said of some more commonly eaten meats) and I feel that eating more venison would have a positive effect in several ways.

I know that there is this "you can't eat Bambi!" feeling, but I used to keep a flock of 50 ewes, and believe me there is nothing more enchanting than seeing a bunch of week old lambs bouncing about and playing, but you give them the best quality of life that you can, and then you eat them.

Why should deer be any different?

I'm being totally lazy to-night and OH is having what's left of yesterday's scouse with beetroot (always better the second day) according to him,and I'm having Morrisons Chicken Korma with a pot of tri-coloured rice all on offer when I did my shop yesterday,so will just wait for the microwave to ping !!

We're having Puerto Rican Chicken and Rice from Levi Rooots' book, Caribbean Food Made Easy. I think it's my most used cook book. All the recipes are delicious.

sparkygran - they sell Spice Tailor sauces in Tesco in NI - I have just been taking a look at them and think I will get some when I next do an on-line order

I love venison and pheasant, but tonight is Mediterranean Vegetable and Creme Fraiche Puff Pastry Tart from M and S plus salad - it's a bit bland but we bought two of them and have to finish it off. I think a nice glass or so of Cava (in the small bottles) should help wash it down.

My dogs have those antler things to chew on. My daughter's were horrified 'it's Bambi" they cried. The dogs don't have such scruples but I suspect the girls were more concerned that their mum didn't have enough scruples not to buy the things

I agree with you about Bambi jinglbellsfrocks. DH served me venison once without mentioning what it was - I ate it thinking it was lamb or something but I did think it was very sticky and then had a strange after-taste - so I said "What was that?" and he told me - then ensued much wailing along the lines of "You fed me Bambi's mother!".

I cannot bring myself to eat a Bambi. (I know it's ridiculous)

I'm on my way phoenix.

Marsala chicken (Lisa Faulkner recipe), lyonnaise potatoes and fine beans with garlic and tomatoes.

Can't believe Friday fish and chips day has come round again already. (Waitrose seeded cod and homemade chips) One of my favourites.