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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Second last sunday food......
Sigh
Well i am having boring chicken with a salad... lots of mint and cucumber in the salad
Roast lamb, spuds, carrots, french beans and sprouts, with gravy.
They were baby carrots but i'll not go into 'honey glazed' mode as it's tedious imo.
Just bought and half consumed a lamb kofti wrap from a local hippy takeway/eatery, very good value at £5 and at least quite nice.
rsb you're right there are only two more threads like this. And would you believe I'm not cooking dinner tonight? O/H has done it. Which is fine, but it means that for a change-phobic like me, already plotzing like crazy about Nigelgeddon, I'm deprived this week of one of my favourite comfort threads. I really like posting what I'm cooking.
Anyway, for the record, I'll post what o/h is cooking - traditional beefy stew with carrots, swede, parsnips. Baked potatoes. Broccoli. It will be gorgeous. I made a plea for barley in the stew but he, uh, "forgot" that. Fo' shame.
Am x
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Only on more surely?
Well for a Sunday one....?
I thought D day is a week on Monday?
We had BBQ Pulled pork cooked in the slow cooker all day. It was very yummy indeed. Nom nom nom
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Posted by goldilocks exits pursued by bears (U1859740) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
I had lamb hearts cooked in the slow cooker, with boiled spuds and steamed cabbage with gravy.
Fancy something sweet now, but it will pass.....
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Posted by DeeKay Bee - Disenfranchised (U236881) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
We're just going to have salady stuff because it's a nice springlike day, followed by rice pudding because it's cold and it's winter.
Beef curry - not based on any particular recipe - it's stewing with root ginger, garlic, onion, chilli, cinnamon stick, cumin, coriander, black pepper, tomatoes, bay leaves and a bit of salt), a kind of saag aloo thing with cauliflower in it, plain basmati rice. I think it will be good, judging from the smell coming from the oven. Must start the saag aloo bit now, in fact.
This is the kind of thing I will miss, too.
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Posted by Word-Lover - ´óÏó´«Ã½ MBs are dead - long live ML (U1160777) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Battered fish piece. Steamed big spud (the Co-op was selling 2kg bags cheaper than Tesco). Sliced carrot if there's any left. Sliced leek.
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Posted by Reggie Trentham (U2746099) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
We're having a very simple venison casserole using meat I bought in our farmers' market yesterday. For afters an almond and orange pudding Mrs T got off the internet, completely untried and untested to date
Husband has just gone to the kitchen to start a curry, he reckons he has perfected an easy but lovely chicken curry. Expect there will be random bits of veg in it too.
Really fancy roast lamb now.
quorn fillets, roasties and some roast veg that the co op had for 50p ( well they arent roasted yet but they will be soon).
Hmmmm well, I have a packet of salad leaves (the mix includes rocket), .75 of a green pepper, under half an onion, and a packet of prawns
this is all leftover from the Bloke cooking a valentine supper on thurs, i'm pondering what to do with them, as we seem to have spent the weekend eating...
Any ideas?
A spicy oriental type salad, with noodles (rice or mung bean noodles) is one possibility
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Hmmm Guzzinut.... pondering........
I have just been given a glass of white wine pre my dinner that really really tastes like weak cider.
Very very strange
Off to look at the bottle
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Hah I am right... it says tastes of green apple, peaches and elderflower
Not very pleasant really... it tastes like diluted cider to me..... I am not sure I like this wine at all
I am being told I am fussy... is it my fault I have a sensitive palate?
Wine like Diluted cider sounds a bit nasty to me, rsb, cider should taste of apples and not be diluted
Wine should not usually taste like cider
Still pondering
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Exactly..... feel my pain... this is wrong!
It is not a good taste it really does taste more of cider than as a wine
I think you are going to have to go with some sort of noodley stirfry with that combo
What spices/ condiments do you have in?
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Posted by BrightYangThing (U14627705) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Just finished roast chicken with some dauphinoise potatoes (leftover from yesterday), carrots and tenderstem broccoli.
Not sure what there will be left for tomorrow since the gannet (aka Thing the Younger) is home overnight. Consumes lean protein and carbs in wild volumes.
Exactly, a decent glass / pint of cider is a lovely thing, and being from the Deep South, I grew up drinking the stuff
Ditto a glass of wine
Assume half the stock of the wing yip supermarket, rsb, I'm a bit of a spice / condiment / chilli sauce junkie... *blush*
It's looking like a spicy noodle salad, must. Get. Motivated Nd stop messing round in here
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Posted by Susquehanna14 (U13885715) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Oh dear.
We had a huge white cabbage sliced into "cole slaw" with a dusgusting dressing OH keeps buying (also he keeps buying the cabbage when it is his turn to cook but he does not cook it) plus olive oil, lemon and anything else I can think of to make it edible eg grated carrot and shallots.
Fried potato from yesterday and fried German sausage brought to us from 3 thirteen year old German children staying with us just after Christmas.
Roast chicken would have been perfection, but you have to use what you have got...... (war baby)
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Well spicy noodle salad is quick...
Give you plenty messing around time :-
It is a bottle of Mondelli Pinot Grigio from Sainsbugs.... try it and see what you think
Worse I don't really like most ciders
Ahhh, well of you don't like cider, then it's a complete nonstarter...
Update, the random piece of onion, a quarter of the pepper, a dollop of garlic ginger chilli pre prepared from a jar of the stuff I buy in Indian supermarkets is sizzling in sesame oil...
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Ummm......... yum guzzinut ......sounds tasty..........
Do you know as I consume my second glass of winethat tasteslikecider my OH is laughing because it is growing on me.......................?
Not good RB.. Sunday is a school night............
Cider is sometimes nice but only on a very hot day in the summer... and it makes one sleep
It has no place in February?
Ahhh, well as someone from the Deep South, cider always has a place...
But I do tend to think, purely based on a random poll of my pals, you have to be bought up on the stuff (-: it immunises you to the "drink it to excess when a teenager and decide its horrible" thing, a lot of my other pals seem to have
Salad mixed
Am now burning, no! Dry roasting cashew nuts...
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Posted by SussexCornflower InTheFinalCountdown (U13833966) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Salmon steak in a chilli sauce with mushrooms and tomatoes and a baked spud.
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Posted by ruralsnowflakebliss (U8131914) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
In Scotland we only ever seem to have one 'hot' day in summer (Ie raised above goosebump level for two hours before the midges come out.... honestly I managed to burn my skin on the one day like that last 'summer')
The cider thing never seems to kind of take however much we try....
:-
Quick take those cashew nuts off!!!!!
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Posted by Helen Highwater (U14334124) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
We had friends round and it's a case of hostess does the main and visitors bring the starter and pud (we're all OAPS so it helps with costs).
So: visiting friends (a) brought a gorgeous smoked salmon & cream cheese terrine sort of thing, I as hostess did lamb shanks in a red wine & garlic sauce with red cabbage, peas and Mary Berry's Gratin of Winter Roots and Broccoli and visiting friends (b) brought a baked vanilla cheesecake with caramel oranges and cream. We drank 2 bottles of Blaxford Estate Australian red and 1 bottle of Isla Negra Chilean Rose, then we had coffee and mint creams. We were all so pogged we fell asleep!
Lunch started at 12.45 and friends (a) and (b) left just after 6 pm. It was lovely, particularly as male visiting friend (a) some years ago bravely adjusted to life without a bladder but with a bag, and male visiting friend (b) is in the early stages of Motor Neurone Disease .... so we enjoy our times together while we can.
We had slow-roasted, boned and rolled shoulder of mutton, covered in olive oil, garlic and rosemary, with roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding (YD's must-have), mint sauce, cabbage, roast parsnips, carrots and gravy
Re-registered and in pre-mod
,,,>^..^<,,, (claws out and whiskers bristling at the imminent loss of the MB)
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Posted by Nomadnomore - XNo - Quiz Queen (U3180380) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Lamb kleftiko, mashed potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts and gravy. Twas yummy.
Promised to have dinner on the table a 6 each evening next week. Be a blumming miracle if it is but I need to try.
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