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“5 hour” leg of lamb, in white wine and root veggies, garlic and herbs - amazing, if I do say so myself!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3afe514b96.jpg
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Yesterday:
Chilli con carne, rice and green vegetables.
Fruit for dessert, and washed down with a 2020 le bourg, Côte de Bourg, Bordeaux
Today, some comfort food:
Gammon, eggs, chips and beans. Might be considered to be transport café fodder, but it was yummy!
Large navel orange for dessert, and to give the meal a touch of class: a couple of glasses of a White Zinfandel Rosé.
Tonight:
Baked potato with tuna mayonnaise and some veg.
Gammon, crushed potatoes, and vegetables, with some Branston pickle on the side
Lemon cheesecake for dessert. White Zinfandel rosé to drink.
Last night's dinner was a Gousto recipe. "Stove Top Meatloaf with Red Wine Glaze".
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This is a picture from Gousto's website, but Anita's effort did look exactly the same
Didn't think I'd be a Meatloaf fan, and looking at it was worried that it'd be out of me like a bat out of hell when the morning came. But no problems so far, and it was really tasty :)
Looks good! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
It really was Barry, but it kept Anita in the kitchen for an hour and a half prepping and cooking. So her verdict on the Meatloaf: "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that" :( Sorry, I had to put that in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The Gousto meals are almost always very good, but require a bit more effort than you'd expect. But can be pretty good value, Anita only orders them when their 50-60% off deals are running. Which is much of the time.
Thai green curry with wild rice
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Both look good Roy. What is the fish?
Yesterday:
King prawns in a tomato, basil and chilli sauce. Spaghetti, asparagus, green pepper and sweetcorn.
Museli with raspberry yoghurt for dessert.
This evening:
Minced beef, onion and tomatoes. Crushed potatoes, baby carrots, peas, brocolli and green beans.
An orange for dessert.
Washed down with a glass or two of a 2022 Chateau Moulin du Prieur, Bordeaux.
Tuesday we were in London, at lunchtime we went to “Pick & Cheese” where you try various British cheeses from a conveyor belt. Not good for the diet, but a great experience!
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Some really nice cheeses, they select an appropriate accompaniment, water and crackers free, so didn’t work out horrendously expensive even though we had about 12 plates (about £55]
Dinner was at Steak & Company. I had Carpaccio to start:
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Amazing!
Then “Steak on a stone” - 10 oz fillet, chargrilled on the outside then you cook yourself to your liking on the stone - barely a few seconds for me. “Special salt” and choice of butter (truffle for me) and sauce (bernaise) - really good!
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You don’t get a discount for cooking it yourself! Kids love the experience, too.
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I like fillet steak but I don't like it "blue", so it would take more than a few seconds to cook it à point. The seared cuts look good. :)
Not sure, was frozen from Iceland, probably pollock? Tasty anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
I always liked pollock, used to catch it when fishing up round Ullapool. Can't get fresher than that. It was us that were frozen :doh:
It turned out to be a beautiful day today, despite the completely inaccurate weather forecast, that we decided to go out for Sunday lunch in a local pub.
Homemade paté with toast (sadly not Melba toast as it should be) to start, followed by roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, sausage pieces, roast potatoes, peas, broccoli, carrots, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese with sage and onion stuffing:
I've never had a roast lunch that was so plentiful. Not bad for £15 apiece. We were so full that we forewent any dessert!
Roast pork with stuffing
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Spicy pork and wild rice and a wine I can’t spell
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Oven-baked smoked haddock, with air-fried chips and vegetables: red and green peppers, leek, asparagus, onion, green beans, broccoli, sweetcorn and beetroot.
Beef in a tomato and chilli sauce, baked potato, with carrot, asparagus, green beans and brocolli
Some more baked potatoes, but this time with tuna mayonnaise, steamed red peppers, baby corn, carrots and asparagus:
A large orange for desert and a glass of a 2022 Château de la Grande Tour, Cuvée Phoebe, Bordeaux.
Very healthy as always, Barry! Well done. I shan't upset you with a picture of tonight's Toad in the Hole...!
Tonight - king prawns on a bed of spinach, with carrots, boiled potatoes and steamed onion and red pepper.
Tiramisu for dessert (not so healthy!) and a glass or two of a 2022 Château Le Coin, Bordeaux to drink.
Again no pics as I'm away from my laptop, and I don't know how to transfer photos from my smartphone to the Forum. :doh:
Steak pie, with mustard-mash potatoes, carrots, green beans and broccoli:
Muesli with yogurt for dessert.
Scrambled egg with tuna, carrots, green beans, sugar-snap peas, spinach and broccoli:
No dessert, but a glass of a 2021 Le Serret, Haut-Médoc.
M&S Pepperoni pizza (cheating I know!), spinach, green beans and sugar-snap peas.
A large orange for dessert and another glass of Le Serret Haute-Médoc to drink.
Chilli and tomato king prawns with spaghetti and vegetables:
An orange for dessert. No alcohol, as we try to maintain two alcohol-free days a week.
Yesterday was relatively warm and summery, so a tuna and egg salad:
Strawberries and yogurt for dessert and a glass of Seashore Isla Negra, Sauvignon Blanc
A bit cooler today, and whilst it started off bright and sunny, it clouded over by tea time, so:
King prawns in a chilli, coriander, basil and tomato sauce, baby, potatoes, onion, carrots, green beans and baby sweetcorn.
Muesli, banana and yogurt for dessert, and some more Seashore Isla Negra, Sauvignon Blanc.
Yesterday’s gammon, has to be colly wobble cheese with roast gammon….
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Looks delicious Alex. :)
Smoked haddock, mustard mashed potato, and vegetables:
Isla Negra, Sauvignon Blanc to drink.
Minced beef and onion on a bed of brown rice with vegetables:
Mango and yogurt for dessert.
Tonight, chilli, coriander and basil king prawns on brown rice with vegetables:
An orange for dessert.
Salmon steaks, with baked potatoes and vegetables.
Mango and yogurt for dessert.
Meatballs on fusilli pasta with vegetables:
A couple of glasses of Chateau Le Vieux Serestin, Médoc 2020 to drink. (https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...Thread/page527. Post 5269)
Chilli con carne with boiled white long grain rice and peas.
An orange for dessert, and a glass or two of a 2021 Château La Clarière, Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux to drink.
Gammon, egg, chips and beans:
An orange for dessert, and a glass of a 2023 Moulin Du Prieur, Bordeaux.
Tonight
Feeling a bit lazy, so a double pepperoni pizza, with mixed veg:
Again an orange for dessert and another glass or two of the above mentioned Bordeaux.
Last year we put bark chippings under our acer. All of a sudden we find we have some really weird looking mushrooms growing in it. Did a bit of research, and found it is called black morel (Morchella importuna), a highly prized edible mushroom... pretty poisonous when raw, but apparently really nice when cooked. So I'll give them a go on Tuesday and report back (hopefully not from a hospital bed) :doh:
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Looks ok cooked. Note: this isn't my effort, mine will be rather more basic :)
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Wow, that’s brave! Hopefully we will hear the report back!
Leg of lamb, slow cooked 6 hours, delicious!
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There were many mushrooms and fungi that would appear from time to time in my parent's garden. My father was always willing to see if they were edible. One clue was to look at the underside gills, if pink it was best avoided. Those that looked credible he would fry, but only try a very small piece: reckoning that if they were inedible he would not be poisoned.Quote:
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You can buy books which illustrate edible fungi and the best way to cook them. Good luck!
I don't even need to do that - the internet is awash with info about identifying and cooking these and other mushrooms. Your dad sounds like he was pretty cool, what with the mushroom trials and the car building :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Further to our discussion of edible and inedible fungi, here is the book I bought for my father:
ISBN 0-330-26441-9 (1981)