OK, What's For Lunch or Tea Today? II

[Pigmy Pony]

Gammon steak, fried egg, oven chips etc,

Chocolate mousse for dessert.

All washed down with a 2017 Château Le Bonalguet. (Yes, you read that correctly! Found it at the back of my wine collection. It should have been drunk up by the end of 2022, but it had been well looked after. I decanted it, let it breathe and actually it tasted fine - a quite enjoyable 'slurp'.)

Egg on your gammon How it should be.

[Alex_UK]

Bangers ‘n’ Mash, or as Sue calls it, a “council house tea” (no offence intended to anyone who lives in a council house,)

[Barry]

Needs a fried or poached egg on the mash.

[Alex_UK]

Needs a fried or poached egg on the mash.

I have never heard of or seen that Barry, but that sounds like a cracking idea! (Pun intended!)

[Pigmy Pony]

I do like bangers and mash but unfortunately it doesn't like me - gives me heartburn, no idea why. This has only started happening this last couple of years.

Also my sense of smell and taste seems to be changing - I no longer like mushrooms, toast has a smell vaguely similar to burning rubber, and when I made beans on toast the other day the beans smelled like hot dog sausages (no they weren't beans with pork sausages). Maybe that's what Lidl's 'Newgate' beans are like, they are less than half the price of Heinz.

And I can no longer stand having a sweetener in my tea, it tastes rank. Gone back to a level spoon of sugar.

[Barry]

How can anyone not like mushrooms?

The best tasting baked beans are Heinz, but they have a lot of sugar in the sauce. I have replaced them with Branson baked beans. Taste almost as good, less sugar and less than half the price!

[Pigmy Pony]

I like Branston baked beans more than any other. But they're pretty expensive up here - where do you get yours?

The mushroom thing is a mystery - There was a time when I could have happily eaten a plate of mushrooms with nothing else. Maybe it's just the ones Anita gets these days, I'll have to look into that.

Anita made cottage pie for tea today - heartburn again. Clearly it's the mash that does it.

[Barry]

Re. the smell of toast.

I can understand it "smelling vaguely similar to burnt rubber". Suggest you don't toast it so much; try a lighter setting on the toaster.

Is it all forms of cooked potatoes you now dislike or just mash? When you make the mash, do you add a lot of butter?
And does the variety of potatoes used make a difference? I usually eat Maris Piper spuds, but at the moment we're eating Jersey Royals.

Certainly as we get older our tastes in food can change.

[Pigmy Pony]

This is the strange thing - Anita puts in next to no butter, she reckons too much, like salt, is bad for me. But I always have a good amount of butter (Flora actually) in jacket spuds, and new potatoes (it's Jersey Royals season and I could eat them all day, so that'll be a tester).

But I've never been able to tolerate butter pies, haven't had one in years.

[Alex_UK]

Healthyish option tonight, baked salmon with Orzo and green salads. I do love a salad, should eat them more often, really.