What's on your menu today

Slow cooked lamb shanks in a mint and rosemary gravy, with spuds carrots and sprouts.

Rump steaks. baked potatoes, coleslaw and sauteed mushrooms

Giant pork chop each, which will be seasoned and seared along with generously sliced onion, then finally all oven roasted.  To accompany, there will be roast potatoes and parsnip, plus fresh sprouts and carrots.  Yum!

Roast chicken, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots. Butternut squash, parsnips.gravy
Apple pie & custard.

An Australian Chardonnay accompanied by Roast chicken, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots, cauliflower, stuffing and gravy.

No pudding - too stuffed.

Chicken stir fry - using part of the remains of yesterday's roast bird. Doing my own mix of veg for the stir fry as I'm sick of buying the pre-mix bags and finding them filled up with inedible cabbage stalks and tough, stringy dark leaves (Tesco. Waitrose ain't much better).

Sirloin steak with loads of fried onion and garlic, spuds, carrots, sprouts and onion gravy.

Beef casserole, ..... chunks of steak, simmered and slow cooked with shallots, celery, carrot and swede...... dumplings added near the end of cooking time.

Chicken, leek & mushroom pie with a herb dumpling topping.

Just finished,smoked salmon fillets cooked in Campbell's cream of celery soup,with spuds carrots,peas and sweetcorn.

- - and still the chicken goes on.

Curry today. Thai green curry, I think.

Chicken legs with red/green peppers, celery and shallots, gently poached in white wine with the zest and juice of 1 home-grown lemon, fresh oregano and garlic and cumin plus salt and pepper and a pinch of sugar. Served with rice.

Quorne mince and potato pie,with carrots,peas and roast spuds

Malcolm, did you grow your lemon from a pip or did you buy a grafted plant?

I grew a grapefruit tree from a pip some years ago. After about fifteen years of careful nurturing it eventually flowered and produced fruit.

The fruits were just like normal grapefruits in size and appearance but when opened up the flesh was about the size of grape, not a grapefruit surrounded by cotton wool - very disappointing. The plant and the flowers smelled nice, though.

I bought my lemon tree from Aldi about four years ago...it is in the conservatory in a pot and has produced lemons every year...this year it produced fifteen.