What's on your menu today

Cod fillet with a top crust of equal parts extra mature cheddar and breadcrumbs (with a few bits of chopped chive added) baked in the oven.

Served with watercress, rocket and tomato salad. Perhaps a few chips.

Chives grow in profusion in my garden but the frost has got at them by now. I freeze a stock of chopped chives for use in the winter. Likewise parsley. Don't try it with basil - it goes black and slimy.

For breadcrumbs, don't use those disgusting dried things available in tubs (or even worse the orange dyed ones). Make your own by allowing de-crusted bread slices to dry then crush in a mincer or blender or by hand with a rolling pin.

I'm doing a beef and tomato Chinese stir-fry 
Strips of rump steak, onions and peppers, tinned tomatoes, passata + tomato ketchup, garlic, soy sauce, served with egg fried rice.

It be big Black and 'airy, and Oy be affraid of it. 

Pork casserole today.

Cubed lean pork, onions, carrots, parsnips, swede, celery, leek all cooked together with a couple of fresh bay leaves with a nice stock in a slow cooker for several hours (4 - 5).

Left over dead lamb from yesterday, with veg.

Yet more damned rabbit food

Pork Chops and Roasters          dont let Sags know

Today we're having the remainder of the pork casserole (there was a lot of it).

I had forgotten that we were attending a buffet lunch yesterday, so we still have the left over lamb to eat with veg.

Beef stew and dumplings from Aldi with a few chips.

Change of plan. Not as much of the casserole as I thought.

Now having ham & asparaus pancake rolls. These are as they sound; three asparagus spears blanched in boiling water wrapped in a slice of ham which is then wrapped in a pancake (Shrove Tuesday type, home made). Two pancakes per person, placed in an ovenproof dish, covered with cheese sauce. topped with some grated extra mature Cheddar and baked in the oven until brown and bubbling.

The casserole is being liquidised and made into soup which we'll have for lunch.

You are a hell of a cook pops !...a man after my own heart.
I love to cook but these days I am getting lazy

I've always enjoyed cooking although these days it's not so easy as I have to sit down most of the time and I tire very quickly. I do try and make most of my own food and, until recently, made my own bread, albeit in a breadmaker.

I like to know what's in my food and therefore eschew almost all pre-made/pre-cooked stuff except traditional things like my breakfast meat (continental salami etc.) but I know that is not full of things I might find objectionable as they are carefully controlled by law in their country of origin.

We're very lucky nowadays in having a number of delivery services available so that, even though I might live in the back of beyond, we get a full delivery of just about anything we want, any day including Sundays.

Curly Fries with Lamb Chops and a little gravy and sliced tomato.

Gandalph wrote:

Curly Fries with Lamb Chops and a little gravy and sliced tomato.

We love curly fries,we get them from Aldi,I just wish they had bigger packs. We only get two meals each out of a pack.

I'll have to try them out