What's on your menu today

Rib eye is the most flavoursome of steaks

That's why my wife prefers it.

Cold roast lamb today, with roast spuds, carrots and sprouts.

Changed my mind,as it's such a foul and miserable day,I have decided to make it into a nice warming casserole. It will go down well wth some rice boiled in beef stock.

Topside with shallots, carrots and cloves braised in red wine. Served with roasted spuds, cauliflower and fine beans.

Chicken and mushroom casserole today with another try with Aldi curly fries.

Beef hash made with the remainder of the topside from yesterday - with chips.

We have just had battered and deep fried haddock , baked salmon (not me). roast peppers and onions and deep fried McCains Home Chips with a nice Aussie Chardonnay.

We bought a pack of "vegetable chips" the other day in Tesco. These are carrots, parsnips and beetroot cut into chip shapes.

Thought of doing these in the Actifry with some cubes of pork fillet and having that with pointy cabbage and mushroom gravy.

Haddock today with curly fries , peas and sweetcorn.

Piece of pork braised with onion, celery, peppers, carrot and swede slow cooked for 3 hours.
Mashed potato, cabbage and sprouts and a nice slice of homemade white crusty bread.

M & S tikka masala curry with garlic naan. We do our own basmati rice.

Tonight:
Skinless, boneless chicken breast stuffed with cheese and basil leaves, then wrapped in Parma ham and oven baked for about 25 mins.  It will probably be served with fresh pesto pasta and steamed fine green beans.

I think the worst thing you can do with Parma ham is to cook it. All its finesse disappears and in my view you may as well have used a piece of cheapo boiled ham.

I remember a few months ago, Waitrose introduced this "wonder product" Proscuitto Cotto - cooked Parma ham. I bought a small pack - it was even more expensive than Proscuitto Crudo - and it tasted just like cheap boiled ham.

Sorry to be so negative, Irene, just my view.

andsome wrote:

After last nights huge and delicious Cantonese meal at the bowls club annual dinner it is a plain mackerel sandwich for me tonight with thick slices of onion, 'Er indoors will have a fried egg sandwich.

can you remember what cantonese dishes you had andsome??

Stir fry pork & hoisin sauce with plain boiled rice today

I'm going to make a beef hotpot, chunks of slow cooked beef with potatoes carrots and onions