What's on your menu today

Chicken casserole, with patna and wild rice cooked in chicken stock in the microwave rice steamer.

'Er indoors is outdoors again going to lunch with daughter and granddaughters.
I will be having a Chicken Biryani and poppadoms

For lunch I will have a slice or two of the terrine I made yesterday

Looks nice.

Him indoors just made a lovely ham salad. Too early to think tonight's din din  :;smile:

Cumberland sausages with mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy.

Gravy made with a Knorr stock cube, Bisto Best gravy granules, hoisin sauce, ginger and turmeric.

That is what you call real gravy Mart !

Stir fried strips of beef with rice.

Tuna pasta bake today.

Today will be fish cakes, hash browns and baked beans.

malcolm wrote:

That is what you call real gravy Mart !

It does turn out quite thick and tasty Malcolm. Those extras were initially an experiment but it seemed a successful one, so they are regular ingredients now. :)

I always use stock cubes in my gravies and usually a dash of soy sauce and a sprinkle of garlic granules, but I've never used hoisin sauce or turmeric.

Do you manage to get the gravy to stay thick throughout a meal? I find it can be OK to start with but gets thinner by the time it meal is down to the last few fork-fulls. I've tried a bit of instant mash powder and this works to a degree but not entirely. Maybe it's the water from the veg. that does it?

An evening breakfast for dinner today. Bacon, eggs, sausage, black pudding, tinned tomatoes and bread to soak up all the liquid. In the past, I would have had fried bread but in these low fat days, it's out

Mart wrote:

Do you manage to get the gravy to stay thick throughout a meal? I find it can be OK to start with but gets thinner by the time it meal is down to the last few fork-fulls. I've tried a bit of instant mash powder and this works to a degree but not entirely. Maybe it's the water from the veg. that does it?

I thicken my gravy with cornflour Mart, seems to do the trick.

Haddock in batter with curly fries and mushy peas

Steak puddin's chips and peas