what's for dinner tonight?

[BarryRoad]

Thanksgiving leftovers. Awesome.

[Keef]

Bless you Mr America ;-)

I'm with Anna! :)-D

[BarryRoad]

Call it two dinners then... after work drinks before I head home after a hard week for all of us!

[spadetownboy]

mexican tonight, uummmmmmmmm fajitas.

[zephyr]

Baked potatoes tonight with as choice of tuna/mayo/sweetcorn or refried beans or baked beans and cheese

[barrymarshall]

ooh, I've never gone for the refried beans and jacket spud option. Cheese and beans is my perennial choice. I might give it a go though.

I once saw something on a show where someone was eating jacket spud and peanut butter - could be amazing but talk about stodge city!

[Brendan]

Beer beer beer beer.

[Jah Lush]

And more beer and whiskey chasers and a few Sambucas too. It's Friday FFS Who needs food? Time to get hammered.

[Brendan]

:)-D

Why am I still inexplicably in the office? It?s dinner, I mean beer time!

[barrymarshall]

Well, I've had beer for dinner several times this week - if tonight's going to be a big night I need something solid in my belly for once ...

[PeckhamRose]

I got given Two Fat Ladies CookBook for Xmas once and tonight on my evening off I cooked Duck with Grapefruit sauce and it was yummy. Don't often cook, not very good at it, but I can read a recipe and do what I am told so it wasn't rubbish.

[LibraCarr]

Hi again,

We Live in Oakhurst Grove and have had really bad probs. Christmas Day we thought we had a earthquake. It was a combination of the Council tree on the road, and the neighbours treee having to much water!. A Old cupboard door blew off and went down the stairs, and we have a gap of a inch in the middle wall from our cellar to the fourth floor.

The builders are in (messy little bastards) and we have had to stop our scheduled cookery filming. I have gone out and bought a two ring boiler, (bit like the wife) A George Forman griddle, Microwave grill, toaster, etc. and have converted a bedroom into a emergency kitchen. I find as your resources get less it takes longer to cook, we have to seal the door off (after the builders have gone) to ensure there is no contamination.

Tonights meal is Loin of Pork in herb de provence sauce, with Julienne of baby carrots and baby sweetcorn, also with with new potatoes par boiled and then finished off in a pan with cracked pepper and sea salt.

I have prepped tommorows meal which is a beef stew. Done the veg, placed in the fridge. I will trim the beef tommorow and introduce the stock. Me Mammy will do the dumplings as I cannot have flour on the bedroom carpet. This meal is so simple and quick. You get home, prep the veg and meat, Boil some water and introduce the veg meat, and stock (cube). Have a shower and its ready when you have the obligatory glass of wine on the table!.

Regards,

Libra Carr

[Michael Palaeologus]

I had a George Forman for Xmas. Just grilled a steak on it eaten with a baked potato and green salad followed by a low fat cherry yoghurt. Yummy.

Washed down with no added sugar orange squash. Hmmmmm.

[LibraCarr]

Hi,

I was amazed that when you cook on one of these grills, the amount of fat that is in the tray is amazing. Shall I go healthy or shall I have bread and dripping!

Take care,

Libra Carr

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

LibraCarr

My stews take 2 hours plus - how long a shower do you have?

Michael - Formby over Foreman wins hands down.

[LibraCarr]

Hi,

If your stews take two hours, clearly the settings on your cooker are wrong. All veg cooked and chopped small then introduced into boiling water with stock take a max of twenty minutes to cook. If you use neck end of lamb then this will take longer.

By the time you get undressed, find a decent towel, shower, do your hair and shave (if you are male)then put on your night attire on it will take more than twenty minutes (unless you are a mucky tyke).

My suggestion is turn your cooker down and read Einsteins theory on relativity, your food should be cooked, and you will be more wiser at the same time.

Regards,

Libra Carr.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Confucius say: he who is poor buys scrag end which requires 2 hours plus.

[SeanMacGabhann]

it doesn't have to be tough meat to benefit from 2 hours plus

Chicken maybe less but beef and lamb certainly benefit from long and slow.... just coz it can be done in less time doesn't mean it should be done...

[LibraCarr]

Hi all,

Have you noticed that now cheaper cuts have been highlighted in meals by the sleb chef's, the price has risen. Oxtail is now more expensive than rump.

I put mine in a slow cooker, with butter beans and Caribbean three beans, and leave for eight hours. I serve this with Rice and beans, which you can cheat on by inserting cooked kidney beans into the rice once cooked. Add some spice Walla!

[SeanMacGabhann]

tonight - apples - peeled, sliced mixed with cinnamon, nutmeg and some sugar until soft

in the meantime - Clonakilty black pudding slices - fried

place the dark stuff onto the light stuff

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Asset]

eeek, I have abiding memories of being fed baked apples - with cinnamon and cloves - as a child and to this day I cannot stand cinnamon and cloves. My mother swears we only had them a couple of times but I'm sure it was every bloody week. So in a nutshell Sean - YUK. Nothing personal you understand.