Cooking tonight (Mk3)

[Nicos]

Pizzas for us using up stuff from the fridge.

[Nicos]

Egg and tinned fish tumble salad followed by our own srawberris

[Bren In Pots]

The rest of yesterday Corned beef pie not decided on which veg yet.

[greenishfing]

I took some pasta sauce back out of the freezer so we had tagliatelle bolognese, garlic bread and salad.

Thinking about smoked mackerel for tomorrow.

[Nicos]

Change of plan….salad tomorrow, today we finished off OH’s home smoked bacon with cabbage.
Grapefruit for pud

[Snoop Puss]

Yesterday: crustless mini quiches (pea, courgette and red pepper) with salad.

Tonight: a pair of Meera Sodha recipes with leftovers for the freezer: baked onion bhajis and mushroom and walnut samosas. Again with salad.

Plum tart maybe?

[Mr Bones]

Pigeon last night with beetroot in balsamic, boiled charlottes with a dab of butter and flat-leaf parsley and griddled quarters of cabbage.

[Snoop Puss]

Is there a trick to griddling cabbage, Mr Bones? I tried it once and it was just very chewy and a bit rubbery. Neither tender nor crisp. Does it make a difference which variety?

[Mr Bones]

Snoop Puss . The griddle was very hot, sprinkle of flaked sea salt and a quick drizzle of olive oil (onto the pan) and slapped the cabbage straight down, just long enough for the outer to char. If it's on there a tad too long it goes soft. Maybe it's also down to size of cabbage and variety, I used a Hispi type (seed was mixed in the packet so don't know the name) but I've successfully griddled other open structure summer cabbages before so long as they're not too big and bulky.

[Nicos]

Nice simple salad tonight….freshly picked oak leaf lettuce and a tin of pilchards in tomato sauce ( almost our last one!) tumbled into it with a couple of sliced eggs.
Fresh bread with lashings of butter and then our strawberries for pud.
Maybe a couple of well earned beers too

[Snoop Puss]

Thanks, Mr Bones. I love cabbage, so will try again.

[greenishfing]

Pigeon last night with beetroot in balsamic, boiled charlottes with a dab of butter and flat-leaf parsley and griddled quarters of cabbage.

If my husband had his way we would be eating pigeon every day as he is now ready to declare all out war on the local ones that sit on the electricity wires all day eyeing up our plants.

Today however has been smoked mackerel, a big mixed salad and fried up new potato slices with homemade mayonnaise. There was fresh bread as well but neither of us managed any of it.

[Mr Bones]

Stir-fry last night, prawns in sweet chilli sauce, cabbage with cashews, garlic ginger and spring onion with Florence fennel, carrots and turnip and udon noodles.

[Bren In Pots]

Jacket potatoes, beans and rissoles last night, tonight we're having fish, chips and peas from the chippy.

[Nicos]

A tin of cassoulet with fresh bread followed by ice cream and a few semi ripe strawberries.