Cooking Tonight #5

[greenishfing]

Tonight we'll have soup. Either mushroom OR tomato and aubergine. Crispy smoked bacon bits and grated parmesan to sprinkle on top.

[Bren In Pots]

Had shop bought cucumber with my lunchtime salad today. Eurrgh! I'd forgotten how devoid they are of taste.

Mark I know what you mean,. we've been spoilt by the taste of homegrown I stopped buying store bought tomatoes and cucumbers.

This evening Mackerel with roast veg.

[Florence Fennel]

We had visitors yesterday evening so the chicken finished up as a quick Justa and the sponge pudding saved for today.

Pork and Leek sausage with mashed potatoes, cabbage, carrots and onion gravy.

[Nicos]

Burger with the left over mash and beans
The rest of the apple sponge pudding and custard for pud

[Armorel]

Hubby is much better in the kitchen than me (aren't I a lucky lady?). When we ran our guest house, he did most of the starters and mains while I did the veggies and puddings. He has a sweet tooth and would love me to make regular puddings but I'm now type 2 diabetic so tend not to make sweet stuff. However, I do have a weakness for flapjacks and mince pies made with my special cherry and ginger mincemeat.

Today, he cooked a main lunchtime meal of Chinese-style shredded beef steak with red peppers, ginger, water chestnuts and noodles. Delicious!

Tonight - cheese and biscuits I think

[Nicos]

Amoral…OH is the head chef in our house…it’s his hobby , so it’s nice for me to get my hand in at least once a week!

[Florence Fennel]

Lasagne with a tomato salad.

[Bren In Pots]

Veg burger with orzo, mushrooms and chard instead of spinach.

https://cookiespedia.com/spinach-mushroom-orzo/

[greenishfing]

Yesterday's tomato and aubergine soup was really tasty. I think we'll finish it for lunch today.

Tonight Scallop and prawn gratin with garlic bread and a side salad.

[Bren In Pots]

Fish, chips and either garden or mushy peas.

[Nicos]

Moussaka using our aubergines.
stewed apple and yog for pud

[greenishfing]

Smoked mackerel tonight. (Somehow I managed to accidently order 2 packs last week). We were going to have it with salad but I know that Mr GF will pick and poke at it before, maybe, eating it so I'm going to turn it into smoked mackerel paté with the addition of mascarpone, lemon juice and horse radish. We'll have it with garlic toast and salad.

[Florence Fennel]

The other half of last week's Chinese. I'll have to add some chicken and noodles to mine, because I eat more than half

[Snoop Puss]

We had grilled lamb loin chops last night with baked toms, grilled courgette and rice. Really good.

Supper tonight should be courgette and ricotta galette but sure as eggs are eggs it'll be imam bayildi to speed matters up. Recipe for galette here if anyone's interested: https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/06/z...cotta-galette/

That orzo recipe looks delicious, Bren. Mr Snoop isn't a spinach fan but loves mushrooms, so I reckon that's a go-er for us. I've bookmarked it for future reference. Thanks.

[Bren In Pots]

Snoop I've made that Orzo recipe before, substituting sliced courgettes for the spinach.

Edited just bookmarked the galette recipe.