What you all cooking tonite?

[Northern Lass]

I was just having a convo and realised that my new pots and peas and
pork steaks with tomato ketchup
is so boring!!

does anyone fancy the recipe section again
but I aint got time to run it
but I did enjoy some of the stuff we cooked

I loved Di's potatoes and Mallys steaks!!

anyone up for it?

Oh and anyone any other ideas for things we can do
in our little snug..............do post!!

I have to admit I still havent read that book
still got it up to few pages in
but it just doesn't grab me

going to try next week

[grangers14]

Cornedbeef pie we had tonight, jackets and beans.
Baking this moring so it was something easy to give my daughter to take home for thier teas.
Cheese scones and scones too.
Jo

[snoopysue]

I have to admit I still havent read that book
still got it up to few pages in
but it just doesn't grab me

going to try next week

Wasn't that about six months ago???

[Northern Lass]

End of April ....thank you!!

but I can't get into it

[Northern Lass]

Asparagus wrapped in smoked salmon
then dipped in a runny egg

how good is that!!

[Rob]

[MarkCDodd]

My youngest daughter cooked for us tonight.

Three courses of very complicated recipes I won't even try and describe.

It took us ages to find all the ingredients when I went shopping with her.

Being a meat and veggie type of bloke I don't really go for all this fancy stuff but she did an excellent job.

She showed me a menu from a popular restaurant in Melbourne that would have charge about $120 a head for the same meal.

[Antie Em]

Me and Jonathan had Pizza and chips, followed by sticky toffee pud and custard - lovely - and watched last week's Dr Who because my machine forgot to record last night's episode.

[SRD]

My youngest daughter cooked for us tonight.

Three courses of very complicated recipes I won't even try and describe.

It took us ages to find all the ingredients when I went shopping with her.

Being a meat and veggie type of bloke I don't really go for all this fancy stuff but she did an excellent job.

She showed me a menu from a popular restaurant in Melbourne that would have charge about $120 a head for the same meal.

Add to the cost of the ingredients the pay for two people to go running around finding them, preparing and cooking them, premises costs (what kind of rent/rates/insurance etc. would a 'popular restaurant in Melbourne' have to pay?) and all of the other extraneous costs of running a business and it's easy to see not only how it can cost a lot of money to eat out but also how frequently eateries, especially independent ones, go bust.

Anyway, last night MrsSRD had a glass of sherry and a few nibbles and I had a couple of oatcakes with some cheddar and a glass of cider from the Seymour Arms (known as the Sleeveless Vest). Now that is a proper pub, it reminds me of the beer house I learnt to drink in. Such a frugal supper was the result of an excellent lunch at The Bull at Hardway after a morning shopping at the Farmers Market in Frome.

That shopping means we have an offal supper in view, fresh lambs kidneys and sweetbreads alongside some calves liver on a bed of rice lightly spiced with a little cumin seed, chopped shallot and cooked with chicken stock (you can add a handful of peas as well).
Once I've prepared the sweetbreads (a bit bothersome but worth it) and the kidneys, I'll dust the liver with seasoned flour and fry it in a little butter then set it aside to keep warm (don't overcook it as it will continue cooking in the heat), then fry the kidneys in a little more butter and set aside to keep warm, add a couple of sliced shallots to the pan and soften then fry the prepared sweetbreads in a little more butter, deglaze the pan with a medium dry sherry and pour in a good dollop of cream (I might stir in a little dijon mustard depending on my mood), return the kidneys to the pan just to cook off any blood that might have oozed out, arrange the liver on a plate with the rice alongside, place the kidneys on top of the rice and spoon over the sweetbreads in their sauce. Garnish with a little chopped parsley.

No veg with that so we'll have a good salad for lunch.

[peterd]

Asparagus wrapped in smoked salmon
then dipped in a runny egg

how good is that!!

you been watching to many adverts

[Northern Lass]

Asparagus wrapped in smoked salmon
then dipped in a runny egg

how good is that!!

you been watching to many adverts

I didnt have that

I said it looked good waitrose advert

[dianel]

I've been making bread & butter pudding with kumquat marmalade spread on the bread 'n butter. So easy and soooo yummy, I've made 3 lots in a row and still not sick of it.

Might cook again next week... or not. Mustn't raise expectations, next thing I'd be expected to do vacuuming

[SRD]

It didn't quite happen as expected - by the time I'd prepared the sweetbreads and the kidneys there was such a massive pile of meat that we chucked in a handful of quartered mushrooms and saved the liver for today, which I shall prepare with onion gravy, new potatoes and Cornish greens.

[linell]

It didn't quite happen as expected - by the time I'd prepared the sweetbreads and the kidneys there was such a massive pile of meat that we chucked in a handful of quartered mushrooms and saved the liver for today, which I shall prepare with onion gravy, new potatoes and Cornish greens.

Yuk would rather have a ham sandwich.

[BC Wench]

I've been making bread & butter pudding with kumquat marmalade spread on the bread 'n butter. So easy and soooo yummy, I've made 3 lots in a row and still not sick of it.

Might cook again next week... or not. Mustn't raise expectations, next thing I'd be expected to do vacuuming

Bread and butter pudding mmmmm. One of my favourites especially with custard, there again, any type of pudding with custard. Tried it with your usual marmalade, but not kumquat.

Barb