So, tonights tea was..........................

[Gaz]

9 minutes ago, @Lee said:

My condolences, John.

 

Mine too @John2022.

 

Only just read your previous post as I was too busy waxing lyrical about vienna sausages 🙄

 

Gaz

[Gaz]

Pan fried minted lamb steaks, from our fave butcher, with roasted vegetables:

 

 

And OMG, no word of a lie, every bite was a delight to the palate 😎

 

Wine was a 2021 Saracosa Toscana Governo from Italy 👍

 

Gaz

 

[Gaz]

Cheesy gnocchi bake:

 

 

The gnocchi was made from sweet potato. Very nom nom nom.

 

G

 

 

[Colin170CR]

Cheeky Monday night out at the local curry house tonight.

 

King Prawn tandoori Masala, pilau rice, onion Bhajji's to share, Peshwari Nan to share & SWMBO had a coconut vegetarian something or other.

Papadums to start & of course , a Cobra.

Very nice albeit a bit indulgent for a Monday night.   

[John2022]

Walked in the rain this morning, watched a Sparrow hawk contemplating the world, probably thinking about his Tea. Did house stuff after drying out and had a proper Tea!

[Lady Elanore]

I've been getting catering for tea and tonight I had

 

Chicken, ham and leek pie, with buttered cabbage, roasted peppers (they were available, even if not necessarily designed to go with pie, I think they were meant for the veggie meal option?) and chips...oh and lashings of gravy. For pud I had mixed summer-ish fruit crumble with custard. Nom nom nom nom ....urp!....."excuse me" 

[Lady Elanore]

Tonight we had chicken and chorizo bits, in a roasted pepper sauce with veg and chips and rice. Apple strudel for pud...with custard of course  

[John2022]

Tonight's Tea was a rather nice homemade veg. soup with added garlic pork sausage .... but I scoffed  it before taking a picture! However here is another combination of lots of veg. and a couple of thin pork chops retrieved from the freezer. The veg. was very tasty, the chops like eating elastic bands 😬

[Lady Elanore]

Tonight we had Lincolnshire sausasausausausages, mash, assorted veg and loads of gravy. Lemon drizzle and custard for pud. I now resemble a space hopper, although slightly less orange to be fair. 

[mac11irl]

BLT Brunch earlier after a morning in the woods building winter shelter with the boys.

 

chicken and ham nearly finished in the oven for traditional roast sunday dinner

[Colin170CR]

Back home after a few days away in France / Belgium. Home cooking now after a variety of expensive touristy type establishments.

 

So tonight was a chunky pork chop, air fried roasties, garlic veg & a boat load of gravy. 9.5% Duvel triple hop IPA to wash it down - keeping the Belgium theme going for a few days until the EU bought beer & chocolate runs out. 

[Colin170CR]

Tonight was chicken leg stew, of sorts, laced with pepper & garlic, with spuds, broccoli, onion, celery & carrots. A winter warmer if ever there was one.

[lancpudn]

I made some egg muffins to go with a slice of gammon for tea.

 

[Colin170CR]

Tonight we are going out with some friends for an early Xmas dinner / get together. 

Not very Christmassy though because it is a Turkish restaurant.

Capadocia menu

 

There's plenty of time to get board with more traditional Xmas food later this month so we wanted something different.

 

Talking of something different to a Turkey (see what I did there), we have decided to have Guinea Fowl at our place for our Boxing day bash with family. 3 x 1kg birds between 5 adults + trimmings. Easier to prep & quicker to cook. Also considerably cheaper. The price of Turkeys now is nuts or is that just my inner skinflint coming to the fore?

For Xmas day we are over at my son & daughter in law for their first ever Xmas day family cook in their new / old house. I believe they are are doing Turkey joints instead of a whole bird because their oven isn't large enough. 

Let the feasting & excess begin. 🦃😋🍷

 

I suppose we had better get the Xmas decs down from the loft at some point also

 

[Paws4Thot]

4 minutes ago, Colin170CR said:

Tonight we are going out with some friends for an early Xmas dinner / get together. 

Not very Christmassy though because it is a Turkish restaurant.

Capadocia menu

Omnomnomnomnomnomnomnom....

[John2022]

3 hours ago, Colin170CR said:

 

 

Talking of something different to a Turkey (see what I did there), we have decided to have Guinea Fowl at our place for our Boxing day bash with family....

 

Guinea fowl will have a much nicer taste as well!

[John2022]

Today was the day of the car’s first service, so up early, minimal brekky and brave ten miles of horrendous road works and traffic to get to the dealers. Now for some fooood thought I, walk to a convenient B&Q just along the road for a feed at their café only to find it had gone, replaced by a stack of roof insulation!  Refusing the temptation to get a breakfast burger from a roadside van conveniently parked in a gale infested layby, I managed the extra half a mile to reach a garden centre that promised real food. The menu suggested a ‘creamy rich scrambled egg on white or brown toast’.  I fell for it and had presented a dry crumbly thing that resembled yellow sawdust that presumably was the product of out-of-date egg power and hot water. Anyway, with the help of copious quantities of ketchup I managed it, gulped down the tea and escaped to claim the rejuvenated car and ran away back home promising myself a proper tea. Here it is, Chicken casseroled with carrot, leek and mushroom, broccoli and home-grown spuds added later……… and a glass or two of French village plonk!

[Colin170CR]

21 minutes ago, John2022 said:

Today was the day of the car’s first service, so up early, minimal brekky and brave ten miles of horrendous road works and traffic to get to the dealers. Now for some fooood thought I, walk to a convenient B&Q just along the road for a feed at their café only to find it had gone, replaced by a stack of roof insulation!  Refusing the temptation to get a breakfast burger from a roadside van conveniently parked in a gale infested layby, I managed the extra half a mile to reach a garden centre that promised real food. The menu suggested a ‘creamy rich scrambled egg on white or brown toast’.  I fell for it and had presented a dry crumbly thing that resembled yellow sawdust that presumably was the product of out-of-date egg power and hot water. Anyway, with the help of copious quantities of ketchup I managed it, gulped down the tea and escaped to claim the rejuvenated car and ran away back home promising myself a proper tea. Here it is, Chicken casseroled with carrot, leek and mushroom, broccoli and home-grown spuds added later……… and a glass or two of French village plonk!

👍A Coq en Vin of sorts then....Haven't had one of those for years. Mmmm, could be an idea for a Sunday dinner next week!

[John2022]

13 minutes ago, Colin170CR said:

👍A Coq en Vin of sorts then....Haven't had one of those for years. Mmmm, could be an idea for a Sunday dinner next week!

Plonk in the dish as well as in the glass would surely add to it!

[J.R.]

My elderly neighbours invited me to lunch today to than me for saving them (their words) following complete loss of electricity nearly 3 months ago, I've been working on it afternoons for 2 months and they are finally safe and warm for winter, I on the other hand now have to spend my 3rd winter in the caravan 😒 but what goes around comes around.

 

They are in their late 80's and true French Paysans, they were circus travellers for over a decade, when he had eaten his main course he then flooded the bowl with red wine and stirred it around to effectively deglaze the dish and then tipped it down his neck, the wife said that he would die if he stopped drinking wine!

 

I had wondered why the dish was served in a dished plate like a bowl!

[Colin170CR]

4 hours ago, John2022 said:

Plonk in the dish as well as in the glass would surely add to it!

Oh it does. A bottle & a half of red goes into a Coq en Vin the way I do it. The other half bottle is for the chef 🍷until it's served when another bottle  (or two) are opened.

[J.R.]

It is Coq au vin although your version swimming in wine is aptly named!

[Gaz]

12 hours ago, J.R. said:

... and then tipped it down his neck, the wife said that he would die if he stopped drinking wine!

 

I like him already! 😎🍷

 

What did you have for lunch though?

 

Gaz

[J.R.]

Apéros first because its the law 😄 this stage falls a bit flat as I dont drink alcohol which inhibits the others, always served with amuses bouches, without the teetotaller that might go on for several hours with more snacks being prepared and served

 

Entrée was a paysan soup, very simple but really tasty, potatoes, bread and carrots but it was the stock, herbs and seasoning that made it fantastic.

 

Then a selection of cheeses.

 

Main course Daube de boeuf (cooked in beer instead of the normal wine because they know I dont drink alcohol) and potatoes.

 

Then paté de sanglier and paté de lièvre (hare) shot by Papi, prepared, cooked and conserved by Mamie.

 

Dessert - Tarte au pommes.

 

And in the evening she brought round some food containers with another portion of the main course and dessert!

 

They will be doing the same today with more freshly cooked dishes as they do every day, then he retires to his chair for un sieste while she goes shopping with the car.

[John2022]

Just a light lunch then😀