TONIGHT`S DINNER

grannyknot that sounds delicious - could you pass on the recipe? We had sautéed sea bas, potatoes Boulanger (sliced and baked in the oven with onions and thyme) and purple sprouting broccoli. Late strawberries from the allotment for afters.

Smoked mackerel and leek pasta bake, green salad. Stewed plums and single cream for afters. With a movie on DVD (hope I like it, it's a Western)

Gurnard fillets with (Rick Stein recipe) bouillabaisse sauce and saffron potatoes.

Quick dinner tonight, been a busy day. Baked potato, baked beans and local butcher's wonderful sausages.

Chicken parmagiana (sp???) with new potatoes and ginger and garlic green beans. Really easy because I had the tomato sauce in the freezer!! Result!

Sounds good Mamie.

Nothing very exciting here tonight. It's fish, chips and peas tonight and a yoghurt with flaked almonds on the top.

As it's Friday I usually makes us a nice strong Bacardi and Coke, memories of our youth.

Casserole (adapted from a Diana Henry recipe) of venison sausages (personally imported from Waitrose), lentils, red wine, spoonful of this season home-made damson jelly, rosemary, mushrooms and a pinch of chilli. Served with steamed leeks. Delicious though I say it myself. ��

Thai curry made with salmon, with veg and noodles - yum.

By special request of DD3 we are having chicken tighs roasted on new potatoes, peppers, red onions and garlic. With a couple of It has been a long and trying week!!

Well done hilda

We've had rabbit pie, bought from the local farm shop, with cauliflower cheese. DH had American fries with his. It was delicious. The farm shop were raising money for a cancer care charity so we had a go on the tombola, and bought tickets for the raffle. I won a pretty pink cyclamen plant on the tombola and when we got home had a message to say DH had won a raffle prize. He's going to get it tomorrow.

Tonight we had delicious mushroom soup bought in local deli and sourdough bread from little artisan bakery I have just found. I loved the bread but DH wasn`t quite so keen

Thanks Kitty looks yummie.

Quick & easy veg soup to-night followed by plaice & thick cut chips,we are lucky to have a fabulous little fishmongers near to us and he does the gutting for me so I only have to dip into breadcrumbs and all done,will use the other half of the lemon in G&T later on so nothing wasted.

I've posted it NanKate. Sorry if there are typos - I had help!

Hope you enjoy it

Thanks Kitty I look forward to trying it.

Nankate - I'll put the recipe for the keema on the the recipe bit later! It was on a leaflet I picked up in the butchers.

Ratatouille (with jacket potato for DH as a fast day for me) with some haddock and fruit to follow.

Last of the butternut squash soup and a ham sandwich, made with lovely fresh tiger bread.

Great dinner tonight - M&S dine in for 2 for a tenner, complete with bottle of wine!

Nankate just checked out my profile, it says West Midlands so that covers all sides I think

Nankate whoops I can't find an icon for embarrassed! It should read East side. I lived in a village called Whitacre Heath, near Coleshill - do you know it?

That's interesting Jam about the Balti restaurants.

I was born in Handsworth Wood in the 1940s. You said you come from the East of Brum and on your profile the west of Brum . I know both sides even though I left when I was 11.

Nankate having lived to the East of Brum for 14 years I can confirm that the Balti did originate from there. I have spent many a happy hour in one of the restaurants in what is known as the Balti triangle. One of the great things about them is that although most if not all are unlicensed, they have no objection to you taking in your own alcoholic drink - some actively encourage it as one relative or another may well own the corner shop next door! This makes for a really cheap night out - recommended!

Kitty as you are the curry Queen in my eyes having introduced me to the great Spice Tailor range, can you now give me a description of a Keema curry, never heard of it ! I have had a sheltered life .

I read somewhere that Balti curries originated in Birmingham not India - anyone know the answer to this please ?

Keema curry with plain rice and pickle!