TONIGHT`S DINNER

DGS are here for dinner. Oldest has requested KFC would I be awful nannie to let them. To late to make my own.

Give them the KFC Nina and you will be in their best books.

Gazpacho courtesy of Lidl`s speciality Sol&Mar this week. It was delicious with crusty bread needless to say DH baulked at the very idea of cold soup so he had a ham salad

Tonight it's ham and pineapple pizza, potato salad and tomatoes, DH's choice. We had pasta carbonara and a side salad for lunch so we might as well make it Italian for the whole day.

Tonight DH & I have been to our favourite restaurant, I had moules with Roquefort sauce & frites, & DH had monkfish with a pepper sauce ( with frites of course ) absolutely delicious.

Roasted mediterranean veggies with grated parmesan, rocket and basil salad, and red grapefruit for pud. It's our Fast Day! I'm feeling virtuous for a change - and looking forward to eating more tomorrow....

Whole turbot done in a fish basket on the barbie, piquant potato salad, green bean and tomato salad, salsa verde.

Mamie that sounds sublime.

Butterflied leg of lamb that has been marinading all day in olive oil, lemon juice and rosemary. Will slow roast it and chuck some potatoes out of the garden and carrots into the roasting dish.

South African style green beans (try it, it's delicious): green beans chopped square into smallish pieces, boiled in water to which you have added a chopped onion and one potato. (In other words more green beans than anything else, but all boiled together). When the potato is soft, drain and mash together roughly with a knob of butter and some black pepper.

Elderflower and raspberry jelly with creme fraiche (jelly thanks to the mark down counter at Waitrose).

Ooh that sounds nice; we love doing butterflied lamb (sometimes on the barbecue). Will try the green beans recipe, we have a huge crop this year.

Roasted veggies, a jacket potato and organic rump steak from Sainsburys which was not large but very nice indeed.
A raspberry panacotta from M&S and some rose wine.

Replete and not looking forward to WW on Tuesday.

Cooked myself a nice fillet steak tonight, with sauté spuds, mushrooms and asparagus, washed down with a soft red. I just felt I deserved it

Well I wish I had been at your house Veg what a fab meal.

I wonder what our parents would have written on this thread 60/70 years ago. Well as it was Sunday perhaps roast beef, veg etc.

NanKate - you would have been most welcome! When I was a child, we always had a roast on Sunday, eaten at lunchtime and for tea had cold meat sandwiches, with jelly and blancmange to follow.

Open prawn sandwiches for tonight but almost didn`t happen. I have no explanation as to why I thought good use by date on the prawn ring meant the fridge and not the freezer I never checked the storage advice. Am so cross with myself had to rush out this afternoon and of course all the prawn rings had gone and they are really good prawns had to settle for others which look ok but lack a certain something.

Also having a guest for tea so not really my best offering. Hey ho I`ll just have to pour a glass to console myself

we are having our Saturday night curry tonight!

I just feel up to it last night was in beddie-bys by 8 oclock.

I think the reason was, we went to lunch on Friday with the rellies and I had lamb Taguine, it didn't seem to taste right,[ although how would I know as I have never had it before]

Anyway, I could not finish it and yesterday felt so ghastly all day which is not like me at. I have, as I said to trevor when we were talking of curry, a caste iron stomach . so IMO it was a bit ^ off^.

So curry it is tonight I am glad to say!

Chicken cooked on the ancient rotisserie, which will probably be placed outside and plugged in to the extension lead, as it chucks out far too much heat to cope with in the kitchen in this weather!

Large roasting tin filled with peppers, courgettes, button mushrooms, red onions and cherry tomatoes, seasoned and drizzled with olive oil, which will be bunged in the oven, Mr P's saffron rice.

Sounds good Phoenix! We are having salad - again - too hot to cook here still. I have promised a "proper dinner" for Mr Gaga when it cools down a bit. (I do make the salads look pretty though).

OH is cooking tonight. We are having shin of veal pot-roasted on the hob with herbs and white wine, new potatoes and spinach (and yes he does clear and wash up as he does it).

The neighbours must now be utterly convinced that we are mad. Not content with putting the rotisserie outside, Mr P has put it on the top of an aluminium stepladder just outside the front door.

Why phoenix? I am inclined to agree that your neighbours will be requesting the men in white coats to come. I will look after Digby if you are both in for a while, and it does seem to be going that way.

It does sound delicious, I hope that you are at home long enough to enjoy it. If I bring a delicious dry white, may I join you? My paella will wait.

Haven't a clue what I'm eating tonight. I am trying to use up what's in the fridge and freezer before I go away on Tuesday. Maybe a veg curry!

phoenix, I think you do owe us an explanation!

Going away tomorrow to my DD's, to help with the new baby. Have spent the day cooking and baking things to take with me, exhausting myself in the process so have just had 2 boiled eggs and toast soldiers - couldn't be bothered to do anything else!

Why phoenix why? We need to know.

Enjoy your time with the new baby, vegas. Don't overdo things!

Leftovers tonight - the open prawn sandwiches went down a treat last night and there is enough for me tonight DH back on the ham salad