TONIGHT`S DINNER

Roast hogget chump chops, minted new potatoes, shallots in cheese sauce, stir fried mushrooms, ruby chard and courgettes.

I love this time of year.

Chicken stir fry with hot spices/peppers/scallions.... and Tilda wild rice (cheat - microwave). Hot roll from the oven.

I think I'm going to have hot smoked salmon with salad and new spuds. Not very exciting, but hoping for a reasonable weight loss at the weigh in on Wednesday. What I would really like would be croque monsieur and chips.

Tonight its cold poached salmon salads and tropical fruit salad - we are trying to be very good at the moment. As soon as he is out of the door (to bowls) I'm having a couple of glasses of wine!

Simple tonight - thin-sliced grilled sirloin steak in a crusty baguette with salad and sweet mustard + couple of glasses of soft red Sangiovese de Romagna. Desert was a bar of chocolate-covered Turkish delight (small)!

Nothing tonight but, for lunch I had soused herrings with curried egg salad, dexter beef, two sorts of potatoes, 4 veg and the most delicious jus that they made especially for me as the gravy wasn't gluten free and which I suspect was mostly red wine. No pud because I was stuffed.

DH had pan fried pigeon breast with rhubarb and various other stuff, lamb with all the trimmings and the most beautiful looking pink, mint jelly. He also ate my helping of tomato bread along with his own, so he didn't have pudding either.

Just going to loll in front of the telly looking like the wolf who ate the 7 little kids!

Roast beef for us today a good piece of Aberdeen Angus from Costco thanks to DS1 and his members card and have made some horseradish sauce myself then going to try that new Eton Mess Icecream Carte Dor I think ? I have some fresh strawberries just to add a bit more flavour.

You have to be over 18 to even look at that site, rosequartz!
I don't know if I dare...

Well you never know, I might even be getting ANNINGS cider, although Mr N has just come in to get papers and I told him about cider !

His response "OMG , you are not are you ?" !!!!!!1

I feel a coming on !

www.anningsfruitcider.com/ Well, you never know!!

I KNOW but these ones I am talking of , have added different fruit eg raspberry !

(stick out tongue emoticon)).

What do you think ordinary cider is made of, Nonu?

Steam braised

Waitrose vegetarian spring rolls, stir fried bean sprouts and home stem braised pork ribs made to my late husband 's recipe.

Not great fan of cider, but fruit ones are supposed to be^ rather special,^ so I will see !

Have heard on the grapevine we are having at DD"s later :-

Asparagus and goats cheese tartlets

Slow casseroled Pork
with
roast potatoes, roast garlic, mashed potatoes,new baby carrots green beans.

Summer berries served with double cream.

Washed down with a nice white wine, and some of those "fruit ciders"

Slow-roasted lamb in a spicy rose-petal crust, saffron potatoes and spinach.

Wow sparkygran are you well organised! Sounds like a wonderful meal. I'm going to the cinema for a 6 o'clock screening tonight, so won't eat until I get home 8.45, when I'll tuck to yesterday's leftovers. I plan to have a light meal around 4ish, otherwise I'll be dead with hunger. So boiled eggs and toast soldiers for lunch, followed by a cold meat salad at 4.

Hi everyone tonight its steak and kidney pie with new potatoes and fresh garden peas followed by rhubarb tart and custard. Made the pie yesterday so this morning has been very relaxing. Having my uncle joining us my adorable aunt died recently so do my best to have him over frequently

Ana you little rascal it`s all above board - enjoy Casualty

'a guy flogging his beef'...'pop-up shop'...my mind is obviously far too rude for Gransnet - off to watch Casualty!

The power of advertising was watching Nick Hewer on a local programme called Farm Fixer which featured a guy flogging his beef - nay Dexter beef - at the end of the programme it was flagged up that there was a `pop up shop` in our city centre and low and behold when I was in town last Thursday there it was staring me in the face - no need to go into my browsing and purchasing - bought 2 Dexter steaks and we had them tonight I thought they were expensive (family though differently) and they were good but in all honesty no better than steaks from local butcher. anyway served with mushrooms, peas and new potatoes. Nice meal

Mince and tatties here - but broad beans doing well in the garden so looking forward to one of my favourites in a few days - raw tiny broad beans, feta cheese and mint salad.

Salad of tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, cucumber and red onion, red rice and roasted vegetable salad, and fresh sardines cooked on the barbecue. The sardines cost 2€ from the fish stall in the market.

Tandoori Chicken, salad and naan bread with cucumber and mint raita.