TONIGHT`S DINNER

All the time I lived in the Midlands, I could call DS2 'mardy'. Funnily enough when we moved to East Anglia, he was never called 'mardy' again.

Th'art a right Mardybum, as the children in my first class used to say to each other.
It is, I believe, linguistically related to merde.

Home made thick veg soup with crusty bread. Melon with cinnamon.

We used "mardy" in West Yorkshire too and it meant being sulky or a cry-baby. Is that what it meant in the Midlands?

Mardy I knew, and mithering, from my Mancunian landlady at uni, but pithering?

Yes mardy is definitely sulky and a dropped bottom lip.

Kitty the coconut curry from The Spice Tailor was fan-dabby-dozy as the Crankies used to say.

I added dried apricots, sultanas and fresh coconut and DH has waxed lyrical about it.

We had a very nice Pilau rice with it too.

Being slovenly we watch the final programme about the Taj Hotel in India whilst eating our curry.

We used "mardy" in West Yorkshire too and it meant being sulky or a cry-baby. Is that what it meant in the Midlands?
Yes, it is Gagagran
I remember my mother telling me not to be so mardy, and have used it on my own children ("What I can't stand is a mardy child, especially when it's my own!")

Salmon, a courgette and tomato bake and a few of DH's chips.
To be followed by yet another baked apple (with icecream this evening).

Mary Berry's chicken tagine with rice and salad and, if it's not nice, I shall get very, very mardy as I didn't have lunch!

Baked potato and a big salad; Theseus had baked haddock fillets and sourdough bread. (Prefers bread to potatoes.)

I must confess to macaroni cheese. My ultimate comfort food.

Tonight we had Chicken Tikka Masala which I will freely admit I used a bought sauce but when I added my own special ingredients and chicken served with natural yoghurt and rice was very good. I`m not adverse to using a basic shop bought sauce and improvising.

We had hot smoked salmon with lemon rice and fresh raspberries and home-made meringues with some clotted cream. Delicious. Prefer raspberries to strawberries these days.

Slow roasted shoulder of lamb topped with a crust of mint and garlic, served with runner beans, baby courgettes, purple routing broccoli, mashed carrot and swede and roast potatoes, not forgetting the gravy and mint sauce. This was followed by fresh strawberries and raspberries. Really delicious even if I say so myself!

DS went back to Uni yesterday, and I really can't be bothered to do roasts for just two of us. Not as we know them, anyway, with masses of mixed veg. So I braised big pork chops in red cabbage and apple and lots of spiced red wine, served with roasted broccoli, and butternut and potato mash.

Bloody he** you don't half eat some good nosh you Gransnetters.

SueD your roast sounded like what my Nan used to cook on a Sunday and very nice too.

Kitty you do have some exotic meals up in you neck of the woods - tagine, curry etc

Oh, seeing this thread has reminded me that I have not thought about tonight's dinner, taken nothing out of the freezer!

Egg and chips?

Last night was roast chicken and roasted mediterranean veg (all from the garden). Tonight is cold chicken with the leftover veg in a salad with pearled spelt, goji berries and nuts. Tomorrow will be the last of the chicken in a pie with leeks and some hedgehog mushrooms that OH picked today. I will make a small amount of pastry crust with wholemeal spelt flour for the top.
Waste not want not!

Egg and chips sounds good to me Rose.

Hedgehog mushrooms sound fun and unusual Mamie

I am about to stuff and bake a couple of Bramleys and even at this time of year DH likes me to fill them with mincemeat and a dollop of golden syrup, with just a small dribble of Elmlea, yes I know it is an indulgence but the 'eat by date' is Saturday - my 68th birthday

I've hinted I would like to be taken out for a meal, so much so himself has suggested I book a table. I don't need anymore encouragement, where's the phone ?

Something with chicken breasts! Why do people change plans at the last minute! I was going to do spicy sausage pasta tonight and paprika chicken on Wednesday but DS has decided to come for a meal on Wednesday [mainly to watch the match!!] and has requested the sausage pasta. We had chicken and rice yesterday so can't have rice tonight, no one likes paprika chicken with potatoes. Flipping people!!

Stir fry with Quorn pieces followed by fruit/yoghurt.

Quorn and blancmange are the only two things I can never eat, revolting.

Tonight it's pizza and chips with what's left of the salad from lunch time. Got to go hungry tomorrow as it is diet day.

kitty for anything with paprika, chicken or goulash, we like gnocci (sp) and shop bought is so quick and easy

Hello, I am new to these parts - can I join in?

Last night my DS came over and cooked us dinner as a belated birthday treat, goats cheese and red onion lasagne, patatas bravas (basically roast tatties in spicy tomato chilli garlic sauce) and sautéed asparagus - totally yum! Followed by Viennetta - a blast from the past.

That's enough showing off - tonight it's a bit of sea bass and carrots from the allotment. It's a diet day so short commons!

Welcome Jam I am not a very adventurous cook but have picked up some good ideas from this thread.