What are you making for dinner?

Florenceem

I kept to last night's plan of sausages etc. Today we have eaten at the SA - Pukk. steak pie + mash/veg followed by gateau so no cooking for me tonight.

JIL

I have made a load of salads, greek, green, pasta, coleslaw, potato, waldorf and they will be tonight dinner with chicken and halloumi and lunches tomorrow.

Smoosh

We ended up getting a takeaway from a local Turkish restaurant as we still need to shop and I'm not feeling great 😩 It was a nice treat though. I had a falafel and hummus wrap with chips, OH had a lamb wrap, chips and garlic mushrooms. 

For breakfast OH had Greek yoghurt, banana and honey and I had marmite on toast (YS bread). Lunch was halloumi and sweet chilli ciabattas (more YS bread).

Might have some chocolate cake before bed (YS too). 

OrkneyStar

Me/DH - Tatties, cauliflower cheese and cold meat (corned beef or chicken).
DS - Tatties, fishfingers and peas.
DS normally has what we have, but he just doesn't like cauli cheese or cold meat (when it's not in a sandwich), so he opted for Fish Fingers instead. I don't believe in pandering, but, at nearly 15, he gets some say if he really does not like something!

arielgirl

I roasted the veg last night as per the plan. But I don't fancy it in curry today because I ended up putting a little curry powder into my soup yesterday. Still that soup to finish today for lunch.  Thought I would just tweak tonight's menu. Still sticking to a bit of spice and going for peri peri pork, some of the roast veg, and rice. Friend visiting for dinner and we will share Easter egg for pudding.

Islandmaid

Spaghetti Bol for the family, cheese omelette for me 

Brie

kerri_gt said:

(also in the freezer...I swear one day I'm going to find The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in it)

@kerri_gt
Isn't it astounding the way things sink to the bottom of that frozen ocean and hide out of sight?!!   I'm so pleased we finally used up the merguez sausages we brought back from a French farmers market 4 years back!!  Just need to use that rhubarb I froze in 2019 and then there should be almost nothing left more than 12 months old.

Yesterday was supposed to be a remedy dinner of very spicy chilli to help cure our covid.  But after picking MiL up off the floor 3 times and 2 ambulance call outs resulting in 3 hours of paramedics in the house I told the OH to cease and desist.  He makes great chilli but we were both exhausted and I thought home cooking would tip him way over into exhaustion.  So instead had Lidl frozen schnitzel (which I love) and a tin of potatoes (which I eat but rarely enjoy).

I'm allowing him to make the chilli for tonight.  I'm also plotting to have enough left over either for a second dinner for us both or at least enough for me to have on a jacket potato in the next week or so.

kerri_gt

@Brie yikes! I hope MIL is ok? Relatively speaking? 
I am sure we have some random bits in the freezer that moved house with us...nearly 6yrs ago. I did throw out some elderberries last year that had been in there ages and really wish I hadn't.

Tonight will be some of the sausage casserole I made last night - I was going to make some dumplings with it as I have rather a lot of suet now thanks to Olio. However upon stepping on the scales this morning...I shall be having veg instead and maybe a slice of bread if I really need it. I've become terrible at constantly snacking through the day and although I'm pretty active, it's a habit that I need to break and just make those jeans a little less snug. 

Brie

kerri_gt said:

@Brie yikes! I hope MIL is ok? Relatively speaking? 

Thanks for asking @kerri_gt
Hard to know for sure.  I think (without any medical training beyond St J's first aid) that she had a small stroke brought on perhaps by covid.  Unfortunately when the second ambulance crew was here they determined she couldn't walk (which she had managed at least a bit earlier) and couldn't even stand.  I don't know if this was due to illness or whatever or having the third fall.  So un/fortunately she's been taken to hospital.  I know that's the right place for her to be but it's worrying.  Not helped by not hearing back after being told a number of tests needed to be run. And not helped that as we both have covid we can't visit which she doesn't understand at all.  She'll be 96 next month so I'm sure/hoping she'll be well looked after.

C_J

Oh dear, your poor MiL, @Brie. Hope she is fully recovered and safely back at home soon. My FiL is 94 and still (insists on) living alone, so every day is a rollercoaster of emotion for us, and I almost panic now every time the phone rings.

For dinner tonight I have made an asparagus tart which we’ll have with a big mixed salad and half a small baked potato each. The asparagus, baking potatoes, lettuce, cucumber, rocket, cherry tomatoes, spring onions, radishes and avocado all courtesy of the Community Larder.