What are you making for dinner?

JIL

On my own today so did some decluttering, had a sandwich some crisps and an orange juice.

Islandmaid

Busy day today, so quick dinner of Gammon steaks, sweet potato fries and peas

Jazee

Last night we had takeaway. Tonight DH says he's making curry again.

hatful-of-hollow

Last night we had steak pie (not hm) with chips and mushy peas. Lunch today is hm minestrone soup.

I usually buy our meat from the supermarket, but this week got a meat hamper from a local butcher, so tonight's dinner will be a lovely plump chicken which will be roasted and served with roasties, stuffing and assorted veg. This chicken makes the ones from the supermarket look ever so scrawny... I think I've been converted and can see me buying all my meat from the butcher from now on - it's not even that much more expensive than tescos..

Pollycat

Pollycat wrote: »

Pork goulash today in the slow cooker.

This ^^^^ was yummy - and there's enough sauce with peppers and mushrooms to top a jacket potato for my lunch.

Tonight I'm cooking 'beef and mushroom delight'.
It's a recipe I've had for over 30 years, no idea where it came from but it uses a lot of red wine and James Martin quantity of butter. :eek:
It just has to be served with mashed potatoes.

Frith

Shepherds pie with peas here. Then rhubarb picked this afternoon with Greek honey yoghurt.

Pollycat

Frith wrote: »

Shepherds pie with peas here. Then rhubarb picked this afternoon with Greek honey yoghurt.

Puddings don't interest me but when I read this I went 'Oooooh. Yum'.

frugalish

Hi all, I hope you don't mind me joining in here. I've got an old Tower slow cooker (from the '70s / '80s - one of those lovely brown and cream ones! ) that I've been using for about twenty years, but it's not getting hot enough any more, and things aren't cooking properly . So I have to invest in a new one. I saw one in Mr T for £15 which I thought looked reasonable, but I don't want to buy something that'll only last five minutes and then have to be replaced again. Can I ask for any recommendations from you lovely folk? I'm very sad to have to get rid of the Tower one - I thought it would outlive me! :rotfl:

In light of not having a working slow cooker, I've got a chicken casserole in the oven slow cooker style - heat it up on the hob, preheat the oven, bung the casserole in, bring back up to temp then turn the oven off and leave for a couple of hours without opening the door. Just reheat when needed. Works well for meat, but tends to sometimes overcook veg

The casserole should do two of us for three meals each midweek, probably with jacket potatoes and peas added. We've got a yellow sticker pizza for tonight - cheese feast, yum!

caronc

frugalish - my sister has had the Tesco one for a while. Mine are "Cookworks" from Argos, also cheap & cheerful both are well used and 10+ years old. I bitterly regret being persuaded to give my old Tower one away the newer ones all seem to cook much faster!

Dinner tonight is turkey & pork mince patties stuffed with french cheese, peppercorn sauce, baked spud. flat mushroom and runner beans.

Islandmaid

:wave: Hi frualish - I bought a 'vintage' one from e bay recently for my DD and her boyfriend, same era as mine, which was bought in 1989 and is still going strong.

I paid £20 delivered for DD's one and it looks like it's never been used

The new ones are lovely and shiny, but cook too 'hot' for my liking