What are you making for dinner?

Islandmaid

Pollie said:

Grilled spam and cheese toasties with salad.

I genuinely didn’t know you could still buy spam - reminds me of visiting my grandparents who had spam fritters and ‘proper’ chips on a Saturday teatime followed by tinned fruit salad and evaporated milk 🥰

Islandmaid

To all those people that make life special - Mothers or not x

Compinglady97

Its gone past midnight but I had some curry x

Brie

Back from holiday and I must say we had so many marvellous meals.....schnitzel of course (as we were in Germany), lots of things with sauerkraut too, more cake & coffee than I can even think about at this point (part of managing OH's blood sugar.....), roast suckling pig baked into onion bread.....

Notably - being in the east of Germany raw pork is a thing - sometimes minced to be spread of bread as a starter, sometimes just sliced for part of the breakfast buffet.  Schmeck or schmalz of course -  fat mixed with bits of bacon and lots of salt, again to put on your bread.  

Maroilles - a rather stinky French cheese that is exactly what you want for a sauce with your frites and chateaubriand.  We also bought a maroilles tart to bring back for dinner last night for an easy dinner after a very long drive from the tunnel.

Also of note a beautiful carrot and orange soup.  garnished with a blood orange sauce - looked and tasted wonderful.  And at that restaurant there was a nice bit on the menu which listed the various "steaks" beef, pork, chicken, salmon and then you could pick separately what potato you might (or might not) want, and the same again for vegetables and sauces.  So essentially if you wanted just the sirloin and nothing else that's all you ordered and all you paid for.  A great idea.

AND on the last night in France on the way home - tartar St Jacques.  Yes more raw food.  This time scallops, chopped rather than all out minced, and mixed with what they called on the menu carmelised tomato.  it tasted a bit like sun dried but not dry, chopped in with the scallops and a similar sauce drizzeled on the plate which of course all had to be sopped up along with the scallop juice with the extra nice chunks of baguette.  I had a main of lamb shank which was very good rather than great but was followed by "chocolate speculoos" which was a very very rich gooey chocolate concoction with chunks of gingerbread cookies mixed in.  So no calories there at all!

Did the required shopping at Lidl and CarreFour to bring home all the stuff we can't easily or cheaply get here.  More maroilles cheese, boudin blanc, quince jam, pastis, marmot tea, kriek, merquez etc etc etc.  

Islandmaid

After a glorious weekend of weather, the heavens have opened and it’s cold too.

easy Monday food, sausage casserole 🙌 I’m not overly hungry so won’t bother, there’s HM yoghurt if I need anything 

@Brie sounds like a fab trip 

Florenceem

We will have some of the pie that I made yesterday with dough balls & garlic dip + dressed rocket.

Pollie

Red lentil and mixed pepper dhal with HM bread.

C_J

What a wonderfully gastronomic holiday you've had, @Brie! I am quite envious.

Tonight I'm making a Chinese prawn, red pepper, water chestnut and beansprout stir fry thing in sweet chilli sauce and served with some egg fried rice.

Brie

I've been told it's the boudin blanc tonight for dinner with fried potatoes.  I might have to slice a tomato to have with mine so I can pretend I'm being healthy.

kerri_gt

@Brie your holiday sounds amazing.

Nothing quite so exciting here today but quite MSE. Greggs tuna mayo roll from a TGTG bag for lunch, and the other portion of the Carvery box from TGTG picked up on Thurs evening.