What are you making for dinner?

Pollie

Parsnip and potato goulash to use up 19p veg with garlic bread.

Brie

Date night!!!  Well not really....but we're going out to meet some friends at a local establishment none of us have been to before.  Lots of people recommend it and when we tried to book earlier this week the earliest table was at 8:30.  Given that would mean 9 or later before we were eating it seemed a tad late.  Then I noticed that there is a "dog friendly" area and that had much more availability.  As I understand it it means eating in the pub section rather than the dining room but none of us will mind that.  

kboss2010

Chip shop fish & chips with tinned mushy peas & curry sauce from a packet.

£22 for 2 portions of fish & chips, and that’s the “cheap” chippy.

I think this will be a very rare treat going forward (I don’t like homemade versions of battered fish, they just don’t taste the same!)

Islandmaid

Happy Easter to those that celebrate x

We’ve got leg of lamb which I bought half price YS a while ago and shoved in the freezer.

Its a lovely warm day so, Middle Eastern style lamb with Ras el Hanout, med veg cous cous and a greet style salad, burnt basque cheesecake for pud, Pinot noir may be involved ☺️

hope for enough LO lamb to make spicy lamb flatbreads tomorrow 

sarahj1986

number_23 said:

I’m new to the forum and have joined a couple of challenges. I spend way too much on groceries so… tonight I’m using what I already have in; chorizo pasta with a garlic baguette for us all to share 😀

Welcome to the group :-)

last night I was sooo tired. We’d been out enjoying the sunshine all day. My daughter and husband just had freezer dinners nuggets, chips and sweet corn. I had some leftover coleslaw and a pasty as I wasn’t very hungry 

tonight though - beef joint, yorkies, potatoes, sweet potatoes for my daughter, carrots, broccoli, peas, gravy. I’ll have horseradish with mine. 

Brie

Enjoyed our dinner out last night - I had a forestiere chicken breast (served on a bed of spinach, in a mushroom cream sauce topped with cheese and served with chips).  OH had what he declared "the best fish and chips in I don't know how long".  Friends had pork belly with chive mash and apple sorbet & a lovely looking pepperoni pizza.  I would have happily swapped with any of them or had a couple of other items on the menu so I suspect we may go back at some point.  Nice that the place was literally a 5 minute drive (which I explained to OH a few times but he insisted we go 30 minutes early so we wouldn't be late).  I had a latte and mini creme brulee for afters and OH had a massive merangue pavlova with berries and violet flowers.  

Tonight we'll be mostly having the cassoulet OH prepped yesterday - he's got the beans, sausages, pork belly all done and just needs to add the confit.  I suspect we will have it LO for tomorrow and possibly I'll finish it off on Tuesday or Wednesday.

C_J

That sounds like a delicious dinner, Brie!

Tonight I’m doing roast lamb (a large and lovely boneless rolled joint from the butcher), roast potatoes, carrots, cabbage, swede mash and gravy with a lemon cheesecake for pud.  

I have many plans for the leftover lamb, which will get minced and added to (a) a lamb pilaff, (b) lamb, rice and veg stuffed portobello mushrooms, (c) lamb, rice and veg stuffed red peppers and hopefully also (d) a lamb, mushroom and potato puff pastry pie. The roast mushrooms and peppers will only need a tablespoon or so each of minced lamb, so hopefully I can eke it out if I’m careful 😂

kboss2010

OH made a roast chicken & the trimmings on Friday so I made stock with the carcass and gravy-flavouring roasted veg left (we put onions & carrots under the chicken when roasting for extra flavour) & today I made Chinese chicken & sweetcorn soup and chow mein with the stock & leftover chicken. 

We’ll have that for tea with freezer popcorn chicken & a jar of mayflower sweet & sour sauce. 

And I have enough stock left to make matzoball soup next week.

happydenial

We were planning to eat out this afternoon but after a brief look in the fridge this morning, I realised we had lots of bits and bobs that needed eating - very MSE! Three of us ended up sharing two chicken fajitas (l/o from Friday night), a bag of Caesar salad with extra cucumber and olives, and a couple of jacket potatoes. Eldest valiantly had a leftover torpedo roll with a hot dog. 

Leftover birthday cake for pudding later 😋

Islandmaid

Woke up to pouring rain 🌧️ ohhh well, most of the bank holiday was lovely.

LO lamb dry fried with Gochujang paste, peppers and spring onions served on HM flatbreads with pickled red cabbage, garlic yoghurt etc - I’ll have mine over salad.

plenty of cheesecake left for those who want it