What are you making for dinner?

JIL

We had roasted vegetables, I did a sort out of the fridges and found peppers and courgettes, that needed using. I added olives and aubergines, sun dried tomatoes. I used yesterday's leftover potatoes sliced and in a bit of cream with parmesan and cheese. We had salmon steaks and husband had turkey with his.

Islandmaid

The braised beef was delicious, will make soup out of the left overs and freeze, to have for work lunches.

Doing a fridge audit today, where we’ve been ill we haven’t eaten very much, so need to use what’s coming up out of date.

I bought some amazing gravidlax which I might make into a quiche, to eat with potato salad and green salad. We have scallops that need using today too, might just pan fry them and add to the salad.

The veg, I’ll prep and freeze, alot of the rest is cheese and deli meats, so they will last a while.

JIL

I had done a fridge sort yesterday. Found some pancetta I was going to use for posh pigs in blankets. There was also some turkey and a tomato pasta sauce and leftover cheese sauce so made a Turkey and pancetta lasagne. With salad.
I made myself a quorn bolognese. We have booked a table for a meal out tomorrow night but theres just so much food in the house I am thinking of cancelling.

Amara

Quiche made out of left over gammon and cheese. Two salad: carrots grated with peanuts and potato salad made out of tinned potatoes with left overs bacon. Very tasty. 

Islandmaid

@JIL ooh Turkey and pancetta lasagna sounds good 👍 

tonight will be local farm sausages in HM bread rolls tonight with caramelised onions and a stray bit of Brie 

tomorrow we have our GS staying overnight, so will take him out to eat in the evening somewhere, options currently are a pub in Bembridge where he adores the landlord who makes exceptionally good wood fire pizzas, a local restaurant, early, so we don’t annoy too many locals (🤣) for his beloved moules frites or our favourite Indian restaurant, again early, as it can get rowdy later on, for his favourite curry and ‘Dom’s as he calls poppadoms…. His choice, though I am heavily weighted towards mussels 🤩

PS only one coughing fit today 🙌🙌🙌

JIL

@Islandmaid it was one of the first things I ever made for my now husband. At that time, I cooked and stripped a whole chicken to follow the recipe of chicken and bacon lasagne, which was a recipe in one of those magazines that you bought fortnightly and filed in a gingham blue binder. 

Tonight it's a ready meal m and s vege cottage pie for me and a chicken breast for husband and daughter with roast potatoes and green veg. 

Brie

Last evening it was ham and cheese sandwiches with some extra cheese melted on a flat bread to clear out the freezer.  OH also had some soup.  (note to self to restock the C of chicken)

Tonight is either the truffle and prosciutto pizzas from Lidl or OH has suggested prawns with linguine.  

sarahj1986

I haven’t posted on here in months! 

Definitely in 2024 I’m going to read and post more regularly and consistently in here 

tonight sausages, roasties, veg and gravy. The veg and spuds are leftover 15p offer from Christmas so a cheap meal tonight. 

Islandmaid

@sarahj1986 👋 hi 😊

We had a lovely day with GS and the Moule frites won, he had wood fired pizza and most of my fries 🤣 Grandpa had Frito misto. Frank got a few whitebait for patiently sitting under the table.  Supper was egg on toast and popcorn for a movie night. Boy, he can eat, croissants for breakfast, left over pizza for lunch, he really lifted our spirits after a crappy few weeks….

today was fridge tapas, bits of this and that, will actually cook a meal tomorrow 🤫

Hope you all have a fab NYE xx 

Brie

Because the weather is so delightful we'll be bbq-ing steak and have jacket potatoes.