What are you making for dinner?

Brie

Currently away so enjoying not having the need to cook (or wash up) as well as enjoying a lot of very nice food.

Last night had a lovely goat cheese tart with a baby leaf salad with half (!!) a duck with veg (most of which I ignored) ending with a baileys and salted caramel cheesecake. Tonight I think I will have the calamari followed by the lamb rump. And then maybe some ice cream.

goldfinches

I'm back from being away where it was also lovely to choose from menus I hadn't seen before and eat delicious food prepared by someone else. I particularly enjoyed the hotel bath tub which was so deep it felt like going for a swim, I feel a bathroom remodel urge coming over me!

Anyway I made an aubergine, garlic and herb dish this evening and ate it with a huge flatbread, tomatoes and more crispy tofu with the leftover dipping sauce from the other day. For pudding I had a pear with some cheese and walnuts and a decaf coffee.

goldfinches

I received asparagus and purple sprouting broccoli in my veg box on Friday so this evening I used up the rest of a packet of filo and a grana padano rind to make a variation on this Nigel Slater recipe and I also made Delia Smith's Foaming Hollandaise to eat with them.

Brie

@goldfinches

that looks so lush!

Meanwhile in Casa Brie we are both recovering from colds and so dinners have been minimal. Can't remember ever being reduced to have a piece of toast for dinner. I did try a grilled cheese sandwich on Saturday but couldn't manage the whole thing. So last night was a single piece of toast with some peanut butter. Hardly the gourmet food we were having a week back. So much for the leg of lamb and trimmings that I bought for Sunday lunch.

JIL

We had cottage pie with broccoli and peas.

itsthelittlethings

Tortellini with tomato sauce today.

itsthelittlethings

Oh get well soon Brie.

Barneysmom

I had bubble and squeak with leftover beef.
Last night I found I've got 4 eggs to use up today so I'll have a couple scrambled, and make a small bread pudding.

goldfinches

I had a fossick through the fridge and made a salad with lettuce, wild garlic, spring onion, carrot, radish, petits pois and sweetcorn and a couple of hard boiled eggs and then made Nigella's Golden Garlic Mayonnaise to dress it with. Delicious and I'm quite proud of myself for not succumbing to the temptation to dash out to the shops for cucumber etc. I'm going to put some dried chickpeas to soak overnight to make some hummus tomorrow as well.

Brie

Was wondering about dinner as I still have little appetite (don't worry I have plenty of fat stores to sustain me for some weeks.) I mentioned to the OH about having a jacket potato and he launched into one of his speeches about me not eating very well and that I should have something just so I could drowned it in butter. OK - so I like butter. But I wasn't even sure I wanted a potato and wondered also about responding with a comment about how much honey he puts on his morning yoghurt. Or even how much morning yoghurt he has. Whatever amounts you are thinking of for both I'd say double it. And then double it again. And add extra honey.

So when at Texco I thought hard (as hard as my foggy brain will think right now) about what I really wanted and that was chicken. So I bought some thighs. I'll likely cooked them all up and have as much as I fancy tonight. Whatever is left can be used as a sandwich or a potato topping, which will hide the butter.