What are you making for dinner?

JIL

Still not feeling great, husband said he would cook but I was fed up just laying on the sofa, popping pills and drinking water. I made new potatoes, steamer on top with broccoli and green beans. He had a sausage casserole from the freezer and I had a nut cutlet. ( I only managed about three mouthfuls)
Work contacted, to ask if I could go in for a few hours tomorrow. I said I would let them know in the morning. To be honest I would love to go in just to get back to normal.

Hopeless_Case

kerri_gt wrote: »

jacket potato for me with some prawn cocktail, romaine lettuce and cucumber.

Also cooked another couple of jackets to go in the freezer as the oven was on.

What a great idea! Saves power, and so handy to have them ready cooked. How do you reheat them when you use them?

JIL wrote: »

Still not feeling great, husband said he would cook but I was fed up just laying on the sofa, popping pills and drinking water. I made new potatoes, steamer on top with broccoli and green beans. He had a sausage casserole from the freezer and I had a nut cutlet. ( I only managed about three mouthfuls)
Work contacted, to ask if I could go in for a few hours tomorrow. I said I would let them know in the morning. To be honest I would love to go in just to get back to normal.

Poor you, hope you do start feeling better soon

I think I'm going to do my carbonara tonight, not a real carbonara, a while sauce instead of eggs etc, veg for me and pastrami added for the OH

Islandmaid

JIL Hope your feelings better today x

I am making some room in the freezer, by using up the 2 packs for Chicken thighs and wings I bought for a £1 a aldi last week - will cook each pack in different marinade, garlic and herb and tikka, serve with new potatoes and salad - leftovers for the rest of the weeks lunches

C_J

Get well wishes to JIL from me too!


Tonight I am using up the last of the slow cooked lamb - there's not quite enough for a shepherd's pie but I'm making a sort of shepherd/shepherdess hybrid by padding it out with chestnut mushrooms, cannellini beans, puy lentils, diced carrot, celery, and peas. I have one lonely sweet potato left so will incorporate that into the mash. It's gone from "hardly anything" to something which will feed us for two nights - result!


Lots of lovely ripe golden raspberries in the garden, so we'll have those for pud.

Cappella

Fish pie with peas and carrots. Yogurt with damson jam stirred in as a very quick dessert.

frugalmumof3

Fajitas for us all tonight - quick, easy and using up what's left in the fridge/cupboards until we need to shop

hatful-of-hollow

We're having slow roasted pork shoulder with local new potatoes, roast potatoes, carrots, cabbage, hm stuffing balls, yorkshires and gravy. Should be plenty of pork left for freezing in gravy, and some for a stir fry tomorrow night as well.

maisymoo5

tonight the hubby is not home at his usual time so it's leftover quiche for me from yesterday's supper with some home grown salad and new potatoes and a pizza for the OH when he gets home.

Oakdene

Toad in the hole, with onion gravy, Pembs New Pots & some veg.

kerri_gt

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

What a great idea! Saves power, and so handy to have them ready cooked. How do you reheat them when you use them?

I usually defrost them / whip them out the freezer the morning I want them - then reheat them in the oven (usually just leave them in the foil I've stored them in the freezer in - then take it off near the end if the skin needs any more crisping) or I guess you prob could reheat in the microwave too and then crisp the skin in the oven if you wanted. Basically there's the same as the shop bought jacket spuds, but cost considerably less than £2 for 4 :eek:

I guess as you're reheating / heating they don't need to be 100% cooked before freezing but mine were as I was cooking one for dinner. Tbh i'm yet to come across such a thing as an overcooked jacket spud.

Tonight is a curry from the freezer that I bought RTC in iceland and a HM 'Islandmaid' flatbread (actually I'm not sure I know where the recipe for those has got to - would you mind pinging it to me again IM ? )

JIL hope you're feeling more like yourself today x