What are you making for dinner?

kerri_gt

Making roast spuds at OH request. I'm having chicken, bread sauce (from Xmas, portioned in the freezer) some courgette and runner beans with mine. OH is having breaded haddock and beans with his.

maddiemay

Main meal at lunchtime today as it was so cold and wet, Gf pizza with green salad and I have just had poached eggs on marmite toast, not sure what OH will forage for himself. Winberry pie available for pud.

Pirnmill

I'm at work about to have a chicken, leeks, bacon @ cheese thing from M&S.

The Mrs is home very excited about her new Panasonic bread machine (new to us but used from ebay!), so expecting to come home to baked delights tomorrow morning!

alexanderdewar

Steak and ale pie.

JIL

We have had a weekend away stayed in a lovely hotel and had some lovely food.
I had done an online delivery for between 3 and 4,I had ordered veg and meat to make a Sunday dinner. Just in the door at 2:30 and answered my phone to an apology but due to technical difficulties, my order would arrive until 7.

So I made minestrone soup with stuff that needed using up from the fridge and a quick walnut and blue cheese loaf in the bread maker. Husband was very appreciative. He has had a cold all weekend, so soup was very welcome.

The shopping arrived at 6:50. I will do a roast tomorrow.

Jazee

DH is making prawn bhuna with accompaniments tonight.

thriftmonster

DS1 home so was going to roast a chicken. However might cook it anyway and then looking at the weather make us mince and dumplings (ds1's favourite)

Mr_Singleton

Think I will start with a bit of a food related rant.....

Im not price sensitive at all..... doubly especially when it comes to food. Anyway, needed to get some cups from the Conran shop on Marylebone high street yesterday so it being Sunday thought I wood pop into the Farmers Market behind Waitrose to pick up a rabbit while I was there. As it turned out the rabbit trader wasn’t there but having a wander around even to my eyes the prices were just ludicrus. The fish for example was sold as X per fillet rather than X per Kg a trick normally reserved for hiding a shockingly high price per Kg. The price of the bread was higher than my go to bakery St. John Street (of Fergus Henderson fame). Same went for the price of vegetables for little to no difference to normal fare. Don’t get me started on the price of the takeaway food. Ended up buying nothing.

Popped along to La Fromagerie on Moxon Street. Again super premium prices but hardly super premium quality on some of the veg they were selling. Ended up getting some chicken, sausages and bavette steak (I assume by using the French name for flank steak it’s good for an extra couple of quid a kg)

Anyway sorta the reason for this little rant was while in the queue it brought home to me why I jump on to the Eurostar once every 4/6 weeks for a trip to the Sunday Market at Boulevard Richard Lenoir place de la Bastille in Paris. I do get a little bit of light hearted ribbing about it but all said and done it works out as pretty cost neutral if you book a few weeks in advance. The choice & quality is absolutely top notch....Just booked my mid-September trip

Better add that tonights supper will probably be the chicken I got yesterday at the Ginger Pig poached whole with rice.

Islandmaid

Using up LO roast lamb today, Lamb, Butternut and spinach curry- HM garlic naan for DH on its own for me

Mr S - I know what you mean re: what we call 'I saw you coming' traders - I am happy to pay good money for good produce, but, yesterday 4 thin slices of smoked duck for £15 at one of our local farm shops :eek: and if popping of to Paris works for you then good on ya

kerri_gt

I think there's a big difference between true farmers markets and glorified outdoor Waitrose's. To my mind farmers markets should be a good mix of actual local farmers selling produce at a reasonable price (including all those little / wonky / otherwise not meeting supermarket standard veg) and local cottage industry sellers. Calling something 'artisan' these days seems to be carter Blanche to whack a premium on goods of questionable quality.

Not sure what dinner here tonght is. OH said he's not fussed, I have some casserole in the freezer I might use up.