What are you making for dinner?

Smoosh

Green vegetable lasagne minus the beans and mint, plus a jar of ready made lasagne sauce (feeling lazy).

Islandmaid

MIL is round for dinner tonight, we’re having salmon fillets with HM Hollandaise, new potatoes and steamed green beans, and a HM trifle. She doesn’t cook for herself very much now at 87, mostly relying on ready meals so I like to make something a little different than she would normally have.

C_J

That sounds lovely IM - what a thoughtful daughter in law you are.

We have salmon tonight as well, but ours will be chunks of salmon fillet mixed with layers of sliced potato, garlic and onion and baked in a cream sauce. It's so naughty, but really delicious.

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Plans changed yesterday so barnsley chop today plus salad I think. Will make some tomato sauce today to freeze in individual portions for pasta meals in future. Lots or salad veg I must get on with, some mushrooms left over will have to check if they OK for today, had mushrrom omlette yesterday as they are really old now, were ys.

kerri_gt

Islandmaid wrote: »

MIL is round for dinner tonight, we’re having salmon fillets with HM Hollandaise, new potatoes and steamed green beans, and a HM trifle. She doesn’t cook for herself very much now at 87, mostly relying on ready meals so I like to make something a little different than she would normally have.

How thoughtful of you IM sounds lovely too. I found a great recipe for a 'no cook' Hollandaise sauce years ago (not made it for ages) - something like this one. Though not sure it would be a good idea for an older lady as I'm not sure how well cooked the eggs are.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/7950/blender-hollandaise-sauce.aspx

Not sure what tonight will bring - will have a look in the freezer for inspiration later - it's all a bit higgildy piggildy atm.

kerri_gt

Spinach and ricotta cannelloni ping meal, with the last of the asparagus.

Islandmaid

Over with DS, DIL and new Grandson for the weekend, I’m taking the makings of Prawn pasta, HM Garlic bread and rocky road (DIL’s fav), the new parents are off out on the town tomorrow night, so we get chance to snuggle with baby Noah.

Thanks for the comments re MIL, it’s no effort for me, it helps her, and we get to spend time with her too win/win x

kerri_gt

For lunch I turned a rather dry and tasteless focaccia into a yummy pizza type thing by adding some pasta sauce as pizza sauce base, mozzarella and sliced olives then warming it all through.

Dinner was some fried sliced jersey royals that had been cooked and lingering in the fridge, a southern coated quorn burger and some courgette that I'd prev sliced and frozen.

Also made some bruschetta topping for the tiger loaf I bought yesterday using some tomatoes I'd forgotten about (but were still ok as I like to buy them really firm..can't stand a squishy tom) and some chopped red onion from the freezer. Sadly only had dried basil but wasn't going out just for fresh herbs.

So, all in all feeling rather virtuos at using some things up.

Also have some double cream defrosting to have with a meringue and blueberries for pud.

Fajitas tomorrow, and Sunday I'll be making a pasta salad on a variation of a rice one I do in the summer for lunches to use up some small pasta shapes we've had for eons. :money:

kerri_gt

:think: Where is everyone? Hopefully off doing nice things

Well yesterday i made said tune pasta salad - looks yum. Of course cooked too much pasta but also have half a tin of beans left over that I put in (mixed beans in water...not baked beans :eek:) so I could make more should I decide to - or a variation on.

Sat OH decided he didn't want fajitas so they've been bumped to one evening this week. Can't quite recall what I actually had... thinking it was a fish pie.

Yesterday i defrosted a roast chicken breast which i had with mash and petit pois and gravy...I also defrosted some bread sauce which I forgot to have with it so chicken again tonight to use up the bread sauce.

Might also get the other bit of double cream out of the freezer for some kind of Eton mess.

C_J

I made a meatloaf for supper yesterday, so we'll be having another couple of slices off that tonight (and also use up the last of the mashed potato and cauliflower cheese.