What are you making for dinner?

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Found 2 pork steaks in the freezer, potato's and green beans from the garden, carrots. More rasps for dessert. Am going to cook the pork in the remoska its too hot even to have the combi microwave on.

Frith

HM chicken nuggets and potato wedges, baked beans and shop bought onion rings. 

rachsecret

Could not face cooking last night and so had a takeaway-mixed tandoori with saag paneer and salad. 

This afternoon my mum and Dad came round for tea and I did a chicken tray bake with balsamic, garlic, peppers, onion, tomato and peas. 

Pudding was significantly delayed by dad getting stuck in the loo! Lock wouldn't open and we ended up taking the handle off, trying to take lock off (impossible as the lock was accessible only via inside of the loo and no screw drivers in there). 

In the end we called on a neighbour who is a joiner and he tried to take the door off, but pins in hinges wouldn't come out. In the end he drilled a hole through handle to pass in a screwdriver and Dad took lock off. He was stuck for an hour and a quarter!

When pudding did arrive, I made meringues, ice cream, cream, HM strawberry sauce and mixture of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. I just had the cream and fruit.

JIL

I had planned a roast but made salad instead. 
Twice baked jackets stuffed with cheese, vege scotch eggs, chicken tenders, beetroot salad, green salad, coleslaw and pasta salad with mozzarella. Loads left for a couple of days lunches which was part of the plan.

goldfinches

Had tenderstem broccoli, courgette, aubergine in rice wine vinegar with peanuts, mapo tofu and cucumber in chilli oil washed down with a long g&t followed by coffee.

kerri_gt

@rachsecret oh no, your poor dad! I hope you were all able to laugh about it after and the neighbour got some pudding too. 

OH cooked pasta again last night later in the evening when it was cooler. Boiling already here - 26 degrees outside!

C_J

@rachsecret how stressful! I recall my younger daughter getting locked in to a cubicle of the ladies loos in a big department store when she was about three. She had insisted she was a big enough girl to go in on her own, but then couldn't undo the lock. Luckily, after quite a lot of faffing about and being unable to undo the lock from the outside, I managed to persuade her to crawl out under the door as she was just tiny enough to manage it. I recall the sheer panic vividly even now, and that was 25 years ago!

Despite the heat, I made toad in the hole for dinner last night. There are some leftover sausages which I roasted at the same time, so will make something with those for tonight - probably a mix of onions, garlic, red and green pepper and puy lentils in a red wine and beef stock. Hardly the thing for a scorching day but thankfully we have a mobile air conditioner unit which keeps us nicely chilled!

Islandmaid

Sirloin and salad tonight 

sorry but had to 😂 at the loo stories x

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Cooked lamb from the freezer, new potato's, cabbage and carrots.  Raspberries and ice cream for dessert.

Lamb is left over from a shoulder I cooked a few weeks ago, cut the meat off the bone and froze it. One supp[er sized portion left.

Brie

I'm aiming for pork chops done on the bbq tonight - anything to avoid turning on the oven or requiring me to stand in a hot kitchen.  MiL however may be getting a shepherds pie (store bought, I can't be asked) but as that would also heat up the house I think I'll volunteer that she has a  ham, egg & salad instead.  She loves that and we have lots of tomatoes so that's fine.   Only issue is what to have with the pork chops.  Rice perhaps.  Or maybe just more salad - lots of romaine, caesar dressing, croutons (for those not low carbing), tomatoes....  

As they say - if you can't stand the heat stay out of the kitchen!!