What are you making for dinner?

Islandmaid

Happy Birthday @rachsecret 🥳🥳 glad you had a lovely 🥰 

we went out with friends last night, tandoori mixed grill - delicious 😋 

today is Lamb Kleftico with a Greek salad, looking forward to it xx

Teapot55

My oh cannot resist a bargain & came home from buying milk in the little Tesco with real French Camembert (was £2.30, reduced to 90p as short dated). 

He made up a small amount of bread dough (you can keep your carbs lower if you don’t have to buy a whole 800g of commercial bread) and plonked the Camembert in the middle, garnished with a few sprigs of rosemary & a couple of cloves of garlic.

200ºC for 20 mins. 

Served with baby gem lettuce from Aldi (still fresh after 10 day kept in closed bag in salad drawer) raspberries from garden & slices of apple with lemon juice & black pepper - sounds strange but it went really well. 

Teapot55

Tried to post pic but unsuccessful this time. 

Brie

rachsecret said:

Soooooooo........ Yesterday was my 50th and so it was a day full of celebrations etc and I ate what I wanted.....toast for breakfast, afternoon tea and then last night I had takeaway Pizza which was lovely. Feel a bit rough today though so think it is the after effects of way too many carbs when I am usually keto. Didn't have a drop to drink (saving that for a family weekend away next week!) so definitely not alcohol related! 

Tonight I have had chicken salad with halloumi fries. 

happy belated birthday!  You are such a puppy!!!  I can't even see 50 in the rear view mirror any more!!! 

I quite get what you mean about the carb hangover!  I'v been sneaking in some bread but know that not only will it not do my waist much good, my tummy will rebel as well.  Saying that I did make "egg mcmuffins" for breakfast....

And tonight the other half is finally strong enough to get off the lardy backside and do something with the rib of beef.  I know there will be new potatoes and yorkshires but can only speculate if there will be anything else.  So much for no carb.....

goldfinches

Teapot55 said:

My oh cannot resist a bargain & came home from buying milk in the little Tesco with real French Camembert (was £2.30, reduced to 90p as short dated). 

He made up a small amount of bread dough (you can keep your carbs lower if you don’t have to buy a whole 800g of commercial bread) and plonked the Camembert in the middle, garnished with a few sprigs of rosemary & a couple of cloves of garlic.

200ºC for 20 mins. 

Served with baby gem lettuce from Aldi (still fresh after 10 day kept in closed bag in salad drawer) raspberries from garden & slices of apple with lemon juice & black pepper - sounds strange but it went really well. 

Thankyou for this recipe, I've copied and pasted it into my "useful recipes from MSE" notepad to use at some time in the future because it sounded delicious and easy to do.

I had a bit of an eat up odds and ends from the fridge meal with the last pitta from a packet filled with salad and topped with a fried portobello mushroom that needed eating along with a sliver of ripe brie. I ate that with some carrot batons and then chased it down with a couple of plums and a coffee. 

rachsecret

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! 

Yesterday I had an all day breakfast for tea and tonight have had cottage pie made using celeriac mash with HM pickled red cabbage.

I spent AGES this morning peeling the shallots I harvested from the garden...all a bit small so will be making some pickled shallots tomorrow once they have sat overnight in brine. Friend brought round some forages gooseberries so am cooking them to freeze for a future meal. 

Islandmaid

Had a HUGE chicken breast, roasted in some jerk spices, with fermented red cabbage and ginger

had a bit of a blow out at the weekend, so back to basics for a while 🙃

Teapot55

goldfinches said:

Teapot55 said:

My oh cannot resist a bargain & came home from buying milk in the little Tesco with real French Camembert (was £2.30, reduced to 90p as short dated). 

He made up a small amount of bread dough (you can keep your carbs lower if you don’t have to buy a whole 800g of commercial bread) and plonked the Camembert in the middle, garnished with a few sprigs of rosemary & a couple of cloves of garlic.

200ºC for 20 mins. 

Served with baby gem lettuce from Aldi (still fresh after 10 day kept in closed bag in salad drawer) raspberries from garden & slices of apple with lemon juice & black pepper - sounds strange but it went really well. 

Thankyou for this recipe, I've copied and pasted it into my "useful recipes from MSE" notepad to use at some time in the future because it sounded delicious and easy to do.

Aw, thanks. Next time we’ll remember to put it on a plate before cutting in half . . . or make individual ones . . . because the melted cheese ran out all over the chopping board ha ha. 

Still haven’t worked out how to post the picture . . . never used to have trouble!

C_J

We had roast pork yesterday - I managed to get a mahoosive joint which was yellow stickered down to £2.50. We used up more of it tonight as bbq pulled pork brioche baps with coleslaw and salad, and another chunk of it will be used to make pork and chestnut mushroom stroganoff for tomorrow night. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed sneaking to the fridge and carving off thick slices for snacks when I get the munchies too!

goldfinches

@Teapot55 - I'd love to see a photo when you can, I always find that really helpful for recipes.

I save my photos into the downloads folder on my laptop and then they are easy to navigate to using the choose files button under the insert an image dropdown menu.
I hope that's helpful for you although I'm aware that there seem to be huge variations between operating systems for individual users e.g. I'm not able to resize my images at all but others can do this easily so if your system doesn't work that way just ignore me.

I did a bit more eating up bits and bobs for dinner and had some leftover salad from lunchtime combined with a mug of tomato soup and some toasted brown bread followed by coffee and a handful of walnuts.