What are you making for dinner?

C_J

Adding my good wishes to everyone else’s, @kerri_gt. You’ve really been through the wringer with this, haven’t you. Hope your leg(s) recover soon!

I’m doing a simple dinner as it’s been a busy day. I’m chucking one of those Aldi frozen salmon and prawn in puff pastry “Wellington” things in the oven, and will serve with a selection of garden veg. It’ll feed us again tomorrow night as well.

Smoosh

We're making a squash and spinach lasagne using a squash that OH's mum grew.

Afterwards we have chocolate fudge pudding with clotted cream (both YS). 

Frith

Toad in the hole with roast potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes and parsnips.

Blackcurrant and red currant tart afterwards (cheating pastry) 

kerri_gt

Thanks for the get well wishes everyone. I won't confess to the slightly bonkers thing I have been up to today given the past 3 1/2 weeks, but I did it, as one friend said 'determined'.

Today has been (thankfully) a much better day in general with this effing reaction so fingers crossed.

Dinner tonight was spaghetti on toast...nom nom.

goldfinches

@kerri_gt - went sky diving, ran a marathon, climbed a mountain or something else? My mind is busily coming up with possibilities.
@Frith - that currant pie looks delectable, any chance of the recipe please?

I had a portion of Ottolenghi portobello mushroom steaks with green beans, petits pois and sweetcorn from the freezer followed by a coffee.

rancid-a

I'm making a mince beef & onion pie tonight as a test run for the weekend. I promised I would make Mum one, she hasn't been eating much of late and I don't want to go down the Kershaws dinner route.

Sadly, the mince & onion filling tasted pretty bland before it went in the oven, here's hoping the oven produces a small miracle.

Got a Pukka pie in the freezer just incase it's inedible  

Islandmaid

Roast lamb and all the trimmings today, I had celeriac dauphinois and buttered cabbage with mine 😁

Frith

@goldfinches - it's a made up recipe. Shop bought pastry base. Redcurrants and blackcurrants cooked in a saucepan until soft with some sugar. Drain the fruit and put in flan base. Boil the juice from the fruit with a sachet of setting jelly.

summertime_2

Found a few Tesco hash browns in freezer and some thick Heron Food bacon off-cuts, so making 'Cheese & Bacon Bake' in slow cooker, will line the crockpot with parchment paper to stop it all sticking to sides when cooking.
will have that tonight with garden salad ie..
anything l can find growing in garden.this time of year ..its usually, parley, chive, mint, lemon balm,  young tender baby pak choi, winter lettice, few leaves of sorrel, spring onions, late grown baby carrots,  and  1 or 2  very young dandilion  and nasturtium leaves  that might be around..all chopped up with a homegrown apple and mixed with  low fat mayo. 
l like to cost up our meals, so l think tonights tea would be approx 50p.

not sure yet about pud/cake..l might make a chocolate self saucing pud in smaller slow cooker, as we eat  that pud like cake and it will last for 2 or 3 days tea breaks.
 We dont like too much sugar in our cakes, so l reduce the amounts in recipes and l use low ft marg..they always turn out fine.
* the viking chicken chicken  recipe l made for first time yesterday in slow cooker was lovely..only cost was for the 2 chicken portions  as had the rest either from garden or few things from freezer. Very hearty meal on a cold night.

kerri_gt

goldfinches said:

@kerri_gt - went sky diving, ran a marathon, climbed a mountain or something else? My mind is busily coming up with possibilities.
@Frith - that currant pie looks delectable, any chance of the recipe please?

I had a portion of Ottolenghi portobello mushroom steaks with green beans, petits pois and sweetcorn from the freezer followed by a coffee.

not quite a full marathon, but I did drag myself round a half marathon that was back after 2 1/2 yrs absence. Definitely not the best run up (no pun intended) in terms of the last few weeks but overall managed a relatively respectable time all things considered so can't complain.