Re: whats on the menu

by Compostwoman 6th July 2010, 11:35 pm

Home made quiche ( home grown eggs, spinach and onion as well...) spuds, beans, toms, cucumber and herbs

the only stuff not home grown was the milk, the flour and the butter.

I want a house cow.....

by polgara 7th July 2010, 10:25 pm

Today was pork marinated in honey & mustard, was very nice.

by Compostwoman 7th July 2010, 10:36 pm

Sauted home grown cougettes, sauted spuds (cooked yesterday ), cauli, honey mustard sausage from prize winning Waller and Sons in Ledbury, organic mushrooms from down the road in a load of tunnels , and the spent compost is incredible!!

Tomorro lunch will be home made bread and soup made from all the home grown veg left in the freezer, as we are now in to this year's toms, beans, courgettes, peppers, onions, garlic etc etc and I need the space to preserve them.

by polgara 7th July 2010, 10:38 pm

Sounds nice, I will order a big bowl now as that is the sort of soup I love.

by Compostwoman 7th July 2010, 11:51 pm

I will make a note of what I bung in , Pol and post it up in here......and will keep a bowl back for you!

by polgara 8th July 2010, 9:08 am

Thank you so much Smile

by polgara 8th July 2010, 11:48 am

Today fish & chips, bought fish but my own chips.

Experimenting with blood sugars as last time I had bought ones the sugars flew out of the window & I felt bad.

Tayberries to follow, while OH will have strawberries.

by boobiejuicemama 8th July 2010, 1:46 pm

We had a lovely creamy chicken and white wine risotto, I do love to cook but am afraid my waistline might be increasing with all this 'winter' food lol

by boobiejuicemama 8th July 2010, 1:47 pm

PS What are tayberries?

by Compostwoman 8th July 2010, 2:32 pm

A sort of raspberry, but bigger and sweeter.

Comes from a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry

by polgara 8th July 2010, 3:36 pm

And very delicious indeed.
Pol

by boobiejuicemama 9th July 2010, 7:58 am

Aww sounds good, I love blackberries!

by polgara 9th July 2010, 5:39 pm

Todays dinner began life in a book as Canadian Casserole, is actually beef in condensed mushroom soup & really slow cook. I love the way it blends together & is one of those meals that I really love. With creamy pots & veg.

by Dandelion 9th July 2010, 10:38 pm

This should probably be on another thread, but tonight we had the first proper picking of courgettes, which I baked with a tomato, garlic and herb sauce (and cheese/breadcrumbs on the top). I also cooked all the tiny annoying new potatoes which I had put aside when I dug a row of spuds up - they only took ten minutes to cook. (You would probably pay extra in a restaurant for such weeny potatoes, but it takes ages to scrub them)

by Adrian 9th July 2010, 10:42 pm

Tonight

Home made spaghetti and sun-dried tomato foccacia

I love improving my pasta dough recipe

by Dandelion 9th July 2010, 10:45 pm

What sauce, Badger?

by Adrian 9th July 2010, 11:06 pm

A spinach tomato and Parmesan sauce

by polgara 10th July 2010, 11:32 am

Today is Sunday lunch, roast beef etc.
Reason, a full concert tomorrow afternoon & playing on a full stomach is not a good idea, so for tea tomorrow cold beef & new potatoes etc.

by AngelinaJellyBeana 11th July 2010, 6:42 pm

2 big fat sweetcorn cobs (out of the freezer from last year's harvest) with butter and black pepper followed by half a pound of lovely strawberries picked from the garden

by Compostwoman 11th July 2010, 11:20 pm

Chicken, courgettes, spuds, beans, tomatoes and spinach.

All from my own garden or reared from an egg and killed by me at 6 months old.

Am quite proud of that last bit, yes in a slightly sad-ish sort of way because I killed an animal for meat BUT he had a damn good life and a very quick death, with as little stress as possible.

by Dandelion 13th July 2010, 9:24 pm

Made an Italian bean stew with skinned broad beans and smoked sausage which went down well. That's it for the broad beans now - the black fly have had 'em!

by polgara 14th July 2010, 5:37 pm

Made a beef casserole with home grown onion & a rich sauce with a dash of red wine. Really tasty, home grown spuds as well.

by Compostwoman 14th July 2010, 10:42 pm

Roast shoulder of lamb, ( reduced in supermarket and cooked in daytime to take advantage of "free" PV generated electric!) , home grown spuds, skinned broad beans ( froze a load of tender ones today and skinned the bigger ones to eat tonight), broccoli, courgettes and peas.

mmmm I love this time of year, lots of different flavours from home grown veg!

Oh, and home made redcurrant jelly from last year! we have nearly run out and I have just picked this years crop

by polgara 15th July 2010, 5:25 pm

A ham thingy from a recipie I cut out.
Basically ham, egg & cheese with a bit of tomatoe & black pepper cooked in a slow oven. Served with fresh lettuce & cucumber & other assorted salady bits.

by Compostwoman 15th July 2010, 5:57 pm

Freezer soup

Ie soup made from onion and garlic and olive oil, then stock and assorted home grown veg from freezer.

Today it was beef stock, and last years courgettes, purple giant climbing beans, tomatoes. Boiled and then simmered until it all fell to mostly bits.

Was vert nice and have several servings left. CG is eating some now, with a roll, for her tea.

by polgara 16th July 2010, 1:37 pm

When I defrosted the freezer, I found several pots with something? in them, so we had soup today really tasty it was, though I have not a clue what was in it.

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