Tonight we are having home-made cottage pie (cinnamon in the mince - it's lubberly and smells gorgeous!), with some sort of veg, haven't raided the veg rack yet, but it'll be cauli, carrots and whatever else needs eating up.

Wine!

im having a baker potato

I've had mine, made spaghetti carbonara and cheese crusty bread it was very nice.

Enchiladas filled with chicken, red pepper and refried beans

And a cherry bakewell tart from the bakers

Thanks millions, Mrs O
I thought there was more to it than that, do you ever spice them up with anything?

I've been up to my eyes in purple paint all day, doing the kids' bedroom, so it was a steak pie from the butchers and oven chips for us.

No worries KJ!

They are even nicer if you sprinkle over some chopped fresh rosemary and put some whole unpeeled garlic cloves in with them as well.

If you are doing a roast, especially lamb, then the roasted garlic is GORGEOUS with the meat, almost like mustard with roast beef, and you can make a really good gravy with the juices in the pan.

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Originally posted by queenstomper:
Wine!

LMAO!!

Liquid diet - love it!!

Lol, I succumbed to some toast and marmalade in the end as well.

I am so hungry with all this food talk! I just started my own discussion about it as well! I need to stop talking about food!!!

We had cottage pie with spring onions in the mash, broccoli and peas. I so nearly put cinnamon in the mince but chickened out at the last minute. Can you taste it much?

Karenjet - if you use about half a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon in the mince mix, for about a pound and a half of mince, that works out about right..

It smells amazing when it's cooking, and really gives it a lift-up.

Tonight we had pork steaks in mushroom and garlic marinade from the butchers, roasties and home-made cauli and broccoli bake in cheese sauce.

I is stuffed.

I will give it a go. I've never had anything savoury with cinnamon. Although I've heard of people putting chocolate into chilli and stuff before. They say you can't taste it but it makes it richer.

Mince again for us tonight, gonna make lasagne. Can you tell it was buy 1lb get 1lb free in the butcher's this week? lol

LOL!

I am so lucky with our butcher in the village, they do some amazing stuff in there, and have a list of the local producers that they are buying in from that week.

They do loads of fantastic sausages - my husband got some garlic and tomato sausages the other week, and left them hidden in the fridge without telling me for days.. I'm still trying to get the smell out..

Tonight going to make another batch of minestrone, got loads of veggies to use up.. might do something different with it though - they do mixed pulses for soups and casseroles at our shop, so I've bought a bag of them - got lentils, pearl barley, split peas (green and yellow) and marrowfat peas in, so we will all be parping for Britain tomorrow..

Snap mrs o, I've just made minestrone too and it's lovely and thick just how I like it. I put onion,celery,carrots, broccoli,cauliflower,peas in it, then a load of broken spaghetti near the end.

Sounds spot-on, Magsy!

I always chuck in a handful of frozen peas as well, and some grated cabbage.

By the way, I am NEVER feeding my husband pork in garlic and mushroom ever EVER again. The smell and the decibels of his farts last night was OUTSTANDING.

Omg mrs o must have been a nightmare for you. I was at the doctor's last week and the whole room stank of garlic. God knows what she'd had the night before but I was heaving. Maybe it was a ploy on her part so the patients were in and out.

LOL!

I don't mind the smell of the garlic, cos I must have reeked of it too, it was the smell of the farts that got me....

Tonight - did roast leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary, new pots, mashed swede and carrot, and mint sauce and redcurrant gravy.

I is bursting out of me trousers...

BTW - can you tell I'm on a garlic-fest at the mo???

Haha, I'm always on a garlic fest! I love the stuff. I make this garlic mash with 10 cloves in it and it's gorgeous but you stink for two days.
(BTW, 666 posts, Mrs O )

We had boring beef stew, carrots and parsnips, and mash...nothing to write home about.

I can still smell onions on my fingers now from yesterday's lunch. I have washed them I don't know how many times and showered this morning, including hairwash and still I smell it!

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Originally posted by karenjet:
Haha, I'm always on a garlic fest! I love the stuff. I make this garlic mash with 10 cloves in it and it's gorgeous but you stink for two days.
(BTW, 666 posts, Mrs O )

We had boring beef stew, carrots and parsnips, and mash...nothing to write home about.

LMAO!!

666 is also the last 3 digits of me home number!!

Dunno what to make tonight... fed up of cooking every night, which is not like me.. Got some king prawns in the freezer, and might do some sort of pasta thing with them, then again, I might just drag hubby and El Kiddo up to the pub for tea... get someone else to load a dishwasher for a change..

I'm going to buy a cabbage.

Mrs O what nice things can I do with cabbage?

Ummm... *Puts thinking hat on*

If it's a savoy cabbage, it is DELICIOUS shredded and stir-fryed in olive oil and butter with loads of black pepper.

Or you could make a cheese sauce, shred the cabbage , cook it with some peas and cauli if you have any, for about 3 minutes, drain well, mix it with the cheese sauce and bake or grill it with cheese on top. LUBBERLY with roast meat.

Mmm, yes, both sound great.