What did you have for dinner?

Sausage, beans and a couple of leftover spuds reheated from last night, all smothered in tomato ketchup. Really couldn't be bothered cooking today. But was still nice .

 

Last night was "Ready, steady, cook" night! I was given chicken breast mini fillets, baby chorizo, sweet red peppers, basil and french beans. From the store cupboard I took baby Toms, onions, garlic, courgette and onion seed.
Sweated the toms, onion and garlic with a pinch of salt and splash of Balsamic vinegar before adding the other ingredients (except the basil which is added right at the end). Served with potato cubes coated in smoked paprika and then fried and crusty buttered bread.

 

Mixed mushrooms Pad Ga Prao with rice.
Pad Ga Prao was a favourite of mine in a tiny Thai restaurant in Amsterdam so when I saw this in my local Asian shop today I had to buy it. £3.35 on Amazon, the exact same thing was 70pence in my local Asian shop!
It has a spicy, slightly bitter and slightly sour taste. Very aromatic! Hard to describe really.

 

Nice rump steak from Tesco - just bought one between the two of us. Our own roast King Teds, carrots and sprouts.
Mrs W usually cooks steak to death as she can't stand pink but today she did it beautifully

 

Sunday lunch: breast of lamb from local sheep, slow cooked with garlic,onion,red pepper to render fat, then turned oven up with potatoes and parsnips around until crisp. Served with our own sprouts,chard, Psb,leeks,plus home made damson jelly and mint sauce.

 

I cheated last night. The 99p shop sells two of these for 99p.......................


Cooked as per the jar, but I used less chicken and added b/nut squash, courgette and red pepper. Plus a couple of slices of scotch bonnet! Served with basmati rice with asparagus and green sprouting.
It's one sauce that I would happily recommend.

 

I had left over home made vegetable biryani, and very nice it was to.

 

Tonight was another Ready, Steady, Cook night. This time it had a "cleaning up" theme - she took some chicken breasts, blanched broccolli and bacon lardons from the freezer and some leeks from the pantry. I was allowed to use anything else that was opened and needed using so I added some Shropshire Blue, mushrooms (a bit slimey, but tasty), half a pot of double cream and some sprouting spuds!

We ended up with chicken, bacon and mushrooms (plus the broccolli for colour) in a creamy sauce. I added a good handful of chopped parsley from the freezer and some onion seed. Served with potato, leek and blue cheese mash.

 

Linda McCartney pie and a vegi sausage roll, sat in the van in a car park in Wellington

 

moussaka, jacket spud, salad.