What's Cooking Today??

A Co-op ready meal for myself, Daughter & Grandaughter, sorry I can't be A***d to cook today

 

Nothing wrong with that John, we do it often!

 

Never bought ready meals, but it's fine sometimes.
Today it was sausage casserole with potatoes, cabbage, peas,sprouts, cauliflower and carrots.

 

@john558 good for you!

Now I feel guilty. I had two muffins and two eggs for breakfast and had some vanilla ice cream for brunch. Followed by a sausage. And the scrapings from the pan after making pralines.

I've just barbecued some burgers and weiners. Because it is still well below freezing, I had to bring the barbecue cover inside to warm up a bit before I could wrestle it back on.

And I still have some egg noodle/cream sauce/turkey casserole left from the other day. So lots of "ready made" food in my fridge now.

 

Shop bought meals can be very good quality indeed nowadays. M&S do some great stuff and even a humble Tesco cottage pie hits the spot when needed. The recipes are created by professionals and the nutritional values meet recommendations so it's a win win. I think it's the generation shame of "shop bought" vs "home made" from the past years that is niggling the brain of many of us.

If I'm allowed to stay home alone on a day off work, my indulgent favourite solo lunch is a bag of crisps (Walker's Ready Salted) and a big glass of Pinot Grigio (Tesco own brand). Leaves me picking those pesky vitamins from between teeth for hours, but totally worth it

 

@Selleri that sounds like a perfect lunch!

 

Another BBQ...Chicken with Saffron Brown Rice and Garlic Mayo and not forgetting our daily Salad.

 

That's great Shiney and Mrs Shiney, well done both of you.

 

Looks a bit offish but smells delish, my homemade stew and just for my own taste buds some Dumplings that are home made too.

 

Chips 2 eggs and baked beans.

 

Comfort food day as it was so cold!!

Lasagne, broccoli, green beans, peas, carrots and sweet corn.

 

That's all that matters. My better half doesn't do chilli like I do so I have to split anything hot into two pans/pots at the point that I add the chillies.

They should be law!

One of my pet hates!

Fridge/freezer clean up last night as I had some veal mince, shrooms and peppers to use up. So I got some 'past their best cherry toms from my man on Church St market (1.5 kilos for a quid!) and some habenero chillies and cooked it all up with some cummin and coriander powder, lots of garlic, onion (diced added early with some chunky bits added at the end), black treacle and kidney beans. Dished up on toasted ciabatta that was a bit stale. Just what was needed during this cold snap.

 

I’ll bring a nice bottle of white, I’ll be there at 12.15 on the dot, just enough time to get the glasses filled up