[madcat]

Down to the lottie after a few days away and OMG!!!!  Rows of lovely chinese leaves, and the first one already starting to go to seed.  Ditto pak choi, and lettuces.  Great box of mange touts (at least they freeze), a few courgettes, huge bunch of sweet peas and the fruit desperately needs picking, as does the parsley for the freezer ..... tomorrow's job!  (let's not mention the weeds ....)

So this evening was stir fried mixed veg, braised chinese leaves in soy, and a hot sweet and sour pork concoction with some chopped cooked pork from the freezer.  Oh and rice of course.

[lettice]

Fish night, some fillets of whiting.
Picked a buckets of peas and a half bucket of mangetout. Will mix and match.
Emptied a bag with 12lb of Charlotte, so some nicely steamed with a fresh picked mint.
Picked a colander full of gooseberries, a bowl of strawberries and our first raspberries, so shared fruit to pick at.

[mumofstig]

Salmon with sweet chilli sauce, fresh picked sugarsnaps and PJ potatoes and I've made an apple and loganberry pie.

[Lardman]

Send us some pie will ya MoS? 

I have a couple of supermarket cheese topped baps needing to be used up, probably with a tin of soup. I'm super excited about my dinner tonight 

[mumofstig]

It's on its way - hope it lands the right way up 

[New shoot]

I was late back yesterday, so had cheese salad sandwiches.  There was the dog end of some bought coleslaw in a tub lurking in the fridge, so stirred a bit of wasabi paste in.  That livened things up no end.  The wasabi/mayo combo is one I have recently discovered and am getting a bit hooked on 

Tonight is chicken thighs with spicy tomato and chickpea sauce.  The sauce is already made, so just need to raid the plot for some greens and decide whether we are having rice, noodles or new potatoes with it 

[lettice]

Just made the days food, as its a day of harvesting and weeding in the veg plot.

For lunch, a mince casserole with some charlotte potatoes and spinach that I picked at 5am.
For tea its a lasagne with added spinach and a just made cottage loaf to break and dip in a garlic butter.

[madcat]

Last night was quick before going out and so pasta sauce and meatballs were retrieved from the freezer.

Tonight's dinner will also come from the freezer (gotta make space for redcurrents!) so little pots of veg korma, bengali potatoes and beetroot curry are out to defrost, to go with rice.  Last time I did this the microwave bust, so it is lo-tech heating up in pans time!   

[mumofstig]

I've got drumsticks defrosting waiting for their barbecue sauce. Wedges and salad to go with them.

That should hit the spot whether it stays cool or warms up as the forecast predicts 

[snowdrops]

Chicken thighs here but with what I don't know🤔 No inspiration & im out all afternoon, so maybe hubby will take over. Maybe a mini roast dinner

[Lardman]

Tried a different butcher's this morning. Not impressed, everything was pre-packed in meat trays and shockingly expensive. Bought some diced lamb the plan is to mince it and make some kebab meat for pita but it may end up in the slow cooker as a casserole.

[madcat]

Tried a different butcher's this morning. Not impressed, everything was pre-packed in meat trays and shockingly expensive. Bought some diced lamb the plan is to mince it and make some kebab meat for pita but it may end up in the slow cooker as a casserole.

So many 'butchers' are just purveyors of prepacks.    Annoying, and the more cutsie, the less they know.  Keep on lookin' ...

Anyway how about a Naverin of Lamb for a change?  The exact veggies depend on what you have ... https://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/view/recipe/navarin-of-lamb-and-spring-vegetables gives the idea.

[lettice]

Roast chicken.
Blue skies and mid 20c temps, we are having it on the patio.

All homegrown veg; our stored roosters and parsnips, charlotte, turnips, broad and french cobra beans, peas, asparagus and the first picking this year of our patio tub carrots.
Sage, rosemary and chive stuffing.
Swapped some broad beans for a cauliflower.

Gooseberry crumble for afters with custard.

[New shoot]

I'm going to do a coconut milk based curry with new potatoes from the plot and corn from the freezer.   Rice on the side and a salad/relish of cucumber, onion and mint 

[mumofstig]

My first courgette and some broccoli, cooked with thyme and lemon, over casarecce pasta topped with some salty pecorino sardo cheese.