Some lovely lean Shin Beef done with loads of veggies & a rich gravy in the slow cooker yesterday. Today I put a Suet Crust on it & put it in the oven Had some Cauliflower as well with it - all rather nice 
‘Butter Chicken’ on rice. It was a leftover from Saturday. Not sure if I like it or not. I was trying a new recipe.
Thank you ladies for the omelette recipes. No, I’ve never cooked one. That was Gordon’s job but I’ve bought some eggs so I’ll give it a go soon.
Pork loin today with sausage, mash and a selection of veg, not decided what yet 
Apple pie and cream for pud
Chicken breast, jacket potato and cauliflower cheese, no sweet.
Baker salmon, mixed salad followed by strawberries…
I’m thinking spaghetti with meat sauce and a garden salad.
Anyone made bananabread? Got a recipe from a friend and it turned out to be a diaster…
Not banana bread Anna darlin’ - but I do have a recipe for Banana fruit loaf.
Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas (sliced)
8 oz plain flour
4 oz soft margarine
4 oz soft brown sugar (dark muscavado)
2 eggs
3 oz dried mixed fruit/saltanas
2 Tsps baking powder
2 Tbls milk
2 oz chopped walnuts
- Sift flour and baking powder together
2.cream margarine and sugar - beat eggs
- fold in eggs with a little flour
- fold in rest of flour with milk and bananas
- Stir in mixed fruit
- Add walnuts to mixture and stir.
Pour/scrape ingredients into a 2 lb loaf tin (greased and lined) place in a hot oven (180 C ) Cook for approx 60 mins - loaf is cooked through when a knife inserted into the middle of it is removed ‘clean’.
I have a recipe for banana bread and will pop it on the recipe thread.
Gammon egg and mushrooms today
Had a ‘fry up’ today - quarter pounder burger, + 2 sausages, 2 eggs and some mushrooms on a bed of oven chips.
Tonight we are having chinese and I have a couple of bottles of beer left over from Christmas to go with it…it has been months since we ordered chinese and I am looking forward to it
Fish 'n chips today - nice big piece of Battered Haddock and a tray of oven chips.
Tomorrow back to the ‘Sunday roast’ again - roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips and some steamed veg and gravy.
had chilli chips and garlic bread tonight …
Tomorrow I got a 4 bird roast …it was going cheep …I mean cheap from Aldi
Last evening we had an Indian takeaway. And this evening we are going out for a meal. A lazy no cook weekend.
Tuna mayo and sweetcorn, with a jacket spud and followed by fruit yoghurt for pud…
Not a good day for the diet with a family lunch 
Roast beef with roast parsnips/roast potatoes/broccoli/ leeks/carrots/yorkshire pudding.
Rhubarb and orange crumble or jelly made with orange and lemon juice and slices of orange/vanilla cream.
Meg darlin’ - a friend of mine makes her jellies, not with hot water but with Vodka - her lime jellies are fabulous!!!
I still have a 'haggis in my fridge and I fancy Haggis neeps and tatties, but done MY way. I have a few sweet potatoes, a few parsnips and and a celeriac bowl. Will peel and cut them up, steam them and place in a bowl with a large knob of butter and thoroughly mash them. place them on my plate and make a ‘nest’ and rest the haggis in the nest, poured with thick ‘Lamb’ oxo and Bisto gravy - Luverly!!!