If not interested, don't read!! Menu for Thursday -

[merciasounds]

Starters: Moules Mariniere - Fresh mussels cooked with butter, white wine, garlic and parsley
OR
Pear walnut and blue cheese salad with citrus dressing
OR
Chicken and barley broth

Mains: Grilled rib-eye steak, beer-battered onion rings, handcut chips, peas, sautee of mushrooms and grilled tomato, or a side salad. Sauces for steak are - garlic butter, whiskey, creamy cracked black pepper or blue cheese
OR
Vegetable and pasta pake - selection of vegetables including sweet mixed peppers, onions, mushrooms, aubergines etc, and cooked pasta shapes in a light herby garlicky sauce topped with grated cheese, crushed crisps and fresh breadcrumbs, baked until golden
OR
Roast chicken - seasoned and roasted with herbs and lemon, served with choice of potatoes and veg or new potatoes/chips and salad

Puds Fresh just picked Strawberries - don't need sugar, or anything gimmicky like black pepper or balsalmic vinegar, just whipped, or double cream, or clotted cream ice cream
OR
Malibu cheesecake - fresh pineapple on top, toasted coconut around the sides and Malibu in the cheesey bit!
OR
Chocolate sponge with a liquid chocolate centre, served with pouring cream and raspberries.

16 cheeses, crackers, grapes and celery

Coffee liqueur coffee

Plenty of cold wine

[moonraker558]

What time do you want me to come round?

[eash]

Good day to you Mercia :-)

I will have the salad to start, the vegetable and pasta bake for mains and then strawberries and ice cream for desset as well as copious amounts of cheese and wine!

Thanks!

[merciasounds]

7.30pm for 8, you can have a glass of wine and sit chatting in the garden first, but um..you're supposed to tell me what you want!!

[moonraker558]

A bit of everything sounds good to me. lol

[ummmm]

Moules Mariniere

Rib eye steak with a side salad

Strawberries and cream

Irish coffee please :-)

[joeluke]

Is this a menu from an actual restaurant?

[merciasounds]

No Joe, I cook a starter main and at least one pud from the selection I put up every day, it's the choice I give my hubby. If he decides to bring people back for dinner, i often have to do a second dish from the list - it just depends on what I have in the fridge

[joeluke]

Wow, he gets all that choice???.....most blokes just get what's put in front of them

Where can I meet a woman like you? If you ever think of leaving your husband give me a call!

[merciasounds]

Ho ho Joe, thanks!! My husband only eats breakfast, never lunch except on a Sunday, that's why he likes a decent dinner in the evening, and as I've been in cooking and catering all my life i enjoy it!! XXX

[mccfluff]

can i just have steak and salad please

[joeluke]

Unfortunately I don't think it would work though cos I'm a northerner and your menu is way too fancy for me........I'm more of a Prawn Cocktail followed by Shepherds Pie and Apple Crumble & Custard sort of bloke

[funnygirl]

I look forward to this!

Moules Mariniere (I hope there's some crusty bread to mop up the juices)
Rib eye steak and chocolate sponge!!

Yummy yum.

[merciasounds]

Fluffy, I'm getting worried about you, you're eating less and less, you'll go down the plug 'ole if you're not careful!

[Jan1957]

Moules, steak with pepper sauce, and strawberries and clotted cream ice cream for me, with lots of cold wine. Thanks mercia.

[mccfluff]

lol MS believe me it will take a long time before i'd get down a plughole!

just not feeling to clever right now :-(

[merciasounds]

Bread's just out of the oven, I've got white crusty, a soda bread, a 7 seed loaf and a granary. Joe, I do prawns and shepherds pie! but I make them from scratch, best minced lamb, chopped onions, lamb stock, creamy mashed potatoes, new season carrots, garden peas.....

[joeluke]

mmmmmmm, when can you come over? lol

[Emoire]

Hi Mercia, I would like the salad to start (it sounds amazing by the way!), the vegetable and pasta bake for main followed by the chocolate sponge, washed down with a lovely glass of cold wine, thanks :0) x