Morning - today's menu is: Chilled Gazpacho, OR tortilla chips and dips

[merciasounds]

(we have sour cream and onion, cool chili and three cheese) OR Beef tomato and Mozzarella salad with torn basil, Greek lemon and olive oil dressing

Mains: Roast chicken with fresh lime, coriander, and garlic

OR

Leg of Lamb cubes marinated in lemon zest, juice, garlic mint and rosemary char grilled
(there are a few minced lamb ones too)

OR

Tuna steak grilled to your liking

to go with above Cornish new potatoes (far better than Jerseys, trust me! )
Mixed salad leaves (Rocket, frisse, lambs lettuce, little gem and baby spinach leaves)
Tomatoes, a big dish of sliced sweet onions, spring onions, pasta salad, home made coleslaw, apple and walnut slaw, ratatouille, flat breads

Puds: There's a fresh fruit salad or a huge dish of English strawberries,
and or lots of homemade sorbets and ice creams of various flavours

I have gallons of cold white wine, lager, cider (both pear and apple) bitter and some Guinness too

[cazzz1975]

I have asked this before and not received a reply, but what is the purpose of putting up a random menu? is it the food you will or want to eat today for yourself and your family mercia or just a random menu?

[AB Editor]

I think it is a bit of fun Cazz?

I quite like seeing a decent menu on here (usually just before lunch).

Spare Ed

[cazzz1975]

im a very factual person ed or as some may deem "a miserable so and so"I dont mind the odd fanciful post, I just cannot understand the daily menu, it looks very wasteful in my opinion.

[snags]

I have the view that it is harmless fun and not worth getting your knickers in a twist over...

[cazzz1975]

I prefer to have the food in front of me, not to sit here reading serving suggestions... ;)

[Androcles]

But does it HAVE to be pinned at the top of Food and Drink, spare ed. There are those of us who would prefer for the thread to be left to those who are interested, not have it smacked in our faces - I mean anybody with an online database can put a menu together.

I thought this section was more about HOW to do it. I've had lunch today with a potato salad made with perpetual onions, marjoram and garlic, homemade mayonnaise and cornish potatoes, fresh asparagus from our local farm etc etc - so what - it does not get the art of cooking any further forward - it's just a list of ingredients which anybody can create. Just look at http://www.recipelink.com/surf4supperall.html and there is all you need if you are that way inclined.

Please let Merciasounds have her little daily reverie, but it ain't special enough to pin it, then I can ignore it.

[cazzz1975]

I preferred doc spocks daily menu..

[merciasounds]

Well tut tut AB Ed, you have been told off, you must NOT flag my daily posts as people who aren't interested feel compelled to read them even though they don't want to. Well no worries, like I said this one is my last, I'm going, never to darken the doors of AB land again. Bye to those who have been lovely and friendly - and the others, well use your imagination!!

[ummmm]

There really is no need for this tantrum.

[looobylooo]

i couldnt understand why mc posted up such pretentious menus either...?
they started off having us 'believe' she was actually cooking such food each day for her and her husband, oh and for the WI too (lol) ...
but when people started questioning why would she cook such an extensive amount of lavish food every single day, with pointless choices of starter, main and desert, which just seemed too unbelievable to be true, and costing a small fortune aswell(!) her posts amazingly changed to being just a bit of 'harmless 'fictitous' daily fun' ........ hmmmmm....okaaaaay?
anyway.... whatever .... i didnt find them very interesting myself and thought they were a waste of time .... :o)

[merciasounds]

Yes, looobyloo, I'm really sure that most people would much rather sit here and discuss your mother's recent urine test, or your diabetes.

[looobylooo]

thank you for that mercia, however i was asking for help and advice on those particular subjects, which is what answerbank is all about....

anyway,
the reason why ive just returned to this thread was to say i shouldnt have written what i did in my last post - ok, they might be my views, but i should have just kept them to myself.
so apologies ok.
the site caters for all sorts of posting, which makes it the enjoyable place it is to pop onto every day, and obviously not everything we read will be to everyones liking or interest. im not the most thrilling of posters myself.
you were/are entitled to write your daily menus if thats what you like to do, (yes they irriated me) just as im entitled to write about my mums recent urine tests and my diabetes (yes they bored you) .... but, theyre what makes the site it is.
so again, please accept my apologies for the curt unnecessary comments i made...

[merciasounds]

Thanks for that looobyloo, please accept my apologies too. I've just got fed up with keep having to explain/defend myself.That's why I've decided not to do it anymore. But it was nice of you to apologise.

[looobylooo]

thank you too mercia, no worries.



(can i ask are you in the warwickshire/midlands area? i just wondered because we have a local radio station called mercia sound lol)

[merciasounds]

I live in Birmingham, I 'inherited' the name merciasounds from my nephew, who is a third year med student. he was fed up with his 'small memory' lap top, and could never find the right key stick or dongle or whatever he had the info he wanted so being the nice kind aunty I am, i gave him my new lap top and i had his old one.

[mccfluff]

MS wooo hoooo

where were you, i tried to find you but there were so many food stalls i had to give up in the end!

[ummmm]

Mercia....grow a thicker skin. Many of us enjoyed the menus.

[Emoire]

I think it is a real shame that you won't be doing your menus any more. I (and I'm sure many others) really enjoyed reading them and imagining what I would have. I can understand why you feel the way you do, it often seems that if someone is getting a lot of attention on here then there are always those who will turn nasty and say mean things to try to spoil it. Of course certain posters or posts won't be to everyone's tastes but if that's the case then they don't need to read those posts!! Don't spoil it for the rest of us. I will be sad to see you go Merciasounds, any chance you might reconsider and choose to ignore those petty people who are ruining it for those of us who looked forward to reading your menus? Best wishes, Emoire.

[cazzz1975]

nothing to do with getting critisism for getting more attention emoire, I cannot see the point of the threads myself, However I do think that the comments to doc spock were quite spiteful and not just contained in one thread, even the comments to loobylooo were quite mean.