Morning! Friday's menu for those interested! Today we have:

[merciasounds]

starters: Warm pitta breads with three dips, spicy tomato, hummous and sour cream and onion
OR
Traditional Prawn cocktail, large shelled prawns in a Marie Rose sauce on an bed on mixed leaves
OR
Spinach and ricotta cheese ravioli

Mains: Pork steaks in a sticky BBQ sauce served with jacket wedges and salad
OR
Jumbo fillet of fresh cod, I'll deep fry it in a crispy beer-batter, with handcut chips and garden/mushy peas and homemade tartare sauce
OR
Best minced steak and mushroom Lasagne, minced steak with onions and mushrooms in a rich thick home grown roasted tomato sauce with fresh oregano and basil, garlic and red wine, layered with fresh pasta and a creamy bechamel sauce topped with three cheeses baked until golden, served with a side salad and garlic bread

Puds: Poached pears with homemade Vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce
OR
Lemony raspberry cheesecake
OR
Trio of sorbets: gooseberry and lemonbalm, mango and blackcurrant (all homemade)

14 cheeses, crackers grapes and celery

Coffee/liqueur coffee

White or rose wine chilled, red breathing take your pick!

[marval]

Warm pitta breads with dips
Lasagne
Cheese and crackers
Rose wine

It all sounds lovely, thank you.

[ummmm]

Prawn cocktail

Pork steaks

Sorbets

Irish coffee

Whte wine

Rose

[mccfluff]

morning

prawn cocktail, pork and sorbets and cheese and rose please

[merciasounds]

I hope you're feeling better fluffy, have a great weekend!!

[funnygirl]

Hi Mercia

Ravioli, fish and chips and the trio of sorbets for me please.

[eash]

Pitta bread to start, fish for main and cheesecake for dessert, yum! Thanks :-)

[bigfoot3000]

Wow mercia once again you never fail to titillate our tastebuds! I must admit that I never make your recipes but sit there licking my screen for hours which has now become a problem as Im worrying my fellow workers and boss! Lol.

[merciasounds]

giggles at Bigfoot!!

[merciasounds]

Perhaps I could make you up a nice picker-nik basket!!

Buttered rolls, some lovely cooked seasoned chicken, roast beef perhaps, a cheese and onion quiche, some smoked salmon....potato or pasta salad...green house tomatoes...big bowl of strawberries and cream...a toffee cake...big bottle of cold rose wine...

[another-view]

Unless I am missing something, why is this posted every day and made a "sticky". What is the menu for?

[eash]

I've changed my mind, I want the pick nic basket!

[kawakiri]

What no Goose!

[Jan1957]

I'm whispering as I have a hangover but can I have the prawn cocktail, pork steaks and cheesecake please mercia. Should I have a hair of the dog or not? Ok then, a glass of rose.

[merciasounds]

another - it's just something I put up for fun everyday, not to everubody's taste I know, I've had enough flak about it being pointless etc, that's why i put for those interested at the beginning. It's the Ed that makes it a sticky, not me - and I didn't ask him to, he just likes it.

[another-view]

No problem. Just wondering. It all sounds lovely.

[merciasounds]

thank you!! :-)

[mccfluff]

picnic sounds goog, yes i'm feeing better thanks MS

[mccfluff]

peas in bag, sit on bag voila mushy peas

[merciasounds]

buy dried marrow fat peas, soak in cold water overnight with some bicarbonate of soda, rinse in the morning, bring to boil in salted water with some fresh mint if liked, then simmer on a low light, after about 15 mins the skins will start to come off. Drain, mash with fork, check seasoning, serve