Thursday's Menu with Vegetarian Option For those interested: starters:

[merciasounds]

Carrot and Coriander Soup
OR
Sautee of Chicken Livers with Sherry vinegar, Crispy croutons and mixed salad leaves
OR
Thai style crab Cakes with Chili dip

Gammon steak with Egg or Pineapple, handcut chips and salad or peas
OR
Ocean Pie - Big chunks of Cod, Salmon, Smoked Haddock and Prawns in a creamy parsley sauce, topped with scalloped potatoes - served with peas and salad
OR
glazed Lamb Chump Chops with Rosemary and Redcurrant

Vegetarian Option:
Wild Mushroom Souffle omelette
OR
Jacket Potato with three cheeses and homemade coleslaw and salad
OR
Quorn mince cottage pie

Puds
Strawberry Shortcake
OR
Apple caramel Crunch
OR
Blacforest Gateau

12 cheeses, crackers, grapes and celery

Coffee

Plenty of wine, ciders, bitter, lager juices etc

[Ric.ror]

The apple caramel crunch would be nice with a teaspoon of gin added to the sauce

[merciasounds]

would it really.......

[supersuezy24]

Lovely:)
Thai crab cakes, ocean pie, The jacket potato sounds lovely, and the strawberry shortcake, some cheese and crackers And grapes and some wine too. Yum x

[mccfluff]

soup, ocean pie and bfg please

[mccfluff]

oh go away, if you don't like it ignore it!

[merciasounds]

Your Opinion. Usually a 'sticky' thread. Enough said?

[merciasounds]

Hi Doc, glad to know you're not suffering this morning!!! Hope you had a great one yesterday!!

[ethandron]

mercia, ignore it, you have no need to justify or explain.
many people, including myself, don't join in with the 'i'll have this or that thing' but i certainly enjoy reading your menus and they definitely give me some ideas for what to make here at home.

[merciasounds]

Thanks Ethandron

[rowanwitch]

Oh mercia....no Octopus on the menu Paul lives to predict for anothe few days.....

[rinkins]

oooh lamb, my fave....

[merciasounds]

Ooh Rowanwitch, any idea who he's predicted for the final win?

[merciasounds]

Have a lovely day out Doc - hang on - is your sister coming alone? coz that'll mean puss and your sis can have the buy one get one free carvery, and you can have the two for yourself!!

[MissCommando]

I'll have: the soup followed by the lamb chops (I love lamb too) and the gateau! Thanks lol
Mercia - are you a chef or just a very good cook? Your food always sounds amazing!

[merciasounds]

How can I put this - I learnt all I know from my mother and grandmother, (My gran had 3 girls and 4 boys, all the lads learnt too - this was just around 2nd world war-time when 'chefs' were rare and all but foreign!) They all still cook and have taught their family's too.

Anyway, to get on in the world I did a cookery course to get paper qualifications - I've cooked all over the world, Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Ireland) Asia (China, Malasia, Thailand, Japan
Australia and North America, and Brazil in the south.
I used to run my own catering company till I had a bad car accident, and now I cook many dinner parties as My hubby's work demands a lot of entertaining!