Okay you gorgeous lot tonight's menu......

[merciasounds]

I know Mccfluff won't like the beautiful best minced steak lasagne I've made using a tomato sauce made with tomatoes from my own greenhouse (bottled last year) I roasted them with a drop of best olive oil, then pulped them down and cooked them with onions, garlic, red wine and fresh basil and oregano. Layered with fresh homemade pasta sheets, and a creamy bechamel sauce, covered with a thick layer of four grated cheeses, baked until golden, served with garlic bread (homemade of course, and a crisp garden salad.

OR

I've been making sausages, There is: Pork with, sweet chili and garlic, pork with smoked bacon and garlic, pork with chestnuts, pork with sage and apples, OR Lamb with rosemary and soft apricots, lamb with cinnamon and prunes, beef with guinness and mushrooms, beef with curry spices. You could have any of those with creamy mash and onion gravy, and greens

OR

A homecured gammon steak, with pineapple or fried egg, new potatoes and salad or vegetables

Puddings are: Raspberry and coconut sponge with velvety smooth custard, fresh fruit flan with whipped cream, or Lemon and lime meringue pie

let me know what you want!!

[mccfluff]

lol yes it was, but she lives in a ilttle village just outside of exeter and there ia very good farm shop 5 minutes walk away that i shall be visiting, or there is powderham estates!

btw i am taking the pee here, she's going to canada, i'm housesitting and i'm getting her to cook me dinners and freeze them....

[Garmard]

For a sausage casserole try throwing in Sainsbury's Butchers choice Lincs sausages X8 with chopped parsnip X 1, potatoes X2, 1Red and 1Yellow pepper and 1 clove of Garlic followed by 2X shallots, throw them all in a casserole dish and add a dash of olive oil and a sprinkle of mixed herbs.
Cook on 190 c for fan oven for about 45-50 mins....Magnifique!

[merciasounds]

pastafreak, I do paperwork for the WI, and I do the accounts and paperwork for two of our farms, that can be an awful lot at times, claiming subsidies and what have you, and our own household accounts and I also do translating work, and I'm writing a book so I've always got something to do.

[wiggal]

Can I have the lasagne please!? Its my favourite thing ever!!

And as I dont eat anything sweet, the puddings are out, so can I have a double portion of lasagne!? Pleeease!!

[merciasounds]

Wiggal - the lasagne is going fast, my friend has just phoned me, her son is coming up from Dorset today and she'll be out until midnight, could I feed him....he chose the lasagne too, and homemade thick cut chips, as well as the salad and garlic bread...

[merciasounds]

Garmand - peppers AND parsnips together - and no liquid in the casserole? EW NO No no!!

[Garmard]

A Jamie Oliver recipe merciasounds.....seriously!

[pericat]

Fluffy - you cat sitting ?

[pastafreak]

The Jamie Oliver recipe sounds more like a sausage and veg roast/bake.....parsnips go beautifully with sausages, as do red and orange peppers....so why not....lol. I say' never say never'.

[Garmard]

Thank you pastafreak

[pastafreak]

You're welcome Garmard...;-))

[merciasounds]

I normally like Jaimie Oliver too - but I never follow anybody's recipes, i make my own up - there are very few chef's /cooks I do like - I like Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Clarissa Dickson Wright, Rose Gray (Bless her) Madhur Jaffrey and Claudia Roden - that's about it. You can stick Marco and Gordon where the sun don't shine. If gordon ramsey spoke to me the way he does to his staff, I'd have his bloody tripes out in a second with my no.5 Sabatier boning knife before he could say f*ck off!
I've always found that you get more and better out of people of you don't shout at them, but if somebody REALLY needs pulling into line, do it in private, not bawl and shout in front of everybody - to me that really only shows your own short-comings

[mccfluff]

peri, sort off i'm taking murph with me :-)