What's for tea at your house tonight?

tonight:  lasagne
tomorrow:  cheesy potato chowder with bacon... featuring:  VELVEETA!!! 

tonight:  lasagne
tomorrow:  cheesy potato chowder with bacon... featuring:  VELVEETA!!! 

Cheese followed by cheese?  Can I be adopted? 

Looking forward to a spicy chicken noodle box from the chippy up the street. Comes in a real cardboard carton and has chopsticks on request! For an hour I can at least pretend I'm back home!

I've been making a lot of soups. Sausage and spinach,  chicken and vegetable, green enchilada turkey and today I'll make a ham hock and vegetable soup.

I bought soup bags from Lakeland so my freezer is full of a variety of low carb soups for when I get home from work late.

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I've been making a lot of soups. Sausage and spinach,  chicken and vegetable, green enchilada turkey and today I'll make a ham hock and vegetable soup.

I bought soup bags from Lakeland so my freezer is full of a variety of low carb soups for when I get home from work late.

You must be in your element in your new kitchen! Congrats again on the house! 

You must be in your element in your new kitchen! Congrats again on the house! 

I really am. The whole house is fantastic. You don't realise how much space you don't have until you have space. I feel like I'm living in a mansion! It is Brilliant. And I love the wee village!!

Thanks.

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I really am. The whole house is fantastic. You don't realise how much space you don't have until you have space. I feel like I'm living in a mansion! It is Brilliant. And I love the wee village!!

Thanks.

Awesome! So happy for you!

I love easy stuff I can just pop in the oven. I have been buying these breaded chicken "steaks" from Tesco and roasting vegetables (I love the broccoli/cauliflower/carrot combo) with them. I will likely do that tonight with some McCain chips.

My new favorite is to slice Yukon Gold potatoes, skin on, to about 1/2 inch thick. Put them on an oven pan, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with seasoned salt, put a couple of small steaks on the other end of the pan, stick the pan in the oven at 195 for just under 10 minutes, and it all comes out done. Had that tonight, with fresh green beans microwaved in a bowl of water to keep them from getting rubbery. Lovely steaks, they were! The butcher had them on half-price.

Don't get to do that too often, and I feel very much like a python that's swallowed a pig. But a happy python. 

The Daughter has taken over cooking the main mid-day meal for us now. She's learning to be a pretty darned good cook. Yesterday she made us a pasta dish that involved oven-roasted shallots and tomatoes, basil, crushed New Mexico peppers, crumbled bacon, a small amount of tomato paste, olive oil, and parmesean cheese.

It was amazing! Carb hell, so we won't do that very often, but reaaaallly nice.   

And I didn't have to cook!

I like to make 'thing' for dinner often in my house, so I personally am ready to take on the challenge of using what's in my cupboards! One big 'Masterchef' invention test! Whoot!

Did anyone have Mexican-ish food last night for Cinco de Mayo?

Closest I could get with what I already had on hand was more Tex than Mex... a bowl of red.  Chilli con carne.  Semi-proper...as it had no tomatoes, but I did add pinto beans.  Can't be doing with kidney beans.  It was really good and I've got leftovers for tonight.

Did anyone have Mexican-ish food last night for Cinco de Mayo?

I made chicken pie with mash.  It was tasty, but not in any way Mexican-ish.

BBQ pork chops and sausages with a nice caesar salad and wine


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Today for lunch I made chicken soft tacos (attempting to copycat Taco Bell's chicken soft tacos from memory), which were amazing... not quite Taco Bell, but a great flavour, nonetheless.  And my chicken was actual chicken, so bonus!  (I assume Taco Bell's chicken is also actual chicken, but I like to joke.)

Tonight we're going to have blackened chicken just as soon as my bread dough doubles in size so I can knock it back, shape it, and put it in the bread tin.  I need the bowl for mashed potatoes.

And now, saying that, I would like to point out how much more convenient my life will be when I eventually have a kitchen (and my dishwasher installed), so I can have two bowls of this size.  Luxury!