(Food related) - what is your favourite....

[JapaneseBirdPainting]

(Sorry- insomnia has struck and I am menu planning)

Chicken dish - mine is either lemon roast chicken or my mother's chicken crepes from the 70s

lamb dish - herbed rack of lamb

Beef dish - beef on mustard crouton

Pasta dish - meatball pasta soup

Rice dish - tarka dhal with rice

Vegetarian dish - cauliflower cheese with spinach in the sauce (Green cauliflower!!!) and breadcrumbs on top

random dish - mezze platter with loads of dips

Yum!!!!

Oooh my brain isn't functioning as haven't managed to sleep yet so I can't think very well!

Chicken : Chicken in filo pastry in a mushroom and white wine sauce. However, I could eat sat he white sauce from the M&S tinned chunky chicken all day

Lamb: slow roast with loads of garlic in it so it's really sticky and tender, pref with Greek yoghurt and white wine vinegar mixed together with finely chopped shallots mixed in, helps cut through the grease!

Beef: Brisket slow cooked with proper gravy

Pasta: chorizo, chillies and boursin in passatta.... V unhealthy but delicious!

Rice: mushroom and pancetta risotto

Vegetarian: goats cheese lasagne

Random dish: filthy treat either scallop butty from fish and chip shop or chicken katsu curry from.fuji hiro

Oh and Waitrose microwavable jam sponge puddings have left a dent in my memory too!

Good morning Joyce!!

Oh my goodness! A scallop butty? What delight is this???

years ago in Australia i sampled battered scallops from the chippy - a HUGE scallop (with the rose which is my favourite) battered in the lightest tempura batter. From literally a rural Australian chippy. I adored it and have never forgotten (neither have i forgotten the pure joy that is the steamed dim sim from the same chippy).

Battered scallop butty sounds like heaven.

I think I shall try a chicken filo pastry this weekend. It sounds like something even fussy DS1 will like. :)

Oh Japanese, I think the Yorkshire version of a scallop butty will be a huge let down.....

It is a big slice of potato, battered, deep fried, slung in a tea cake / bread cake with lashings of salt and vinegar. Zero nutritional value, disgraceful but very very nice

I love chicken in filo pastry.... Hope your ds likes it! We usually have sugar snap with it.

With s Waitrose jam sponge pudding for afterwards now it is getting cold!

Also up with insomnia!!

Chicken dish - Chicken and Mediterranean tray bake: www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/hit-n-run-traybaked-chicken/

lamb dish - roasted lamb leg with flatbreads, lots of salads (rocket, pomegranate etc) tzatziki etc (was the main at our wedding and my favourite summer dinner for entertaining)

Beef dish - Cannot beat rare steak and chips!

Pasta dish - mushroom rigatoni

Rice dish - chicken risotto

Vegetarian dish - I do a goats cheese and shallot tart tatin which is probably my favourite thing ever - or homemade veggie pizza

random dish - ramen! Went on a course to learn how to make it last month

Oh steak and chips! Dash of garlic butter?

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I think the Yorkshire version sounds great!!!!! So - it is a potato scallop. :)

It still sounds like heaven. :)

@JoyceDivision oh absolutely!

It has significantly contributed to my lack of wrinkles by filling my frame out

Morning Dolly!

i have never managed to make a decent tart tatin. I might try it out!

If I couldn't sleep before, now I'm really struggling because I can't stop thinking about very nice food!

I know. I am about to go an investigate if I have any leftovers from dinner (chicken noodle soup)

When DH cooks steak he deglazes pan with red wine, reduces sauce then chucks a huge blob of creme fraiche in so it's a lovely thick intense sauce.

I really need to find joy in salads ....

@JapaneseBirdPainting you should! It’s a bit of a cheat one but I end up sort of tweaking this recipe www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1129654/shallot-tarte-tatin-with-goats-cheese

I have a slumbering cat on top of me and now wondering how grumpy he’ll be if I get up to make a very early breakfast

Chicken dish - Indian roast chicken, with vindaloo sauce, spice roast cauliflower, greens and road potatoes

Lamb dish - Roast shoulder on Big Green Egg with ras el hanoit rub, Middle Eastern salads, flatbread.

Beef dish - Slowcooked beef cheek made into a meal meaty chilli con carne.

Pasta dish - spaghetti with bottarga

Rice dish - sashimi bowl with raw salmon, crispy salmon skin, seaweed salad with sesame dressing, avocado with mustard dressing, salmon roe,

Vegetarian dish - probably a home made pizza on the Green Egg with chillis, red peppers and Brie.

Random dish - DH's pear and caramel ice cream.

Chicken bacon and leek pie

Lamb dupiaza

Roast beef dinner

Seafood linguini

Paella

Cauliflower cheese

Full English breakfast

But now I'm fantasising about that shallot tarte tatin with goats cheese for breakfast.

All these dishes sound amazing. Pear icecream sounds incredible!

I went back to bed and have just woken up with a splitting headache. Insomnia is a bugger!

I think Paella is on the menu for this week!