Anyone want to chat about what's on the menu today?

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Lockdown boredom has gone beyond but I seem to have got back my cooking and menu planning mojo
Not sure if the cleaning mojo will ever make a comeback
I'm doing a roast beef dinner, roast potatoes, cauli cheese, red cabbage, broccoli, carrots, mashed swede and obviously Yorkshire puddings.
Leftovers will make a cottage pie at the very least for another meal
Anything else I can use the leftovers for?
Beef going in the slow cooker at midday for a nice long red wine bath

Oh and contemplating baking a cake to take out on yet another walk
Any suggestions welcome

We don’t cook on Sundays. It became a thing long before lockdown. We only do snack lunches anyway. We will have samosas, pakoras and onion bhajis for supper. I suggested changing the menu when we went into lockdown but my daughter, who lives with us, said its the only was she can keep track of the days of the week. So I will be getting the packets out of the freezer as usual.

That sounds like a Saturday in our house

We had a roast dinner on Friday as chicken needed to be eaten. We’ve just had toasted sausages sandwiches for breakfast and are going to have beef casserole for dinner tonight. We had fish and chips delivered yesterday which was lovely.

I am beginning to start spring cleaning now we’ve had a bit of sunshine, it always shows up the dust. Despite doing lots of clearing out in the first lockdown, I am starting all over again, at a slower pace.

Well done you Mindy
My housework motivation is at zero

I love sundays at the moment. I cook a big roast with the radio on and DH keeps me company. we get merrily pissed and chat away whilst it all cooks.
Today I’m doing a huge gammon I’ll coat in maple syrup. Roast taties, sprouts, red cabbage, cauli cheese, roasted carrots and parsnips, stuffing and Yorkshire’s.
I’ve some lemons that need using so will do a lemon drizzle cake.
For beef leftovers that need much meat I would add to stir fry or do hot beef crusty rolls with onions and mustard and a splash of gravy 😋
Our menus sound very similar, hope you enjoy it very much!

*Don’t need much meat 🙄

We're all eating egg and bacon butties in bed at the moment!

Will walk to the shop after we're all up and ready for mint sauce to go with dinner - lamb, roasties, broccoli, cauli, cabbage and turnip. And Yorkshire puddings!

Then will bake a cake for after dinner/supper, think I'll do a Victoria sponge.

I love Sunday food

We’re having pork chops cooked with apples and cider (Delia), baked potatoes and caraway cabbage.

MIL always spends Sunday with us, so we do a nice meal but we’re all a bit fed up of roasts.

Slow roast pork (already in), roast potatoes & parsnips, yorkshires, cabbage & bacon, stuffing, carrots. We're going for (another) long walk afterwards, then probably a nap and I'll make a banana cake to have with a cup of tea while watching a film early evening

We go to our bubblemate's every Sunday (in Ireland, he's less than 1/2 a mile away, lives alone - it's the only time I leave the house) - and I cook a roast whilst DH and friend put the world to rights. This week it's roast lamb, Yorkies, roast spuds, parsnips, carrots, sprouts, courgettes and broccoli with a demi-glace sauce and mint sauce on the side. Lamb cooked with garlic, rosemary and cinnamon. A few glasses of red wine for me, too, and a Guinness for DH :)

Bippity that sounds like our Sundays
It's about the only positive of lockdown that I have found
We all potter around on a Sunday and I have a very nice new Red to try

Cottage pie, cauli, broccoli and carrots with gravy for us.

Its my DDs 14th birthday today so she has dictated the menu:
Crumpets for breakfast
Sushi for lunch
Roast dinner with veggie sausages for dinner with Vienetta ice cream for pud
Plus a chocolate birthday cake
And she will probably eat a tonne of chocolate given to her by various friends who will doorstep visit throughout the day!

Not a typical menu, but you are only 14 once 🤣

Happy Birthday to your DD

I don’t actually know what I’m going to make today! I fancy a roast dinner but we had a very big dinner last night so we need something light. We get all our meat frozen from our local farm shop so it’s a little more difficult to improvise from day to day.

I might do a Thai red curry with chicken breast, along with broccoli with a garlic and soy sauce dressing, and jasmine rice for DH.

We're having roast pork today, with some chestnut stuffing that I found in the freezer yesterday, roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings (yes I know it's pork but I don't care), runner beans, carrots and leeks, followed by mandarins in jelly with ice cream.

My dp and I will have fillet steaks with fried eggs for breakfast whenever we get up.
For dinner we are having gammon, I boil it first then into the oven with cloves, honey and brown sugar for half an hour. Accompanied by mash, roasties, cabbage and honey roasted carrots.

Starting a diet tomorrow so binging today
Breakfast was toast with real butter.
Lunch is baguette with cheese and salad.
Tea is roast beef.. Roast pots.. Veg and yorkies.
With aldi hot apple steamed pudding thing and custard
Oh and finishing up the alcohol

Roast dinner here, first this year. House is clean and tidy and am washing bedding. Attacking the huge mountain of work I have neglected all holiday and kidding myself I will get through it all by dinner time.

I will have mushrooms on toast for breakfast.

Dinner will involve cauliflower and broccoli cheese, roast potatoes and carrots. The scrag end of cabbage left will benefit from cheese sauce too.

DH normally does curry on a Sunday -chettinadu chicken and a veggie something - but he’s deep in the throes of giving up vaping so I expect to cook instead.

We seem to be having roasts every other day at the moment which is fine as they kill loads of time and work out cheap!

Moroccan lamb kofta with tomato, basil and pomegranate sauce, flatbreads and shredded veg and some potato wedges

Lamb hotpot. I love hearty comforting meals but it's now the wrong weather for it. It would have been more suited to last week.

Ooh lamb kofta
Where would I find a recipe for that?

Drat, I knew there was a reason why we couldn’t have thai curry...I forgot to pick up a lime last time I went shopping!

Hmmm.

Can’t do lamb and spiced butternut squash because I don’t have yoghurt to make the tahini sauce...can’t do curry and dal because we just had that the other day...can’t do duck legs or pheasant because they will take too long to thaw out...can’t do our stand-by easy dinner (a cooked breakfast) as I’ve just used the last of the eggs...

Ugh this could take some time.