for dinner tonight I had ...

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Apricot chicken with rice - my favourite comfort food from when I was a kid - wasn't quite as good as my mum's, unfortunately but was still damn fine.
followed by Banoffee pie
and a nice glass of red.

Feeling very happy and replete!

what did you lot have?

Chicken and salad. Doing Atkins.

Toad in the Hole, mash and beans. My fave!

beef steak casserole with cabbage and broccoli on brown rice

it was absolutely minging but I had to pretend it was edible so that the children would eat it

Why minging FIS?
Sounds nice.

what is toad in the hole, exactly?

scotch egg salad with minty jersey royals and strawberries & icecream for pudding

not sure - I let it cook way too long and the vegetables turned to mush and the meat was so tender, it was almost like a giant soup!

Carrots,Broccoli,Cauliflower,new potatoes,ambledown lentil roast and gravy.
dp and dd's had sausages with their veg.

Recipe for apricot chicken?

chicken and chips!

Wh had a bloody power cut just as I had finished prepping the veg - the chicken was cooked but I had to buy some chips.

Beef curry & rice. Made by dh Beef was left over from yesterday, the curry was a jar of curry paste... delicious

A jacket potatoe filled with prawns

Waiting for DH, then Smoked Mackerel salad with chunky chips...have started on the glass of white as he's late

chicken and mushroom pie and veg for me and dd1

veg puree for dd2

bbq pork chops and veg for dh as he doesnt like pastry!!

Quattro - recipe for apricot chicken is pan fry chicken pieces (legs and breasts work best, fillets not so good) until browned, place in casserole dish, scatter packet of French onion soup mix over the top (the powder stuff, you know?) and pour apricot nectar over the lot. Whack in some chopped dried apricots and stick in the oven for an hour or so. Serve over rice, works well with cous cous too.

let me know what you think if you make it, I love it!

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A really disappointingly bland fish pie from Tesco !

seriously, someone, what is toad in the hole? always think it sounds vaguely obscene!

cold meats, salad and new potatoes (Jersey Royals)

Yum, my favourite

its sausgaes in a kind of yorkshire pudding thing done in the oven....I think

Toad in the hole ? It's sausages cooked in yoorkshire pud batter innit ?

Ratatouille (with a handful of cannellini beans in it, and lots of fresh herbs from the garden)
Cheesy mustard mash (mixture of 'normal' potatoes and sweet potato}
Broccoli

Toad in the hole is sausages cooked in a batter.