Lets have a what's for diner thread!

[DrNortherner]

In this warm balmy weather I need some inspiration!

Tonight we are having roast chicken, salad and pitta breads with coleslaw and cous cous.

I have made a jelly with red berries in it for pud.

How about you?

Fairly lazy dinner tonight - we had spanish chicken (Tesco light choices jar), rice with some veg in chicken stock, and fresh steamed green beans.

And I spend a lot more than £50/week on food as well. All my dc have extremely hearty appetites.

Dcs had pasta with pesto, cheesecake, raspberries.

I had lamb curry, rice, naan bread. Dh will have the same when he gets in.

Slow roast pork belly on an onion base, with marsala and apple gravy, roast potatoes and sweet potatoes in goose fat, broad beans and a rocket side salad.

Then Sainsbury's raspberry trifle

DH made cauliflower cheese with a home-made sauce as taught by me, with peas, carrots, roasted new potatoes. Ready 10mins after DD and arrived home from an afternoon on Looe beach in cornwall which we went to by train - fab train journey on Looe valley train.

We had Toulouse sausages with mash and spring greens. Pud was skinny cow choc& mint lolly.

The diet is all DP's idea. But we all seem to go hungry as a result

£50??? PMASL

with 4 kids andspecial diets?

shopped today very carefully- store tos tore for local stuff instead of supermarket dash- £120, best in ages

Today a picnic in the park.

I've got tuna mayo and cucumber baguettes, ciabatta with goats cheese and roast veg, raspberries, strawberries, cherries and cream, cheese straws, kettle chips , fruit juice, and a 'one glass' bottle of rose for me hehe.

chicken ramen, followed by stewed rhubarb and yoghurt

We're having homemade burgers on rolls with salad, cheese, relish etc ...

Yum!

Thai chicken curry from take on the takeaway

Can I recommend highly if you make that curry again add slices of aubergine , mangetout and baby sweetcorn

I haven't made it yet DWP (or whatever initials you're using today, am on MN new and can't see them all!), might pick up some mangetout on the way home from work...

Roast chicken with veg and pots.

It is really hot here, but I'm making meat stock, so there'll be "pastina in brodo" for the children and I can make meatballs with the meat.

Chicken casserole with rice.

It's really hot.

We are going to have a carpaccio of courgette and avocado, with pistachio nuts and oil dressing.

And a beef carpaccio with rocket and parmesan and olive oil.

And some cucumber sticks with hummus.

and DD will have fish fingers

Squid in lime and coriander with stir fried veg and noodles.

Raspberries and cream for pudding.

Also have some baklava which i may have as a post-dinner snack - am pregnant so its allowed

What i could really do with is a lovely glass of rose though.

potato and pea curry with sausages.

pasta I think

Pie, made apparently with local chickens

Chips

DS1 ahd a fab IEP review so he chose. Those who saw his chicken poem in the SN section will understand but if not:

Chicken.

I believe in chicken, I think it tastes so nice
I beleive in chicken, i'm going to bake it with rice
I believe in chiocken I think you're going to die
I beleive in chicken, i'm going to bake you in a pie
I beleive in chicken, chicken, chicken I think it atstes so nice
I beleive in chicken, i'm going to bake you with rice

Tonight it's honey-mustard marinated grilled pork loin steaks, homemade potato wedges and steamed savoy cabbage.

We had egg fried rice, beensprouts with spring onions and sweet chilli chicken.

Tonight, Pasta dish from Sainsbury advert years ago. Creme Fraiche, courgettes mushrooms, spring onions & parmesan cheese.
The veg preparation & stir fry done during the pasta boiling Very quick on a hot day.
Last night tuna mayo with salad and boiled pots. Going to keep this thread to give me ideas for next week
TrillianAstra Like that curry, may do it next week