Yesterday's dinner

[harrycatcat1]

I saw a video of a chap who roasted some tinned potatoes and sliced tomatoes with balsamic vinegar and olive oil mixed and they looked nice. I did some with parsnips as well as. The parsnips were lovely and the roast potatoes and tomatoes were rubbish tasting.

The rest of the traditional dinner was good 👍 beef done in the slow cooker, mash potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts, sweetheart cabbage, Asda Yorkshire puddings and a teensy weensy bit of gravy.

 

[Spr1985]

I’m not normally one for taking pictures of food but, every once in a while that changes. The wife put this in front of me the other day (pre gravy) and it was delicious. I may also have consumed another Yorkshire pud and a couple of extra roast potatoes to 🤣

[marsh man]

Those above dinners look lovely but we stopped having Sunday roast dinners many , many years ago , we found them taking up most of the Sunday , I was nearly always out, or we were both going out for a ride up the coast , sitting on the sea front at Wells or Cromer on a nice warm day eating fresh fish and chips is my ideal Sunday dinner and the roast can wait till Monday night 

Hope you all enjoyed it and had a brisk walk afterwards to reduce the calorie intake 

[ditchman]

1 hour ago, Spr1985 said:

I’m not normally one for taking pictures of food but, every once in a while that changes. The wife put this in front of me the other day (pre gravy) and it was delicious. I may also have consumed another Yorkshire pud and a couple of extra roast potatoes to 🤣

that beef looks perfect .....

 

2 hours ago, harrycatcat1 said:

I saw a video of a chap who roasted some tinned potatoes and sliced tomatoes with balsamic vinegar and olive oil mixed and they looked nice. I did some with parsnips as well as. The parsnips were lovely and the roast potatoes and tomatoes were rubbish tasting.

The rest of the traditional dinner was good 👍 beef done in the slow cooker, mash potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts, sweetheart cabbage, Asda Yorkshire puddings and a teensy weensy bit of gravy.

 

tinned pots are best used for adding to curries ..as they dont break up in the slow cooker..

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, that is where a slow cookers handy MM, I know not the same as a traditional Sunday roast but you can make nice hot food while your out and about, here's one I do with a small cooker for 2, stewing steak, onion, Tesco tin mixed veg, plus tin new potatoes,sliced, I don't use Oxo cubes, 2 heap tea spoons of gravy powder, boil kettle, mix gravy in cooker, put in ingredients , mix up, I do this at night for eating next day late afternoon i use the gravy water to make proper gravy , this lasts for 2 meals 

Edited March 27, 2023 by oldypigeonpopper

[ditchman]

39 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, that is where a slow cookers handy MM, I know not the same as a traditional Sunday roast but you can make nice hot food while your out and about, here's one I do with a small cooker for 2, stewing steak, onion, Tesco tin mixed veg, plus tin new potatoes,sliced, I don't use Oxo cubes, 2 heap tea spoons of gravy powder, boil kettle, mix gravy in cooker, put in ingredients , mix up, I do this at night for eating next day late afternoon i use the gravy water to make proper gravy , this lasts for 2 meals 

i do this with curries annd chili con-carni....pork an beans........and eaten the next day when the flavour fully develops......

spot on oldypigeonpopper 

[marsh man]

1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, that is where a slow cookers handy MM, I know not the same as a traditional Sunday roast but you can make nice hot food while your out and about, here's one I do with a small cooker for 2, stewing steak, onion, Tesco tin mixed veg, plus tin new potatoes,sliced, I don't use Oxo cubes, 2 heap tea spoons of gravy powder, boil kettle, mix gravy in cooker, put in ingredients , mix up, I do this at night for eating next day late afternoon i use the gravy water to make proper gravy , this lasts for 2 meals 

A perfect solution where you can enjoy your meal without taking up half of the day , we still have Christmas dinner on the day , or should I say between three and four pm and even on the big day I go for a gentle walk before dinner as time we have finished our dinner it is then to dark .

Talking about gravy salt , my grand daughter have now gone to Australia for three years , I sent her a Email to see how she was getting on and if she wanted anything , she replied back and said the only thing  she wanted was some gravy salt but apparently you are not allowed to send that to or in Australia , how right this is I don't know but I am sure somebody on the forum will know about these sort of things and pass there knowledge on .

[ditchman]

i try not to use stock cubes....if i do i only use half ..as they are so full of salt....when you dont add salt to food you become very aware of the salty taste when you do....also adding salt to food whilst cooking is a cop out...if you want to add taste dont take the short cut by adding salt ...change you ingrediants...

[TIGHTCHOKE]

44 minutes ago, ditchman said:

i try not to use stock cubes....if i do i only use half ..as they are so full of salt....when you dont add salt to food you become very aware of the salty taste when you do....also adding salt to food whilst cooking is a cop out...if you want to add taste dont take the short cut by adding salt ...change you ingrediants...

I disagree, the body needs an amount of salt to work properly, not much, but some all the same.   

[ditchman]

3 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

I disagree, the body needs an amount of salt to work properly, not much, but some all the same.   

i agree the body needs a certain ammont of salt...........we down the years have been hoodwinked about salt...my objection is seeing countless chefs on TV just throw in copiuos ammounts of salt into the food that they are cooking ...to use it as a taste enhancer....this is wrong....if when you get your food ..you think it needs a bit of salt then add it

i have seen no end of people sit down to their food and even before they taste it cover it in salt..........most balanced food has enough salt in it for the needs of the human frame........

i like salt on certain foods ...dont get me wrong...chips....fried egg...etc.........

when you adopt this less salt approach....you become very sensertive to salt and suddenly realise how pervasive it can become....microwave and already prepared meal are bloody full ofit as a taste enhancer...........

moan over

[TIGHTCHOKE]

7 minutes ago, ditchman said:

i agree the body needs a certain ammont of salt...........we down the years have been hoodwinked about salt...my objection is seeing countless chefs on TV just throw in copiuos ammounts of salt into the food that they are cooking ...to use it as a taste enhancer....this is wrong....if when you get your food ..you think it needs a bit of salt then add it

i have seen no end of people sit down to their food and even before they taste it cover it in salt..........most balanced food has enough salt in it for the needs of the human frame........

i like salt on certain foods ...dont get me wrong...chips....fried egg...etc.........

when you adopt this less salt approach....you become very sensertive to salt and suddenly realise how pervasive it can become....microwave and already prepared meal are bloody full ofit as a taste enhancer...........

moan over

That's more like it, do you feel better for that?

When I had my small stroke in 2018, I was told to change my diet.

I did this as instructed and then started to get an increasing amount of cramp.

Did some research and re thought my approach to the stuff.

Now I keep it in my diet and add more if I have been out walking all day.

[harrycatcat1]

5 hours ago, marsh man said:

Those above dinners look lovely but we stopped having Sunday roast dinners many , many years ago , we found them taking up most of the Sunday , I was nearly always out, or we were both going out for a ride up the coast , sitting on the sea front at Wells or Cromer on a nice warm day eating fresh fish and chips is my ideal Sunday dinner and the roast can wait till Monday night 

Hope you all enjoyed it and had a brisk walk afterwards to reduce the calorie intake 

Well I do like the idea of having a ride up the coast and sitting on the sea front however the nearest coast to us is 2 to 2.5 hours away.

My wife put the beef in the slow cooker in the morning and I forgot all about preparing the vegetables until 3pm but we were still eating the dinner before 4.30 so it doesn't have to take up most of Sunday. If we have a ride to the coast we go in the week. I leave the weekends for the workers 😉

[marsh man]

1 hour ago, harrycatcat1 said:

Well I do like the idea of having a ride up the coast and sitting on the sea front however the nearest coast to us is 2 to 2.5 hours away.

My wife put the beef in the slow cooker in the morning and I forgot all about preparing the vegetables until 3pm but we were still eating the dinner before 4.30 so it doesn't have to take up most of Sunday. If we have a ride to the coast we go in the week. I leave the weekends for the workers 😉

Certainly won't do for all of us to be the same Harry , or would it  , another thing I found hard getting used to Sunday dinners was we were both working days during the week and having evening meals at night , sometimes as late as 8pm and very rarely earlier than 7pm , when we were first married I was doing a lot of small building jobs when I left off my main job to make ends meet and if you were plastering a wall or a ceiling you couldn't really pop home for tea until it was finished , so we either had a late dinner / tea , or mine went into the micro when I got home , so after getting used to having our meal in the evening for six nights of the week we found neither of us were hungry enough for a early afternoon meal on a Sunday , which was our only day we would go out with each other, now 48 years years after we tied the knot we are still doing exactly the same when it come to meal time , so as they say , If it ain't broke then there is no need to mend it 

[harrycatcat1]

4 hours ago, marsh man said:

Certainly won't do for all of us to be the same Harry , or would it  , another thing I found hard getting used to Sunday dinners was we were both working days during the week and having evening meals at night , sometimes as late as 8pm and very rarely earlier than 7pm , when we were first married I was doing a lot of small building jobs when I left off my main job to make ends meet and if you were plastering a wall or a ceiling you couldn't really pop home for tea until it was finished , so we either had a late dinner / tea , or mine went into the micro when I got home , so after getting used to having our meal in the evening for six nights of the week we found neither of us were hungry enough for a early afternoon meal on a Sunday , which was our only day we would go out with each other, now 48 years years after we tied the knot we are still doing exactly the same when it come to meal time , so as they say , If it ain't broke then there is no need to mend it 

I don't blame you at all 😉😉👍👍👍

ps we are on 46 years 😉