That sounds delicious

Did some batch cooking so braised chicken wings with shiitake mushrooms, broccoli for greenery and rice

Sounds lovely

Was hungrier than expected so dug out frozen fish, chips and petit pois. Added butter poached carrots for more health .. allegedly

Strawberries and vanilla yoghurt to follow

That sounds lovely. It’s steak for me tonight. A rarity but am enjoying it very much .. with mushrooms and onions on rocket and tomato salad. Maybe strawberries after

Breakfast for dinner

Scrambled eggs (small amount of bacon and onion left over from other night, roasted tomatoes, mushrooms and buttered spinach. Bit of toast and marmalade. Hardly cooking at all but satisfying

I ended up with some random cabbage heavy vegetable melange … changed my mind twice as I was cooking and tasting. Was redeemed by lots of lemon zest and juice and some chilli.

A plate of buttery stir fried savoy cabbage with onions and bacon. Had to amend dinner plans about three times due to poor planning. Saved the carbs for cardamom rice pudding with poached rhubarbs for afters

Photo as requested. They’re less anaemic looking than the specimens your husband was faced with …

Not tried them yet …

I was just thinking that Fi might be shopping with you. From vague memory, she’s less keen on this Jongga brand. (Do I need to get out more)

And you joke about the skeleton but they were selling a giant mutant moving plastic spider a few years ago

Oh god! Almost the same here - haddock and chips from M&S, and I even used Branston beans too!

This is the third time in the last month that I appear to be eating almost identically to someone else here

Ahhh … that was a Manhattan version with the cherry.

But currently boiling up the next batch for to add flavours of an Old Fashioned.

But does an Old Fashioned need a cherry?

Can you tell I don’t really drink?!

Made a Manhattan marmalade tonight

And no, none of the cherries are centred in the jar 😜

Another lazy supper - thanks to frozen fish and chips. With baked beans and I am pretending they count as veg. Probably Christmas cake & cheese after.

A very fennelly Seville & Fennel seed marmalade for batch no.3 of #marmalade2024.

Batch no.2 of #marmalade2024 - and it’s the Good Morning Breakfast recipe from Melrose & Morgan - Seville, blood orange & ruby grapefruit. And a nice jiggly set 👍

And much speedier by using an instant pot for pressure cooking as per @catherinephipps.bsky.social 🙏

Marmalade season upon us - batch no.1 of #marmalade2024. Seville made boozy by adding the flavours of an Old Fashioned.