Cooking Tonight #5

[Florence Fennel]

I've moved in next door Snoop Puss we're having the rest of the pie

[Snoop Puss]

I'm on easy street today: leftover lentil soup.

[greenishfing]

Last night I ended up taking some cooked chicken out of the freezer and we just had chicken in tarragon flavoured white sauce on toast.

Tonight ..... no idea.

[Bren In Pots]

Mushroom stir fry with rice this evening.

[Snoop Puss]

Pork tonight with loads of veg.

[Florence Fennel]

Meat and potato pie with mushy peas, will be too full for afters!

[Snoop Puss]

I should have added that our friend up the valley went on a trip from here to France. I gave him a wad of cash for him to spend in French supermarkets on my behalf. He was advised by his French host to buy confit and cassoulet in Lidl: apparently just as good as the more expensive stuff. I can't buy either in Lidl here. Though last year I managed to buy both in Aldi in Spain. Same problem - impossible to get the confit out of the can.

It ought to be a small joint of pork cooked in the pressure cooker for supper here. Loads of green veg and baked sweet potatoes.

[greenishfing]

My food shopping habits have actually changed since the heavy snow a couple of weeks ago, when I discovered the joy of the online grocery shop and delivery to my door. I am now getting a weekly delivery of my heavy stuff (and a few treats) from Sainsbury's. I hate walking around their massive 'Superstore'. I then go to Aldi and the local shops for most of my fresh veg, fruit, meat and fish.

Tonight I think scampi, potato waffles, peas and homemade tartare sauce.

(Would you believe a punnet of Sainsbury's 'taste the difference' strawberries sneaked into my "heavy stuff"?) We'll have them with cream.

[Florence Fennel]

My groceries are always from Tezzies as over the years I've found them the most reliable, especially during the pandemic.
Chicken tikka wraps tonight for me and a roast chicken sandwich for Himself. Sponge pudding and custard for after.
I'm about to prepare the steak and kidney for Desperate Dan pie tomorrow

[Bren In Pots]

Toasted cheese sandwiches this evening, kippers at lunch time.

I shop at Aldi, we also have a Tesco and Iceland all within a 10 min walk from us. I rarely use Tesco the stores huge and I usually lose the will to live half way around.

[greenishfing]

Snoop Puss, every so often they have Italian food, because I always stock up on risotto rice when they do. Things like pasta, pizza, parmesan are always in stock. But I haven't noticed, French or Spanish weeks, definitely no confit de canard ...or similar. Ah, just realised you go to Lidl, I go to Aldi as no convenient Lidl.

[Snoop Puss]

I really wish that once or twice a year Aldi/Lidl would put all their "French/Spanish" foods in our supermarkets and maybe let the French and Spanish try our English foods.

Here in Spain, Lidl puts on this kind of thing, with a week given over to French, Greek, British, German or Asian food, not quite on weekly rotation but near enough. Do you not get that? The British week here is mainly beer and buns, I think. They even had baked beans once, but I think they weren't popular. In fact, my impression is that British week as a whole isn't that popular, as they rarely do it.

[greenishfing]

I really wish that once or twice a year Aldi/Lidl would put all their "French/Spanish" foods in our supermarkets and maybe let the French and Spanish try our English foods.

[Snoop Puss]

Ran out of time yesterday, so ended up opening a can of Lidl confit de canard. I have no idea how they manage to cram it in, because it's hard to get the pieces out without making a mess of them. Three pieces in yesterday's can, one of them still with a lot of feathers... Anyway, that one's going in a duck and saffron risotto for supper, skin and feathers removed (don't think the cats and dog will mind them).

[Bren In Pots]

We’re finishing of yesterday’s cottage pie and veg.