What did you eat today?

[COMPOST CORNER]

Fry up for brunch: bacon, egg, Bury black pudding, pork and chorizo sausage, fried bread.
For tea (dinner for posh Southerners) I made some chicken Kievs for the first time ever, with garlic mash and frozen peas. (I did use home grown garlic in the garlic butter)
Tomorrow I will stuff the boned out chicken legs with sausage meat, as shown on the hairy bikers this week, and make a chicken noodle soup from the carcass.
Three meals for two from one £5:00 free range bird.
Also have some dried fruit marinating in bourbon and freshly squeezed orange juice to make mince pies tomorrow.

[rustylady]

Just made a huge panful of beef stew. Beef not home grown, nor the carrots or potatoes (ran out two weeks ago). The chillies were home grown (I like spicy stew), as were the onions, topped up with some tomato, pepper and garlic sauce that I made in September and froze. Planning to serve with crusty bread - real comfort food for this time of year.

[coreopsis]

Big brekkie as above and beetroot soup.

[jackyspratty]

Just had a french bread sarnie, not homemade, but the christmas chutney was. Its a mary Berry recipe and I love it, ready in two weeks and then disappears so you have to make several jars!
For tea tonight, beef stew, with herby dumplings and creamy mash. Keep the chill out

[BarleySugar]

I boiled the bacon joint OH bought, and used the water to make lentil soup, but zinged it up a bit compared to what his mum used to do. Hope he likes it I skimmed the fat off the stock and used just a little of it to soften an onion and several cloves of crushed garlic. I added some of my last butternut squash and half a dried chocolate habanero chilli as well as the red lentils of course. Once everything was soft and mushy I used the hand liquidiser on it. A lovely smooth creamy soup, or so I thought. We're having it for tea tonight

[rustylady]

Second day of beef stew - it's got a bit of a kick to it, thanks to the two homegrown Joe's Long chillies I stuck in there. Just dished my meal for tonight up, and chucked in some mixed beans that have been previously cooked. As the meat comes out, the beans etc go in. Pearl barley waiting in the wings.