What did ye have for the dinner?

blue5000

Lately I've been having lunch/dinner on my own. It struck me that as a food producer I eat a lot of rubbish. I can't be bothered to cook for one. Today I had half a packet of tuc crackers and peanut butter followed by a good lump of home made fruit cake with a cup of tea.

So come on lads how rough was the dinner?:o

reilig

I usually bring some home made soup to work and have dinner when I get home. The Mrs doesn't cook (much) so I normally make up a bit of stew or curry or lasagne over the weekend and freeze it into dinner portions for when I get home in the evenings. Make the soup at the weekends too and freeze it into portions. Might have a dinner in hotel/restaurant once or twice per week if I'm working late that evening.

whelan1

beef stew

aujopimur

Ìt takes very little effort to cater for yourself, chicken beef pork etc with spuds and veg, 15mn to prepare 75mn to cook, go for a walk come home and enjoy.

vanderbadger

blue5000 wrote: »

Lately I've been having lunch/dinner on my own. It struck me that as a food producer I eat a lot of rubbish. I can't be bothered to cook for one. Today I had half a packet of tuc crackers and peanut butter followed by a good lump of home made fruit cake with a cup of tea.

So come on lads how rough was the dinner?:o

jaysus them tuc crackers are a hoor when you start on them, they are like pringles or something you cant stop eating them

thetangler

Omlette

MidlandsM

A wrap...with beetroot,onion,chicken inside for lunch today, and a nice cuppa tae.
Took all of 3 mins to make.

Blue, its about having the right stuff in the cupboards - so stock up!

foundation10

Pizza:D

Muckit

Cup of tea is all. Stomach not the best today:o (and NO I hadn't any pints last night:D)

I always like to have a dinner during the day normally though. In the 'good times' I'd have ate out almost everyday, not anymore.

Now I make up a few dinners like stews, chicken curries lasagne, fajitas etc one evening during the week or at the weekend, freeze in small containers and bring some of that into work. We've a small staff room with a microwave so handy to reheat it.

Like you Reilig, my OH isn't the may west at the cooking, although she has got better:D

johngalway

Shepards pie is dead easy to make, will do ya two or three days if you need it to. Making home made burgers off the bord bia site now, try lasagne tomorrow. Lots of easy recipes out there, roast chicken is another, honey & mustard glazed ham. throw on some spuds and veg and yer done!

BeeDI

I generally have a head of cabbage with a scelp of this

candor

Ham and Cheese toasty, when I'm feeling adventurous throw in onion and tomato

Bizzum

Nothing yet!
I see potato cakes (from the leftovers yesterday) and steak acting very suspiciously in the kitchen. Probably broccoli and carrots too.

bogman_bass

frying up some liver nad onions now.
Had a chicken wrap in work earlier and a kiwi

whelan1

hadn't had liver in years and got it last week , god its yummy , and cheap;)

Shauny2010

Ham sambos and Tae

stanflt

mash spuds- gravy- mushy peas-and 3 sausages.

the women is a teacher and always has the dinner cooked when i get in from milking

cant get much better than this

reilig

whelan1 wrote: »

hadn't had liver in years and got it last week , god its yummy , and cheap;)

Oh I love it, lambs liver, boil it first then fry it up with salty rashers and when your finished fry finely cut boiled cabbage in the juice of the pan. Its farmers caviar!!!!!

5live

Had 2 cheese sambos and tea and a pot of yogurt. Have sambos most days and soup when its cold. And the OH has a good supper in front of me when i come in so i get a while with the kids before bed. Tis good to be spoiled:D

Juniorhurler

whelan1 wrote: »

hadn't had liver in years and got it last week , god its yummy , and cheap;)

Same as. had it with rashers, sausages, onions, mushrooms, white pud and a small steak last week. Some tack boy.

Juniorhurler

Muckit wrote: »

Cup of tea is all. Stomach not the best today:o (and NO I hadn't any pints last night:D)

I always like to have a dinner during the day normally though. In the 'good times' I'd have ate out almost everyday, not anymore.

Now I make up a few dinners like stews, chicken curries lasagne, fajitas etc one evening during the week or at the weekend, freeze in small containers and bring some of that into work. We've a small staff room with a microwave so handy to reheat it.

Like you Reilig, my OH isn't the may west at the cooking, although she has got better:D

Presume you are a teacher so muckit. Are you primary or secondary? Secondary myself, suits the auld sucklers to the ground.

residenteire

1 rasher, 1 fried tomato, 1 sausage roll, 1 fried egg, pees.

djmc

I was just thinking the other day when I got another fresian bull calf and how little there worth jersey x even worst that
If I met a tribes man in africa and told him I sold a calf and spent the money on a dinner for me and the wife in a resturant one night and the price of the calf would not cover the cost of dinner
Or that I sold a gallon of milk so she could buy a small half pint bottle of water
what would he think probably laugh:D
I remember when I was young we had a calf with a dodgy leg my dad had it butchered and we had veal , I also remember having liver our own pork and odd heifer. havent done this since the 80s dont think its posable anymore
with regulations and costs.
These days it seems everything comes from a packet from a supermarket.
Today I had irish beef from lidl and by the taste id say she was around 18 years old. tough as old boots.

pajero12

Wholegrain toast and beans..God this football better be worth it :rolleyes:

blue5000

"If I met a tribes man in africa and told him I sold a calf and spent the money on a dinner for me and the wife in a resturant one night and the price of the calf would not cover the cost of dinner
Or that I sold a gallon of milk so she could buy a small half pint bottle of water
what would he think probably laugh"

Yeah I remember thinkin in a restaurant that it would take the profit on two gallons of milk to buy a glass of milk in the restaurant.

Thanks for all the replys and tips, I think as a group of primary food producers we aren't exactly eating too well ourselves. It's years since we could put a heifer in the freezer.

snowman707

to day we had (vendeen x) lamb chops from the freezer, mash and veg.

haddock on the menu for tomorrow

after 30 years o/h is still looking after me well:):):)

keep going

thetangler wrote: »

Omlette

make a"spanish" omlette.put on pan ,crack a couple of eggs into a jug add a tomato, onion, ham,salami,cheese and any left over spuds,beans even bits of bread(almost anything you like). mix.put a bit of oil in the pan put in half mixture, turn when brown . five minutes max,the whole job. take that jamie oliver

ihatetractors

Porridge, quick,cheap and easy. Tis a students life:rolleyes:

thetangler

keep going wrote: »

make a"spanish" omlette.put on pan ,crack a couple of eggs into a jug add a tomato, onion, ham,salami,cheese and any left over spuds,beans even bits of bread(almost anything you like). mix.put a bit of oil in the pan put in half mixture, turn when brown . five minutes max,the whole job. take that jamie oliver

Just got it in the canteen at work :D:D

leg wax

yesterday i cooked bacon ribs and colcannon todays menu is slow cooked lamb shanks with winter veg if i can find any in the patch.

BENDYBINN

stanflt wrote: »

mash spuds- gravy- mushy peas-and 3 sausages.

the women is a teacher and always has the dinner cooked when i get in from milking

cant get much better than this

A dairy farmer and a teacher and all you get is three sausages!!!!!!!!!!!

5live

snowman707 wrote: »

to day we had (vendeen x) lamb chops from the freezer, mash and veg.

haddock on the menu for tomorrow

after 30 years o/h is still looking after me well:):):)

Ah snowman you are making me hungry. 3 more months before i get my vendeen chops. The vendeen is a different class of lamb altogether;)

whelan1

have chicken fillets out for today , not sure what i will do with them yet

Muckit

Juniorhurler wrote: »

Presume you are a teacher so muckit.

Been there, done that. Young lads .....you'd want some patience!:p

Still 'teaching' but not for the dept. of Ed

D1976

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/147824/Ricotta-and-herb-chicken-fillets

Muckit

whelan1 wrote: »

have chicken fillets out for today , not sure what i will do with them yet

Stick them in a casserole dish with some veg and a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes. Bit a salt/pepper, cover with tin foil and head out the yard for an hour;)

Like the chicken myself, but when I see the price you can get a full chicken for, I often wondered why I bother buying just the breasts. They can sometimes be very tastless

whelan1

thanks , looks lovely , i am on slimming world at the minute so that would fit right in , will get some of the stuff in for next week. I am going to do a mushy pea curry , very simple , blitz a tin of mushy peas and chopped tomatoes , fry your chicken in fry light add mushrooms and onions and some curry powder and cook for ten minutes or so , serve with rice.... best way of getting veg in to kids.....

whelan1

Muckit wrote: »

Stick them in a casserole dish with some veg and a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes. Bit a salt/pepper, cover with tin foil and head out the yard for an hour;)

Like the chicken myself, but when I see the price you can get a full chicken for, I often wondered why I bother buying just the breasts. They can sometimes be very tastless

i get 10 large chicken fillets for €11 euro , use 2 at a time , does the whole family... yes you have to shop around for meat , there are some daylight robberies going on out there when you see the price we get for meat

johngalway

Burgers I made last night were a massive hit. Cheap too if you don't make the salsa (which was also fantastic ).

dryan

The Saturday evening dinner is always the highlight of the week for me.
Either a T-Bone of a fillet steak with fresh cut chips and veg (all home grown). During the summer, the BBQ is fired up and i have it with chips and a salad. Its always a great satisfying end to a hard days work.

During the week, we alternate between chicken/pork/gammon/fish/bacon/burgers/rib roast.. etc.
All meats are purchased at local butcher at the weekend.

Both myself and OH are working. Have sambos for lunch mon - fri.
We cook dinners every evening.
Kids are in creche so they need feeding too.
I find the oven timer a mighty yoke - we can both arrive home 5:30ish to have dinner cooked in oven. Saves alot of time.

rancher

5live wrote: »

Ah snowman you are making me hungry. 3 more months before i get my vendeen chops. The vendeen is a different class of lamb altogether;)

Pedigree vendeen breeder here, great to see the comments, vendeen lamb, killed properly,cannot be beaten for flavour.

Bizzum

Do many people on here eat fish with any regularity?

dar31

Bizzum wrote: »

Do many people on here eat fish with any regularity?

salmon last night, missus is fish mad.
honey and mustard glazed ham, and bread sauce. have a bit in the fridge to throw on a bit of bread on the way out in the morning, good stuff.

snowman707

Bizzum wrote: »

Do many people on here eat fish with any regularity?

twice a week usually,

BeeDI

snowman707 wrote: »

twice a week usually,

Mad for mackeral, in season which I catch myself. Have smoked kippers regularly year round.

Bizzum

BeeDI wrote: »

Mad for mackeral, in season which I catch myself.

Eaten within a few hours of capture on good brown bread.......... It doesn't get much better than that!

Wild Bass though, takes some beating too.

FREDNISMO

Scallops for starter, beef wellington for main and creme brulee for dessert

collegegal

roast chicken, roast veg, couscous and stuffing....yum yum

bogman_bass

Suffed Lambs heart, spuds and cabbage.

offal two days in a row for some reason

metalwood

rancher wrote: »

Pedigree vendeen breeder here

+1 The best tasting lamb imo

as for the grub...........Oh is a disaster in the kitchen so I rounded up some salmon fillets with olive oil/lemon juice and dried herbs with homegrown veg and spuds yum:D

dryan

Bizzum wrote: »

Do many people on here eat fish with any regularity?

once or twice a week - fried seabass - yumm!!