What's for dinner/tea?

Gramaisc

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I really like Aldi meat and fish.
A few years ago there was some snobbery around Aldi and Lidl, people thinking that cheap equated to inferior.
How wrong they were.
The quality is amazing for what you pay.
Ssshh, it used to be so civilised shopping there.


Found a cheap chicken in aldi, added some Moroccan herbs, meal for 2 with plenty left for tomorrow.
I've found free ducks at Lidl.

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And the duck eggs are super-fresh

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Carole

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We’re trying to see how long we can go without buying anything.

We had eggs from someone’s chickens so breakfast was eggs with toast (husband made the bread).

Lunch was home made leek and potato soup defrosted from the freezer.

Evening meal was sea bass from the freezer (Bought from Aldi before lockdown), potatoes from the freezer, which I’d par boiled before lockdown, tinned sweet corn and frozen peas.

Tomorrow it will be spaghetti bolognese (made before lockdown).

No fresh fruit left but still got tinned mandarins, tinned pineapples, frozen berries so we can make smoothies for the time being.
 

Withnail

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(husband made the bread)
One of the grievances that led to what would afterward be known as the 'Peasants Revolt' (1381) was the populace around St. Albans having their own quern stones to grind their own grain to make their own flour to make their own bread.

The Abbey owned a Mill that had previously been the only means to grind the wheat into flour, and had charged a premium for its service. Everyone would bring their wheat to be ground @ the Abbey, and a toll would be payed for the privilege.

Fast forward to the mid- 14thC and hand querns become hugely popular because price-fixing has become out of hand. Grand Abbeys are so money-grabbing that they try to make the ownership of querns illegal so that they can regain a monopoly on milling, just like it was before the Black Death made all these peasants aware of their power. In an episode that highlights just how much organised religion was organised against the people it represented, the Abbey, with Royal backing, confiscates privately owned mill-stones.

To truly represent the horror they have now become, the Abbey uses the confiscated mill-stones to pave the road that the dispossessed will need to take to make their way to their local church. Where they will hear sermons that speak of another world.

During the 'peasants' revolt - huge swells of people, many of them far from 'peasants', mass on the outskirts of London. Many of them are just there because they want to be able to grind their own corn.

The people who are there from St. Albans have ripped up those quern stones from the road.
 

Bob

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Shakshuka with home grown spinach, first harvest of the year, planted about 3 months ago then has tripled in size in the past few days. Also using up the last of a load of veg that needed eating quick, I’ve made some soup for the freezer too.

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Mikinton

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I'm really not looking forward to MrLittleme going back to work when his Furlough ends.

Tonight he cooked Steak Diane, Dauphinoise potatoes & butter baked veg, all from scratch...

Delicious!
Meanwhile at Mikinton Manor, I dined on this.
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Meanwhile Mrs Mikinton was tucking into one of Hindle's Lasagneless Lasagnes. (They're pretty much all meat.)
 

Mikinton

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What did you do wrong?!
Nothing.

I love Ginsters Cornish Pasties - I've probably got another half-dozen in the freezer. Cheap and great for lazy bastards like me to just slam in the oven, though I also like them cold when I'm away for lunch filming a game. The pastry's not up to much (I prefer shortcrust), but the filling is just as I like it. Great with a splash or two of Lea & Perrins.
 

littleme

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Nothing.

I love Ginsters Cornish Pasties - I've probably got another half-dozen in the freezer. Cheap and great for lazy bastards like me to just slam in the oven, though I also like them cold when I'm away for lunch filming a game. The pastry's not up to much (I prefer shortcrust), but the filling is just as I like it. Great with a splash or two of Lea & Perrins.
Cant say I like Ginsters, but I agree with Shortcrust pastry being the best pastry.
 

Carole

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We’ve also had pastry.
Cooked a chicken on Monday with new potatoes and veg.

Today found a packet of puff pastry in the freezer so made two chicken and mushroom pies (one for Mrs Morris in the village).

I have started making my own shortcrust pastry, it is quite easy, but I’d never give up the time and effort for puff pastry.

Anyway, put the pies in the oven, sat outside with gin and tonics, had another gin and tonic, “Isn't this lovely sitting here, in the garden, so peaceful and relaxing”

Suddenly “Sh*t, the pie, it’s probably burnt.”

Salvaged it at the probable last edible moment, then had to wait while I cooked the green beans. But still lovely even if I do say so myself.
 

Mikinton

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Mrs Mikinton says she's found the recipe for Greek bread* (way better than the stuff we get in this country) so I expect she'll be rustling up a loaf whenever we need one .... assuming she can get hold of some yeast.

* - I wonder if she'll come across the recipe for Greek Fire as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire

STOP PRESS - We now have yeast. A neighbour had 3 tins and let us have one, so Mrs Mikinton is now elbow deep in flour.
 
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