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Cold, wet and windy here in Somerset, so I have decided it has to be stew and dumplings for dinner tonight!! Helped down with several glasses of wine, and a lazy evening. Whats everybody else eating today?

Granddaughters birhday(2) party today at 1 o clock.But roast beef later.Sat here frustrated cos I cant get to lottie,pouring rain here.

Raining here too (Surrey).Im itching to get on the plot but cant.1 bonus is my newly installed water butt is 1/3 full after just 4 days.Thats collecting of one side of a 6x4 shed!!!
As for dinner or I should say pudding a very kind lot holder gave me some rhubarb yesterday (mine only has 3 stems) so we shall be having rhubarb and last years blackberries in a crumble  ;D ;D

Roast lamb in red wine with home-grown garlic and rosemary. Spinach (YET AGAIN! I wish something else would hurry up and grow @ the allotment!) yorkshire pudding and deep fried sweet potato chips ;D

wish i was having roast lamb with homemade garlic and rosemary. and stew and dumplings. mmm and roast beef.  i could fancy all of that.  my husband is a veggie so i dont get to eat meat very often and i am on-a-diet so i have just eaten a salad with cus cus and a cuppatea. staring out of the window at the feckin rain.  cor i did a blinding rhubarb crumble in the week, the best one ever, eatn hot straight out of the oven, with cream (that was before the diet.) mmm.  are you having horseradish sauce withthat roast beef grotbag?

The weather has been ok up here in the Scot. Borders.   Sun shining, little wind but a bit cold.  Think we are going to get the rain tonight though.
Dinner for me tonight is left over Roast lamb from3 weeks back with roast spuds, jersey royals, brocolli, peas and carrots maybe.  OH is away for the weekend playing  golf but it dont stop me eating sensible!!!  Now I fancy a crumble.  I also fancy some semolina, does anyone make that nowadays?

;D ;D ;D

Yum, yum, semolina!!!!!! Used to eat it for school dinners, mixed up with raspberry jam until it went pink!!!!!

Quick sandwich for me as I'm at work until 7-30 this evening.

CC

Pouring with rain here and cold, so a home made Beef Curry to warm yer cockles ;D ;D

Raining here all day today, had carrot and corriander soup for lunch, will be having home grown (almost) pork chops with homemade apple sauce, butternut and mashed potato.

Afraid Sunday would not be Sunday without roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

chilli beany beef, but looking for something to do with 12 baby globe artichokes scrumped from neighbouring plot ???

Just picked in the pouring rain, chard, Spinach, lettuces and radishes, have some Pork Loin in the fridge, so it could be anyones guess what we have!! Off to search the WWW for recipes!  (hmm could do pork with a rhubarb type sauce................................)

10 mins later : toss up between this

http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=recipes.recipe&iID=512237

and this!

http://www.uktvfood.co.uk/index.cfm?uktv=recipes.recipe&iID=533743

We've just finished ours.

Salmon en croute (otherwise referred to by smallest daughter as salmon pastie  ::) ), potatoes, glazed carrots, and mashed sweet potato.

All of which will be home-grown later in the year.  Except the salmon.  There's a bath in the lottie, but I think maybe that would be a little ambitious.  :D

Tonight. pork chop,jersey new pots, calabrese, frozen peas apple sauce . Had cheese sandwich lunch time. Jam on semolina? The first time my husband saw me stirring jam in to my rice pudding he said "What a disgusting habit :o"  Tough luck.... I still do it .
Lorna

semolina? just now, on my hunt for the mythical black buckets at morrisons, bought a bag of semolina.....someone here yesterday said the ants don't 'arf like it (wicked evil grin)

Just finished washing up...

Chicken with lemon and oregano :P
Steamed potatoes - charlottes from the lotty
carrot
Spinach - of course as there is little else on the plot

Green and blacks Choco ice cream a free birthday gift from Sainsb's to my husband - "the catering manager"
pears
:P

Roast chicken with garlic and herbs
Roast potatoes,
Yorkshire pudding
green beans, carrots, peas and asparagus

Followed by apple pie and extra thick single cream  ;D ;D

I don't usually do a roast on a Sunday these days as I work until 4, don't get home until about 4.30, but really fancied one today!

:-[  :-[ :-[  Bangers and mash.   Well, bangers and smashed new potatoes  ('cos old mashable ones had gone green) with Nigel Slater's onion (and marsala) gravy.

What a mix.  Funny how there aren't so many 'traditional' Sunday roasts.  Just an observation, not a critisism.  We had Roast chook, bread sauce and stuffing, roast tats, carrots, peas, cauli and my very own home grown cabbage, all lovingly cooked by mummy.  Thanks for a lovely afternoon mum, sorry number one daughter copped a strop!  ;D