what are we all having for our dinn dinns ?????????????

[ina]

No, but even more delicious! And I bet, no nasty additives, so - a tiny bit healthier.

[Millymollymandy]

Well that's OK then because I'm making courgette cake this afternoon!

[ina]

I'm sure that counts towards your "5 portions a day"! As long as you eat enough of it, of course.

[den_the_cat]

well since chocolate is made from beans I think that counts too. And obviously beer is a grain.

My mouth is watering reading this. I'm camping out at the old house with no cooker and trying to finish up the contents oif the freezer. There's only so many mystery veg and rocket pesto meals you can eat without popping 'round a friends just before dinner time and looking pitiiful

[Stonehead]

well we are having a naughty but nice dinner tescos finest scottish beef on offer,marrow in a a white cheese sauce and runner beans from the allotment spuds not from allotment as ate them all then a decadent cheesecake with channnel islands xtra thick cream and cheese and biscuts (hides the calorie counter)

Over the past few days, we've had:

Broadbean rissotto (with our own broadbeans and bacon)
Roast lamb (our lamb) with new potatoes, cauliflower, peas and carrots (all ours)
Pork sausages (ours again) with salad (various lettuces, grated carrot, broadbeans, radish and herbs - all from our garden) with a drizzle of olive oil.
Roast lamb sandwiches with home-made chutney
Fresh bread with home-made bread-and-butter pickle
Pea soup (freshly picked peas and our bacon) with fresh bread
Joe's special (minced lamb, fresh spinach, eggs, onion, nutmeg, and oregano). The nutmeg obviously wasn't ours! Oh, and proper Joe's Special should have minced beef but we don't keep beef cattle... yet!

Tonight we're having sweet lamb curry (made with leftover roast lamb, windfall apples, and veg from the garden).

Oh, and we've been drinking home-brewed cider, nettle beer and barley wine, plus home-made lemonade for the boys.

And tomorrow, one of the spare cockerels gets the chop while two of the pigs go to the abbatoir next weeks so fresh liver beckons.

[Millymollymandy]

I ate some meat last night for the first time in ages just because I fancied it. But I love this time of year because there are so many vegetable things to do I rarely want to eat meat.

Stonehead your diet sounds like a winter diet to me! Or is summer over already in Aberdeenshire?

[ina]

Mandy, the past few days the temperatures have been hovering around the 15 degree. Ground temperature (taken in grass) was down to 2 degree one night! I'm wearing my beloved woolly jumpers again.

Anyway, Stonehead, I'm disappointed: You still don't produce your own olive oil? Not good enough!

[Shirley]

it's definitely autumnal.... Joe's special sounds interesting!!!!

[Stonehead]

Stonehead your diet sounds like a winter diet to me! Or is summer over already in Aberdeenshire?

There's a very strong wind blowing at present (has been for three days), it's drizzling and the temperature is 11.5C. Typical Aberdeenshire summer!

As for our diet, we don't eat much in the way of "summer" food. We can pick lettuces, radishes, rocket, marrows, squash, courgettes, beans and spring onions for about eight weeks (no polytunnel) a year. This year, we may get another two weeks worth.

So, we mainly eat potatoes, turnips, swedes, cabbage, kale, carrots, spinach, parsnips, beetroot and onions. We grow enough peas, broadbeans, beans, cauliflower and broccoli to freeze and/or pickle so that we can have them about once a week. We also eat a lot of oats, barley and split peas but aren't yet growing these ourselves.

That's also why we grow a lot of soft fruit - jams, preserves and conserves really pick things up, especially in the darker, colder months.

[gunners71uk]

well sat 12 we had roast chicken,marrow from lottie and runner beans from lottie friend dropped off as we just come back from holidays.marrow done in cheese sauce,carrots and brocoli and jammy donuts not bad between shopping laundry mowing the lawn and hiding the bills lol