The Sunday Dinner / Lunch Thread

[NoMercy]

Well, it's cottage pie here in casa Carolina, with cavalo nero, broccoli and gravy. Strawberries and cream for the OH afterwards. I prefer my strawberries in a port and lemonade with a sprig of mint.

What are you culinary heavyweights dishing up today?

[-Talbot-]

Salted peanuts, pork scratchings and a few lagers to wash it down.

[NoMercy]

I could chuck in some pretzels and a Time Out if you're still peckish, Talbot.

[paddywak]

Depends what the pub we stop off at is serving.

[gness]

It'll be dinner for me, NoM......climbing ladders today so something to prick and ping.....or hospital food.......x

[sunny-dave]

I did Sunday Dinner for four last night - excellent Rib Eye steaks from Mr Aldi and all the usual trimmings - even roasted some cherry tomatoes with balsamic/oil dressing. Plus a couple of bottles of Smoking Loon. Am still quite full ...

... so it will be diet crackers and fizzy water chez SD today I think - or at least something not too calorific.

[EcclesCake]

What ever is on the buffet table and BBQ. Which I hope and pray won't be cheap burgers and bangers with nasty coleslaw and pasta salad.

My food snob credentials really do come out when it's BBQ season :-(

[NoMercy]

Fizzy water for me too, Dave. I'm on call :(

Enjoy the pub, paddy.

A ding dinner, gness? M&S do a nice range.

[NoMercy]

I'm with you on that, Eccles. Mass produced coleslaw should be outlawed.

[gness]

They do, NoM......I stock up when I go to town....but I'm lucky enough to have a nearby farm shop where they offer a great selection of meals for one made by some local ladies.....x

[jambutty]

So should cavalo nero (whatever that is) !!

[EcclesCake]

I tend to lose my appetite when the host proudly tells me how they got ten sausages for a quid......

I'll happily sign the petition for industrial coleslaw being banned.

[NoMercy]

It's "black cabbage" and it's delicious, jambutty.

[paddywak]

I'm sure we will NoM,the suns shining so we'll have a ride around a bit till we find a likely looking pub and try what they've got on offer.We do it quite often and it's rare we 're disappointed.

[sunny-dave]

Aaaargh - cheap sausages and burgers should be excommunicated - as should anyone who bungs chicken on a BBQ without cooking it through properly first.

Rice 'salad' is another pet hate at BBQs - it can be delicious if made properly - but usually consists of way too much anaemic rice, spiked with a few tasteless veg bits and some tinned sweetcorn - yuk

[237SJ]

Roast chicken with the usual sides plus half a bottle of Yearlstone rose sparkling which is in the fridge. It was supposed to be taken to someone`s house at Christmas but has lasted one week on the wine rack. I might have it tonight.

[NoMercy]

There's a similar place near me, gness.

I shudder to think what goes into cheap bangers, Eccles.

[EcclesCake]

Rice salad as you describe makes me want to hurl.

Now if it's made with Carmague red rice and has a tasty dressing, that is a different matter entirely.

[NoMercy]

I share your disdain for rice salad, SD.

I've got a chicken in the slow cooker, 237SJ. It's for sandwiches, though.

[NoMercy]

J'adore red and black rice! Mixed up with some quinoa, lentils and other grains they make an excellent Base for a salad. I usually roast up some aubergines and peppers, add some goat's Cheese, pine nuts and sundried toms with some fresh mint and dill.

[sunny-dave]

I usually use 50/50 wild rice and nutty brown rice - makes good salad with some crunchy veg/nuts/croutons and a balsamic type dressing.

Drat - now starting to feel hungry again ...