SIMPLE DINNER

SPRING STEAK, MINTED MIDS & BALSAMIC BUDDIES

Ribeye steak for me..but rump though not as tender is pretty tasty! Half & boil some new potato mids.
Toss halved plum tomatoes, button mushrooms & roughly chopped red onions in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sugar, salt & cracked black pepper, roast on the top shelf of a hot oven about 10 minutes.
Cook your steak as you like it....leave to rest 7-10 minutes.....drain your spuds add a knob of b***er & a couple of tablespoons of mint sauce.....grab a glass of wine...slurp & arrange your steak, spuds & veggies
unwind & enjoy!

COOKING WITH PATSY

Patsy vs Ginsters! This is a good recipe, simple, try it!

MY LENTEN HELL!

As we hurtle towards Easter, yet another chance to give something up for Lent is slipping through my fingers!
Lent being from Ash Wednesday until Easter - that time when Christians practise self denial & charitable giving, now i'm all for giving to charity but some people take the self denial aspect as another form of new year resolution....anyway WHATEVER...as a man to whom giving up cigarettes was purgatory its got me thinking about some of my favourite foods it would be HELL to give up.
Here are about 20 i love (in no particular order) which i couldnt live without.......

CUMBERLAND SAUSAGE

From the butcher not the supermarket, in one piece not links, from Cumberland,Westmorland or Furness (Cumbria) but maybe as far south as Preston, as far north as Dumfries & east towards Hexham.

ROAST GARLIC

ROASTING GIVES GARLIC CLOVES A SWEET & MELLOW

FLAVOUR - ADD TO ROAST AUBERGINE, TO HOMEMADE

HUMMUS, USE TO THICKEN ROAST LAMB GRAVY OR

JUST SPREAD ON TOASTED CIABATTA.

GAME

Intense, rich, autumnal, strong & sweet -bacon wrapped pheasant roast pink,

braised red wine marinaded venison, roast wild duck juices mingling with orange

and watercress salad etc etc yum!

CHILLIES

With everything really.

Galaxy chocolate

I also love milk chocolate...& the

most creamy,smooth & delicious is

galaxy(in my humble opinion)

F A S T F O O D

Sometimes nothing else will do!