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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Earthmaiden » Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:30 pm

Yes, I've had those and they're very nice - and made my own. I was just surprised at the amount of crumb because if you're not really thinking about it you don't realise how much there is!

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:37 pm

No with something like that I don't tend to look at the pack ratios, probably should though I suppose the % fish is higher in the lightly dusted ones but the portion size is smaller so probably the same size of fish fillet in each.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Suffs » Fri Nov 26, 2021 3:45 pm

I've been to the farm shop and butcher and done the food shopping for the week

Tonight ... panroasted cod with cauliflower cheese (leftover from earlier) and potatoes parmentier (frozen from farm shop)

Saturday ... lasagne (made with 'second half of ragu from yesterday)

Sunday ... 'generous' bone-in rare breed pork chops with Caramelised cabbage with caraway, dill and yoghurt, and roast potatoes. (receipe from the Independent website)

Monday ... traditional Lancashire Hotpot made with middle neck of lamb, lots of leeks and sliced potatoes on top.

Tuesday ... baked plaice with creamy mashed potatoes and runner beans from the freezer

Wednesday ... sausage bake with squash, potatoes, onions and sweetcorn (same as last week at request of OH who insists he could eat it eery day).

Thursday ... Pasta puttanesca (we didn't have it last week as I made a risotto instead)@

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Busybee » Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:15 pm

All sounds delicious Suffs, but what time on Monday? My absolute favourite- Lancashire hotpot.

:yum :yum

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby PatsyMFagan » Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:53 pm

Busybee wrote:All sounds delicious Suffs, but what time on Monday? My absolute favourite- Lancashire hotpot.


Does LH have barley in it ? ... I always add this to lamb stew, perhaps changing it from LH to ... lamb stew ;) :yum :yum :yum

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Suffs » Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:35 pm

PatsyMFagan wrote:
Busybee wrote:All sounds delicious Suffs, but what time on Monday? My absolute favourite- Lancashire hotpot.


Does LH have barley in it ? ...


Mine does :yum :thumbsup

We eat early (OH is always hungry) but it's easy to keep some hot ...... if there's any left that is :lol:

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby PatsyMFagan » Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:49 pm

Suffs wrote:
PatsyMFagan wrote:
Does LH have barley in it ? ...


Mine does :yum :thumbsup

We eat early (OH is always hungry) but it's easy to keep some hot ...... if there's any left that is :lol:


thank goodness for that ... thought I was doing it wrong all these years.. :roll: ;) :lol:

Edited to add: So is Lamb Stew, Lancashire Hot Pot and Irish Stew all the same thing ?

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:59 pm

Surely it's only LH of topped with sliced spud?

Lamb stew can be anything you like, Irish Stew seems to provoke controversy, I have been told with equal firmness always/never carrots for example
Felicity says carrots are optional but potatoes non-negotiable, which makes sense
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/j ... ity-cloake

Then there's lob scouse...

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Busybee » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:09 pm

I’ve always had/made LH with the sliced spuds on top, all crispy and crunchy, but whilst living in Manchester, so old Lancashire, it was served with chunks of potato in the filling, so in my mind a lamb stew.

So who knows. I continue to call it a LH with sliced potatoes on top and a stew if containing potatoes. Always Pearl barley in both versions.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Busybee » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:11 pm

It’s actually my last supper dish. If I knew I was about to depart this earth it would be my meal of choice. Preferably made by my mum, Nigel Howath’s version would be a close second.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:17 pm

Lovely sounding meals suff :yum
I love a lamb stew be it Irish, Hot pot, scouse or whatever. I'm sure despite all the debates and "definitive" versions the women cooking for hungry families would have just have used whatever they had or could buy/grow ingredients wise.
It's like the "stovies" debates up here, every area and families within it make it slightly differently.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Suffs » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:39 pm

In this house ....

LH has to have sliced spuds on top and barley in it;

Irish stew has potatoes and onions and/or leeks and possibly carrots in it (I don't know any hungry Irishman or woman who would turn up their nose at a dish with carrots in it) and the cooking liquor is not thickened ....

and lamb stew is like Irish stew with the liquor thickened.

There is also Cawl, which in this house has lamb, bacon, leeks, potatoes and possibly celery and swede ... it's as I remember the Cawl served to me by the delightfully slightly batty Aunty B on the Gower. Definitely the Cawl liquor is not thickened nor does it have barley.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Pampy » Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:46 am

When my Dad was young, his Mum used to put oysters in the Lancashire Hotpot (we're a true Lancastrian family). It's mentioned here http://www.foodsofengland.co.uk/lancashirehotpot.htm.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:13 pm

A mainly eating from previous batch cooks week coming up.
Meal Plan 03/12-09/12
• Fri–freezer rake
• Sat – (bought)spicy chicken burger, corn cobette, wedges
• Sun- pork chop, mustard sauce, red cabbage, green veg, baby potatoes
• Mon- cauliflower cheese
• Tues – venison and pork ragu with pasta
• Wed – ox cheek stew
• Thu – chicken, chorizo and chickpea stew, pitta
• Soup of the week – use up of various frozen portions

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Wed Dec 08, 2021 6:26 pm

A very provisional meal plan for next week which will depend if DS2 returns this weekend. Will probably be the last one until the New Year! A bit "rinse and repeat" as I'm trying to use up batch cooks/ freezer stuff.
Meal Plan 10/12-16/12
• Fri–freezer rake
• Sat – spicy chicken burger or gammon, corn cobette, wedges
• Sun- pork chop or gammon, pepper sauce, veg, baby potatoes
• Mon- pasta with tomato & pesto sauce
• Tues – naan pizza
• Wed – chicken, chorizo and chickpea stew
• Thu – possibly out
• Soup of the week – tbc

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:48 pm

And back to meal planning after the festivities :)
Meal Plan 07/01-13/12
• Fri–freezer rake
• Sat – cheese burgers, sweet potato fries and salad
• Sun- chicken dinner
• Mon- dal with pitta and egg
• Tues – Italian sausage ragu with pasta
• Wed – bejewelled pork, salad, rice & beans
• Thu – turkey, stuffing and leek pie

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby Amyw » Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:11 pm

Calzone and air fried chips tonight using a wrap .

Tomorrow night will be Carribean lamb and sweet potato curry

Sunday - savoury quorn mince topped with a Rosti topping then baked

Monday - Cajun chicken , Mexican corn on the cob and sweet potato wedges

Tuesday . Roast pork

That’s as far as I’ve got to at the minute

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:28 pm

Sounds good Amy, the mince bake really appeals to me. Do you use a specific recipe?

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby WWordsworth » Tue Apr 26, 2022 9:25 pm

I'm isolating again from tomorrow in the hope that my lens replacement surgery goes ahead this time.
Scheduled for Saturday.

That means a bit of planning as I can't leave the house.

We have a garden full of spinach and chard, and feta and filo in the fridge so I guess that means spanakopita tomorrow.

Thursday is meatballs and pasta, from the freezer.

J will go to the fishmonger on Friday so we'll decide what to do when I see what he buys.

I found a big tub of beef stew in the freezer so that will do nicely for Saturday.

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Re: Meal planning - love or loathe?

Postby liketocook » Wed Apr 27, 2022 11:45 am

WWordsworth wrote:I'm isolating again from tomorrow in the hope that my lens replacement surgery goes ahead this time.
Scheduled for Saturday.

That means a bit of planning as I can't leave the house.

We have a garden full of spinach and chard, and feta and filo in the fridge so I guess that means spanakopita tomorrow.

Thursday is meatballs and pasta, from the freezer.

J will go to the fishmonger on Friday so we'll decide what to do when I see what he buys.

I found a big tub of beef stew in the freezer so that will do nicely for Saturday.

Lovely to see the thread revisited WW :D . I had stopped posting on it but haven't stopped meal planning. Wednesday is our "planning" day so later I'll be checking out what we already have and this evening will sit down with DS2 and see what we fancy.

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