I’ve been out all day helping DS … when I cam home OH served me a supper of a buttery jacket potato, a smoked gammon steak and baked beans. Just what I needed.

Potato starch in Kluskie ruskie made with COTTAGE CHEESE

I think white wine and lemonade has become very popular amongst younger folk … toe this reason I always ask for ‘white wine and soda’ rather than just ‘a spritzer please’.

Smoked garlic in MASHED POTATO

or use both …

Tomato and mustard mixed into MAYO for a chicken salad sandwich

Cider vinegar in a honey and MUSTARD salad dressing

King prawns in FILO with a chilli dipping sauce

Cloves studding a glazed GAMMON

Fennel seeds rubbed into the scored rind of PORK before roasting.

A vanilla pod in my jar of caster SUGAR to make vanilla sugar for baking.

Pork belly braised with soy and STAR ANISE

Agree with Scully :D Also don’t leave grow lights on 24/7 …. plants need a period of dark as well as light. :idea Unless you use a timer I suppose. I wouldn’t want to leave such things on while I’m away for an extended period … I’d worry … it’s probably ok but in case of disaster insurance companies...

A Dark & Stormy … so rum and GINGER beer

A boiled fruitcake using cold tea as the liquid … so RAISINS

Smoked mackerel, baby leaf salad, lightly pickled red onion and beetroot, and homemade potato salad with capers.

Toffee sauce made with CONDENSED MILK

Black pudding with pheasant and APPLE in a pasty

Onion gravy with Toad in the Hole so … SAUSAGES

Cherry sauce with panfried DUCK breast (very seventies )

Chicken, tarragon and leek pie (see baking thread) made with the second half of Sunday’s roast chicken. It was very tasty. We had it with frozen peas (we rarely eat potatoes if eating pastry).