I'd like to first start by recounting that yesterday I slow-cooked a very good value shoulder of lamb via Abel and Cole, in wine, stock, rosemary, onion and garlic for 8 hours on low, and it made a very good Sunday dinner! (I was in two minds as to not do the full trimmings, and serve new potatoes, homemade coleslaw and salad, as the weather was warm, but glad I stuck to the original plan.) And there is such a lot of lamb that tomorrow I will be doing a lamb rogan josh (& saag) which will make 2 meals, one to freeze, one to eat with this week. So I am very pleased with that one! Like the organic chicken that makes two meals and sandwiches, we pay extra for high animal welfare standards, but try to get as much bang for as buck as possible.
Speaking of animal welfare, it is currently National Vegetarian Week (and here I am banging on about lamb - sigh....) I did used to be vegetarian, vegan in fact, and now do ensure that the food we buy adheres to strict animal welfare standards (hence Abel and Cole as a supplier) but aside from a Meat Free Monday and a Fishy Friday, our meat consumption remains fairly high. If I'd been more on the ball I'd have implemented more veggie meals this week....as it is, we're trying something new, Aubergine 'Meat'Balls - wish me luck!
Meat Free Monday - Aubergine Meatballs served with tomato and basil sauce and spaghetti
Tuesday - Lamb Rogan Saag Josh with brown basmati rice, plain & peshwari naan
Wednesday - Chicken and chips (unless I'm inspired to do a different chicken dish - it's going to be a long week of sewing for the Dance Show so I don't anticipate having any creative juices, perhaps you other meal planners will inspire me!)
Thursday - Chicken Salad
Friday - Fish in tomato and basil sauce served with fries (a Jools Oliver recipe I've used for years)
Saturday - Early pizza tea before the show
Sunday - Probably takeaway on the way back from the Dance Show (for those of you who think you have deja vu, yes I got mixed up last week and initially posted that it was the Dance Show Weekend then - but it's not till this week - thankfully, due to the amount of costume alterations I need to get sorted!)
Head on over to Mrs M's for more menus and inspiration today....
Everything sounds delicious!!
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Love the sound of those aubergine meatballs. I will have to give them a go at some point. Hope you have fun with the dance show or should I say break a leg.
ReplyDeleteThe slow cooked lamb sounded delicious. Like the idea of aubergine meatballs sound very different and tasty!
ReplyDeleteEveryone has been very kind about the aubergine meatballs....feel bad that I had to abandon them due to a wakeful baby preventing me getting anything done! I might take the part-done mixture out of the fridge and serve them for lunch today, depending on how things go....
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