A mix of leftovers from the restaurant that I couldn’t manage. Steak, mash, garlic spinach, and I added tomatoes and a mushroom sauce. With th e Zinfandel it was delicious.
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Smoked haddock/prawns with filo pastry and minted green veg - not really my effort but my son’s who’s doing an online cooking skills course with a bit of help from me when needed:
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What’s Milts?
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Herring roe from the male.
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I’m not sure I needed to know that. 
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Full of marine DNA. 
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And seamen. 
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Unsurprisingly tastes better than the female herring roe, which isn’t as sweet. More bitter and with a grainy texture.
Milts are often called Melts.
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Lasagna from scratch; eggs, flour, bolognase, mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan. Cooled overnight and reheated, as you would anything requiring flavours to meld.
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That’s a serious toad in the hole, I always thought it was just a fried egg in the middle of a piece bread.
Maybe it means something different in Aus. In the UK it’s definitely sausages baked into a giant mutant Yorkshire pudding.
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Boureki - a Cretan dish made with potatoes, courgettes, 3 types of Greek cheese and a shedload of herbs. Courgettes and potatoes from my allotment. Swilled down with a fair amount of rose
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Mackerel straight off the boat in Tenby, S. Wales, filleted and onto the bbq. Greek salad, plus a generous serving of Greek white wine from TWS.
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Staycation. Late BBQ.
Roast lamb, beef, lots of veg topped with peppers and asparagus.
Plus a nice Italian red.
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My partner is away for the weekend, so Detroit style big pan pizza big naughty boy style…
Yes. I managed to eat 2 slices.
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I may have to make a visit. Stourhead; it’s been a while, but always a fave walk when we lived close-by.
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King prawns cooked in white wine and garlic with parsley, shallots, peppers and mushroom with linguini tonight. Lemon tart for afters !
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Family over for lunch. Starter of barbecued Thai marinated prawns with a tomato, lime and coriander salad:
Then barbecued side of marinated salmon with a Thai rice noodle salad:
Then barbecued nectarines with a home made frozen yogurt with a raspberry ripple made from allotment raspberries:
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