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Going out for Sunday Lunch today,, not till around 4pm though:wah:going to a pub near us that does a fabby carvery,,, thing is they do yummy desserts too but im always too full off my meal:wah:

fresh trout, brocolli

I made fish pie, with some toasted crusty bread.

Was delish.

Slices of fried Spam ( it's kind of like luncheon meat ) with fresh onions and a few chili peppers. I love Spam

A Roasted pork loin, baked potato, fresh garden peas, sliced garden tomatoes and strawberries with a cream cheese dipping sauce. Chocolate cake for dessert.

Mustang;1334657 wrote: A Roasted pork loin, baked potato, fresh garden peas, sliced garden tomatoes and strawberries with a cream cheese dipping sauce. Chocolate cake for dessert.


I had a bacon sandwich.

glazed ham, mashed potatoes and peas.

fresh Tilapa fish and a Ceasar salad.

Later today...Roast Beef, yorkshire pudding, roasties, mash, 2 veg, and then, ( if there is room in my boots, lol) a steamed golden syrup pudding with custard.

Save a place for anyone?..

Littlelou;1363073 wrote: Later today...Roast Beef, yorkshire pudding, roasties, mash, 2 veg, and then, ( if there is room in my boots, lol) a steamed golden syrup pudding with custard.

Save a place for anyone?..


oh that sounds so delicious, yes, please, save a place for me:-6

It tasted really nice, I saved you some Odie, and I must say your share tasted nice too.:wah:

Littlelou;1363141 wrote: It tasted really nice, I saved you some Odie, and I must say your share tasted nice too.:wah:


:-5:-5:yh_rotfl

Something edible, I am home now and don't have to eat the in-laws cooking.....................

chonsigirl;1363363 wrote: Something edible, I am home now and don't have to eat the in-laws cooking.....................


it's that bad is it......glad your back home.

tilapa fish cooked in lemon, tomato salad.

Jacket/baked potatoes, with cheese and beans.

crazygal wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:55 pm Jacket/baked potatoes, with cheese and beans.

One of my favourites, jacket potato, cheese and beans, cooked in the oven, or airfryer, with a proper crispy skin.

We had cottage pie, mashed turnip (swede), carrots and gravy yesterday.

Welcome back, great to see you again!

crazygal wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:55 pm Jacket/baked potatoes, with cheese and beans.

I'm not sure what I'm still allowed to eat, I appear to have fallen back on salads. I do not prefer salads but they're not entirely full of banned things which might include baked potato. And beans. I'm not sure about cheese but if I'm allowed cheese it would definitely be in a salad.

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Are you still a West Londoner? I enjoyed living in London but it's a while ago. Very occasionally I visit.

If I may ask,
What is a Jacket Baked Potato?

And, for the record, We dined on some leftover Chicken Parmesan and Noodles for our diner. Daughter takes very good care of me and makes sure I have a good meal every day or so.

Ah.

The potato is a multicellular life-form originating from the New World at the time of Walter Raleigh, who was executed in the Tower of London for still being alive under a Scottish monarch. It is in all probability still to be found in American soils.

Baking is a technique designed to soften and part-digest what otherwise would be a vile comestible. It has the advantage then of accepting sauces, or meltable lactose derivatives which in England would be cheese. Catsup, or "ketchup", is often an accompaniment, or salad cream for those with taste-buds. The potato benefits from an application of salt.

The jacket is the skin in which it grew. The alternative, peeled potato, takes less kindly to baking unless slathered in vegetable oil, at which stage it is served "roast".

LarsMac wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2025 6:35 pm If I may ask,
What is a Jacket Baked Potato?

And, for the record, We dined on some leftover Chicken Parmesan and Noodles for our diner. Daughter takes very good care of me and makes sure I have a good meal every day or so.

The simple answer is it's a large potato, unpeeled and coated in a little oil and sprinkled with salt, baked in the oven for around an hour until the skin crisps up and the inner potato is soft and fluffy. You cut it open and place your favourite filling on the top.

It's really very tasty when done right.

Ahah! Thanks. I suspect something like that.
I've been eating those for most of my life.
Just by a different title.

I just popped a couple in the Oven to go with some Kielbasa for dinner.
Thanks!

When I was a kid it was traditional practice to cook them in the embers of the bonfire on Guy Fawkes' Night. If you wanted to be fancy you could wrap them in foil first.