Came home from a lovely weekend away, starving. Picked up a few bits of veg on the way back. Knocked this up in about two and a half hours.

Roast beef.
Honey roasted parsnips and carrots.
Tinned peas.
Tenderstem broccoli.
Sprouts (we love em)
Roasties in bovril.
Sweetheart cabbage.
Yorkshire pudding
Homemade gravy.

My lunch today:

Homemade gnocchi served with tender, rich lamb ragu.

Garnished with parsley, lemon and rosemary gremolata and a drizzle of olive oil

Double potato heaven, mash, very juicy crispy roasties, red cabbage, broccoli, roast chicken, sausage meat stuffing, beef dripping yorkie (readymade) and meat juice gravy 😍🤌🏻

Everything made from scratch, even proper gravy!
If a jobs worth doing, it’s worth doing properly. I then found the stuffing in the oven once we’d finished. Mum enjoyed it all and that’s the main thing 😋 - obviously with a lovely bottle of NZ Sauvignon!! I usually treat her out to lunch but way more personal and quality time together. Cherishing family is very important if you’re lucky enough to have them back.

I managed to not ruin the gravy this week 😊 (more added after photo) but I did forget to add the roast carrots I made 😂 cut is rump this week I think I prefer last weeks sirloin. Red cabbage was improved from last week also 🤓

EDIT

roast are homemade with wilja potatoes cooked in goose fat, I hand pick my potatoes so they are similar size for even cooking 🤓

- Irish Gunpowder Dirty Martini
- Reverse Sear Top Round
- Gravy
- Duck fat roasted potatoes
- Sprouts with bacon, garlic and pickled red onion
- Hot honey roasted roasted carrots with anchovy, Dijon and Calabrian chili vinaigrette
- Côtes du Rhône

Gammon eggs cooked black pudding and raw black pudding beans sausage porched eggs and tomatoes

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Served with garlic and rosemary roasted baby potatoes and roasted asparagus. I did cheat though cause I used jus roll pastry 😂

It always turns out better when fresh! So simple and quick but delicious

I love Korean-style pancakes (usually very large), so I decided to create my own mini version using the ingredients I already had in my fridge.

They were so much fun to make, and even more delicious to eat!

Pears from the garden, picked yesterday.

My first attempt at roast for me and my partner after leaving home :) stuffing probably the biggest room for improvement but quite pleased with myself 😜

God this was so good, thinking about putting it on my private dinner menu🥹

So yeah, I made Jollof for the first time ever. My friends absolutely loved it. This was about 2 months ago.

What makes it a party Jollof Rice is that inside the rice I packed it with bits of prok so that you get random bites of goodness although you can’t see it in the picture.

On the side you can see some grilled Chicken which was grilled tenderly (meat was falling off the bone)

Some plantain for plot armour and tomatoes for decor

And lastly beef patties for the extra fun.

For the adults there is a bottle of “Triomphe Rose” and for the kids a glass of black current diluted juice.

I started cooking more because I was fairly recently diagnosed with depression and anxiety and I watched a video where the guy said the thing that helped him the most wasn’t the meds but the change in lifestyle. At this point I hadn’t consistently cooked in around 2 years, in which I had probably actually cooked 4-8 meals. I was surviving off free work meals and Morrison meal deals.
I decided I’d pick up the pan and do one of the things I hate the most with the intent of finding the beauty in it… and that was cooking.
Really, it helped so much. I now cook at a MUCH more consistent basis, I’m saving about £25 per week from not buying meal deals, I’m speaking to the chefs about what and how they cook (I work in catering) and have a little new bestie who is an absolute unit in the kitchen. It really is funny how things turned out.

P.S. i’d still never be a chef so please don’t bother asking me to go down that route :)