Good Morning!! Wednesday's Menu with Vegetarian Option: Starters

[merciasounds]

Lobster Bisque
OR
Chilled Melon
OR
Taramasalata, Hummous, Tzatziki and cream cheese and garlic dips with pitta bread

Mains
Chicken and Ham cannelloni
OR
Char-grilled Rib-eye steak,
OR
Continental Cold Collation Platter - A selection of Italian, German and Danish Salamis, pates, sausages and cold meats with rye, black rye and spelt breads Coleslaw, potato salad, pickled red cabbage.( Recommend the Cold German Lager with this - sublime!!)

Vegetarian Option:
Roast vegetable lasagne (peppers, courgettes, aubergines, mushrooms, red onion) Roasted tomato sauce with garlic and fresh basil and oregano
OR
3 cheese, twice baked souffle
OR
Minced Quorn & Mushroom Pie

Puds
Sticky Toffee Pud
OR
Fresh Fruit Flan
OR
Mango and Passionfruit Cheesecake

Cheeses galore, crackers grapes and celery,

Jugs of Pimms and Sangria, plenty of cold whites and Roses, juices water, beers lager and ciders

[dothawkes31]

can you do a costing money and time wise on that lot please?

[eash]

Hello!
I'll have the melon to start, 3 cheese twice baked souffle for main and sticky toffee pud for dessert and lots of Pimms please! Thanks :-)

[merciasounds]

Why? - I don't shop at supermarkets for major foodstuffs, so I wouldn't know current market prices. AND as I'm sick and tired of saying, I don't cook it all, just what my husband chooses to what I have in the fridge.

[merciasounds]

Certainly can Eash!!

[dothawkes31]

I don't understand, what do you mean?

[Mick-Talbot]

Thank you, but one has had ones breakfast.

[funnygirl]

Hi Mercia

Lobster bisque
Canneloni
Sticky toffee pud
All washed down with ice cold rose wine please.

[merciasounds]

What don't you understand dothawkes31?

[mccfluff]

ooo
tara, cold platter and cheese all at once......

[eloisey]

Hello,
do you please have a recipe for the chicken and ham cannelloni ?

[merciasounds]

Sure Eloisey!! This is a great 'left-overs' dish, but of course you can cook meat fresh if you want.
Fry a large chopped onion and some garlic (up to you if you like, omit if you don't!) in a little olive oil and butter until golden, season with salt and black pepper. Drain on kitchen paper. You can also add sliced button mushrooms if you like. Mix with cooked chicken and some diced ham (smoked is nice). for two people i reckon a large chicken breast and roughly 150gms or 5oz cooked ham (diced gammon is nice) is about right
Now you can either do a tomato sauce like for lasagne, jarred sauce is fine, else use two tins of chopped, some puree (2tbls) some mixed herbs BIG Handful of fresh, or two teaspoons of dried, some more fried onion and garlic and S&Pepper,
OR You can make a white sauce (again jarred is fine) and can add cheese or mushrooms to this. (2oz butter, 2 oz flour, seasoning, pint of semi-skimmed milk - melt butter add flour and stir all the time, gradually add milk whisking all the time until thick)
Add chicken mixture to sauce of choice, and fill cannelloni tubes.
Pour some white sauce in the bottom of a dish your cooking in, add tubes of filled cannelloni, cover with white sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese bake for about 3/4 of an hour gas 4, 180/350 to test if cooked stick a knife in one of the tubes, if soft then it's cooked! nice with garlic bread and a crispy fresh salad

Can be made with any left-over meat, mince, even corned beef, or vegetables

[eloisey]

Thank you very much for the recipe
I am going to make it on FrIday, i will let know if my family liked it.

[bigfoot3000]

Still no taste/smell so Lobster Bisque and lemon juice!

[merciasounds]

Bigfoot, have you tried brushing your tongue? and a steam-bath to drain your sinus'? that might help with the taste/smell thing - it usually does for me anyway

[joggerjayne]

Lobster Bisque

Cannelloni

Cheeses Galore (!)

Pimms

[Jan1957]

Lobster bisque, the cold platter and fresh fruit flan for me. No cheesecake.... no sticy toffee pud. Oh sod it, I'll have all three. I do like a pud. Plenty of pimms would be very nice.

[carrust]

All bought from Waitrose I bet JJ

[joggerjayne]

Nothing wrong with Waitrose, cr !

[bigfoot3000]

No mercia I've just suffered in silence, but I do have vicks, maybe a vicks steam would help!

[carrust]

Sainsbury's keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose!!