Wednesday's Menu with vegetarian Option Starters:

[merciasounds]

Char-grilled artichoke hearts with olive oil, chili, lemon and black pepper
OR
Potted shrimps with brown bread and butter
OR
Melon and Parma ham

Main's: Roast Leg of Gloucester Old Spot Pork, Crispy crackling, sage onion and sausage meat stuffing, crispy golden raosties, baby new boiled potatoes, carrots, cauli and broccoli florets, cabbage apple sauce and gravy
OR
Turbot with a white wine and butter sauce
OR
Lancashire Lamb hot-pot - Lean chump chops, cooked with lamb stock, onions, and carrots topped with sliced potatoes, baked until golden and crispy

Vegetarian Option
Vegetable and Pasta bake
OR
Quorn 'chili' and rice
OR
4 Cheese Pizza (extra toppings are mushrooms, mixed sweet peppers, crispy fried onions and olives)

Puds: Mixed Berry Pavlova (Strawberries, raspberries, tayberries and blackberries)
OR
Tarte Tatin (caramelized Apple Tart) cinnamon ice cream
OR
Mocha fudge sponge

12 cheeses, crackers or bread, grapes and celery

usual drinks

[ummmm]

Potted shrimps...

Turbot..

I'm bit of a seafood lover...

[ttfn]

Good morning mercia and 4-legs

May I please have the cannibal option today -
RoastPork and all those lovely trimmings
If I make a special fuss of my furry friends any chance of an extra helping of crackling?
please please please please please please please please please please please

Coffee and I will even load the dish washer after ☺

[merciasounds]

So I've noticed - You'd love it here tomorrow morning - crack of dawn job mind, go down to the harbour and see what goodies Alan and Greg bring in - always lobsters and crabs, sometimes sea-bass, lemon sole, or turbot, monkfish- I've been promised some tuna tomorrow from a friend of theirs.

[mccfluff]

arghhhhh i want all of the starters

ok all the starters and cheese :-)

[ummmm]

I love tuna..medium rare :-)

[merciasounds]

you just sit there and put your feet up ttfn and fuss the doggies, you'd have loved the pig roast we went to on saturday night, I took the whole back off the pig as crackling to divide it up!! It was gorgeous, not a bit fatty, just dry, crispy and full of flavour, and of course you can have double double rations today of it!!!

[rowanwitch]

I'll just pinch the good bits off Red's plate...but some potted shrimps would be good til he gets here....

[ttfn]

Your generosity has made me salivate mercia - honestly. I can smell it from here and hear the snap of the crackling. My fridge is empty save milk and butter! I ouight to go shopping today me thinks. I am too old for adoption but is a granny annexe totally out of the question ?

[Ric.ror]

Are you allowed a tiny bit of everything?

[merciasounds]

Aww ttfn I'd be honoured to adopt you!!

[merciasounds]

is that with or without gin ricror?!!

[Ric.ror]

Just a few teaspoons please

[ttfn]

Actually mercia you would have to be mad, but I thank you for your kindness, pats and kisses all round ♥

[woofgang]

another request for all the starters please.. with some crusty bread and a hock spritzer
thanks!

[Jan1957]

Shrimps, roast pork and pavlova for me please mercia.

[merciasounds]

should have done an anti-pasti - thrown in some olives, salamis, marinated garlic mushrooms, a few dips such as baba ganoush (baked aubergine dip) and some mini mozzarella balls to go with all the starters!!

[redman41]

Can I order everything that rowan likes as I aim to please, but Sausage is strictly off the Menu as I have been warned ! Ha Ha