Good Morning Sunday Birds!

[Smowball]

Well that was some rain overnight! We'd been threatened with bad weather/rain  all Saturday but it was glorious sunshine all day, right up until it got dark. Then about 2am I woke up & thought what in earth is that noise?? It was the rain! Looked outside and we had a mini river running down our road lol. Only just stopped raining about half hour ago. Well I guess it's saved me watering anything! 
Have nothing major to do today- just pottering about doing odd bits & deciding what to do for dinner later on - really not in full roast dinner mode (cooking it not eating it lol).

Any dinner inspirations guys? x

[ubasses]

Spent yesterday clearing out the shed, what a load of rubbish.  Duplicates of so many types of weekiller and fertilisers etc. Found an unopened pair of secateurs, I'd been moaning for ages about the ones I was using!

Only just got finished when the heavens opened, and woken in the night by another couple of downpours.

Dinner tonight is going to be stuffed portabello mushroom, something a bit lighter after the chicken in tarragon cream sauce last night.

[calda49]

Good morning , started raining mid afternoon yesterday and hasn't stopped since. It was heavy last evening I had to turn the TV up to hear. Also had some tremendous thunder and lightening.

Lazy evening regards tea tonight, pre cooked macaroni cheese, ( just sling it in the microwave), and a sliced avocado. It goes well together and I put salt on the avocado. Have a good day all.

[Smowball]

Morning ubasses/calda - yes that what I mean about the rain, we were meant to get hit by it in the day yesterday also but when it got to evening & we hadn't I thought we'd missed it. But yes, was deafening! 
 

what are these mushrooms getting stuffed with then? Mrsmow loves mushrooms! And I love macaroni cheese - not had it for ages actually, mite have to make  one. 
 

[Barmaid]

All the storms missed us until about 11.15pm. And then there was a real hum dinner. One of the cats was terrified.

Mr BM let me have a lie in and he got up and let them out. That didn't work because while he was out picking the mountain of tomatoes and veg I have to deal with today, they brought a mouse up to my bedroom. I guess that's their idea of breakfast in bed.

Tonight's food will either be roast gammon or Chinese crispy duck, followed by belly pork with soy an

[Barmaid]

And ginger cabbage!

(sausage fingers there).

[barry1010]

Morning all.

We had it bad yesterday, very heavy rain, hail, thunderstorms, flash floods, high winds. Nearby homes lost power due to lightning strikes.

Overcast drivel today, but much calmer. Rain forecast for the next 9 days

[ferlew]

Good morning all.
We seem to have had a shower or two in the early hours, but nothing major like some of you are experiencing. I've been hoping for a steady rain to save me having to water the newly seeed lawn.
Can't think of anything I NEED to do today, so a pretty lazy one for me.
 

[Smowball]

Good morning barmaid,Barry, ferlew : )

I am liking the sounds of the crispy duck! How do you make yours BM? 
Yep Barry - your weather sounds like the weather my friend had yesterday - she was out driving mid afternoon and then due to the rain couldn't drive back  on a  road she'd been on the hour before.

Make the most of it ferlew - put utter nonsense on the tv lol!

 

[Barmaid]

Smow, I get the duck legs out in the morning, prick them well and then rub them with salt, chinese five spice and sciracha (sp) pepper.  Then stick them in the fridge for at least the day to dry out.

At cooking time, I get a pan on the hob really hot and sear the legs.  Once seared I stick in an oven proof dish with a couple of star anise and some chicken stock.  Cook at 220 for 15 mins then turn heat down to 160 for an hour to one hour 15.

I get the pancakes and sauce from a local asian supermarket (always spend a blummin fortune in there).  But sometime I make my own sauce if I have managed to get my hands on damsons or plums.

Tonight, in a change to the menu, we are having roasted tomato soup and fresh bread.  And then a sticky toffee pud.

[DTCwordfan]

roast haunch of venison here and so simple and delicious......

[Canary42]

Your first paragraph ubasses made my day - I thought I was the only one like that 😊. 

[ubasses]

Evening Smowball, I crisped up fresh breadcrumbs and added some parmesan and continued frying for a minute or 2. moved to a plate.

Brushed 4 portabello mushrooms with oil and baked for 10 minutes. Fried finely diced onion for 5 mins, added crushed garlic fried for a minute then added some wilted chopped spinach, sun dried tomatoes and chopped mushroom stalks.  Mixed in riccotta and a dash of water to simmer.

Spoon over the mushrooms. Top with the breadcrumb mix and bake for 5 mins.