Thursday's menu...with vegetarian option : Starters: Deep fried crumbed Brie with redcurrant relish

[merciasounds]

salad garnish,
OR
Mushroom soup
OR
A BIG slice of juicy watermelon

Mains: Char-grilled steak, (rump, sirloin or rib-eye) with Handcut chips, beer-battered onion rings, sauteed mushrooms peas and grilled tomato or salad
OR
Crispy duck breast with black cherries (please put all piccies of lardhelmet's avatar out of your mind!!)
OR
Cold-cuts (Roast Beef, ham and Turkey) new potatoes, salad, apple slaw, coleslaw

Vegetarian option: Stir fried veg (Baby corn, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, onion, straw mushrooms, water chestnuts, carrots and baby brocolli florets with medium noodles in black bean sauce
OR
Herb and garlic soft cheese stuffed portabello mushroom spicy jacket wedges and salad
OR
Fine whole green beans, brocolli, courgette and carrot ribbons, peas and baby new potatoes in a lemon zest and juice dressing with sesame seeds served with marinated tofu

Chocolate fudge cake
OR
Poached pears with vanilla ice cream with almond tuilles
OR
Fresh fruit flan whipped cream

16 cheeses, crackers, grapes and celery

Coffee/liqueur coffee

Lots of cold white and Rose, red breathing, ciders, lagers, bitters, juices and water

[mccfluff]

oh that is so not fair i want nearly everything

watermelon
duck
cheese

and a cold cut doggy bag

[ummmm]

Brie and then duck, medium rare please...wine.

[AB Editor]

Deep Fried Crumbed Brie With Redcurrant Relish

Herb and garlic soft cheese stuffed portabello mushroom spicy jacket wedges and salad

16 cheeses, crackers, grapes.

Done.

What is actually in the lunch-box today? Sweet-potato mash and Bratwurst! Not quite on par sadly.

Spare Ed

[funnygirl]

Mushroom soup
Duck breast
Fresh fruit flan for me

[mccfluff]

is yours better or worse than mine ed?

- egg sandwich, salad and RB monstermunch

[supersuezy24]

Starters, Salad garnish, main, stuffed portobello mushrooms, chocolate fudge cake, plenty of cheese, crackers and grapes and ome nice cold orange juice :)

[merciasounds]

I hope it's real German bratwurst Ed.....

[eash]

Hi Mercia,
I really look forward to seeing your menu's everyday and wondering what choices there are and what to have!
Today I will have the brie to start, veggie mushroom for main and chocolate fudge cake for dessert, please and thanks! I also fancy a cider today as well :-)

[merciasounds]

You think your Lunch-Boxes are bad, my neighbour came around this morning having picked up the wrong one, so he had a gingerbread man and cream cheese and marmite soldiers!! He said 'his nipper' had gone to playschool with a big pork pie, two pickled onions and a copy of the Sporting Life!

[supersuezy24]

Mercia, You've put me in the mood of baking today, do you have any nice simple recipes for a chocolate cake?

[merciasounds]

probably the simplest one is the victoria sandwich cake

6oz each of butter and caster sugar, 3 eggs, 5oz sieved SR flour, 1oz cocoa powder

Cream butter and sugar together till fluffy, add eggs, (don't worry about curdling, it'll come together!) Fold in flour and cocoa lightly so as not to knock the air out, divide mixture between two greased 7 inch cake tins, bake gas 4, 350 or 180 for about 20 mins until it springs back in the middle when touched and has slightly shrunk away from the sides of tin.
Turn out and cool on a wire rack. When cold, sandwich together with whipped cream, or nutella, put melted choc on top - decorate how you want!! Mercia XX

[supersuezy24]

Oooh Mercia, I'm going to try that, it sounds simple, although knowing me, I'll mess it up somehow lol
Thank you xxx