What did you have last night?

[Ernie Whalley]

Medallions of pork with mushroom, lovage and chive sauce. Sauté potatoes. Fried courgettes with lime and ginger.

[Ernie Whalley]

Home smoked rack of pork; courgettes with spinach, lime and ginger, bbq aubergines, home made tomato & chili sauce, pasta nests. Affogato to folow - home made vanilla ice cream + Mandorla + espresso ( 35% Brazilian/ 60% Sumatra) + toasted almonds.

[fontane77]

tomato and basil sausages with carmelised onions, mash and graaaaaaaavy.

yum

[Ernie Whalley]

Smoked pork done in the newly re-vamped pizza oven, green salad and Dennis Cotter's beetroot

[Melendez]

I had big fecker 600g T-Bones steaks (from Dunnes, Donnybrook) with a herby red wine/stock reduction, homemade potato wedges and absolutely no other vegetables, washed down with a couple of bottles of Barolo. Stuffed, pissed and satisfied.

[chefsmith]

Its roasting hot here at the mo,
so made a green gazpacho today with, green peppers, green tomatoes, leeks, Q's , chicken stock, olive oil, WW vinegar, few bits of old bread and finished with some basil and coriander.

T'was savage and refreshing

[kren]

Pork medallions, rice (absorption method, flavoured with curry, raisins and almond slices) and carrots (onion sweated in butter, carrots sliced, Thyme, add a tiny bit of vegetable stock and let simmer).

[kren]

Venison season has started again - enjoyed it twice already...
strips of steak in a sauce of wild mushrooms and sour cream with "Spaetzle" and a tossed salad.

[chefsmith]

Had venison myself tonight, not exactly sure which cut, was described as a knuckle at the top of tail, was truly amazing, served simply with some buttery mash, swede puree and a whiskey Sauce.

[Ernie Whalley]

Didn't have sausages after 2 days spent judging Craft Butchers 'Sausage OTY'
Did have nice breakfast with baked eggs over sobrasada, black pudding, figs and sauté potatoes with slices of LW's giant puffball.

[kren]

Szegediner Gulasch -
Hungarian Dish made of lean pork pieces (preferably shoulder) and prepared like a beef Gulasch (ie onions, paprika, add water or stock - in with meat) after about 45 mins add Sauerkraut and simmer for another 45 mins - finish by adding sour cream mixed with a bit of flour. Serve with boiled potatoes. Yum.

[chefsmith]

We made a Ox shin stew with celeriac, barley and lashings of ale, served with fresh crusty bread out of the oven, was great after a hard day demolishing a bar were working on.

So simple but oh so good.

[Ernie Whalley]

Turkey and ham, stilton and Bath Olivers/Stockens oatcakes again. Ringing the changes with the spuds though.

[Old Tart]

Roast salmon, cous cous with garlic, red chilli, onion, flat leaf parsley and pomegranate seeds. Light and refreshing after the excesses of the previous days.

[Ernie Whalley]

Martini Ernesto - my recent invention, 6-1 Plymouth Gin - Noilly Prat dry vermouth - generous squeeze of lime juice - 3 ice cubes, shaken and poured as soon as cold. Served with twist of lime and (sometimes) one green olive.
Steaks - unashamedly Aldi's excellent rib-eye. With chips, caramellised onions and a Vietnamese green mango salad. Bottle of Pouilly Fuisse (madame's idea of a detox!)
Afterwards my own vanilla ice cream with Creme de Methe
Stilton, Silke Croppe's wonderful Corleggy and biscuits
My favourite El Salavador La Illusion coffee
Bijou dropette of Redbreast
Good movie on telly
Life is Sweet

[dallen]

Gave two fingers to the january blues.
Start: King scallop, kohlrabi puree, pickled chanterelles, spring onion, hijiki seaweed and dashi
Main: 7 hour leg of west cork lamb, potato puree, caramelised carrot and sprouting broccoli
Dessert: Lemon tart

Vin:
Anjou (Domaine des Grandes Vignes, Varenne de Combre, 1999)
Madarin (Domaine Labranche Laffont, Vieilles Vignes, 2008)

[Ernie Whalley]

Bacon ribs, salt rinsed off then cooked in vegetable stock and red wine, with savoy cabbage and butter beans added for last five minutes. Washed down with half a bottle of Valdespino 'Inocente' Fino sherry, delicious. Why more people don't drink fino and manzanilla with food is simply quite beyond me.

[petitechef]

I'm determined to use up leftovers so I've just had omelette with potatoes, roast veg and the tiny bit of stuffed pork steak left over from Tuesday's dinner. Not bad

[fontane77]

reheated chili con carne and rice. those cheap canned kidney beans from tesco are muck, they're still hard after an hour in the pot.

[markh]

French onion soup and daube de boeuf in Alexis, part of their French classic bistro week :-)