November nourishment

I love looking at photos of what people have been eating and making. Fat Dormouse and Sophie in the Sticks are particularly good for this.

Thus, I thought I'd share a few meals that I/we made in November.

Clockwise from Top left:

1. Roast chicken, roast potatoes, beans, peas, carrots, gravy. We bought a £6.00 huge chicken from the COOP and I cooked my first roast chicken ever. Honestly, I don't think I've done one before! It was really tasty.

2. Thai green chicken curry: There was stacks of chicken left so I made a one of my favourite meals: used left over green beans, pak choir, spinach and then boiled rice.

3. Salmon in carraway seeds with shallots, fried aubergines, rocket, avocado, packchoi and tomatoes. Very tasty and it was a break from the chicken which we still had lots of left.

4. Pie Minster Turkey and bacon pie with fried courgettes, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach, beans and onions. We contemplated booking Pieminster for our wedding caterers as we really love their pies but they were just too expensive! Our local COOP has stocked stocking them annoyingly, so we were pleased to find them in Sainsburys in a nearby town. I love turkey so it was a novelty to try this limited edition pie. We do tend to eat the same vegetables alot!!!

5. PIctured, our dinner table from our evening when we invited friends round: Chilli con carne, savoy cabbage with pancetta, mixed salad, olive and walnut breads, artisan sausage rolls, roasted butternut squash with herbs, mini peppers stuffed with goats cheese, tortillas, French almond and plum tart... They ate well but we still had stacks of food left!

6. I bought a pumpkin soup from the COOP and added sweet corn, carrots, red pepper and noodles to it to bulk it out into a meal soup. Again tasty but I preferred my homemade soup!

7. Tagliatelli with pancetta, pak choi, tomatoes, red peppers, shallots, garlic and then garlic bread. The pancetta was left from our party as we had fried cabbage with pancetta. This was extremely yummy!

8. Chicken and vegetable soup: This supplied meals for three days and it was made of the stock from the boiled chicken carcass, loads of leftover chicken then onion, carrots, parsnip, garlic, potatoes, squash. We ate it with garlic bread on one day. The remainder of the chicken went to a friendly cat. It was very hard to blend as there was so much of it so it was rather a viscous, lumpy soup but it was hearty on cold evenings.

9. (central) Jacket potato with chilli concarne, cabage, tortilla chips, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, grated cheese. These were left overs from our November dinner evening with friends

Other meals were had, but somehow were deemed not interesting enough for photos! WHat have you been eating in this weather?