another chuck here,
roast potatoes and sweetcorn
apple pie and double cream.
but I want to taste Books hotpot.
I still don't know the difference between a stew, a casserole and a hotpot!! Thinking about it, I know what a stew is 'cos that's the one I make. It's meat (usually beef) and every root veg known to man plus celery and I put kidney beans in, sometimes chick peas and sometimes pearl barley. I usually add oxos and flavourings making it nice and 'meaty'! It's cooked on the top of the stove in a big pan. Casserole I THINK is the same thing but cooked in the oven. I think hotpot is cooked in the oven but what IS it exactly?? 
Anyway for tea I had bacon, sausage, potato waffles and omelette. He had the chicken and noodle stuff that was left from yesterday, then we both had home made strawberry trifle.
Minute steaks, baked chips, grilled onion, mushrooms, peas & a thick curry sauce to dip my chippies in followed by meringue, mixed berries & sweetened greek yoghurt
Had a full english first thing this morning & home made veggie soup for lunch, all Slimming World endorsed & fat free. Only normally have 3 meals a day on holiday 😆
Had a full english first thing this morning & home made veggie soup for lunch, all Slimming World endorsed & fat free. Only normally have 3 meals a day on holiday 😆
The only thing with fat-free food is what they replace the fat with to bring the flavour back. It's usually worse for you than the fat. My daughter was on a fat free diet for years but the dietician advised her to introduce fat back as she would be getting very low on vitamins and minerals.
Mine wasn't replaced with anything as it was all fresh food, mainly fruit or veg with some extra lean (fat trimmed off before cooking) meats
@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:I still don't know the difference between a stew, a casserole and a hotpot!! Thinking about it, I know what a stew is 'cos that's the one I make. It's meat (usually beef) and every root veg known to man plus celery and I put kidney beans in, sometimes chick peas and sometimes pearl barley. I usually add oxos and flavourings making it nice and 'meaty'! It's cooked on the top of the stove in a big pan. Casserole I THINK is the same thing but cooked in the oven. I think hotpot is cooked in the oven but what IS it exactly??
Anyway for tea I had bacon, sausage, potato waffles and omelette. He had the chicken and noodle stuff that was left from yesterday, then we both had home made strawberry trifle.
Hotpot is meat and veg with stock / gravy topped with thinly sliced potato, cooked slowly in the oven. Usually uses cheaper cuts of meat.
Lancashire hotpot is usually made with lamb or mutton.
I had salmon cooked in paper parcels in the oven with new spud and spinach
Ta stroppy. So hotpot is the same as casserole except the potatoes are on the top rather than in with the rest of the veg?
So Books had hotpot AND more veg, when I make stew the veggies are in there and I fill the dish/soup bowl to the top!!
I think they're all the same really!
I had Breaded Cod with New Potatoes and some more lovely Chantenay Carrots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Vanilla instant whip dessert for afters with Orange Jelly. Im afraid i ate the whole packet of it!!!!!. LOVELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I licked the inside of an empty crisp packet that I found blowing in the garden......
'cos I'm saving up for Mercles' knitteds on MDCC.....
Poor twish, Molly left some dinner, do you want me to put it in a box and post it to you? (she only sucked it a little bit) 
