Will you all be having a special New Years Day dinner?
I have the inlaws over, so we will be having a lush dinner!

Our menu will be:

Pear, walnut and stilton salad with rocket leaves

Braised beef with crispy roast tatoes and veggies

Homemade chocolate mouse and wafer biscuits. (made by nearly 12yr old son!)

Yum yum, can't wait!!!

I'm going out to Ho Lee Chow's with my parents, my mum's best friend and her family. Best Chinese food I've ever had.

Whatever I can stomach after the night before!

Oh yes! Steak pie at mamies

Prawn cocktail for starters

I'm going to make a meat and potato pie from the recipe on

www.videojug.com

Got the ingredients today.

traditional Scottish Ne'er Day stuff - homemade steak pie with puff pastry.

We're going to be having roast lamb with garlic and fennel, with all the trimmings. Cant wait.

With party food to finish.

Im going away for a while, and we've never been separated so we're having a special day together

I suspect Neurofen will feature highly on my menu

'Steak' and ale pie, using Quorn beef-style pieces, mushrooms, onions, peas and carrots in a beery gravy. Mmmmmmmmm. I've been looking forward to it for ages.

Im having a nice home made meat and potato pie that my mums making , so yummy

Forgive me for asking! Are you a vegetarian? If you are, why would you want something that tastes of meat? I'm just curious.

There's nothing to forgive!

Yes, I am vegetarian and I have been for almost five years. It may sound odd, but it doesn't really taste THAT much like meat; it's just something pleasant with some substance to it instead of the meal being all vegetables. Some Quorn stuff does taste like meat, but I know it's not, so it doesn't really bother me. No animals were harmed in the making of my dinner and that's how I like it.


Last edited by No Chance : 31-12-2007 at 01:03

Thank you for answering my question! I'm thinking of stopping eating meat. Is Quorn a good substitute?

Not a problem.

Yes, it is; it is quite high in protein and tastes really nice too and have a wide variety of products. There's chicken-style pieces for things like curry and 'chicken' pies, there's the aforementioned beef-style pieces, there's Quorn mince which I use for bolognese and other things, plus there's sausages, sausage rolls, burgers, 'ham/'chicken'/'beef' and 'turkey' sandwich slices, 'bacon' and all kinds of things. I love a Quorn 'bacon' (or 'Facon' as I call it) and egg sarnie. Mmmmmm! Supermarkets often have their own variants too which are nice. Tesco's frozen quarter-pounders are gorgeous!

I've never looked back since turning vegetarian, I really haven't. If you want more information, the Vegetarian Society are a good starting point when doing research.

Feel free to ask for advice should you require it!

We are having home made schnitzels, potato salad and other salad bits for new years day!

yum!

I am trying to rid myself of the excess calories consumed over the holiday so will be partaking of a tin of Lentil soup and a small roll with no butter, followed by 7-8 miles on the bloody treadmill!

I'll be having Sweet and Sour Chicken with egg fried rice (Courtesy of Lidls)

I've started going to Lidls. Very impressed! They have excellent veg and cold meats. Great prices. I don't understand the snobs who refuse to be seen in Lidl. Ah well, their loss!

Do you make the traditional steak pie with link sausage in too?
Yummy......nothing quite like that.

Lidl is the only shop I buy fruit & veg from.........it's so fresh & keeps longer than Asda or Morrisons.
It is snobbery re Lidl.

you bet! steak sausage it is!

Yeah........nothing quite like it is there?

crikey, its such a cliche, but I use my gran's recipe. (probably the same as everyone elses, though!)
and then for dessert, its sherry trifle.

good old nostalgic comfort food. canny whack it!

Oh yes.....have to have trifle for afters.

People maybe knock the old traditional food but there's something really comforting about it.

Steak pie, mash and sprouts yum
Not homemade but from John Bain Butchers in Stenhouse, Edinburgh. My god they are yummy folk buy the individual pies 20 at a time