On 8/12/2013 4:58 AM, JBurns wrote:
> It is a bit cold here tonight so we are having the following for
> dinner:
>
> Nice hunk of beef with a lovely fat cap, roasting now along with
> roasted potatoes, pumpkin (Queensland blue) and red beetroot.
>
> Steamed carrots, bok choy and the beet leaves. Will give the carrots a
> head start, then add the bok choy and lastly the beet leaves until
> just wilted.
>
> Yorkshire pudding, batter is made and resting. Will cook these in a
> muffin tray with a bit of the rendered beef fat heated until smoking
> in a very hot oven.
>
> Serve with dark gravy made from flour, pan drippings and some beef
> stock.
>
> Dessert is apple crumble made earlier today and served with some
> lovely scalded cream I got from a dairy farmer friend.
>
> A calorie and carb laden dinner for sure, but Husband and I have spent
> all day in the garden getting the vege garden ready for planting.
> Teenage Grandsons had an all day school excursion at the zoo where
> they were encouraged to bring a young sibling/relative/borrowed kid.
> They took their four and five year old cousins, our Granddaughters.
> Everyone is hungry and waiting impatiently for dinner.
>
> JB
>
>
That sounds like a holiday/celebratory menu but I guess having the
younger relatives in attendance is cause for celebration.

gloria p