What are your family’s top 3 favourite meals?
Our family’s grown
They’ve fled the nest
So when they are at home
Well that will be a special feast
We’ll pull out all the stops.
The stand out choice will be a roast
With all our home grown veg.
Beef perhaps the favourite
But could be pork or lamb.
Chicken’s not so special
We have it all the time.
Turkey is for Christmas
It can be any meat.
But starting are the vegetables
Because we grow a lot.
The plates will all be groaning
We’ll serve them piping hot.
Of course there’s roast potatoes
And plenty of parsnips too.
Our special favourite roasted squash
And then there’s green veg too.
There’s runner beans in season
And chard or maybe kale
Sometimes it is cabbage
Or maybe cauliflower.
Of course it all needs gravy
And appropriate sauce.
Proper English mustard
Or perhaps Horse Radish sauce.
That is just the starters
There’s pudding still to come.
It likely be a crumble
With soft fruit that we have grown.
So roast will be the standby
But there’s other favourites too.
My wife has lived in India
And can cook a curry well.
We have all the spices
And my wife knows what to do.
A favourite is Jalfrezi
But she’ll make others too.
We’ll usually have a meat dish
And she’ll add a veg one too.
Served with rice and chapatis perhaps
Or sometimes we’ll have naan.
Her special Dal Makhani
Indian friends say is good.
She’d win an Indian husband
So they like to say.
For afters maybe ice cream
We have our own machine
And can knock out different flavours
Again with fruit we’ve grown.
And now to make a third choice
My wife’s own party piece
She likes to make Basque Chicken
And that is really nice.
Chicken and Chorrizzo
Baked with lots of rice
I once gave you the recipe
What is not to like?
Perhaps we’ll finish this off
With home made apple pie.
Of course we grow the apples.
As you’d expect I’d say.
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