Tag: food

We like to feed the family with food that we have grown.

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.

Gourmet Bubble and squeak

What food would you say is your specialty?

Hmm..

Me a speciality?

There’s just stuff I can make.

Perhaps I should develop one

How bout bubble and squeak?

Perfect the dish and specialise

Become the best there is.

Perhaps a secret gourmet twist

To good old bubble and squeak.

Perhaps you‘re not familiar

With this brilliant dish

You make it with the left overs

Serve it with cold meat.

You mix cold mash potatoes

With cabbage or sliced sprouts

Bang it in a frying pan

And fry the whole lot up.

You fry it till it’s good and dry

You turn the burnt bits in

Get it crispy, flavourful

Then turn it out the pan.

I don’t know bout the gourmet bit

I guess it’s in the oil

Something posh, goose fat perhaps

And other stuff like Kale.

Sadly I’m no brilliant cook

Will probably mess it up

But if I need a specialty

Best be a simple one.

My favourite food? What’s on my plate.

What are your favorite types of foods?

My favourite food?

What’s on my plate.

It’s seldom I’ll complain.

Variety’s the spice of life

Enjoy what you are given.

I love a plate of home grown veg

With meat or fish accompaniment

Perhaps a roast with gravy an’ meat

Or tray bake in the oven.

Sometimes we will spice it up

My wife does brilliant curry.

Rice or pasta, bring it on!

Bulgar wheat, quinoa.

Chinese can be very good

We love a stir fry Friday

But Indian, Thai, a twist of French

Whatever comes my way.

I’ll happily try a Michelin Star

Or fish and chips for supper.

Some have food but can not eat

And some would eat but have none

We have food and we can eat

So thank the Lord we’ll eat it.

With acknowledgement to Robbie Burns for the last bit.

Home Grown

What foods would you like to make?

I don’t cook very often

My wife is much too good

But we eat food in season

And mostly what we’ve grown.

There’s purple sprouting broccoli

Broad and Runner beans

Fresh beans and asparagus

Potatoes all you’d

There’s parsnips

And there’s beetroot

And winter squash

Run riot.

Soft fruit grows on bushes

Several different kinds and

as if all this were not enough

We’ve several different trees.

There’s apples and there’s quinces

Pears and also plums

And perhaps the most spectacular

A host of apricots.

We spin the changes meat or fish

Cooked in various ways

But see them as accompaniments

To all that fruit and veg.

We maybe steam our veg

Or have it simply boiled

Or roast it in the oven

With spices, olive oil.

Potatoes can be roasted

Sautéed, boiled or fried.

There’s many different ways to cook

But home grown’s always nice.

A slice of German sausage

Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

A slice of German sausage

The rind against my tongue

Or a bite of juicy melon

Mediterranean sun.

Tastes and smells that

Take me back

To where we lived when young.

The queue in a German butcher

Unfamiliar smells

A babble of foreign voices

A language we didn’t know.

They’d thinly slice a sausage

To give to us as kids

And to taste it now

Feel the rind on my tongue

Is to go back right away.

But melon takes me to Cyprus

Years we spent in the sun

The juicy blood run melons

We’d eat most every day.

Then I found them boring

Would have preferred a pud

But the taste of a melon

Takes me right back

To the years we spent in the sun.