That was about 4 cuts of meat, and he was a happy bunny, along with the other bloke who had the same with that choice, which had a bit of rosemary and oil. Mine was meant to have some Balsamic sauce of some sort, as I figured it was local to the area, but it ended up with the pepper sauce. I love Bearnaise sauce, and with a nice bit of meat and chips, and I'll have that as my last meal if I was on death row!

The courgettes where very good! Sliced very thin, and had a crunch after being cooked.

Boring afternoon - so I thought id visit the Butchers and put the BBQ on.

Thought id try my first homemade burgers so I also picked up a cheap burger press from a shop in town.

I looked at loads of recipes, but with most things they all sounded too fussy. In the end I used mince, egg, cracker crumbs, caramelised red onion and ketchup (mix was a little dry)

I also wanted to try one of the behemoth burgers which popped up the other day in this thread (stuffed with cheese and wrapped in streaky bacon!)

So here we are -



The Megaburger! 426g or 15oz in english!



A standard double burger (Burgers were about 5oz each)



The Megaburger sitting for 10mins





Money shot (Need more cheese next time!



When I finished cooking the burgers I seasoned these bad boys up and stuck these onto slow cook with some woodchips - will be done in time for dinner!



They've still got a while to go but they are looking good!! I didnt use a dry rub this time, I mixed up a BBQ and honey marinade - I also had some left over onion from the burgers so I just chucked on top a little while ago.

WoW

I should really start taking photos of my dinner....just polished off roasted pork belly strips with a (wait for it) home made liver risotto. Liver is not to everyones taste, but it added a lot of flavour to it.

The pork was cooked with a little cider in the bottom of the tray and a bit of garlic, added a nice taste to the pork...soo full now though!

Looking at all these burgers made me want one..

... with a dollop of Gorgonzola on the top.. I didn't complete the bun with a lid as I'm on a diet.. its not going so well right now..

I'm suppose to be on a diet aswell, but I had a day off today!!

if carlsberg did diets

This evening's effort, very rare I cook anything myself hence I've not contributed sooner:-



Seafood Paella
BBQ Chicken Breast
Bake at home baguette

Total cost of the meal approximately £1.85

As you may have gathered, most of it's from the freezer, the Paella is a Morrison's stir fry bag (£1), the chicken is probably the worst bit of the meal from Iceland (50p), and the baguette was about 35p.

I'm not much of a cook, but I'm ace at heating things up

P.S. Coke Zero to drink in a cut crystal glass, adds a touch of class I feel

So no salmon?
Sounds good to me!!

Nope, completely salmon free this time!

Well, that's the beauty of fish pie. You can use cheap frozen fish and it will taste fab when done in a pie, when it would be pretty much inedible as fish served on its own. And that pie would easily serve 4... it only cost me about £4 to make.