Thursday Dinners

Here's the list of places we're considering for next years holiday...
Broadmarston Manor
The Old Neptune, (or
theoldneptune.co.uk)
Toft Hall
Skipton Hall
Christmas Hall
Middle Stanley Farm
Cholwell Hall
Bruisyard Hall
Old Vine Barn
Pine Lodge

Smoked mackerel and couscous salad

Roast beef and yorkshire pudding; roast parsnips and potatoes; carrots, broccoli, mashed potatoes; mushrooms and puy lentils for Matthew

Apple pie and vanilla custard

For a few months now, we have moved one of our Thursday evening dinners to lunchtime on the Third Sunday of the month.

6th June - Wendy and Richard

Pork satay & peanut sauce

Tortillas with various fillings:
chilli con carne, vegetable chilli, mushroom & sweetcorn
Salad

Fruit with chocolate fondue

Phil&Karen, Matthew, Jon, Howard, Peter
Phlip & Christine Caton, Richard Sharman

Scores: CM:+1, DB:-1, DW:+5, HC:-2, J&J:-2, P&D:-2, P&K:-1, R&W:0, R&G:+2

Thursday 30th May - Karen and Phil

Avocado / Carrot & swede soup

Baked Potatoes, Baked Beans & homemade sauce
Chickpea salad and homemade hummus

Parkin & cream

Howard, Matthew, Peter

Thursday 23rd May - Phil and Karen

Waldorf Salad

Chicken Dhansak, Tofu Dopiaza, Rice

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Matthew and Howard were the only guests this week!

Thursday 16th May - Jo & Jon (week 514, meal 496)

Panzanella

Thai-style beef (or tofu) salad with mango and papaya
on egg or rice noodles

Chocolate pear strudel with greek yogurt

Duncan, Howard, Matthew, Phil & Karen & Imogen, Richard

Scores: Phil&Karen: -5, Richard&Wendy: -5, David -1, Jon&Jo: -1, Peter&Domnica: 0, Chris +1, Ron&Gill: +2, Howard +1, Matthew: +3, Duncan +5

Thursday 9th May - Peter (week 513, meal 495)

Goats cheese salad

Herb-crusted haddock on a bed of green beans
Tagliatelle

Raspberry & Strawberry Pavlova

Richard, Howard, Jon, Jo

Karen and Imogen fell down a flight of spiral stairs in Belgium last weekend, but they are all right. Peter was sporting a weatherbeaten look after a cycling holiday in France.

Scores: Jon&Jo: -6, Phil&Karen: -4, Richard&Wendy: -4, David -1, Peter&Domnica: 0, Chris +1, Ron&Gill: +2, Howard +2, Matthew: +4, Duncan +6

Thursday 2nd May - Howard (week 512, meal 494)

Saucisson Sec, Cornichons, Tapenade, French bread

Normandy Chicken, Puy Lentils
Baked Fennel with Breadcrumbs
New potatoes, Carrots

Blueberry Tart

Jo's grandmother was 90 today! Phil and Karen were slightly delayed by LibDem admin activities at the local HQ at Brimley Road.
Joe Webster (ex-colleague of Howard) seemed to catalyze an evening of quite scintillating debate touching on many interesting and sensitive religious and moral aspects (sin, adultery, catholic priests and paedophilia)
Peter has finally received some pension mis-selling compensation dating back to 1989 re mis-selling of a personal pension instead of joining a company scheme. After only 6 years of repeated form-filling and battling with paper and bureaucrats. (I hope I never have to go through that again - Peter)

Matthew, Elizabeth, Peter, Jon, Jo, Phil, Karen, Joe Webster

next week: Peter

Thursday 25th April - Jon and Jo (week 511, Meal 493)

Red pepper and Chaumes tarts with lemon & basil

Coconut chicken with spinach
Roasted asparagus with cherry tomatoes, black olives and basil
rice

Chocolate and almond torte with apricot cream

Howard, Matthew, Phil & Karen, Richard

Jon "laughed out loud when he received Howard's CV". Matthew has been gainfully employed this week and has an interview with Microsoft. Nick and June were married last Saturday. Nephew Joe thought almost everything on the menu at the reception was "disgusting".

Scores: Jon&Jo: -2, Phil: -3, Howard -2
(Howard is cooking next, as Phil has a nasty dose of election fever)