Markies - dine for a tenner - Steak and chips

I think most people know about the Marks and Spencers deal that happens quite frequently now, buy 1 main course, 1 side dish, 1 dessert and a drink for a tenner - it makes for quite a good meal and depending on what main you pick and drink it can be great value for money.

Last we Richard picked up the steak, chunky chips, vanilla cheese cake and a bottle of wine, quite a bag full for a ten quid.

We started with some scallops and pea puree that were left over from Friday night. Then I grilled the steaks stuck the chips in the oven and fried some mushrooms and onions to accompany them. Richard likes a sauce to go with it, but his favourite is adding markies cracked black pepper cream cheese to the mushrooms and onions to make a kind of sauce. I tried to be artistic with the chips and copy what the restaurants do - what we call jenga chips but they weren't all regulation sized and it didn't work quite as I hoped!

To finish we had the cheese cake which was very nice, not to sweet and a good size portion. All in all not bad for roughly 5 quid a head.

Dinner at Barbaras

A dinner consisting of nibles and wine and as much girlie chat as you can fit into one saturday night is the thing of dreams. It was nothing overly exciting, some nice stromboli bread from markies, along with prawns, chicken, onion bhajis, and cheese and copious amounts of white wine it hits the spot and it's a winner!

Barbara still thinks it's funny that I take photographs of food, but what does she know?

Various dinners over the week

Tomatoes and rocket on toast with markies garlic and parsley prawns

Chicken stirfry - which rich made and it was awesome! He's much better at stir fries than me!

Chicken Kiev, markies ultimate mash (which is indeed ultimate) and spaghetti.

Chicken breast stuffed with charles macleod black pudding - the best black pudding in the world!

Markies chicken legs and thighs, washed down with wine - delicious!

Dim Sum - markies 3 for a £5

This isn't just any lasagne, this is a markies lasagne

when I decided we were having this for dinner I said to Richard, "you know proper foodies will have kittens over this, it's double carbs and that is suppose to be so wrong!"

he replied "it's positively wrong then!"

and he meant positively is a brilliant sense.

It wasn't just any lasagne and chips it was markies lasagne and chips - delicious

Thursday 1st April - Prawns - Markies

Tonight I had Markies garlic and parsley prawns, they were awesome, the picture I took of them, not so much. Sorry no picture but a nice smelly breath.

I love garlic!

Wednesday 31st March - Markies ready Meal - Canjun Chicken Fettucini Pasta

Tonight was back to be lazy, but in my defense I had to nip down the town late night shopping, to get my eyebrows threaded and visit my friend Babs who is recovering from her operation to have her appendics out!






To be honest the cajun chicken fettucini was rotten, but half a bag of rocket, some cheese and a good grind of salt and pepper manage to make it edible, I won't be buying it again.