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Monday night is Spaghetti bolognese night at castle vorgon....
That's either Morrison's best short spaghetti or De cecco spaghetti which is harder to find. a few strands of saffron will be dropped into the water and knorr Swiss aromatic to season. The rrrrraguuuuuu will consist of Morrison's hot and spicy pasta sauce, fresh mince, an onion and 3 cloves of the pungent Rose . I will, but Vorgona won't, add Encona Barbados sauce to the finished masterpiece. no wine will be served as it's Monday.

(I am vastly overweight.)

she'll be round in a trice. She'd live off kedgeree if I'd indulge her.

We're doing a salad with bacon and new pots tonight; simple & tasty.

cheese, tomato, onion pizza type thing with salad. Followed by cake.

using the leftovers from yesterday's roast

My folks came round last night, so we're finishing off the leftovers.

Unfortunately, the rest of the week won't be quite up to the same standard. I normally cook for most of the day on Sunday, just stocking the fridge up for the week. But wouldn't you know it, my parents wanted to see their grandchildren, so I couldn't. The nerve of some people.

chicken broth today, my autumn and winter staple, add some capelletti (our pasta hats if you prefer) and I'm sorted. Don't know what to have for afters though.

The little one's favourite tea.

It goes down Daddy's neck at a rate of knots too.

al aglio e olio e pepperoncino

As it's Monday, fuck it as it's a day with a y in it, wine will be taken

Probably, Last Of The Summer Rose

I always intend to do the week's cooking on Sundays, but never get round to it, as Mrs Policybloke always has other plans. And there's never enough time weekday nights to do more than a simple omelette or a quick fish dish. Tonight it's burgers, and, no, I didn't make them myself. I just hope they are better than the god-awful fish and chips we had on Friday from a much-feted, never to be re-visited, local fryery. Still, the dogs enjoyed the leftovers, of which there was an abundance.

home made veg soup with home grown courgettes.

Seared tuna & home-made guacamole in small pitta breads, with a side salad. One of Mrs U's specialties. Mmmm!

I'm no veggie, but I can't believe anyone would eat a pet bird.

swanning round the ancestral homelands, I believe.

He'd be whipping up a fricassee of mongoose in a pomegranate reduction, with found berry and sea kelp, followed by a macadamia and green tea semi-freddo. All the time answering subscriber enquiries, policing Wordblog disputes and keeping an on the Ulan Bator Conference results

and cornbread

so that I can make the pork steaks with butter beans, new potatoes and chilli/creme fraiche sauce that I have all prepped and ready to cook in the kitchen. Hurry up!!!

When I first bumped into the sausage vendor I thought he was a bit smug and self assured, 'Let me know if you want any sausages. You'll have tried others but you'll find mine are the best'. Turns out he was right - not a single blob of fat on the grill pan when they're done. Ace.

And in have gone the new potatoes, doused in olive oil with some garlic and rosemary.

Shortly to be accompanied by a couple of chicken breasts that have been marinading in a sort of cajuny sauce for a while.

I ought to stick something green on the side - probably just some frozen peas. Which ideally will not be frozen when they hit the plate.

All to be partaken of whilst opening the Treme box set (I started watching Justified but need to save that for Mrs W as it is right up her street. Treme - not so much.)

See you on the other side...

in the BBC Wales canteen. Not bad actually.

with thyme, garlic and flaked almonds.
On couscous.
With Chilean Merlot, on account of the local Co-op doing a very quaffable one for £4.29 (FAO VincePacket and Leedsboy.)

and have launched myself at the £10 dinner promotion. Sadly after most of Camberley had bought out the nice stuff. So we're having chicken fillets with a crispy onion bhaji topping, carrot and swede mash and chips. Pudding is an Eve's pudding. Not sure if I am going to open the wine - it's a school night but then I am a big grown up and I drank little over the weekend.

Sainsbury's fishcakes ,beans,fried egg and homemade chips with bread and proper butter and a mug of tea 2sugars.
Had shit day so it was relatively guilt free and delicious .

...Mrs A has made her special sweet and sour chicken. The Code of Chub decrees that there should be no alcohol during the week - so for me, there isn't any. The cook, on the other hand, is swilling G&T like there's no tomorrow!

Most tasty.
Tomorrow night we'll be having Gruts.

of the chicken variety with noodles and lots of vege. Very, very healthy. Cooked by my son. Right dab hand he is in the kitchen too.

What I would have have liked is steak pudding, chips and peas from Stephen Street chippy in Bury. Which is what I had Saturday dinner-time. And I had a scallop and a muffin too. (that's got the southerners all confused and possibly over excited at the mention of "scallops").

Sauce made with tomato/carrots/lentils/cumin. And someat else. Chuff knows where Mrs Moose got the recipe from, but it's great.

This evening I have been making a mess of my kitchen , attempting to conjure up the winner of the "Reader's Recipe" award from yesterday's Observer Food Mag. It's not bad. Mine has no ginger because I had...er...no ginger.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/16/ofm-awards-2011-reade...

A baked potato left over from yesterday which I turned into wedges and had with some herb dip...

A couple of cheese and pastrami sandwiches with some home-made pickle for me. Mrs L and Jr had canelloni with a sort of meat and ratatouille sauce that Mrs L invented.

some Puerto Rican marinated fish. Well that's what Mrs Crout had ,i grabbed a kebab on the way home and fabulous it was too.