Christmas food

Ok, so life is getting in the way of blogging & really there was no chance I was going to remember to blog about Christmas dinner.

However, we do currently have a house full of all our favourite foods including masses of turkey!

Yesterday we ate an enormous roast dinner and today we had probably my favourite thing - leftovers!

Specifically cold turkey, chips & honey coated bacon & sausages (which I forgot to cook yesterday!). It was delicious

We're now looking forward to a big family day on Friday with a rolling buffer provided by yours truly - the centrepiece of which will be my now legendary slow roast pork.

Hopefully I'll get round to posting more about but who knows!

Merry Christmas!

Beef with pasta & blue cheese

This is one of my left overs meals.

It's very simple & very tasty!

All I do is make a cheese sauce using double cream & whichever blue cheese is on offer (this time it was Shropshire Blue) with a bit of strong Cheddar thrown in!

I then add some of the cold leftover beef to the sauce to warm it through & cook the pasta

Then add the pasta to the sauce & the beef and serve!

Leftover slow roast pork

Using the leftover pork from the weekend & the left over gravy I made individual pies for us all

I really like making individual portions of things - I think it makes meals seem a bit more special!

All I did was warm the shredded pork in a pan, add the gravy & warm through

I then added a splash of double cream & some soy sauce.

Whilst this was simmering I rolled out a piece of puff pastry & cut it to fit my pie dishes

I then split the meat & sauce between the three dishes, topped with pastry, brushed with milk, added a couple of air holes & decorated with Russian Doll cookie cutter pastry shapes

The pies then went in the oven at 200C for 30 minutes

I served this with mashed potatoes (should have peas too but I'd run out from frozen peas!)