It's all about knowing your ingredient quotas.
I add a drop of milk, not a lot, just a little.
I don't do sloppy spud, I'm meticulously careful when adding.

Sorry but I reckon milk is useful for only three things: poaching smoked fish and turning into cream, butter & cheese

No chance, they sh[ii[/it through the eye of a needle on cow's milk

well we had our homemade chicken soup. its a work in progress.
put too much rice in so next time will try a bit of pearl barley instead and also we will lose the parsnip. a part from that though was tasty and cheap.

for a mashy feast try a bowl of this.
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You are correct, beans don't belong on a breakfast plate.

You are wrong, beans in thick reduced sauce are fit only for the bin.

I quite often substitute potatoes with Spätzle, a German noodle served with lashings of butter. If you've got a potato ricer, it's easy enough to make your own and home-made is far preferrable to shop-bought

El Barbudo: Went to White Horse and Griffin at Whitby for lunch. The room was lovely but, unfortunately, we found it to be a somewhat overpriced: £17 for a dressed crab, leaves and chips.
The quality of the ingredients was top notch, as you'd suggested, and it was nice enough, but it could've done with a quid or two knocking off the price.

My wife summed it up best: " It was a good place for lunch, but I would've been disappointed to go there for dinner."

The queues for Magpie and Quayside were bonkers as ususal. We went to Alexander's (I think), which is just up from the bridge. Fantastic pieces of haddock* and the chips were ace, too.

*had to explain to my wife why haddock and not cod.

As you all know, I am not a great fan of supermarkets nor of pre-prepared foods but I can't let a bargain walk by. If you've got a Morrison's near you, then I suggest that you find out when they mark down their fresh & chilled foods and get yourself in at that time (round here it's usually between 7.00-7.30 pm.

They've recently introduced a very wide range of "ethnic" foods, covering French, Spanish, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican etc. The good people of Somerset don't take too readily to all this "foreign muck", so the short-date section has recently been awash with 'gambas pil pil', kleftiko, Goan fish curry, chicken dumplings and even good old Lancashire hotpot. To be honest, I haven't had a bad dish yet, they have all tasted fine and when you can buy a dish that was previously priced at £4.00+ for 9p, you won't go too wrong. Emma came home the other night with 12 packs of venison burgers at 19p per 2 pack, it's getting to the point where I can't get any more fish in the freezer.

They're also currently knocking out Savana Saarf Efrican cider for £1 per 500ml bottle too

I've had a few from the new range and I have to agree with you, all good stuff. I had a Chicken and Chorizo Paella for my lunch today and it was as good a ready meal as I've had to be honest and at £2 was cracking value.