The Cottage Smallholder

You're all not being very helpful this week ! you are all normally full of ideas, so I've had to think formyself this week, tut.

Current plans are:

Tuscan salad - artichokes/italian ham/pasta/olives/sundried tomatoes thingy

Beef Weelington with roasted vegetables and a red wine gravy

Probably a chocolate fondue with lots of fruit and homemade biscotti 

Thanks Girls. Hmm, the fruity sauce might be an idea, I was thinking that with the fondue, Sarah could choose to dip or not dip, and I could easily make a fruity sauce for dipping too. Could still go for the pavlova too, think I'll shoot off to the shops and see what fruit they have in, then make my decision.

Was a great evening, thanks Val, everything went swimmingly apart from I forgot to serve the red wine gravy with the main (tut)

Did the salad starter, with homemade 3 cheese bread

Beef Welly (deliciously rare, actually still blue in the middle - perfect) for main with Roasted Veg (swede, carrot, parsnip, fennel, shallot, celeriac) and a healthier version of potato dauphinaise (using ww cream and milk instrad of double cream)

Did the pavlova for pud, with mango, kiwi & pomegranate with some of my rumtopf sauce and ww thick cream.

Realised about 3pm that I didn't have any white wine in, but fortunately they brought some with them (thank god)

Just scoffing leftovers now