Rate My Dinner

[Redsgirl]

Thought I'd give you horrible lot a tantalising look at my dinner today,  being as we had my favourite beef ribs.  

Not a huge lot of effort was put into this meal tbh, I threw the meat in the oven at ten, had to go out till twelve and still managed to be sat down to eating it 1:30.
This shall be my excuse for frozen Yorkshires, but I still did six fresh veg, two roast and mash and some petit pois, also frozen but do they come any other way?
I accept no responsibility for damage caused by drooling onto keyboards.

Peas dry and bulletified - .5

Cauli sans cheese -1

Yorkshire not home made, extremely small and only one - 1.5

Mash not creamed - .5

No gravy boat -.5

No sauces, condiments or beverages -.5

Kack-handed cutlery -.5

Leeks - 1

Cheap, knock off, car boot sale plate, -.5

Rib of beef +1

Total 4.5/10


 

What?!
How very dare you.

For a start,  you wouldn't know creamed mash if you fell in some, my mother serves her mash in slices.

Leeks are a perfectly good vegetable and do not detract from a dinner in the same way something like, I don't know,  tinned sweetcorn or  luminous mushy peas would,  so I dispute that mark down.

Gravy was excellent,  made from the meat juices to just the right thickness and was in fact on the table but in a pyrex jug rather than a boat so not in the photo.
Mark down invalid.

Cauli and broccoli would indeed, like most foods benefit from a layer of melted cheese but we are trying to keep the saturated fat at a reasonable level.

My dinner is delicious,  it does not need sauces to disguise it's blandness,  that would be like being served fillet mignon by Michael Roux and smothering it in ketchup.

As for the pathetic,  scraping the bottom of the barrel insults about my tableware,  I have you know they are Johnson and Johnson's finest bone china in summer chintz, carboot sale or not!
Anyway it's rate my dinner not rate my place settings so I reckon we are back up to an 8/10

Agree about Yorkshire,  and maybe did nuke the peas for to long.

By eck Tom you sired a good one here.

Don't tell them I said so Maureen, but all my girls, including the granddaughters are excellent housekeepers. We never go short of a hot meal, clean clothes, or a warm bed, and if need be, they can (and do) go out to work and earn a living.

They do all this with such consummate ease that it would be easy to take it for granted, but I don't. I'm immensely, immeasurably proud of them. Their husbands, existing and still to come, should thank their lucky stars every day for their good fortune. I know I do.

 

I think us girls are the fortunate ones.
If this was rate my dad you definitely be getting 10/10 you old softy xx

[EvilPie]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

[david3103]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

If you put that in front of me I would eat it. All of it. The beef in particular looks really good, how do you cook it? Is it tender?
Overall though, there is too much on the plate to be able to enjoy it fully. Too many vegetable varieties and that single, sad, frozen Yorkshire Pudding popped on the top like an afterthought.
Assuming the beef tastes as good as it looks, and I don't have to tear it from the bone like a dog then that's a very solid 7.

By the way, do you plate up everybody's meal before it gets to the table? I'm really not a fan of that, but I wouldn't knock points off for it. Nor for the absence of horseradish sauce, although that is a glaring omission.

[Cf]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

If you put that in front of me I would eat it. All of it. The beef in particular looks really good, how do you cook it? Is it tender?
Overall though, there is too much on the plate to be able to enjoy it fully. Too many vegetable varieties and that single, sad, frozen Yorkshire Pudding popped on the top like an afterthought.
Assuming the beef tastes as good as it looks, and I don't have to tear it from the bone like a dog then that's a very solid 7.

By the way, do you plate up everybody's meal before it gets to the table? I'm really not a fan of that, but I wouldn't knock points off for it. Nor for the absence of horseradish sauce, although that is a glaring omission.

One of the best parts about eating meat IMO.

[david3103]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

If you put that in front of me I would eat it. All of it. The beef in particular looks really good, how do you cook it? Is it tender?
Overall though, there is too much on the plate to be able to enjoy it fully. Too many vegetable varieties and that single, sad, frozen Yorkshire Pudding popped on the top like an afterthought.
Assuming the beef tastes as good as it looks, and I don't have to tear it from the bone like a dog then that's a very solid 7.

By the way, do you plate up everybody's meal before it gets to the table? I'm really not a fan of that, but I wouldn't knock points off for it. Nor for the absence of horseradish sauce, although that is a glaring omission.

One of the best parts about eating meat IMO.

True, but if I'm eating with my hands and teeth I don't want a plateful of veg with gravy.

[Redsgirl]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

Thank you Evilpie, although I'm sure it's not a patch on your mams, theres nothing like going home for your Sunday dinner is there?

[Redsgirl]

Now that looks almost exactly the same as the dinners my mum makes.

Exactly the same veg selection, exactly the same gravy colour/consistency and exactly the same amount of frozen bits to save some time for more important things.

Might not be everyone's idea of perfection but for me it's an 8.5/10

If you put that in front of me I would eat it. All of it. The beef in particular looks really good, how do you cook it? Is it tender?
Overall though, there is too much on the plate to be able to enjoy it fully. Too many vegetable varieties and that single, sad, frozen Yorkshire Pudding popped on the top like an afterthought.
Assuming the beef tastes as good as it looks, and I don't have to tear it from the bone like a dog then that's a very solid 7.

By the way, do you plate up everybody's meal before it gets to the table? I'm really not a fan of that, but I wouldn't knock points off for it. Nor for the absence of horseradish sauce, although that is a glaring omission.

The beef ribs are tender and not really difficult to cook David, you just treat them like you would pork, high heat until the fat renders down (they are quite fatty, but you end up with lots of lovely dripping for your roasties ) and then leave them on low for a couple of hours.
Whether you get it on the bone or not depends on how the butcher cuts it, if I can I get it cut across the ribs so you kind of get a thick square of meat attached to a small piece of bone, but in these pics they were the long one so I cut them off before plating up.
The kids usually fight over who gets to gnaw on the leftover bones though, whilst the dog watches longingly through the window.

I agree the plate is piled a bit high, my dinner plates are a bit smaller than average and combined with a general lack of portion control on Sundays it is kind of crowded.
I plate everyones unless they ask different, which is rare as they are sat probably three feet from the cooker so can just give instructions, and I never really did see the point of serving dishes anyway, just more washing up i.m.o.

[Kev B]

Tasty chicken Laksa

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[Eso Kral]

Tasty chicken Laksa

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[Karabiner]

Can't believe that you couldn't be bothered to milk your own coconuts.

Other than that it looks pretty damn decent.

I'll leave the marking to Tom...

[Redsgirl]

Tasty chicken Laksa

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That looks excellent.
What is the stuff on the bottom left plate Kev?

[Kev B]

Tasty chicken Laksa

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That looks excellent.
What is the stuff on the bottom left plate Kev?

That's finely chopped lemongrass Redsgirl. Missed off the photo were vermicelli rice noodles.

[Dewi_cool]

Nice starter Kev ;-)

[RED-DOG]

No peas -.5....

[bobAlike]

No doubt tasty but looks like pavement pizza.