Plans for today (2025)

Plans to pack up and ride to our penultimate stop in La Carolina. We enjoy this next stop. It's another golf hotel but it's a very relaxed one. I have found the golf hotels in Spain are a mixed bag. The rooms and facilities are usually of a higher standard but the staff can be a bit off and often need warming up a bit.

Then at the last hotel I realised why when I watched a coach load of alpha women golfers at the reception telling the staff what was what. Competitive sporting people can be a bit demanding, it's not really the Spanish way, it made me cringe big time!
 
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Day-off today, the weather was ok only a bit windy, so I went to visit Midleton, a nice town just 20 mins train from Cork


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JAS_OH1 said:
I have a massage appointment today!
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Oh that was so nice. I'm tired now, lol.

I actually made a plan for dinner tonight Barriehie where I thought about it well in advance (late last night) and found a recipe to try!

When the kids were little I used to buy these family size Salisbury steak frozen meal packages for nights where we were short on time (homework, school sports, us parents working long days, etc.) and the Salisbury steak things were pretty good, actually. For those who don't know what they are (not sure if they have them in other countries), it's basically seasoned and herbed beef mince patties (not steak at all) swimming in brown gravy that go great with mashed potatoes or buttered egg noodles and a humble vegetable like peas (sorry SandwichShortOfAPicnic).

Anyway, for some reason I got a hankering for them, and since I have lots of beef mince in my freezer that I bought for $1.99 lb and froze in small portioned packages, why not make them from scratch? How hard can it be to make them? They should taste much better than the ones we bought pre-made.

I normally don't follow recipes but never made them before, so here's the recipe I'm using.
Salisbury Steak (with Mushroom Gravy!)
Sounds simple and I've got a lot of fresh mushrooms that need to be used up. I'll let y'all know if they turn out good or not.
 
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JAS_OH1 said:
Oh that was so nice. I'm tired now, lol.

I actually made a plan for dinner tonight Barriehie where I thought about it well in advance (late last night) and found a recipe to try!

When the kids were little I used to buy these family size Salisbury steak frozen meal packages for nights where we were short on time (homework, school sports, us parents working long days, etc.) and the Salisbury steak things were pretty good, actually. For those who don't know what they are (not sure if they have them in other countries), it's basically seasoned and herbed beef mince patties (not steak at all) swimming in brown gravy that go great with mashed potatoes or buttered egg noodles and a humble vegetable like peas (sorry SandwichShortOfAPicnic).

Anyway, for some reason I got a hankering for them, and since I have lots of beef mince in my freezer that I bought for $1.99 lb and froze in small portioned packages, why not make them from scratch? How hard can it be to make them? They should taste much better than the ones we bought pre-made.

I normally don't follow recipes but never made them before, so here's the recipe I'm using.
Salisbury Steak (with Mushroom Gravy!)
Sounds simple and I've got a lot of fresh mushrooms that need to be used up. I'll let y'all know if they turn out good or not.
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I get an urge for those frozen ones at times. They're like $3.99 for 6 and good for two servings... Pippi and Ozzie freak out for those.
 
Barriehie said:
I get an urge for those frozen ones at times. They're like $3.99 for 6 and good for two servings... Pippi and Ozzie freak out for those.
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I do remember them occasionally being a little rubbery but the flavor was always good. I scaled the recipe to 1/2 lb of beef to minimize the leftovers.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
I do remember them occasionally being a little rubbery but the flavor was always good. I scaled the recipe to 1/2 lb of beef to minimize the leftovers.
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I'll try that recipe. I've never found one yet, recipe, that mimics the frozen flavor of the Con Agra brand. They're like Micky D's, it still tastes the same 50+ years later... (😋 Con Agra, not Micky D's.)
 
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