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We've been given a jar of Patak's Phal curry sauce so it's being used with chicken pieces. It has the reputation of being a killer so, if I survive the night after eating it, I'll report on it tomorrow. In view of the reputation, I have tasted the sauce. I am having a tuna jacket potato tonight.

Homemade chicken & mushroom pie with stringless beans and gravy.

Today is lamb chops with roast potatoes (done in the Actifry), stringless beans, mixed carrot & swede cubes and gravy. Of course, there will be mint sauce.

Mixed fish pie yesterday. Kedgeree today.

Shepherd's pie (with the other half of the pack of lamb mince of yesterday) with a tiled roof, mixed green vegetables (cabbage related), carrots, mushrooms and gravy. Edit: a tiled roof on a shepherd's or cottage pie is one formed from (overlapping) sliced potatoes rather than a thatched roof made of mash.

If your version of W10 is old, it will be necessarily out of date in regard to the latest version. The daily staged updates are possibly to avoid overloading your system or having a one-off update that takes many hours to complete. I have a W10 laptop which took a week of daily updating to bring it into line with the current version. That was after sitting dormant for about one year. It is most likely that, if you give your machine sufficient time, all will be brought up to date. As I said, mine took a week.

Homemade lamb burgers with chips, mushy peas (homemade) and mint sauce.

Is this any more digestible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcock ?

Today is a Chinese - prawn chow mien - my own mixture of king prawns, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, spring onions, garlic, ginger, chilli, all in a packet chow mien sauce served with egg fried rice.

I am reminded of this, posted a few months ago:

I often have meat and fish free days but then it's full-blown vegetarian. I always feel there's something not quite right (and unnecessary) about disguising vegetables as meat (or fish).

Do you mean you eat that ghastly meat substitute?

Yesterday was haddock in a cheese, parsley and onion sauce with new potatoes and sugar snap peas. Today is lamb leg "steaks" with sauté potatoes (leftovers from yesterday) and purple broccoli.

Yes, we have fish in the freezer but by the time we'd decided not to go out, it was a bit late to allow the fish we had to thaw out naturally - and I dislike the so-called accelerated thawing that a microwave does - that's always patchy with areas of cooked and areas of still frozen. Not an attractive prospect.

Didn't go to the shops (for the fish) yesterday so we had baked potatoes with canned tuna & mayonnaise. Today will be fresh fish - to be decided.