Being cooked tonight:

Sausage and Apple casserole.... using lots of meaty pork and herb snorkers and chopped Bramleys. Also in the pot are several carrots, 2 onions, parsley, chives and a Cox's orange pippin then all generously seasoned. Just over half a pint of apple juice is then poured over. No stock.
To accompany I'm roasting a butternut squash, cubed and sweetened with brown sugar then zinged with the juice of a lemon. Salt pepper.
Baked potatoes, so no last minute fussing.

Pud is a red cherry trifle. Packet sponge topped with canned cherries, then covered with custard abd whipped cream. No decoration.

Also made today was Mrs Gordon's Boil and Bake Cake. A really simple fruit cake recipe, all made in one pan then plopped into 7 inch cake tin and baked slowly for 90 minutes. Lovely on its own but equally wicked buttered.

A plain white farmhouse loaf also got baked.

Watched some sport, my thrill bit was seeing Team GB take Gold in the Equestrian. Beautiful horses, great enthusiastic riders and Claire Balding commentating. She's a reasonably good egg is Claire, jolly hockey sticks and all that but knows her hooves from her fetlocks.