What's for dinner? #5 - Jan 2016. The Happy New Year Edition

[Harters (John Hartley - a culinary patriot, cooking and eating in northwest England)]

@catholiver

You would eat all that meat at one meal??? Wow.

Absolutely - cleared plates for both courses. At a guess, there will have been about 300g of meat

It’s why I’m a short, fat, middle-aged man, instead of being a short, middle-aged man.

[Manchester, city centre] Albert Square Chop House

It’s the January sales – and the Chop House participates, offering 50% off food costs. It makes it a bargain to be snapped up. The Albert Square Chop House is the newer and posher of the three sites – Mr Thomas’ being the more pubby place and Sam’s being the original (and our favourite). Corned beef hash features at both starter and main. At starter it comes as a cake, mixed with potato, crumbed and fried. There’s a poached egg on top and a slick of their own version of HP brown sauce (and they…