No need for insults high rise boy, I get vertigo looking at your pics :)
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No need for insults high rise boy, I get vertigo looking at your pics :)
My local 7 Eleven has started selling ready meal Indian food. Gonna try it this evening. Reports so far that it's nice but a bit small.
Well, what else.Quote:
Originally Posted by armstrong
:rolleyes:
Very true, especially in UK where the Best Before dates are only advisory, it's perfect for scooping up some food bargains following the old people behind the staff with the yellow stickers or whatever they use now. My last UK supermarket the OAPs were like seagulls behind a tractor following the person with the price reduction stickers, usually late in the evening. And why not? They are on tight budgets and they have time to spare so they can get some great food bargains.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe 90
Here the local Tesco Lotus sells all kinds of manky fruit and veg as 'fresh'. By the time they put the 'Reduced' label on it it's not suitable for much but composting.
^ :) I popped into ASDA last night and there was portly chap hovering around the reduced price bread and cakes, his basket already contained the yellow sticker treasures he'd secured in other aisles - i couldn't see a single item that wasn't reduced - fair play, i saw a news item the other night that suggests 1/3 of all bread is throw out as waste in the UK.
Except for bananas and peppers, where they seem to put the reduced sticker on just before they're ripe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shutree
Ripe bananas are good for making banana cake.
How about pineapple cake?
:rolleyes:
A lot of breakfast talk for 8 O'clock at night.
I spent a couple of hours fishing in the pond today and the wife asked me if I'd like her to bring down chicken basil stir fry.
I've been here long enough to know what to expect... chicken livers and hearts... which are no problem to be honest.
It's when I get a gristly chicken gizzard that I struggle... and Yogi knows this only too well.
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But the good news... fish and chips tomorrow night.
A fine pla nin!
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yum..
^^ Has Maya learnt to fish?
About three days a week I have kinilaw for lunch, maybe 6 tablespoons of Filipino ceviche. It's actually pretty good but it photographs like Mendips early photography. :) :)
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Topper don't be shy
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I sharpened it up and added some potatoes, hope you don't mind
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Originally Posted by strigils
Stole it. Topper might sue.
But he will need to flounce first, for effect.
Felt like a simple combo of roast lamb shoulder, mash potato, and gravy.
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A nicely balanced meal there, HW. :)
^ Indeed, he's not sharing the broccoli starter.:) That lamb looks lovely.
Had frozen veg in the freezer, could've easily gone out to grab fresh veg too, couldn't be arsed. Meat + mash + gravy always works :)
Coincidently BiP said he'd had left over Potato, Bacon, Cheese and onion for brekkie.
Mine was for lunch with Ratatouille and Ribs. Money shot later....
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Impressive lunches, gentlemen.....
Get ready for this.....
A grilled avacado, tomato and cheese sandwich...though the photography is crap, it's really about 1/2 thick, a whole avacado is in the sandwich.
Lovely.
Topper's secret to getting a nice crunchy outside on the sandwich? Don't use butter. Use mayo instead.
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It always puzzles me why American call them grilled when they are fried.
Would you like to expand on your puzzlement?Quote:
Originally Posted by strigils
Grilled cheese sandwiches in are lightly fried aren't they?
Its appear they are fried :)
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Originally Posted by Topper
Can I suggest next time cutting the sandwich in half, arranging the two halves in a suitable manner and then taking a low-angle shot to fully display the 1/2 inch thick filling to it's best advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Topper
The view from above could lead cynical people to think there was no filling at all.
Luckily, there's no cynical people here on TD, we're all one big happy family!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mendip
To be honest, I was appeasing the wife because the last one she made for me I didn't take a picture, but I'll take your suggestion next time. Here, avocados are in season and dirt cheap. Tomorrow will be guac day served on some decent bread if the wife can find cilantro.
Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Topper
But they look about 30 seconds overdone!
Lunch today ham and cheese stuffed potato cakes sautéed in olive oil and garlic butter with homemade coleslaw. Wife was aghast when I threw in some leftover grated cheddar cheese into the coleslaw but have had no complaints once she started eating it.
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Left over roast beef makes great sandwiches.
*I forgot to bring mustard and butter to the dole office.
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Cloudy with occasional thunder but no rain as yet in Phuket. A good day to spend some time in the kitchen.
Decided to slow roast a shoulder of lamb, sticking some of our home grown rosemary and slivers of garlic into it.
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Going with it, Potatoes au Gratin, using grated mozzarella, double cream, butter and garlic. The final topping will be a mix of mozzarella and mature cheddar for some kick.
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Honey glazed carrots to finish things off.
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3 hours in the oven, covered, then 30 minutes uncovered to crisp up the skin.
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Let it rest for a good while, then removed the rosemary stalks and using a couple of forks, pulled it apart.
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The meat had been sitting on a quartered onion, and a halved bulb of garlic whilst cooking. This resulted in a great base for a gravy.
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Potato turned out good, though maybe slightly too much cream (the tub was nearly empty so used it all).
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Carrots likewise.
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Being a non meat eater, M'Sahib baked herself some Sea Bass in a lemon sauce.
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^Looks fantastic PAG. Fried pork sausages and leftover coleslaw up here. (What do they say...some days you are the pigeon, others days the statute.)
Embarrassed to post this on the same page as Pags lunch but it was savoury lamb mince on toast, extra heavy on the onions and garlic. Total comfort food, takes me back to a time many years ago. Could happily eat this once a week for the rest of my life.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Could be a Manchester Shepards pie......:D
^Thanks, it was a favourite meal as a kid and that's never changed. Leftovers on toast for breakfast tomorrow with an egg in top :)
^^ Nice lunch there PAG. Believe it or not, the gravy is thing is that I want to sample the most. Looks fantastic.
I noticed that there were only 2 plates laid and enough food to feed a few hungry members.
What's happening with the leftovers?
Any chance of an invite PAG?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogon
^ He's worried you might return the offer Joe! :)
Indeed. I don't make 'real' gravy very often, however lamb shoulder contains quite a lot of fat that renders down during roasting, and of course basting the onion and garlic buib underneath which almost liquidise. Too good an opportunity to miss not making a gravy. Just strained most of the fat out of the roasting tin, added a couple of spoons of flour, then gradually added beef stock. I mashed as much as possible what was left of the onion garlic whilst it was simmering, then strained the gravy into a jug before serving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bogon
Usually when I cook just for M'Sahib and me, I make enough for a couple of days meals. On this occasion, the dogs will be in for a treat this evening with the left over lamb and gravy, with the potato and carrots going with something tomorrow.
You got that back to front!Quote:
Originally Posted by PAG