Thread: Dinner

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Since asking, I have spoken briefly with the menstruating one, who said 'Yes, why the fuck do you give a fuck you're not even fucking here'.

So I'm gonna take her word for it.

I had a feeling, due to the location of the tracker in the car, which is why I asked.

Yeah it's half term.

Mine seems to be synced with yours and at an equal temperature.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Is today a school holiday?

It is Chinese New Year today, so Chinese owned schools may well be closed. My kids used to attend a Chinese owned private school up here in the sticks and they closed for Chinese New Year. Thai government schools were open.

Over to Kiwi Catholic Lady's for dinner where the first order of business was to get her newly purchased lurid purple bluetooth speaker hooked up to her phone so we could listen to Mozart's Violin Concerto No.1



Luckily the light does not pulse in time to the music.

She plied me with some Henkel which was quite a tasty drop.



The main course was a salmon pasta with olives and spinach which was a nice balance of naughty carbs and healthy omega 3

I was even given a doggy bag to take home so will finish it over the next couple of nights

Originally Posted by Edmond

Personally, I like to take care of me kid in the morning, cooking and eating our breakfast together everyday, doing the school run together, then be there to collect the kid from school for the afternoon school run, then spend the evening and night raising them. Be there with them all through their school holiday times, taking them to interesting educational places etc. I guess it could be called being there for/with them when they're not at school.

Then spending the time that they are at school exercising, chilling, Lulu'ing and enjoying a life of freedom.

I'm not sure why a great father that chooses to be there for their kid(s) and raises them upsets those that miss out on those times, some even abandoning kids to move to Whoreland ( ) but horses for courses, I suppose. :-)

Indeedio, being a full time proper parent is hard rewarding "graft"!

Respecto.

Due to my frequent absence it was established long ago that She would assume the roll of bad cop.

Parenting's pretty cruisy when you're good cop.

Lao Lady brought me a box of Lindt assorted for belated Valentines

And boxes of curry, chicken, pork, mysterious Asian soup, some ham and cheese rolls and some Japanese sweets



While deciding which to have for dinner she broke out a box of steaming 'still hot from her stove' cooked sweetcorn. I love munching sweetcorn from the cob. I should do it more often.



We settled on Mysterious Asian soup with beef, dangerous looking mushrooms and 2 kinds of dumplings for dinner.



With Bombay Mix for a crunchy side.

^ That's a lot more tan I got for Valentine's Day.

All I got were two Line messages.


Yesterday I used our two remaining lamb shanks to make lamb broth. Lamb is the daughter's favourite meat so it seemed the right thing to do. Last time I took her down to school she had to take slices of roast lamb and lamb sandwiches for her new school mates... none of them had tasted lamb before.

We're even having lamb chops on Saturday night and it will be a family affair... the Kommandant found the rack of lamb that I'd hidden in the bottom of the freezer.

I found this 'Scotch Broth' mix in the kitchen cupboard and even remembered to soak it overnight... hence calling this 'lamb broth'.



I also wellied in a leftover leek from our chicken, bacon and leek pie.



The only thing wrong... we are hitting mid 30s at the moment and I think this meal would have been more suitable a few weeks ago in the UK Winter.

I had a most unexpected Green a week or so ago, for my quiche. There was also a request for a close-up of the next quiche I post up.

I think it only right and proper to protect the identity of the Green sender - a person who is usually less than complimentary about my cooking - in case he sent it mistakenly after imbibing? Or maybe he has finally come around to English home-baked cuisine being the best in the world?

As quiche is one pf the daughter's favourites, it was on this week's list.



Even the finest quiche will never be at it's best re-baked from frozen, but time is precious and batch cooking has become the norm in this household.



Here ya go Snubs!

I like a baked potato with that but generally you only get god awful chinky tatties in thailand

^ Life is but a compromise.

I am limited to one convection oven, so even oven chips were a challenge.

My very favourite with quiche is new potatoes smothered in butter, with peas.

^ cook smarter microwave the spuds and then finish them in the oven - quicker

^^^^ probably you shouldn’t have posted a close up of that quiche

Originally Posted by Mendip

As quiche is one pf the daughter's favourites, it was on this week's list.

Even the finest quiche will never be at it's best re-baked from frozen, but time is precious and batch cooking has become the norm in this household.

I'm not sure if you're trying your best to put your daughter off British food or trying to teach her what she might have to eat in the UK if she doesn't stick in at school, but good job either way, Mendip.

There's something about peas with tomato sauce that just irks me.

Lao lady brought Garlic Bread and pork scratchings for a supremely unhealthy feast and a large tub of curry which will last 3 nights I think.

We feasted firstly on the balcony on her hot and precooked corncobs with butter



Pudding was a homemade banana and chocolate cake that she had cooked, believe it or not, in her airfryer, garnished with pieces of melon

Does nobody ever bring a friend?

Monday comfort food.

^
#zeroeffort
#tradcooking

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Does nobody ever bring a friend?

The only bring a friend request scenario I have encountered is from the occasional lady wanting to visit the forest to kick my tyres with a side-kick chaperone for female safety.

Which is fair enough I suppose.


This is 1st serve from the curry box Lao Lady brought.

Big hunks of proteinaceous chicken in here although cut into curiously large 1 inch cubes with little pieces of carrot and potato.

Originally Posted by armstrong

There's something about peas with tomato sauce that just irks me.

It's that they are green.

'Luxury' mince and mash.

Originally Posted by cyrille

It's that they are green.

'Luxury' mince and mash.

They're hardly going to call it 'overpriced slop' are they, imbecile.

Originally Posted by Neverna

I'm not sure if you're trying your best to put your daughter off British food or trying to teach her what she might have to eat in the UK if she doesn't stick in at school, but good job either way, Mendip.

I'll take that as a compliment Nev, thanks.

I think that two clean plates said it all!

And what's more, the daughter took a few slices of my quiche back to school with her, to introduce the 'Best of British' to her Thai dorm mates!

Originally Posted by armstrong

There's something about peas with tomato sauce that just irks me.

I'm sorry Armstrong, but prepare for more irking in the future!

I've always considered peas with tomato sauce as one of the classic food pairings.

^ Peas and mayo with fish and chips, non-Armstrong irking

Originally Posted by Mendip

has finally come around to English home-baked cuisine being the best in the world?

I should point out that quiche is a French dish, not English and I did find the sides rather unsavory to be honest, but the quiche looked good. English "cuisine" is far from the best in the world.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Here ya go Snubs!

Cheers Mendy you make a quite nice quiche.

Originally Posted by armstrong

They're hardly going to call it 'overpriced slop' are they, imbecile.

'Luxury' is utterly laughable though.

Which is why I laughed.


Dickhead.