Tonight we made a chicken stew with sundried tomatoes, sambal oelek, garlic and smoked paprika. It was the first time we tried it, and it was really tasty. 😋
Lorne sausage, hash browns, tattie scones (mashed potato + flour, squashed flat then baked), smoked bacon, a full tin of baked beans, fried egg, fat-fried toast, fried tomato, a generous dollop of haggis, an Arbroath smokie (dried smoked haddock), and a copious amount of brown sauce.
I did also intend to make with mushrooms but forgot. 🙃
It's as tasty as it is unhealthy 😅
But never mind, I've been good all week & been away on a walking holiday so got a lot of exercise in.
‘Beef bourguignon’ has always been called ‘Beef bung-it-in’ in our household. It probably originated from something mis-spoken by one of the kids, but it's now become so firmly established that I really have to think carefully when we visit a restaurant.
Home made Chicken Tikka Masala, my own ingredients, but a store bought sauce, nice home brand, but annoyed its made in China - likely made in NZ but packaged in China to save money.
Being a single man, I cook enough for 2 meals and freeze one, that is what I had tonight, the Tikka was made last Wednesday, but I make some fresh rice to go with it and nuke the meat 3 minutes before serving the rice.
Cordon Bleu goes out the window when you live alone and can't be assed cooking all the time. So cook once and eat twice is very wise.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Home made pizza, for the first time in years, with tuna, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives and a cheddar cheese/tomato paste primer. Very good food for a Friday in the Lent period.
Home made pizza, for the first time in years, with tuna, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives and a cheddar cheese/tomato paste primer. Very good food for a Friday in the Lent period.
I will celebrate St. Patrick's Day early this evening with a group doing a “pot luck” dinner.
Traditional Irish / Irish-American dishes:
- corned beef and cabbage
- potatoes of some kind
- soda bread (my contribution)
Of course it will be washed down with whichever Irish beers we can find here: Guinness, Harp Lager …
Not a meal for gourmet palates.
I live in a student town, and some of them were celebrating St Patricks Day very early. Apparently, they had a 6 by 6 “challenge” (drinking 6 beers by 6am). So when I was walking in to work at 8am there was already drunken cavorting and a guy dressed as a giant green Guinness bottle pissing against the side of a house.
I have some venison mince at home, so dinner tonight will be a venison bolognaise.
The Reuben sandwich is an American grilled sandwich comprising corned beef,
Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing,
grilled between slices of rye bread.
Yeah, I got a lot of leftover corned beef from that St. Patrick's Day dinner I mentioned.
I've been eating corned beef and swiss sandwiches all week (no sauerkraut, so it's not really a reuben). I shoud run out just when I'm getting sick of it.
Wish I'd taken a picture, but I made my Cranachan-style cheesecake the other day.
Oats soaked in whisky overnight then toasted to crunchy, blended with salted butter, formed the base. Crowdie cheese (it's a soft cheese, a bit like mousse in texture) whipped together with double-cream and then raspberry coulis (itself made from raspberries, sugar, and a small amount of lemon-water) and left to set. This makes a nice marbled effect when cut.*
Then served with a drizzling of honey & fresh raspberries over the top.
Don't really have a proper recipe, just wing it. Sometimes works better than others. 😅
*If it works anyway. Sometimes it's too runny and more like a flavoured yogurt. 🤷♂️
ZacUKTake 2 slices of white un-buttered bread, add a packet of cheese and onion crisps, to make - a crisp sandwich !
Why oh why does America not have cheese and onion chips( or crisps. I’m used to calling them chips) That’s literally a combination of my 2 favorite foods
This might be controversial, so a trigger warning is observed on this one!
We were invited to our friend's mother's house for dinner. They are Chinese, so of coirse it was very traditional good, and very very delicious! There were crab claws, crayfish, hen, noodles, sea cucumber, and the controversial shark fin soup.
She had been preparing the sea cucumbers for five days, and spent the whole day cooking. An amazing feast, tonsay the least!
What do shark fin soup and sea cucumber taste like?
They both mainly absorb taste from the broth/sauce. The conistency of the sea cucumber was almost like gristle, or “hard jelly” our my friend described it.
The sea cucumbers were served with shiitake mushroom and hen in a rice wine sauce. Amazing!
The shark fin soup was really good, but I guess it would be just as good without the shark fin and maybe have shredded chicken/hen instead. It was made of the broth from the hen. There were also crab and shiitake mushroom.
The mom told us that sea cucumber costs 220-330 €/kg, and the shark fins cost 460 €/kg. The highest quality of shark fins costs 920 €/kg. 🫣
Our local farmer's market sells shark fin melon. It looks like a watermelon, tastes like a Courgette, and has the texture of a spaghetti squash. Used for making mock shark fin soup.
Saturday evening, just spent £10 on a lovely visit to the chip shop …
Started off with £4.50 on this week's special -
regular chips (fries) with a fishcake on top
Then I asked for on top of it …
a ladle of gravy
a ladle of baked beans
a small regular (not battered) sausage
a Spam fritter, battered
A few minutes ago I finished the first third of it -
then tomorrow will split the rest into two portions. 🍴
It's very rare that we eat ultra-processed food like this. When I was a bachelor for a few years some thirtyfive years ago I ate it on a regular basis. For the equivalence of £10 we (two persons) can eat home cooked meals two times a day for three to four days depending. Potatoes or rice with some sort of vegetables, pork or chicken minced meat and a small green sallad on the side. We have soup once a week, porridge once a week and fish on fridays, mostly frozen battered fish, but sometimes the real deal.
Small-sized potato pancakes (made of grated raw potatoes) with either cranberry jam, sour cream or a slice of salmon on top. A slice of crisp thin bacon is also very tasty.
A beef stir fry which pretty much blew up my extractor fan, but it did drown out curry smells in my latest flat (I say that as I am a new tenant, but this flat is as old as the hills - c.1960), a contrast to the 2023 townhouse apartment I spent 2 years in.
I am changing as I have signed up for government funded cooking classes for those on a budget (You have to live and play poor when you are obsessed with $2,000 silver crowns!!) and this may spice things a bit up in the kitchen than my standard 1960s “Yorkshire” fare I serve up!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Thanks. That sounds something I might like, as long as it is not spicy. I am very delicate! 😓
Gyros (pronounced [ˈʝiros] is basically Greek kebab. Normally it's made with pork, but can also, as in this case, be chicken. In Greece it will be served with fries (in the bread) and mustard and ketchup, but outside of Greece they often omit the fries and add tzatziki instead of mustard and ketchup.
Chicken pie from Lidl. It says it is for a family,
but I guess myself and the cat I am looking after counts as that.
She gets the chicken pieces, while I have the pastry.
My next door neighbour was a lady and died some time over Christmas week, aged 56.
On Mon 29/12 it was myself who called the police as she had not been seen for about a week.
The guess was she may be visiting friends - she had no family - but no, she died in the house.
Luckily she kept the bathroom window open so her cat [Periwinkle, after the flower] could
still come and go at all hours. So the cat knew me, and I sometimes sneakily fed it treats anyway.
So for the last four months I have been looking after her cat. Nobody will tell me the cause or date,
as I am not a relative - but at least I have something to remember her by. 🐱 ❤️
Okay, that's how those British pies looks like. The other day, when watching Doc Martin on tv, there was one character munching on what resembles what you show in the image. Sad when it comes to your neighbour and only 56 of age. One of my brothers died at an early age, only 53 years - cancer, and he wasn't even aware of it. He was a chain smoker and was on psychiatric medication - not a long life expectancy, unfortunately. Cheers to Periwinkle!
Today it was grilled hen's breast filet, fried unpeeled potato halves (cooked then fried) with barbeque bearnaise and a green salad on the side (iceberg lettuce, sliced cucumber and chopped onion).
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