This morning I don't really feel like eating.
Having a strong english breakfast tea with some earl grey thrown in.

Neither really. I was more athletic than the average American when I was young. So it was just a matter of figuring out what I was doing wrong to gain the weight and restarting things just for a different age.

Grilled cheese and cherry tomato sandwich with a little chilli infused salt, kibbled black pepper, little bit of fresh thyme.
Pinch of oregano on the outside.

SO good.

I always forget about this thread.

On Sunday, I made angel hair pasta with homemade meatballs. Only my second time making the meatballs - not using a recipe - and they turned out pretty tasty.

Everyone does...though everyone eats...
I like to come in and just refresh it once in a while, used to be a somewhat popular topic in one incarnation or another, and I find reading/talking about food is something I'm able to do without too much effort.

Last night we shared a GIANT pizza for my kids birthday.
I mean, it's just Dominos...but yes, interesting to see something that was too big to be cooked all in one pan...the slices were like a foot long each.

I love the picture that Anna posted on Facebook with River holding the slice! Slice was bigger than she was! ::big grin::

Yup, she got a few good b'day pics eh...

Nothing yet this morning, just some tea.

Pan fried Salmon, green beans, gravy and mashed potatoes.

Grilled toast sandwich, with a few pieces of crispy bacon, a slice of cheese, some mixed green crunchy salad with kale, some kewpie mayo and this amazing Aust made chilli sauce with habanero, green papaya and pimento.
Nice breakfast.

Some english/earl grey tea.

Last night I made a stoner sandwich...basically a grilled cheese with both regular "pizza mix" type melty cheese, and some marinated soft goats cheese. I put some spanish salami on the inside, and grilled some prosciutto and cheese onto the outside of them, press grilled goodness.

I have recently acquired some fresh duck eggs, something I've sought out but never really found before (you always get the cooked/salted kind), so I'll be checking those out before too long.
I think I'd just like a once-turned but otherwise sunny side up fried egg to kind of get an idea of the flavour/structure differences.
I understand they're amazing in baking so might throw one into a cake mix as well.

Have you ever tried the Dave’s Gourmet Insanity Sauce?

That shit really is insanely hot.

Not yet. I've seen it through a lot of online retailers though.

A recent creation of mine - Buffalo Chicken Risotto. One of my many controversial risotto-fusion dishes...I really must open a pop-up in Camden some day. The Cheeseburger Risotto and Full English Breakfast Risotto also stir up some debate.

I'll be uploading the recipe to the blog soon enough.

You had me at "Full English Breakfast"......

A handful of walnuts and a blueberry muffin.

You are a healthy gurl! Did you pop a walnut before each bite of muffin?

Not really healthy. The muffin was from Walmart..full of lard and sugar, lol.

Funny. This made me remember that I would love having a blueberry muffin in the morning when I was in school. They had good muffins with big blueberries. And the muffin wasn't a cake type sweet muffin. I'm guessing it was some kind of bran muffin.

And for some reason, I would cut the muffin almost in half and put in butter. Then microwave it for a while. It was great. But I never did that on any other muffin because they just weren't as good. Now I have to find or attempt to make a similar muffin.

Fried zucchini. Oil, butter, egg, flour, salt, pepper, curry. Pretty good. Hadnt made it in years. Cooked on the grill last week, burned a lot of them. I think they tasted better on the grill, but it's tricky cooking it enough without burning it.

Yesterday we had some of this pork belly lechon (phillipino style, cooked over coals) delivered from a relatively local facebook marketplace business.
I have to say I'm quite impressed by some of the talent on there, and I guess since covid has been fucking around a lot of people have had to consider other options...me, I'm soaking it up.
Anyways, it's basically roasted marinated pork belly with a super crispy skin, served with spicy, tangy dipping sauce.
It was amazing - Check out your locals, seriously.

Right now I am having some english breakfast/earl grey tea.

Lebanese bread folded and grilled with some spicy chorizo bought from a local weekly market, vegetarian (not vegan) cheese, slices swiss brown and button mushrooms, fresh basil, salt, pepper, and a little bit of kewpie.

Decided to go for an Indian theme this week and had some friends over so went large. It's a pretty eclectic mix from all corners of the subcontinent - Bengali, Gujarati etc.

Pav Bhaji, matar paneer, keema matar, tarka dhaal, saag gosht, Gujarati mix, aloo jeera and some homemade chapattis.

Made a thali to enjoy in the sun.

Looks delish, FC!

It certainly does!

Thanks guys 😁 barely touched the sides it went down so fast 😅

I had to wiki thali. What is all that? I only remember enjoying Tandoori Chicken a lot.

While I adore Indian cuisine and have learned plenty since being in London, I'm no expert so take this with a pinch of salt - it's such a diverse and sprawling cuisine my interpretations of what I've made may not be totally accurate, and I expect I've merged all manner of clashing regional dishes.

Clockwise from the top - Tikka chicken thigh, roti, mixed pickle, chilli paneer (indian cottage cheese reminiscent of halloumi in spicy sauce) , corn and bean methi (fenugreek based), tarka daal (spiced, garlicy lentils), saag (spinach), coconut rice and some mint yoghurt in the middle. It was FILLLIIING.

I do enjoy a good thali set...sometimes we'll go grab one...I'm not sure about how often they actually prepare them, just that in the places around Sydney it seems to be once a month or some such. Usually a Sunday.

Hm, it's been a while.

I'll just post a few of the things we've made together, few Anna has made for home and for family outings, some things from a few facebook marketplace cooks (2020 really brought some great ones out of the woodwork), bit of new years and birthday stuff we've knocked together and some of the food we've got from local places we've enjoyed.

Heeeere ya go...

and some more...

more...

another...

One more...

Ok...last one for now...

The second last pic looks like a roast pork, but the top looks very rubbery.

Yeah, that one wasn't as good as the one above it...though surprisingly, it was hard crackling...it was just like "too hard"...not sure what happened with the cook there.

The other one, seen on top and in the sliced form was God-Like. Perfection.

The dish is called Lechon and is from the Philippines, but is likely a derivative from the Spanish population who passed through, passed down into the culture.
Crispy, marinated, rolled and roasted pork belly around aromatic herbs, spices and vegetables served with a warm/acidic/spicy sauce.

Since trying this through one of the facebook marketplace people, it's become one of my favourite dishes.
I'll likely try my hand and knocking one together in my own style at some point.

Ooh, what was that bright green sauce with the beef in the third post?

I'm in a food coma just looking at those pictures!

My gosh, you guys eat like Kings! In the school lunches are those dehydrated apple slices. Do you have a dehydrator?

Ha, we just prefer going out for food and making nice food over like, going out and whatever habits and vices there are out there.

Dehydrator?
I had one a while back, meant to be getting another.
These are from a local organic markets that rolls into my town once a week.

They didn't say, and they wouldn't tell.
It was their "house" sauce over at this French restaurant, same place that served us the escargot - we went there for our last (22nd) anniversary.
I recall a hint of cumin and warm spices in the sauce, but yeah one of those things they don't really give away. Tasty though.

What's the green rolled up looking things inside the center of the ham (I think it's a ham)?