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@Honkman your dinner of creamy saffron orzo with garlic butter shrimps sounds and looks delicious. We had fish, lightly fried in dusting of seasoned flour …rockling an Australian meaty white fish. As a side there was ratatouille combined with penne pasta.

We had what we call lamb cutlets with mash potato and ”greens”. I “Frenched” the cutlets to take the fat off the long bone and each became a tender two mouthfuls.

Went out for lunch and had a soba noodle lunch bowl which was delicious. You can see above in the photo Husband had lunch scrambled eggs with chill and a croissant

Last nights bread crumbed chicken salad bowl

Spaghetti and meatballs with a rich tomato sauce… rich because it has left over wine in it. The sour cream is not traditional but I saw it in the fridge and I thought “why not”

Breakfast of ham omelette with toasted wholemeal bread.

Sunny summer salads for multiple dinners or sometimes late lunch with occasional use of the BBQ

What else but dumpling soup at the start of the year for lunch.

A quiet New Years Eve for husband and I. We had steak frites and salad for New Years Day… two sauces one green peppercorn with cream and the other creamy horseradish. i couldn’t choose which one, so had both.

We had a traditional Christmas lunch with all the usual suspects plus a large rocket, beetroot, goats cheese and walnut salad. There’s also ham, gravy in the jug and cranberry sauce. We are now into Boxing Day 26th and I must say that the left over salad went better with the cold turkey and left over stuffing this next day. The drink is the Italian Chinotto below.

Typical breakfast for us although bacon is involved only about twice a month. This breakfast was cooked by my husband.

Oh dear @Maison RustiqueAttack of the Killer Squirrels Actually these pickled walnuts were bought in a jar imported from the UK. These ones are a typical pickled Gherkin like taste and disappointingly no hint of walnut coming through. Perhaps made at home and therefore fresher you might get a more walnut taste.

Two meals dictated by the weather. First meal below was beef stew, mashed pumpkin, mashed potato and puréed cauliflower 2nd meal below was smoked salmon salad. The sliced brown ‘things’ are pickled walnuts and the white balls are mini bocconcini.

Squid ink linguine with seafood sauce. (again) … so easy to buy a handful of fresh marinara mix of seafood including mussels, salmon, white fish, shrimp, scallops, calamari rings and make a sauce sometimes tomato based and sometimes not with lemon and thyme. The squid ink gives a nice silkiness to the pasta - I’m hooked.

A few meals we’ve been having this week. Below. Bought Tortellini with red sauce Below Pork chop with pasta and red sauce, plus puréed baby spinach. My red sauce is gently fried onion and garlic in olive oil, a can of tomatoes and usually a pinch of dried basil or maybe oregano. I know I could open a jar of passata but I’ve always done it this way. Below Breaded chicken fillet, salad and nuked potato.