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More food from Venice Ristorante da Ivo Below Interior and complimentary bruschetta to start below Carpaccio with Parmesan and rocket Below scampi in a creamy curry sauce… not spicy at all but delicious below Turbot with spring vegetables below This is the 3rd squid ink spaghetti my son ( with whom I'm travelling atm ) has had. I guess he likes it. This one was with Calamari

Thanks for the encouragement to continue posting @Shelby Had dinner in a little restaurant by one of the many canals I had sea bass with potatoes flavoured with sage. Firstly the waiter presented the fish cooked whole on a large sizzling platter, took it away and came back with it filleted with no bones. Lunch below, was roasted/grilled vegetables with buffalo mozzarella

I’m travelling in Europe at the moment and Food glorious food is glorious. Sampling the food in the Emirates lounge. This was a little 5 star spice duck pie with braised eggplant and broccolini Had to have a little chocolate patisserie below First breakfast in Venice was a small smoked salmon quiche and a cappuccino. Below…Lunch was squid ink spaghetti with what they called a mixed seafood ragu… had flavours of garlic and saffron. This was delicious and not expensive.EUR 35 euros for the two plates.

My son cooked mezze rigatoni with a tuna tomato base sauce. It was delicious. He hadn’t heard of the ‘no cheese with seafood’ Italian rule so he piled the cheddar on which made it even more delicious. Ha!

My dear husband has been cooking most of our meals lately as I am busy organising my trip to Europe which starts this weekend. This meal was his chicken fillet and onions, olives, bacon and red pepper with mashed potato.

Still with the Asian inspired breakfast. Omelette with pork and egg plant.

Faux Congee, I am making it up as I go along. Rice, char siu pork, portions of braised in soy sauce egg plant. Anyway?, it is an enjoyable breakfast for me.

@TdeV Yes that is the Nigella recipe I was referring to. I made the cake as per her recipe but added the passion fruit icing as I had quite a few passion fruits to use up and it was quite nice.

@Paul Bacino sorry but even after an online search I can’t figure out what all the meat means in reference to Pasqua gravy. Can you help me understand? My cultural denseness at play. We had a Sunday lamb roast with all the trimmings ( stuffing, mint sauce, gravy, pumpkin, roast potatoes, peas ) but I forgot to take a photo with all the busyness of little grandson , Freddy (14 months old) I made some raspberry muffins and a passionfruit drizzle apple almond flour cake ( Nigella Lawson ) before guests arrived so I remembered photos for those.

Friday early dinner. After much thought about what fish dish to have I ended up making a simple salmon and dill quiche which we enjoyed. Asian salad with Nuoc Cham dressing as a side salad. Quiche included both fresh salmon and smoked salmon

Not my cooking but still this was a dinner we had Bought fish and chips. There‘s battered flake, a battered potato cake, chips/fries a dollop of sate sauce and a dollop of mixed ketchup and BBQ sauce. The big white ball is a pickled onion traditional for this meal

I had some left over black beans from a soup I had made … so I made black beans fritters with a coriander sauce. Small diced salad to go with.

I’ve got a thing about poached eggs ATM. Breakfast was mushrooms and bacon and a poached egg all on top of a sourdough toast again.

Breakfast this morning was poached egg and avocado on sourdough toast

Penne with a ground pork sauce. If I use rigatoni pasta, I call this dish rigatoni saltati, so I guess I could call this penne saltati. I used to think ’saltati‘ referred to the pork but I have looked it up online and ’saltati can mean ‘ sautéed ‘ or ‘jumped’.in Italian. So I guess after all this time, I was wrong about it meaning something to do with pork. I do make this sauce in a pan rather than a pot hence sauteed. ( I guess )