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@liuzhou said “ . Enough chillies for ya⁈ “ Good grief, that’s a whole lot of chillies. I am still on a slight Indian fad atm having watched the brilliant Rick Stein’s India again for about the 6 th time. I love that telly programme… the music, the colours and of course, the food. The first time I watched it I bought the book and find it excellent reading with the recipes straight forward and easy to follow. The below is Murgh Makhani better known as butter chicken, the including of Fenugreek makes it special, with a poor man’s biryiani including my pomegranate seeds and juice.

Left over roast potatoes found their way into my breakfast with an egg of course.

Sunday roast fresh chicken with tarragon stuffing which is trying to escape the bird, roast potatoes, peas, carrots and a tasty gravy made by husband I think the last photo with the gravy poured on looks the tastiest to eat Without gravy With gravy

Lamb shanks with mashed potato and sweet potato. The sauce, along with various herbs includes the tiniest touch of cinnamon, which I like but not too strong.

A quick lunch of pickled herring. The best thing about this lunch is that the pomegranate is off my own baby tree… I had three this year.

Chicken Korma under night lights, with two samosas

I wanted to thank you @blue_dolphin for the times you have mentioned in reference to the meal you’ve made “The Global Pantry Cookbook”. I finally looked it up ( takes me awhile lol) and was available through Amazon. Sometimes, some books and products aren’t available here in Australia. So I got it through Kindle and it’s a terrific read as well as a recipe informer despite its little quirks. I do have most ‘global’ things that are mentioned in my pantry but we will have to differ on kimchi, maybe I’ve just had bad ones. The other book you mention Tenderheart, well I’ll explore that another time. I like reading recipes but not so good at following them, using them more as a reference to the ingredients I have on hand. Occasionally I’ll shop specifically for ingredients for a particular recipe.

Here are some dinners we’ve been having over the past few days. Below spaghetti bolognaise We had dinner one night at our son’s and his wife made this enchilada, she said it was a Jamie Oliver recipe with sweet potato and black beans in the filling. It has made me want to make my own enchiladas and I’ve been looking up recipes. Below an ordinary chicken schnitzel and 5 veg meal. The mashed sweet potato with butter was nice I made a frangipane tart with the soon to be finished for the season fresh figs

Beef Bourguignon with a glass of the same red wine used for the meat. Mashed potato and beans.

This Sunday lunch was beef curry made by husband. IF we have a sit down Sunday lunch it is usually either a curry or a roast. He added coconut milk to a Rogan Josh beef curry and it was creamy and delicious.

@blue_dolphin Do you have those little cans of tuna? Lemon pepper tuna, Chilli tuna etc… it was one of those (Chilli tuna) with the cauliflower and mushrooms.

Breakfast… mushrooms, cauliflower, chilli tuna, Parmesan and of course an egg. Ciabatta toast.

Looks very good AnnT Now this meal was better than the last few. The fish is Barramundi found in Northern Australia waters also SEAsia and across to India. Good fish shops sometimes have it fresh but mostly thawed from frozen. Mashed potato combined with cauliflower mash and zucchini.

We been so busy back and forth working on our little holiday home that buying fresh food and cooking has been really neglected. Not having shopped for a while and forgetting about deliveries, I’ve been ’cooking’ out of fridge and pantry. Below was a combination quinoa and lentil stir fry with silver beet from the garden Below was jarred pickle herrings And below was the amusing quinoa fritters with chilli and garlic mayo I can’t say that I greatly enjoyed any of these meals… which is kind of sad.

Last of the home grown tomatoes on English crumpets. I will be looking on with envy at Northern Hemisphere home grown tomatoes in the near future I guess. We still have plenty in the shops of course… all year round but the mid winter golf balls are less than ideal.

Pork dumplings in a miso broth

We are at our little getaway (holiday) country home and had a pizza for lunch outside on the verandah with a sparkling apple juice.

Back to salads. This was ordinary old bought rotisserie chicken with stuffing.

Omelette for breakfast, perhaps a little too much soy, but I enjoyed it.

Easter Sunday lunch was the usual roast lamb but this time I chose to serve it with Greek flavours of olives and crumbled feta with fresh salad ‘leaves’. My husband dishes up the peas and makes sure we don’t have too little LOL. Mint sauce on there as well The ubiquitous Pavlova for dessert this time with raspberries, mango and passion fruit.

Hot cross buns for Easter breakfasts. I’m never sure when to serve them so we have them most days sometimes following scrambled eggs. There are choc chip and the plain ones.

@OlyveOyl and lightly pickled red onions… love these and so easy. I’m glad I’ve discovered them.

Stir fry pork for dinner for us.

This was more brunch than lunch. Salad with my much liked pomegranate seeds and croutons.

Take out Friday Dumpling soup (short soup). Chicken satay, crispy squid, Belachan eggplant. This is all from favourite Malaysian restaurant.