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@Ann_T that meringue roll looks delicious, such a lovely dinner for the birthday.

Early breakfast. Lightly fried previously cooked potatoes ( I mean a teaspoon of olive oil ) liverwurst and an egg. Toasted remains of yesterday’s baguette.

Our traditional Sunday dinner ( when it’s not a curry !! ) A roast, this time roast belly pork with lots of vegetables including pumpkin , rough apple sauce and gravy. Belly pork in its baking dish

A quite confusing to the eye breakfast because of the plate design. Anyway it was toast with labneh and Brussel sprouts with green onions … egg on the side

We had Mussels Mariniere. Local from the Bay very near me. My recipe is so simple. . . Cleaned fresh mussels, finely chopped onion that has been sautéed in butter, add white wine, pepper, salt and fresh thyme plus a splash of water. Boil and shake to steam mussels open. Done, Serve with sprinkle of parsley. How it started How it ended up, with me slurping up every drop of the delicious remaining soup. Goodness @Paul Bacino we posted at the same time and both seafood. Your scallops look delicious

A sad looking chicken wing cringing on the plate!!! Tasty though… done honey soy with beans and egg plant

Breakfast was wilted spinach and eggs

We needed some seafood after having meat loaf on the weekend. Thai prawns with beans, onion and carrots. Sauce was lemon grass, coconut milk, fish sauce, sriracha, soy sauce, stock powder, garlic, cornflower and water.

I made 4 meatloaves on Saturday. One for us with the others for my sons and their families and I forgot to take a photo. This lunch of minestrone soup contains the remains of our loaf along with vegetables, butter beans and orzo…. Plenty of Parmesan on top

Eggs, bacon and tomatoes for breakfast

DH cooked while I minded the older grandsons 2 & 4. He made a dish of chicken with olives and mustard served over pasta. I really enjoyed it and so grateful to him for taking over as I was tired after little ones had gone home.

Husband’s and my basic lunch of Australian beef sausage in a piece of baguette with green tomato pickles. I am always trying different bakeries in the hope of finding the true tasting French baguette. (Made in France) It is the flour, it’s different from French flour over here but I live in hope I may one day find a bakery, of which there are many, that imports French flour to make their baguettes. (Of course ‘why would they’ )It is quite a few years since I’ve been back to France but having spent quite sometime there, the memory of true baguette stays with me. There is a particular chain of bakeries here that I had high hopes for, Laurent Bakery which has very good bread and French cakes but alas still not the flavour, texture I remember. All that said, this particular lunch bread was good, made with a sprinkle of semolina for extra crunch. I would like to be able to make bread like our AnnT but so far I haven’t been able to.

Bacon with avocado, blueberries and blackberries. . . on toast.

Some of the family came over for an informal late lunch for Mothers Day. We had pork chops and vegetables, gravy and mustard of course.

Diner was steak ,scalloped potatoes, beans and a few roasted Brussel sprouts put in the oven while potatoes were cooking.

Breakfast of ham and eggs with a bearnaise sauce.

I usually have a jar of preserved lemons in the fridge and use them sparingly most often with some sort of lamb dish perhaps chicken. I quite like the salty tang but my husband not at all so it’s a juggling act to make sure none gets on his plate.

This meal looks so delicious @Captainand is so far removed from my take out/ take away version shown below. Well what happened you ask.? I had some limes given to me so I made guacamole…. fine, tasted good. So I thought, quite frankly I’m not confident making my own Enchiladas so I’ll order in with some spicy chicken wings from a Mexican restaurant. I made a little pico de gallo to go with the guacamole and those two were the best things to eat on the plate. I didn’t like the enchilada at all . It had grilled chicken filling and a tomatiillo sauce with corn. It was gloopy and not good. I could only eat a third and I hate wasting food. The chicken wing was OK.

Breakfast this morning was upgraded canned baked beans. Added onions a little mince and more tomato paste and chilli . Egg of course.

Made a pot of pea and ham soup and had some for lunch, probably have it for dinner as well.

@liuzhou She sounds like a fun person…Not. When I lived in UK I happily switched to Marmite although visitors from AUS who stayed with me knew to bring a jar of Vegemite. Hah!

Hope you are feeling better @Kim Shook @liuzhou said Quote. “ This breakfast topic has been running for years and has always been the least active of the Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner topic trilogy. My theory is that even the most adventurous eaters tend to be most conservative at breakfast. We all tend to fall back to a handful of favourites which we repeat over and over again, perhaps due to lack of time to be more adventurous or simply a preference for familiar comforts first thing in the morning. -0-0-0–0– The familiar comfort food I fall back on is usually Vegemite on toast …after all I am an Aussie… but don’t feel it photo worthy but here it is. A more adventurous breakfast is the following mushrooms and tomatoes on toast with a dollop of avocado and sprinkled with my pomegranate seeds. Both of these breakfasts are fine by me though I do usually prefer to include an egg somehow.

Dinner continuing my Indian food craze. There was left over butter chicken and today I also made a tomato based Brinjal/Eggplant curry and a coconut milk based Saag Aloo/ Potato and Spinach curry. I’m pretty much all curried out for a while now Hah!

Breakfast this morning was a tender omelette, meaning it was barely cooked with tiniest amounts of fish sauce and soy sauce, with chilli crisp and coriander.

@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.