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I don’t know what possessed me to buy a 1kg tub of Thai green curry paste, but because I have SO much, I always use TOO much. This green chicken curry was Thailand hot. The kinda hot where food cart aunty looks at your pale skin, wags her finger at you and screams TOO HOT FOR YOU !

There was a bowl of things, shredded roast chicken, baby pak choy, vermicelli noodles, crushed peanuts in bone broth. Then, another bowl of things. Laksa with prawns, tofu puffs, rice noodles, more pak choy and toppings. Note a new bag of bean sprouts. Countdown is reset.

My usual Saturday night catch up with the other Caroline changed to Friday this week. Taramasalata, dolmades, crudités and pita bread. Enough.

Pasta, egg tagliatelle with a sauce of bacon, mushrooms, garlic, chilli, and baby spinach. A sprinkle of finely chopped parsley and lashings of pecorino. I know that ‘he who must be fed’ will never say no to pasta.

Thank you, and I love the bowls too. I have a set, sort of, they’re from an Australian homewares store, and long out of stock. They belonged to my niece who died a few years ago. She had a rare genetic disease that caused next level clumsiness, so there’s 8 dinner plates, 7 side plates, 3 large bowls and only 2 of these soup bowls. She very much liked salads, her floors were tiled, and that’s why the bowls are in short supply. She would have laughed too 🤣

You’ve given me ideas here, although my panini press doesn’t open flat.

I’ve been remiss. I used the poaching broth from the previous nights meal to make another episode of things in bowls. This has wombok, thin egg noodles, leftover shredded chicken, baby bok choy, green onions and chilli crisp. My kitchen MO is sometimes like this; research intensely on YouTube and Instagram taking a little bit from each reel, then march into the kitchen armed and dangerous. This was a slow roasted boneless leg of lamb sitting on a bed of onion and garlic, heavily seasoned, rosemary strewn and white wine doused. After 3 hours at 150°C it rested while I smashed the gravy into submission using a stick blender. The veg cooked on the top shelf for about 90 minutes. Served with cucumber salad, because I always need green. Then another episode of “things in a bowl” with the addictive cabbage salad. It’s very simple, cabbage cut largish, washed and dried, rubbed with salt and chicken powder, strewn with minced garlic, crushed toasted sesame seeds and drizzled with sesame oil. A bit of leftover lamb and veggies to go with, but seriously, the cabbage is the star of this episode. And, the reason for that relatively light dinner, was this monster for lunch at the local pub.

Poached chicken in a chilli, garlic, green onion sauce with rice and smashed cucumber salad.

Sticky pork belly. It’s simmered in shaoxin wine, star anise, ginger slices and soy. Served on a bed of rice with steamed bok choy and topped with fresh chilli, green onions and toasted sesame seeds. Episode #38 in the series “things in a bowl”.

The turkey that keeps on giving, and yet another episode of “things in bowls”. I’m calling this poultry rice porridge.

That Aldi special turkey made an encore performance in another episode of “things in a bowl”. Here it is with thick egg noodles, baby bok choy, wombok and topped with the last of a bag of mung bean sprouts. It’s true folks, you can finish the bag before they get slimy. For something completely different, we reverted to an old favourite pasta with chicken sausage, broccolini, fresh chilli and enough garlic to ward off vampires forever. Just in case, we doubled down with garlic bread. To be sure, to be sure. Last night was New Years Eve, so we had lentils for luck with spicy Italian sausage and some spinach salad. Then I crashed a neighbours party and had the best time. Toot toot, Happy New Year 🥳

Can you tell me more about this please ? Also, I have that same Le Creuset baker, but in white 😀

Good to know, I want to try this too.

Well I guess both are true, but initially I meant pans, pots etc to wash. We have already had two more meals, there’s two bags of turkey in the freezer, and a poultry rice porridge on the stove as I type.

We scored a half price turkey at Aldi. It was tasty and succulent, but I think my turkey roasting days are over. So many dishes !! We made gravy, roasted potatoes, sweet potatoes and carrots, plus garlic green beans on the side.