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Dinner last night was a Thai style green curry with chicken, baby corn and wombok. Served with rice, pappadams (yes, I know, but we like them) and mango chutney.

Chicken Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) with a ginger dipping sauce. Served with steamed rice, stir fried gai larn and a mixed salad.

Bratwurst with black eyed beans. Served with toasted sourdough and a radicchio salad.

A simple chilli beef stir fry with baby corn and noodles. The set up... The meal.

Dinner last night was a South Indian style chicken curry served with roti bread, spinach masala and mango chutney.

I marinated some chicken pieces in beer and garlic overnight, then fried in the cast iron pan and finished in the oven. A mushroom sauce was made with sweated spring onions and mushrooms in butter, flour, then the residual marinade. Served with creamy mashed potatoes and a radicchio salad. The chicken. The salad. The meal.

You've given me an idea @Anna N. I don't care much for capsicum, but I reckon this would work beautifully with pumpkin and Harissa. I have two huge jars of Harissa that are taking up fridge space. Happy days !

Yes, a tbs here is 20 ml. A tsp is 5 ml. It probably doesn't matter too much !

@ElsieD roughly equal quantities (for this amount of ribs a tbs) of fish sauce, rice vinegar and brown sugar, a little more gochujang and a tsp of sesame oil. I added a half a cup of water to ensure they were submerged.

Korean sticky pork ribs (marinated in gochujang, fish sauce, rice wine vinegar and sugar) with stir fried water spinach and steamed rice. Plus a side of kimchi - my first attempt at making this - hailed a success by he who eats. The water spinach. The kimchi. The ribs.

I envy your prices. I bought baby back ribs today $20.99 a kilo. Not Berkshire either ! Enjoy your fairy.

My husband is of Italian descent, that's why we planted the olives. Funny though, where I grew up about 3000 kms south of here, there were wild olive trees everywhere. I remember in the 60's when it was harvest time, Italian or perhaps Greek people would turn up and collect them. They'd lay a sheet under the tree, then whack the living day lights out of it. Pick up sheet, done !

Thank you. I think I'll give the box a try. Good to take them inside, I left a tray of birds eye chillies out one night, of course it rained.

Tuna veggie bake, kinda like mornay. Served with a mixed salad and toasted seed bread. It's bin night, time to chuck or use whatever's in the fridge. There's mirepoix, roasted garlic and pumpkin, the kernels from a corn cob, mashed potato, milk, cream, torn bocconcini and grated cheddar cheese. Topped with breadcrumbs and a bit more cheese. Straight out of the oven. Our homegrown cherry tomatoes. Dressing made with the tuna oil and red wine vinegar.. Comfort food.

They look delicious. Do you forage them, or buy them fresh and shred yourself ? I think we can buy boxes of "grow your own" shiitakes here. I guess they would be tame, rather than wild. Could you elaborate a bit for me on method, temperatures, or anything else ? Thanks !

I cheated and used a can, but when I do it from scratch I do remove the skins. That's usually a weekend job, so I have an extra pair of hands...

Mezze platter for sharing. We have cevapcici, dolmades and falafels. The dips are both homemade, hummus and tzatziki. I have sticks of carrot, cucumber and celery, slow roasted tomatoes, garlic cloves, zucchini and a few sliced green chillies. Also, two kinds of olives (one our home grown/cured), polski gorki and lots of fresh pita bread.

I feel for you, fires can be tricky. Most important is you got to eat delicious chicken.

Gee it's hard to follow @huiray, with my so so simple version, but here goes anyway. I marinated some sliced chicken thigh in cornflour, rice wine, soy sauce and pepper. Stir fried it with garlic and ginger, splashed in a tiny bit of oyster sauce then set aside. Same wok, slivered onion, sliced wombok, soaked and sliced shiitakes and fresh bamboo shoots. I covered Maggi two minute noodles in boiling water, then chucked them in the MW for two minutes (ha ha great name). I poured on some heated homemade chicken and duck stock which came from the depths of the freezer. I can't remember what went in, probably star anise, onions, ginger.... Garnished with sliced spring onions, fried shallots and coriander (because I love it and have it growing well at the moment, which is rare). Clearly I need to work on my presentation. He who needs to be fed raved about it, so that's good

A chicken pie, served with mozzarella potato mash, baked herby parmesan zucchinis and fresh tomato sauce spiked with harissa.

A fun and interesting journey. Thank you !

Two pizzas. Margarita with basil. Half salami, olives and anchovies, the other half ham and pineapple (guilty - nah).

@rarerollingobject, they look amazing. Time is precious, your use is wise.

A simple chicken stir fry. The ingredients. The bowl.

I picked up 3 mangoes for $5 at the farmers market last week, so here's the significant eaters favourite chutney. At the very least it gives me an excuse to make Indian curries .....