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Our annual prawn day - potato salad, roasted Beetroot with walnuts and goat cheese, quinoa salad, bread rolls and of course lots of prawns !

I'm not sure if these are technically ramen, they are Mi Chay noodles - Vietnamese. They sit in a chicken stock boosted with miso and wakame, rehydrated shiitakes, snow peas and chicken. Garnished with spring onions, coriander and fried shallots.

Thanks, at the moment they're in the pantry, my kitchen bench is cluttered enough

This years home grown Manzanillo olives, the variety that's best suited to our climate. We have three trees on our standard suburban block. These have been brined for four weeks and are ready to use. They're quite olivey and salty at the moment, but will mellow.

Jeez, some of these lunches look good. Mine is nearly always leftover dinner. I had to google Monte Cristo. Combined with the details above I figure it's a ham and cheese sandwich with strawberry jam, fried and dusted with sugar. You're kidding right ?

A simple noodle soup with chicken and snow peas. The stock was chicken with a boost of miso and wakame. Some rehydrated shiitakes, a hard boiled egg, sliced spring onions and coriander to garnish.

Spinach, potato and bocconcini pie. Served with roasted tomatoes, roast pumpkin and baby spinach salad, plus a few bits of crispy bacon.

Spicy and sticky baked chicken wings. Served with sushi rice and stir fried snow peas.

Inspired by @ShelbyI made my first ever skillet cornbread. It's not common food here in Oz, my local supermarket doesn't even stock corn meal. So, I adapted using a mix of plain flour, polenta and baking soda. Other ingredients were whole corn kernels, grated cheddar cheese, chopped coriander, buttermilk, a beaten egg and melted butter. I snuck in a few (well, four) finely chopped pickled hot chillies. It worked well, cooked on the stove for 10, then into the oven with the top element on for 10. I was foiled trying to replicate the ham and beans by Shelby. My deli lady at the supermarket brusquely told me that bacon and ham bones are winter food, we'll have them when it's colder...err, rightyo ! Instead, I made chilli con carne with chuck steak and red kidney beans plus lots of chilli.

Last nights dinner was a simple linguine carbonara. Its a favourite with a certain bacon lover in this house... Served with a mixed salad and olive sourdough.

It was a 1.5 kg corned silverside. Into the PC with one clove studded onion, 40 g brown sugar, 40 ml malt vinegar and two cups of water. Bring to low pressure and simmer for about an hour. Slow release and cool in the liquid.

Corned beef cooked in the pressure cooker. Veggies simmered in the broth, plus mustard sauce and a few pickles.

Looks great @ElsieD although I bet they call them prawns. I have half a dozen of the AWW cookbooks. Good basic and Australian centric recipes. Did you know that it used to be a weekly magazine, then got changed to monthly editions ? There was controversy at the time about changing the name to Women's Monthly ! Didn't happen....

Stuffed mushrooms with a mixed salad. The mushies are stuffed with a sauté of onion, garlic and bacon, fresh breadcrumbs, garlic chives and bits of bocconcini.

Homemade chicken pie with tomato sauce. I need to work on cutting off the excess pastry in a cleaner fashion......

I'd like to try this, what kind of paper do you use ?

A Burmese chicken curry with rice, crunchy tomato salad and pappadams. For more details see link below. Here

A simple fish stew, with snapper, potato, garlic, onions, tomatoes and dill. All cooked in chicken stock. Served with toasted sourdough and a green salad.

A crumbed lamb loin chop, pan fried with sage leaves and onion. Served with potato and cauliflower mash (very good) and fresh tomato and chilli sauce. Horseradish on the side.

Borlotti beans perhaps ...?

Herby omelette stuffed with shredded Hainanese chicken, diced tomatoes and spring onions. Served with rice, a small soup with wakame and cabbage, plus sauce of onions, garlic and chilli.

Falafel fattoush. With hummus and polski gorki on the side.

Wow, I've never seen a clam that big ! Like your treatment, they look delish.

Thanks for the link, an interesting read about cast iron pans (which incidentally is what attracted me to your cornbread). We have one that has been in the family for many years. I'm not sure if I've ever tried cornbread, it's not that common here in Oz. I am sure I'd prefer the non-sweet one, and some cheddar cheese wouldn't go astray. I'll report the result in due course !

I'm inspired @Shelby. Looking for cornbread recipes now !