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Some meals from a weekend away.
Amatriciana Pasta for moi.
Schnitzel for boy.
Parmy for man.
Garlic Bread to start.
This meal was good and bad. The Sole Chef/Owner/Waiter was so nice and put so much effort in to the quality of the home made bread and pasta and well sourced meat. He just forgot about the sauces to carry it. Great ingredients that tasted of nothing.
Cheese burger for child.
Bbq platter for 2.
Judging by the leftovers we needed four 🙂.
And the best garlic bread.
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Bacon and Eggs with bread that had a brief audience with the toaster.
Big Breakfast with Bread that got there after the toaster left for another meeting.
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Shift Change for the Hubby so he had a pub night and I was feeling laaazzzy. So I got him to bring home some Calamari for the Kid and some Garlic Bread for me. Kid demolished in seconds so no pics.
My Garlic Bread was terrible. All props to them, I think they are trying to make their own bread and should still be in testing. It's dense and floury and lacking ... garlic.
As I hate waste, I added Butter, Brie and Cheddar and Grilled. It was still not great but it was cheesy 🤷♀️ So that's a win.
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Wing Night
Spicy Honey BBQ
Parmesan & Garlic
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Chicken Tikka Masala from a Spice Tailor Kit. I love the whole spices and they are much fresher than if I bought my own to languish in a hot cupboard.
This is my sons portion. Heavy on the rice. I'll have it for lunch tomorrow. He had 2 more bowls of rice after 🙄😬. It is literally his favourite food. Even over nuggets!!
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Some days just really suck. But then you remember you have Bacon to cheer people up.
Bacon Sammies for dinner to cheer up the kid. Yes he has Tomato Sauce, He's 7 and a heathen... I'm working on it 😂.
Toasted bread because we're already in the humidity section of the year where even commercial bread only lasts 1 day if not fridged.
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Birthday Dinner and I was craving A Full English Breakfast (Hey the heart (attack) wants what the heart (attack) wants)!
Started cooking and realised Mr low carb could only have Bacon & Eggs and Mr small and fussy only really likes 3 things and that I just wasn't remotely hungry enough. So...
Mr Low Carb
Mr Small & Fussy
And the Birthday Girl? Well. She had Champagne and called it a good night 😂.
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Making up my husbands lunch box for tomorrow.
Very thin 2 medium egg omelette.
Add Avo, Jalapeno, Cream Cheese & Bacon. Assemble like a wrap.
I wrap in foil as sometimes he heats in the pie warmer at work.
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57 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
Back in the day, I wrote a paper on food in Chaucer.
If you're saying back in the day I'm assuming there would be no PDF available 😞. Which is a shame as I would have loved to have a read. I feel some research coming on! After
Dinner.
Wow that Recipe is amazing by the way. Apples, pears, figs, raisins & spices am I right? With saffron? (He was more well off than I thought if it's the spice!).
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4 minutes ago, liuzhou said:
Not Canadian. Cheese and apple generally is a classic pairing. It dates back to Chaucer's time (died 1400) My very Scottish father (died 2008) ate apple pie with cheese all the time, so I did too. (Not dead yet.)
Thanks! I get cheese and apple but I guess I've only had very sweet apple pies (not much of a dessert person) and couldn't quite imagine eating with cheese. I remember studying Chaucer, I would love to go back and explore the Canterbury Tales for Food Refs (probably won't) ... Can't really recall much but Red Hot Pokers these days.😂
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5 hours ago, Dejah said:
Dessert was Canadian Cheddar Cheese Apple Crisp
I will bite. Can you explain? I'm intrigued and a little scared by this. My brief google said it was inspired by the classic pairing of a piece of cheddar on a slice of apple pie - this is a new classic pairing for me. Is it a Canadian Tradition? Local? Looks delicious in any case!
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Really couldn't be bothered today after a tough day at work. Grabbed a frozen pizza (Dr Oetker Ristorante - the best frozen pizza in Australia, I'll die on that hill 😂) for the kid and I. Figured I could just wack mr low carb a steak on and fry an egg or something easy.
Well when I got home with said Pizza I was greated with Low-Carb FOMO puppy dog eyes. So ended up making a low carb pizza using this.
He has decided he would rather just miss pizza next time / wait till I make a cauli crust. 🤦♀️
Pepperoni and Bacon, Baby Bocc & a quick pizza sauce with a tin of whole plum tomatos blitzed and herbed & reduced.
Should have just made the planned dinner. Would have been quicker!
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Boneless pork ribs & mixed veges (Bland due to Hubs Low Carb). Kid had dipping pot of Stubbs BBQ sauce.
My dear departed Nannys Rustic Apple Bake for Kids Dessert. Baked in her ancient enamel tin.
As per usual I ignored her 80+ years of baking experience and left it in for 10 more minutes aaaaaannnnnd got dry Apple Bake.
So served with Icecream 😂.
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Chicken Pie that just won "Best Chicken Pie In Australia".
It actually won its heat. Not the final round but thats not how the bakery and local media are spinning it and all power to them.
Since their Facebook post, trade has doubled. I found this out when I was chatting to the head baker/owner at my work and exclaimed how great it was! He replied that everyone keeps saying that but he's now working 15/18 hour days to keep up and he ain't that thrilled 😂.
Big bits of thigh. Little bit much carrot for me. Excellent pastry. The pie pictured also took a nose dive at speed off my dash board so extra points for durability.
My only complaint is the poppy seeds. I know they have to identify but I hate poppy seeds.
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14 hours ago, Captain said:
Did you find them on the Barbed wire fence?
Nah just rehydrated a couple of bottle openers 😂
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15 hours ago, Dejah said:
THIS really caught my attention! I assume these were giant meatballs perhaps made from ground Roo meat and not really from a neutered kangaroo!
😁😂 Yes just Kangaroo Meatballs. If I ever post "Bush Oysters" then we're getting into that territory.
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Kangaroo Balls with Cabbage & Parmesan in a Tomato Sauce for the big one.
Cumberland Pork Sausage and Veg with a Dipping Pot of Bisto for the Small one.
I dont get the dip pot either 🤷♀️
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Chinese inspired Omelette.
Soy, Sesame, Bean Sprouts, Cabbage, Brocoli, Pork, Spring Onions.
Possibly American Chinese? I struggled to find the correct fu/foo yung/young combo. So Omelette it is. Also cooked without oil.
I know when I was younger and fussier Duck Foo Yung was the first 'Chinese' dish I ever got from the takeaway. Prior to that moment of Culinary Bravery, my parents always just got me a bag of hot chips.
I think I was 17 😂.
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So the cheeky trip away didn't go as planned. The kid stepped on some nasty Australian Ocean critter at camp and didn't tell anyone until I noticed he couldn't walk properly.
One emergency surgery later. This is the kids dinner.
And this is mine.
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Picked the small one up from school camp and decided not to go home 🤷♀️.
Garlic Pizza to start
Rump Steak for Me
Nuggies for the boy
Pork ribs for hubby 😮
And the leftovers incase you thought we were animals😂
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We are without Child for the first time in a year so we drove to the big town for a date night.
Spring Roll
Takoyaki
Spicy Korean Pork Bento came with fruit, Miso Soup, Scallops, Calamari & A fish roe pineapple salad.
Okonomiyaki
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Chili Chicken Stew/Soup in a Capsicum Bowl.
Don't ask how many I knocked over / spilt transfering from tray to plate.
3. It was 3.
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9 hours ago, heidih said:
@CantCookStillTry I find shelling pistachio (and other nuts) meditative and comforting. BUT what is the Aussie beetroot thing? Does it have a history? I really like them from fresh pulled and roasted but will eat tinned in a vinegar/sugar dressing. Just curious.
I have no idea. Never ate it before I came here and it was on every Pub burger and steak sandwich - I've just gone with the flow because it works! Maybe @Captain or one of the others can shed some light.
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Rubbish Photo but Rib Steak Sangas for the boys tonight. BBQ sauce, cucumber, lettuce, onion, beetroot. I forgot the carrot.
I spent an hour this afternoon preparing work snacks for my husband, hence the easy dinner. Half an hour in I was thinking to myself how good I am to him.
Don't worry I spent way more than an hour actively telling him how grateful he should be 😂.
((It's my own choice - I'm too cheap to pay the $55 kg for shelled ones he gets))
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Back home. Simple dinner. We walked past a butcher while on a stroll and then had to drive back the next day to purchase a Tomahawk Steak my husband HAD to have.
I am scared of it. But tonight is not Steak Night. My personal preference to test a butcher is by the quality of their Pork Sausage. Something traditionally used to prevent waste but that has the ability to be so good in the right hands - and awful in the wrong ones 🤷♀️.
So bangers and mash tonight. Dipping gravy for the child 🤦♀️.
The sausages looked great and had nice flavour, not all that fatty. But once I hit a piece of gristle it's game over for me. 😞