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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 😂.

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.

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😂

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

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.

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.

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))

A couple of dinners and a parenting fail. Chopped salad and 3 (Bantam) Egg plain Omelette with Sriracha The Good Stuff. The Parenting Fail. Chicken Stirfry with Bamboo, Thai red curry paste, Soy, Chili, assorted veg, noodles. It was so spicy. My 7 year old ate it in silence with a lot of water. I was so pleased. The fail comes in later when I ate it myself... and thought how did he eat that, its at the upper end for me 🤔. And then I remembered the promise - he got his switch if he ate his dinner nicely 🤦‍♀️.

I made it to the bakery today, just for you guys. Went for the traditional plain steak. Its a good heavy little pie with no pesky tin tray. The pastry was a little under today. The steak is soft and quite chunky (which I prefer to a minced filling). It has been established I eat pies weird. Pastry Shell to chew. I even went so far as to buy their yukky sausage roll just to show you. I took the half unmushed side home for kid who is not fussy about sausage rolls. The pastry is really really great and flakey. Which makes the filling even more disappointing. Beef sausage littered with carrot, zucchini, heavy on the pepper and absolutely filled with these seeds. Its also drier than I like a sausage roll. Why?

Consider making them the star. Baked Potato is a rustic thing of wonder. I often bake a few little ones for work lunches. Rub with oil and salt, bake for 1 hour at 180c. Top with whatever you fancy. Cheese & Bacon, just sour cream as a side. Baked beans if you are a heathen like me. If you are happy to go to the lower depths of hell... I put canned tuna on mine 🙂.

Sushi on the move. Calamari and Yummy chicken for the kidlet. Spicy Chicken for the Big Boy. I dont like sushi that much so didn't waste the calories.

"The Boys" wanted "snacks" for dinner at their game night. I was annoyed and tried to stitch them up... turns out the trick to learning chopsticks is to be drunk. 🙄

Sorry @Kim Shook I put them in the oven at 200c and when I say a little stock I mean just enough to coat bottom of the pan like you would get meat drippings - Other wise you get mush

I have eaten this for my lunch every day for 4 days - after eating it for tea on Sunday 🤦‍♀️. This is why I don't roast often! I hate eating leftovers, but I hate waste more! Mission completed. And yes, a teaspoon is the only weapon I have for desk meals - no I haven't fixed that for oh 7 years 🤷‍♀️.

Time to horrify some Americans (and probably a lot of other people too 😂!) This is what happens when you leave Dad in charge of dinner for a child thats been at soccer camp all day! The 2kg frozen solid lasagne that was first choice some how didn't unfreeze and cook in the alotted "cook fresh" time with an extra 10 minutes and 20 degrees 🤦‍♀️. A starter of Beans on Toast. See @patti you had nothing to worry about 🤷‍♀️😂

@Kim Shook Thanks! Exactly what I was going for. Really wanted a good old fashioned Englush style roast - conceeded the pumpkin for my Aussie audience. Yes the enamels nest. Some on purpose some by happy accident (half belonged to my grandmother and I had sent over when I spotted them in the 'dump' pile on facetime 😂). Stuffing balls are my cheaty get ahead. Stale bread and sage blitzed to crumbs, combine with cooled sweated onion and garlic, bind with egg. Roll in to balls and cook for 20 mins in a little stock. Then I usually freeze for a quick side that looks like I tried hard. On the day chuck them in with whatevers in the oven for the last 20 mins 🙂. Funnily enough I spent all day telling my husband I had forgotten something and being grouched at because there was no way there was supposed to be more. Half way through dinner, I dropped my fork and angrily muttered "It was the bleeping Sprouts". 😂

7 adults and my kidlet. I introduced 5 adults to Swede for the first time!

Roast Lamb and Trimmings for us. I'm only allowed to make roasts when we have company as I tend to have scaling issues. Think I used nearly every Enamel pan I have! Lamb Leg Rubbed with Garlic Lemon and Rosemary. Very bad pic. In the last 20 mins of preparing a Roast I get frantic - and pictures add another layer 😂. It worked out medium heading to well. Husdudes brothers have a fear of pink 🤦‍♀️. Roasties Butternut Pumpkin with Sage (forgot to take a before photo). Yorkies Broc & Cauli Peas Green Beans Honey Mustard Carrots Mashed Swede with Cinnamon & Nutmeg Sage & Onion stuffing balls cooked in stock Piggies in Blankets Gravy & Mint Sauce to serve and I'm done. 😴 I used to do this roast every other Sunday back home but I haven't done one in a year. At home I used to serve up plated but these guys prefer self serve - so many more dishes 🤦‍♀️.

And Ps. No, this is absolutely not one I will take for the team. I'm still scarred from the 1 mountain dew chip I tried 🤢. Even the KID chose to throw them away.

Please make it stop, I want to get off.

It is a silly thread. It's nice to be silly sometimes 🤷‍♀️. Noone is wrong noone is right, everyone does things different, we all agree on that. Plus we still get to judge the way other people do things, but we can laugh about it in a nice friendly way 😂.

I didn't cook tonight, that's more relevant to the other thread on mojo, but I did put together the quintessential Australian ICBF to cook meal. Bread roll, Coleslaw, Rotisserie Chicken. I was actually okay to cook, but hubby came home from the big town with a chook in a bag and the rest. Comfort food I guess.

Hey this is a judgement free zone! Like someone already said, there's no really wrong way as long as your enjoying yourself! Cultural mistakes are a different kettle of fish. I also do the sequential eating but I'm not as bad as I was as a kid. And even I know I did that "wrong" I start with my least favourite thing on the plate and work my way up to the favourite thing - by which time favourite thing is no longer at its best and usually cold 😬. Sauce / Ketchup is for dipping only! I also do not understand smotherers. Messy.

I was curious, I have decided to create this topic (that has probably been discussed before) because I have been deemed a weirdo by my husband for the way that I eat certain foods. It started innocently the other night when I told my son he was eating his Lasagne "weird". He eats Lasagne by scraping the top level of cheese/bechamel off and eating that first, then consumes the rest. My husband said I had no right to say that because I roll the whole top layer of cheesy pasta off the lasagne, put it to the side and eat that last 😂. He just eats the layers in one spoon like a normy. He also brought up the fact I eat what he considers 'hand pies' with a spoon. Eating the inner then consuming the pastry shell bare / empty instead of just biting the whole thing out of the paper. So what are your weird food eating kinks? Peel the skin off a jacket potato first? Eat the fish before the batter? Burn toast on purpose? I know I can't be the only "weirdo". 😂.

Woah. Wakes up in Australia to tinpiegate 😁. I agree mainly with that review @rotuts - I can't lie and say I didn't often wonder if it was cat food with a pastry hat. Especially on a lazy day when I was served it still in the tin. Hat was worth the cat though.