CantCookStillTry

At the risk of being booted from the forum, I must confess, one of my favourite childhood meals was a steak and kidney pie from a.. ahem.. a can. Fray Bentos was the brand. I thought they were magic with the way the pastry rose out of the tin - my favourite part was the uncooked soggy pastry right on top of the gravy... shall I see myself out? Not my image screen grabbed from a google search. They sell them over here but my husband would not get over me spending $8.50 on a pie thats in a can.

It's that time of year again when the mecury begins rising to the mid thirties, the air con switches back on - and my cold northern hemisphere soul turns its seasonsally confused attention to rich brown gravys and stews and all things root vegetable 🤦‍♀️. Blade steak, onion, carrot, swede, turnip, red wine and stock etc

Our bakery is not open on weekends so I haven't taken that sausage roll for the team yet, but I did go to a party, and to spare @haresfur these are 'Party Pies/Rolls'. Just small pies and sausage rolls (beef) that are seemingly a staple of any Australian youth / Footie game goer. The pastry is sh!te, the meat filling is questionable - but pretty much everybody that grew up here loves them. I don't hate them, but then I would eat pretty much any meat in pastry ever. But not with Ketchup. Heathens.

Its homemade @rotuts, trying to recreate a northern hemisphere mcmuffin - it's me that can't melt cheese 😂 For authenticity.

In our little part of the world we don't have a Mcdonalds, and sometimes thats all that you want to fix the leftovers of the night before. So every now and then my husband arrives home in the early hours of the AM and hands his ever patient (ha!) Wife a pack of muffins and sausages... 🙄😂.

I am with you on the beef thing. Everything sausagey is beef by default here in Australia - which is wrong - pork first. Spent a while thinking everyone was feeding me mouldy food when I first got off the boat and stayed at a hostel (cheap bbq beef sausage- when expecting pork). The taste was wrong. I will endeavour to get to the local bakery just to offend you guys. Not only does their sausage roll contain beef, it is also filled with chia seeds.

My only input regarding pie flipping and how I serve pies right side up - Burnt fingers 😂. Upside down, Inside out, Pie is Pie is Good.

Steak, Chips & Salad for Monday Tea. Oven Fries - slightly over done, I have an air frier but couldn't be bothered fetching it out. Anchovy butter for the rib steak (lemon, wholegrain, anchovies, capers, garlic & onion). Beetroot, Carrot & Onion with Rabbit food for salad. I tried the constant flip method for the first time for the steak, flipped every minute for 6 minutes total. I have to say, having been firmly camp don't touch, it wasn't bad. Although I probably wouldn't have burnt the chips if I had left it alone!

Beef & Bean Enchilladas for Daddys Day Dinner tonight. Leftovers packed up for his lunch tomorrow.

It was fine. I had some shrinkage as you can see. Base was a little under. I am a lazy cook, and I believe really good shortcrust requires speed to keep the butter cold. Speed I cannot be bothered to have on a lazy Sunday 😄. (Or a MTWTFS).

I made a Quiche. With Bacon, Onion & Cheese. Everyone knows that spring, when the temperature is rising above 30c again is the perfect time to dabble with melty melty shortcrust 🙄. My first batch of onion turned green. Weird. I threw it out after some googling.

Freezer Finds Pael-Nah. Featuring frozen peas, some hotdogs that were deemed 'yucky' when had in buns so went in to the cold ( because I can't stand throwing out food ). Couple of chicken thighs, rice onion garlic tomato tumeric etc. Needless to say when I told the kid we were having 'hot dog rice' he was really disapointed when I gave him this and not a hotdog with a side of plain white rice.

I've been put on a shopping ban until I clear some freezer / pantry space. It's got to the stage where I have flour in the kids toy storage - and I don't even bake! So pretty boring meat and veg meals for the boys. Giant pork chop with BBQ marinade. Porterhouse, Egg and Veg. And yes I know us "Dead Eggers" are the flat earthers of the foodie world but some people don't like goo! (And hey, my son dosen't eat egg and I saved your eyes from his side - shop bought plain, white, pasta - no EVOO, no butter, no S&P, no cheese, nothing - just the way he loves it! Suffer foodies, suffer 😂).

So many beautiful sausage rolls. Anyone else picking imaginary flakes of pastry from their clevage reflexively? Just me? Carry on. 😄

Pork Ginger & Garlic Stirfry for us.

My husband has asked me to share a photo of his dinner for you guys for the first time! This is his $22 Chili Con Carne and Rice. He was so offended. This is the kid and I's Pizza. I gave him the cooked half. We went away for the weekend. Sometimes takeaway treats are not so treaty. 😂 You win some, you loose some. But it's important to try and support businesses in these times if you can.

I read every single food blog from the dawn of time before I signed up. Waited for a while to post. I asked for one of my very first posts to be moved if it was in the incorect area at the start of the post before doing the bulk, I was so new. Got blasted the very next day with an admin asking me not to ask admin to move posts as it was against the rules and to read the rules again... with a lot of !!!! Almost never posted again. I am glad I persevered, but, that was a shitty start to my dream of being part of the comunity 😄.

The Hot Chicken and Cheese. They were certainly hot. I just had a taste. Not a fan, the cheese powder makes them extra 'Gluggy'.

Torture. This is Torture. It's been 2 years 232 days.... 😂

After an Indignant me found garlic bread on sale for $9 at the local IGA, I decided to assemble my own cheesy version at home. I want to tell you guys this was a side dish but.....

I sent the train noodles to work with hubster. Told him he had to send Noods. He thinks they were "ok, kinda spicy" which means he wasn't that impressed. He had the Beef and Pickled Cabbage flavour. This was the first photo I received. Captioned " How the Beep do I do this I can't read it" 😂🤦‍♀️ He worked it out.

Cottage Pie for us tonight - and the next forever. It's huge. Hidden Veg - yellow squash tomato carrot onion mix blitzed. Topped with "Rustic" cheesy mash and baked - read its a school night I had baby blues to use up and I was not peeling those suckers. Voila! The kid will eat veg but sometimes its nice to have a fuss free meal.

Porterhouse & Roasted Veg. (Pattypan, Carrot & Broc with onion, garlic, thyme & balsamic).

Did the Asian Grocery store run today for Garlic and Soy Sauce and anything interesting. Grabbed the essential mystery noods for the hub to try. Will update when eaten. Got these pot one cos ... Kung Fu Panda 🤷‍♀️ And then I picked these because they were pink 🤷‍♀️.

Breakfast of Champions. Maybe not the smartest Champions as it wasn't the easiest on the go snack 😂.