CantCookStillTry

I love a Rib Eye for a tasty steak or a Sirloin if i'm after taste but less fat. I also love beef cheeks, pain in the butt too prepare, but I love the sort of unctuous quality they give to stews - hard to find unfrozen here though. I love the taste and value of a roasted lamb shoulder - but I can't carve it suitably for my slab loving carnivores so tend to go for a leg.

I know this thing has its own topic but it also fits here. I have driven thousands of kilometres in the last few weeks. Mcdonalds happened. More than once 🤦‍♀️. On some of the less discerning food pages I watch on social media, the Filet-O-Fish has a cult like following. So the *Sh!t Foodie* in me decided to try. Dear God No. Why? Sweet. Messy. Cheesy 'Fish'. Hot tartar. An abomination. (And I love a fish finger sandwich when I'm in the mood to relive Uni). This is after my, hubs and kidlets bite. Didn't find the right cult for me on this day. 😂

Tempura Prawn & Avo. Breakfast of 6 year old Champions. Muma has 24 hours left in civilization before its back to the dust.

I can't find the topic for 'I'm just gonna eat chips and nuts and drink wine this evening & this is the most substantial thing I had'. So Dinner it is. Banana & Vanilla Bean Oreo & Bubble Gum Yup I did let my child eat something that colour. Yup. I am regretting it now.

I love your honesty, sarcasm & linguistic skills so much I just spent 10 minutes consulting the Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries trying to work out if I spelled spicy wrong 😂

Briefly home before the road trip continues South. Found a forgotten Pumpkin in the Larder. So a simple Spicy Soup for dinner.

Fortunately I detest Rum so I do remember! It was what I consider standard spring roll stuffing + couple lumps of meat. Cabbage, Carrot, Bean Sprouts - if there was anything else it didn't jump out. I'm going to add: My family are visiting - it's not just the usual 2.5 of us 😂

Dinner out tonight. At a place called Fish D'vine. We are not really seafood aficionados, however the Bar in this place has Australia's largest collection of Rum... Unfortunately the Rum aficionado the trip was designed for managed to stand on a broken glass bottle whilst taking out the bin 🤦‍♀️. I patched him the best I could so we could make dinner but I expect there will be a trip to a flesh seamstress in the AM. Just enough Rum was consumed to make it through the night. Scallops, Chorizo & Cauli Puree Crocodile Spring Rolls Salmon Sashimi Tempura Tiger Prawns Seafood Pasta Ocean Basket Red Throat Emp & Feta Salad Macadamia Crust Barra w/ Rattatouille Fish N Chips (Spanish Mackeral) Little Dude had Calamari Big Wounded Dude had 2x All rum Long Island Ice Teas... for medicinal purposes 😁🤢 And no one hit me over the 'don't touch it let me lean over and take a picture' rule. Winning.

Everyone said they were okay for dinner again. I didn't believe them. I hate waste so took a 2kg bag of taytos on holiday with me. Dinner / Drink Snack Roasties.

The Big Breakky of the Holiday. Guilt Easer.

Lunch. Potato salad, cold meat, coleslaw, bread roll, green salad & the yummiest noodle salad. Lunch View

We had a large lunch so people were happy to just have nibbles for dinner. Made a ham & cheese toastie for the little... and then everyone wanted ham & cheese toasties 🙄.

Lunch at a place called Northerlies in Airlie Beach. 3x Rib Eye, Chips & Sauce Halloumi Burger Wagyu Burger swimming in mustard pickles. Guess who had Nuggets 🙄 You pay for the location.

Pit stop at the Flaggy Rock Cafe in Carmila. Mid North Qld. Steak Pie (Curry Pie looked Identical). Mint Chip Ice Cream Share Snausage Roll. All Beef. Still subpar to Gregs.

I have developed a habbit of Guinness based Stoups. Chuck & Cheek mix, Mash.

Sorry. Tomato Ketchup. I think its a Southern England thing like Mickie D's (for McDonalds). 🤷‍♀️ Just something I grew up with.

Soccer Night, so quick and easy. I suck at these. Mine are always dense enough to kill a duck but my son dosen't know another way. And my husbands at work so its fine. Fritters/Bricks. Corn Beef Fritters. With lashings of Tommy K for the child. 😂

Spanish Rice with Chorizo and Sage from the Readers Digest 30 minute cookbook. One of the very first things I used to make when I tookover cooking duties after School. Back then Chorizo was a little exy for us so we used Hotdogs, this time I had Chorizo to use up and something made me remember this dish 🤷‍♀️. Not gonna lie, Nostalgia prefers Hotdogs.

True Pastitsio is a labor of Greek Bechamel layered love, (think Greek Lasagna) and I would recommend everyone try it once. I haven't linked a recipe because every one I looked at had an element of not quite right... But I'm not Greek and like Lasgane - I think everyone has 'Their Way'. This time-poor mans imitation is a tomato based lamb sauce with Cinnamon, Oregano, Garlic etc. Topped with cooked Pasta that I just stirred some slightly thinned Ricotta, Parmesan, Cheddar & Mozz (cos' cheese) through and baked. To me not so shepherds pie like although similar in construction - More an upside down baked Bolognese type dish? But then I don't tend to use tomato in my Shep Pie so it could be exactly like you say 😀.

Lamby Pasta Casserole. A cheaty fast and admittedly poor imititation of what I was truly craving - Pastitsio. But its a school night, and there's home work and soccer training and laundry and needs must.

I know I love the vernacular. There is nothing they can't colloquialise. Schnitty, Parmo, Sambo, Snag, Bum Nuts (eggs) Chook.. to name a few food related ones off the top of my head.

Ritualised traditional Aussie breakfast. OH&S approved onion placement.

In case you wanted further proof Australian snack designers do so in a circle, passing to the left hand side.

Guinness Stoup for lunch. I froze the cauldron I made recently, and took to the work freezy to save me from Grease on those over busy days.

About to head home from work and I get the "Friends are here can you bring snacks" message. I confirm I can and enquire as to what form of snacks are required. The answer was "Lots". And thats when I began to suspect one of said friends was Beer. Unpictured dips, Chips, Nuts, Beer etc 🙄