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@HungryChris I don't suppose you would be willing to share your Chili recipe? It looks divine

Tonight I tried Nigellas Chicken & Pea Tray bake from At My Table. Mine does NOT look like her Instas! But it did taste good and was beautifully easy on a work night... I did find the peas a little chewy though & skin not as crispy as I like - I just followed the recipe, so none of my usual skin crisping efforts occurred and its my fault. (It's Hump Day gimmie a Break 😁) Nigellas recipe used 8 thighs to feed four, I was only comfortable with 7 in the pan with spacing. We are also a well sated 2 with this to fit in the freezer!

A Taco on Tuesday. This is the first picture... I turned the plate to take a better one, it fell over, I shoved it all back in with my fingers, didn't improve the aesthetic, declined a second photo. Tasted the same 🤷‍♀️

Quickly spatched, blasted with a hair drier, natural assets enhanced beneath the skin with garlic paste, butter and rosemary and 40 mins later, dinner was Chicken. Something about a spatch-cocked chicken really amuses me and I have no idea why.. it seems so.. embarrassed ?! 🤔😅 Edit: Thanks to @liuzhou for solving my formatting issues!

Stuffed Jalapeños. Pre bake. Admittedly this was my hub and buddies 'dinner'... mine involved scraping the bowl so still counts.

Marinated Beef on Sticks. Naked Slaw with horseradish cream. Potato salad.

Cross Ants with Ham and Swiss. Shared.

It hit 37 degrees today and summers still a month away... 😓 but it's October so its time for a big cauldron of Chili. Obviously.

Eggs, Bacon, Sour Dough. HP to drown out the disaster that was deciding to top the eggs with unadvertised Corriander 🤮 Excessive Chinaware.

Couldn't find the topic for 'The Food you shove down quickly back in your hotel room after a looong early afternoon wedding before travelling on to the evening reception" So lunch will do.

Pork Belly, Crackle, Apple Salad & Picked Crab. Obviously not made by me!

I hate to waste if I can help it. So left over baguette became burger buns for a chipotlé chicken burger.

Mexican-ish Street Corn Snacks for the boys... Watermelon for pudding. Yeah. There was not alot left in the tank come dinner time today!

Phew! It is really heating up down here! We have had some insane supercell storms to announce the start of the hot hot. So. Of course. My hemispherically confused body is craving brown stew. Turnip, Swede, Leek, Carrot with Beef Cheeks & Neck. Cooked low, slow & sweatily.

I decided to break open the Mae Ploy Red Curry Paste. I just followed the directions on the tin, very simple, the veg I chose was what I had available - Capsicum & Bok Choy the protein was chicken. Was nice. Was hot. Authentic? No bloody idea. A lot 'runnier' than curry I am used to.. but I grew up with British Indian Currys so I'm hardly a judge.

I made tonights quick dinner with a mind to use up the Guac & Sour Cream near perishing in the fridge. Found out the Big one had the same idea for little ones lunch as I came to serving... So instead of fully loaded, I present 'Half -Cocked Nachos' 😅

The Big One wanted the Chorizo Breakfast. The middle one wanted the Halloumi and Bacon. The smallest insisted he only wanted Jammy Toast. Then ate some of mine (sans green 🙄) and all of Dads toast, hbrown & bacon. The whites on the big ones eggs were still runny unfortunately but everything else was awesome.

Away for a few days. Wagyu Rice Bowl Shoyu Ramen Pork Gyoza Karage & Spring Rolls. First time I have ever used chopsticks 🤣😬 Baptism of fire!

Clean the Fridge Cous Cous. Whole meal Cous Cous, Peas, Bacon, Roast Pork, Pizzaroni, Cheese Ends. Pictured is my sons bowl. Mine will be whats left in the lower third of the bowl. It will be 90% peas.

I picked a pot of pickle and a pot of pork but alas no pickled peppers for the picking.

Hand up. I too am a hoarder of things I picked up at the Asian market and have failed to use. I am 100% a curry novice. Not touched the Dopiaza yet as the ingredients required to assemble seem to make a curry far larger than I have freezer space.

Chicken Schnitzel Burger for lunch. With Beetroot, Lettuce, Coleslaw & Cheese - would have been perfect apart from the suprise BBQ sauce. 🤨. Pub in a bustling town with a population of 77 people.

"Road" Food. If you can call it a road. He had bacon egg tom sauce and onion on white from a volunteer community market kitchen... it was not the ideal onehander sammy 😂

@dcarch The photography is, as always stunning, as is undoubtedly the taste. However I think someone may have sold you a Facehugger instead of a squid.

I baked the aforementioned Fish Pie of my childhood tonight, as one thing I loathe doing is being wasteful. The recipe is from this book - the book I consider to be the one I first tried to cook from (This one is actually a £1 second hand job from Amazon - the original is safely in my mums possession). It is so incredibly retro British (50% of recipes at a guess contain tinned corn and frozen peas 😂). So dinner is a riff on the 'Family Fish Pie' - a dish I love for its associated memories as much as its taste. However these days I am forced to make so many alterations when I do get a craving (no boiled egg - minimal smoked fish subbing for 75% unsmoked) that the most nostalgic thing is probably the fact I use my Grandmothers enamel cookware! There is no way to make her pretty once served so fresh outta the oven shot.