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Boring but pretty desk salad. I have never been friends with Salad, probably because I don't like Cucumber or Tomato, but I'm trying. Would probably have been a lot better if I remembered most salads have some kind of dressing! Edit: I know there will be a specific post somewhere in the last 9000 years of egullet that I should ask this question but if someone wants to send me an idea for a dressing to suit this salad - that would be great 😋😆

Steak, Mash & Diane Sauce (🤮) as requested by He who Eats. Mash with obscene amounts of homemade butter. Porterhouse 1.5 inch, Reverse Seared.

Sausage and Egg MumMuffin 😅 The cheese was branded 'American Burger Cheese' at Aldi - I think they did the USA a disservice. The way it looked made me riffle through my bin to confirm I did infact take the plastic off!

@heidih It's true! I will admit to never having had Beetroot until I got here and it was on everything. Fresh is readily available and is used. But in my experience it is most commonly the tinned/pickled or precooked and vacuum sealed types. Huge ones thick sliced for your burgers and sammys, whole baby ones or tinned tiny cubes for your side salads. Yeah. They love the Beetroot.

For todays episode of 'what can I shove in my mouth before something else happens' I chose this ultra healthy salad. Lettuce, Cheese, Beetroot & Carrot - two small croutons on the side(s).

@Dejah I'll take one of each Pie please! I will outright blame you when my husband gets the "Pie for Dinner" Stink Eye. He associates pie with a quick one hand driving snack suitable only for Breakfast or Lunch.

😀 Thank You ... to be fair I'd rather not admit to exactly how long those poor survivors remained.

I made a big batch of sausage rolls for my kids Lunch Boxes this afternoon and toddled off to other housework whilst they cooled. Something was lost in communication and a Free For All ensued. Lunches became Dinner. All that Remained.

Welsh Rarebit. Red Leicester, Aged Cheddar, Yolks, Mustard & Woster Sauce - served on Bread. AKA The Hyacinth Bouquet. Yup. It's Cheese on Toast.

Technically the Hawaii Fruit Pizza at least is spot on. In our rural Queensland locale there are two cafes that make pizza, about 25 km apart from each other and some distance again from us. One offers A Hawaiian Pizza (Ham Cheese and Pineapple) and One offers a Capricciosa Pizza (Ham Cheese & Olives). At neither am I allowed to order just a Ham and Cheese Pizza. It has to be a Hawaiian without Pineapple or a Capricciosa without Olives. Woe betide you if you try and order Ham and Cheese - You will be told very bluntly that that option is not on the menu! And what really really makes my eye twitch, is that fact they're all (toppings at least) made to order soooo... Some offerings from a nation wide chain ( Pizza Capers)

While I gather your 'hatred' is caused by your current glut, I'm the unfortunate soul that actually does. Canned tomatos fine, puree fine, on a pizza fine. Fresh and Raw straight from the garden, the Holy Grail of so very many people on this forums Summer? Even the thought turns my stomach. It saddens me. But not enough to try and change my tastes!

Lunch a delivered by my Beau and I decided to go for my Biennial 'Lets Give a Steak Sanga Another Chance'. This was NOT the game changer. Chippys were quite good though. 'Prime' Rump Steak, Onion, Lettuce, Cheese, Carrot, Beetroot - Tomato and Cucumber (discarded) No Sauce.

Jc's Bacon & Ham flavoured Stripes. They taste of neither. I limit myself to maybe a bag a year. Australias version of Frazzles I guess (If you ever ate crisps in the UK in the 90s). Glorious. Painfully salty. Complete garbage. Delicious.

Yes sorry, I wasn't very clear. Australian Slaw is much the same - cabbage, carrot, onion, lots of mayo, occasional sneaked addition of capsicum. In the case of my fish and chips it is simply hidden UNDER the last bit of fish and the salad - along with a whole pickled beetroot! I recently ate another sample of my bland curry in my mission to declutter the freezer. As I was tucking in my husband asked 'why are YOU eating that?' I shrugged and blamed the ton of food I'd managed to store and his not so subtle suggestion I deal with it. He said 'Yeah but that's the child safe curry you made to freeze for 'small dude' dinner emergencies in case you get slammed at work?' Mystery solved. Label... Label.... must Label.

Pancakes for the lad. Bacon wrapped in a Crepe, Eggs & Beans (ruined with BBQ sauce as is the Australian way 😪 😀) for the Man. Fresh Orange Juice (and leftover pancakes) for Moi.

@rotuts Thanks so Much! Although I am afraid I will disappoint you, the lamb had three hours and was not in the slightest rare. I find the fattier lamb shoulder works better low and slow for my tastes but I am definitely with you on the pinkness preferred for most other lamby cuts.

Slow Roast Lamb Shoulder, Gravy with Pan juices and Red Wine, Roasties, Yorkies plus unpictured Veg. Not bad for a Tuesday work night... even if dinner was far too late and the child had to be made emergency frozen Pizza when the complaining got too much! 😏

Garlic & Cheese Pizza Bread, Chicken Tenders, Breaded Camembert. For health, and to ensure this meal was balanced, a Margarita & a Lychee Martini.

All shared three ways. Apart from the sweet potato fries. My son is in the same camp as me it would seem - sweet potato is out. Prawn Crackers, Beef Pho, " Pork Bahn Mi ", Fries.

I was delivered lunch to the office today. My husband grabbed (Australian) fish and chips from the pub in an attempt to spend some time together before I got sucked back in. It was really good (and huge) for $12. I managed one bit of fish and some coleslaw before life took over, but my son had the rest for his Tea.

Oh I can Please note the qualifier 'Expected' - this clearly was not a Thai Curry or anything close! It merely looked that way when I pulled the unlabelled container from the depths of the chest freezer. I freely admit I have no idea what this was meant to be - only that it was not great! (I made it. It sucked. Froze it so as not to be wasteful. Picked it for lunch. Still sh×t).

Freezer find Al Desko. I can identify chicken, kale, capsicum and the sort lack of any real taste that has me coming to the conclusion these were meals stashed in the freezer in the hope we would loose power for days! I had expected it to be a Thai style curry in its frozen state. Noone to blame but myself. 🙃

Yorkie with Gravy. Lacked the inclination to do any of the other components of the traditional Sunday Roast. But the Yorkie itch had to be scratched. And while I'm admitting my laziness, I may as well admit I'm a sometime member of the Bisto club.

Potato Bake for dinner. I know one traditionally serves Potato Bake with ... well something. I am not a traditionalist, and Potato = Life.

When I was younger, I was petrified of the Tube. So whenever I had to do anything in London, my Dad would meet me at Waterloo and take me to where I needed to be. I was always early and always bought a baguette from one of the vendors, they cost £a kidney, for either egg mayo and Bacon or Pork Sausage. I didn't have the Cress to really take me back.