Lunch! What'd ya have? (2015–2016)

[liamsaunt]

This morning I made a couple of things to take for work lunches this week. A wheatberry and vegetable salad

 

 

And a turkey vegetable soup made from the remnants of the turkey I roasted for dinner yesterday

 

[sartoric]

Chicken and pea samosas with homemade sweet chilli sauce (less sweet, more chilli than the commercial variety).

 

[blue_dolphin]

Egg salad on toasted whole wheat bread and some purple carrots:

 

[Kim Shook]

A recent lunch:

Tuna fish salad and cheese sandwich, pickles, some of my favorite olives – castelvetranos – and blizzard Funyuns (gotta have those).   I just love salad sandwiches - ham, chicken, egg, tuna. 

[kayb]

1 hour ago, Kim Shook said:

A recent lunch:

 

Tuna fish salad and cheese sandwich, pickles, some of my favorite olives – castelvetranos – and blizzard Funyuns (gotta have those).   I just love salad sandwiches - ham, chicken, egg, tuna. 

 

LOVE Castelvetrano olives.

[liuzhou]

Lunch today was a bit of a hotchpotch of major cross-cultural proportions. Started with a conchiglie, Hunan ham (shailan), cranberry bean, carrot, leek, celery, garlic soup with a chicken stock base.

 

 

Then a couple of Chilean avocados with a lime vinaigrette, sea salt from Beihai near the border of China with Vietnam, and mixed pepper (black, white, red and green).

 

 

Edited January 29, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[shain]

Toasted fussili in 3 onions sauce, made with caramelized onions, chives, scallions, garlic, black pepper and eggs for thickening.

The pasta was toasted in a 140dC oven until lovely brown and nutty. The toasting also helps the pasta keep an al-dante texture.

Edited January 29, 2016 by shain
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[naguere]

Lunch in Cheltenham England.:

 

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowUserReviews-g186284-d7786376-r342348322-Cote_Brasserie_Cheltenham-Cheltenham_Cotswolds_England.html

[blue_dolphin]

On January 24, 2016 at 10:25 AM, liamsaunt said:

This morning I made a couple of things to take for work lunches this week. A wheatberry and vegetable salad

 

 

And a turkey vegetable soup made from the remnants of the turkey I roasted for dinner yesterday

 

 

liamsaunt, I've been admiring that colorful, jewel-like wheatberry salad and delicious looking vegetable soup AND those beautiful bowls all week.  I hope they tasted as good as they look in your photos!

[Anna N]

 

 I slept through what most consider a reasonable breakfast hour.  But I had been given a dozen farm fresh eggs and I am determined that I will eat them while they are fresh. So lunch was two of these beautiful eggs poached to perfection in the very traditional way of simmering hot water. 

[FrogPrincesse]

On ‎1‎/‎21‎/‎2016 at 9:55 PM, liuzhou said:

 

It's a popular place and gets packed out at lunchtime, Today I got there a little earlier. But if it is full, there is always the horse meat noodle place round the corner. Although I prefer donkey.

 

So how does donkey compare to horse meat? I grew up eating horse meat but never had donkey, so I am curious!

[blue_dolphin]

@Anna N, your poached eggs look beautiful, especially on that pretty red plate!

 

Also motivated by fresh eggs I picked up at the farmer's market yesterday, I made myself a repeat of a breakfast from earlier in the week. Half a leftover chicken tamale and herby green chile rice and beans topped with a poached egg:

 

The last egg that I poached was so old that the white almost completely separated from the yolk in the water but this one was perfect.

 

[chefmd]

Scallops with mushroom risotto.  Scallops were nice and dry, almost sweet tasting.  

 

[Smithy]

It seems to me that good scallops are a bit on the sweet side.  I love it when I can get them fresh and fairly dry.  Yours look nicely seared and cooked perfectly.

[liuzhou]

10 hours ago, FrogPrincesse said:

So how does donkey compare to horse meat? I grew up eating horse meat but never had donkey, so I am curious!

 

Very similar but donkey is, to my mind, slightly more delicate in flavour. Perhaps slightly sweeter, too.

 

There is a horse noodle place just round the corner from the donkey shop. I'll try to do a side by side comparison some day.

Edited January 30, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[shain]

Pizza party this afternoon:

 

White pizza with ricotta, mozzarella, eggplant, mushrooms, smoked sea salt, oregano and thyme.

 

Margarita

 

 

Calzone, filled with eggplant, cherry tomatoes, spinach, mozzarella and some garlic. This one got my mouth burnt all right, this sneaky cheese stay real hot in her little pocket...

 

 

Spicy tomato sauce, goat cheese, mozzarella. olives, cherry tomatoes.

 

 

Ricotta, a, figs, aniseed, black pepper, sea salt.

 

[BonVivant]

Was full after the rice paper rolls so that bowl in the background is for dinner later.

Hard to focus on the rice paper!

 

 

[Franci]

Lunch is going to be this roasted chicken plus a pan of potatoes/Korean sweet potatoes/celeriac cooked under the chicken

[Anna N]

 

Roots roasted in olive oil and cider vinegar and then a little Cambozola crumbled over them.  

[blue_dolphin]

Ham salad on sourdough toast.  Bread & butter pickles and farmer's market tomato.

 

I know people think ham salad is ick, but it's a childhood comfort food for me.  I made soup with the bone and some of the trimmings from the holiday ham but stashed some bits and pieces in the freezer.  A query about how to use overcooked pork brought this to mind so I pulled some out, ground it up, mixed in some mustard and mayo and became 6 years old for lunch!

[kayb]

No photos, but I had a piece of homemade sandwich bread, toasted and cut into croutons and topped with a couple of poached egg yolks, along with a wedge of raw cabbage with salt and a glass of homemade vegetable juice cocktail.

 

[Shelby]

6 minutes ago, kayb said:

No photos, but I had a piece of homemade sandwich bread, toasted and cut into croutons and topped with a couple of poached egg yolks, along with a wedge of raw cabbage with salt and a glass of homemade vegetable juice cocktail.

 

Raw cabbage... you are a better veggie eater than I ....I like it shredded in slaw, though.  So maybe I should try it.

[kayb]

14 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Raw cabbage... you are a better veggie eater than I ....I like it shredded in slaw, though.  So maybe I should try it.

I love to just cut a wedge of it, sprinkle on a little salt, and munch.

Will email you my "jail slaw" recipe. It's a vinegar-based slaw with turmeric, mustard and white pepper.

 

 

[Anna N]

 

Toasted (and overloaded) ham and cheese sandwich. There was just a haze of whole grain mustard on the ham side.  The cheese was a gift and it's from the Beehive Cheese Company. This particular one was called Captain John's Cajun. Thank goodness there is some left because the ham overwhelmed it here!   On the side -- the last of the Greek giardiniera ( anxious to attempt making my own).

[Tere]

Oh hai, I am Tere and my food photography skills are minimal

 

Picnic lunch today.

 

Carved Serrano ham from Aldi, toasted walnut bread, lemon marinated green olives, walnuts, Snowdonia Company Black Bomber cheese, a red Shropshire cheese of uncertain provenance, butter and my home made wild damson cheese (the almost black stuff on the cheese plate). Plus pate that I forgot to photograph. Has Bean coffee on left for me with Believe kanji, Rave decaf on right for hubby (with Fun kanji). Hooray for leftovers!

 

Edited February 6, 2016 by Tere
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