Lunch! What'd ya have? (2015–2016)

[BeeZee]

brought some cooked turkey in from home...quick run at lunch time to supermarket to pick up fresh wheat roll, avocado, and heirloom tomato (surprise!) and assembled sandwich in office kitchen. The tomato was an unexpected treat this time of year, had some decent flavor (it was the variety that is dark red and green with bright red flesh).

[shain]

It is uncommon for me to cook launch during weekdays, as I usually eat at work. However today I was free at home until past noon and had a chance to cook a quick pasta dish. An honorable heatwave required a refreshing summery meal. Bucatini in yogurt sauce and crispy toasted lentils (yum!), with garlic, dill, parsley, lemon peel, hot chili, fennel seeds, black pepper, cumin and a little Pecorino Romano. Greek yogurt would have given the sauce more thickness, but I didn't had any.
If you never tried toasting lentils or chickpeas, do give it a go.

 

 

Bonus of cooking for yourself alone: you can eat straight from the cooking pan  

[kayb]

There are few places in the world you can still get a traditional Monte Cristo, which apparently is a very 80s sandwich, but one I dearly love. One such place is a tiny little sandwich shop in a nearby small town, which boasts some of the best sandwiches you can get anywhere. My lunch companion had a Reuben that looked scrumptious, though it likely would not hold much of a candle to a New York one, but we take what we can get down here.

 

Anyway, they make a Monte Cristo like God intended Monte Cristos to be made. I always have them leave off the powdered sugar. But the strawberry preserves, I'll take that.

Rings were excellent, but for the fact they were too heavy with the black pepper in the batter.

 

[Shelby]

Oh my, I haven't had or thought about a monte cristo for years.  I used to order that (MUCH to my mom's surprise --I hated sweet stuff with meats) every time we went to this one restaurant.  I might need to look into making one of these at home.......

[kayb]

I swear, I believe these people dip their sandwiches in funnel cake batter. I don't want to know the calories and fat content.

I ordered a Monte Cristo at a restaurant in Memphis a couple of years ago, and got a ham and cheese sandwich between two pieces of French toast. It was grim.

[Tere]

It's a beautiful day here, the first really springlike day we've had, so I decided to join the cats and have lunch outside.

 

 

Caprese sandwich - buffalo mozzarella and heritage tomato on bought sourdough, with jack in the hedge as seasoning as I didn't have any basil. And a cheeky glass of white

[rotuts]

soooo  pics of the cat in " off topic companions ?  the white one there looks pretty comfy in the sun

 

 

nice.  have you tried M.R.ing ?

[Tere]

M.R.ing?

[rotuts]

Methode Rotuts.  you add your own fizz with a PureFizz

 

peek here :

 

 

 

and 

 

http://www.amazon.com/SodaPlus-SP76327-Soda-Carbonating-Starter/dp/B00CEAPDME/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1457708794&sr=8-3&keywords=purefizz

 

this looks very similar to the PureFizz

 

amazon deos not seem to carry PureFizz any more :

 

http://www.thekitchn.com/purefizz-soda-maker-product-review-195016

 

http://coolmompicks.com/blog/2014/06/07/mastrad-purefizz-soda-maker-review/

 

maybe its no longer made :

 

http://www.mastrad-paris.us/preparation/beverages-cocktails/purefizz.html

 

 

[Tere]

Heh. I actually own a Sodastream and have been known to do this

[blue_dolphin]

TJ's crab cake, fresh tomato, mini Hasselback potatoes with garlic & parmesan and sugar snap peas with red bell pepper and a dab of tartar sauce:

[Okanagancook]

6 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

TJ's crab cake, fresh tomato, mini Hasselback potatoes with garlic & parmesan and sugar snap peas with red bell pepper and a dab of tartar sauce:

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[Okanagancook]

That's the kind of meal I like to eat.  Nice combo!  I have some smaller russets in the pantry and you just gave me a recipe and I like the idea of parm and garlic.

[sartoric]

Jeez, some of these lunches look good. Mine is nearly always leftover dinner.

 

I had to google Monte Cristo. Combined with the details above I figure it's a ham and cheese sandwich with strawberry  jam, fried and dusted with sugar.  You're kidding right ? 

[Anna N]

7 hours ago, sartoric said:

Jeez, some of these lunches look good. Mine is nearly always leftover dinner.

 

I had to google Monte Cristo. Combined with the details above I figure it's a ham and cheese sandwich with strawberry  jam, fried and dusted with sugar.  You're kidding right ? 

Apparently not! I too had to Google it.  

[rotuts]

for some reason the Monte Cristo's  ive had  were not sweet and had a light cheesy white sauce over them.

 

more or less a 'french toast' ham and cheese sand. w that white sauce over it.

Edited March 12, 2016 by rotuts (log)

[Shelby]

The ones that I had years ago were just like what Kay had.  I know it sounds weird, and I swear I don't like sweets with meats, but this sandwich works.  The salty ham balances the jam.  SO good.  I haven't had one since like junior high.  I used to get them at Bennigan's .  I don't remember turkey being on them, but maybe it was.  

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Smørgaslunch…. The neat thing is that apart from the olives, everything on the table was produced locally. 

[liuzhou]

I have been without water for almost 24 hours, thanks to some workmen fracturing a main pipe near my home. So, I had to lunch out.

 

 

Donkey meat noodles with greens and peanuts.

[Anna N]

 

  An adapted Moroccan-inspired lamb stew made in the Thermomix and served untraditionally over orzo.  I got a little too carried away with dried apricots so it turned out a bit on the sweet side. 

[kayb]

On 3/10/2016 at 2:48 PM, blue_dolphin said:

TJ's crab cake, fresh tomato, mini Hasselback potatoes with garlic & parmesan and sugar snap peas with red bell pepper and a dab of tartar sauce:

That's gorgeous. I never thought of mini-Hasselbacks. Great idea! I'm doing cod cakes sometime this week, and will give that a whirl.

On 3/11/2016 at 9:40 PM, sartoric said:

Jeez, some of these lunches look good. Mine is nearly always leftover dinner.

 

I had to google Monte Cristo. Combined with the details above I figure it's a ham and cheese sandwich with strawberry  jam, fried and dusted with sugar.  You're kidding right ? 

The classic ones are a ham and cheese on, generally, white bread, then batter-dipped and deep fried. I don't like powdered sugar sprinkled on them, although that's traditional, but I'll take the raspberry jam for dipping. 

[sartoric]

Our annual prawn day - potato salad, roasted Beetroot with walnuts and goat cheese, quinoa salad, bread rolls and of course lots of prawns !

 

[Shelby]

LOVE your bowls and plates and the color of your walls.  Beautiful shrimp!  What is in the bowls with the limes?

[Anna N]

 

Re-heated leftovers. Chuck eye, parsnips, carrots, potatoes and I tossed in some saved broccoli stems. Bonus points to me as I ate it from the bowl it was re-heated in. 

[rotuts]

@Anna N   

 

look'd a bit like celery

 

glad its not !