Lunch 2025

[Dejah]

20 hours ago, liuzhou said:

A very typical Chinese New Year / Spring Festival meal.

 

Rice noodles with home cured pork. While you can buy this meat in the markets, people generally prefer to make their own (and their own sausages).

 

 

 

And here are the cured meats.

 

 

This makes the whole house smell like New Years past!

 

 

My Mom used to make the cured meats before they were available in the stores in the city (1958). We lived in a small rural village, so Mom made her own, based on what she used to do in China. I love these meats cooked with rice in the sand pot.

[liuzhou]

1 minute ago, Dejah said:

My Mom used to make the cured meats before they were available in the stores in the city (1958). We lived in a small rural village, so Mom made her own, based on what she used to do in China. I love these meats cooked with rice in the sand pot.

 

Yeah.

 

Most people in rural areas still make them themselves, but many in the cities do too.

 

Yeah I love sand pot meat+rice too. But many other ways, too.

 

 

[YvetteMT]

Workday salad- romaine, radish,  onion, cauliflower, green olives,  beets,  roast beef and cottage cheese in lieu of dressing.

 

[MaryIsobel]

2 hours ago, YvetteMT said:

Workday salad- romaine, radish,  onion, cauliflower, green olives,  beets,  roast beef and cottage cheese in lieu of dressing.

 

Using cottage cheese instead of salad dressing is brilliant. I usually just eat it with fruit or tomatoes and basil or spread on toast with lots of pepper. I really, really like cottage cheese - always have.

 

[YvetteMT]

1 hour ago, MaryIsobel said:

Using cottage cheese instead of salad dressing is brilliant. I usually just eat it with fruit or tomatoes and basil or spread on toast with lots of pepper. I really, really like cottage cheese - always have.

 

I love it too! Except without the fruit, I lean savory for nearly everything and cottage cheese definitely. I use it in lieu of dressing because-way more protein and usually less calories and I need less calories. 

[C. sapidus]

Smoked marlin burritos, enjoyed within 5 minutes of the airport at Puerto Vallarta