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Post by tod2 on Jan 26, 2018 12:49:40 GMT
Yes Kerouac - there is Pho and then.....there PHO ! This year I intend being completwely Pho'd to death. Probably starting with Pho 13 in Chinatown.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2018 23:29:45 GMT
All that lamb sounds scrumptious, Questa! Is it a luxury meat in Australia, or "just regular"?
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Post by lagatta on Jan 27, 2018 0:49:34 GMT
Questa will have to answer, but Australia is the second producer worldwide, after China. But there are many, many times more Chinese people than Aussies!
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Post by rikita on Jan 27, 2018 0:50:25 GMT
wraps - tortillas with sour cream, smoked salmon, rucola, water cress, red and yellow bell pepper
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Post by questa on Jan 27, 2018 4:35:21 GMT
Until the last few years lamb was the main meat in traditional rather unimaginative cooking. Roast leg of lamb Sundays, minced remnants as Shepherd's pie Mondays. It also came as loin, chump and cutlets for grilling, and neck, forequarter and shanks for stewing, casseroles etc. Gradually chicken and beef became less "Special" as pastas with meat sauces and Asian chicken meals caught on with working people. Pork was heavily promoted and new cuts made it less fatty.
The price of lamb has been going up in the last year as farmers restock after droughts. A big fire at a major abattoir 2 weeks ago also raised prices. However, the idea of tossing a pork chop on the barbie would feel like drinking lemonade instead of a beer on this occasion.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2018 17:48:38 GMT
I had my semi annual pizza tonight, and frankly it was quite good after doubling the amount of cheese on it and coating it with pili-pili. I will have a second semi-annual pizza in a few days because the reason I bought it at the supermarket was because pizza #2 was being sold for an 80% discount, so it was as good as free. I'm a sucker.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 27, 2018 17:53:05 GMT
Until the last few years lamb was the main meat in traditional rather unimaginative cooking. Roast leg of lamb Sundays, minced remnants as Shepherd's pie Mondays. It also came as loin, chump and cutlets for grilling, and neck, forequarter and shanks for stewing, casseroles etc. The price of lamb has been going up in the last year as farmers restock after droughts. We continue to crave lamb in France, but nearly all of our lamb is imported from New Zealand and a little bit from the British isles. I find it a bit odd because we have tens of thousands of sheep in France, but they never seem to be at the butcher shop. Perhaps they are being exported to more exotic places, or else our huge consumption of ewe cheese is a factor. But then shouldn't we be eating the males?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 19:41:11 GMT
The lamb we buy here has always been from New Zealand whether it be chops or a whole leg. And it's fairly pricey but well worth the occasional splurge.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 27, 2018 21:18:16 GMT
Chicken quarters rubbed with olive oil, sea salt, black pepper, oregano and a little minced garlic. Baked in the oven with chunks of butternut squash, red onion, yellow and red peppers, courgette, and teeny potatoes...cherry tomatoes too for Jeffers. All served with a crisp green salad. Surprisingly low in calories and delicious.
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Post by rikita on Jan 28, 2018 1:02:57 GMT
barely any dinner today, due to too much cake in the afternoon. so i just ate a few leftover raw veggies (carrot sticks, cucumber sticks etc.) and cheese cubes, with a little bit of hummus ...
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Post by tod2 on Jan 31, 2018 17:35:16 GMT
I made beef curry in my slow cooker. A great way to let the flavours mingle and mature over an entire day. Even threw some 'roti' in the frying pan. Not to mention microwaving a few poppadoms and making a sambal of chopped onion, grated carrot and raw beetroot and grated radish with a few nice little tomatoes thrown in. In South South Africa nobody eatsd a curry without a sweet chutney made of mixed fruit or just peaches. Most people rely on Mrs. Balls. She is world famous.
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Post by rikita on Feb 1, 2018 1:38:56 GMT
went to a place called "chutnify" yesterday, i had a non-veg thali (with butter chicken, dhal, and some other things), mr. r. had a biriyani (not sure which one), agnes had an idli and a porotta, and i gave her a bit of my curries ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 1, 2018 17:00:33 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 1, 2018 19:21:56 GMT
Beef stew with vegetables, slice of bread and butter to mop up the gravy. Enough left for OH to have for lunch tomorrow.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 2, 2018 0:00:33 GMT
Two modest bowls of Ho-Made Chili Con Carne.
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Post by rikita on Feb 2, 2018 0:55:13 GMT
after walking by subways for ages thinking how i had this less than three times in my life, i got some sandwiches there for our dinner - one with pulled pork, one with chicken teriyaki.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 3, 2018 0:06:02 GMT
I made something vaguely resembling a chile - chilli? - chili? with ground chicken, onions, garlic, fresh ginger (at the end) black means, tomato, some cumin and caraway, bit of Portuguese Piri-Piri. Resembles absolutely nothing from either Mexico or Southwestern US, but tasty. Added quite a bit of minced flatleaf parsley at the end.
I often make something similar to cheery's tasty, nutritous dish.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 3, 2018 18:02:41 GMT
That sounds yummy lagatta....
Tonight, stir fried (hardly any oil) chicken, peppers, onions, carrot, courgette, onion, and water chestnuts with minced ginger, garlic, splash of sweet chilli sauce, glug or three of light soy sauce and rice wine...added a heap of noodles to soak up the sauce. Full up now....parp...
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 3, 2018 20:02:21 GMT
Kottu at the YMCA.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 3, 2018 20:08:33 GMT
wossat then?
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Post by mich64 on Feb 4, 2018 3:53:03 GMT
I invited a friend to come for dinner tonight. Her son moved out of town to begin a new job and her daughter is away attending University, so she is now alone as well when our husbands are on shift. Since she planned coming out for a hike in the area I suggested she bring her dog (Hershey) and drop her at my house while she hiked and that I would make us dinner. She hiked, I did a half hour on my treadmill, Hershey lounged in the sun on the carpet by the patio door.
I broiled chicken thighs, made a greek salad and boiled some broccoli which we topped with a shredded cheese blend. We even had some wine with dinner. Lately when on my own I have not been very motivated so this was a lot of fun.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 4, 2018 17:30:05 GMT
That sounds absolutely delightful. I guess the dog did not have any of the wine. Tonight I am having Flammekueche from the frozen food supermarket. It is something I do not know how to make myself. I should try one of these days because the ingredients are not at all complicated.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 5, 2018 1:15:30 GMT
Kerouac, indeed, Hershey did not have wine, but she did get some chicken! And of course when she comes into the house she runs right over to the pantry cupboard where she knows I keep dog biscuits and races back and forth until I get her one.
I had to look up flammekueche, I thought I might have had it, but I have not. I do think I would like it though.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 5, 2018 4:01:05 GMT
I've had it, in Alsace. They make pretty much the same thing on the German side of the Rhine. Both are delicious as is the white wine.
I'm making more poultry stock. This has become a leitmotiv in this horrific winter. I scored a big packet of turkey 'bones', but cooking them enough to separate the flesh from the bones, there is enough meat (wings and necks) for a medium-sized pyrex dish.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 6, 2018 13:02:10 GMT
I cooked sausages, reheated mashed patatoes, and Bruxelles sprouts. Which were good : first cooked with vapour, then in a pan, adding garlic and of course crême fraîche. I opened a bootle of Nero d'Avola that went down the sink after I drank one glass and tried a second.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 6, 2018 15:04:40 GMT
Not even worthy as cooking wine?
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Post by whatagain on Feb 6, 2018 15:17:25 GMT
I hardly ever cook with wine actually. So no... didn't even think,of it.
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Post by tod2 on Feb 6, 2018 17:30:12 GMT
BBQ on this hot steamy night - Must have reached 40C today, it was bloody awful and hard to think of what to prepare for dinner. Luckily if we can light a BBQ fire and grill some superb fatty lamb chops and Boerewors - dinner is served with a nice Greek salad and a baked sweet potato. Oh how I love fatty meat!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 6, 2018 21:01:23 GMT
A 'slimming world' lasagne....edible. Just.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 6, 2018 22:56:35 GMT
Tod, I've never had Boerewors - I don't even know if it is available here. Some time ago I posted something about South Africans making it and selling it in the Netherlands, but I never had time to look it up and cook it when I was last there. I get the idea that it is spicier than Dutch sausage...
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