What did you cook or eat today (January 2022)?

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A case of raiding the fridge to see what I could find. Shopping is usually done on a Thursday, so by Monday fresh produce for salads is getting low.


So, lettuce, snowpeas, spring onions, cucumber, tomatoes, red pepper, satay tofu, avocado, sprouted peas beans & lentils, carrot, sweet red chilli dressing.
 
A case of raiding the fridge to see what I could find. Shopping is usually done on a Thursday, so by Monday fresh produce for salads is getting low.


So, lettuce, snowpeas, spring onions, cucumber, tomatoes, red pepper, satay tofu, avocado, sprouted peas beans & lentils, carrot, sweet red chilli dressing.

You churn out some very artsy, visually appealing meals.
 
I used to have to fry my toast. My big deal these days is finding stuff to spread on toast, - recently, apple butter and pear butter.

In the past, it was tapenade and recently, tomato conserva. And there were other things I found go good on toast, including peanut butter. BLT (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches are top rated too.

We also have jam/jelly on toast, tomatoes on toast, my wife has toast with banana squashed then raspberry jam and a touch of cinnamon.
I also like vegemite.

Russ
 
We've got +30°C today and the humidity is evil. Usually when it's around 30°C humidity is around 30-40%. Today and just recently, it's been 60-70%. Right now, it's 74% so I'm cooking outside. I don't need something boiling in the kitchen for an hour, heating up the entire house and increasing the humidity inside .

So, my setup is in the shade on the veranda. We were given (via www.freecycle.org a fantastic way of recycling unwanted anything) the camp stove and gas bottle, along with a grill/griddle to go over both rings, 2 stools, a gas lamp, extender and splitter for the gas pipe (so you can cook in the light when camping! ) and 2 excellent camp beds. I also picked up my BBQ from the same site and various other bits, but the gentleman who I was picking up the camp beds from, once we got chatting, realised I was genuine and also had a bad back like him. He and his wife (both in their 70's) were giving up camping because it was becoming too much for them, so offered me all of their old kit. His wife had even made custom bags for everything to stop them rattling and damaging each other in transit and storage. The result is that everything is in fantastic condition. All I needed to do was to switch out an old gas bottle for a new one... Much cheaper when you start with an empty spare and so many Australians have them lying around everywhere.

So what's that all to do with today's cooking I hear you ask?

Well, our evening meal, that's what.

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It's meant to be a cold soup, outs going to be a warm one because I made a dyslexic mistake and misread the method. I find it very difficult to follow one line to the next. Always have done. Reading is easier with a ruler. It's why I put lots of line breaks in.

Anyhow, I read line 1, followed to what I thought was line 2, so added the first 5 ingredients. Topped up with hot water and simmered for 30 minutes until cooked. Then because it was lunch, I turned everything off and left it outside. The recipe says cook for 40 mins but I sliced the cabbage very finely and was counting on it continuing cooking whilst cooling. I've done a double batch because we accidentally had twice the ingredients and they'd perish before we'd use them.

Talking with hubby over lunch, I mentioned that I wasn't yet done with the ingredients list because I knew I hadn't added the Apple cider vinegar, the red wine or the palm sugar. Which was odd because I thought I was done with the cooking... he read the method and well, let's just say I'm adding the extra ingredients now and hoping to see most of the red wine alcohol evaporate between now and this evening! It's already had 30 minutes simmering, so I'm giving it another 10 and then we'll just not drive anywhere until tomorrow! Lol.

(Given there are about 12-16 portions by the recipe guidance, the 300ml of red wine will be spread thinly anyway! )
 
I'm sorry you go off track with your soup, but I'm also glad to know I'm not the only one who does that sort of thing!
Hubby reads at more than twice my speed, but i have the upper hand at memory. I only have to write it down once, to know it off by heart, to the point that I can describe the page, paragraph and line of where something is in a book. I can't give the page number, line number and word number mind you but I guess that's because I've never bothered to try. So his speed doesn't always help :whistling:
 
Strange day today. I was intending a beef stew (with or without suet dumplings). I was sure that I had the beef and onions precooked in the freezer but could I find it? No chance. However, I did find an unlabelled box with something that looked like beef stew although there were potatoes and carrots already in there (not something that I would normally do). OK, if I've frozen it it must have been edible - I'll try a cottage pie with it. After defrosting it became apparent that it was Cornish pasty filling but it went into the cottage pie anyway (I'd preempted the decision by cooking and mashing the potatoes).

It turned out very tasty.


 
Strange day today. I was intending a beef stew (with or without suet dumplings). I was sure that I had the beef and onions precooked in the freezer but could I find it? No chance. However, I did find an unlabelled box with something that looked like beef stew although there were potatoes and carrots already in there (not something that I would normally do). OK, if I've frozen it it must have been edible - I'll try a cottage pie with it. After defrosting it became apparent that it was Cornish pasty filling but it went into the cottage pie anyway (I'd preempted the decision by cooking and mashing the potatoes).

It turned out very tasty.



Great job of turning a mystery into a good meal. :okay:

CD
 
Great job of turning a mystery into a good meal. :okay:

CD
We have a friend who had a mouse problem at her old home. Meals at her home were interesting.

If you went over with kids (and this was long before she ended up with her first kid at 49), she would tell each kid to go and select 1 tin off the shelf. The problem was that the mice had removed all of the labels to use as bedding... So it really was a total mystery as to what you'd end up with!
 
Strange day today. I was intending a beef stew (with or without suet dumplings). I was sure that I had the beef and onions precooked in the freezer but could I find it? No chance. However, I did find an unlabelled box with something that looked like beef stew although there were potatoes and carrots already in there (not something that I would normally do). OK, if I've frozen it it must have been edible - I'll try a cottage pie with it. After defrosting it became apparent that it was Cornish pasty filling but it went into the cottage pie anyway (I'd preempted the decision by cooking and mashing the potatoes).

It turned out very tasty.


Mate, it could not possibly have been Cornish pastie filling with carrots in it. Hahaha. I got absolutely smashed by Cornish viewers commenting on my YouTube video for putting carrots in my Cornish pastie filling. Seriously hammered.
 
Mate, it could not possibly have been Cornish pastie filling with carrots in it. Hahaha. I got absolutely smashed by Cornish viewers commenting on my YouTube video for putting carrots in my Cornish pastie filling. Seriously hammered.

I'd forgotten. Since that time I've usually referred to them as beef or beef and vegetable pasties. Today was a slip up.
 
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