What did you cook or eat today (June 2020)?

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Yorky said:
For information: Heinz soups are not available in the stores here (at least not in the major ones out in the sticks). Mine come from my Western supplier who imports them from UK. They are not cheap; but very little is these days.

Campbell's soups are available everywhere.
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Reminds me a bit of Cyprus. Just as we now have Polish sections in most UK supermarkets, in Cyprus they have English sections, all full of Waitrose own brand, mainly tinned products, including soups.
 
epicuric said:
Reminds me a bit of Cyprus. Just as we now have Polish sections in most UK supermarkets, in Cyprus they have English sections, all full of Waitrose own brand, mainly tinned products, including soups.
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Here, if you go to a bigger location of Kroger or Meijer, they'll each have an "International/World" section, but it'll just be a hodge-podge of a few things each from Germany, the UK, and Italy - three or four shelves high, but only about six feet in length.

What gets confusing is, the next aisle over will be, say, pizza stuff all together, and they'll have imported-from-Italy pizza sauce there, but not in the international section. I can get Hobnobs in the International section, but TimTams (Australia, I think) are just chucked in with all the cookies in the cookie aisle, and the products from Mexico are lumped in with the mainstream Tex-Mex stuff. If you're looking for something like tomato paste in a tube, it might be with all the canned tomato products, or it might be in the International section, or it might be out and if you ask for it, it'll be, "We don't carry that, you must be thinking of some other place."

Jungle Jim's, though, the big international market about an hour away, their British section is about the size of a Tesco Express or one of those quick Sainsbury's. It's much better.
 
I have been MIA for a week or tow. These pics are from the oldest to the most recent.
Mixed pepper venison chili.

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Black and blue steak. The ugly brown lumps are fondant potatoes. Not pretty but tasty.
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Speckled Trout (sea trout) caught the day before with a piccata sauce, garden green beans and smothered onions, mushrooms and peppers.

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Pork chops in an onion/mushroom gravy, pan grilled sad asparagus and a few desperate Brussels sprouts from the back of the vegetable bin.
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another black and blue steak with leeks and garden veggies.
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We went fishing last Saturday. We were both hungry, We stopped at Morvant's for a burger. The picture does not do it justice. Homemade beef patty, mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickles and red onion. The burger meat is seasoned. You need a cold beer to go with it.

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Morning Glory said:
Thank you. It really doesn't take much time and there are simple techniques/tricks. To me its part of the cooking process. Why put loads of effort into making the food and then just dump it in a hapless heap onto a plate? Even if I'm eating alone and not photographing something I like it to look pretty.
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Don't get me wrong, I spend time plating if we have friends here. I just spend the time you do. Adding flowers and small herbs etc. plus I'm slightly lazy,lol.

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TastyReuben said:
Here, if you go to a bigger location of Kroger or Meijer, they'll each have an "International/World" section, but it'll just be a hodge-podge of a few things each from Germany, the UK, and Italy - three or four shelves high, but only about six feet in length.

What gets confusing is, the next aisle over will be, say, pizza stuff all together, and they'll have imported-from-Italy pizza sauce there, but not in the international section. I can get Hobnobs in the International section, but TimTams (Australia, I think) are just chucked in with all the cookies in the cookie aisle, and the products from Mexico are lumped in with the mainstream Tex-Mex stuff. If you're looking for something like tomato paste in a tube, it might be with all the canned tomato products, or it might be in the International section, or it might be out and if you ask for it, it'll be, "We don't carry that, you must be thinking of some other place."

Jungle Jim's, though, the big international market about an hour away, their British section is about the size of a Tesco Express or one of those quick Sainsbury's. It's much better.
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Same thing here with international and tomato paste etc. I get my "odd" stuff from kosco or any other Asian store. My wife calls galangal and things like lemon grass "odd " stuff because she doesn't know what they are, or used with. She wouldn't eat my Thai curry if she knew there was shrimp paste in it.

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TastyReuben said:
Another one for the Corn Joust:


Corn-Stuffed Pork Chops And Herbed Potatoes

Corn-Stuffed Pork Chops And Herbed Potatoes


Corn-Stuffed Pork Chops And Herbed Potatoes

Corn-Stuffed Pork Chops And Herbed Potatoes


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Pork was a little dry, but not horribly so; I've certainly had worse. It's always the curse I deal with when doing stuffed pork chops - long enough to get the stuffing cooked, and I've probably gone past the optimal pork temperature.
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Not big on pork, but I'd eat that in a heartbeat. Looks delish.

Russ
 
Made scrambled eggs n grilled bacon for the wife, cup of chocolate for her and cup of earl for me. Same every Saturday. I may do shrooms on toast later for me??

Russ
 
ElizabethB said:
I have been MIA for a week or tow. These pics are from the oldest to the most recent.
Mixed pepper venison chili.

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Black and blue steak. The ugly brown lumps are fondant potatoes. Not pretty but tasty.
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Speckled Trout (sea trout) caught the day before with a piccata sauce, garden green beans and smothered onions, mushrooms and peppers.

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Pork chops in an onion/mushroom gravy, pan grilled sad asparagus and a few desperate Brussels sprouts from the back of the vegetable bin.
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another black and blue steak with leeks and garden veggies.
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We went fishing last Saturday. We were both hungry, We stopped at Morvant's for a burger. The picture does not do it justice. Homemade beef patty, mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickles and red onion. The burger meat is seasoned. You need a cold beer to go with it.

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is bacon not in burgers there? I love bacon and an egg in my burgers.?
 
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