What did you eat or cook today (December 2024)?

[Morning Glory]

The only people in the world who serve plain, tinned tomatoes with breakfast are we Brits. (Not a criticism; just an observation). My parents loved them. One of the best greasy spoon cafés in London has been serving them for over 70 years. Strange, innit?

I love them and Spanish and Italian tinned tomatoes can be excellent. I like them on toast.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

The only people in the world who serve plain, tinned tomatoes with breakfast are we Brits. (Not a criticism; just an observation). My parents loved them. One of the best greasy spoon cafés in London has been serving them for over 70 years. Strange, innit?

I love them. I’m always disappointed when breakfast comes with real tomatoes that are usually hard and flavourless due to being picked and shipped before they’re ripe. I’d rather well drained fat plum tomatoes.

But when I do breakfast at home I don’t often do plum tomatoes because in the UK they seem to have become quite soft and watery of late.
Instead I oven ‘sun’ dried tomatoes, not all the way dried just concentrated with a little garlic oil, salt and pepper.

I have to say though that this particular brand of plum tomato is vastly superior to the watery offering you get in the UK (and the other brands in Spain), they’re very plump and firm and very tomato tasting with no metallic edge to them. Yum yum.

 

[Lullabelle]

I love them. I’m always disappointed when breakfast comes with real tomatoes that are usually hard and flavourless due to being picked and shipped before they’re ripe. I’d rather well drained fat plum tomatoes.

But when I do breakfast at home I don’t often do plum tomatoes because in the UK they seem to have become quite soft and watery of late.
Instead I oven ‘sun’ dried tomatoes, not all the way dried just concentrated with a little garlic oil, salt and pepper.

I have to say though that this particular brand of plum tomato is vastly superior to the watery offering you get in the UK (and the other brands in Spain), they’re very plump and firm and very tomato tasting with no metallic edge to them. Yum yum.

Same here, has to be tinned.

 

[blades]

Pork tenderloin, garlic mushrooms, roast potatoes, green beans

That looks really really good.

 

[TastyReuben]

Half a doughnut (long John/bismark/cream stick) for breakfast. Waiting on lunch now.

 

[badjak]

I used my left over rice to makke nadi goreng.
No picture. I was way too hungry

 

[TastyReuben]

I had the turkey & Swiss with garlic fries, MrsT had the chicken sandwich.

 

[Barriehie]

Yum fries!!!

I finished off the last of the kartoffelklöße, finally! They weren't bad by any means but since it took 8 lbs./2.6 kilos to get the recipe right it's going to be a minute before I make those again.

 

[vernplum]

Stir-fried radish cake with bean sprouts:

Fried fish fillets with soy and sesame sauce:

Prawn and tomato egg: