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

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karadekoolaid said:
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?
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I love them and Spanish and Italian tinned tomatoes can be excellent. I like them on toast.
 
karadekoolaid said:
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?
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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.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
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.
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Same here, has to be tinned.
 
Half a doughnut (long John/bismark/cream stick) for breakfast. Waiting on lunch now.
 
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I had the turkey & Swiss with garlic fries, MrsT had the chicken sandwich.
 
Oh, I never posted our dinner last night. I prepped and partially cooked some of the veges while prepping others, Craig finished up. He's going to be prepping or cooking, or fending for himself from now on, his choice. I'm done doing 99.99% of the cooking. Maybe he'll start showing some interest now that he has to participate.

Anyway, we split a ribeye, mushrooms and onions, green beans and carrots, and baked potatoes with butter and sour cream. He did a good job with a little help reminding him of the timeline so everything gets done at the same time.

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Barriehie said:
There's an Asian market about 60 miles away; it's a once a year thing.
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We have a couple close by and a really nice, big one about 20 minutes away. It's just that it's painful for me to walk any distance, and Craig doesn't always want to shop by himself, as well as he has trouble finding things sometimes.
 
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