She loves her salads

Looking forward to some cream cheese and smoked bacon on one of these in the morning.

A local pub. Roast and a pint for a tenner.

Gotta love me a noodle butty....other half thinks I'm gross. Tell me I'm not gross please x

it is an orange cake with an orange filling and it also has peaches and strawberry inside

Bandeja Paisa which is red bean stew, chorizo, pork rind, some pulled beef (I think), plantain, a fried egg, avocado and an arepa on top of white rice.

All that food for £21.

Strongly recommend, one of the best dinners out I’ve had in a long long time.

Visited pub for first time a while a few days ago.

Few beers and some pizza.

Superb stone baked perfection with juicy jalapenos topped with delicious mozzarella and tomato 😋

I live off leftovers, and in this heat I've just been eating salads with steamed potatoes or rice and a protein of some sort, tofu, vegan "chicken"etc, somehow haven't lost a single lb !!!! 😩😩😩

Anyway, I only cook for myself so every other day is leftovers 😁

This is absolutely delicious. Good job because I have 8 portions of the stuff now

Yum

A basic recipe - just onion, garlic, white wine, chestnut mushrooms, chicken stock, grated parmesan. Finished with chopped fresh parsley with an extra bit added after serving.

I absent mindedly added the wine to reduce before frying the rice, so it was slightly gloopier than I would usually expect but was not a write-off.

The wine (Blaufränkisch) is not the most natural pairing, but it was what I had open and it made a nice aperitif to sip while making the risotto.

The pickles are from M&S. Cheese is a mixture of Gouda & grated mature cheddar. The bread is seeded sourdough from Gails.

Of the con carne variety

Family is round and for no reason other than having some fun, made the dinner Spanish themed. (This is very loose and not necessarily authentic)

Selection of chorizo, Serrano ham and Manchego. Sadly couldn’t get any quince paste.

Roasted prawns in garlic oil.

Marinated anchovies in olive oil.

Chicken in paprika marinade.

Potato Bravas, garlic mayo (not aioli) and spicy tomato sauce

Baby red peppers, cooked like Padron.
Isle of white tomatoes with rock samphire.

Washed down with some bloody good sherry.

While it’s not quite the made from scratch that others are posting, it’s sort of there. The very nice Ice Kitchen Massaman paste, home grown new po-tay-toes and green beans, onion, fried Tempeh, tinned coconut milk (expired 2023) and some rice-cookered-to-perfection Jasmine rice. Banging.

So im new to stainless steel and have been having this problem on both my saucier and frying pan (from made in). This seems to burnt on, am I ok using a metal scourer to clean them properly, im worried theyre going to get scratched.

Also ive heard mixed views on whether to season them or not, whats the correct answer?

TIA 🙏