What I ate today - the food thread

[ALH]

I love Brussels Sprouts but being a winter crop they haven’t been around / available for a few months here in Tas - I wonder where are they being grown?

They were perfect, from Woolworths. Really fresh at the moment, but I didn’t check the provenance.

@GPH won’t prepare or eat them, so I have to do it when he cooks. He calls them Little bundles of evil.

He cooks his own peas. I feel like throwing up just looking at them. The only food I don’t like!

and parsnips as well - yummo. Love those S&P shakers

Roasted Parsnips. So sweet.

I bought the S&P shakers from Galeries Lafayette in Paris. I have a huge order from friends when we return in April.

 

[ALH]

This is what happens at my house when I suggest it’s time to shed some of our Winter Coats with a light Vegetarian meal.


Result was spectacular

 

[QF WP]

Lunch today at The Brisbane Club:







The chicken option was by far the more substantive meal but the fish was well cooked and loved the crushed rock salt.

 

[ALH]

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Milboo, I fixed the second one just to please you......

I am also known to drink red wine while eating fish, sometimes straight from the bottle.

OMG. The Red Wine and Fish I can deal with, but the cheese. That is just wrong on so many levels! I would probably be stabbing you with a blunt cheese knife

 

[JohnM]

OMG. The Red Wine and Fish I can deal with, but the cheese. That is just wrong on so many levels! I would probably be stabbing you with a blunt cheese knife

Hmmm, I beg to differ. Red wine and fish I find difficult to deal with; red wine and cheese, oh yes!

I am sure that @juddles and I will have some civil and well-lubricated discussions around late March/early April next year that will resolve this vexed issue once and for all .

 

[ALH]

Hmmm, I beg to differ. Red wine and fish I find difficult to deal with; red wine and cheese, oh yes!

I am sure that @juddles and I will have some civil and well-lubricated discussions around late March/early April next year that will resolve this vexed issue once and for all .

Oh. My bad wording. We drink red wine with cheese all the time.

It’s just the way @juddles has cut the cheese (no pun intended), that I can’t unsee

 

[OZDUCK]

Our daughter-in-law put on a "grazing" birthday lunch for our son today. The fruit included lychees, dragon-fruit, pineapple, rambutan, papaya etc. Then there were satay sticks, sushi, various steamed Chinese buns etc. Finished off with profiteroles, Indonesian Kek Lapis, Taiwanese Pineapple cake, Green Tea cake and sweet potato doughnuts (made by her) - which were delicious. In fact, it was all delicious. She is KL Chinese in origin.

 

[Rugby]

Eichardt’s Grill - QT. Local produce platter, venison Wellington, white bait and lamb shoulder. I missed the photo of our Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir, but it was excellent.

 

[ALH]

Eichard’s Grill - QT. Local produce platter, venison Wellington, white bait and lamb shoulder. I missed the photo of our Gibbston Valley Pinot Noir, but it was excellent.....

Drool. It’s a beautiful hotel, but I’ve never eaten there. Usually go to Botswana Butchery or Jervois

 

[Natalie Z]

Today I ate..

- Brown rice salad
- Half a snag/bread
- 2 eggs (devilled, which I made, yum!)
- Garden salad
- 2 TimTams
- I'm about to open a can of tuna.

I'm in need of protein + Omega 3 at the mo.

 

[juddles]

This is not "what I ate today" - it is what I was NOT ALLOWED to eat:



daughter's 14th - had some school friends over. I was starving but was told to "bugger off"

Am always amazed at how my wife can make a kids party fun, simple, yet elegant, and also healthy. I wished I could have just sat down with a few bottles of wine with that lot....amazing

 

[JohnK]

SIN Qantas lounge. Not a huge fan of curry but this Kenyan lamb curry always tastes great.

 

[blackcat20]

Yo My Goodness. They do a great burger.

 

[rainbowgirl]

For a moment there I thought the chips were part of the burger but then I figured out the angle the photo was taken from and saw the extra packaging.

 

[Pushka]

Naked wedding cake for sons wedding last night. Delicious. People actually ate it.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

Usual weekend cooking in the 340 household (when I'm home). Wood oven fired up after breakfast, pizza dough cured and then pizzas for lunch, food roasted for the week's lunches and then a roast chicken or lamb for dinner. Our favourite pizza right now is roast garlic, Parmesan and rosemary....

 

[Steady]

Usual weekend cooking in the 340 household (when I'm home). Wood oven fired up after breakfast, pizza dough cured and then pizzas for lunch, food roasted for the week's lunches and then a roast chicken or lamb for dinner. Our favourite pizza right now is roast garlic, Parmesan and rosemary....

It feels like home to me.... I love cooking with fire, be it hot and fast or low and slow

 

[GoldCanyon340]

It feels like home to me.... I love cooking with fire, be it hot and fast or low and slow

Last few times have been low and slow. A 2kg leg of lamb cooked for 4 hours at 140 to 150 Celsius. Superb.

 

[Steady]

I tend to have pizza on Saturday night when the oven is hot then let the fire burn out overnight, cook a roast for Sunday lunch when the temp has dropped to 230 - 210, then sometimes a pav on Monday night when it’s down to 140 - 120. I currently do low my and slow (100-110 C) in a Weber kettle

 

[amaroo]

@amaroo we’re at The Orfila

@Rugby I've been trawling through the thread looking for ideas.

Some Q's...

Would you recommend The Orfila?

Recommendations for food and hotel San Sebastian and Lisbon?

Cheers