About 25 years ago I spent some time in Sri Lanka, and then Indonesia. I started a real love affair with food during that time. Sri Lanka was absolutely stunning and the food matched. It was there I first came across shrimp paste. They have some quite well known fermented foods, and loads of pickled veg which I became massive fan of. I also found Sri Lankan mustard, which I make to this day, and it the best mustard I have ever had. Indonesia was almost as good. Street food their was brilliant. Again shrimp paste was a base flavour in all sorts of stuff. I used to be transfixed sitting at a roadside food shack and watching the chef make me the best prawn stir fry ever, in literally 3 mins. Cost about a quid as well. All that said, tonight is potato and leek soup
There’s a topic for conversation. The blandest sounding least exciting food that you love. Mine is cream of celery soup I frigging love that soup and not even sure Heinz make it any more.
Mashed potato I could eat mash every day. I bake my pots though, then scoop out and mix with butter. I think boiling takes the flavour away. If I am feeling adventerous, some green bits from spring onions goes in.
I love mash, put it through a ricer I love it twice as much Potato milk salt pepper and Dijon mustard bollocks I forgot the butter
Made Salt & Pepper Chicken with egg noodles last night. Ordered a kebab tonight. That's how I roll....
Smash burgers for us, salt and pepper baps and some home cooked chips in the air fryer with a bit peri peri salt. Burgers with just salt, onion powder and pepper added and griddled on a red hot pan.
I’m on hols at the minute so we are eating out every day, bloody expensive way to live these days. I can make just as good myself to be honest.
I'm finishing up current contract in 3 weeks. Have promised myself minimum of 6 weeks off. Going to do a lot of batch cooking and do some decent midweek meals for the missus coming home.
Closer to home but we went to My Delhi in the town at the weekend, it was tremendous and well worth a visit.
We are booked up for the Sunderland story ! always smells so nice on the way back from the match so we’ve booked up
Vegan /ˈviːɡən/VEE-gən From the old English word vgern. Meaning idiot of the tribe who could not hunt or fish.
I’m experimenting tonight with a Dutch oven I bought for the sourdough bread. Jerk chicken with Rice ! https://avoidingchores.com/cooking-outside-jerk-chicken-rice-cast-iron-dutch-oven?amp=1
Turned this please log in to view this image Into this please log in to view this image first time doing sourdough pizza and was bricking it, pizza is a very serious thing in our house….
I don't go with the flow where food is concerned, don't like fancy menus. I eat what I like conventional or not. Was watching a food prog one day and the chef was doing mackerel and rhubarb. I didn't like the sound of that but I have had mackerel curry, told a friend of mine what I had done and he said oh that's filthy, cheeky basted. I enjoyed it.
