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Celebrating real foods

Goonergal said:
Ooh, that chicken sounds awesome, @Hotpepper20000

I’ve had a ginormous pork chop for lunch. Brined in water, pink salt, garlic, chilli flakes, thyme and a bit of lemon salt. Then seared before air frying. Delicious.

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We have lemon pepper here but Can’t find lemon salt. You have inspired me to make some. I think this would be a great staple on most meats.
I’m thinking lemon rind dried and ground up and mixed with some pink salt.
 
An Easter treat here of a whole salmon. Used 1 filleted side to stuff with cucumber and mustard (and 1 spoon of honey). Then baked and served with extra of the cucumber mix blitzed with some ff greek to make a sauce.
The original recipe had the whole thing encroute (in pastry) but I just bake it in foil or paper as the healthier option. About 45-60 minutes at 180.
A side serves 6 generously, easily doubled for more.

The rest of the salmon is portioned and frozen except for all the odd bits which the cats are enjoying.
 
3 meals today but I had a tough PT session so feel I deserved some extra calories.
Breakfast was 2 scrambled eggs, 50g smoked salmon and about 1/4 avocado.
Lunch: found yesterday’s half eaten chicken salad in the fridge. Tried to make it more entertaining by adding bacon and a dollop of coleslaw but still didn’t enjoy it much.
Dinner: more bacon! With cauli cheese and a glass of red, some 0%Fage Gk yoghurt with a tablespoon mixed seeds to follow.

I’m with you on the 0% yoghurt @Goonergal and it doesn’t have an untoward effect on my tum which the high fat one does.
 
We made a 2kg batch of beef burglars last night, each around 250g, with a good amount of crumbled stilton inside each.
6 for the freezer, 2 eaten there and then.

I think Mr B rather enjoyed handling the mince and moulding it like playdough. :D

I want to make minted lam burglars next.
 
@Brunneria those burgers sound delicious!!! Thanks for the idea.

Last night was cod loin baked on top of leek, zucchini and peppers.
Tonight it’s minced Turkey thigh cooked with various Mexican seasonings and added to lettuce, avocado, homemade salsa and cheese.
 
I had a chicken day yesterday. Leftover Nando’s thighs late morning - they’re fab heated for 5 minutes in the air fryer. Stay moist and skin goes crispy again.

Then as I was tired, picked up a rotisserie chicken from a local shop for dinner and ate about half of that.

Oh and there was plenty of yoghurt eaten too.

Today I have a choice of bavette steak, mince/eggs and cold chicken. It’s a hard life.
 
Well, the mince and eggs (with a few onions) won for lunch. And I managed not to break any of the yolks! Dinner was a few bits of cold chicken and a pickled onion.

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Roast veal shoulder today, with a rare vegetable side of cauliflower cheese. Huge portion for lunch - a sizeable chunk of the meat found its way back to the kitchen and was eaten for dinner. Fage yoghurt for dessert.

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Goonergal said:
Roast veal shoulder today, with a rare vegetable side of cauliflower cheese. Huge portion for lunch - a sizeable chunk of the meat found its way back to the kitchen and was eaten for dinner. Fage yoghurt for dessert.

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That veal looks fabulous! I’ve not long finished dinner but I feel hungry again looking at that.
 
DJC3 said:
That veal looks fabulous! I’ve not long finished dinner but I feel hungry again looking at that.
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It was pretty good. Would cook it more slowly next time - was far too hungry for that today.
 
Welcome to the thread @Judit0514

Scored a yellow stickered half leg of lamb in Asda yesterday. It made a wonderful slow roast today, coated with lemon salt, rosemary, paprika and garlic granules. Stuck some onions in with stock leftover from previous creations. Turned into a passable gravy with no extra effort. Meltingly tender.

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Judit@0514 said:
I love sauerkraut with onions, chicken, red paprika, garlic and sour cream.
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I’ve recently developed a taste for sauerkraut and kimchi. I love it with scrambled eggs which my daughter says is a very odd combination, but I think it’s very good.
 
DJC3 said:
I’ve recently developed a taste for sauerkraut and kimchi. I love it with scrambled eggs which my daughter says is a very odd combination, but I think it’s very good.
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Have you found a source of reasonably priced kimchi?
 
Massive amounts of protein today. Ted Naiman would be impressed.
Long dog walk in the morning fuelled by black coffee, then a very hard PT session in the park - all upper body work. Felt quite sick afterwards really, but stuck a couple of small chicken breasts wrapped in bacon in the air fryer.
When I felt a bit better I ate both of them ( one was supposed to be for tomorrow) with some salad leaves, including pennywort I’d foraged in the morning walk.
Dinner barely 3 hrs later was an 8oz ribeye with Halloumi fries and more salad dressed with olive oil.
Red wine with it.
I don’t think I’ll need to eat for a week.
 
Not happy:

Found a pack of Moo Grob in the freezer.
Yay! Air fried it with drooling anticipation, but it was freezer burnt and I threw it away. :(

Happy:
Made a rather nice pork stew last night, inspired but not copied from an Interweb recipe.
Basically 2.2kg of diced pork shoulder steaks, a couple of small parsnips (for Mr B), 3 red bell peppers and a diced onion.
Was surprised how much I enjoyed the flavours, then tweaked with seasonings and onion powder (the onion powder acts as a thickener).

Lots of portions. Ate 1, refrigerated 2, froze 4.
 
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