Photo of your dinner (Vol 3)

[Biggus thingus]

Richieboy3008 said:

Biggus thingus said:

Sweet & sour chicken with added chilli oil

Retro worktop, like it.

It's going, don't you worry

That's why there's tiles missing and the cupboard underneath has no doors

[ApOrbital]

Sell it to rich tea.

[craigjm]

McDonalds in Amsterdam ……

Double big tasty with bacon large meal
Mckroket
9 spicy nuggets

Mckroket turns out to be chopped beef and mash in a breadcrumbs coating on a bun

Spicy nuggets decent heat

Double big tasty same as UK just bigger

Prices quite steep compared to UK. The big tasty meal was €12

Edited by craigjm on Tuesday 28th June 18:43

[Richieboy3008]

Fishwich

[illmonkey]

Humm steak. Probably the best steak meal I’ve had in a long time.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I've had a long day so enthusiasm for cooking was limited.


That's tinned mackerel in pepper sauce.

[oddman]

Mushroom risotto

On holiday using an AGA. I'd dismissed these as middle class fetish objects but they do have their charms

This was before the mantecare so still a bit ugly

[Regbuser]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I've had a long day so enthusiasm for cooking was limited.
That's tinned mackerel in pepper sauce.

[HM-2]

Splitting my time between working late and looking after our little one as my wife has Covid. Ended up making three cheese mac-n-cheese (okay, penne-n-cheese) with roast cauliflower, sourdough breadcrumbs and crispy chorizo.

[Biggus thingus]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I've had a long day so enthusiasm for cooking was limited.


That's tinned mackerel in pepper sauce.

Looking at that mess i'd say it's more an enthusiasm for life lacking rather than cooking

I'd have to be seriously mashed to put that together as an end of night 'meal' AND take a photo

[Blown2CV]

craigjm said:

McDonalds in Amsterdam ……

Double big tasty with bacon large meal
Mckroket
9 spicy nuggets

Mckroket turns out to be chopped beef and mash in a breadcrumbs coating on a bun

Spicy nuggets decent heat

Double big tasty same as UK just bigger

Prices quite steep compared to UK. The big tasty meal was €12

Edited by craigjm on Tuesday 28th June 18:43

i guess the mckroket thing is like a kind of bitterballen interpretation

[C70R]

Biggus thingus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I've had a long day so enthusiasm for cooking was limited.


That's tinned mackerel in pepper sauce.

Looking at that mess i'd say it's more an enthusiasm for life lacking rather than cooking

I'd have to be seriously mashed to put that together as an end of night 'meal' AND take a photo

I'll never understand how some folks look at the meals they make and say "You know who needs to see this? The internet, that's who."

I know this thread is just a place to share anything you ate for dinner, but some of the contributions are just depressing. It's like posting for the sake of posting...

[paulguitar]

C70R said:

I'll never understand how some folks look at the meals they make and say "You know who needs to see this? The internet, that's who."

I know this thread is just a place to share anything you ate for dinner, but some of the contributions are just depressing. It's like posting for the sake of posting...

The thread has changed. It used to be somewhere to show off a dinner the poster was pleased with having cooked, or a trip to a fancy restaurant. Now we get half-eaten Tesco sandwiches etc. We just have to go with the flow, I suppose...

[Blown2CV]

C70R said:

Biggus thingus said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I've had a long day so enthusiasm for cooking was limited.


That's tinned mackerel in pepper sauce.

Looking at that mess i'd say it's more an enthusiasm for life lacking rather than cooking

I'd have to be seriously mashed to put that together as an end of night 'meal' AND take a photo

I'll never understand how some folks look at the meals they make and say "You know who needs to see this? The internet, that's who."

I know this thread is just a place to share anything you ate for dinner, but some of the contributions are just depressing. It's like posting for the sake of posting...

glad someone else feels that way.

[Gluggy]

Did start a "less than perfect" cooking / food in general thread ( https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... ) a while back, probably in response to posts like the above but it never took off.

Also can't help but think Richie is sharing a bit more than just his lunch a few posts up - opps!

[C70R]

paulguitar said:

C70R said:

I'll never understand how some folks look at the meals they make and say "You know who needs to see this? The internet, that's who."

I know this thread is just a place to share anything you ate for dinner, but some of the contributions are just depressing. It's like posting for the sake of posting...

The thread has changed. It used to be somewhere to show off a dinner the poster was pleased with having cooked, or a trip to a fancy restaurant. Now we get half-eaten Tesco sandwiches etc. We just have to go with the flow, I suppose...

I used to really enjoy taking some inspiration from this thread, trying new recipes, and sharing things I was pleased with.

Now I just find myself scrolling past stuff that Jim Royle would have been disappointed with.

I suspect those who made the effort are probably now posting less, because it gets lost between crisp sandwiches and stuff out of tins.

[Armchair_Expert]

I handed the tupperware back to my neighbour after the "dry curry" she made. She asked how it was, in her usual smiley and "desperate to please" demeanour. I didn't have the heart to tell her I had binned most of it, owing to lack of sauce and too many chicken bones ( apparently that's how they do it over there ).

After a wry smile and a hint of gratitude, I said thanks and handed her back the empty pot. She then comes back round 10 minute later with a new tupper ware of another curry - "this one has more sauce as I know you like this" etc etc.

So I bought it into work today to try for lunch. The bones are still there which I don't like, but I will attempt to make the best of it. At least it has a sauce.

[C70R]

We're one of the only countries in the world who eat 'curry' who are obsessed with meat off the bone. Meat on the bone is far more tasty and common everywhere in the world, other than us squeamish lot who just want a simple chicken breast.

The sadder outcome of this is that our battery chickens are being bred and reared to have oversized breast meat and much less of the tasty meat (largely because they aren't able to develop it in so little space).

[Gluggy]

Father-in-law and I went for a curry the other night.....













Forgot to take a picture of the rice but it was nice anyway :-)

[Armchair_Expert]

Well I just ate the above, it was very nice but indeed ruined by bones. The flavour was ruined by the difficulty in eating it, trying to cut through gristle and sinue and bones. I think the UK version is correct.