What's for dinner?

[Texan]

We stopped by KFC on the way to look at Christmas lights.

[Black Orchid]

I have a pork roast to cook but I'm still waiting for my oven to get fixed. Probably pasta something. I'm not a huge fan of pasta but I don't do it often so that's fine.

My son had a Brazilian girlfriend who used to do a pasta dish. Cook the pasta, bung it in a big bowl and add lots of grated cheese, ham and deseeded sliced tomatoes or halved baby cherry tomatoes. Bind it all together with some Japanese Kewpie mayo.

I'll probably do that.

[sprintcyclist]

A CSIRO fit for life meal.

White fish on a steamed pumpkin mash, salad.

[cods]

A CSIRO fit for life meal.

White fish on a steamed pumpkin mash, salad.

I keep promising myself to have a go at the CSIRO diet.....are you doing it sprint?
if so tell me what luck you are having....please.

[sprintcyclist]

A CSIRO fit for life meal.

White fish on a steamed pumpkin mash, salad.

I keep promising myself to have a go at the CSIRO diet.....are you doing it sprint?
if so tell me what luck you are having....please.

It's really good.
They sell you a personalised menu. It has all the ingredients and directions for every meal for 2+ weeks.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks.
It's just food you can buy locally, in woolies. Took me a while to get used to buying different things.

The food is really nice, it does not 'feel' like a diet. We are not deprived or hungry
I've lost 7kgs, my wife over 15. It is a big difference

[Jovial Monk]

What a wet topic!

Tonight will be a cold table: two pates, sashimi and sushi, sausage etc plus some side dishes. I know, bit cold for a cold table, oh well.

This weekend I want to make croquettes, a recipe out of a Dutch cookbook I have, fish and veal (separate, not together LOL!) Have a stock started with four ocean trout heads, herbs, soup veg etc.

[Jovial Monk]

Just out my current batch of apple butter into the waterbath, process that 10 minutes (likely in Tassie I will need to allow for elevation, have my eye on a block just under the snowline and higher elevation = lower boiling point. In Tassie I will likely use a pressure canner.

[Jovial Monk]

Anybody here into lactic ferments? Sauerkraut, kimchi, yoghurt, gherkins? Have a small batch, my second, of sauerkraut fermenting on the windowsill in the kitchen (in a fermenting crock on the windowsill natch, not got a heap wet, salty cabbage on the windowsill.

Looking to make yoghurt and kimchi next week, any hints welcome!

[Jovial Monk]

Apple butter is nice, creamy not grainy. Not much taste of spice tho I added what I thought were heaps. It is nice and tart, must be the “missile” apples.

Hmmm nope:

This miniature apple has a small core, super sweet flesh and thin skin making it a great addition for kids' lunchboxes.

Must have been the grannies. Anyway, all canned, will fish the jars out the waterbath in a few minutes.

I have fried pork chops in apple butter, man that was good! Apple butter way more concentrated than apple sauce.

Might look for a recipe for a tart with applebutter.

[Bobby]

Apple butter is nice, creamy not grainy. Not much taste of spice tho I added what I thought were heaps. It is nice and tart, must be the “missile” apples.

Hmmm nope:

This miniature apple has a small core, super sweet flesh and thin skin making it a great addition for kids' lunchboxes.

Must have been the grannies. Anyway, all canned, will fish the jars out the waterbath in a few minutes.

I have fried pork chops in apple butter, man that was good! Apple butter way more concentrated than apple sauce.

Might look for a recipe for a tart with applebutter.

Monk - you're making me hungry.
My favourite pie is: rhubarb and granny smith apple pie with ice cream.