what did you have for tea?

Looks like a veritable feast.

I love pad Thai, have never made it, but never knew it had ingredients like a child's Christmas list.

I'm really loving cooking more Chinese, and especially Sichuan, dishes, it's been a real voyage of discovery for me through lockdown. My Thai repertoire is exactly one dish deep - pad horapha moo - but I love it so much I make it most weeks. It's pretty simple, and the only specialist ingredient is the horapha (Thai basil), which my local supermarket stocks - I have everything else in anyway.

Chinese food and French food are the two great cuisines.

Just had a load of mushrooms, peeled and put into a big hinged frying pan thingy, then broke 2 eggs into it and let them cook in the mushroom's steam. Added some thyme for flavour. Grapefruit for afters. Total cost, zero! My gran might kick me out of the house as I've collected 5 bags (probably over 10 kilos) of mushrooms over the past 3 days. I'm bored now, anyone wanna go mushroom picking?

On a purely emotional level I completely agree with you.

1 giant lamb chop
2 skewers of lamb shish
1 skewer of chicken shish
2 meatball sorta things, wrapped in fat
2 pitta breads
Sheep's yoghurt
Cheese

50 lira, or about £4.50. Shame I no longer earn uk money.

I then went home and demolished a massive plate of leeks, sauteed with rice, tomatoes, onions, garlic. Still hungry.

About 6 or 7 aubergines, sauteed with onions, LOTS of whole garlic cloves, tomatoes.
I got 3 packs of noodles that i'll most likely have straight after training.

Yesterday, the kebab place finished their doner at around 1:30. I gave him a bollocking and he put on 2 boneless chicken thighs that were marinated in doner seasoning. He does it all himself. Served with salad and only 1 pitta bread as I wasn't hungry.

Festivity requires a roast, so: chicken, potatoes and parsnips, pigs and shallots and garlic, sprouts and chestnuts in butter, and some frankly insane mustard tarragon gravy. Enough for one man.

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I saved the chicken breasts and oysters for another use, and ate everything else. Then I went for a walk so as not to die.

Great work.

I had goose and turkey yesterday, with various sausage meat stuffings, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, peas, roast potatoes, honey glazed carrots, sautéed sprouts and bacon, and god like gravy. My best Christmas dinner to date.

Now that's great work. I crave goose. Haven't had it in decades.

First time I’ve ever had it. Was surprised by how little meat the whole bird yielded. However, it was delicious.

LARGE doner with chips and pitta bread at 3pm. Did 5 mins work, got paid in meatball sub. Half a loaf of bread, salad, meatballs. I wonder what my gran's cooked for dinner this evening?

I made cream of asparagus soup with onions, garlic, potatoes, some milk, and thickened with some flour. Need to clear the fridge out before the new season starts, which is in a couple of weeks. Total cost about 2 pence for the flour and milk.

My gran fried potatoes, onions, eggs, and artichoke hearts, total cost zero.

I grabbed the food she cooked and left for me, put it in the soup, heated it up and ate it all out of a pot with a spoon.

I had a sudden craving for Scotch eggs. 1lb of mince was about half a day's wages. This is why we don't eat much meat.
5 eggs, plus one for beating
500g mince
100g spam type stuff, the recipe called for ham but not got any over here
Breadcrumbs
Garlic - home grown
Sage from the garden
Thyme from the garden

Took me 4 minutes to eat the lot. The mince wasn't even cooked thoroughly on all of them but SO good. Now I feel a bit queasy.

My gran fried 3 lil fish that wouldn't have satiated a cat, along with potatoes and taro. I then made more wedges and had a whole spatch-cocked quail, plus 200g baby biscuits. Still hungry.