What did you have for lunch thread - NO BLOG LINKS & NO PIC QUOTING

MissFlitworth

kylith wrote: »

Ha, snap! Feta and broad bean cous cous with lamb kofta.

Mine was decidedly meh though, A squeeze of lemon would probably have helped, but it's cheap, filling, and quick to cook.

I need something a little tart in cous cous, be it lemon or a tomato base or something to make it taste nice. Quite like the sounds of broad beans in there!

Tilly

Just had some homemade veg soup. Perfect for a day like this

iwantmydinner

Leftover savoury mince in brown pittas with salad and a wee bit of grated cheddar. And tea. Happeh.

Miaireland

There was a street market near work today so had a wood fired oven pizza with pepperoni, olives and mushrooms. I would have loved to have had some anchovies on it but they had none. The pizza itself was lovely except they used really cheap grated mozzerala. I would have prefer to have the option to pay a bit more and get proper mozzerala.

Tilly

Roast chicken salad. Was too hungry to take a pic :P

Mrs Fox

Snacking on Vietnamese summer rolls and crudites with red pepper hummus.

Tilly

Now Foxy, how much would you charge a week to feed me all your lovely food?

\I'd buy your cookbook - make one

Mrs Fox

Tilly wrote: »

Now Foxy, how much would you charge a week to feed me all your lovely food?

\I'd buy your cookbook - make one

If I come out with a cookbook I'd have to heavily credit you lot from this forum

Mrs Fox

Cucumber 'sushi' - cucumber cored and stuffed with goat's cheese and dark tahini, carrot & pepper. Sprinkled with chia and served with pickled ginger and wasabi. Dessert was SUPPOSED to be mine banana topped with hazelnut butter and blueberries but the scallywags got to them first.

iwantmydinner

LOVE that cucumber sushi idea!!

Faith

Mrs Fox, I've never seen creativity like yours with such healthy food. I'm incredibly impressed. Where do you get your inspiration from? Is there anything you don't eat? Please tell me there's an easy to find cookbook that you use every day

Mrs Fox

Faith wrote: »

Mrs Fox, I've never seen creativity like yours with such healthy food. I'm incredibly impressed. Where do you get your inspiration from? Is there anything you don't eat? Please tell me there's an easy to find cookbook that you use every day

Even better, it's free on the net!
Instagram is full of ideas. I got this sushi idea from @mindovermunch.
I just cut back (but not completely for the love of my sanity) dairy, bread, pasta, rice. I enjoy the 'forbidden' food more when I allow myself to have them every now and again. That brioche bun from Aldi the other night? The full on big fat slice if red velvet cake complete with full fat icing and sugar last week? Phwoaarrr... The ONLY thing I completely threw out was soda.

Mrs Fox

Lemon and parsley smoked mackerel quinoa kedgree, topped with more mackerel just because it's Friday, boiled egg, sprouts and squeeze of lemon to finish. Yum.

Smiles35

After watching some vids on japanese broths I decided ther was nothing stopping me doing a simple one with a packet of rice seasoning I had no intension of using as intended. Some random meat and veg popped in with some soy suace.

A1 cup a soup.

TeletextPear

Noblong wrote: »

After watching some vids on japanese broths I decided ther was nothing stopping me doing a simple one with a packet of rice seasoning I had no intension of using as intended. Some random meat and veg popped in with some soy suace.

A1 cup a soup.

I definitely read that as Japanese brothels first time around

Mrs Fox

Daughter had a fever so I made a big pot of clear chicken soup. Kept mine simple with sprouts, spring onion and chillies, a dish very similar to Soto.

Mrs Fox

I've made Pad Thai from the Cooking Club many times, but today I replaced the flat rice noodles with strips of courgette and carrot, and added mushroom and cashews instead of peanuts.

kylith

Back on the salads today. Baby gem, smoked salmon, carrot, olives, mozzarella, raw broccoli, and tomato. Lidl's veg crisps for an afternoon snack if needed.

Mrs Fox

Warm duck salad, with glass noodles, sesame seeds and hoisin dressing, from The Courtyard Cafe in Castletown House.

kylith

Roast tomato soup and a cheese toastie.

Shenshen

Leftover falafel, big salad with baby tomatoes, cucumber, olives and cream cheese stuffed mini peppers. With a pitta and lots of houmous.

In short, chickpea overkill

MissFlitworth

The Spicy Pollo from the nice Argentinian sammidge place around the corner from my office. Pretty much covered head to toe in chipotle mayo now but worth it!

the beer revolu

Sunday's lunch was fried smoked bacon cubes, poached eggs, toast, tomatoes and rocket.

StripedBoxers

Had lunch out today, ordered a carbonara, however it was nothing like carbonara and I ended up sending it back as it was inedible, so instead I had lasagne.

Not sure who decided to call the first dish carbonara as all it was was some fusilli, with a bit of bacon, slices of cold chicken, dodgy tasting cream, a dusting of green powder (not sure what it was) and a dusting of paprika. The whole dish had a sour taste and just wasn't edible.

kylith

StripedBoxers wrote: »

Had lunch out today, ordered a carbonara, however it was nothing like carbonara and I ended up sending it back as it was inedible, so instead I had lasagne.

Not sure who decided to call the first dish carbonara as all it was was some fusilli, with a bit of bacon, slices of cold chicken, dodgy tasting cream, a dusting of green powder (not sure what it was) and a dusting of paprika. The whole dish had a sour taste and just wasn't edible.

The green powder was probably dried parsley.




I had a salad of lettuce, tomato, broccoli, courgette, mozzarella, olives, and prawns with a lemon and black pepper dressing.


Does anyone have a good low-calorie alternative to olive oil? It really bumps up the calories of a salad.

StripedBoxers

kylith wrote: »

The green powder was probably dried parsley

I dunno, I have dried parsley and use it regularly, however this stuff was like green paprika, like dust, can you get dried parsley like that? I've only ever had it in little pieces (all dried) from Tesco etc.

kylith

StripedBoxers wrote: »

I dunno, I have dried parsley and use it regularly, however this stuff was like green paprika, like dust, can you get dried parsley like that? I've only ever had it in little pieces (all dried) from Tesco etc.

The dust from the end of the jar maybe?

The only green powder I can think of would be matcha, but there is zero reason that would be anywhere near a pasta dish.

Mrs Fox

I made a loaf of vegan pumpkin bread theother day:



So yesterday I had it with Aldi's gravadlax, boiled egg and salad on top of the pumpkin slice.



Yesterday was grilled aubergine with chickpea, spinach, tomato and feta salad.

nozzferrahhtoo

Hmmmm Leberkase.

MissFlitworth

Defrosted some potstickers/gyoza to have as a starter on Wednesday but they just didn't go with our main and also a giant bucket of pasta in a cream sauce does not lend itself to a starter, really. So, as I quite like cold doughy things, I made them up to bring in for lunch yesterday! It's probably not how it's done but I enjoyed a lot. Garlic was a bit forceful ("Trying to taste other things are you? Bit of ginger maybe? Some of that spring onion, hmmm? YEAH GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. FOR I AM LORD GARLIC. RULER OF THIS DUMPLING" sort of a thing) tasting though, not sure if that's because they were cold or frozen.