What did you cook or eat today: August 2025?

I was a very busy bee today. I made homemade pickles because I got a new recipe I wanna try, plus pickles are awesome. I made a homemade dill and chive dip for artichokes, and also made homemade scalloped potatoes to go with the artichokes, and to top it all off for dessert, I made a red velvet cake. 🥰🎂
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Day 3 salad: smoked duck (a ready-to-eat one - and quite salty tbh) on a salad with soy/honey/sesame vinaigrette. My wife hasn't said anything yet that we've had salad for 3 consecutive days (we usually have one about every 3 months lol). Tomorrow she's getting another one and let's see her limits! :D

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Sauerkraut balls are rolled and had the initial flour dredge, next into an eggwash and rolled in breadcrumbs. My back kinda hurts so I am stopping for a minute before that last step.
Well my husband declared them as the best sauerkraut balls he has ever eaten. I served them with a mustard and honey sauce on a whim instead of cocktail sauce and he said the mustard sauce was 10x better. They were really delicious, and I don't even like sauerkraut.
 
Drinkydroos
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Mr SSOAP's Orzetto
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My John Dory and Queenie scallops.
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The Gin was good (loved the whiff of rosemary amongst the other ingredients) but the John Dory and Queenie scallops were out of this world. So many tiny perfect scallops and such an excellent bit of fresh fish.
I'm not saying it was a complicated or inspiring dish, it was all just the most perfectly cooked combination 😋🥰
 
Chicken salad sandwiches, potato chips/crisps, raw vegetable sticks (carrot, celery, and turnip), and black grapes for lunch.

Rest area along the way - this one is very wooded:
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On our way to Plattsburgh, NY but stopping over halfway in Rochester, and we’ll get to see a niece-in-law at the same time.
 
Today all I've made is a pile of pancakes.Yesterday, however, I made some green mango chutney:
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I'd frozen 2kgs of green mango from the tree up the garden (and still have 2kgs more). Finding jars is now a major problem. Six months since my provider has any available, so I had to resort to pleading to the neighbours who, as usual, came up trumps.
 
Then I decided to make some "vadas", which are little balls of split pea/lentils mixed with spices, ginger and onion - a bit like falafel.
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I soaked some yellow split peas over night. Couldn't find my regular green split peas, but I thought " same thing, different colour"
Wrong.
As soon as I started rolling the little balls into shape, I knew they wouldn't work. No cohesion at all. I managed to put one or two together, and this was the result:
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Soooo, I dumped the whole lot into a large pan, added some water and a load more spices, and made a sort of dal soup, topped with crispy fried onions, cumin seeds and cilantro leaves.
 
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