What did you cook or eat today? (October 2025)

A boatload of dirty rice for the Groomer Girls. I used brown, red, and black rice. 👍

Now I need to fix me something...

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Barriehie said:
Used to be a place in 'Vegas called Farm Basket and all they sold was fried chicken and turkey. I'd go by there on the way home and you could get 7 pieces of dark meat for $7.99 with a biscuit and a side. Miss that place!

Looks like they've changed...
https://farmbasket.restaurant/
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Copy & Paste!!!
When we go to Vegas, we always stay at Red Rock - right around the corner!!!
I've been bugging DH that we need to take a road trip up there and restock our Asian Pantry.
Only three places I can get my stash, and that's California (visit with Nieces), Phoenix (hate that place) and Vegas (way far off the Strip and Downtown please).
 
Wife had cataract surgery yesterday. 7.45am , we went to the docs again this morning to remove the dressing and...
Power cut. Instead of 10 minutes, we were there for over an hour and a half.
Eventually got seen to, but it was son's swimming class today at 10, so I took him there, zoomed down to town to do a quick chore, picked up the wife, picked up son, took him to the gym, took the wife back home.
The doc said she shouldn't bend down, cook or do anything strenuous, so ...
Half an hour later, back to the gym to pick up son, stopped at the supermarket for pizza ingredients (and beer), came home, cooked some artichokes for the pizza ( and for wife's dinner), made a Mediterranean quiche thingy with aubergines, courgettes, onions, bit of fennel left over and some tomato, plus a bit of puff pastry hanging around in the fridge. Made a tomato pasta sauce ( which served for pizza).
Served dinner for the wife, pizza for me and sonny Jim, and am now relaxing with a nice glass of Carmenére . Mr Porky is accompanying me to see if anything edible falls off the table.
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My son’s idea for deconstructed sushi last night. We had a really nice time together preparing it.
A few of the stacks people built -
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It all worked so well, will definitely be doing it again.
We put bowls of prepared ingredients on the table and everyone stacked their nori however they fancied.

Had different accompaniments out - sushi ginger, wasabi, different types of roe, a chilli dipping sauce (made with chilli crunch/crisp, gochuchang, mirin), a heavily watered down sushi sauce (it’s too gloopy and sweet otherwise), whatever these bright red ‘herring pearls’ are (they were nice and very popular with everyone) and soy sauce.

It was good for people having enough to eat because unlike fully prepared sushi where I’d make a set amount they could just keep building and eating until they were full and all the fresh raw veg went down a storm.

It’s perfect for that communal eating feeling where everyone gets stuck in and will be really good for preparing ahead on busy days when we still want something that feels a bit special. I can see myself wheeling this one out over Christmas for sure!

Edit: I used a julienne peeler that's much better than the one I have in the UK, that's here -

https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/julienne-peelers.31461/
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
My son’s idea for deconstructed sushi last night. We had a really nice time together preparing it.
A few of the stacks people built -
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It all worked so well, will definitely be doing it again.
We put bowls of prepared ingredients on the table and everyone stacked their nori however they fancied.

Had different accompaniments out - sushi ginger, wasabi, different types of roe, a chilli dipping sauce (made with chilli crunch/crisp, gochuchang, mirin), a heavily watered down sushi sauce (it’s too gloopy and sweet otherwise), whatever these bright red ‘herring pearls’ are (they were nice and very popular with everyone) and soy sauce.

It was good for people having enough to eat because unlike fully prepared sushi where I’d make a set amount they could just keep building and eating until they were full and all the fresh raw veg went down a storm.

It’s perfect for that communal eating feeling where everyone gets stuck in and will be really good for preparing ahead on busy days when we still want something that feels a bit special. I can see myself wheeling this one out over Christmas for sure!
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It’s kinda a BLT
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
My son’s idea for deconstructed sushi last night. We had a really nice time together preparing it.
A few of the stacks people built -
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It all worked so well, will definitely be doing it again.
We put bowls of prepared ingredients on the table and everyone stacked their nori however they fancied.

Had different accompaniments out - sushi ginger, wasabi, different types of roe, a chilli dipping sauce (made with chilli crunch/crisp, gochuchang, mirin), a heavily watered down sushi sauce (it’s too gloopy and sweet otherwise), whatever these bright red ‘herring pearls’ are (they were nice and very popular with everyone) and soy sauce.

It was good for people having enough to eat because unlike fully prepared sushi where I’d make a set amount they could just keep building and eating until they were full and all the fresh raw veg went down a storm.

It’s perfect for that communal eating feeling where everyone gets stuck in and will be really good for preparing ahead on busy days when we still want something that feels a bit special. I can see myself wheeling this one out over Christmas for sure!
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We do something similar with fewer toppings and roll it into a handroll.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
We do something similar with fewer toppings and roll it into a handroll.
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Nice 😊
My son rolled his first one but taco style was a bit easier for piling up the shredded veg and other fillings 👍

I reckon it would make a lovely food pic with all the brightly coloured ingredients laid out.

I think I'd do it for guests too but offer cooked salmon and somehow meat so folk who don't like squelchy textures could pick other stuff.
Do you have protein in yours?
 
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