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    Posted: 13 Feb 2026 at 5:44pm
It's been a long hard week at the coal face, well for some that is.  Wink  So what's on the menu for you tonight, the week's predominant takeaway evening? 

Will kick off with us, which is more than occasionally a home-topped pizza on a store-bought base, or more likely two or three mini-wraps. 

Over to you lot.  Smile
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Onto Day 3 without Uber eats today. Probably my longest streak this year. Don't go very well in the kitchen as evidenced by my 'cooking' tonight. Quick and easy 

 
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Lightly fried in butter, mushrooms, broccoli, cubes of salmon. Sweet potatoes, potatoes. Delicious.

And later on a cup of tea with a puff pastry, sweets are always the highlight for me.
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But on a Friday evening Whale? C'mon.  
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Less about what I can afford and more about what I can be arsed making. Wait till next time I have devon and chips. I'll post a photo of it for you. As an adult its a memory but as a kid it was a necessity, no silver spoon here! 
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Haha. I remember years ago dad used to often bring home Kentucky Fried Chicken on a Friday night, was the only franchised fast food around, or fish and chips.
I thought KFC was the bees knees, had some recently, didn't enjoy it at all. Either the recipe has changed or my tastes have.
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Positive posts from now on please folks.  

ps: we didn't have pizza tonight: someone else preferred roast vegies which yours truly was obliged to provide.  Ermm
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As in, your whole meal is just roast vegies? Actually I reckon I could live on roast potatoes.

We're doing tacos.
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Old girl cooked roast last Sunday night. Leftover vegies on the Monday were even better than the night before
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 We made individual cottage pies for dinner. Just finished quaffing them. They were really good. 

 Had sushi for lunch. Seared salmon nigiri. 8 portions. 

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Originally posted by HarnessGuru HarnessGuru wrote:

Old girl cooked roast last Sunday night. Leftover vegies on the Monday were even better than the night before

 Leftover veges fried up and put on toast for breakfast is always good.

 I crave vegetables.

 

 
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The only thing I like on toast is butter or vegemite. Or in a toasted sandwich 2 or 3 of the following, ham, cheese, tomato, cucumber. Cucumber is better than the traditional tomato IMO.
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Can't say I've ever had a toasted cucumber sanger, sounds interesting.

Quick & easy quiche & salad for us tonight. My mum makes a fancy salad with some extras in it like mango, cheese & nectarine. yummo.
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Ihad a headache so son made snitzel and mash with beans and carrot.  Take away sunday lunch for his birthday with family.  No decision made yet.  Usually thai and kfc for him.  But hes kfc full at the moment and wants simething different.
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 Was that chicken schnitzel, Furious?

 I have a lot of trouble sourcing proper veal to make Wiener Schnitzel. Once, you could easily find actual veal...now it is sold under 'sizzle steak' and looks nothing like the real deal.

 
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Yes chicken.  He loves chicken!  The best Wiener Schnitzel I had was in Vienna but I guess that makes sense.  Sizzle steak doesn't do the job at all.  I gets to hard or maybe I cook it wrong.
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Why is it that immigrants to Australia cannot import their cooking skills?

Polish, Hungarian, Chinese, all ordinary here compared to even a little cafe over there.
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They probably cook the real stuff at home and cater to what they think the local tastes are in their restaurants. Eg Chinese food is different in every country I've been to. Outside of genuine China Town type pockets anyway.

Agree re local cafes in Poland/ Eastern Europe. Like cafes in Spain that have genuine tapas. Sigh.
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Never been to spain stayer.  Or Italy for some reason.  But my back freezes up if I sit too long these days.
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I went to a little, nondescript worker's cafe in Warsaw. Food was spectacular, on par or better than my mother's, and she was an amazing cook.
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Originally posted by furious furious wrote:

Never been to spain stayer.  Or Italy for some reason.  But my back freezes up if I sit too long these days.

 Ditto to all of that...including the frozen back.  But I love cooking Spanish and Italian food. 


 I just whipped up some scone-dates...so called because there are more dates than scone content. I used Andicap's mother's scone recipe, which he sent me years ago. You use lemonade and cream, rather than sugar and milk.

 Works a treat.

 Now I will quaff a couple, with lashings of butter.

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The only thing I like on toast is butter or vegemite. Or in a toasted sandwich 2 or 3 of the following, ham, cheese, tomato, cucumber. Cucumber is better than the traditional tomato IMO.
We have very different tastes Whale....ham cut off the bone nice....as long as minimal fat....all other pre-cut muck.....no thanks.....tomato's have been rubbish for years....either dry / flowery / or tasteless.....cheese yummo....but goes straight through me...esp when heated (lactose intolerant).....so no unless i take a few lacteezes.....cucumber just plain yuck......with you on the vegemite on toast though Thumbs Up
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Pure & simply....i am a sauce person

Cant eat a plain piece of meat without it 
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 (lactose intolerant)

A bit new age for you Smile

You obviously go for the cheap pre cut. I am very fussy, there is good ham if you are prepared to pay for the better quality. And smoked goes best in toasties. I can't cook to save myself but I make amazing toasted sandwiches, better than any I have paid for.
Disagree about the tomatoes, maybe not as good as they once were but not dry, flowery in my experience.
I am not a fan of cucumber either but have found that toasted in a sandwich with ham and cheese it is delicious.
Anyway as you say, different tastes.
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 I eat tomatoes daily. Truss tomatoes. Not dry at all.

 
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 I also grow cherry tomatoes which are not dry.

 And rocket. And parsley. And snap peas.

 
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Pure & simply....i am a sauce person

Cant eat a plain piece of meat without it 

 A medium rare steak with just a pat of butter and salt is pretty perfect...but with a mushroom or Diane sauce it's even better.

 
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We didn't have pizza tonight: someone else preferred roast vegies which yours truly was obliged to provide.  Ermm

So it's pizza tonight instead.

Home prepared on mini wraps.  First the sauce made from our own-grown Amish Paste heirloom tomatoes: they're rich, sweet and full fleshed with virtually no seeds, like Roma on steroids.  Then the store bought mozzarella, and finally the toppings, which comprise:

pizza No 1: salami, pitted green olives and red capsicum
pizza No2: anchovies, pitted black olives and capers.  

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