Lunch should have its own thread

[polly]

Last of the tomato soup with a cheese roll.

I had tomato soup with bread and cheese Heinz, though.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Zungenrotwurst (ox tongue slices mixed with black pudding) in a pumpkin seed broetchen with cucumber

 

[Biddlybee]

A packet of crisps and two opal fruits.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A packet of crisps and two opal fruits.

Root veg and fruit. That's two of your five a day sorted.

 

[mrs quoad]

mrs quoad (or anyone else - mrs q just seems like a good person to ask based on the meals he often posts) - I will have a good amount of cold roast beef left some time next week. I also have a load of vacuum-packed cooked beetroot. Ideas for nice lunches involving both of these things, please?

Sorry, dude. Flattered to be tagged and spent the best part of a day half pondering this. Have not used cooked beetroot for ages, and the last thing I did use it for, I'd struggle to recommend. (Ottolenghi beetroot, black olive and orange salad. Made twice. The second time on the principle that it couldn't be that bad, so I must've done sth wrong).

Most of the uses I've put beetroot to recently have been raw and finely sliced, w/ other root veg. And some sort of pickling liquid, and a combination of herbs. And sometimes some seeds / nuts.

Which might work with cooked, but it'd be spoogy in texture! TBH, can see beef and beetroot working pretty well no matter what you do with em, mind.

What did you come up with?

 

[mrs quoad]

Cold sausage w/ mozzarella, and lemon and (very) pepper couscous.

 

[moose]

The other half of last night's focaccia topped with very ripe tomatoes, smoked vegan cheese, and shredded basil leaves. Toasted. Nom.

 

[bi0boy]

orzo with diced cucumbers, spring onions, kalamata olives, tuna and sage.

 

[iona]

Sorry, dude. Flattered to be tagged and spent the best part of a day half pondering this. Have not used cooked beetroot for ages, and the last thing I did use it for, I'd struggle to recommend. (Ottolenghi beetroot, black olive and orange salad. Made twice. The second time on the principle that it couldn't be that bad, so I must've done sth wrong).

Most of the uses I've put beetroot to recently have been raw and finely sliced, w/ other root veg. And some sort of pickling liquid, and a combination of herbs. And sometimes some seeds / nuts.

Which might work with cooked, but it'd be spoogy in texture! TBH, can see beef and beetroot working pretty well no matter what you do with em, mind.

What did you come up with?

Thanks, it really wasn't that important!

I haven't used it yet but thinking of roasting some parsnips to have proper roast dinner when I cook it, then just adding cold beef, parsnips & beetroot to a big green salad (lots of rocket & watercress etc) with vinegar and horseradish. Plus whatever else I find in the fridge or TB (Thinking about it, goats cheese would probably be good. Or houmous. Possibly not both together though...)

 

[mrs quoad]

Thanks, it really wasn't that important!

Yeah, it was more that it sparked my curiosity Used to roast beetroot regularly, but haven't for ages!

Goats cheese sounds like a cracking addition!

 

[Stanley Edwards]

I should photograph this one - very colourful.

By invitation of a client...
Purple potato and beetroot mash with grilled, soft goats cheese and grilled aubergenes and courgettes. Looks very nice.

 

[sojourner]

Fucking boss is due in any second now. Why do people come at fucking luncthtime??? I'm gonna spend the next however much time feeling woozy and anxious and not focussed cos I want my bastard lunch

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Second course is very nice. Fresh picked locally sourced wild asparagus with what I think is sole (delicately flavoured, light fleshed flat fish) served on a bed of pesto.

All enjoyed in the sunshine on a terrace watching the sea

I make big sacrifices in life to get pay days like this!

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Thanks, it really wasn't that important!

I haven't used it yet but thinking of roasting some parsnips to have proper roast dinner when I cook it, then just adding cold beef, parsnips & beetroot to a big green salad (lots of rocket & watercress etc) with vinegar and horseradish. Plus whatever else I find in the fridge or TB (Thinking about it, goats cheese would probably be good. Or houmous. Possibly not both together though...)

OK. Just asked the chef (see my coincidental post above). This is piss easy. Boil potatoes as you would for mashing. Chuck the cooked beetroot (he used cooked) into the pot for just 3 minutes final simmer. Salt, pepper and oregano at same time as beetroot is added. Drain and mash with olive oil. It was very nice and colourful!

 

[kalidarkone]

Brunch for me - just finished. My eating and sleeping times are really fucked up due to split nights.

It was flipping delicious! Fried trout fillet and fried egg on toast!

 

[Thimble Queen]

Ham and cheese wrap. Gonna have a banana and some strawberries in a bit.

 

[May Kasahara]

Salad: lettuce, spinach, sugar snaps, tomatoes, red and orange pepper, cucumber, black olives, red cabbage, feta, seeds, olive oil, balsamic vinegar. It was very nice indeed.

 

[Rebelda]

Reheated minestrone with hps.

 

[sojourner]

Freezer-foraged veggie tagine, with half a pack of roast veg couscous. Nom!

 

[polly]

Toasted sourdough with mayonnaise, pesto and avocado with garlic chilli sauce. It was unexpectedly delicious - possibly because I doused it liberally with salt.

 

[ringo]

Sober doner [emoji33][emoji23]

 

[Biddlybee]

two thin bagels with garlic cream cheese one, a few mini cucumbers, lidl wotsits, fizzy water.

 

[May Kasahara]

I've had lots of 'things in pitta' lunches this week. Today's was goat's cheese, cucumber and peppadews.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Fettucine (Well, Tagliatelle) Alfedo ftw

 

[May Kasahara]

Wednesday night's leftovers: chicken/chorizo/bean stew thing, with couscous.

 

[mrs quoad]

I - stupidly - forgot to bring anything in ('cold pasta bake avoidance'), and couldn't bring myself to face any of the 'student shop when the students are on holiday' sandwich offerings.

So spent the best part of a tenner on pita breads, 'spicy coleslaw,' parma ham, and some jarred red peppers which I had with the rocket and goat's cheese I had in the fridge.

Turned out to be a really fucking expensive (but pretty damned nice) way of avoiding a sandwich.

 

[iona]

Rosemary & garlic roast leg of lamb
Dolphin-nose potatoes (with garlic AND gruyere, obvs)
Mini yorkshire puds
Honey, lemon & herb glazed carrots
Minted peas & leeks
Steamed tenderstem broccoli
With gravy and fresh mint sauce

Victoria sponge with fresh vanilla whipped cream and strawberries & raspberries for after

OMFG I'm so excited about this I fucking love food it's gonna be gooood

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Smoked salmon on oatcakes. I'm on a mission to eat more fish than I already do it seems.

 

[sojourner]

Leftover hoummous on toasted white bread, with some iceberg lettuce

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Courgette spaghetti and a pack of mozzarella balls and semi-dried tomatoes marinated in garlic and oregano mixed in. Very nice it was too.