Lunch should have its own thread

[fishfinger]

A bowl of Jersey Royals, smothered in butter.

 

[Badgers]

Chicken shish kebabs with rice and salad.

Slight change of plan. Had some Jerk Chicken leftover so chopped that up to make a cold 'jerk chicken rice and peas'

Will have that with some salad and save the kebabs.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Cheese sandwiches.

 

[Maggot]

Carrot top pesto with pasta and creme fraiche.

 

[May Kasahara]

Cheese and coleslaw sandwich, prawn cocktail crisps, banana, fizzy water. A classic office lunch but eaten at home

 

[platinumsage]

Vegetable soup with bread and margarine. A pear, chopped, with ground almonds in a bowl with milk.

 

[zora]

Vegetable soup with bread and margarine. A pear, chopped, with ground almonds in a bowl with milk.

For some reason, pears feature heavily in my lockdown diet, too! I hadn't eaten one in decades, but now I have them all the time, grated into porridge etc.

Lunch today was the same as yesterday; gnocchi with pesto and salad. The exciting addtion was an epic banana, orange and pineapple smoothie.

 

[RubyToogood]

Gouda and quorn ham toastie, which was an excellent move. With some chilli cranberry jelly that came with my mother's turkey at Christmas. Fennel, satsuma.

 

[platinumsage]

Two duck eggs, soldiers.

 

[sojourner]

Just had a proper nice mature cheddar butty, on seedy brown bread, with perfectly ripe vine tomato, onion, and iceberg lettuce. Nom.

Blueberry Onken.

 

[Saffy]

Going to have poached eggs on toast. Just opened up my new box of eggs and found this.

Holiday eggs!

 

[Orang Utan]

A big hunk of cheddar and some scotch broth

 

[Orang Utan]

Payday so Chinese takeaway, probs Kung Po or Szechuan

 

[sojourner]

He's on egg mayo butties, and I'm on tuna mayo butties. Both with cheese and onion crisps, and some Onken for me.

 

[gentlegreen]

Salad leaves, balsamic dressing, hummus, salsa, pakora, cherry toms, pointy pepper.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Going to have poached eggs on toast. Just opened up my new box of eggs and found this.
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Holiday eggs!

They look like normal eggs to me. Why are they associated with holidays?

Tin of chopped tomatoes, sweetcorn, chilli, garlic, basil and olive oil to get my veg quota in for today.

 

[Badgers]

Ended up with a mini French bread sliced up. Pate, Stilton, Marmite and cream cheese (on separate slices) with a few Olives.

 

[Saffy]

They look like normal eggs to me. Why are they associated with holidays?

I've only ever had white eggs on holiday or from friends with chickens here. I was told that farmers get more money for brown eggs because they're seen as better and so white eggs are sold to manufacturers to make things. Not sure if that's true though.

 

[Roadkill]

Spanish rice and red bean soup, with multigrain bread and butter.

 

[sojourner]

I've only ever had white eggs on holiday or from friends with chickens here. I was told that farmers get more money for brown eggs because they're seen as better and so white eggs are sold to manufacturers to make things. Not sure if that's true though.

I got a box of white eggs tother week. Every single one of them had reallllly thin shells.

 

[Saffy]

I got a box of white eggs tother week. Every single one of them had reallllly thin shells.

My sister lives in Egypt and she always buys white eggs because they have thin shells. Maybe there's something to it. She says the best eggs are baladi eggs because the chickens are free range and eat garlic and the eggs taste beautiful and garlicky. Not so good in a cake though, she found out.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I got a box of white eggs tother week. Every single one of them had reallllly thin shells.

I find that duck eggs (the ones I get now and again are always white) are almost impossible to peel the shell after boiling them. Not sure why though - it's like they are superglued to the egg.

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm making beetroot, carrot and ginger soup for lunch today.

 

[platinumsage]

I find that duck eggs (the ones I get now and again are always white) are almost impossible to peel the shell after boiling them. Not sure why though - it's like they are superglued to the egg.

Yes, the shell is a lot thinner, making it break easily. It doesn't really matter because the best way to eat duck eggs is soft boiled, where you only need to slice the top off. I've always thought it a bit of a waste to hard boil them.

 

[platinumsage]

A "panini roll" with a microwaved egg. Cornflakes, raisins, milk powder, milk. A hot cross bun.

 

[gentlegreen]

I was hoping to skip lunch, but beer led to a cold bag of mexican rice, tahini and mango chutney ...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Not so good in a cake though, she found out.

I don't know - garlic chocolate cake might be quite nice.

 

[platinumsage]

Steamed buns containing minced beef, onions, fried egg, carrots, celery, soy sauce.

 

[zora]

Bulgur wheat salad with griddle courgette, pomegranate seeds, chopped hazelnuts (instead of pine nuts), halloumi and some crunchy iceberg leaves.

Pomegranate came with mystery fruit box, and I found a great kitchen hack on youtube how to get the seeds out: just cut in half and bash the back with a wooden spoon, and they all come tumbling out.

 

[fishfinger]

Liver and bacon ready-meal.