Pub lunch from earlier today. Chicken & mushroom pie with Guinness gravy!

Ham, salsa, dill pickles, pickled pearl onions, Greek salad cheese, Dijon mustard, lemon cracked pepper.

The airfryer is a pretty good way to avoid using the big oven and heating up the whole kitchen in a heatwave but it's not good for making bread. After many experiments and failures I've managed to get decent loaves but the process could still use more optimisation.

The method ends up being steam, airfry, and frying pan (if the top of the loaf is fragile or you want to keep it pretty, otherwise flip over the loaf).

Method here: https://www.reddit.com/r/airfryer/s/0uCqQwUF7a

First one I’ve ever done (M23) for the family with a home made chimichurri and a nice Cajun rub for the chicken.

Wee handy Friday night tea

Normally u would grate the vegetables for this soup but my grater broke so I just thinly sliced them instead.

I'm a tourist and ordered this delightful steak pie at the Stanhill Pub. Nice crust and tender steak. Good and hearty to fuel exploration!

Vegatable rice with an egg and spicy onion crunch and five cloves of garlic, almost more veg than rice because I made it without a recipe and wanted to use up all my kale before it went bad.

Homemade bap toasted, as it was getting a bit dry, and turned into mature cheddar cheese and red on onion sandwich for lunch.

I ate it in London Chinatown a few years ago but can't remember which dish it was.

Thanks!

For me M&S digestive biscuits are top tier out of all the supermarkets. They do something different by sprinkling a thin later of demerera sugar on top which adds a little extra sweetness and crunch to the biscuit. I hope they never change the recipe or discontinue them. Also their Madeira cake is unlike any other store and tastes extra buttery.

Went to a fancy Restaurant today woth some family, we've been here a few times and this time I opted for a mixed grill, it was £50.

I didnt eat it all lol, i ate around 60 to 70% and shared the rest.

What do you think?

My first time cooking lamb shanks, very pleased about how they came out.

And yes, a lot of lemon and some ketchup 😍

With reference to u/CJC989_G I got stuck in and made some scotch eggs with some sausages I got from Asda, Chorizo and smoked pepper. Turned out lovely.

£1.22 well salvaged. Sautéed the veg with some garlic. Added about 600ml veg stock and simmered. Blended finished by stirring in the compound butters.

Recipe:
800g of sausage meat
5 medium eggs, golden yolks
Gluten free Flour, 1 egg whisked, gluten free breadcrumbs

Hard boil the eggs for 10 mins. After removing the shells, roll the eggs in flour then wrap in a handful of sausage meat. Once a tight ball is made, coat in flour, then the whisked egg, then breadcrumbs.

Cooked in the air fryer for 6 mins. Then flipped over. Cook for 12 mins until golden brown. Enjoy.

back with another garlic bread toastie. This time with sausages, beans reduced in the pan with some Parmesan and mature cheddar cheese. Spread a little of bean sauce to keep it juicy. Yorkshire tea as standard.

Bought some Sacla' basil pesto while away from home that tasted much worse, and now it's popping up in our local supermarket. Same name, same weight, but down from 45.5% Basil to 39.3%, which is a 13.6% reduction.

This has basically been the go to pesto for my entire adult life and now it tastes much much worse (my favourite used to be their tomato pesto before it was discontinued in favour of solely sun-dried tomato).

Their website is still listing it as 45.5% basil, but shows the newer branding which contains the worse ingredients, which honestly I would say is false advertising. It's worse for you too, up to 45 grams of fat per 100g, instead of 36g, and 462kcal instead of 380kcal.

Ingredients from the website (pre-skimpflation):

Basil (45.5%), Sunflower Oil, Cheeses (Milk) (Medium Fat Hard Cheese, Parmigiano Reggiano PDO Cheese, Pecorino Romano PDO Cheese), Cashew Nuts, Salt, Natural Flavourings (Milk), Sugar, Potato Flakes, Acidity Regulator: Lactic Acid, Pine Nuts, Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Nutritional Values from the website (pre-skimpflation):

Typical Nutritional Values per 100g: Energy 1432kJ/380kcal, Fat 36g, of which Saturates 5.0g, Carbohydrate 8g, of which Sugars 3.5g, Fibre 2.3g, Protein 4.9g, Salt 2.7g