What are you eating?

[Caliga]

I made Peruvian chicken with green sauce and cilantro rice for dinner last night.  It was pretty badass.

Peruvian chicken joints are popping up all over the place now.  My brother got one in Richmond like five years ago and that was the first I'd heard of it, and now we have at least 3 that I know of here in Louisville.

I went to a Peruvian restaurant in Chicago maybe five years ago as well, and don't recall having chicken but had all kinds of other neat stuff, like cow heart kebab.  Oh, and I discovered Pisco Sours there and drank like six of them that night.

[Syt]

So a place here is offering Chicago Deep Dish Pot Pizza (yes, "pot" - no idea why)

I ordered one with beef and bbq sauce (didn't feel like a tomato based one). It was all right, but not great. Also probably nothing like a proper deep dish pizza.

[Caliga]

It sort of looks correct in terms of structure.

[mongers]

Found a small panettone left over from Xmas.

Where do I get some more before seasonal availability, short of placing an online order with a specialist food company?

[Maladict]

So a place here is offering Chicago Deep Dish Pot Pizza (yes, "pot" - no idea why)

I ordered one with beef and bbq sauce (didn't feel like a tomato based one). It was all right, but not great. Also probably nothing like a proper deep dish pizza.

Those are huge olives, or it's not a very large pizza.

[Grey Fox]

@Syt

What was the cut of beef?

[Syt]

Ground.

[Barrister]

Last week of holidays.  I enjoy cooking, but hardly ever get a chance to cook something new.  So today I was like "screw it" - forget pleasing the kids or wife, I'm going to cook something I want to cook.

I went Indian - chana masala - a chickpea curry (it was: vegetarian! ).

So of course I had to get a whole pile of spices I didn't have.  But this is Canada in 2021 so that wasn't a problem (even getting the amchoor, which the recipe I followed said was hard to find).  But I went to the large grocery store I don't usually go to.  I went to the spice section, and couldn't find most of them.  Then I realized I had to go to the "international spice" section.



The meal itself took a lot longer than I had thought, even with the Instant Pot.  But it was definitely a success.  The boys (who are getting better but can still be picky) all said it was either "good" or "really good" and ate it up.

So now I have a pile of Indian spices (and I mean a pile - a couple of them I could only buy in like a 1 lb bag).  So now I think I need to make some other Indian dishes...

[Caliga]

I love channa masala and make it sometimes.  I like to make it with kheema matar and serve them over basmati.

[Eddie Teach]

I got chicken poppers from Papa John's. I guess they save the "better ingredients" for the pizza, because this was some mediocre chicken.

[garbon]

I just made a chocolate loaf cake from a Nigella recipe for my husband's birthday that asked for 225g of butter and 375g of muscovado sugar. 

[Josquius]

I got papa John's pizza the other day.
My god its greasy. And takes forever to deliver.
Yes. This was their second chance and they blew it. They're the lowest of the big 3 pizza chains.

[garbon]

Papa John's is terrible and I'm embarassed that is an American chain that made it to the UK.

[mongers]

I just made a chocolate loaf cake from a Nigella recipe for my husband's birthday that asked for 225g of butter and 375g of muscovado sugar. 

Fattening him up for Xmas I see.   

[mongers]

I got papa John's pizza the other day.
My god its greasy. And takes forever to deliver.
Yes. This was their second chance and they blew it. They're the lowest of the big 3 pizza chains.

That's your mistake right there.