What are you eating?

[viper37]

Any gringos have a Cheddar's where they live? 

This is the only cheddar I know of. 

[Sheilbh]

Been cooking a lot lately and wanted to shout out a few cookbooks that have helped me get into it again.

Six Seasons by Joshua MacFadden which is not vegetarian but (seasonal) veg focused. It's outstanding - one of the best cookbooks I've bought in years and one I use most weeks.

Also Tim Anderson's Japanese cookbooks - I find him quite annoying (as someone who remembers him on Masterchef) but his restaurants are decent and these two, Japaneasy and Vegan Japaneasy are actually really good. Needed to get a few more staple ingredients but so far all the recipes work.

And I'd had a couple of duds from Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Easy (probably my fault) so kind of wrote it off. But done a few recently and they worked really well. So definitely putting those duds down to me fucking up

[Gups]

Don't blame yourself. I've had some terrible results from a few of her recipes and I'm decent at Indian cooking  . I don't think she tests them properly.

[Admiral Yi]

Cold chicken low mein is much better than i thought it would be.

[mongers]

Lemon drizzle cake, cat turned her nose up at it, so not sure how I feel about it's taste/quality. 

[Savonarola]

Here in Florida we can get hog jowls at the grocery store all through the year.  Strangely they've become cheaper than pork belly of late, so I made my own guanciale.  (Okay, I smoked it, so it's really jowl bacon, but you sound way more sophisticated if you call it guanciale, especially if you use italics.)  I used my go to bacon cure, that made them too salty.  Hog jowls don't have the fat content that belly does so the cure doesn't leech out as much moisture and the salt congregates on the surface.  It's still edible, but next time I'll use half the salt and just a pinch of the curing salt.

[Barrister]

Mrs B is out of town for my oldest son's hockey game.

I made the remaining kids for lunch - the Elvis sandwich.  A fried peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich.  Apparently the King's favourite sandwich, and one he ate all the time.

It actually really works.  It wasn't maybe the best sandwich of all time or anything, but it was quite tasty.

Now I have to figure out what to make for supper...