Today's menu:

After the 2nd Vaccine I feel hungry all the time, I keep nibbling non stop LOL.
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APPLE CINNAMON ROSES

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BANANA CAKE
 
I was cold this morning so it called for an 'oven ' day to warm the place up, this led to:
Roast beef,
Potato & butternut squash mash,
Roast potatoes, squash & carrots
Roast beef & onion gravy made from the juices in the meat pan.
Topped off with lightly steamed & buttered spinach...
Almost healthy :D.
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Lunch- sliced beef with gravy served up in an English muffin.
Dinner- pretty much all of the above, minus the muffin.
No pictures, sorry.
Feeling very stuffed though.
I meant to make a traditional rice pudding too- but I forgot all about it :/
 
Bon, we had dinner at our usual French place yesterday.

Of course, as any old school construction worker, first is "apéritif".
Un double Ricard please !

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Next pic on following post as it seems we can only upload 3 pics at a time .
 
Episode 2

The Miss had pork stew served with spaghetti and potatoes, this may sound a strange combination but it works very well.

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I had Lasagna, a bit dry but only myself to blame as wanting a 2nd Ricard I asked them to keep it a bit on "afterburner" ..😁😁😁

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As dessert I had a "Mystère" ice cream. Vanilla ice cream with some meringue in the center and covered with hazelnut crumbs

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All pretty good and washed down with a few glasses of wine.
 
We invite my colleague neighbors for Indonesian dinner tonight. Simple classic menus consist of rendang, gado2, fried tofu /Tempe.
The tempe is fresh home made.

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I have to say the rendang is not very authentic in several ways,
We can't get small shallots and fresh coconut milk here. So, we use red onions and Thais canned coconut milk which is a bit sweet and contain too much emulsifier.
We don't have enough time and large size wok to stew and simmer 5 kg beef rendang for hours, so the trick is, after simmering for 30 minutes we use oven to slow cook in 3 pyrex bowls wrapped with aluminium foil for 3 hours
The result is very tender and caramelized beef rendang.
We reduce the spiciness too.

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Some ingredients, tumeric, galangal, lemon grass, ginger, kffir lime leave, and red chillies pepper are fresh from our garden.

The drinks menu are not very Indonesian though

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