Cookin again

BookTenTiger · Jul 17, 2021

Zardnaar said:
It's great. Quick, convenient, better health. Falafel, chicken, chips, jalapeno poppers are great.

Don't use the oven much now except for grilling.

How difficult is it to clean?

Zardnaar · Jul 17, 2021

BookTenTiger said:
How difficult is it to clean?

Not to hard but it's a pain. I tend to soak it and scrub it.

Zardnaar · Jul 17, 2021

Chicken and jalapeno poppers.

Served the in pita. Forgot the caramelized onion hummus.

Ran out of coating so marinaded the chicken in bbq sauce, olive oil, chilli flakes, garlic and paprika.

Nice amount of heat but mild.

Zardnaar · Jul 18, 2021

Not exactly cooking hut yeah olde basic toast. Do you have crumpets in the USA?

Crumpet flavoured bread with cinnamon toasted with butter.

Croissants for dinner tonight. This week has been designated as eat week. I have a birthday dinner coming up chose ye olde pub food. Easiest for for a crowd plus kids.

Additionally we've both got the week off. Eat week involved various places we want to try for lunch but haven't had the opportunity yet.

Lunch Monday, dinner Wednesday, dinner Saturday and we need to fit an an additional lunch or two in there somewhere. Plus maybe a trip to hometown which involves road trip past that delicious fish and chip shop....

Downside. My hometown.

Upside been here before.

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It was good before I left and only gotten better. Set in old Victorian limestone post office from 1864.

Terrible menu though huh @Dannyalcatraz?

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 18, 2021

Zardnaar said:
Not exactly cooking hut yeah olde basic toast. Do you have crumpets in the USA?

Crumpet flavoured bread with cinnamon toasted with butter.

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Croissants for dinner tonight. This week has been designated as eat week. I have a birthday dinner coming up chose ye olde pub food. Easiest for for a crowd plus kids.

Additionally we've both got the week off. Eat week involved various places we want to try for lunch but haven't had the opportunity yet.

Lunch Monday, dinner Wednesday, dinner Saturday and we need to fit an an additional lunch or two in there somewhere. Plus maybe a trip to hometown which involves road trip past that delicious fish and chip shop....

Downside. My hometown.

Upside been here before.

The Last Post Pub Restaurant in Otago Menu - Lunchtime.co.nz

Lunchtime.co.nz identifies the best restaurants in town. The Last Post Pub Restaurant in Otago offers a menu with over 36 items such as battered fish, chec...

lunchtime.co.nz

It was good before I left and only gotten better. Set in old Victorian limestone post office from 1864.

Terrible menu though huh @Dannyalcatraz?

DAMMIT!

Zardnaar · Jul 18, 2021

Meal number 1 of food week.

Grilled croissant with cracked pepper chicken, onion and Sweet chilli plus aioli sauce.

Added the salad type stuff later.

Zardnaar · Jul 18, 2021

How authentic is this place? Wife has been wanting to try it for ages.

Hungry Hobos

hungryhobos.co.nz

Philly cheese steak and NYC Reuben. Jewish sandwich. Apparently best grilled sandwich bin NZ and the Prime Minister went there when she was in town.

She had the bat out of hell.

Best toastie made in Dunedin

Dunedin sandwich shop Hungry Hobos can now officially say it makes the best toastie in the country.

www.odt.co.nz

It won some award.

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 18, 2021

Well, the Reuben looks good, but slightly off. Looking at the menus for the delis I frequent the most, an authentic one of these should be: corned beef, pastrami or turkey (sometimes mixed); grilled on rye (dark, light, seeded, marble) with sauerkraut and melted swiss with a side of Russian dressing.

Philly Cheesteaks are one of the most deceptive sandwiches out there- so easy to mess up, despite its simplicity. I’ve seen a half dozen different “authentic“ cheese options from people who should know. Cheddar, swiss, american and provelone are the usual suspects, but some opt for things like Cheese Whiz (a spreadable cheese product sold in jars). Pepper choices are usually some kind of bell pepper, but common substitutes are banana peppers, sliced jalapeños- sometimes pickled- and pepperoncinis.

Some of the ones I’ve had were done with carefully layered thinly sliced beef, cheese and onion. Others insist that the thinly sliced beef & cheese be chopped & mixed with the edge of the spatula while grilling. And in most cases, they’re using ribeye or flank, not rump.

But the final deciding factor is the flavor & texture, not so much the particular cut. So how “authentic” theirs is would depend on how they handled the meat.

Zardnaar · Jul 18, 2021

Dannyalcatraz said:
Well, the Reuben looks good, bu slightly off. Looking at the menus for the delis I frequent the most, an authentic one of these should be: corned beef, pastrami or turkey (sometimes mixed); grilled on rye (dark, light, seeded, marble) with sauerkraut and melted swiss with a side of Russian dressing.

I didn't think they would be to authentic. As long as they taste good not to worried.

American and Canadian exiles over here doing a grocery trip. She loves the coffee here and ingredients.

Covers marmite, bakery, wine etc.

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 18, 2021

Actually, while the brands and prices are a bit off, the product selections look similar to what I see in the groceries I hit.

The main difference I detected was the seasonality of the fresh produce. For the most part, stuff out of season is simply harder to find* and/or not quite of the same quality as opposed to being pricier. I suspect we simply have a LOT more hothouses and hydroponic farms in our food chain.

* some particular varietals will come and go, but I can usually find some kind of most of the popular fruits & veggies.