Post your breakfast, lunch or dinner

A few updates....
Salmon with Basmati rice :
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Farmers omelette :

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Salad :
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Fried rice :
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And last but not least, scallops Britanny style with Fetucine :

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Sligthy fry the scallops in butter, set aside.
Sauce : Onion and shallots cut very fine, fry in butter, deglaze with white wine, add fish stock, reduce, add cream, reduce.
Put the scallops in the shells, add the sauce, sprinkle (generously) with bread crumbs, add a bit butter on top. Oven 5 to 7 minutes at 170C.
Absolutely delicious.....

And you don't find that in plastic bags....
 
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A little update....

Last W.E. at the beach :
Pizza for me, Chicken Kiev for the Miss, Pear for dessert.
With for me 2 G.T., 2 glasses red wine and and a watermelon juice for the Miss !
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And a chicken Cordon Bleu on a previous occasion :
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And some at home :

Escalope Milanaise with Marinara sauce
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Yesterday evening :
Slow cooked pork fillet (1 1/2 h). Sauce with white wine, chicken broth, cream, mustard, lemon, pancetta, mushroom, carrots, celery....
Served with boiled baby potatoes and canned (French) green bean.
Sauce was spot on.

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Balifrog said:
A little update....

Last W.E. at the beach :
Pizza for me, Chicken Kiev for the Miss, Pear for dessert.
With for me 2 G.T., 2 glasses red wine and and a watermelon juice for the Miss !
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And a chicken Cordon Bleu on a previous occasion :
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And some at home :

Escalope Milanaise with Marinara sauce
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Yesterday evening :
Slow cooked pork fillet (1 1/2 h). Sauce with white wine, chicken broth, cream, mustard, lemon, pancetta, mushroom, carrots, celery....
Served with boiled baby potatoes and canned (French) green bean.
Sauce was spot on.

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This is great to see these delicious looking dishes! The Cordon Bleu looks nice, I think it would have looked better with those boiled baby Potatoes. Your last dish has a great delicious sauce, but the presentation is rather grey color, maybe something green would livin, it up! Such as Chopped parsley on top, or some chopped spinach cook inside. Just my idea only. This post is refreshing, after so many about Politics , Militarization, China and Customs! All those subjects are good to discuss, but quite heavy, and depressing! So thanks again for the food post!
 
I presume this educated interest in food also includes an interest in health. Assuming that is the case there is an interesting piece today in the Guardian about healthy food and the pernicious way that corporations seek to subvert public health issues and ensure that mass, unhealthy junk food predominates with unconsidered consumer choices. Well worth a read. Or should I say, "food for thought."?

https://www.theguardian.com/food/ar...a-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us
 
harryopal1 said:
I presume this educated interest in food also includes an interest in health. Assuming that is the case there is an interesting piece today in the Guardian about healthy food and the pernicious way that corporations seek to subvert public health issues and ensure that mass, unhealthy junk food predominates with unconsidered consumer choices. Well worth a read. Or should I say, "food for thought."?

https://www.theguardian.com/food/ar...a-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us
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UPFs (ultra processed foods) are bad for us?! Who would have thought that? You can't eat McBarfs or Bugger Kings 4 times a week? Who knew? You say a Coke containing 6 tablespoons of sugar isn't very healthy? OMG!
Sorry but anyone that finds any of this shite a surprise, simply put, is fecking stupid and will die way earlier and good riddance. Only real pity is that these people won't die fast enough before they can reproduce since most are grandmothers at 32.

The internet may not be good for much but it has warned those of us that are paying attention that there's a whole lot of dumb-ass, mothafecken people running around free that are in dire need of adult supervision.

I guess we just need a damned good pandemic or a war to cull the herd ;)
 
I think this is a great subject to talk about! I was raised eating greasy fried chicken, pastrami, sloppy joes! ( pulled Pork), corn on the cob, gallons of Caca Cola, Twinkies, and moon pies, Etc. No one where I lived had a clue about healthy eating. Most people at that time were hard working people, which I think prevented a lot of diseases.
As I grew older, the Hippie era arose, with meditation, vegetarian diets, as that era was coming to a close, the Hippie's went back to the land, and learned farming, and organic growing. Which has stuck with me since. I guess it depends on when and where you were raised, influenced your diet. Now it seems it has become a financial issue.
I like how that article mentioned, that much of the so called health movement,is not necessarily in peoples best interest, but financially motivated! I always thought, why, if food is not pumped full of chemicals, loaded with lots of additives, and preservatives, is so much more expensive, too the point, only elite health food junkies can afford it! I do advocate producing all foods, with natural fertilizers, 100% real fruit, vegetables, grains, more natural sugars!

It should be against the Law, to sell imitation food, just because it's cheaper! If people ate healthier, maybe they wouldn't get sick so much, which ends up costing the people and the government more in health care! I guess that idea is bad for business!
 
Sadly in a country like Indonesia where millions of people have only relatively recently been able to afford the super market goodies there is little knowledge of the health issues covered in the referenced article. The cost to Indonesia financially and in terms of victims will be staggering before there is enough general understanding of avoided manufactured junk food and drinks.
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harryopal1 said:
I presume this educated interest in food also includes an interest in health. Assuming that is the case there is an interesting piece today in the Guardian about healthy food and the pernicious way that corporations seek to subvert public health issues and ensure that mass, unhealthy junk food predominates with unconsidered consumer choices. Well worth a read. Or should I say, "food for thought."?

https://www.theguardian.com/food/ar...a-processed-products-are-food-that-lies-to-us
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Nope, never gave it a deep thought.

I mean, no need to have a Phd in Science to understand what is good and what is shiite....

I simply eat like my parents and grand parents ate, they never worried about going to the gym, watching their callorie intake, have s smart watch that tells them how many steps they walked today and all that nonsense....

i have my daugther coming over for a few days this week. She is vegan....

Her choice, I already told her I am not changing the menu. Same as when she and her 2 brothers were little, there is 1 menu. If you don't like it, you fast !

In developping countries, it is a different matter.
In the rural areas, mostly economically rather poor, the people will do like I do i.e. eating what their parents ate. Mostly based on local availability and price, hence mainly poor quality.
In the cities sadly once the new generation tend to be a little bit better off financially they will go towards the Western shiite fast food...
Not all, some will try "real Western food". Two examples here are "Daily Baguette" a French bakery, where the customers are over 50% locals and my favorite French place where locals represent maybe 20% of customers (plus 20 % Koreans and Japanese).
But for many it is mainly about the selfie experience and showing off on.F.B. and Instagram....
 
harryopal1 said:
Sadly in a country like Indonesia where millions of people have only relatively recently been able to afford the super market goodies there is little knowledge of the health issues covered in the referenced article. The cost to Indonesia financially and in terms of victims will be staggering before there is enough general understanding of avoided manufactured junk food and drinks.
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From my experience, I see the food at the Warung's, chips, Roti, cakes, packed with sugar, deep fried Bali snacks, Coca Cola, Sprite, imitation juices, all foods cooked, heavily deep fried, etc! The only items, I saw somewhat healthy, were Hydro Coco drinks, and occasionally fruit. There are all types of small sweet drinks, the kids drink. Ton's of white rice, and some greasy sauce, packed with chilis. This is what the locals consume on a daily basis.
Almost 99% of the locals I know never go to a supermarket! Everything they buy is from the morning market. As you know, their diet is Very Limited! Less than ten different meals for life! It is no surprise to me, to see such a high rate of High Blood Pressure, and Diabetes!
 
The most egregious dietary danger here are:
1) the very limited store shelf space happily given over to rows and rows of industrial baby formula which are proven to be very bad for babies (expensive and backed by intensive tv commercials, which are illegal in the west). Did you know that the female breast isn't just a tap for baby milk but also contains sensory organelles that test the baby's saliva for health and varies the content of the breast milk accordingly?
2) since the time of Suharto the increasing reliance on white rice (to the exclusion of much healthier cassava) causing massive levels of diabetes and heart problems from high blood pressure.
3) almost complete ignorance of the part plant based foods play in good health.
4) near total reliance on hormone pumped, antibiotic fed 18 day old, battery chicken as prime protein provider.

Has anybody else noticed that the fat-assed people count is going sky high here since the end of the pandemic?
 
Zimbo said:
It would be interesting to find out what knives are used by members.
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What does the type of knives people use, have to do with nutrition? From what I see here, is a lack of imagination. The people eat the same thing their parents ate, I have asked if they like something new, and they respond with No! I ask,have they tried it, and they say No? It is a shame when there is such delicious foods, from Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, so close, but the Indonesian diet is definitely the worst, most boring I've had in SE Asia.
Everyone local I speak too, have an I'm bankrupt mentality, that keeps them buying the lowest quality foods available! For a country withe Avocados, Chocolate, seaweed, fresh fish, they don't use these foods! They could learn from Mexico!
 
The climate being similar to Mexico's the veg are too so, being a Mexican loving kinda guy (noticed that the women here look a little Mex too?) I try to eat Mex a couple of times a month (food).

For those that share my love there's a company making excellent corn tortillas in Renon. Flour torts are available almost everywhere now. Problem is the avocados - they are so chancy sometimes excellent, often not.
 
Many of the better specialized restaurants here in Germany (except in the big cities perhaps) are closing their doors. Often the new ones sell Pizza & Doener Kebab. You just need flour, tomatoes, cheap meat & labour. Suddenly you make profits. No expensive imported goods...
I See on Bali every year New Mexican restaurants everywhere. Same reasons? Sounds exotic but in the end it's just local ingredients. #kopihitam vs black coffee
 
My brother is on holiday in Bali, so yes, plenty time in the kitchen and way too much whisky and Prosecco.

Meanwhile made some fish fillet for the Miss and me. The main job being the sauce...butter, white wine, fish stock, mustard and dill.
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Today will be pork fillet, starter is a pasta/ham/tomato/egg salad and a coconut cake for dessert.
 
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