What's for lunch? (2025)

[PedroPero (PETER)]

After successfully replacing/installing a new Moen kitchen sink faucet all by myself(in under 30 mins), I treated myself to a hearty lunch of scrambled eggs with hot chorizo and grilled onions and peppers with cucumbers and sliced tomato(drizzled with EVOO). A side of toasted sesame baguette on the side.

[Saregama]

Cookbook of the Month / Quarter nominations are underway.

Join in if you’d like to cook along together next quarter.

COTM Nominations! (July-Seotember 2025)

It’s nomination time for the next quarter’s COTM. The experiment of moving to a quarterly, rather than monthly, system seems to have been successful. There has definitely been more participation, and at least one of the sources being online seems to have helped a lot. Let’s keep that in mind as we nominate this time, as I think it makes it easier for more people to participate and cook along. I’m still interested in using books too, and open to all suggestions. I’m also interested in author mont…

[Nannybakes]

Crab salad slightly “ Louis” on butter crunch lettuce, yellow tomatoes vinaigrette.
Avocado “balls” gender non specific but approved by DEI and others.

[BarneyGrubble (Fan of Beethoven and Latina singers)]

@Nannybakes

Avocado “balls” gender non specific but approved by DEI and others

The quirkiest line today!

[Nannybakes]

A stream of consciousness.
ETA or maybe unconscious might be better

[Nannybakes]

I think “slightly Louis” must have brought me there!

[Mr_Happy]

Soondubu jjigae with pork belly, zucchini, mushroom, and onions, using BCD kit.

[TheLibrarian28]

How was it? Did you have to doctor it up?

[Mr_Happy]

It was good! No need to doctor it up other than the meat and veg I added.

[Nannybakes]

Frittata today, Swiss chard, Comté cubes, peppers, ham, a sprinkling of Parm on top.
Butter crunch lettuce salad , evoo and shallot vinegar.
Apricot pistachio almond frangipane tart, brushed with apricot jam, dusted with confectionery sugar…

[Mr_Happy]

Pizza with tinned smoked clams, tomato, parsley, garlic, parm, pecorino, and arugula

[Amandarama (Amanda)]

Triple decker grilled cheese (triple cheese, too - Sharp cheddar, herbed cheddar, and American) on Scali bread that needed to be used up.

[medgirl]

Noodle stir fry with crispy tofu, diced char siu and tenderstem broccoli.

[Phoenikia]

Bacon, mushroom and pepperoni pizza using purchased pizza dough.

HOMEMADE PIZZA - Winter 2024 (Jan-Mar) Dish of the Quarter

Today’s pepperoni, bacon and mushroom pizza using sourdough pizza dough that had been in the fridge. The label said to let it rise 15 minutes outside the fridge. I shaped the pizza and let it rise 15 minutes or so as the oven was preheating. The dough might have benefited from 15 minutes rest at room temp before shaping and then another 15 minute rise, or maybe shaping and a 30 minute rise after that. [PXL_20250619_162521142~3] I stretched the dough thinner today. Decided to place most of the…

[ernie_in_berkeley]

A honkin’ big artichoke, on sale for $2.00 at the market. It was bigger than a softball. With a Kewpie lemon aioli dipping sauce.

[TheLibrarian28]

Wow! Berkeley Bowl?

[ernie_in_berkeley]

Yup! Not even in the bargain room.

[Mr_Happy]

Another smoked clam, garlic, arugula, and parm pizza

[THECHARLES (Charles Yu)]

" Wei’s Kitchen, First Markham Place, Markham"
For today’s lunch, to eat with rice, I ordered the following uncommon and exotic dishes, packed full of deep and complex taste components.

• Stirred fry lotus root with house made, salt cured pork belly in fermented red bean curd. ( Delightful!..Super savoury and great textural interplay.)
• Stirred fry braised egg plant with free range chicken and minced garlic. ( What an enjoyable dish! The chewy, tasty and juicy chicken pieces were perfectly seasoned and caramelised )