Food Glorious Food!

[horrie hastings]

Chicken schnitzel, mash and carrots. Simple but yum.

The simple ones are always the best MR. Went to a play the other night in the inner city and had dinner at the Courthouse Hotel after it, they have $15 specials lunch and dinner 7 days a week, better half had steak chips and salad with a pepper sauce and had chicken schnitzel with mash and salad with mushroom sauce, both such simple meals, tried a bit of the steak which was good and cooked perfectly and the schnitzel a decent size, not fatty at all and didn't haven't that mass produced feeling, great food and couldn't argue with the price point.

[horrie hastings]

Spag Bol tonight, put in chargrilled capsicum and chilli, it was beautiful and peppery, i really enjoyed it.

[King Salvo]

Went to the fish mongers and bought some Salmon - it is certainly soup weather - mmm we have soup even in spring and summer and on the hottest days even - Mrs Salvo makes a point in saying you eat hot foods in spring and summer so why not soup - She is always right


Ukha (Fish Soup- Salmon and Vegetables )



Kotleti (Fish Cutlets - Salmon) with mashed potato and vegetables



Keks Stolichniy with Ice Cream and Custard

[mightyrooster]

The simple ones are always the best MR. Went to a play the other night in the inner city and had dinner at the Courthouse Hotel after it, they have $15 specials lunch and dinner 7 days a week, better half had steak chips and salad with a pepper sauce and had chicken schnitzel with mash and salad with mushroom sauce, both such simple meals, tried a bit of the steak which was good and cooked perfectly and the schnitzel a decent size, not fatty at all and didn't haven't that mass produced feeling, great food and couldn't argue with the price point.

Yes exactly, agree. I love a chicken schnitzel made with chicken breast too. So much nicer.

[Bates]

Yes exactly, agree. I love a chicken schnitzel made with chicken breast too. So much nicer.

I generally prefer cooking with the thighs when cooking Pasta, Curry, Burgers, Kebabs etc but when it comes to schnitzel you're 100% spot on that the breast wins hands down.

[horrie hastings]

Yes exactly, agree. I love a chicken schnitzel made with chicken breast too. So much nicer.

I love making my own, a real assembly line with the flour, egg and breadcrumb , also chuck parmesan cheese in the crumbs, always lots of washing up after it though.

[mightyrooster]

I love making my own, a real assembly line with the flour, egg and breadcrumb , also chuck parmesan cheese in the crumbs, always lots of washing up after it though.

Me too. Parmesan cheese in the crumbs works really well though I don’t always add it. I love panko crumbs for mine. Also as I do all the cooking, the other half gets to do all the washing up lol!

[horrie hastings]

Me too. Parmesan cheese in the crumbs works really well though I don’t always add it. I love panko crumbs for mine. Also as I do all the cooking, the other half gets to do all the washing up lol!

I make my own breadcrumbs now with the left over bread, keep the crusts and left over bread in the freezer and blitz up a batch when there is enough or needed. i got sick of buying packet crumbs, the taste with the crumbs from the left over bread is so much nicer now.
Yes same rule here, whoever cooks the other washes up, we try and mix up the cooking here, there are some things i'm good at and some the better half is so happy to share the load and i have no excuses these days not working.

[King Salvo]

Mrs Salvo's Mother makes her own bread crumbs as well for Romanian dishes she cooks such as Romanian Meatballs (Chiftele) and Romanian Pork Schnitzel – Snitel de Porc - where they lived in now Ukraine - Chernivsti is only 50 minutes from the Romanian Border.

Of course during Soviet Times folk worked anywhere in the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact Countries where their skills were required so one could also learn these different languages.

Mrs Salvo's Mother doesn't speak a lot of English but is fluent in Russian , Ukrainian . Romanian . Hungarian and Polish - That part of Ukraine was part of the Austrian and Hungary empire , Romanian Kingdom and Polish state so those languages were are are still spoken.

[rented tracksuit]

I don’t make my own breadcrumbs. I eat all the bread.

[mightyrooster]

I make my own breadcrumbs now with the left over bread, keep the crusts and left over bread in the freezer and blitz up a batch when there is enough or needed. i got sick of buying packet crumbs, the taste with the crumbs from the left over bread is so much nicer now.
Yes same rule here, whoever cooks the other washes up, we try and mix up the cooking here, there are some things i'm good at and some the better half is so happy to share the load and i have no excuses these days not working.

Now you’re making a simple meal a bit more complex. Yes I did try making my own crumbs at one time, but opted back to the lazy option lol. The taste is so much better though as you say.

[horrie hastings]

Now you’re making a simple meal a bit more complex. Yes I did try making my own crumbs at one time, but opted back to the lazy option lol. The taste is so much better though as you say.

It goes back to when we used to keep the crusts to feed the ducks but then it was advised that bread was bad for the ducks diet so i thought instead of chucking out the bread i would try blitzing them for bread crumbs and haven't looked back since. It does help having the extra freezer for storage.

[horrie hastings]

Chicken breast done in a cream and mustard sauce, rosemary potatoes, steamed broccoli, carrot and zucchini.

[mightyrooster]

It goes back to when we used to keep the crusts to feed the ducks but then it was advised that bread was bad for the ducks diet so i thought instead of chucking out the bread i would try blitzing them for bread crumbs and haven't looked back since. It does help having the extra freezer for storage.

It’s a great way to save waste and to make tastier crumbs.

[mightyrooster]

Curried sausages and rice.