Chilli con Carne....substitute the beef or pork or lamb as required.....big winner.

Orchata ..... sabroso

Spaghetti bolognese....with a lot chili (you are too long in Thailand if you put chili into everything).

Wife is half/half about it but finds differences in Italien noodle brands and learned to avoid any US noodles.

but regularly I make bread. Some bread is liked by my wife some not (she likes dark)

Pizza (wife does not like it, but I admit it is not easy to like my pizza)

Wiener Schnitzel....

Greek salat

I don't believe you; your pizza must make her toes curl if she married you :-)

I recently taught my local 'chef' how to make real batter, which is no great mystery, the challenge now is to find some good fish to stick inside it.

Until then, Deep Fried Mars Bars it is.

I recently taught my local 'chef' how to make real batter, which is no great mystery, the challenge now is to find some good fish to stick inside it.

Until then, Deep Fried Mars Bars it is.

Frozen Pangasus loins from Makro about 80 (ish) baht a kilo, about 10 in a pack. Don't get the fillets, the fillet meat is too mushy, but the loins are a lot firmer and meatier.

They are about 9 inch by 1.5 inch and cut into 3 per loin are perfect for fish fingers. That's around 30 decent quality fish fingers for 80 baht (ish).. You can't beat that.

Or batter up about 3 whole loins and you got your decent battered fish.

Hope that helps.

Shepherds Pie, I substitute mashed cauliflour for mashed potato because I'm diabetic (it looks and tastes almost the same) - actually I substitute ground pork for ground lamb as well so I guess we can call this the Shepherds Substitute Pie.

Shepherds Pie, I substitute mashed cauliflour for mashed potato because I'm diabetic (it looks and tastes almost the same) - actually I substitute ground pork for ground lamb as well so I guess we can call this the Shepherds Substitute Pie.

nice. i like the versatility of cauliflower as well. im diabetic too and had my own share of experience of riced cauliflower as rice and mashed cauliflower as mashed potatoes

Shepherds Pie, I substitute mashed cauliflour for mashed potato because I'm diabetic (it looks and tastes almost the same) - actually I substitute ground pork for ground lamb as well so I guess we can call this the Shepherds Substitute Pie.

Well, this is Thailand....so a fake Shepherd's Pie is perfectly acceptable.

Sunday lunch :- Roasted pork with crackling ..roasted potato's,demi glazed carrots, runner beans, broccoli Yorkshire pudding and onion gravy.

Desert :- breading and butter pudding made with full butter Croissants and mixed dried fruits which were marinaded over night in Cointreau and proper custard

all washed down with a nice bottle of Herederos Del Marques de Riscal ..Rioja special reserva 2007

It's a once a month treat for having to eat Thailand the rest of the time

full roast dinner , lamb " on discount at makro 269 bt NZ shoulder " roast spuds , mashed spuds , garden peas , carrots , colliflower , and paxo stuffing washed down with bisto gravey , and mint sauce .

Heaven Is Where:

The French are the chefs
The Italians are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time

Hell is Where:

The British are the chefs
The Swiss are the lovers
The French are the mechanics
The Italians make everything run on time
And the Germans are the police

- old saying.

Pork Loin (on the grill), Corn and mashed potatoes last night. Nice things I could get it all at mini-Tesco in my area as I live very far from any farang shopping options.

I recently taught my local 'chef' how to make real batter, which is no great mystery, the challenge now is to find some good fish to stick inside it.

Until then, Deep Fried Mars Bars it is.

Frozen Pangasus loins from Makro about 80 (ish) baht a kilo, about 10 in a pack. Don't get the fillets, the fillet meat is too mushy, but the loins are a lot firmer and meatier.

They are about 9 inch by 1.5 inch and cut into 3 per loin are perfect for fish fingers. That's around 30 decent quality fish fingers for 80 baht (ish).. You can't beat that.

Or batter up about 3 whole loins and you got your decent battered fish.

Hope that helps.

Lovely tasting fish. We buy them regularly.

I recently taught my local 'chef' how to make real batter, which is no great mystery, the challenge now is to find some good fish to stick inside it.

Until then, Deep Fried Mars Bars it is.

Frozen Pangasus loins from Makro about 80 (ish) baht a kilo, about 10 in a pack. Don't get the fillets, the fillet meat is too mushy, but the loins are a lot firmer and meatier.

They are about 9 inch by 1.5 inch and cut into 3 per loin are perfect for fish fingers. That's around 30 decent quality fish fingers for 80 baht (ish).. You can't beat that.

Or batter up about 3 whole loins and you got your decent battered fish.

Hope that helps.

Thank you, haven't seen those yet, I'll take a better look next time I go.

I make my own bread, rolls, biscuits, cakes, ham, bacon, pate, shepherds pies and as I am writing this I have a 2 kg piece of pork in the oven for roast pork lunch with roast potatoes, onions and garlic.

What I don't eat will be sliced up and frozen for meals later.

Whole Wheat Loaf made in my bread machine this morning.

Smells great when cooking and tastes great when still warm.

I've licked my lips twice and swallowed once after reading all those suggestions

... and I'm still in Australia!

Salivating ...

.

I've licked my lips twice and swallowed once after reading all those suggestions

... and I'm still in Australia!

Salivating ...

.

Let me guess..... you make your somtam yourself?

Blini. Half with beef, half with a mushroom mixture. Had home-made chocolate ice cream and raspberries for dessert.

Friday night was penne putenesca, garlic bread, and salad,

Tonight is a bit boring, Ham steaks with poached eggs, chips and bisto gravy.

Mediterranean Tuna Salad a la Jomtienne

Canned tuna steak (water packed)

Chopped celery

Chopped onion

Sliced red bell pepper

Chopped green olive

Sliced Tomato

Whole garbanzo beans

Sliced avocado

Thai hot red peppers

Left out but would be good: hard boiled egg

Dressing:

Extra Slutty Olive Oil

Apple Cider Vinegar

Chopped garlic

American Spicy Deli Mustard (Dijon also would work)

Left out but would be good: Hot Hungarian Paprika

Served with slice of dark bread

DELISH!

I've licked my lips twice and swallowed once after reading all those suggestions

... and I'm still in Australia!

Salivating ...

.

And home made is often better than restaurant because:

1) you don't worry if the cheese is 10 Baht or 50 Baht. Or the oil for fry my Schnitzel are pork fat, not some cheapo palm oil. And when it gets old I don't filter it and use it again till the pork tastes like the fish I made a week ago.

2) you make it the way you like it not the way the mainstream likes it. My pizza is more like a medium dark bread. 90% would prefer a "normal" pizza. But for the 10 % it is something they can get only at home.....

Rack of lamb, gratin dauphinoise, ratatouille.

Yum!

Spaghetti bolognese....with a lot chili (you are too long in Thailand if you put chili into everything).

Wife is half/half about it but finds differences in Italien noodle brands and learned to avoid any US noodles.

but regularly I make bread. Some bread is liked by my wife some not (she likes dark)

Pizza (wife does not like it, but I admit it is not easy to like my pizza)

Wiener Schnitzel....

Greek salat

I don't believe you; your pizza must make her toes curl if she married you :-)

Well my pizza is very modified, with whole wheat powder and a little rye (I think it makes it less dry) and I let it go 2-3 cm high. And I put a lot cheddar on it. So it is more a bread with ham, salami and cheese than an Italian Pizza. As well I start with the red wine when I start with the Pizza so it get a bit random on everything.

But she loved some of the dark bread I made.

She even loved some of the more main stream sour dough rye bread I made until the home-maid killed my starter culture.

It was well adjusted to Thailand and to stay long time in fridge and get fully active again----> dead

(I still have some German starter culture, dried and deep frozen, so they are hard to wake up. If someome want I can share small pieces of it, if someone needs it).

@h90

I love the "German style pizza" with rye and whole wheat. It really is a great alternative.

I recently taught my local 'chef' how to make real batter, which is no great mystery, the challenge now is to find some good fish to stick inside it.

Until then, Deep Fried Mars Bars it is.

Frozen Pangasus loins from Makro about 80 (ish) baht a kilo, about 10 in a pack. Don't get the fillets, the fillet meat is too mushy, but the loins are a lot firmer and meatier.

They are about 9 inch by 1.5 inch and cut into 3 per loin are perfect for fish fingers. That's around 30 decent quality fish fingers for 80 baht (ish).. You can't beat that.

Or batter up about 3 whole loins and you got your decent battered fish.

Hope that helps.

Why bother to batter, hey that rhymes , if you can buy them battered as well for a little more.

By the way, a few weeks ago I bought at Makro those frozen Pangasus ( they called it Dory) sliced in size as fish fingers, vacuum packed and very white meat, but since can't find them anymore

i have cooked for my wife since i met her , i was a 3rd year apprentice chef in my younger days , some of the forum members have came around for dinner...love cooking .had tuna config and zucchini stuff with bacon and onion with baby broccoli

Sort of hard to pinpoint the last meal.

We eat almost exclusively at home, home cooked meals, all European styles.

Cooking is my hobby. She has learned my best loved recipes and now is cooking herself. Very good at it too.

Funny part is - she actually prefers European food to Thai.

Today's food:

Breakfast - Cottage cheese (home made) with sour dough bread, hot croissant, orange marmalade, coffee.

Lunch - Pizza Bolognese ( sauce, onions, capsicum, tomatoes, olives, cheese, pork ), beer, fruits.

Dinner - Veal sausages with mustard, sauerkraut and dill cucumbers (homemade), mashed potatoes, beer.

Cheers

Sort of hard to pinpoint the last meal.

We eat almost exclusively at home, home cooked meals, all European styles.

Cooking is my hobby. She has learned my best loved recipes and now is cooking herself. Very good at it too.

Funny part is - she actually prefers European food to Thai.

Today's food:

Breakfast - Cottage cheese (home made) with sour dough bread, hot croissant, orange marmalade, coffee.

Lunch - Pizza Bolognese ( sauce, onions, capsicum, tomatoes, olives, cheese, pork ), beer, fruits.

Dinner - Veal sausages with mustard, sauerkraut and dill cucumbers (homemade), mashed potatoes, beer.

Cheers

I notice your breakfast didn't include beer, or was that a typo?

Squid, chorizo and potato stew with tomatoes, onions, smoked paprika, wine, garlic and thyme.