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Relatively quick weeknight meal when I got home from work at 21:00. Green salad and cheese soufflé. I sent the hubby instructions to separate eggs, grate cheese and grease the ramekins before I got home making this doable on a work night.

A really light dinner of cheat's soupe au pistou followed by Cantonese loh bak gao (turnip cake) pulled out of the freezer.

Quick weeknight dinner. Cheats soupe au pistou followed by cheats Hainanese chicken rice.

Cheat's soupe au pistou followed by sous vide pork loin, pickles and warmed up leftover ride. The pork was brown in the air fryer before slicing.

A girlfriend came over for dinner. Beef rendang cooked sous vide with brown rice, air fried turkish peppers, sauteed spinach and quick pickled carrots. English summer pudding and store bought custard for dessert.

Simple dinner. Turkish salad and cappelletti pulled out of the freezer with vodka sauce.

instant potato noodle ramen pimped up with leftovers for lunch.

Turkish salad dressed with pomegranate molasses. Air fried lemon pepper drumsticks, corn, mushrooms and asparagus.

The second dinner party I threw this week. A Chinese ex colleague came over with her rather young step mom. I cooked western because I was too intimidated to make Asian for them. Salad with smoked chicken, candied nuts, blueberries and croutons. Duck confit with roast potatoes, sauteed spinach and glazed carrots. Chocolate…

I found a tub of puttanesca sauce in the freezer so served that with cappelinni and salad with feta, candied nuts, berries.

Found a tub of puttanesca sauce in the freezer. Had that with cappellini and salad.

Leftover summer rolls from the dinner party last night for lunch.

I forgot to take pictures of the dinner party, except dessert. We had Vietnamese summer rolls, Cambodian street corn, Cambodian beef lok lak. Dessert was chocolate tartlets with berries.

An experiment for tomorrow's dinner party. This time I followed a recipe that puts raspberries on the bottom followed by chocolate ganache and then a garnish of raspberries. i think I will skip the raspberries on the bottom tomorrow because it is too fiddly and looks messy.

Cooked simply tonight because I need to do a big cook tomorrow. An ex colleague who's leaving London is throwing his farewell dinner at my place. A stir fried chicken breast with green pepper, black bean and some of the stir fry sauce I prepped for tomorrow's main of beef lok lak. Cucumber salad with asian black sesame…

I am throwing a midweek dinner party tomorrow for an ex colleague who is moving back to Australia at the end of September. I volunteered because my place is a 10 minute walk from the office which is handy because there is a tube strike. Testing out tomorrow's starter of roll your own Vietnamese summer rolls for lunch.

Cappelletti made from blitzed leftover chicken stew and store bought gyoza skins I parked in the freezer last month. Store bought tomato sauce. Ready washed salad with cheddar shavings, a sprinkle of candied nuts I keep in the pantry and vinaigrette I keep in a squeeze bottle in the fridge. This was a 5 minute weeknight…

Cheese souffle and a green salad with pickled beets and croutons. My souffles didn't rise as much as normal. I suspect it is because I beat the egg whites in a plastic measuring cup instead of glass. I have read that plastic vessels don't really wash up scrupulously oil free, so egg whites don't get to the stiff peak stage.

We're still eating out of the freezer and pantry after returning jetlagged from a trip. Cheat's bouillabaise used up some leftover alioli lurking in the fridge. I wanted to try a chocolate shortcrust pastry before using it for a dinner party on Wednesday night. An ex colleague is doing is goodbye dinner after work at my…

This weekend’s batch of air fryer focaccia. I forgot to add some brown flour this time. I’ve simplified the method for high hydration doughs. Instead of stretching with a wet hand periodically use a small stiff spatula to stretch and stir without dirtying your hands.

@mjbnj0001 I visit Ottawa three times a year now that my mom is not well. I grew up just SW of downtown. Takumi BBQ on Merivale is amazing. A suburban restaurant in a small city that is better than similar restaurants I have encountered since living in big cities such as London, Paris and NYC. Another Ottawa site to tell…

Got back from Canada today. Managed to make dinner out of scraps in the fridge and stuff in the pantry. Soupe au pistou with a tiny bit of the last of the pesto. Used a spoonful from a jar of Chinese shallot sauce to flavour the broth. Veg was tomato, a green onion, a carrot and some dried split mung beans. We had some…

@mjbnj0001 Next time you are in Ottawa a terrific restaurant for eating low fat and low carb is Takumi BBQ on Merivale Rd in the west end. It’s Dongbei BBQ similar to nearby Korean BBQ but the NE Chinese version has a wider variety of meat and veg for grilling and dipping sauces. Order perilla leaf as a wrap if you don’t…

Dinner on the Air Canada service from Ottawa to Heathrow in economy.

Mom hosted a Chinese takeaway dinner at the private dining room of her nursing home.

Dinner at mom’s nursing home. We had supper delivered to the room.

Dinner in mom’s care home. We ordered dinner in her room. Bean soup, caesar, salmon, asparagus and sweet potato mash.

We will be in Canada for just over a week but are already making a list of food to bring home to London. So far it only consists of pastrami and relish. Oh, and strawberry/banana flavoured jello. Any other suggestions?

Lunch on the Heathrow-Ottawa service of Air Canada in economy class. Order of Chinese takeout at mom’s house after landing.

Another hot weather dinner. Cheat's soup au pistou is a really quick and easy vegetable dish. This was a handful of frozen veg, boiled up with a diced tomato and some leftover roast carrot I found at the back of the fridge. Broth consisted of a big dollop of pesto in each bowl. We had a leftover ripe avocado which would…