Simple Gastronomic Delights

[adams house cat]

I like a good meal as much as the next person but there are times when I want something simple, usually for lunch when I am at home, as today. So, I fixed some cheese on toast. Glorious! Hadn't made that for ages. The other day it was the noble fried egg sandwich.

Any other simple delights?

[Lang Spoon]

Bacon sandwich if I’m feeling dirty. Frozen banana outdoes most ice creams.

[ursus arctos]

Well made beef stew is sublime.

Roast chicken is considered by many to be the ultimate test of a French chef’s art.

[adams house cat]

Pineapple is the best ice cream.

[Lang Spoon]

Stew for the win every winters day. But you need a good few hours a simmering.

I had an amazing roast chicken in a fairly cheesy Berlin Biergarten, the meat was so soft and juicy it was a sin. I dread to think what equivalent carvery type pub ops in Ireland or UK would do to the poor bird.

[Lang Spoon]

Pineapple is the best ice cream.

Ooh good call, never had that and now I’m intrigued.

[adams house cat]

Trust me on this.

[Lang Spoon]

Well it does make for the best fruit juice.

[adams house cat]

On a hot day, really hot, pineapple juice in sparkling water. Refreshing and quenching.

[Lang Spoon]

I love lasagne more than life.

[Lang Spoon]

With beef cheeks rather than mince. I’m all about the beef cheeks these days.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Something I ate a lot as a kid: tomato sandwiches. Tomatoes fresh from Dad's greenhouse, white bread, lots of butter, with a touch of salt and white pepper to taste. I can taste it right now, and god I want one.

[Lang Spoon]

Tomato Bread Catalan style is great on a summer’s day.

[San Bernardhinault]

I often wonder if there's anything actually as delicious as bread and butter, provided that the bread is good and the butter is plentiful.

[Toby Gymshorts]

French butter with the sea salt crystals......

Sorry. Having a moment there.

[NHH]

In France, something about bread and butter makes it so fucking gorgeous.

I used to swear by salad cream sarnies but have belatedly come to realise it’s just ok rather than great.

Great is a morning after slow roasted brisket with chillies, the gravy and some gerkins on thick toast.

And when I cook chicken in lemon and milk, it’s great. And the next days ristto cooked in the stock made from the chicken bones.

But cheese on toast is great but the cheese is all. Non-crumbly Lancashire is sensational but I’ve come to love a mature cheddar.

[Lang Spoon]

Sourdough baguette..... lightly toasted.... butter just dripping

[Lang Spoon]

My go to place for a lunchtime “Breton style” ham and cheese galette has just closed down. Am a bit bereft. I suspect another unlovely 70s block is to soon make way for a just as unlovely fake brick/plate glass facade Brexit escapee office block, seeing as most of the retail units have been closed. Don’t really like sweet crepes but.

[San Bernardhinault]

Cheese on toast is delicious. Even crappy cheese and crappy bread can make good cheese on toast - you really only need some pepper and salt to make it good. It gets better, of course, gussied up a bit with chili flakes or spring onions or olive oil or whatever. But fundamentally, it's always good.

[Lang Spoon]

Even Kraft ezee singles plastic cheese on toast is better than a kick up the arse. Maybe a bit of Worcester and pepper for taste. Can strip the roof of your mouth off if eaten too soon but.

[adams house cat]

For winter evenings lamb stew and dumplings. I too am having a moment.

[adams house cat]

And I love yorkshire pudding. Gonna toot my horn here but I make a really good one.

[Lang Spoon]

Lentil stock celery pancetta onion garlic chili and carrot soup all blended up. Maybes a few plum tomatoes and a potato as well. If I’d a spare 4 hours tonight that’s what I’d be up to.

[adams house cat]

I am bloody starving now!

[Lang Spoon]

Yeah I’m killing myself now. M&S pork shank meal for one will be like ashes in my mouth.