This. I'd always opt for the gyros...

That sounds like a tasty urban legend. I certainly never heard that happening in Australia. Ironically, the most famous Thai chef in Australia is a white Australian guy. His husband is Thai and he was taught by his husband's mother how to cook Thai. He ended up being the first chef to get a Michelin Star for Thai food.

Larb is a pretty damn spicy salad. Most of the time they detune the heat.

My cousin was visiting from overseas and I took him to Thaitown here in Sydney, which is much more "real" and he couldn't deal with the heat. But he had no problem in with the spice at a local Thai place just down the road.

Detroit-style pan cheese pizza
thin cheese pizza with red onion & black olive
meatballs in marinara sauce
penne with olive oil & parm
Bucatini pasta
fresh angel hair pasta
cucumber spears

brownies (Trader Joe’s box mix)
bonus ice cream for me - Robbins cherries jubilee & Ben/Jerry’s vanilla

Not judging by any means, but you guys certainly have big dinners!

How dare you! Why, I never!

What? You don't usually have 4 different kinds of pasta and 2 different kinds of pizza for 3 people (one being a kid)? Gaobest's house is like a Vegas buffet with all of the choices.

LOL. Like I said, I'm not judging, but I think if I ate like that I'd need a litre of prune juice washed down with some Metamucil just to get the pipes working again.

here’s the picture of the pasta separator - I only need 1, which is good because I can’t fit two in our largest pot for boiling water. Very joyful $40 purchase at restaurant depot - I’ve needed something like this for years!

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Apparently my parents were just mean when I was a child.
this.

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When I was in Thailand I asked at one restaurant for the food to be as spicy as a Thai person would get it. The waitress gave me an amused look and, when they delivered my dinner (I think it was larb actually) the chef poked his head out to see the crazy (or daring) farang. I ate the whole thing, sweating bullets the entire time. At Thai places here I usually get it on a 3-4 out of 5 star spiciness level.

I guess I don't understand the need for making penne, bucatini, and angel hair for one family meal. Plus 2 different pizzas.
Besides....3 different pastas all requiring different cooking times and same with 2 different pizza types.

Man, I hate pictures that are sideways.

yes, because I can. What can’t I do? I can’t get weld. And of course I can’t yet do many things.
Remember, I’m that guy who spent $350 for 10 poker plaques just for the joy of playing poker with friends. Obviously those plaques weren’t necessary.


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the Detroit pizza was yummy; the other olive & red onion pizza was yummy. The bucatini was yummy. I don’t want penne or fresh angel hair pasta so I’m better off cooking what I want.
big hint - penne and bucatini can cook same amount of time! I removed them and THEN put in the fresh angel hair pasta :-)


ditto - I input the picture “correctly” and it gets flipped. Ah well.

Same.

?? And I don't even know what poker plaques are or do.
I know that you can...I was just wondering why you did. I have just not ever heard of anyone's nightly dinners within one family all being different--like running a restaurant. Obviously not now but if you go to someone's house for dinner do you all eat the same thing? Or what about when you have company (pre covid) for dinner or lunch...do you fix everyone something different? This is fascinating.
What about on Thanksgiving...does one of you have turkey and someone else has a cheeseburger and someone else have lasagna? :p

And I thought my thanksgiving dinner menu was a feat... :D We would usually have turkey, mashed potatoes, two kinds of stuffing, green bean casserole, corn, and then lasagna or eggplant for the vegetarian.

poker plaques are like poker chips - they’re units of value in a casino. When casinos change their designs, their “old” inventory gets destroyed or sold to wholesalers and then people like me eventually buy them online. Most USA gamblers use casino chips but high stakes baccarat will still have $100,000 plaques and then some non-USA casinos use plaques for as low as 5,000 currency units. So if I can pay $35 for a single worthless poker (casino) plaque, then yes I can cook 3 kinds of pasta and 2 kinds of pizza for supper.

for thanksgiving, since we KNOW that travel and a group meal will be ridiculous and unsafe, I will cook thanksgiving and our child will have pasta or a cheeseburger. I’ll probably have both rice and mashed potatoes, a few vegetables, and one or two kinds of cranberry relish. It’ll be yummy. If kipper and her then-husband can cook a turkey dinner, then it’ll be fine for me to make a thanksgiving turkey supper.

Then Mr. Kipper didn't do much of the cooking. While I can understand having multiple entree options at a Thanksgiving dinner with vegetarians and non-vegetarians, I don't understand multiple entree options for a regular dinner each night for those without specific dietary needs.

Of course you can, I'm just curious how you put it all away. I used to cycle 300km-400km/week and would plough through pizza and pasta and would knock off a pack of Tim-Tams every second day, but that's 10-12 hours on a bike every week. If I ate like that now I'd be the size of a house. Are you training for an ironman? :)

Does your kid only eat cheeseburgers or pasta? No salads or veggies? Maybe you can sneak in some veggies to make those things more nutritious. There are all kinds of cookbooks and recipes that show how to slip spinach or broccoli into ground beef for a burger or even meatballs to go with the pasta.
And I am sure you can make a turkey---do you ever roast a chicken? It will be delicious and your house will smell wonderful.

Mine too. We only had one entree, one starch, one veggie, maybe a salad and a dessert. Sometimes it was just a salad, pasta and bread. No choices. I just didn't know how rough I had it.

thankfully we now have very nice lives!

the portions aren’t that humongous! :-)

I haven’t actually roasted a chicken and one day I shall. I’ll have to do test runs! We are fans of raw veggies as well.

Or substitute veggie burgers for the ground meat.
I didn't realize how rough I had it. We didn't even get dessert most nights!

Ever since I read that you love Robbins Cherries Jubilee, it just seems to taste better even though it was a usual choice at the Robbins shop. I’m so happy to now just get it at Safeway.

it sure looks that way but it’s not like each of us eats every line item.

so I didn’t properly explain... I love bucatini. My spouse loves fresh pasta. Our child loves penne.
I don’t crave fresh pasta, so the higher price doesn’t entice me to eat it.
bucatini is rare so it tends to be more expensive as a dry pasta.
penne is perennially on sale and the lowest pasta price point (with spaghetti and fusilli).

so it makes more sense that we have 3 different pastas because why should others eat pastas that they don’t want at higher costs? And there’s no reason for us all to eat penne.

If you like it, can afford it, and don't waste it (meaning any leftovers are saved for another meal), then I say why not do it. Many of us have more time on our hands than we did pre-pandemic.

I have a niece who is an extremely picky eater. She nearly always has a different meal than my brother and his wife. Fortunately she's now a teenager and can make some meals herself, but I don't know how they made two dinners for years. It would have frustrated the heck out of me -- especially since the meal I won't eat has yet to be discovered :). But if it doesn't bother you and the 3 conditions I listed are met, go for it.

Moules Marinieres, caught fresh today.

One of the problems with allowing a kid to make their own meal choices is that they are not likely to make nutritious and balanced picks. Many kids would gladly eat a McDonald's burger every day. It is one thing to ignore nutrition when you are an adult (and that is also bad) but when kids bodies and brains are developing they need certain nutrients and vitamins and fiber etc. Plus even though they may not like it all, it is good to introduce kids to new healthy foods at a young age and also good eating habits. Of course, kids should get to eat crap sometimes....we all do.

Ding! It seems like there are very few vegetables included in some meals. I'm not a picky eater, other than avoiding allergens (tree nuts, peanuts, etc.). I wish my parents had introduced me to a greater variety of foods as a child, but given any number of reasons, including a wider range of allergens that I've since outgrown, they didn't.

I completely agree, but if someone wants to make 3 types of pasta for a meal, no harm done.

I wasn't responding to the 3 types of pasta (and 2 types of pizza)..someone said that their child when younger would require a separate meal and I know that gaobest's does as well.

One of my favourite meals and in terms of bang for your buck both in cost and time to make it's got to be right up there.

We've had this east coast low belting Sydney the last couple of days windy, cold and wet. It's a real two dog night tonight so I made potato and leek soup.

Yep, two different things. I was responding to someone responding to someone who posted that there was only one protein, starch, and veggie at each meal as a kid (paraphrased). Lol...easy to get lost sometimes.

If I were making all these different items, I'd certainly try to get my child to eat some of the healthier choices as well. Each parent has to do what they think is best.

Grilled sirloin bone-in steak (end of our $5.99/lb promo)
chimichurri sauce
cheeseburger in roll-Ppang
raw cucumbers and red bell peppers
grilled onions
oven fries (again big yay for not going the deep fryer route)
baked potato with fixings
mixed green salad with Trader Joe’s vegan green goddess dressing

Iced water

chocolate ice cream
rocky road ice cream
cherries jubilee ice cream (for Jaimito)

the steak and cheeseburgers were really good.

My better half is trying her hand at Malaysian fish head curry tonight.

Haven't found the head yet and (I'm secretly hoping) we may resort to salmon collars instead.

Wondering how this will stack up against Muthu's...

Last night i brought takeout from Chicken Maison Mediterranean grill for a picnic in park distanced birthday party.
we all had:
chicken kebabs &vegetable kebabs
spicy sweet cole slaw
potato salad
pita with garlic sauce
whole foods fruit tart
champagne

yum. I’ve had fish head stew at the korean place where Anthony bourdain went in sf with Chris from impossible burger and his own restaurants. My first time at the place, I got that fish head stew and Chris was there with his family. His wife later tweeted jealousy that they didn’t have the fish head stew. $30! So good. Sadly that korean place closed a few years ago and I’m thankful to have gone there when I did. I went there alone after seeing Jiro Dreams of Sushi because I felt it was the korean version of Jiro!!!! Swoon.

Leftover salad from Portillo’s and fettuccine with crispy prosciutto, butter and Parm.
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Detroit style pan pizza

cheese
”Greek” - black olive, red bell pepper, feta, red onion

radish
cucumber
watermelon

jarritos fresa
jarritos piña


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Grilled fresh mackerel (caught overnight) and grilled courgettes.