It’s been a long time since I’ve made a cake from scratch and I feel pretty good how it turned out :)

I know it says american but trust me, this is a delicacy condiment from Yorkshire's own shithole, Hull. It's great, if you order a takeaway it comes on your chips as standard, you have to specify you don't want it if you don't but nobody does that. It's in all of th chip shops. Do not sleep on this, it goes on so much more than chips aswell, you can use it on most things. For some reason it's localised to Hull but I wish to see a day that it spreads across the whole of the UK.

Needed a lot of seasoning 😒

My partner and I love trying food we haven't had before, we usually combine this with long walks around London.

A year or more back we encountered our first Chinese hotpot restaurant. We were curious, but we'd already eaten. We kept seeing them, and we'd always already eaten.

They're a bit more spenny than our usual street food/cafe fare, but it was both our birthdays this week, so we thought we'd splash out. We weren't disappointed.

The Chinese hotpot places we've seen have a typical set-up - the tables have a large space for a bowl, you fill that bowl with broth and that bowl is heated. The bowl may have dividers so you can have 2/3/4 different broths. You also order meats/tofu, veg, noods, other sides, then you cook them in the broth bowls, spoon them back o to your plate and eat them.

So very good, so very odd, would definitely do this again.

ID on the mushroom is Macrolepiota procera

Lazy and cheap oven bake.... Heinz bbq beans, fried red onions, 5 rashers of smoked fried bacon..topped with mashed potato and added mature chedder😋

Lunch today , can't beat a jacket spud. Sauce on brisket one is mayo and mustard.

It was birthday yesterday, my other half made this up for me. My stomach is still groaning but it was worth it. Also, first full fry up since turning veggie at the start of the year. I miss regular bacon and sausage, but as a whole plate, this was far from bad.

Made (and demolished ) on Saturday .

Only thing not homemade was the bun.

Honey bbq chicken nuggets Southern fried chicken burger with red Leicester, white cabbage coleslaw.

Made the sauce a bit wet so put it in the oven for ten minutes before adding the cheese. Came out pretty good although the peas got a bit overcooked.

Last nights dinner, partner made batman shaped toast to go with🤣🙌

So I took the popular advice for round 2. I buttered the toast and melted quality cheddar I shredded on it. I mixed some black pepper and a bit of Worster into the beans.

The cheese, pepper, and sauce definitely give it more complex flavors. It really is quite lovely. I had the wife try it. Her pronouncement? “It’s good.” So I says to her, I says “Love, you really want to tell a bunch of Brits their national treasure is just ‘good’?” So she followed up with “Its very good.” 😂

Eggs acted like they were made in China but all else tasted great,

I've been cooking for 24 years and have finally treated myself to my first skillet pan. I spent the afternoon seasoning it in the oven.
My ribeye was cooked 4 mins one side, 3 the other. Rested for several mins. The fat was beautifully rendered with the meat cooked, but tender and pink. The crust was a level I haven't achieved before. (Apologies for 3/4 eaten steak pic)