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I saw some sausage meat for £1.35 in Morrisons. Bought some puff pastry and made these.

Yellow-label haul:

* discounted whole chicken;
* roasted, made the stock, and shredded the legs for the soup;
* discounted back bacon;
* discounted fine beans, petit pois, cavolo nero, and leek pack (× 2).

Rendered the bacon out in a heavy Dutch oven, added a whole shallot and some garlic. Added diced potatoes, 600ml homemade chicken stock, 100 ml hot water. Simmered for 15–20 minutes. Crushed 2⁄3 of the potatoes in the pan, added the greens and cooked for 5 minutes. Added the shredded chicken and warmed through for a minute. Served with some reserved bacon pieces and lots of black pepper.

Cold roasted lamb leg, warm Dijon-potato salad, dressed watercress and shallots, Dijon mayo, baguette with Brittany butter, cornichons.

I have a recurring daily scheduled ChatGPT task that teaches me a Vim tip. It knows my `.vimrc` so it tries to teach me things that are either missing or might complement or extend it. Some stuff I already know, naturally, and it has erred on the side of quite basic at times (like today), but overall it’s a nice bit of trivia with my morning coffee. I’d recommend it!

EDIT: not sure why I’m getting downvoted — this isn’t me trying to share this Vim tip; it’s me sharing the idea of having ChatGPT send one little tip per day as a nice bit of morning trivia. I guess folk aren’t reading the post body?

Pro-tip: after crumbling your feta, lightly mash it with some good quality olive oil to give it a far smoother taste and texture.

Spotted some yellow label ox heart. Never cooked it before so thought it might make a fun lunch. Marinated for 10–15 mins in a little oil, cornflour, soy, and shaoxing. Seared hard on one side until browning, added spring onion, garlic, chili flakes, and cumin. Tossed hard until still slightly pink inside. Plated with a squeeze of lime, fresh chili, spring onion, and sesame seeds. £1.39 plus the aromats made it a very very cheap lunch!

Simmered some passata and water with some garlic and spices. Parboiled and roasted some new potatoes. Topped with some yellow label (£3.50 » 52p) garlic aioli.

Had some yellow label vine tomatoes that I halved and roasted at 150°C for about 75 minutes with salt and pepper and sliced garlic. Served on sourdough with feta, topped with a quick red onion pickle, za’atar, and parsley.

Cottage cheese with olive oil and za’atar. The rest should hopefully be obvious.

Added shallot, garlic, egg, peas, garam masala, and white pepper. Served with some lime pickle and nigella seeds.

Dry brined and reverse seared.

100% constructed from leftovers or things I already had in the fridge/cupboard. Homemade chicken stock looking for a job to do, cooked chicken breast slices, fish sauce, soy, garlic, ginger, rice wine, spring onions, Thai basil, and chili. Oh and rice noodles.

I asked ChatGPT for creative ways to use up some baby gem, burgers, cucumber, and potatoes that wasn’t just burger and chips. It came up with this. All I had to go and buy was Thai basil, mint, and peanuts! Though it did tell me to pull the burgers at 62°C for still pink and that was definitely not the right move. Still, this is one of the tastiest things I’ve prepared all year! As the burger was nice and fatty it still held moisture and flavour closer to well done. The key was the sauce/dressing: 3:2:1 lime juice:fish sauce:sugar, one clove of garlic, minced, and a finely diced chilli.

Next time, I’ll make this deliberately without potatoes and with steak.

2:1 mayo:black pepper sriracha, baby gem, cucumber.

Dry brined and reverse seared. Pan sauce not pictured.

Dry brined and reverse seared. Pan sauce not pictured.

~750g bone in ribeye for me and my best pal to share. Dry brined for ~24hr, reverse seared. Pan sauce not pictured.

Cooked for me and my best mate. ~750g bone in rib eye. Dry brined, reverse seared. Pan sauce not pictured.