Lets Do Lunch (around the world).

Sounds good, I'm not much of a meat eater anymore but those turkey-cranberry sandwiches are hard to resist around holiday time, whole wheat bread with some mayo and lettuce, yum yum.

Sounds like you want to make some pie.      Which fruit did you have in mind?

Ah yes, jam on toast, one of my favorites in the morning. Right now I have three kinds, orange, blueberry and apricot. I prefer rye bread toast or apricot jam with peanut butter on rye bread.

Rye is very nice, I like dark rye too, always a good soft fresh texture.   Mostly I'm a sourdough or honey-wheat man but those big fresh loaves of Russian or Jewish Ryes are hard to resist.  I'm convinced bread is the most important part of a sandwich.   For jam I love applebutter, blackberry, and have grown very fond of a good orange marmalade.
 

Wow! such variety, looks good.

 ^ my favorite sandy

meatloaf this week; the onions and peppers should be sauteed before going in the meat mixture, many don't do that.  And a healthy teaspoon of salt is very important.

 ^ you could grill meatloaf (actually that sounds quite good), but normally it's baked in the oven at a high or medium heat, 375 to 425 f

It looks good. I did not have such a lunch recently. I always should always take in a fish and vegetables and seaweed, too. An eel and an octopus are known as summer seasonal food in Japan. It is food to maintain physical strength.

The octopus often makes salad with seaweed in Japan. The seasoning is soy sauce and vinegar or something. Or it is marinade.

Yes!! Sunomono!! It is a dish for the summer that Japanese know well.