I am having creamy potato soup with a pound of bacon in it, home made. And have 2 loaves of bread in the oven - should be done in about 10 min. God I am going to eat and work on my coins.
Now, in Warsaw, I try, try and try further survive in the hotel on some "Club Sandwitch" and the local vodka to clean my system after having some suspicious beetroot soup and pyrogy for lunch...
Tiredness...
Imre
No - I probably would not like it. I do like garlic bread though. Also I don't think I would like pickled gherkins or pickled eggs that I see in jars in fish and chip shops.
But then again I am weird anyway - I don't like to try new things. I like milk in tea but would never have milk to drink by itself, I like tomato sauce flavour crisps but do not like tomato sauce on anything. I have never been to an Indian or Chinese restaurant; I do like vegetable spring rolls. I could go on ...
I only had milk once, when I was five years old. Just started school and we were given free milk in those days; I put a straw in the bottle and five minutes later I was throwing up. Never touched it since. So I also have never had yoghurt, just in case. I don't think I am lactose intolerant as I am alright with it in tea.
Haha, my fiancée is the same ! She isn't lactose intolerant but doesn't drink milk or eat cheese :S
Bad childhood experiences seem to count for a lot !
I am alright with a few cheeses. I had something a few years ago that had some foreign cheese in (I did not read the packet) and I was ill. I did get a packet of nice cheese slices last week that has Marmite in it.
I had a Nando's for tea. For anyone who doesn't know it's a Portuguese restaurant which specialises in piri-piri chicken; it's awesome ! Highly recommended. They are worldwide too ! Even Mauritius & Fiji have one !
Michael: I used to love blue Stilton, but since I've started the meds to help relieve my arthritis I have not been allowed that and other types including feta which I loved on salads
I prefer healthy and organic food from market or all things from my own greenhouse and allotment. I like brown rice, unrefined/virgin oils, wholemeal flour self-made pancakes and bread - vegs and fruits, very little good meat - prefer game meat; and actually to get good stuff and things that I like in UK is a big challenge. In my homeland - Latvia, almost everything came from my wife's parents farm and father-in-law is hunter - all fresh good food grown without chemicals, and it's cost me only petrol and some hard job in holidays on field. I do not like vinegar and I prefer organic soya "milk" and oat drink.
I like cooking, I am making filled pancakes, different kind of soups, some special Latvian dishes, but it is impossible to translate recipes, because right ingredients you can find only in special Baltic food shops.
The food and lifestyle is the one of the main things why I am planning to go back to Latvia.
Very good Muralis, home grown food tastes way better. We've got 2 x 32 square metre garden plots as well as apple, plums, raspberries, boysenberries, currants, strawberries, gooseberries, cranberries and there are also wild blackberries and elderberries near our house. I hunt as well so often get wild goat, pigs, and deer. My sister keeps chickens too so we get eggs and chicken. Sorted!!
Very nice tony - just what I like, and the more gravy the better.
Toad in the hole, for those that do not know, is Yorkshire pudding cooked with sauages in. Somewhere on here I added a picture a few weeks ago of one I had on my parent's anniversary. First picture ...
Here a toad in a hole is a slice of bread with a hole in the middle . Then butter and you put in a pan and drop a egg in it and cook. Some people flip and cook the other side.
Today I will have ONE apple, Some juice and Lettuce salad for my Dinner. I nowadays have stopped having Dinner to ensure my weight stays within limits and dont get into trouble.
It is odd to see some of my old post showing up. It is good to be back on line again,even though My lap top is dead an using an old system,window 8.1. Be looking for a new one.
BCNumismatics have to say I do love subway. I think I will get some today. Over the years the subway by me has been a great for silver and out of country coins. Out of there change making machine I have gotten around 10 to 20 silver dimes and war nickels. The best was a French Indochina 10 centimes 1922A Km16.1. Same size as a US dime. Got it after a Mong get together . And a few star notes to. And a lot of Canadian out of there free penny tray.
Citação: "CoinCollector1243"Bread, rice, and tofu along with peas (is it true that British people have a strong opinion on mushy peas?)
They're Godly. With chips and gravy. In a bowl.
How often do you have them?
Not at all as I've been in the US since August 2000 and Long John Silver's just doesn't cut it. We are able to buy cans of the stuff from the local British store but it's not close to the real thing.
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Citação: "CoinCollector1243"Bread, rice, and tofu along with peas (is it true that British people have a strong opinion on mushy peas?)
They're Godly. With chips and gravy. In a bowl.
How often do you have them?
Not at all as I've been in the US since August 2000 and Long John Silver's just doesn't cut it. We are able to buy cans of the stuff from the local British store but it's not close to the real thing.
Citação: "pnightingale"They're Godly. With chips and gravy. In a bowl.
True - I would go out now and get all of that, and a pickled onion,
but we are not really allowed, and even then there is nowhere open.
To quote myself from this morning - though most takeaway shops are still closed,
I found one open earlier today ...
Picture 1 - a larger store on the right, two other shops in the middle, and a takeaway on the left.
Picture 2 - my hand written list I gave to the takeaway.
Picture 3 - what they gave me. Mmmmm
So I went to the shop on the left, with my list, and ordered and paid for it, saying I would be
back in five minutes. Then I went to the store on the right and got bread and so on.
When I got back home I unpacked it all, in the third picture. So I added a fishcake to my order,
and saw they mistakenly gave me a portion of onion rings instead of one pickled onion. Never
mind though, I finished it all !
Citação: "pnightingale"They're Godly. With chips and gravy. In a bowl.
True - I would go out now and get all of that, and a pickled onion,
but we are not really allowed, and even then there is nowhere open.
To quote myself from this morning - though most takeaway shops are still closed,
I found one open earlier today ...
Picture 1 - a larger store on the right, two other shops in the middle, and a takeaway on the left.
Picture 2 - my hand written list I gave to the takeaway.
Picture 3 - what they gave me. Mmmmm
So I went to the shop on the left, with my list, and ordered and paid for it, saying I would be
back in five minutes. Then I went to the store on the right and got bread and so on.
When I got back home I unpacked it all, in the third picture. So I added a fishcake to my order,
and saw they mistakenly gave me a portion of onion rings instead of one pickled onion. Never
mind though, I finished it all !
I have heard the name guacamole but never seen it or had it -
I am fairly certain that whatever it is I would not like it.
Certainly you would not find it in a UK takeaway.
Citação: "ZacUK" I have heard the name guacamole but never seen it or had it -
I am fairly certain that whatever it is I would not like it.
Certainly you would not find it in a UK takeaway.
Here is a bad image of guacamole (most are better):
ZacUK you and I may have the same problem. For years I annoyed many people in a social setting with my limited food choices. I could eat things likeMayonnaises, Mornays, Devilled eggs, dressings, sauces other than basic tomato and the special sauce in Big Macs (But Not separate).
I also and still do have an aversion to Garlic, Tomatoes, and watery and stinky cheeses like Parmesan, Gorgonzola, Chili pilly or whatever that stuff in the plastic container is. the holey stuff, fetta and anything other than Tasty, cheddar or processed cheese slices. Yet the big irony was that I would eagerly eat cheese in burgers (Plain and processed only - no fancy grooyear or whatever that holey stuff is).
I blamed it on autism where you have a heightened sense of taste and smell - but now I realised it is blenophobia - the fear of sauces and blended liquids. I also refuse to eat anything I consider ugly like Animal heads and clear parts (Tongues, offals, eyes etc) and pickled onions, pickled eggs, anytype of stuff like olives, capers and especially an aversion to any salad except plain ones with green vegetables and a boiled egg at the most exotic.
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But since the 90s I have slowly but surely increased my food palate through people tricking me or me being adventurous.
In 1996 aged 20 there was a joke I could not eat anything but Marmite (A dark yeast spread popular in NZ and Australia), Chicken Nuggets and chips. I called Pizza "puke on bread" and would never eat anything like Indian or Chinese, it was Roasts and 3 meats and veges along with basic takeaways like Fried Chicken and Fish and chips, even burgers were too exotic because of cheese, beetroot and possible sauces and juices.
A series of urbane friends and partners in Auckland got me used to Pizza, Indian, Chinese and Thai food and most types of burgers excusing the fancy ones like Burger fuel with fancy cheeses, relishes and stuff like piccali (Which I refuse to eat now). My diet is still plain and it causes issues when we go out as many White people here love over the top food with cheeses, sauces and dressings on everything. I can't eat Mediterranean food like Mossaka and Fetta cheese type stuff and are properly allergic to all forms of shellfish and crabs and things.
However I can manage now and are actually quite overweight - so not starving to death, but my diet is balanced, lots of fruits and vegetables and because I don't like sauces, dressings and mornays - my salads are extremely healthy. I eat some bad stuff too - but not excessively and I drink very little alcohol or soft drink (Only sugar free ones).
Last night we had Rump steak with onions, Mashed potatos, boiled green beans and broccaflower (A broccoli/cauliflower hybrid popular here) and tonight I will be cooking Chicken and capsicum kebabs served on boiled rice and a side of boiled broccoli and leeks.
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Citação: "ZacUK" I have heard the name guacamole but never seen it or had it -
I am fairly certain that whatever it is I would not like it.
Certainly you would not find it in a UK takeaway.
It's mashed up Avocados and is most commonly found in Mexican food along with sour cream. I've developed a real taste for Tex-Mex cooking, yeah including guacamole. I thought I'd hate it but it's actually quite good. Since moving to the land of the free I've been somewhat forced into expanding my culinary horizons which were pretty far out to begin with. Sushi is something I have a real craving for right now.
I did finally follow Neil's example and enjoyed a goat vindaloo.
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Hum, iam not fussy at all. But an old fart. About the only thing I have not eaten is cat . Walrus, seals , wales, snakes, turtles , squirrels and game big and small is all fair game. There are some things I would not like to eat again in my life. Or have to clean and dress. But it is what it is.
edit I have shopped for meat in open air markets and have eaten in 5 star eateries. Even worked in a 5 star kitchen.
Tonight I'm making chicken wraps, although I tend to steer away from starchy carbs so the kids can have the wraps and I'll just have the chicken and veggies.
Citação: "ALLRED1950"Hum, iam not fussy at all. But an old fart. About the only thing I have not eaten is cat . Walrus, seals , wales, snakes, turtles , squirrels and game big and small is all fair game. There are some things I would not like to eat again in my life. Or have to clean and dress. But it is what it is.
edit I have shopped for meat in open air markets and have eaten in 5 star eateries. Even worked in a 5 star kitchen.
Anyone with the surnames Jones, Williams, Evans etc - should get very scared
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I've been trying to think where I draw the line at what I would and wouldn't eat. Like the diner conversation in Pulp Fiction. Here's what I came up with -
Road Kill.
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Take a few scoops from a tub of strawberry and cream ice cream,
and a biscuit from a packet of digestives ...
then put the ice cream in a bowl and crumble the biscuit over it ...
Citação: "ZacUK" Take 2 slices of white un-buttered bread,
add a packet of cheese and onion crisps,
to make - a crisp sandwich !
The crucial step is to press down very hard on the top slice so the entire package of boyhood goodness sticks together. Sadly Americans will never know the magnificence. They might have been to the moon and back but they don't have cheese and onion crisps and even if they did they'd call them "chips" which as every civilised person knows is a thick cut spud cooked in lard.
I have converted my wife to "chip butties" and even malt vinegar. Bringing culture to the colonies, one chip butty at a time.
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Looks delicious, In New Zealand though we add some Marmite to that mix.
Australians love their vegemite. In all you have a tart and filling snack.
Delicious on toast and perfect for flavouring beef and mince (In American - chili meat/salisbury steak).
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Interesting how we are different but also the same.
I remember when I was a kid it was common to make peanut butter sandwiches and then put potato chips (usually plain, but sometimes barbeque or sour cream and onion flavored) on the sandwich to add a tasty crunch.
I also remember when I was in Iraq one of my closest colleagues was Australian and one morning after a spirited conversation about exactly what a biscuit was I brought him a biscuit from breakfast. He proceeded to say "that's not a biscuit, its a more of a scone" and promptly pulled from his desk that exact jar of Vegamite that Moneytane posted, smeared on a healthy amount and ate it for breakfast.
With my partner in a rest home now (I am too young to be in one and visiting it, would not want to be!!)
I have to ccok for myself now and have become “accomplished” if you consider meat and 2 or 3 veg accomplished. New Zealand very much follows the UK in culinary tastes. Yesterday I had a grilled sirloin steak with broccoli, carrots and some silverbeet. I make a new potato mix called purple rain. This includes potato but also purple kumara (Maori sweet potatoes) and you mash them together giving a purple veined mash (Yes the purple kumaras have a purple interior flesh).
Today I had a nanna nap around dinner and thus it was 8pm before it was dinner time, it was lazy sausages, microwaved vegetables and oven chips (French fries or pommes frites for you non English/Kiwi/Aussie people).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Quote: "ZacUK" Take 2 slices of white un-buttered bread, add a packet of cheese and onion crisps, to make - a crisp sandwich !
The crucial step is to press down very hard on the top slice so the entire package of boyhood goodness sticks together. Sadly Americans will never know the magnificence. They might have been to the moon and back but they don't have cheese and onion crisps and even if they did they'd call them "chips" which as every civilised person knows is a thick cut spud cooked in lard.
I have converted my wife to "chip butties" and even malt vinegar. Bringing culture to the colonies, one chip butty at a time.
Exactly the same here, except we call in “chip sandwiches” or with hot chips also. Put 4 decent size hot chips in a bread slice with butter or margarine and fold it over and then eat!
But do you guys add butter or margarine to the bread, just to give it some flavour or liquidity. To go full slob add some tomato sauce or do what they do in Dunedin, a cheese roll which is grilled cheese in the mix as well.
I also make the same potato chip sandwiches with some marmite or vegemite smeared on the bread.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Well my dinner/tea is usually different everyday apart from times were we have leftovers.
For example I had vegetables with chicken in Moroccan style sauce with Palestinian rice with spices we imported from Palestine and the UAE (when we went there last month).
I like virtually all cuisines but ones I tend to like best is real Mexican food, Japanese, Middle eastern/central Asian and American.
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Daryl -friend, nice greetings for the big pond, good health and happiness. Post from 2013 and please -delights the soul.
,, I am having creamy potato soup with a pound of bacon in it, home made. And have 2 loaves of bread in the oven - should be done in about 10 min. God I am going to eat and work on my coins.,,
,, I last ate 4 years ago,, I can only drink what I mix, twice a day fruit with biscuits, whey, kefir, acedophilic milks, milk and here what the garden can give, black cranesbill - aronia, apples are rolling on the ground, only bananas I use 2 kg . I have no taste or smell-however, I don't mind cooking for my loved ones every day and that this has been my hobby since I was 14 years old( and I catch tastes according to experience)
This was recently:
Our national food, sauerkraut, dumpling and roast meat ( I rarely do it, nobody wants it - a sample of my work)
I also bought a hot air oven recently to cook healthy without fat:
otherwise, it's classic,, this in the oven on Sunday,,:
( stuffed chicken thighs, potatoes and tomatoes, diced zucchini)
My grandson loves sweets and I like to prepare them to taste:
However, they play with cooking and tasting-simple potato dough from a bag, own plum jam, cut into rounds, close, cook, sprinkle with powdered sugar and a little butter ( I also do it for salty sausage fillings and sauerkraut) -my procedure:
the granddaughter eats everything and the grandson enthusiastically eats vegetables from his own garden:
This afternoon - preparation for Saturday, the arrival of my father and I have to welcome and treat him (just as we take care of our grandchildren, so do my sons and so did my father take care of me just like my grandfather) documented since the 16th century by simple householders who know how take care of yourself:
Pork pancetta with belly, garlic Schwardval bacon, salt, spices. I loaded it, sealed it in vacuum film and on Friday night it will go to the smokehouse to be smoked until Saturday morning:
3-4 kg 2 kg The son was grinding meat for tomorrow - he will lie down and go to the intestines tomorrow and for sausages and smoke until Saturday (let dad have something to eat)
4-5 kg, and I put a lot of garlic and real "Hungarian paprika"
this is from the last smoke and this is how it will look on saturday:
Well, I eat this twice a day, 1 liter of mix and Prosure in the morning and evening - a special energy drink:
So again, as usual, simply in two sentences, "Yes - Daryl, if you pass by my house, stop, I like visitors and I know how to treat them, my dear friend-the beer base of Pilsenský Prazdroje is cooling down ( and I can't drink alcohol) but I'm alive and I think I know why.
Question ? what kind of coin does the grandson have in his eye (the granddaughter has a beautiful blue like the sky)
simple ordinary copper, dirty 5hal. from the first republic, but good to play, right?
Hello friends, and eat sparingly and don't overeat.
A quite simple dessert from my grandmother: French toast with raspberries Ingredients : 4 slices of thick brioche or fairly thick bread 25cl of milk 10g of sugar (soaking the French toast) 1 whole egg 20g of butter 10g of sugar (for baking French toast) 2 punnets of 125g of raspberries 10g of sugar (cooking raspberries) Preparation: In a bowl, pour the milk, sugar and whole egg, mix with a whisk. Soak the brioche slices for 3 to 4 minutes. Heat a frying pan with butter, let it brown slightly, place the slices of brioche, add a little sugar. Caramelize on one side, turn over, add a little sugar, caramelize on the other side. In a second pan, pour the punnet of raspberries with a spoonful of water and a little sugar, crush the raspberries and cook for 30 seconds. Place the brioche slices on the plates and the raspberries on top.
However here in cold wet New Zealand we will have to wait until November for that. August here is like your February. Berry time is November to February.
Here its all hot comfort food. Spaghetti Bolognese is on the menu tonight and again being single, it will be 2 portions with one refrigerated for next week one night when I can't be bothered cooking.
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I have not had it for quite a while, so I went into a supermarket and bought one, costing £4 and it is lovely.
The outer box is 150mm (6" across) - and it says it serves 4 people, but as there is only me here then
will just have to finish it myself, maybe over the next few days. Maybe. 😋
Looks good.🥄
Moneytane
I have to ccok for myself now and have become “accomplished” if you consider meat and 2 or 3 veg accomplished. New Zealand very much follows the UK in culinary tastes. Yesterday I had a grilled sirloin steak with broccoli, carrots and some silverbeet. I make a new potato mix called purple rain. This includes potato but also purple kumara (Maori sweet potatoes) and you mash them together giving a purple veined mash (Yes the purple kumaras have a purple interior flesh).
Good choice of steak that’s my favourite steak but I prefer New York Sirloin, Was the steak Rare, medium or well done?
MIMAEL
Daryl -friend, nice greetings for the big pond, good health and happiness. Post from 2013 and please -delights the soul.
,, I am having creamy potato soup with a pound of bacon in it, home made. And have 2 loaves of bread in the oven - should be done in about 10 min. God I am going to eat and work on my coins.,,
,, I last ate 4 years ago,, I can only drink what I mix, twice a day fruit with biscuits, whey, kefir, acedophilic milks, milk and here what the garden can give, black cranesbill - aronia, apples are rolling on the ground, only bananas I use 2 kg . I have no taste or smell-however, I don't mind cooking for my loved ones every day and that this has been my hobby since I was 14 years old( and I catch tastes according to experience)
This was recently:
Our national food, sauerkraut, dumpling and roast meat ( I rarely do it, nobody wants it - a sample of my work)
I also bought a hot air oven recently to cook healthy without fat:
otherwise, it's classic,, this in the oven on Sunday,,:
( stuffed chicken thighs, potatoes and tomatoes, diced zucchini)
This afternoon - preparation for Saturday, the arrival of my father and I have to welcome and treat him (just as we take care of our grandchildren, so do my sons and so did my father take care of me just like my grandfather) documented since the 16th century by simple householders who know how take care of yourself:
Pork pancetta with belly, garlic Schwardval bacon, salt, spices. I loaded it, sealed it in vacuum film and on Friday night it will go to the smokehouse to be smoked until Saturday morning:
3-4 kg 2 kg The son was grinding meat for tomorrow - he will lie down and go to the intestines tomorrow and for sausages and smoke until Saturday (let dad have something to eat)
4-5 kg, and I put a lot of garlic and real "Hungarian paprika"
this is from the last smoke and this is how it will look on saturday:
Well, I eat this twice a day, 1 liter of mix and Prosure in the morning and evening - a special energy drink:
Hello friends, and eat sparingly and don't overeat.
Ivan
I also have an air fryer but it’s not as a advanced as yours so usually it’s used for Chips, chicken bites or pigs in blankets.
Love the smoker, is it usual in you country to smoke your meats? Because one a my friends from Poland and his family to have a smoker.
I like having a milkshake when I want something different for breakfast or for dinner in case I had a big lunch. Typically is consists of fruit, oats, Vanilla and milk but sometimes I add mint chocolate powder to boost its flavour.
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For dinner, something like this without the greenery. 🍝
We call Spaghetti Bolognese Spag Bol.
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I always cut the fat off it as well, there is not much but cooked fat is awful to me.
That looks like Spaghetti and Meatballs to me, still nice.
Tonight Fish and chips, home made - its the Catholic in me, fish on a Friday.
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Love the smoker, is it usual in you country to smoke your meats? Because one a my friends from Poland and his family to have a smoker.
I wish everyone a nice day and whole weekend.
Nice greeting ,, Worldwide collection,, It's more like a village thing in the mountains and in places where tradition is respected.
And by the way, bacon and eggs for breakfast is a tradition in many countries, but someone has to smoke that bacon, right?
I have always lived in the center of our big cities since I was little( apartment buildings, 6th floor, 8th floor, etc.) -As a professional soldier, I alternated between 4 garrisons and urban life with my family.
After finishing my career, I found a quiet job and also bought a homestead in the mountains ( a large garden where there was a show course for horses, stables, an orchard)
And what you can't do on the balcony in the city on the 8th floor, here it's something completely different:
the grandson was turning the sausage grinder:
And here it is now in the smokehouse until tomorrow:
it's nice to sit on the terrace and watch nature:
is already maturing
But I just picked courgettes and pumpkins for tomorrow, and in the morning I don't have time to pick 5 kg of tomatoes, apples and other fruits
So believe me, we also eat fruits and vegetables:
and I am proud of my own crops from my own seeds.
In the morning, the grill is fired up for grilling, and the smokehouse will still be smoking when my father arrives. Menu: beef bone soup and liver dumplings, carrot, celery
main course: "Konopišké pánu" roast ( stuffed with two types of meat layered with mushrooms on long metal skewers (I don't have medieval swords) and fries, sauce, dip vegetable garnish, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad)
sweet cakes.
Now for the laugh or pain joke -I haven't eaten in 4 years and I can't tomorrow either ( I just mix the soup broth with vegetables and throw in lean chicken)
bon appetit my friends and and I have stuck to the saying all my life: I don't live to eat but I eat food to live
Love the smoker, is it usual in you country to smoke your meats? Because one a my friends from Poland and his family to have a smoker.
I wish everyone a nice day and whole weekend.
Nice greeting ,, Worldwide collection,, It's more like a village thing in the mountains and in places where tradition is respected.
And by the way, bacon and eggs for breakfast is a tradition in many countries, but someone has to smoke that bacon, right?
I have always lived in the center of our big cities since I was little( apartment buildings, 6th floor, 8th floor, etc.) -As a professional soldier, I alternated between 4 garrisons and urban life with my family.
After finishing my career, I found a quiet job and also bought a homestead in the mountains ( a large garden where there was a show course for horses, stables, an orchard)
And what you can't do on the balcony in the city on the 8th floor, here it's something completely different:
the grandson was turning the sausage grinder:
And here it is now in the smokehouse until tomorrow:
it's nice to sit on the terrace and watch nature:
is already maturing
But I just picked courgettes and pumpkins for tomorrow, and in the morning I don't have time to pick 5 kg of tomatoes, apples and other fruits
So believe me, we also eat fruits and vegetables:
and I am proud of my own crops from my own seeds.
In the morning, the grill is fired up for grilling, and the smokehouse will still be smoking when my father arrives. Menu: beef bone soup and liver dumplings, carrot, celery
main course: "Konopišké pánu" roast ( stuffed with two types of meat layered with mushrooms on long metal skewers (I don't have medieval swords) and fries, sauce, dip vegetable garnish, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad)
sweet cakes.
Now for the laugh or pain joke -I haven't eaten in 4 years and I can't tomorrow either ( I just mix the soup broth with vegetables and throw in lean chicken)
bon appetit my friends and and I have stuck to the saying all my life: I don't live to eat but I eat food to live
Hi Ivan
Hi Ivan
Looks nice, I’m feel sorry that you can’t properly taste the food that you grow because I imagine it must be divine.
It‘s not quite tea time yet but at the moment I’m in London to sort out my passport, plus I’ll visit a few museums and Coincraft while I’m here.
But at the moment I’m enjoying a Cappuccino with an apple pastry (which is in my stomach) and while I’m walking to the coin shop I’ll be drinking a nice Italian fuzzy orange drink.
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Smoked salmon in avocado with a black tomato and complement of grated apple with ginger. The idea of the complement I made up the other night, when not sleeping….. Anyway both I and my wife really enjoyed this.
I always cut the fat off it as well, there is not much but cooked fat is awful to me.
That looks like Spaghetti and Meatballs to me, still nice.
Tonight Fish and chips, home made - its the Catholic in me, fish on a Friday.
For me it’s medium well. But I don’t have steak in the U.K. that often because I’m not a fan of how British beef tastes and feels.
I do like a good fish and chips on a Friday most of the time homemade but on occasion I like to get fish and chips from our local takeaway which we have ordered from with since 1977. Because my dad used to help the original owner out by washing the dishes and peeling potatoes (Now it’s run by a relative).
Anyway until very recently the takeaway and a the small restaurant bit upstairs looked straight out of the late 70s sprinkled with a 90s style fizzy drink and even now it’s possible to see the original menu behind the flatscreens that display the food.
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Smoked salmon in avocado with a black tomato and complement of grated apple with ginger. The idea of the complement I made up the other night, when not sleeping….. Anyway both I and my wife really enjoyed this.
What Variety is that Salmon?
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Smoked salmon in avocado with a black tomato and complement of grated apple with ginger. The idea of the complement I made up the other night, when not sleeping….. Anyway both I and my wife really enjoyed this.
Mexican corn tortillas and black beans with lettuce, guacamole, Cholula sauce. With a side of Cantal AOP Entre-Deux, excluding all the seasoning my mum used because I’ll be here for hours.
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Smoked salmon in avocado with a black tomato and complement of grated apple with ginger. The idea of the complement I made up the other night, when not sleeping….. Anyway both I and my wife really enjoyed this.
Looks yummy!
We got some smoked trout when we were up on Lake Michigan two weeks ago, came home and made it into a nice dip/spread combining it with lots of creamy dairy stuff, smoked paprika, and grated shallots from the garden.
Nature gives us fish, and modern technology gives us smokers … match made in heaven.
Smoked salmon in avocado with a black tomato and complement of grated apple with ginger. The idea of the complement I made up the other night, when not sleeping….. Anyway both I and my wife really enjoyed this.
Looks yummy!
We got some smoked trout when we were up on Lake Michigan two weeks ago, came home and made it into a nice dip/spread combining it with lots of creamy dairy stuff, smoked paprika, and grated shallots from the garden.
Nature gives us fish, and modern technology gives us smokers … match made in heaven.
Did you try to mix some horseradish and whipped cream together as a sauce with the trout. Works miracles.
We just spent 3 hours 'rationalising' the kitchen e.g. going through every single cupboard and playing 'keep/charity shop/throw' on every single thing we have in order to halve our hoarding for a nice 'minimalist' kitchen refit we've got planned.
Should we organise a survey about our culinary tastes such as likes/dislikes of a particular food item, drinks, type of dish, cuisine etc?
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Always lazy on a Saturday night and losing weight - a rum and coke and some crisps!!!
Tomorrow Bacon and eggs for brunch and Husbear is coming to do a pork roast, so we feast!!
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Maybe we should have a cooking thread? ----- it created itself from hunger……..
Tonight we're making 닭도리탕 ----- it looks wonderful and definitely tastes good (I would also like to ask for the recipe)
To keep fit, I spend time working in the garden - when the weather is nice, I estimate two weeks and it will be cold here, i mean morning frost.
Thread is what's for dinner, however, we decide about it during the day and we also have to do something about it. I won't eat what I dug up and plucked today, and many of the vegetables I grew will definitely freeze, especially I won't dig up many potatoes anymore and they will stay in the ground. The apples will remain on the ground and rot (they are without chemical spraying and without fertilizers - pure nature) I have already stored what we will eat.
The courgettes are still growing - now torn off minutes ago, as well as the peppers and tomatoes:
celery, carrots, kohlrabi, all without chemical sprays and fertilizers, all ripped off an hour ago.
And this is the sad sight (but it's nature) A large tree and an old variety of autumn apples, they last in a crate until April. Everything will freeze and rot in a week:
under the tree
Now, something cheerful: I won't bother you with the question of what it is- My rare cast iron pot of approx. 5 liters, maybe more, has a hole at the top to vent the pressurized steam. Do you know the principle of the pot? And do you have similar new pressure cookers?
Also interesting is the sandstone hand-worked stone under the pot with decorations unknown to me, it is still in place in the backyard where it has been lying since time immemorial.
I don't cook in the pot, I just keep it outside for decoration (sometimes I grease it with vegetable oil)
I made these pictures last night. The previous day was Hallowe'en and luckily for
me there were no trick-or-treaters so I had… chocolate!
I bought two packs a few days previously, at £1.69 and there are 9 bars in a pack.
So less than 20 Pence for each bar. Nice.
For dessert, for myself, I already bought a four-pack of After Eight mousse. It was £1.00 for
a pack so 25 Pence each pot. Described as a ‘mint mousse with chocolate layer pieces’.
Nice having all the Dairy milk bars to your self. Also where did you find the After Eight mousse? Because mint chocolate is my favourite.🤤
Anyway for my dinner I had a medium well ostrich steak with homemade air fryer chips (with skins) with boiled Broccoli. Which was similar to the night before where I had the same but with a Salmon fillet seasoned with garlic, lemon and black pepper.
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Thanks - I got it from Sainsbury's, in the chiller aisle.
In the picture it look like white mint mousse mixed with brown
chocolate mousse. It is mint mousse, but mixed with thin actual chocolate streaks.
So is slightly crunchy mixed with soft mousse, for want of a better description. Nice. ❤️
Thanks bought one from my local Sainsbury’s and had one for dessert for lunch. It was pretty nice but I prefer the After Eight Mint chocolate bites.
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I think the paste didn't work! Now it's there. Quail eggs with Schwarzwalder ham and 4 different tomatoes. The eggs cook for 2m30s when taken out of the fridge. Immediately after into cold water. Peel after 20 minutes! Worth the while. A dry South African white wine is a solid companion to this simple repast…
Zucchini from the garden he still gives me direction- it's a simple recipe using a 2dcl mug ( two cups finely grated zucchini, beat one and a half cups of sugar with two eggs, a little butter, a quarter cup of cocoa , chocolate can be given, yogurt a little , flour also for cups - semi-coarse 1.5 cups and smooth 1/2 cup, baking powder for rising)-at 180 celsius for 40 minutes
In the morning, the grandchildren will be taken to school and the tray will be empty
I had a Greggs for lunch (Pigs in blankets baguette with a mint mocha) so I wasn’t that hungry and for the last few days I’ve been trying every festive drinks major chains have to offer and rate them from best to worst (list coming soon).
I enjoyed a lovely eggnog latte (decaffeinated) from a Starbucks that opened near me recently.
Also just noting for breakfast I had smoked kipper seasoned with olive oil and garlic (grilled to make the skin crispy).
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Reason - Wisdom tooth surgery - Just had the first of 3 of them out, not painful but boy am I hungry!
I can eat some more types come Friday - but not food like tough steak, roast or anything thick like a burger.
Aargh!!!
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Well last night I enjoyed an exquisite meal which consisted a pork schnitzel topped with lettuce, onions, guacamole and a pinch of grated Wensleydale cheese with some cholula hot sauce all contained inside of a sourdough baguette.
For dessert I had a couple of dates from Jordan and a few after eights.
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Our national food, sauerkraut, dumpling and roast meat ( I rarely do it, nobody wants it - a sample of my work)
( stuffed chicken thighs, potatoes and tomatoes, diced zucchini)
3-4 kg 
2 kg 
The son was grinding meat for tomorrow - he will lie down and go to the intestines tomorrow and for sausages and smoke until Saturday (let dad have something to eat)
4-5 kg, and I put a lot of garlic and real "Hungarian paprika"
Our national food, sauerkraut, dumpling and roast meat ( I rarely do it, nobody wants it - a sample of my work)
( stuffed chicken thighs, potatoes and tomatoes, diced zucchini)
3-4 kg
2 kg
The son was grinding meat for tomorrow - he will lie down and go to the intestines tomorrow and for sausages and smoke until Saturday (let dad have something to eat)
4-5 kg, and I put a lot of garlic and real "Hungarian paprika"
is already maturing
and I am proud of my own crops from my own seeds.
is already maturing
and I am proud of my own crops from my own seeds.
celery, carrots, kohlrabi, all without chemical sprays and fertilizers, all ripped off an hour ago.
under the tree
Also interesting is the sandstone hand-worked stone under the pot with decorations unknown to me, it is still in place in the backyard where it has been lying since time immemorial.
,, You don't buy it, you have to make it ,,
