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Post by riotgrrl on Dec 28, 2009 0:38:37 GMT
Olives are lovely.
When we're on ourselves and nip to the wine bar over the road for a couple of stiffeners of a weekend afternoon there is nothing I like more than ordering the bar snack of fresh bread, olives, and balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
I even have a wee balsamic vinegar and olive oil dish thing that I use at home, as this is an easy snack to prepare privately.
And the same thing when we're having tapas. That's the best tapas of all.
Are olives fattening or healthy?
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Post by everso on Dec 28, 2009 0:47:56 GMT
I have it on good authority (i.e. I made it up) that olives are only fattening if you swallow the stone.
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Post by Patrick on Dec 28, 2009 1:01:27 GMT
How are olives 'lovely'  they taste like burnt bits of metal! Vile Sour things that the devil would eat if he felt like being put in a really BAD mood. eugh!!
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Post by everso on Dec 28, 2009 1:07:08 GMT
How are olives 'lovely' they taste like burnt bits of metal! Vile Sour things that the devil would eat if he felt like being put in a really BAD mood. eugh!! Now, come on. When did you last eat a bit of burnt metal? Olives are, I grant you, an acquired taste. But once you acquire that taste, man, you have to finish the whole lot. Riot knows: balsamic, oil, bread, olives. Fab. |
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Post by artistlily on Dec 28, 2009 8:11:00 GMT
OOOOOOOOOOH, olives!!!(lascivious groan). Yum yum. And olives baked into sourdough bread with salt and oil.....................
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Post by Weyland on Dec 28, 2009 12:29:39 GMT
No. It's cosmopolitan or continental or classy or summink. I gather that the idea is to use an oil/fat that can be heated to a high temperature without smoking. Groundnut oil is supposed to be one of the best, but I thought I'd try goose-fat because I'm a fashion slave. It was fine, but I'll use groundnut next time -- it does make them even crisper, and definitely better than, say, sunflower. I read somewhere that olive oil is a nono for roasting, because it smokes too cool, makes the potatoes soggy, and is not the right flavour in any case. But some people apparently use it successfully, so what the flip. You can't believe everything you read in cookery books, even one of Delia's. I love olives, by the way, and olive oil for a lot of oily purposes. Olive's is very nice too. |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 28, 2009 12:35:32 GMT
I used to be collected from Primary School by an Olive. If all the taxis were doing other things she'd use her 1965 Hillman Minx.   |
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Post by bonbonlarue on Dec 29, 2009 11:40:49 GMT
My Mother's name was Olive...
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Post by Patrick on Dec 29, 2009 11:54:26 GMT
She didn't have a Hillman Minx did she? ;D
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Post by betty on Dec 29, 2009 15:10:46 GMT
jean, I sympathise with you and your sister. I dropped out of uni when I got anorexia and didn't return - though jobs were easier to get as a non graduate in those days. I returned to do a diferent course at the grand age of 32 and am sure I got a lot more out of the course than I would have done at 19. Eating disorders are hard to cure, but I hope your sister manages to soldier on! I'm gald you are feeling better and hope there will; be a chance for some catching up on the feasting front! sympathies from me also - that is why my eldest is not having christmas with me for the first time. let's hope next christmas will be better. |
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Post by betty on Dec 29, 2009 18:24:08 GMT
sympathies from me also - that is why my eldest is not having christmas with me for the first time. let's hope next christmas will be better. Poor you. We were lucky this year. Our youngest son is spending a few days with us. Gave me a 22" widescreen monitor for the PC and installed Windows 7. Took him hours but, boy oh boy, was it worth it! Great improvement on Windows XP. how lovely for you  i am looking forward to an improvement on Anorexia XP in 2010 - suspect it will take years rather than months, but i am hoping it will be worth it! |
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Post by Patrick on Dec 29, 2009 18:35:56 GMT
Windows 7 is all right, but there are still things my 1993 Apple can do better!  The irony is - the better Windows gets, the more Apple-like it becomes! |
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Post by Weyland on Dec 29, 2009 19:09:42 GMT
Windows 7 is all right, but there are still things my 1993 Apple can do better! I'm sure that's true. Nothing new there. You could say the same for 1995 Linux, or even 1989 OS/2. (Or earlier. I first used Linux it in 1995.) |
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Post by jean on Dec 29, 2009 21:41:28 GMT
Thanks, housey and bets. I am at one remove from it of course.
His sister went through something very similar and the good thing was that once she'd worked throughthe cause of it, the anorexia did not persist.
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Post by artistlily on Dec 29, 2009 21:49:39 GMT
Remember Olive in that show about bus conductors? Poor thing, always having to go in that horrid side car with that nasty husband of hers. I love her glasses, very "Deidre Barlow".
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they taste like burnt bits of metal! Vile Sour things that the devil would eat if he felt like being put in a really BAD mood. eugh!!
