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Post by trubble on Aug 13, 2010 11:33:14 GMT
I made spinach and ricotta cannelloni last night, served with a bought chilli & tomato sauce, and it was delicious. Now I'm about to make an egg sandwich for lunch. You can't beat an egg sandwich, can you.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 13, 2010 11:47:11 GMT
I made spinach and ricotta cannelloni last night, served with a bought chilli & tomato sauce, and it was delicious. Now I'm about to make an egg sandwich for lunch. You can't beat an egg sandwich, can you. I was planning to make Czech potato dumplings yesterday, which I love. I was all fired up reading the recipe, and then I discovered that I had no semolina flour, and not even any ordinary flour, and there's no shops around here. Buggeration. Made Morrisons packet dumplings instead. Not bad, but I wanted Czech ones. The very first meal I ever had in Ireland -- apart from a couple of pints of Guinness over the road from Connelly Station -- was egg sandwiches purchased on the train to Sligo. Plenty of chives, I remember. Food of the Gods.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 13, 2010 12:31:05 GMT
You can't beat an egg sandwich, can you. Only if you want bread and butter pudding.
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Post by everso on Aug 13, 2010 17:21:34 GMT
I had a ham and egg sandwich with lashings of mayonnaise and black pepper today. The ham was the german smoked ham, which is delish.
Tonight it's a pasta bake with garlic bread.
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Post by everso on Aug 13, 2010 17:25:19 GMT
Could you let me have the recipe, Riot? Ta! Ev, here's a link to the recipe, but I made it with chicken (as well as with mince). (EDITED TO CLARIFY: I made it two separate times, once with mince as per the recipe and then again with chicken. I didn't, like, make it with both at once. That would be crazy.) www.channel4.com/food/recipes/healthy/cook-yourself-thin/club-skinny-keema-curry_p_1.htmlOne of the tricks seems to be that you mix olive oil and water in a spray bottle. You're meant to use 8 parts water to one part olive oil, but I think that's too little so I use more oil than that. Then you spray stuff to be fried. The water evaporates and the oil coating is then very fine, and you avoid all the oil calories. It is a nice curry though. Thanks Riot! That sounds delicious. I'll definitely try it.
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Post by trubble on Aug 14, 2010 9:44:33 GMT
Why should any of us bother with (the excellent, by the way) oilve oil-&-water mix, or even home cooking at all, at the weekends? Fast Food is the way to go. Unfortunately these are American delicacies so we can only dream. Is a cheese sandwich just never cheesy enough? Try a Denny's Fried Cheese Melt. Doesn't it look delicious? For just $4, you too can have a grilled cheese sandwich that's stuffed with four breaded mozzarella sticks, and the heart attack comes free of charge.
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Post by trubble on Aug 14, 2010 9:49:02 GMT
Nom. A doughnut burger. Because sometimes there is just not enough time in the day to eat a hamburger and a doughnut. They fry the beef, fry the doughnut, then serve the beefburger between two doughnuts with a generous helping of bacon and cheese. What could go wrong?
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Post by Weyland on Aug 14, 2010 10:16:31 GMT
"You can add lettuce and tomato but I skipped out on that or any other condiment for that matter." S/he skipped spraying it with whipped cream as well, not to mention spreading the doughnuts with buffalo lard and adding some deep-fried onion rings or some other condiment.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 14, 2010 13:21:08 GMT
Nom. A doughnut burger. Because sometimes there is just not enough time in the day to eat a hamburger and a doughnut. They fry the beef, fry the doughnut, then serve the beefburger between two doughnuts with a generous helping of bacon and cheese. What could go wrong? That nearly...........
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Post by everso on Aug 14, 2010 23:13:04 GMT
There comes a time during a holiday in the US when you simply have to have breakfast at Dennys. I don't know if it's still the case, but at one time you got dinner free there if it was your birthday.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 15, 2010 10:56:31 GMT
There comes a time during a holiday in the US when you simply have to have breakfast at Dennys. I don't know if it's still the case, but at one time you got dinner free there if it was your birthday. A Denny's was the first place I had a meal in a US restaurant when I was working in NY state. It was practically next door to the "Residence Inn". I walked in and sat down, looking forward to American service, and sat and sat and sat. Eventually I walked up to the counter and indicated that I wanted to eat. Shock! Horror! I hadn't realised one was supposed to wait to be seated, and they hadn't noticed me. Soup with crackers. Crackers! Watery beer. Steak and chips. Nowt special. Eventually I found a Steak'n'Stein, which is more my cup of ..er.. pils, and better food. Got to love Philly sandwiches as well. Ever bought butter in a US supermarket? It comes in sticks.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 15, 2010 11:18:44 GMT
There comes a time during a holiday in the US when you simply have to have breakfast at Dennys. I don't know if it's still the case, but at one time you got dinner free there if it was your birthday. Only if they can make decent tea.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 15, 2010 13:24:54 GMT
They can't make decent tea in the US. They don't boil the water for one thing, and kettles are quite hard to come by. My boss liked weak tea, and she said that US tea was bad because of this.
(Still, if USians think that football (they have another name) is socialistic, they might think the same about strong tea, given that Orwell wrote an essay about how to make it.)
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Post by everso on Aug 15, 2010 15:03:15 GMT
Oh, their tea is foul. Even if you take your own tea-bags with you, the water's not right either. In Florida it's very chlorinated (sp?)
I've always found Denny's breakfasts pretty good, but maybe that's because I was starving at the time.
Yes, soup and crackers. What's that about? And "sticks" of butter. In fact the whole measuring thing in the US seems very hit and miss to me.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 15, 2010 15:45:38 GMT
I think it was "De Luca's Market" In Charles Street, Beacon Hill, Boston where you can get a wide (and lovely) range of European Goods and some lovely wines. Mind you - we're talking £4 for 80 PG Tips mind!
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Post by Weyland on Aug 15, 2010 15:51:39 GMT
I've always found Denny's breakfasts pretty good, but maybe that's because I was starving at the time. Never had breakfast there. Usually went to Tiffany's. And another thing, American bacon is a sad apology for the real thing. When one whinges, they tell one to get Canadian instead, but that's not a hell of a lot better. Same with their "cheese". We need an American member here. And a Canadian. Disclaimer: I love being in the US. Vive la difference. (Miss work. They used to pay me to go there.)
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Post by everso on Aug 15, 2010 17:20:02 GMT
Yes, I love the US too, but the food isn't as good I think. Yes, the cheese isn't as varied as ours. I don't mind their bacon, but I prefer ours. However, the best steak I ever ate in my life was in Boston. I still dream about it. It was one of those meals that you have to go "mmMMMMmmmm" at every mouthful, which was annoying for Mr. E. because he'd chosen the wrong thing from the menu.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 15, 2010 17:35:49 GMT
Yes, I love the US too, but the food isn't as good I think. Yes, the cheese isn't as varied as ours. I don't mind their bacon, but I prefer ours. However, the best steak I ever ate in my life was in Boston. I still dream about it. It was one of those meals that you have to go "mmMMMMmmmm" at every mouthful, which was annoying for Mr. E. because he'd chosen the wrong thing from the menu. Yes! I had an excellent steak in Boston too. Out in the southern suburbs somewhere, near the motel. My daughter had lasagne, but she wasn't complaining. That was where an old lady came over (while Laura was at the comfort station) and said to me "Your wife is so lovely!" I told Laura later, but she wasn't exactly over the moon. I liked Boston so much, I bought a teeshirt. But driving there was unbelievably unbearabe and unbearably unbelievable. Sheesh. NYC was MUCH easier.
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Post by everso on Aug 15, 2010 17:48:58 GMT
Good photo, Weyland.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 15, 2010 18:25:45 GMT
Thank you, dear lady. If only I could claim credit.
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