What's for dinner ?
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MaC
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I watched a tv program over twenty years ago about the logistics of supplying, cooking, and delivering aeroplane meals. They counted out every olive.....add one extra to a dish and they'd need a ton more olives.....multiply that across the board. It sounded really bizarre until they started showing the sheer numbers involved.
That the food was at all edible and visually appealling was testament to the amount of work that went on in the background.
The adage about the swan looking serene while paddling like hell under the water rather came to mind. The supply chains and the practicalities of loading the cargo onto every plane was scarily efficient.
I know it doesn't always work, but that it does for the most part is satisfying I expect for those who organise it all.
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That the food was at all edible and visually appealling was testament to the amount of work that went on in the background.
The adage about the swan looking serene while paddling like hell under the water rather came to mind. The supply chains and the practicalities of loading the cargo onto every plane was scarily efficient.
I know it doesn't always work, but that it does for the most part is satisfying I expect for those who organise it all.
M
MaC
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I'm going to be wanting simple food tomorrow, plain everyday food. I think I'm going to make bangers and mash. We have minted peas and gingered carrots, and stewed lentils left over to go with it.
Fed up with rich food for a bit.
Fed up with rich food for a bit.
bushwacker
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If she served me that , I would devorce her
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Beachlover
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I could just do one of those "Bad Boy" Pot Noodles right now.
As a joke, my youngest sent my grandson a box of thirty packs of noodles for Christmas. He was over the moon.
Beachlover
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We did the usual boring turkey crown and all the usual veg yesterday, but my friend the nun, who is also Siobhan's godmother, brought along a sherry trifle for the four of us.
For those who don't have dealings with religious orders, they seem to take every opportunity to pretend adding alcohol to anything isn't the same as being seen to be guzzling the stuff for pleasure. The trifle had just over half a bottle of sherry in it and she has calculated that one bottle of Bushmills will just about make 12 Irish coffees.
I also love the calculated way she waits until people are a couple of mouthfuls into their meal before asking, "Shall I say grace?"
Tonight is gammon and turkey leftovers with an assortment of home made pickles. Pickled radish has turned out much better than expected, but maybe that's the red wine.
For those who don't have dealings with religious orders, they seem to take every opportunity to pretend adding alcohol to anything isn't the same as being seen to be guzzling the stuff for pleasure. The trifle had just over half a bottle of sherry in it and she has calculated that one bottle of Bushmills will just about make 12 Irish coffees.
I also love the calculated way she waits until people are a couple of mouthfuls into their meal before asking, "Shall I say grace?"
Tonight is gammon and turkey leftovers with an assortment of home made pickles. Pickled radish has turned out much better than expected, but maybe that's the red wine.
MaC
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The last of the chestnut and cranberry nut roast (thank god ! ) salad, lemon meringue pie and Son2 opened a bottle of Bailey's.
I am so fed up of chocolate
) salad, lemon meringue pie and Son2 opened a bottle of Bailey's.I am so fed up of chocolate
Saint-Just
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MaC
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I have four boxes of Lindt chocolates, two of Charbonelle and Walker, another two of Booja Booja, three chocolate oranges, and two boxes of chocolate mints.
They have between them five other boxes of stuff, from liqueurs to ferrero roche....and three bags of chocolate snowball things.
I usually have maybe two wee bits of chocolate in a week. I quite like fruit and nut, or maya gold. That's an ample sufficiency. Thankfully Himself guzzles the stuff, so he's likely going to manage to work his way through mine and his own too.
I'd rather have an orange or lemon jelly, tbh.
They have between them five other boxes of stuff, from liqueurs to ferrero roche....and three bags of chocolate snowball things.
I usually have maybe two wee bits of chocolate in a week. I quite like fruit and nut, or maya gold. That's an ample sufficiency. Thankfully Himself guzzles the stuff, so he's likely going to manage to work his way through mine and his own too.
I'd rather have an orange or lemon jelly, tbh.
MaC
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Well, lunch
I braved the weather and pulled a couple of leeks from the garden. They only grow as thick as a man's thumb in my garden, but they're long and green and full of flavour, not dry and cheugh.
Peeled a couple of spuds, quickly fried the leeks in a bit of butter and then added the chopped potatoes, seasoned it well, added stock and simmered for about half an hour.
Made cheese scones while the soup was cooking.
So, leek and potato soup and cheese scones for lunch
There's maybe a bowl of soup's worth left, but two big bannock/scones marked in farls, wider than my handspan, are gone, guzzled, consumed, devoured
Son2's on holiday, it shows
I braved the weather and pulled a couple of leeks from the garden. They only grow as thick as a man's thumb in my garden, but they're long and green and full of flavour, not dry and cheugh.
Peeled a couple of spuds, quickly fried the leeks in a bit of butter and then added the chopped potatoes, seasoned it well, added stock and simmered for about half an hour.
Made cheese scones while the soup was cooking.
So, leek and potato soup and cheese scones for lunch
There's maybe a bowl of soup's worth left, but two big bannock/scones marked in farls, wider than my handspan, are gone, guzzled, consumed, devoured
Son2's on holiday, it shows
Beachlover
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Turkey, ham, cream cheese and leek pie in the oven and some bacon, cabbage and potato in the slow cooker for tomorrow.
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MaC
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You've put me in the notion for mince and tatties, and skirlie
When I realised that there was little point to me even cooking meat and putting it on my plate, because I never ate it, and that being vegetarian suited me fine, one of the few things I missed was a mealie pudding. Gravy; I missed good gravy, but I got good at making vegetarian gravy.
Mealie puddings though; they're made with suet, but skirlie I can make with just good oil to fry the onions.
During the week I gathered up the makings of sushi. Vancouver is sushi heaven, Calgary is not. I got spoiled.
Anyway, in the end I couldn't be arsed. So, this evening, I breaded and fried a fillet of Haddock and ate with it a kind of dry stew made of squash, beans and corn with a tomato in it, plus some chilli flakes, smoked paprika and cumin. It was lovely, but I did sort of wish I'd made it with sage instead. Had more of that amiably mediocre Dujardin brandy. German apparently.
While things were cooking, I started to fettle these two. Gifts from a cherished ageing rellie.
Anyway, in the end I couldn't be arsed. So, this evening, I breaded and fried a fillet of Haddock and ate with it a kind of dry stew made of squash, beans and corn with a tomato in it, plus some chilli flakes, smoked paprika and cumin. It was lovely, but I did sort of wish I'd made it with sage instead. Had more of that amiably mediocre Dujardin brandy. German apparently.
While things were cooking, I started to fettle these two. Gifts from a cherished ageing rellie.
Puttering about listening to stuff and paying bills online, with a passable red for company.
Dinner, I suspect will get cooked this evening and eaten tomorrow. Got a bacon end and a bunch of OK sausages for a lentil and aubergine stew with some chillies, fennel seed, dried mushrooms and some truffle oil in it. Plus a squash to roast and a big bag of spinach.
Last night's News Quiz was great. Hosted in Ireland on a good day. That poor programme has been plunging downhill fast since it was purged by the tories. I keep expecting Kemi Badenoch to show up on it with Jacob Rees Morgue. Love a good laugh those two ... like the sound of a porter's cadaver trolley being opened
Dinner, I suspect will get cooked this evening and eaten tomorrow. Got a bacon end and a bunch of OK sausages for a lentil and aubergine stew with some chillies, fennel seed, dried mushrooms and some truffle oil in it. Plus a squash to roast and a big bag of spinach.
Last night's News Quiz was great. Hosted in Ireland on a good day. That poor programme has been plunging downhill fast since it was purged by the tories. I keep expecting Kemi Badenoch to show up on it with Jacob Rees Morgue. Love a good laugh those two ... like the sound of a porter's cadaver trolley being opened
bushwacker
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Pancakes with vanilla sugar and lemon juice or maple syrup. Its shrove tuesday so along with chocolate sunday in 40ish days time I pay homage to the christian foody fest and use up stuff that wont last lent.
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MaC
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No, 'cos grass ain't dinner
Roasted vegetables though....or baking potatoes, fresh bread, fruit......
Roasted vegetables though....or baking potatoes, fresh bread, fruit......
ElThomsono
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I did pancakes on Tuesday, standard roles: I do the cooking and Laura sits with the kids as they cover them in every topping known to man.
Last night I went with a very suggestive toad in the hole, which ticks two boxes as it's the sort of potatoes and gravy meal that she likes.
Last night I went with a very suggestive toad in the hole, which ticks two boxes as it's the sort of potatoes and gravy meal that she likes.
