Friday night take away

[Nicola McIntosh]

sounds fab peter…good choice of beef 😉

im being lazy tonight…..a fish supper 😮 with loads of mayo and ketchup 😉

nik

yeh sod the jereys…..get some ayreshires instead they are lovely 😉

[Warren Beard]

once every few weeks my wife decides to cook instead of me and of course it will always be pasta,

never mind because the fact of it is that she is half Italian so can cook a very decent pasta…. with bolognaise tonight…….it was good and there is always plenty of it :lol1:

Warren

[John Childs]

A rare treat tonight, because Jenny hates it, lambs liver, onions and potatoes.

Washed down with a nice Tourainne.

[Peter Mindham]

Chinese for us tonight.
Fortune cookie say ‘man who eats meat and peas in same plate unhygienic’

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

night didn’t go to plan ………….. so for dinner for me it’s 3 glasses of wine and a bag of hula hoops! 🙁

Anyone got any leftovers?

[Peter Normington]

quote John Childs:

A rare treat tonight, because Jenny hates it, lambs liver, onions and potatoes.

Washed down with a nice Tourainne.

I can just imagine you doing the hanibal slurp slurp John
But I prefer Pigs, then ox liver,

lambs liver is very mild!

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

:vomit: eeeewwwww glad I’m on hula hoops afterall. (puppy-eyes)

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

and a bag of hula hoops……

hope you put one on each finger before eating them….. :lol1: :lol1: or you wont get in the hula-hoop club 😎

nik

[Marcella Ross]

just 2 fingers at a time Nik!

[Marcella Ross]

😳 ………… that didn’t sound right ……….. did it. 😳
You know what I mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

[John Childs]

You’re right Peter. I would rather it had been calf, but I was so surprised to get liver at all that I wasn’t going to complain.

Only three glasses Marcella? On a diet? *rofl*

[Marcella Ross]

give it time John it’s only 9pm 😉

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

😳 ………… that didn’t sound right ……….. did it. 😳
You know what I mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

no…. 😮

nik

[Marcella Ross]

never mind then ……………… :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

I’ll tell you another time! 😀

Go and pour another vino …………… I’ll have one too!

[Nicola McIntosh]

sounds good to me………… 😀 but mines has run out..so it will have to be lager :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Peter Normington]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

quote Marcella:

😳 ………… that didn’t sound right ……….. did it. 😳
You know what I mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

no…. 😮

nik

Now come on girls its only 9 thirty, and you’re lowering the tone already!

we are talking about food here,
so whats the optimum size of a sausage?

Peter 😀 😀

[Nicola McIntosh]

anything…………but dont say its big and tastey 😕 :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Warren Beard]

Well in South Africa we have what you call Boerewors and it is really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really

nice, if you get my meening…

I mean very nice, cooked on a barbecue, man now I’m well hungry 😕

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[Marcella Ross]

I think Warrens sausage has just won! :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

Its only a Cumberland aint it?

Lynn likes Chipolatas

Peter

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

I think Warrens sausage has just won! :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

well stuff warrens sausage ive just had (instead of a fish supper) a haggis supper……………..oh im dead and gone to heaven…was fab 😉

nik

[Angelique Muller]

just had some freshly caught mackerell……………..

[Peter Normington]

just for Warren,
there is nothing better than
Lungs, heart and liver, all minced up with a few oats and a bit of barley,
stuffed into a sheeps stomach, and served with tatties and neeps…..

Gorgeous

Peter

[Warren Beard]

It’s made from a mixture of meat usually but I’m not 100% sure, I just eat it and don’t care what’s in it as it tastes so good.

Here’s a pic of some cooking.

Did you know the secret to good sausage is putting rusk in it, it absorbs all the juices of the meat and keeps the flavour and keeps it moist.

Us South Africans do have big ones don’t we :lol1:

Recipe:

· 3 lb beef
· 3 lb pork
· 1 lb bacon
· ½ cup red wine vinegar
· 1 clove garlic
· 4 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
· 3 to 3 ½ oz sausage casing
· 2 tbsp salt
· 1 tsp ground pepper
· 2 tbsp ground coriander
· ½ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
· ½ tsp ground dried thyme
· ½ tsp ground allspice
· ¼ tsp ground cloves

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[Glenn Sharp]

an Asda lasagne & a few cans of Lager

I enjoy my nights in with Stella

[Marcella Ross]

god I’m starving now …………. a haggis supper sounds good Nik.

Glenn …………. Asda lasagne ……….. almost as bad as hula hoops. At least Stella is there to keep you company 😉

[Warren Beard]

I have heard about haggis and would love to try it one day, I will try anything once.

List of strange things I’ve eaten:

crocodile
rabbit
kangaroo tail
shark
Ox Tail
Tongue
mopani worms

(Mopane worm recipe Caterpillars are prepared for eating by squeezing out the gut contents before they are fried in their own body fat or boiled in a little water. Most of the caterpillars are dried so that they can be stored for use throughout the year. Dried caterpillars may be eaten dry as a snack or rehydrated and cooked in a little water before they are fried in oil with onion and tomato. They may be served with pap (maize meal porridge), onion and tomato gravy and atchar (chili sauce).)

For those who have yet to eat I am truly sorry :lol1:

[Glenn Sharp]

Me & Stella are having a great night thanks Marcella

just working my way through a bag of rasberry ruffles for my pudding

[Warren Beard]

you can order your own :lol1:

http://www.edible.com/shop/browse.php?c … roductId=4

You can always tell when there are too many South Africans in your country when you can buy this type of thing locally 😕 :lol1: 😮

[Peter Normington]

quote Warren Beard:

Did you know the secret to good sausage is putting rusk in it,

Sounds like a good recipe warren, but forget about the rusk, sausages were originally made to use up the waste, including the fat, but trust me, if made without rusk, mostly meat, and just a bit of fat, far more tasty.

(rusk is like breadcrumbs for those who are less informed about sausage)

Peter

[Warren Beard]

quote Peter Normington:

(rusk is like breadcrumbs for those who are less informed about sausage)

:clap3: I’m well impressed Peter

[Peter Normington]

quote Warren Beard:

List of strange things I’ve eaten:

crocodile
rabbit
kangaroo tail
shark
Ox Tail
Tongue
mopani worms

(Mopane worm recipe Caterpillars are prepared for eating by squeezing out the gut contents before they are fried in their own body fat or boiled in a little water. Most of the caterpillars are dried so that they can be stored for use throughout the year. Dried caterpillars may be eaten dry as a snack or rehydrated and cooked in a little water before they are fried in oil with onion and tomato. They may be served with pap (maize meal porridge), onion and tomato gravy and atchar (chili sauce).)

For those who have yet to eat I am truly sorry :lol1:

I tried chocolate covered ants, sheeps eyes, along with the rest of its head,
Puppydog
and locust

but worst off all….

Battered and fried Mars bars!

Peter

[Warren Beard]

from google

How many sausages have you heard of:

abruzzo sausage – andouille – Cajun andouille – Louisiana andouille – andouillette sausage – bauerwurst sausage – bauernwurst – blood sausage – blood pudding – black pudding. black sausage – boudin noir – blutwurst sausage – bockwurst sausage – boerewors sausage – boeries – wors – boerewurst – boudin blanc sausage – white boudin – boudin rouge sausage – red boudin – bratwurst sausage – breakfast sausage patty – banger – chaurice sausage – chipolata sausage – chorizo – Mexican sausage – chorizo – Spanish sausage – chourico sausage – chouriço – cocktail wieners sausage – cotechino sausage – Cumberland sausage – French andouille sausage – Goetta sausage – scrapple – haggis – hot dog sausage – wiener – weiner – frankfurter – frank – tube steak – wienerwurst – griddle – Italian sausage – Kielbasa sausage – kolbasa – kolbasz – Polish sausage – knublewurst – Polnische wurst – kishke sausage – kishka – kiske – kiska – kiszka – derma – stuffed derma – knackwurst sausage – knockwurst – knoblauch – kolbasz sausage – landjager sausage – landjaeger – lap cheong sausage – lap chong – lap chung – lop chong – Chinese dried sausages – Chinese sausage – linguica sausage – linguiça – linguisa sausage – longanisa sausage – longaniza – loukanika sausage – medisterpoelse sausage – merguez sausage – mirkâs – mettwurst sausage – metts – morcilla sausage – pepperoni sausage – pickled pork sausage – pickle meat – Creole pickled pork – pinkelwurst sausage – potato korv sausage – smoked bratwurst sausage – Sujuk sausage – soujouk – yershig – tocino sausage – Toulouse sausage – Vienna sausage – Vienna-style frankfurter – weisswurst sausage – weiswürste – white sausage

Apparently there are over 1200 types 😮 😮 😮 😮

[Glenn Sharp]

I think I may have had puppydog cantonese style before……….. C14 at my take-away

[Debbie Astle]

We made spicy chicken kebabs for tea, was nice. One of the things we miss about living here is ordering in a curry though.
As for sausage, theres only one I like that we can buy here, its a small white one and I think German but can’t remember the name.

[Harry Cleary]

Melon and parma ham……Freshly picked salad from the garden, salami, sun blushed tomatos ( I told them they were gorgeous!!!) scallions from the garden, toasted pine nuts, balsamic vinegar dressing with a lentil and cranberry high fibre salad and oven roasted potato and rosemary squares…..and finished with my sons 3rd birthday chocolate cake and a drizzle of delicious red wine which will hopefully turn in to a torrent!……Happy camper here!!!…..lol Wheres the Hula Hoops!!! 😀 😀

[Robert Lambie]

im a boring eater… fillet steak and chips "cooked well done"…
my brother in law eats steak your way peter. minds me out… the bloody things still moo’ing and your sticking your fork in it. gotta be germs of some sort in that… no wonder yer ah mad cow! 😉

im not a big red meat eater. prefer chicken and turkey… but like a steak for a meal.

anyway… friday night i dont eat till later on, i skip dinner and get a chicken curry in late on… normally about now but im not hungry tonight. :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

I like chicken to Rob, especially those nice brown bits round the bone, where the poor thing couldnt develop white bone, through being trapped in 2inches of space all of its short life….

give me a germ ridden steak anyday……. 😀

Peter

[Debbie Astle]

quote Robert Lambie:

im a boring eater… fillet steak and chips “cooked well done”

Reminds me of a few weeks ago, my friend ordered steak tartare "very well done" in a local restaurant and the waiter told her she couldnt have it well done. She was horrified when he said steak tartare was raw meat.

Harry (or is it Hairy) sounds like the Marks & Spencer advert on telly. 😀

[Martin Pearson]

Well I couldn’t really be bothered tonight so I just had a pork pie that I had in the fridge, that and a cup of coffee.

[Glenn Sharp]

that’s the spirit Martin 😀

[Robert Lambie]

i have no doubt all meats have germs, some more than others. but i thought the whole point in cooking them properly was to rid most if not all germs?
I’m a pretty ignorant eater, "death of an animal" out of site out of mind… but stick your fork into your food and the blood to squelch out the sides makes my stomach churn. 😕 :lol1:
as for chicken and any meat i do eat. if i get a funky looking bit in my meal i just stop eating it. it kinda brings the reality of what i am eating to mind and puts me off. 😕 some nights ill just eat friad rice, curry sauce and chips. while audrey has a tikka or something :lol1:

audrey doesnt mind red meats etc when she was in her teens her mum owned a butchers for many years…

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Warren, what is a rusk?
Nice sausage, by the way.
I had a bite of haggis last year in Scotland (with an Englishman and and Irishman) it tastes like the Amish dish, Scrapple.
(meaning rather liver-ey)
But I like liver so that’s OK. Never had any other liver than beef or chicken.
At the moment I am eating a cold slice of Sicilian thick-crust pizza and washing it down with a Canadian beer.
The best fish I’ve ever had is in Scotland. There is nothing to compare with it here.
Love….Jill
PS
I could really live without meat, and I loathe rare meat. And I have never had or seen a curry.

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Warren Beard:

from google

How many sausages have you heard of:

abruzzo sausage – andouille – Cajun andouille – Louisiana andouille – andouillette sausage – bauerwurst sausage – bauernwurst – blood sausage – blood pudding – black pudding. black sausage – boudin noir – blutwurst sausage – bockwurst sausage – boerewors sausage – boeries – wors – boerewurst – boudin blanc sausage – white boudin – boudin rouge sausage – red boudin – bratwurst sausage – breakfast sausage patty – banger – chaurice sausage – chipolata sausage – chorizo – Mexican sausage – chorizo – Spanish sausage – chourico sausage – chouriço – cocktail wieners sausage – cotechino sausage – Cumberland sausage – French andouille sausage – Goetta sausage – scrapple – haggis – hot dog sausage – wiener – weiner – frankfurter – frank – tube steak – wienerwurst – griddle – Italian sausage – Kielbasa sausage – kolbasa – kolbasz – Polish sausage – knublewurst – Polnische wurst – kishke sausage – kishka – kiske – kiska – kiszka – derma – stuffed derma – knackwurst sausage – knockwurst – knoblauch – kolbasz sausage – landjager sausage – landjaeger – lap cheong sausage – lap chong – lap chung – lop chong – Chinese dried sausages – Chinese sausage – linguica sausage – linguiça – linguisa sausage – longanisa sausage – longaniza – loukanika sausage – medisterpoelse sausage – merguez sausage – mirkâs – mettwurst sausage – metts – morcilla sausage – pepperoni sausage – pickled pork sausage – pickle meat – Creole pickled pork – pinkelwurst sausage – potato korv sausage – smoked bratwurst sausage – Sujuk sausage – soujouk – yershig – tocino sausage – Toulouse sausage – Vienna sausage – Vienna-style frankfurter – weisswurst sausage – weiswürste – white sausage

Apparently there are over 1200 types 😮 😮 😮 😮

thank god we never mentioned rice………………. :lol1: :lol1:

there is over 40,000 different types………………. 😉

nik

[Lynn Normington]

I can not eat chicken or turkey I do eat most things love fish and most meats have even enjoyed haggis and liver but fowl never 🙄 and rice any time 😀 and sausage 😀

Lynn

[Warren Beard]

another South African delicacy is Biltong,

it is raw meat left out to dry (same as jerky but much better) seasoned with spices and hung in a cool dry place until it dries up and then you can either slice it or rip pieces off with your teeth.

It is sooooo nice but expense in UK.

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[Jill Marie Welsh]

Looks like jerky to me. We have beef, turkey, and even deer jerky available here.
Love….Jill

[Glenn Sharp]

looks like bats

[Lynn Normington]

a bit like parma ham really as thats not cooked either

Lynn

[Marcella Ross]

Robert ……….. I’m kinda the same ………….. got to be well cooked before I eat it. I prefer white meat to red meat too ……….. I don’t eat much red meat at all. I can sit down to a roast dinner with all the veg potatoes and gravy and leave the meat out! If i get a bit of chewy meat or fat …………. I’m done, can’t eat anymore ……….. makes me ill.
The only things that are a ‘no go’ for me are offal and squid (and other weird sea creatures) (puppy-eyes)

[Warren Beard]

quote Jillbeans:

Warren, what is a rusk?

Hi Jill

It is hard to explain but is sort of like dry bread, you know when you leave bread out for a few weeks and it goes really hard before It goes moldy? :lol1: sort of like that but it is not left out it is baked to make it hard and dry. It is something you normally have with tea, you dunk it in to tea. We crush it into crumbs and add to sausage to help hold the fatty juices in which give the sausage more flavor.

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[Peter Normington]

Well we enjoyed our hog roast last Sunday, cooked by a South African.
we also tried Mealie pie? made from corn?

Warren you may enlighten us more

Peter

[Warren Beard]

quote Jillbeans:

Looks like jerky to me. We have beef, turkey, and even deer jerky available here.
Love….Jill

It is the same thing Jill, I tried jerky when I came over to the states but it was no where near as nice 😳

but it is the same thing.

We have dozens of different types, the best one is ostrich biltong, but basically we will dry any type of meat and eat it :lol1:

wild game biltong is also awesome, kudu, springbok (called venison)

One of the very few things I miss about SA

[Peter Normington]

quote Marcella:

Robert ……….. I’m kinda the same ………….. got to be well cooked before I eat it. I prefer white meat to red meat too ……….. I don’t eat much red meat at all. I can sit down to a roast dinner with all the veg potatoes and gravy and leave the meat out! If i get a bit of chewy meat or fat …………. I’m done, can’t eat anymore ……….. makes me ill.
The only things that are a ‘no go’ for me are offal and squid (and other weird sea creatures) (puppy-eyes)

Isnt Haggis offal,

no its very nice 😀

Peter

[John Childs]

quote Lynn:

a bit like parma ham really as thats not cooked either

Smoked salmon too.

[Warren Beard]

quote Peter Normington:

Well we enjoyed our hog roast last Sunday, cooked by a South African.
we also tried Mealie pie? made from corn?

Warren you may enlighten us more

Peter

I think that might be mealie pap? we call "corn" mealies aswell 😕

We also have something called Putu and pap and it goes together with sause. (you will ask for "Putu, pap & sauce" if ordering. I don’t like it and is dirt cheap food eaten alot by the poverty stricken people, this is why many of them are very fat because it is like 100% carbs.

Wild game meat is very good as it is very lean and natural.

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Peter Normington:

Isnt Haggis offal,
no its very nice 😀
Peter

ha-ha……………….i just got that one :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I put breadcrumbs in my meatballs.
My friend from Scotland loves them.
Lots of stuff here isn’t as nice as it is there….especially chocolate.
Ours is very waxy.
Love….Jill

[Peter Normington]

kippers,

How many in a pair?

Peter

[Martin Pearson]

I have meat well cooked, not keen on it when it is still pink inside. My kids are always telling me that I have burnt things but to me they are just cooked properly.

To be honest though I don’t eat very well at all, some days I just don’t eat at all and other days I will just have a sandwich or like tonight a pork pie out of the fridge.
Most of the time I just can’t really be bothered cooking anything for myself at the end of the day so I don’t.

[Marcella Ross]

quote John Childs:

quote Lynn:

a bit like parma ham really as thats not cooked either

Smoked salmon too.

:no1: ………….. i love salmon but can’t do the raw bit.

[Peter Normington]

quote Warren Beard:

quote Peter Normington:

Well we enjoyed our hog roast last Sunday, cooked by a South African.
we also tried Mealie pie? made from corn?

Warren you may enlighten us more

Peter

I think that might be mealie pap? we call “corn” mealies aswell 😕

We also have something called Putu and pap and it goes together with sause. (you will ask for “Putu, pap & sauce” if ordering. I don’t like it and is dirt cheap food eaten alot by the poverty stricken people, this is why many of them are very fat because it is like 100% carbs.
Thanks Warren, I thought it was crap;

just wanted a second opinion

Peter
Thanks Warren, I thought it was crap,
just wanted a second opinion

Peter

Wild game meat is very good as it is very lean and natural.

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Peter Normington:

kippers,

How many in a pair?

Peter

oh your takin the p!ss now peter…………………… :lol1: :lol1: 😉

nik

[John Childs]

I’m not keen on overcooked food.

Of course stuff like chicken and pork need to be thoroughly cooked to stop you getting poisoned, but my steaks I like blue, lamb rare, liver has to be pink in the middle etc etc. Even eggs should be rare – very soft boiled, or runny when fried.

But best of all, I like raw stuff. Smoked trout, oysters and so on.

[Warren Beard]

another one, sorry guys

Poitjie Kos….. It is basically like a stew but cooked in a cast iron pot on a fire for about 4 hours, usually using the very tough meat that is very cheap (like brisket). The tougher the meat the more flavour it has but has to be cooked a long time to get it tender.

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[Peter Normington]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

quote Peter Normington:

kippers,

How many in a pair?

Peter

oh your takin the p!ss now peter…………………… :lol1: :lol1: 😉

nik

Me… never

its just that I often ask for a pair and get two, when I only want one,
Arbroath smokies anyone?

Peter

[Marcella Ross]

that stew looks the business Warren!

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Peter Normington:

its just that I often ask for a pair and get two, when I only want one,
Arbroath smokies anyone?
Peter

ha..ha…your confusing me know….. 😛

you only buy arbroath smokies from the wee guy down the lane….dont buy them from the guy who ships them world wide…they are crap total rubbish very old and salted to the hilt…….. 👿

nik

[Peter Normington]

quote John Childs:

I’m not keen on overcooked food.

Of course stuff like chicken and pork need to be thoroughly cooked to stop you getting poisoned, but my steaks I like blue, lamb rare, liver has to be pink in the middle etc etc. Even eggs should be rare – very soft boiled, or runny when fried.

But best of all, I like raw stuff. Smoked trout, oysters and so on.

John Its now ok to eat pork the same as lamb, well maybe not quite as rare, but as long as the temparature is high enough, it is more succulent and tasty when cooked slow, but not dried out

Bombay oysters are good for you

Peter

[Warren Beard]

quote Marcella:

that stew looks the business Warren!

are my teachings not working ?

it’s potjie kos Marcella

come on, keep up :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

quote Nicola Rowlands:

quote Peter Normington:

its just that I often ask for a pair and get two, when I only want one,
Arbroath smokies anyone?
Peter

ha..ha…your confusing me know….. 😛

you only buy arbroath smokies from the wee guy down the lane….dont buy them from the guy who ships them world wide…they are crap total rubbish very old and salted to the hilt…….. 👿

nik

Is that the same wee man that sells the bridies and scotch pies then?

still waiting? 😉

Peter

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Peter Normington:

Is that the same wee man that sells the bridies and scotch pies then?
still waiting? 😉
Peter

oh buugger…………………..no not forgotten…ive just eaten them all..everytime i go to send them :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[Martin Pearson]

Warren, well it looks like a stew or even what we used to call pot mess when I was in the Navy which was basically a bit of everything chucked in a big pot and heated.

[Jill Marie Welsh]

I thought bridies were pretty good…but I’d only eat them in Scotland.
Anyone care for a Primanti’s sandwich?
It’s served on crusty Italian bread, your choice of meat and cheese, but it has French Fries and coleslaw IN the sandwich.
Mmmmm.
Love….Jill

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[Peter Normington]

Looks like a posh chip buttie to me Jill!

can I have One

Peter

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Come on over anytime and bring Lynn. The sangies are on me.
Oh they are good.
Messy tho.
I’ll also take you to the Monroe Hotel up in Butler and get you a portabella mushroom sandwich…and to W Rick’s Taproom in Meridian for crab cakes.
All good.
Love….Jill

[John Childs]

quote Peter Normington:

Bombay oysters are good for you

Fortunately never need one Peter. I’m not a sufferer. 😀

[Phill Fenton]

I like meat – enjoy a good steak (well frazzled) and love sausages and mince pies. But when I think about what goes into them I think twice, I could easily talk myself into being a vegeterian (like my daughter Sally) but I’m too greedy to commit myself to a limited menu 😕

Porridge – I love porridge and have it for breakfast every day. Apparently it’s good for you too 😀

[Lynn Normington]

I like porridge as well with syrup 😎 couldn’t eat it every day though even though it’s good for you

Lynn

[Martin Pearson]

One of my sons is a vegetarian and he has a very varied diet. It all started about 10 years ago now when he was about 14. My eldest daughter who was 13 at the time came home from school and announced she was going to be a vegetarian, Kevin laughed and said she wouldn’t last 5 minutes and she said she could last longer than he could so they had a bet.
Angela lasted a year and Kevin is still going strong. We found out fairly recently that Angela didn’t really last a year at all because she had secretly been eating meat from the fridge when no-one was looking almost right from the start of their bet !!!

[Karl Williams]

Kebab meat and chips for me! Yummy! Warren, I’ll let you keep your sausage mate! 😀

[John Childs]

A cure for vegetarians – a bacon sandwich. Who can resist that smell? 😀

If we’re on to breakfast that’s easy – if time is measured in GMT it’s porridge, and BST is Shredded Wheat, both heartily approved of by my doctor.

Creature of habit? Moi? 😀

[Warren Beard]

my wife tried to be a vegetarian and you will never believe what I used to convert her back to the sane side 😮

a big mac from Macdonalds 😮

[Debbie Astle]

quote Warren Beard:

my wife tried to be a vegetarian and you will never believe what I used to convert her back to the sane side 😮 😮 😮
a big mac from Macdonalds 😮

That would have the opposite effect on my other half! Now, if it were KFC it would be a different story. When I was in England for Sign UK he was trying to get me to smuggle him some back in my suitcase.

[Martin Pearson]

Don’t they have KFC over there then Debbie? I thought they were all over the world like MacDonalds.

[Shane Drew]

👿 well thanks very much friends… for a guy that is on a diet, this was absolute torture :lol1: I’m starving now..

Interesting read though.

My mum dad and sister like their meet so it moos when its cut, but the wife and I like ours well done – my wife will send it back if it is the slightest bit pink… I’ll eat it as long as it is on the well done side of medium though 😉

Fortunately none of my family eat Liver, Brains, Tripe, heart… yuk…

My wife is a fantastic cook of Pasta meals, but we’ve discovered she has a type of allergy to them, and was the main cause of her weight gain….

I love rice. When I was a kid, I always thought I’d marry an Asian girl.. 😳 how sad was that…. my view of the best marriage was based on food. My non Asian wife however HATES rice, so I don’t get it that often 😕 unless I’m eating on my own 😛

If we are buying a quick takeaway meal, its probably a roast chicken meal, but if its a real nosh up, about once a month, we have a Steak and Veggie meal at the local pub, although I’m partial to a schnitzel meal too.

Tonight, because I’ve made my last goal weight, I went and purchased a Big Dads Pie, with mushy peas, and a hi top Apple pie. bigdadspies.com.au is a new franchise here that have made the humble Aussie pie a gourmet delight. Coming soon to an Aussie state near you… and china apparently. They make something like 40,000 pies a week, and sell through 14 stores in SE Qld.

The best meal is topped of with a Tui New Zealand Beer, or a Sydney Bondi Blond Beer.

I’ve got to stop talking about this now, because I’m making myself hungry.

Loved reading about the SA stuff tho Warren.

[John Childs]

quote Debbie Astle:

Now, if it were KFC

Or, as it is known around here – Unlucky Fried Kitten. 😀

I like chinese food Shane. I once told Jenny that, when she left school, instead of piddling about with horses, a job in a chinese takeaway would have better equipped her for married life.

That earned me a smack in the mouth. 😀

[Debbie Astle]

quote martin:

Don’t they have KFC over there then Debbie? I thought they were all over the world like MacDonalds.

There are a few Martin but it’s such a big country and they are well spread out. Nothing close by. If my husband gets desperate he could always go on a trek for it! He drools at the ads on tv lol. 😀

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[Marcella Ross]

:lol1: I’m not surprised John!
I love chinese food too and Indian. I like food to have a strong flavour so anything spicy, or with garlic etc is a winner with me.
I cook my own Indian curries tho …….. takes ages cooking them from scratch, grinding the spices etc first. But if I’m in the mood I enjoy doing it, even if it does take all afternoon!
I couldn’t live without rice Shane 😕 I love it too and eat it at least 2 or 3 times a week.
Bolognese tonight ………. tons of garlic, red wine, onions etc. I’ll get that on just shortly!

[Debbie Astle]

quote John Childs:

quote Debbie Astle:

Now, if it were KFC

Or, as it is known around here – Unlucky Fried Kitten. 😀

I like chinese food Shane. I once told Jenny that, when she left school, instead of piddling about with horses, a job in a chinese takeaway would have better equipped her for married life.

That earned me a smack in the mouth. 😀

That wouldn’t put him off either John.

I sometimes feel guilty for a few minutes when my niece refuses to have a meal of KFC with us because of the way the chickens are treated but it soon passes.

I love Chinese food too, not much of that around these parts either. We have a pizza take away about 10K away but you need to order 2 days in advance for collection (thats not a joke either!).

[John Childs]

quote Debbie Astle:

If my husband gets desperate he could always go on a trek for it!

Come on Debbie.

If you start early enough in the morning, Avignon can be reached in a day.

I wouldn’t need much of an excuse for a run down south. I’ve done much dafter things than that.

Take him out for a treat. 😀

[Shane Drew]

quote John Childs:

That earned me a smack in the mouth. 😀

:lol1: I suggested to my mother in law many years ago that it would have been nice if Cathy had of been ‘influenced’ by other cooking methods, when she was younger, other than ‘meat and 3 veg’. That earned me the silent treatment from the mother in law for several week. The silence was bliss. Cathy was born and bred in the Bush, so I suppose it was an unfair comment to make, and back in the 60’s, Chinese restaurants were few an far between in the cattle country 😕

Actually, my wife is a lovely cook, and does a great stir fry, but she lacks the confidence to try anything of an asian nature, even though I give her all the encouragement in the world.

If I’m eating alone, or away on business, Cathy always knows I’m safe and eating well if there is a Chinese restaurant in the town I’m staying in :lol1: The sydney sign show is in China Town, when I was there last year it was chinese for lunch and dinner each day… I was like a kid in a candy store :lol1:

[Shane Drew]

quote Marcella:

Bolognese tonight ………. tons of garlic, red wine, onions etc. I’ll get that on just shortly!

Bolgnaise is another fav to Marcella. The wife cooks it with the best red wine, and lots of garlic too. Crikey I’m hungry now. Wish I wasn’t about to go to bed… I could do with something else to eat now 🙁

My son does not like to experiment at all. Pasta with melted cheese is about as exotic as it gets with him. My daughter likes anything expensive (prawns, avacado etc) but will not usually eat anything she has not tried off our plate first. They are pretty boring when it comes to trying something new. Although they do like chinese. Its the only time my kids eat their vegetables 🙄

[Gert du Preez]

Why do South Africans always take pictures of their food?
See a Kudu in the veld, take picture, shoot it, take picture, load it on the back of the car, take picture, slaughter, take picture, make a potjie or braai, take a picture, tummies full with grease behind the ears, take picture!!!

We Southwesters are the same, only we hold an ice cold Windhoek Lager on each of the pictures.

By the way, Warren, we also consider S.A. boerewors and biltong inferior by a mile to the REAL meat we use in our products – no corn fed beef, battery chickens etc. All free range! Shoprite boerewors almost good as dog food, enterprise polony when the brooklax run out!!

[Warren Beard]

quote GERT DU PREEZ:

enterprise polony when the brooklax run out!!

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: That’s so true

The English don’t know what polony is 😉 :lol1:

[Gert du Preez]

To enlighten all Englishmen, polony is a pink meat pulp made of scraps and held together by dubious looking gelatine like substances. Almost like the English rugby team after a coming together with the glorious Springbokke!

[Barbara Eden]

The English do know what polony is Warren it even comes in a ‘pink’ skin 🙂 🙂 Also, very similar to Spam!!
I also enjoyed Boerewors and Biltong while living in Africa, in fact my daughters cut their teeth on Biltong 😕

Isn’t ‘mealies’ similar to ‘grits’ in the U S A?

One of my favourite foods is pork fillet,marinated in Soy sauce, and fried in butter 🙂 🙂

Babs

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Grits is ground-up white hominy corn…it’s more of a Southern food.
You can get it with red-eye gravy.
Hominy is good fried in bacon grease for breakfast. My kids like to put cheese on theirs.
We don’t have porridge we have oats. Some people call ’em rolled oats, some Mother’s oats…all the same really.
As for KFC…
We call it Kucky-fried chicken.
My kids eat it but it makes me want to hurl.
When travelling in Quebec I noticed their KFCs have different initials…same Colonel Sanders on the sign but I think they say PKC.
If you go up there you get poutine, which is like french fries with gravy and cheese curds.
Kinda nasty.
Love…..Jill

[Martin Pearson]

Have to be honest and say that I am not a fan of KFC at all, don’t really know what it is about it all I do know is that I don’t like it. My neighbor on the other hand would have serious withdrawal symptoms if he didn’t get his weekly fix of the stuff.

[Marcella Ross]

Mmmmm ……….. KFC …… yum. My favourite fast food. I can’t stand McDonald or Burger King, but KFC is perfectly acceptable ……… especially their chicken gravy! 😀