Lunch ... the second course

**Switch** · 12-01-2024, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ It looks great

Glad you enjoyed too.

**hallelujah** · 12-01-2024, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by reinvented

Lived there for a year in the mid 90's. only thing that has changed are the prices. And they have changed a lot. That dark beer was about 50p

Like most places around here. The influx of Nordic trade and tourists (from all over) have pushed the prices up. Taxes are quite high too.

Even places like Prague are cheaper.

**reinvented** · 12-01-2024, 01:40 PM

Still, quite a jump innit.

Tallinn sure is pretty and the beer is good, but as you say Prague is cheaper and they actively encourage you to drink on the streets.

**malmomike77** · 12-01-2024, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Like most places around here. The influx of Nordic trade and tourists (from all over) have pushed the prices up. Taxes are quite high too.

Even places like Prague are cheaper.

Prague was always cheap but got ruined by minkie stag dos

**Stumpy** · 12-01-2024, 02:41 PM

Burger Friday. Beauty weather.

Added a generous slice of Tillamook Medium Cheddar cheese and toasted the bun

All done up, added some corn chips and an ice cold IPA while I watched the Lakers and LeCry James get whooped. Doesn't get much better.

**hallelujah** · 12-01-2024, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Prague was always cheap but got ruined by minkie stag dos

Poland is still cheap. Again, quite a few stag dos, but, again, nice old towns and cheap cheap beer.

Even Krakow wasn't too bad in the centre of the old town last year.

Wroclaw is on my hit list when the weather warms up a bit.

**Stumpy** · 13-01-2024, 12:22 PM

Taco Saturday for lunch. Beer came a bit later.

. I have changed my eating times so that lunch is the big meal then I eat very light at night. So not too many more fat ribeyes or Porterhouse Q's for dinner. Those will now be a lunch.

Weather continues to be very nice. 16c in am and 30c afternoon.

**malmomike77** · 13-01-2024, 01:09 PM

^ I changed to that about 10 years ago. Can't go to bed full

**cyrille** · 13-01-2024, 01:28 PM

Yeah, we've eaten our main meal (of two) at about 4:30 for about 8 years.

The really early bird special.

**Stumpy** · 13-01-2024, 02:12 PM

Yeah. I had been eating those bigger meals around 4:30 or so but I find I enjoy them more at lunch and then I am busy doing something for another 4 or 5 hours at least then a light snack type meal for dinner. I prefer it now. Again I do not eat breakfast and never have. My glass of OJ and off and running.

**DrWilly** · 14-01-2024, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by cyrille

Yeah, we've eaten our main meal (of two) at about 4:30 for about 8 years.

The really early bird special.

Which is fine until you encounter places in which the restaurants don’t serve food until 6:00(ish).

**malmomike77** · 27-01-2024, 09:01 PM

Miserable weather, comfort food

Fish Pie with carrots, peas, broccoli and sauerkraut.

**Mendip** · 27-01-2024, 09:06 PM

I can never see enough of the beautiful deep green of peas and brocolli against the rich orange of carrots.

I think the colours just go so well together.

**Topper** · 27-01-2024, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by Mendip

I can never see enough of the beautiful deep green of peas and brocolli against the rich orange of carrots.

You disgusting bastard!

An Oklahoma onion burger...

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**hallelujah** · 27-01-2024, 09:40 PM

A few beer snacks I forgot to post last weekend after we'd finished making snowcastles at the beach.

Mushroom and potato varenyky (dumplings).

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Smoked reindeer.

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Reindeer sausages.

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All very good and the dumplings were very tasty, which isn't always the case.

**malmomike77** · 27-01-2024, 10:18 PM

^ nice charcuterie

**DrWilly** · 27-01-2024, 11:10 PM

^* looks damn good’

**hallelujah** · 27-01-2024, 11:34 PM

Originally Posted by DrWilly

^* looks damn good’

Yeah, it was. The 2nd place with the meat was a local gaff with a roaring fire where the barman was recommending different types of beers to me. I was on some cloudy 6% stuff, but I was surprisingly fine on the way home.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^ nice charcuterie

I really enjoy the slightly pickled salads you get in this part of the world, and which accompanied the charcuterie. I'm also a fan of your old favourite, sauerkraut, which also pops up quite often too.

**hallelujah** · 27-01-2024, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Miserable weather, comfort food

Fish Pie with carrots, peas, broccoli and sauerkraut.

Funnily enough, I was watching Rick Stein on Saturday Kitchen before and he made a posh fish pie (seafood gratin)

in France.

Rick Stein'''s seafood gratin recipe - BBC Food

Planning on making one next week.

Not decided what the surprise will be yet.

**Stumpy** · 02-02-2024, 01:46 PM

Made up some potato salad from scratch yesterday and let it sit overnight for lunch today

Grilled USDA Ribeye and Fresh tater salad with an ice cold beer.

Friday it is.

**Topper** · 02-02-2024, 10:00 PM

I had to go to immi today and pay my "foreigner residence tax" or some such stuff, a crushing 310 pesos, and right around the corner was the only 4 star (according to them, anyways) hotel in Bacolod, so the wife and I decided to try it for lunch.

My first choice was a burger that must be the most expensive burger on the island, 580 pesos (~11 USD), while not expensive for Westerners, it was a shocking price for here. I was told "out of stock". After a tad loudly questioning how a 4 star hotel's restaurant couldn't make a fooking burger when burgers are a staple here, we decided on pasta. Well, I decided on pasta, the wife had already chosen her poison.

I had to carbonara, the wife the bolognaise ...