Thread: Lunch ... the second course

Doesn't get much better!

That does look good!

Originally Posted by DrWilly

That does look good!

It was a good pie, indeed.

I added plenty of vinegar as well to the chips and in the gravy for a little bit of sourness as well.

I couldn't get my head around offering a cheese and onion pie option with gravy though.

Who on earth would do that?

It's almost as absurd as choosing garden over mushy peas.

Maybe it's a thing in Korat and the weird south of England though?

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Fishing was abandoned today due to too many weeds

Gotta stay cool in these hot times, respecto.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Gotta stay cool in these hot times, respecto.

Tell me about it, with Looper posting yellow fever titillation all over the forum and her cream all over his face.

Went out for a Sunday roast yesterday, but they didn't have owt on, so my wife ordered a(nother) steak and ale pie off the regular menu...with garden peas!

This was on another level to the other day with chunky chips, thick gravy and I even enjoyed the peas I nicked off her. The pastry of the pie was nice and thick too with big chunks of meat.

Money...

^ While I hate to mark a wonderful meal down, those garden peas aren't the bright emerald green colour I prefer. They look a little bit washed out?

Everything else looks great!

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ While I hate to mark a wonderful meal down, those garden peas aren't the bright emerald green colour I prefer. They look a little bit washed out?

Everything else looks great!

Well, you are the resident pea purist, BUT I actually preferred them to those bright green ones that roll around on your fork and you can never get enough in your mouth at the same time (ooo-err).

They were somewhere between garden and mushy, I'd say.

Btw, what's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?

Anyone?

Originally Posted by Mendip

those garden peas aren't the bright emerald green colour I prefer.

Most of your food pics are of frozen peas. When do you ever eat garden peas?

The pastry must be a thin short crust case into which diced shin of beef, ( cut from a well hung carcass of an Aberdeen Angus steer and casseroled for two hours in a red wine or Guinness infused beef stock with mushrooms or kidney ), should be placed and then covered with a lid of puff pastry to be finished in an oven. The best accompaniment is petit pois dressed in a mint flavoured jus and a modest portion of thin chips. Depending on whim one could also dress the plate with tomato ketchup or HP sauce.

^ Tbh I'm starting to wonder about mint flavouring. I had roast lamb last week and added a big dollop of mint sauce and it dominated the meat, disguising the lamb flavour and slightly spoilt the meal for me. The problem is, once added you can't take it away.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

They were somewhere between garden and mushy, I'd say.

Btw, what's the difference between roast beef and pea soup?

Fair enough, a somewhere between garden and mushy green sent!


I do actually know that joke... it's part of my 'pea joke' repertoire!

I won't spoil the answer for everyone else, but just to say that I can't actually pea soup, but I can shit soup and have been for three days straight since my tetanus jab. It's a bit of a worry seeing as I soon get on a long haul flight, but anyway, the lunch thread is no place for this.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Most of your food pics are of frozen peas. When do you ever eat garden peas?

My food pics show garden peas, mass grown and instantly frozen to lock in all the goodness and flavour!

'Garden' peas is more a type than an indication of where they were grown, I reckon. It's like Brussels sprouts don't all come from Belgium.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I can shit soup and have been for three days straight since my tetanus jab. It's a bit of a worry seeing as I soon get on a long haul flight

Ferk, that will ruin your Bangkok stopover

^^ Garden peas is the name for cultivated peas. Perhaps Snubs wants to know when you will have fresh peas.

It's a long time since I've had fresh peas and I hated them. Frozen peas tend to be smaller, better flavour and more nutritous.

^ I agree Troy, I much prefer the flavour and texture of frozen peas. Un-minted.

Originally Posted by Molle

Ferk, that will ruin your Bangkok stopover

It hasn't been great, to be honest.

All I can say is 'thank God for bum guns'.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ I agree Troy, I much prefer the flavour and texture of frozen peas. Un-minted.



It hasn't been great, to be honest.

All I can say is 'thank God for bum guns'.

Do your thing, Dil.

I'm trying to eat a sausage sarnie here.

Oh fuck, bum guns, mint peas and Bendy.

this could be deadly.

You can roast beef, but you can't pee soup, by the way.

I imagine Bendy disagrees


he is currently peeing soup out his bum

Originally Posted by Joe 90

On the bright side Mendy, you can treat yourself to a new pair of shorts

Settle down, his last new pair are hardly four years old yet. No need to be wasteful with his hard earned cash!

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ While I hate to mark a wonderful meal down, those garden peas aren't the bright emerald green colour I prefer. They look a little bit washed out?

Look like tinned, rather than frozen to me...

^ Yeah, that's what I thought but I didn't want to be overly critical about Hal's lunch.

We haven't had tinned peas since the 1970s down south.