Thread: Lunch ... the second course

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Never had it, what was it like And did you make it yourself??

Nice view Hal!
I've heard its 30oC today, jammy git.

I love rabbit, mendip! Big in Eastern Europe and equally tasty.

We're having an unseasonably warm spell, chits. It was 22-26 last week during the day, which is normal for this time of year, but we're at 32 this weekend after being in the 40s until late October.

Funny old times but melike blueskies and warmth.

^^^ I love rabbit. Growing up used to eat a lot that my uncles shot, usually stewed or roasted - you'd always get the odd lead shot you'd bite into. Nowadays i cook it on a low heat with oil, onion and garlic in the oven.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Never had it, what was it like And did you make it yourself??

Take your dog out lamping one night Joe, I'm sure you could come home with a couple.

It was 'lush'

My mum made it... I wish I could make pastry like hers. In Thailand I split the fat between butter and marg but that makes a very rich pastry. My mum splits the fat between a marg and something called Trex (a white fat) and her pastry is great. I just can't find stuff like that in Thailand.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Take your dog out lamping one night Joe, I'm sure you could come home with a couple.

He would chase them all away.
Good excuse to buy myself and air rifle for Xmas though..

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Funny old times but melike blueskies and warmth.

You won't be coming back here this weekend then.

This freezing storm is worst than the beast from the east a few years ago.
Guess who's working a night shift init tonight, joy.

Yeah that looks good but when was the last time you had a hard shit?




My mom never made rabbit pie, but she was a dab hand at those soggy vegetables

Childhood food memories !

Plates of stewed cabbage, carrots and cauliflower covered in gravy, with a morsel of meat.

The good old 70's.

^^ It is strange how my mum insists on boiling the fuk out of anything green... but that's just the way it is.

That's why I arranged the brocoli at the back... it really was pretty soggy!

I still enjoy it tbf over crunchy veg.

That gravy looks a bit pale. It's not beef bisto I take it?

And did the top fall off the pepper pot?

Bladdy hell the third degree!

It's strange... you like what you grow up with. We never had brocoli when I was a kid but soggy cabbage and sprouts were a staple. That's the great thing about peas, ya can't go wrong.

The gravy was pale...my mum used chicken Bisto to make the stock... seeing as Bisto don't have a rabbit option. It wasn't ideal to be honest, but the pie was still great. Or lush of course.

No the pepper pot is just fine. I guess I just like a bit of pepper.

I’m failing to see too much pepper there! I think beef would have been a better flavour for the gravy.

^ Yeah, I agree. I think the reasoning was that rabbit is a bit 'chickeny' but the chicken gravy turned it into a chicken pie... with rabbit flavour.

Originally Posted by Mendip

It's strange... you like what you grow up with. We never had brocoli when I was a kid but soggy cabbage and sprouts were a staple

We never had Garlic.... My dad still won't eat it and he loves his steak well done and his veg soggy as Hals constitutional.
There's no telling him... A different age.

Originally Posted by Saint Willy

I’m failing to see too much pepper there!

This is the fucker who eats a whole fucking head of Garlic in one sitting

My dad wouldn't eat onion I grew up with flavourless food.

My mum not only boils veg to fuk but also cremates any meat to charcoal. You'll never see pink meat in this house and she always says that no-one will ever leave her table with food poisoning.

I guess it's a result of growing up through a war, rationing etc when meat was scarce and of questionable quality. You had to cook it to fukk to be safe.

Ffs

^^^

Originally Posted by Mendip

I guess it's a result of growing up through a war,

^ everything on that plate is American

I got me a discounted Bury Ring today

Bsnub should be proud of his culinary heritage.

Is he from Bury?, might explain why he likes pulling a black pudding

Originally Posted by Headworx

(besides Yemen possibly)

nononononononono . . . I would place Yemeni food (as long as it's seafood) right up there in the ME. Add the beaches and people - top spot in the region.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

headworx is a Pattaya expat who almost exclusively exists on English breakfasts and fish and chips in a farang ghetto.

...Who worked in about 30 countries around the world and visited probably the same amount and was always interested to dig deep into the local food. Unlike some bell-end teacher watching his LE and not even realising his dream gig is in a place Expats typically can't wait to get out of. Just occurred to me I'm using Maadi as a guideline for food in Cairo but I wouldn't think people in your game go there often..

Anyway, enjoy your exotic and delicious traditional Egyptian cuisine for however long you're stuck in that absolute fucking shithole trying to put 2 bob together and if you look hard enough, you might even be able to find some Fosters to have with it

Originally Posted by panama hat

I would place Yemeni food (as long as it's seafood) right up there in the ME.

We were a long way from the ocean in North Yemen up near the Saudi border (dangerous as all fuck) and the regional office was in Sana'a, the food was not good in the field and the restaurants in town were dire. But all this depends what you're comparing it too, around then I was spending a lot of time in the Dubai office and Jebal Ali facility while going in/out of places like Iran, Syria, Jordan, Oman, and so on where the food was far more enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Childhood food memories !

Plates of stewed cabbage, carrots and cauliflower covered in gravy, with a morsel of meat.

The good old 70's.

You say that as if it’s vastly different to what you live on now. Seems pretty much the same - except for the lack of 40p squid past its expiry.