Thread: Lunch ... the second course

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

There's some fine sets of British teeth on display there!

Originally Posted by Headworx

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.

Fair enough . . . and Yemen was a very long time ago as well . . . but while we're at it: Oman. Hits the ticket on every point.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^ 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!

My mum only does nuclear with meat or veggies. She cooks steak for about 3 days and the veggies get the same treatment too.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

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.

And whenever she cooks pork, that gets the full treatment.

Originally Posted by Mendip

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.

I think this is why.

Originally Posted by cyrille

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.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

My mum only does nuclear with meat or veggies. She cooks steak for about 3 days and the veggies get the same treatment too.

We lost our Mum early (stroke).

Dad used to cook a steak by drizzling oil in the pan, placing in the steak ... then tuning it on !

That said, he was a sheep sheerer (as a young man) ... cooked a ripper of a silverside (corned beef)

Originally Posted by David48atTD

We lost our Mum early (stroke).

Dad used to cook a steak by drizzling oil in the pan, placing in the steak ... then tuning it on !

That said, he was a sheep sheerer (as a young man) ... cooked a ripper of a silverside (corned beef)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm oil.

My mum puts a pork chop in the pan and leaves it there for about 30 minutes. Trying to eat it is like dil pulling pubes out of his teeth after he's been down on his boyfriend. Melt in your mouth it most definitely doesn't.

It must be an age thing as Mendip says above. Whenever we eat out and they ask her how she would like her steak she always says "well done"- and then reminds them again when they're checking the order! I don't know what she'd do if it ever turned out slightly pink, but I don't think she'd ever go back.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

It must be an age thing as Mendip says above.

Guess i was lucky, mum was born in 24' but she always slightly underdone veg and never cremated the meat, she ate her steak med-rare. She was ahead of her time too, was cooking italian and indian curries in the 50s but her roasts are what i miss most. I think it all stemmed from having travelled abroad a lot from her 20s onward.

^ She was just a tight wad with the gas

Originally Posted by malmomike77

I think it all stemmed from having travelled abroad a lot from her 20s onward.

My mum travelling would certainly have improved our diet. Especially if she hadn't come back

I was 18 and at university before I ate spaghetti that wasn't out of a tin.

I can still picture her boiling gloriously green cabbage for 45 minutes, then pouring deep green water down the plug hole.

And yes, if any meat was still pink then it was riddled with botulism.

Oh well - she did what she thought best, and had many other great qualities, bless 'er.

^^ she was frugal actually and that stemmed from her upbringing and the rationing. She passed that on to me, she was frugal i'm tight cvnt but that stemmed from having fook all money and a mortgage at 21.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I can still picture her boiling gloriously green cabbage for 45 minutes, then pouring deep green water down the plug hole.

As was the case when we visited any of my Aunts, Uncles etc. Used to drive my mum nuts. One occasion her brother who always complained she didn't cook the veg enough thought it would be funny to turn the roast in the oven down to something like 80c whilst we went to the pub. Its the only time i saw her lose it with him, she was chasing him around shouting at him in Welsh and battering him with a rolled up copy of the radio times. He said to her, well you like everything raw.

What did your father make of all this Mike?

We were still drinking this filth with hot water and calling it coffee until about 1980...

Originally Posted by cyrille

We were still drinking this filth with hot water and calling it coffee until about 1980...

What is it?

Some brilliant stories above, but Cy wins line of the day hands down with this one:

Originally Posted by cyrille

My mum travelling would certainly have improved our diet. Especially if she hadn't come back

Originally Posted by malmomike77

^^ she was frugal actually and that stemmed from her upbringing and the rationing. She passed that on to me, she was frugal i'm tight cvnt but that stemmed from having fook all money and a mortgage at 21.

Funnily enough, I've always had you down as a bit of a tight cnut.

^ nice!

^^ Yeah, that looks very good. I'll try that when I get back home.

But for now I have only 6 pie days left and I have to make the most of it.

Today was chicken, leek and bacon pie.



And some peas, of course.

I wish I had 6 days of pies, cheese and pickles in front of me.

Is that pickled red cabbage too?

More of an afternoon snack than lunch, but some home made guacamole and crackers. Some nice looking and good sized local Av's in the market this morning, had half of this one for breakfast with smoked salmon and cream cheese in a wrap, and this is the result of the other half. Going back to buy a few more tomorrow now I know they're good

Pleasant lunch

Chan Noodles and softshell crab

stir fried tips with green chili in oyster sauce and garlic

Chamuang Leaves and Pork Shoulder curry

Stir Fried Cardamom Stems with fish and yellow chilis - spicy

680THb with rice for 4

Looks great nammers - apart from the terrible Chang - but where from?

Is Rotherham bursting at the seams with Thai restaurants?

Yes nearly but its 28c

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Chamuang Leaves and Pork Shoulder curry

Stir Fried Cardamom Stems with fish and yellow chilis - spicy

Must just be me, but those look the wrong way round.

e.g, Stir fried fish with cardamom stems and yellow chillis....

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I wish I had 6 days of pies, cheese and pickles in front of me.

Is that pickled red cabbage too?

No, it was oven baked red cabbage with chopped onion and some chopped apple. Very nice it was too.


My mum came out with the bizarre comment today that she thought it would be boring to have pie every day. Go figure.

Today it was the second rabbit pie of my visit. As a compromise tomorrow is homemade quiche, and then chicken, leek and bacon pie on Saturday and my favourite steak and kidney pie for my last meal on Monday... because of course Sunday is roast lamb day!



Even more bizarrely, I've had to put extra holes in my new belt. Despite my diet of homemade pie, cider and cheap red wine I don't seem to be putting any weight on. I'm having one main meal a day but making sure I enjoy it.