Thread: I need help, how to cook lamb chops??

Originally Posted by sabang

These days, it's mostly sweet biscuits/cookies though, but of course theres also crackers for cheese

But still don't need to be baked 2 times, shit I make cookies and one trip in the oven is all that is called for, and if you want a hard biscuit just leave it on the table over nite.
I don't make that many cookies tho as I don't like hard crumbly shit, crackers is ok as I had some RITZ crackers with smoked salmon and thuringer sausage for lunch, would have likes some cheddar but the only kind we can buy here is aussie import and my dog will not eat that shit. can't get no Tillamook Oregon Cheddar here. really don't know why not either, I could buy it in Dammam and Riyadh Saudi.
I really think this Rule Britannia shit has fucked this country and just so they could come in and rape the country of her Teak and rain forests.

Britannia never ruled here, in fact the US has had a lot more to do with Thailand than the UK in the last century. To the point where US businessman that come here can get visa's on substantially better terms than Aussies or Brits. Can't complain though- I got an easy residence in Hong Kong because it was a brit colony, but an American couldn't. In fact, the main reason I got my British passport back then (I already had an Aussie) was as a shoe-in to HK.

Both the US and Oz have free trade agreements with Thailand, so US produce won't be at a disadvantage compared to Oz on import tariffs or quotas. So if you reckon theres a market for your local cheese in these parts, persuade someone to import it. But you're never gonna get all those familiar things you had back home in Thailand, some stuff I miss too but I'm not much bothered- at least I can get vegemite.

think I might become a vegetarian.....after I finish all the steaks in me fridge...

Meat.org: The Video That the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See

^ I dont want to look. I am already having visions of the animals as I sit down to a pork chop or steak I love so much. No way I want to become a vegetarian.

Originally Posted by sabang

Britannia never ruled here, in fact the US has had a lot more to do with Thailand than the UK in the last century.

Would you care to tell me how many US companys were logging teak here as compared with Brit companys logging teak here?

Commercial teak exploitation was started in the mid 19th century by foreign companies (Borneo Co., Anglo-Thai Co., and Bombay Burma Co.). There were no regulations to control timber harvesting and the right to exploit forest areas was conceded by the local provincial suzerain. In 1896, the Royal Forest Department (RFD) was established to manage all forests in the country. Since then, timber exploitation has been carried out under the selective cutting system, on the basis of the growth rates of each tree species and its appropriate marketable size.

Do any of these companys ring any bells as to the country of origin and who might have been the colonizing country?

You acquaint commercial logging with colonisation- thats well rich. Back in the mid 1800's though the UK was pretty cosy with the Siamese government because they were seen as a buffer to French expansion in Indochina.

US involvement with Thailand extends well beyond commercial logging and involves the Modern era, including GM plants and former military bases in Korat, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani and Nakhom Phanom. Regular traffic of USN ships too, which helps keep Pattaya and Isaan well fed.

Originally Posted by sabang

US involvement with Thailand extends well beyond commercial logging and involves the Modern era, including GM plants and former military bases in Korat, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani and Nakhom Phanom. Regular traffic of USN ships too, which helps keep Pattaya and Isaan well fed.

I know that, I was around when they built em altho I never did work on em, but the US was invited in to build the bases by Thai govt. and also to man them and also to keep the communists out of Thailand so as a favor more or less the war with Laos and disruption in Cambodia was Thai ideas.
But I can find no instances of US company's ever logging teak here while there is evidence of Brit involvement when they were big in Burma and in India and I have talked to older Lahu hill people that remember Brits coming to the villages after the war and scouting teak forests to log.
So pray tell, what has the US hauled out of here, seems that what you mentioned is putting in and not taking out.

Are you becoming a treehugger BG?

Originally Posted by sabang

Are you becoming a treehugger BG?

No not really but I do believe that something has to be done about the rain forests and the rape and run cycle that has been the logging practices for so long, everyone seems to realize that the rain forests being gone are the reason for the drought that has hit this country over the years.

this is the kind of shit I am talking about. not your fault nor mine.

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I've driven thru' Prachinburi several times, on my way up to Ubon. The massive eucalypt plantations are the monoculture in a sizable area, you might as well be in Australia. They grow fast and straight, they are well tough and no doubt a profitable wood to grow. But it stuffs up the immediate area for any other form of agriculture. Eucalypts suck out water from the ground like nobodys business, the more they get the faster they grow. In a dryer area, such as large parts of Isaan, they'll take the water table down- I do hope they're very cautious about introducing it up there unless they want to eat gum leaves instead of rice.

I hope they've trained their people also in forestry management such as firebreaks and fire control- if that place goes up in flames it won't be nice.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Originally Posted by sabang

Are you becoming a treehugger BG?

No not really but I do believe that something has to be done about the rain forests and the rape and run cycle that has been the logging practices for so long, everyone seems to realize that the rain forests being gone are the reason for the drought that has hit this country over the years.

BG,you never cease to surprise me. Good Man! Cheers!

Originally Posted by sabang

I've driven thru' Prachinburi several times, on my way up to Ubon. The massive eucalypt plantations are the monoculture in a sizable area, you might as well be in Australia. They grow fast and straight, they are well tough and no doubt a profitable wood to grow. But it stuffs up the immediate area for any other form of agriculture. Eucalypts suck out water from the ground like nobodys business, the more they get the faster they grow. In a dryer area, such as large parts of Isaan, they'll take the water table down- I do hope they're very cautious about introducing it up there unless they want to eat gum leaves instead of rice.

I hope they've trained their people also in forestry management such as firebreaks and fire control- if that place goes up in flames it won't be nice.

Excellent points Sabang...

Back to scones, dumplings and biscuits.
Scones, as everyone knows, best with whipped cream and strawberry jam and a cup of tea.

More scones.

Dumplings come in many shapes and sizes.
I'm leaving out the Chinese dumplings here.

Funnily enough, when I googled images, biscuits, I got a lot of pictures of scones (what the yanks apparently call biscuits).
The yanks call biscuits 'cookies' for some reason. They are a mixed up and confused people that much is obvious.

And the best biscuits of all. (though these don't seem to be a great representation of anzac biscuits)

Originally Posted by Dug

This one gotta be straight out of Mathos' kitchen.

Those scones look great, feel like one now, cream, rasberry jam.....hmmmmm

Notice the slopped gravy all over the plate for photo presentation?

To paraphrase what that guy once wrote, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Who really cares what you call it? It looks delicious.

Hmmm, British people and American people and (insert here) people have different names for things... Wow.

When I GOOGLED Biscuits, there are the first 2 on top.

Biscuit Recipe With Picture - Joyofbaking.com

How to Make the Best Buttermilk Biscuits from Scratch — Pinch My Salt
White Lily Light Biscuits
2 C. white lily unbleached self-rising flour
1/4 cup butter (plus two tablespoons for brushing on
top of biscuits)
2/3 to 3/4 cups buttermilk
Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Spoon flour into measuring cup and level with a knife. Measure flour into bowl. Cut in butter until mixtures resembles coarse crumbs. Blend in enough buttermilk until dough leaves sides of bowl. Knead gently 2 or 3 times on lightly floured surface. Cut with large biscuit cutter. Place on pan with biscuits touching. Brush tops with melted butter. Bake at 500 for 8 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for a few minutes on wire rack.
What struck me about this recipe was that it’s so simple! Of course it gets slightly more complicated if you don’t have the White Lily self-rising flour, but it still doesn’t take much more time to throw these together than to open a can of store-bought biscuits!
After doing some research both online and on my cookbook shelf, I decided to try to approximate a White Lily biscuit by substituting a mixture of national brand all-purpose flour, cake flour, and leavening for the white lily self-rising flour.

Originally Posted by Dug

Funnily enough, when I googled images, biscuits, I got a lot of pictures of scones (what the yanks apparently call biscuits).
The yanks call biscuits 'cookies' for some reason. They are a mixed up and confused people that much is obvious.

And the best biscuits of all. (though these don't seem to be a great representation of anzac biscuits)

But those are cookies not biscuits..
And the pics of biscuits are not scones as scones are something like a biscuit, but GOOGLE being smarter than the average limey knows the difference between them and you folks don't..

Googles a yank, that's why it thinks biscuits are scones.