Thread: Dinner

Going to Gordon Ramsey myself a couple steaks, nice red, lovely jubbly...

Last night's dinner

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Topper , is your funds low do you need a loan before you starve to death

^ After seeing that offering for dinner I thought Topper may have been incarcerated again.

Won't match up to ant's steak but did a bacon burger tonight...

...cooking with Barbie...

...must be cocktail time...

No, he'll have overdone it on the tiramisu at Pala again.

Originally Posted by cyrille

No, he'll have overdone it on the tiramisu at Pala again.

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Topper , is your funds low do you need a loan before you starve to death

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

After seeing that offering for dinner I thought Topper may have been incarcerated again

I'm experimenting with the local cuisine....

One can't live off burgers alone.....though tomorrow might be a burger day.

2 day old kebab leftovers and chips.

Nice one Armstrong, that reminds me to take the dog walkies


Home made wedges, frying Topside steak and beautiful baked beans...

^^Looks like there's a dead worm in with the 'meat' as well Armstrong?

^ Nice one Chitty... reminded me to phone the wife to make sure she fed my dogs tonight!

I could and did eat a scabby dog after the 4 hour bike ride I had today

Originally Posted by Chittychangchang

4 hour bike ride

Did you put the chips on before you left?

Originally Posted by cyrille

Did you put the chips on before you left?

Steak too looks like shoe leather.

Fish, chips and mushy peas in a chippy on the Yorkshire coast last week (cod in the foreground and haddock at the back).

I'm not usually a big fan, but this was very good with a little salt and plenty of vinegar. Certainly the best I've ever eaten.

Nice.

What’s the deal with mushy peas? Are they fresh green peas cooked to mush? Can’t say we have that in the US.

Originally Posted by misskit

What’s the deal with mushy peas? Are they fresh green peas cooked to mush? Can’t say we have that in the US.

OMG!
You've never lived till you've eaten mushy peas Kitty.
I'll bow down to Mendips superior knowledge on the subject.

Originally Posted by misskit

What’s the deal with mushy peas? Are they fresh green peas cooked to mush? Can’t say we have that in the US.

completely different, and very delicious on pies, fish, roast chicken...

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To be honest, despite popular opinion my knowledge of mushy peas is very sparse. I'm from the west country and it was garden peas every time when I was growing up. Even now I would always have garden peas over mushy peas, unless I fancy a change. Birdseye frozen peas take some beating.

An Aussie can probably correct me... but I seem to remember when I lived in WA you could get something called a 'floater' in a pie shop. It was a pie stuck on top of a bowl of mushy peas... floating on them. I have fond memories of those.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^^, ^^

To be honest, despite popular opinion my knowledge of mushy peas is very sparse. I'm from the west country and it was garden peas every time when I was growing up. Even now I would always have garden peas over mushy peas, unless I fancy a change. Birdseye frozen peas take some beating.

You've gone right down in my estimation.

Originally Posted by Mendip

An Aussie can probably correct me... but I seem to remember when I lived in WA you could get something called a 'floater' in a pie shop. It was a pie stuck on top of a bowl of mushy peas... floating on them. I have fond memories of those.

When I was a kid and we didn't have enough money for a chip muffin or chips and gravy, we'd go round to the chippy and ask for scrapings (the batter from the fish and the little bits of chips that were scooped out of the fryer), which we were given for free. If we were in the mood for "gravy" on top we'd ask for pea wet too: the excess juice from the mushy peas as they were cooked.

Topped with salt and vinegar it was a proper feast (for free) when you were 9 years old.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

we'd go round to the chippy and ask for scrapings (the batter from the fish and the little bits of chips that were scooped out of the fryer), which we were given for free.

Round our way -NE England- they were known simply as scraps. They were free but to my knowledge they were only given if asked for and when buying a a bag of chips, never alone and free. However a bag of chips back then was only 2.5 pence or less.
fish & chips was the regular saturday lunch meal. Then it was very cheap, before all the cod had been fished out. There would be queues around the block at the more poular chippies.
Chips & scraps were for week night evenings spending what little pocket money we were given when playing out in the streets with mates.

Happy days!