^^ Invitation with the fist
One of those rush of blood to the head purchases back then. I think the first time I wore it was in a bar with some buddies watching United get beat by Liverpool. Decided that the shirt was bad luck, and don't think I wore it again. Silly money for it, and I think the commemorative box cost more to make than the shirt.
Back when I was alive many, many years ago I remember a holiday on the Greek island of Naxos.
In addition to the garlic steaks and plethora of young, nubile, topless, perky-breasted European sunbathers I recall a dish called 'lamb kleftico', which I think comprised a parcel of lamb, tomato and cheese baked in foil.
Tonight I relived those memories, but due to a lack of lamb made 'chicken kleftico'.
Very nice it was too.
No peas either... I don't think they feature highly in Greek food.
So how’s you cook it? Wrap everything in foil and bake? Looks good.
Chicken, baked spud, sweetcorn and.....mayonnaise
Wtf?
^ There ya go... I can see cheese and tomatoes in that lot. I also used some olive oil. Didn't have any lamb, hence the chicken.
I didn't stick rigidly to the recipe tbh.
Last edited by Mendip; 28-05-2021 at 05:38 PM.
The last few days I've continued my experiment of having no peas with dinner. It's going OK and tbh I wish it was as easy to stop the habitual drink with dinner. Beer and Yan Dong are out... but only to be replaced by a couple of glasses of wine.
Anyway, my first ever attempt at making ribs. Being a newbie I have no special sauce (or rub?) to use, so made do with some three-year-out-of-date, off the shelf sauce I found in the back of the fridge.
They went a bit black on the outside...
But were soft and succulent on the inside. And no peas!
My second 'no pea' meal was baked chicken breast, baked potato with a trio of veg.
This differs from my chicken kleftico because there is no baked cheese and tomato.
Only half a baked potato... portion sizes are coming down in the Mendip household. I'm taking thus stuff seriously.
No peas!
Respect
^^ As with many of your comments Shutree, what at first appears a compliment, is I think barbed with sarcasm.
But yes, having to buy a completely new wardrobe in the near future is an ever present worry of mine.
It's baked potato and baked salmon tonight, but I think I'll keep it to meself!
Well anyway, to mix it up a bit tonight was baked salmon, half a baked potato, baked carrots and sweetcorn. No peas.
This is three nights on the trot, a hat trick of pealess meals.
I never had sweetcorn as a kid... I don't know if it's one of these new foods like Kiwi fruit or broccoli, or if my parents just didn't like it.
Delicious, but a rather subdued meal for me. Tomorrow is my little girl's tenth Birthday... puberty just around the corner.
I want her to be three again...
Where's the greens?
I reckon broccolini would do the trick nicely.
Salmon and potatoes are always a good combo and pretty easy to cook.
^^ Reminds me of a few years back in Makro. They had frozen whole salmon and fresh, decided on fresh and said to the Mrs get them to cut crosswise into steaks. I popped off to check out some other stuff and came back 10 minutes later to find the Mrs arguing with the counter staff, seems some young kiddie didn't want to chop it up in case he did it wrong and had to pay for it. I said to her why didn't she just tell another one to do it but apparently it all got caught up in face issues. I told her we'll have frozen Norwegian Mackerel instead, was lovely, i prefer it to salmon in any case. It amazes me the shit you can get embroiled in with the most mundane stuff, always raises a smile.
When I was a loon, I always got a good two heaped tablespoons of jolly green giant sweetcorn, strait from the tin cold, and 2 cherry tomatoes to accompany macaroni & cheese.
^ What a show off!
We only had normal sized tomatoes at home. I'd never heard of cherry tomatoes before I went away to uni and got all sophisticated.
I also could not really remember sweetcorn being part of my diet growing up. Apparently it only started to become popular in uk in the 70s, and my families dietry trends would have been well set by then. Mid 70s i would have been mid teens for example.
But i am a fair bit older than mendip, but his food is very, very similar to what i would have had at home.
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