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I'm about to have some elevenses. A slice of the ultimate chocolate cake that I made the other day for Mel's birthday. I wouldn't recommend it; far too sugary and chocolatey and nasty, really.
Lunch will be chicken soup. Carcass in pan at the moment. Needs work.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: I had my breakfast (porridge) at 7.30. I get quite hungry by noon.
What we have here is a category error. What you ate at 7.30 was actually petit dejuner. By having another meal at 9.30 - 'breakfast' - comprising, say, sausage, fried bread, bacon, hash brown, beans and grilled tomato, you could have held back those hunger pangs for at least another hour or so.
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I always suspected that ben was a hobbit.
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quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: the carrots are a bit al dente
Cooked carrots are the work of the devil. Especially in shepherds' pie, when they are particularly disgusting.
ETA lunch was honey-smoked mackerel in a baguette with lettuce and mayonnaise, courtesy of my mother.
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You're wrong, octavia. Frankly I feel a bit embarrassed on your behalf.
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It's that mucky, squidgy, discoloured outer skin that bites open to reveal formerly sweet-and-crunchy now weirdly gravy-tasting wrongness.
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Roasted carrots are good, but any form of boiled carrots or carrots cooked in liquid are definitely wrong, immoral and possibly illegal.
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Of course I may have been excessively influenced by my mother's shepherd's pie, which always contained cooked carrots and which I was forced at gunpoint to eat.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Roasted carrots are good, but any form of boiled carrots or carrots cooked in liquid are definitely wrong, immoral and possibly illegal.
quote:Originally posted by mart: Your mother sounds quite the character.
Do remember the French and Saunders characters that were country women braying about how they got hit by their own landrover, stampeded by cows, and so on? Basically like that but short and skinny.
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And with no 'down' setting on the volume knob.
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So was it a shotgun? That she forced you with?
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Figurative gunpoint, sadly for the excitement-value of the story. The only time I've met a proper gun was when I shot someone's house with his own .45.
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look, it's totally reasonable to describe a meal as a 'turkish meze', and in the context of a lighthearted cyber-chat about lunches, such a description provides a perfectly adequate level of detail re: the components and flavours of the meal.
quote:Originally posted by Octavia: Cooked carrots are the work of the devil.
You should try some of the little fat baby carrots, don't peel them just give them a bit of a wash. In a lidded pan with some butter and olive oil, a big pinch of demerara or muscovado sugar and a couple of star anise. Low/medium heat, check them after 20 minutes. Nice with roast pork.
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: What's a good name for a dog, by the way? My colleague Baby Dave is thinking of getting a springer spaniel puppy
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