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Ringo

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Worth mentioning - In the break I've gotten pretty heavily into hot sauces. My favourite is the Encona West Indian Hot Pepper Sauce, which I apply liberally at every opportunity. There's a pretty good chance that this will feature heavily in any future posts I make on this topic.

[ 29.08.2017, 11:56: Message edited by: Ringo ]

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Kanye West
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Anyway, I'm still upbeat about tomorrow's dinner news, and am about to turn the light off here tonight. For the second time this week, I'll be lying in the dark, grinning to myself as I imagine all of the wonderful dishes that will be enjoyed by tmo'ers later on. Mikee proudly insta'ing two pickled onions lightly dipped in hundred and thousands, CIH perfecting an MC Escher serving arrangement of impossibly stacked square plates, and Waynster, having a solid fucking man's dinner that is befitting a man who literally fights fire in his spare time while other pussified fuckpussies pussy about with pointless lives that are cast into irrelevance by his lust for an actual life.

Over the years as I've been waiting for my login to work again, I've read and re-read thorns iconic front page post, never daring to imagine that one day I'd get this chance again. The single tear of joy that will soon soak into this pillow has remained tapped for this very occasion.

What a wonderful time. I hope all of your dinners are excellent. [Cool]

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Waynster, having a solid fucking man's dinner that is befitting a man who literally fights fire in his spare time while other pussified fuckpussies pussy about with pointless lives that are cast into irrelevance by his lust for an actual life.
I'm having quiche actually.I feel like i am letting you down

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Pudding News

Kellifer made apple and blackberry sponges and pies yesterday. The apples came from a local apple tree and had to be demaggotted prior to baking. I foraged the blackberries while the children were asleep in the car parked in a field in the middle of nowhere, and Kellifer was geocaching. The best ones were very high up, so I used a bungee cord from the boot of my estate car in order to pull the branches down and reach the tasty fruit. I'm pretty sure we'll survive after Trump and Kim get their game on.

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Ringo:
Worth mentioning - In the break I've gotten pretty heavily into hot sauces.

Doesn't everything then just taste like the hot sauce?
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Bolognese tonight, Misc appears to be eating grey stop signs for tea, which can't be pleasant.

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by jnhoj:
Bolognese tonight, Misc appears to be eating grey stop signs for tea, which can't be pleasant.

Originally it was nice-looking sponges and suchlike, but he seems to have broken the forum's ability to see with his mammoth pie-pics.
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Cherry In Hove
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I'm a bit concerned about Kanye going vegan. I can support vegetarianism at a push but vegan is just depriving yourself of cheese which sounds a bit too self hating.

My dinner was fish of some kind. (Coley? Ling? Whiting? Who knows. Something that got delivered in my fishbox and then shoved in the freezer). With boiled potatoes, green beans, broccoli and roasted fennel. It was fine. I'm quite hungry now though and I only finished eating half an hour ago.

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A bit too self hating? Kanye West? That's his raisins d'etre isn't it?

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
It was fine. I'm quite hungry now though and I only finished eating half an hour ago.

That's fish for you.
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Ringo

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quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
quote:
Originally posted by Ringo:
Worth mentioning - In the break I've gotten pretty heavily into hot sauces.

Doesn't everything then just taste like the hot sauce?
Very much so!
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Kanye West
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I don't dare speculate around the mystery of the "fishbox", but as I lie here in bed, it fills me with unironic pleasure to learn about last night's dinners. Hope they were as satisfying to eat as they were to contemplate.
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Kanye West
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quote:
Originally posted by jnhoj:
A bit too self hating? Kanye West? That's his raisins d'etre isn't it?

Lol fuck u pal I am a paragon of narcissism.

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
chicken, stock, pasta, garlic, white wine and Cheddar

Happy to report that this was tasty. Tarragon was also in the mix. Would have been better if I'd remembered the garlic, but we muddled through. For anyone who's wondering, poaching chicken and then using both chicken and the poaching broth in a sauce is very good. I realise Benway won't be wondering, because he no longer consumes the flesh of the beasts of the field, but, y'know. Anyone else.
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Kanye West
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In defiance of your assumption, I wondered about it, and it sounds like it tastes good [Cool]
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Anyways good morning all, I have been keeping the forum fires burning while you slept.
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Octavia
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So, Dr B - why the veganism? Serious question.
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Thorn Davis

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quote:
Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:

On a scale of Tense to TSA body cavity search, a solid 7.

Work is weirdly tense here, too, today. I sit with all the techy people who spend their time designing whizzy tech products using machine learning and natural language processing. At one end of the floor is a whiteboard covered with code, to do with a project aimed at revolutionizing healthcare in the Western world. Every day the software engineers will spend an hour or two puzzling over these algorithms. I was in super-early this morning, as I stood there looking at it, sipping my morning coffee, it all started to make sense to me. I'm not a coder by trade, but like Neo in the Matrix, all these equations and numbers resolved into something I understood, and it was suddenly painfully obvious to me where the coders had been going wrong. I took a board rubber and dry marker and set about making the numbers and letters dance to my tune. This is it. I thought. This is what I'll be remembered for. I heard classical music playing in my head is I scrubbed and wrote and rearranged symbols. I pictured my colleagues filtering in in the morning, awestruck by what I'd achieved. "Who did this?" they would whisper in amazement.

After about 45 minutes of dense scribbling I stepped back and admired my work. For maybe thirty seconds I could see the beautiful tapestry of code I had woven, before the veil fell again as quickly as it had lifted, and I could no longer understand what I had created. The numbers became gibberish to me as they had been before.

I went back to my desk and waited with great anticipation to see what the coders would make of my work. Even if I couldn't recall my mastery of code, I knew that I had given something amazing to this world; something that would save lives. Soon enough, the first software engineers arrived to the office, setting up at their desks before wandering over to the Healthcare whiteboard. They did indeed start asking "who did this", but the tone wasn't quite right. They started snapping the question at each other with quite an aggressive edge, and one guy looked like he was about to start crying. They're talking about looking at CCTV footage, now, and there are quite a few of them. Coincidentally, I feel quite ill, like the time when my dad had come home to find a hole in the living room wall from when I'd fired the air rifle inside the house without really thinking about what I was doing. I think that if I carry on feeling this ill I may have to go home for the day.

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Octavia
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*chairy*
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Kanye West
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I think I made the decision after walking the England-Wales border a few years ago, following the Offa's Dyke trail. After spending a couple of weeks walking through fields of livestock, and basically animals being my main company for one of the weeks, I no longer felt comfortable supporting their slaughter, considering i viewed them as individuals with as much right to live as me.

Also read a few books on Buddhism (which I'm still doing hence DT Suzuki), meditated etc, read the book "Altruism", and it became clear that our relationships with animals - as with people - should be based on care, and application of altruistic practice is the key to coming to terms with ones relationship with oneself, and ones place in the universe.

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Octavia
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Props, say I. Doing the Thames Path and encountering enormous quantities of beef-on-the-hoof has invested me with no similar disavowal of flesh. Mostly I was just scared of them and wanted them out of the way. In general terms, though, I do make an effort to buy food that's been happy, and to eat as much of an animal as possible. Without wanting to sound too hippy-dippy I do think it's our responsibility - if we're going to eat animals - to respect them while they're alive, kill them humanely and eat every bit.
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Thorn Davis

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I was tempted to post a joke comment in response to Kanye's comment there, but it seemed like a glib response to a warm and heartfelt post, so I didn't. The joke was going to be along the lines of 'If it helps, I've always thought of you as being on the same level as livestock', so if you like that joke, remember that it was my quick and witty mind that came up with this but also that I was sensitive enough to be profoundly moved in a deep and emotional way by Benway's post and therefore to decide not to post the post.

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I've thought a few times about the cognitive dissonance required to be a meat eater, which Kanye's post articulates quite well. I think my main stumbling block - I think - is that I feel like I would struggle to eat well enough to feel good if I was on a vegan diet.

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Kanye West
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Thorn that's a good joke, and would have offset the stomach turning earnestness. I already regret this wildly off-script, and will get things back in track.
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quote:
Originally posted by Kanye West:
I already regret this wildly off-script, and will get things back in track.

I suspect you'll probably be angrily tucking into steak at some point, calling previous vegan you "a duff-headed thundercuck"

If you're working on your memoirs, I'd like you call this chapter Gentle Ben(way)

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Thorn Davis

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quote:
Originally posted by New Way Of Decay:


If you're working on your memoirs, I'd like you call this chapter Gentle Ben(way)

Thorn Davis liked this post. I would totally read Benway's memoirs, incidentally.

I'd heard that a vegan diet was supposed to make you feel amazing, but Kanye's description of his gastric armageddon upthread hasn't fully sold me on this idea.

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Octavia
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You're eating vegan tonight, so you'll be able to compare notes.
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Cherry In Hove
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So, I've failed to keep track and am unsure about which timezone Kanye is in right now and when he will read this post. I have a feeling that he might be back in the present rather than living in the future and so may read this quietly on the bright screen of his mobile as he's going to sleep. His girlfriend will say "Turn that off, the light is keeping me up", but Kanye will press on. He is now unable to sleep without the sweet satisfaction of knowing what I have had for dinner.

Begrudgingly he turns the brightness down on his 5.8 inch super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and rolls over to try to hide his guilty pleasure. She still knows, but Kanye must see this through.

I had a fish curry for supper tonight. Obviously with rice and naan and poppadoms because although you obviously don't need three carbs with a meal, which one are you going to get rid of?

Rice? Well, you can't have a curry without rice. You may as well just throw your arms up and embrace anarchy if that is how you're going to live your life.

Naan Bread? Some would argue this isn't vital, but to those people I'd ask how you are going to wipe up the last bits of sauce? With your finger? Not on my watch.

Poppadom? One would probably say this was the least important as it doesn't add much flavourwise to the dish, however what it does add it a texture that you don't get from any of the other parts of the meal. The interplay between the flaky fish, the soft rice, the pillowy naan are really lacking something with a bit of bite, some contrast to really get your mouth thinking. This is where the crunch of the poppadom really shines.

Now, everyone likes curry in one kind or another, however the problem with cooking curry for four people is that nobody is going to get their perfect curry. It's not going to be spicy enough for me, it's not going to be coconutty enough for my girlfriend, it's not going to be lasagney enough for my children, so nobody is thrilled, but everybody eats. There is the joy. Everybody eats. That is what we need from a meal and that delivered.

Obviously the solution for this is to only get takeaway curry so everyone can have what they want. I hear you Kanye, but I'm not a millionaire. I'm but a modest man, I can't afford takeaway curry every time that we want it, so sometimes, my friend, we have to make sacrifices and so overall, whilst the meal wasn't a top 5 meal of any of the participants, it was eaten by all and enjoyed to some extent by all.

5/10 (7/10 with rice).

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quote:
Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:

Rice? Well, you can't have a curry without rice. You may as well just throw your arms up and embrace anarchy if that is how you're going to live your life.


*throws arms in air* I love a bit of anarchy at dinner time, and I can't have 3 carbs with my curry so discard the rice as it's the most boring part

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Octavia
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I agree with Banana. Ditch the rice. It brings nothing to the party. You can neither scoop nor mop with rice and you have to chase the last little bits around until you can trap them with the undertines of your fork. Rice is just the friend-of-a-friend you felt you had to invite to the wedding because it's been around forever and everyone would notice and judge you if it wasn't there. Well, screw the niceties, I say. Do what you want. FUCK RICE!

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quote:
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I had ... fish

Fish AGAIN?
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Cherry In Hove
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Yeah, fish again. I would imagine that I'll have it again at some stage this week. We generally have it at least three times a week. I love fish.
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I fucking loved that dinner review Cherry. I peaked at the curry not being lasagney enough.

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quote:
Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
Yeah, fish again. I would imagine that I'll have it again at some stage this week. We generally have it at least three times a week. I love fish.

If you carry on eating that much fish you'll turn into a fish, LOL.*

*there is no scientific basis for this claim

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quote:
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Yeah, fish again. I would imagine that I'll have it again at some stage this week. We generally have it at least three times a week. I love fish.

I mostly had vodka for dinner last night. I usually have that 3 times a week. I love vodka

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quote:
Originally posted by Banana:
I mostly had vodka for dinner last night. I usually have that 3 times a week. I love vodka

I never really got on board with vodka - seems functional rather than pleasant, and it seems that a 'better' vodka is one that you can't taste as much as a cheap vodka. It all really seems to point to one purpose. I like bourbon and whisky. I also really like rum. Ron Zacapa is good, but i can only afford it from the airport.

I went on a 'team-celebration' thing recently at the Bols House of Spirits place in Amsterdam and learnt to make a couple of cocktails. They do a remarkable yogurt liqueur that you can use to make a cocktail called a Cheesecake - that might make for something a bit more substantial than vodka, perhaps if you need a good hearty breakfast.

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