Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

[8ullfrog]

Had another steak sandwich for lunch today, made the mistake of putting relish on it.

Felt gross all afternoon.

Made frozen waffles with legit syrup for dinner, figured I couldn't F eggos up.

It was good.

[6pairsofshoes]

We mostly use sugar.

... to the glee of lawmakers, that consider it is their bounden duty to extract tax money from fat people.

Unless they've changed ingredients lately, I was saddened to discover Frank Cooper's Original Oxford Marmalade contained HFCS.  I bought it for years, and it was often difficult to find.  Then I read the ingredients.  I give up.  Now I make my own.    They call it Glucose-Fructose syrup over there, we call it high fructose corn syrup here.  Still, it's a cheaper form of sweetener.  I guess if you can lower production costs by using extracts from corn husks, you do.  I live in a place where I can buy Seville oranges so I make my own.  It isn't all that difficult and the results are better than Frank's.   

Who is Frank Cooper anyway?  Is he still alive?  Or is he like Laura Ashley, dead from a fall, but still cranking out design artefacts for a consumer base willing to overlook the fact that they are buying products from someone designing from the world beyond?

[6pairsofshoes]

The first batch of Frank Cooper’s marmalade was made by the wife of Oxford shopkeeper Frank Cooper, Sarah-Jane, in the family kitchen, back in 1874. So I don't think they are still in charge.

So it should be called Sarah-Jane Cooper's, not Frank's but yes - nowadays it does contain sucrose/ fructose rather than sugar.

Thanks for the historical tidbit.  If memory serves, James Bond liked it, too.  I always thought it was the best commercial marmalade available, and I bought it exclusively, until I learned to make it myself.  The Seville oranges are amazing in that they have more seeds than any other citrus I've encountered.  And they're too bitter to eat raw.  You wonder how somebody thought to cook them with sweetener in the first place...

[8ullfrog]

Barbacoa tacos. Very difficult to golly up.

Gave mom one task: Buy shredded lettuce.

She brought home a head of lettuce and said she would put it through the cheese grater.

Stunned, I told her I would really like to see that. She tried this once previously, with an onion. That was sad. It came out a mess of watery shavings. Do not recommend.

This time she gave up before making the attempt.

So the tacos were sans lettuce.

I dunno man, I'm really off my game. I'm not even thinking of ways to kick up a recipe now, I'm just kind of sad and confused.
 

[6pairsofshoes]

We eat beans and rice sometimes.  Basmati rice, cooked.
Black beans, a couple cans.
An onion, chopped, not a giant onion, medium will do.
Sauté the onion with a little oil, add:
cumin, chili powder, a little chipotle powder.
Stir the lot over medium heat until the onions soften.
Deglaze the pan with a little dry sherry.
Add beans and cook for about 15-20 min. until they take on some of the flavor.
Spoon the beans over the rice and top with grated cheese.  Add some hot sauce if you like.
Cheap.  Hard to mess up and requires zero shredded lettuce.

[8ullfrog]

sandwiches, broccoli, and waffles.

Not paired thank god, but one after the other.

(No one wanted to make dinner)

Mom tried to get shredded lettuce again, but it was coleslaw.

When I asked why she bought coleslaw she said "I like coleslaw".

Little hard to argue with that.

[smokester]

I  did some  work for the Twickenham Tandoori yesterday and, as usual, they sent me home with enough food to feed the 5000. I have no idea what the particular dishes were as they usually make me something bespoke, but there were shedloads of king prawns dishes, a fish dish, a dhal and many breads.

3 of us ate what they gave us last night, tonight and there was at least another portion left that we had to bin.

[6pairsofshoes]

We love Indian food.  Some things freeze well:  some of the breads (esp. naan) and the dal.  I guess that much is overwhelming and grows old after feeling like you have to eat multiple servings.  Still, that's a great bonus for your work!

We are about to have some really good pizza for lunch.  I guess you'd call it Sicilian style, it's like foccacia with toppings.  I'm having putanesca.  There's also a very nice one thin slice made with garbanzo bean flour topped with onions.  This pizza place replaced an earlier crap pizzaria so we are grateful for it.

[goldshirt*9]

Love Indian food which is abundant here, wife prefers Chinese

[6pairsofshoes]

I (sort of) fondly remember Vesta curries. Back when there was no such thing as an Indian restaurant and Tikka Masala hadn't been invented.

Damn!  How old ARE you, anyway?

[8ullfrog]

Enchiladas. Overdid the sour cream in the meat filling, kind of tastes like stroganoff.

A mistake one can be happy with.

[goldshirt*9]

I (sort of) fondly remember Vesta curries. Back when there was no such thing as an Indian restaurant and Tikka Masala hadn't been invented.

Curry in a bag you boiled  . Yep remember it, never ate it though 

[6pairsofshoes]

Older than dirt.

That reminds me of something a friend used to say when he heard something he didn't believe: 
"I wish I could put some of that on my lawn."

We had steamed vegs with baked potatoes, butter and sour cream.  It was tasty and not very difficult to make.

[goldshirt*9]

Last thing I ate was freshly made Veg Samosas, Way prefer the Veg version.

[6pairsofshoes]

I started out with Fortnum's earl grey and now am drinking Yorkshire gold.
Had a blueberry muffin that couldn't be beat.  Used Sally's Baking Addiction recipe, tweaked to have a smaller amount of sugar.  That was fun.