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Jun 25, 2016 10:01:07 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 25, 2016 10:01:07 GMT
Beth good luck with your treatment and I will be rooting for you, glad to see you posting again and we all miss you when you take a break from the board.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:11:23 GMT
Post by Beth on Jun 25, 2016 18:11:23 GMT
Beth good luck with your treatment and I will be rooting for you, glad to see you posting again and we all miss you when you take a break from the board. Thanks! Believe me even when I am not able to be on the board, I am still thinking about you guys. Would you guys believe I've never had lamb? Until recently it really was just to expensive but lately I've noticed with the rise in the price of beef and lamb coming down, it's becoming a lot more affordable. I may have to learn to cook it.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:29:50 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 25, 2016 18:29:50 GMT
I hope the price of lamb comes down here too Beth, when I was a kid we used to have New Zealand lamb every Sunday for our Sunday lunch, we had a leg of lamb with roasted potatoes and boiled vegetables plus mint sauce. It used to be fairly cheap, but over the last twenty years the price has gone through the roof as the EU has forced us buy European lamb at extortionate prices.
You cook it just like a cut of beef, we cook a leg in an oven set fairly high, we roast it at this level for say, twenty minutes and then turn it low and leave it for another hour, it depends if you want it pink in the middle.
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Jun 25, 2016 19:10:44 GMT
Post by Beth on Jun 25, 2016 19:10:44 GMT
Thanks, I'll have to be bite the bullet one of these days and try it. Our local grocery usually has an add assortment of meats available so one week you might see lamb chops and the next a roast, they are the same with beef or pork--when I plan a menu I usually have to have several 'stand by' meals in my head because I can almost bet that if I plan to do a round roast they are only going to have something like a chuck roast and even though they are both beef they aren't interchangeable in a recipe.
So am I the only one just about green with envy and wanting to know how things are going in Montana. I am hoping for a complete report in a few days and a whole lot of pictures.
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Jun 25, 2016 20:48:09 GMT
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Post by dave on Jun 25, 2016 20:48:09 GMT
My lovely wife is fixin' up a real nice roast with red potatoes, carrots and a big ole onion in the crock pot for my youngest grad daughter's birthday with 'nannery pudding and birthday cake for the babies. Regards Dave
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Jun 26, 2016 10:48:31 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 26, 2016 10:48:31 GMT
I too am waiting for any reports from either Tom, Steve or Scott, they must be having too good of a time to let us know.
Beth/Dave; do you do roast potatoes in your neck of the woods? We peel our spuds and par boil them in salted water for five minutes, then dry them off and place them around or joint of meat whilst it is roasting in the oven, and when we baste or meat we also coat the spuds too, they end up coming out soft and fluffy in the middle but also have a crispy coating which taste of what meat you are cooking.
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Post by dave on Jun 26, 2016 14:12:45 GMT
Yan We do roast potatoes but when making a pot roast it is quicker and easier to put the roast, potatoes, celery cut up, carrots and a large white onion in a crock pot on low heat and serve it about 6-8 hours later for supper. Please note that the term dinner referrers to a mid day meal served between 11:00 AM to about 1:30 PM. I fail to understand the widespread miss use the term dinner. Regards Dave PS Yan I must stress the proper way to drink tea is iced and sweet!
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Jun 26, 2016 18:05:57 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 26, 2016 18:05:57 GMT
Dave, I wouldn't drink ice cold tea if you paid me.
If you want to know the proper times to eat your meals, then we must look no further than the Victorians, as the middle and upper class Victorians nailed it;
Breakfast (8:00) Brunch (10:00) Lunch (1:00) Afternoon Tea (4:00) Dinner (7:00)
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Jun 26, 2016 19:00:48 GMT
Post by Beth on Jun 26, 2016 19:00:48 GMT
Dave, I wouldn't drink ice cold tea if you paid me. If you want to know the proper times to eat your meals, then we must look no further than the Victorians, as the middle and upper class Victorians nailed it; Breakfast (8:00) Brunch (10:00) Lunch (1:00) Afternoon Tea (4:00) Dinner (7:00) On your question about potatoes. I don't roast potatoes, I dislike potatoes with a passion. Unfortunately my family loves them so when they are necessary we have baked potatoes which I believe you call jacket. The only recipe I use regularly which calls for a roasted type potato is the corned beef recipe I use which requires about 8 small red potatoes thrown in the slow cooker with the meat, cabbage and onion wedges. I find your Victorian meal time interesting because I real a LOT of Regency which has meal times--at least for the upper crust at much different schedule. I image the working man used the early breakfast, noonish lunch and dinner at the end of the work day. Growing up meals were breakfast, dinner (noon meal) and supper. Lunch was what most people call a snack- like you would lunch on a cookie after school. Even though I have tried for years to say dinner instead of supper it is so ingrained in my system that I still will confuse Steve and the girls about what meal I mean when.
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Jun 26, 2016 19:20:47 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 26, 2016 19:20:47 GMT
What do you eat if you don't like potatoes, rice or pasta?
Supper always reminds me of a family all eating their last meal of the day before they turned in, we have our main meal about five in the afternoon and then we will have a light snack around 9:00, this would be some thing light like say just toast, cheese on toast or jam of toast (jelly to you), we also have toasted crumpets too around supper time, which go down great if you are watching a TV show like Lewis or Endeavor, we pause it about the mid-way point and make a quick supper of one of things above and make a pot of tea.
Have you ever had a McVities chocolate digestive biscuit?
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Jun 26, 2016 21:01:19 GMT
Post by Beth on Jun 26, 2016 21:01:19 GMT
Pasta and rice. I will make some potatoes like instant mashed (Which I understand its debatable if counts as a potato) for everyone else I just don't eat them myself.
Your impression of supper is keeping with the Regency meals. I know that Jane Austen talks about eating toast cheese for supper at her brother's house. It's seems to have been a favorite of hers. When people had balls they would serve a dinner to close friends then afterwards the rest of the guests showed up for the ball. During the dancing there would be a break for 'supper' which could be simple finger type foods of fruit, cold meats washed down with lemonade, ratafia, ogreat or wine. However in a grand ball would be quite extensive. I suspect that my family's use of supper is a regional thing.
I don't know about McVities but I've tried a few brands. They are remind me a bit like a cross between a graham crackers and a whole wheat cracker.
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Jun 27, 2016 1:00:07 GMT
Post by dave on Jun 27, 2016 1:00:07 GMT
Yan No wonder the Victorians died out with all that confusion as to when to eat and what to call the meal! As how any one could not like and drink cold sweet Iced Tea is beyond me. I will have to share the secret recipe for cold sweet Iced Tea with you via PM as I would hate for others to find out the secret.
Beth you poor Mid Westerners who can't get the meal names and times together just break my heart. Snacks after school were considered emergency rations! I might have passed out with hunger having to wait 4 to 5 hours between meals back then. I used to worry what would be for breakfast after supper. Regards Dave
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Jun 27, 2016 1:27:43 GMT
Post by Beth on Jun 27, 2016 1:27:43 GMT
I remember as a teen watching my younger brother consume in one sitting- a box of Captain Crunch, nearly a whole loaf of bread and almost a full package of Oreo cookies. I thought he was just a growing boy. It wasn't until much later that I heard that a certain botanical, when smoked, caused a massive case of the munchies.
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Jun 27, 2016 2:22:19 GMT
Post by dave on Jun 27, 2016 2:22:19 GMT
I did not need any botanicals to eat like Jethro Bodine. Regards Dave
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Jun 27, 2016 14:19:19 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Jun 27, 2016 14:19:19 GMT
I seen some guys demolish a fridge after a session on the ganja.
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