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I am a totally about respecting other people's cultures, yet I admit, some of the food I hear are popular in certain clutures leaves me cold.
Maybe it's because of my seafood allergy, and i mean no disrespect, but there are countries on our planet that I would starve to death.
Surely that's part of your answer right there - others probably feel the same way about English food as you do about theirs.
Barlolo yes, but im case, it's not a choice, I have a horrible selfish/fresh water fish allergy. no choice, just the facts, ou know?
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Peter, I see your point. French food is in a class by itself, no question.
Onrushpam, we beg our mom to make treacle pudding ( which goes by the name of spotted dick for some reason, minds out of gutter
)And we cry with joy when she makes us fish and chips. I am a totally about respecting other people's cultures, yet I admit, some of the food I hear are popular in certain clutures leaves me cold.
Maybe it's because of my seafood allergy, and i mean no disrespect, but there are countries on our planet that I would starve to death.
I also must bring up the english breakfast. Sausage, bacon, eggs, fried bread, a fried mushroom cap or three, grilled fresh tomatos and strong tea to wash it down in. James Herriot, the vet who wrote, among other books, "All creatures great and small" describes the way we ate growing up. My stomach still growls at some of the descriptions of the meals he enjoyed in his life.
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I wanna rub the puppy tummy!!!
Yeah, if you know those two are costantly bitching and moaning, then heck with them.
that meat looks like jerky for heaven's sake. undone???
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Magictofu
very insightful, I never would have figured that one out, but it makes sense.
Yes! I forgot to mention meat pies and pasties, yummmmmm hot or cold.
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I started this after reading the funny comments on the bland, boring-ness of English food in the death by chili thread. Not that I was offended, I was merely puzzled as it's not the first time I have heard/read such comments.
I'm an American by birth, but my mother came here from England to marry my dad, an Ohio native who'd been stationed by my mom's house during the Korean conflict. They met at a dance, it was pretty romantic,actually, but I digress..
I grew up eating english food, Wheatabix cereal, salad cream, Cadbury chocolate of course, marmite, wonderful English cheese, root vegetables and brussel sprouts and the most wonderful meal in my life to this day, Roast of beef with yorkshire pudding and gravy, potatos browned in the fat, parsnips and brussel sprouts, creamed onions (which we refer to as onion sauce) and of course, dessert was plum pudding and apple pie with Bird's custard sauce on top.
Maybe it was because my mom was an awesome cook, I don't know, but I have read many different references to English food sucking, and frankly, they have me scratching my head. I even remember my mom making curried pork chops with a cling peach half on each plate.
I almost forgot to mention the teas we have given through the years. Dear Lord, sausage rolls with spicy mustard, tiny sandwiches, each on a new taste, clotted cream and strawberry jam on scones, a trifle, maids of honor ( almond flavored tarts) and jam tart, which is simply nothing more than a butter pie crust baked with a layer of jam, or lemon curd.
Have people's opinions of English cooking changed? As I said, while I didn't grow up across the pond I sure ate like I did.
What is your impression/thoughts?
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My middle name is olive! (after my maternal grandmother)
I adore olives, the wrinkled black ones, the brown ones, the big green ones, the ones stuffed, all of them, espcially with blue cheese or really old cheddar. Yum, that's my favorite lunch, along with crackers.
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at last!
Too bad more of them don't say it to your face, so to speak.
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That food looks amazing, every last bit of it, it's a damn, crying shame you don't get no love from these people.
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My name is Christine, and I'm a BLT-aholic.
Seriously. My mom is getting more tomatos now than she did in August, weird, huh? It's October in Ohio after all. But they keep on coming, and I keep buying bacon and really crisp romaine and good bread. I could eat one everyday for the rest of my life.
My German shepherd is growing his winter coat, he's happy too because there's sometimes a little bacon grease to mix in his dry food.
See? everybody wins.
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Marsha Adams "Cooking from the heartland" is the best midwest cookbook I've ever seen.
I'm in Ohio, and we eat her recipes all the time. She does a great job of representing the foods we grow locally.
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People who do manual labor outside, especially in the winter, can eat like this and still have trouble maintaining enough body fat to survive. I work at a car wash in the winter, and Jon Henley is correct, salads and vegetables do you no good at all, you need carbs, protein and fat, in that order.
All that swimming, combined with the fact that he's a teenager, and trying to keep his muscles, it's no surprise he has to eat like that.
btw, eating to keep weight on is just as hard and tiresome and boring as eating to lose weight.
few people know this, but believe me, from experience I can tell you, it's a bitch and not something to feel envy about.
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Chef Randi
It's really nice to see you finally getting noticed for the wonderful cooking you do.
I can feel the love and thought you put into everything you do, and I pains me when you don't get the props you so deserve.
enjoy your vacation, you've earned it!
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Corned beef, cabbage and potatos.
get out the mustard.
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Something goes seriously wrong with my taste buds when it's PMS time. I crave the worst kinds of salt and sugar and processed rubbish. Two days ago it was Hamburger Helper Lasagne, the kind my Mom used to make. I craved it so badly I actually went out and bought the Annie's version with some organic ground beef. And then I HID the mess from my family and have been eating it for two solid days, with a squirt of ketchup to keep things nice and tangy.
Chewy sour dough bread sliced thin and smeared with warm brie and champagne-peach jam.
I hear you!
there's such appeal to the fattiest, worst fast type foods. it's awful.
I was eating Burger King every day for four days in a row.
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Whopper jr, with cheese, small fries, small chocolate shake.
German potato salad, extra bacon grease.
bread fried in bacon grease.
cheese popcorn. at four am.
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I just adore your birdie, I love his eager noodle-eatin face!
He reminds me of the joke about the guy who broke in the house and the parrot kept telling him, 'Jesus will get you", and Jesus was a huge German shepherd.
when we first moved into this house, we discovered a circa 1930s stove in the basement. Our elderly neighbor informed us that this area was a fruit orchard fifty years ago, and that stove was for canning, leaving the main stove free for meal prep.
Also, my favorite snack is crackers, cheese, olives, and anything pickled. I would have brought the exact same snacks that you did, yum!
thanks for blogging!
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In one of her cookbooks, Julia Child spreads good rye with cream cheese and tops it off with fillet of beef for a snack. It could also involve onions and caviar.
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Shelby - that is one gorgeous bird!!!
We are still eating lamb leftovers
. I am very, very tired of it. Tonight I am making lamb pot pie. Whatever we don't finish is done. Gone!!I have a dog who would like to be your best friend!
No pics, but with the cold, miserable weather, I'm making beef and vegetable stew to be served in yorkshire pudding bowls. Can't wait!
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OHHH
I'm praying my girl scout cookies are here in time for March's round.
since I started doing physical labor for a living, pms has been... interesting, I mean, I eat like a hog every day can you imagine me pmsing??
my last bout found me up at three am, making german potato salad with extra bacon, and then another night, four am, bacon, eggs, english muffins and fried potatos, with cupcakes for dessert. oddly, I can go back to sleep and sleep like a baby after that!
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Somehow, you must incorporate orange marshmellow circus peanuts. You just have to.
Slim Jims sliced onto saltines would be a nice amuse.
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Really enjoying your blog so far!
As for animal names, I love ironic names, i.e., the doberman named trinket, my fluffy little mutt who loved everyone on the planet was named Hannibal.
In light of that, I pick the name Brutus.
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So I can't say that I got this recipe from a friend, but I think it's still quite bad. I was playing this cooking game made by Ajinomoto, the huge food company famous for their popular mayonnaise, when I came upon a recipe for fruit salad that consisted of fruit and... mayonnaise. Literally chop up the fruit, add the mayo and presto! Sounds to me like a good way to market their mayo but a terrible way to ruin some fruit!
Wow - I am really outing myself here, but that's how my grandmother always made her fruit salad. Actually I am the one who does it with cut up fresh fruit, miracle whip and walnuts. We all love it
! She made it with canned fruit salad and miracle whip. Not as good, but we all scarfed it down every Christmas. Kim
Well, I suppose Waldorf Salad falls into this mayo niche, but I love it,
I adore that kinda stuff, even add a tad of diced green onions.
"Runs away to hide."
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Speaking of Paula Deen and vile recipes, I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this monstrosity yet.
I can think of a lot better things to do with Krispy Kreme donuts (like eat them, plain) than to bake them up into some mushy diabetic nightmare.
I hate to bash anyone, but my mom got her cookbook for Christmas, and Good grief, she really makes some vile stuff.
I was amazed by how many of her recipes called for canned/instant food.
My mom made a chicken dish that called for Canned cream of mushroom soup and it was pretty bad.
I don't boycott canned soup, but from a food network chef? Not so much.
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Agreed, I'll take my blue cheese between two crackers that have no real flavor to interfere with the cheese taste.
Olives and pickled things on the side.
I'm a total cheesehead, I was raised by my vegetarian mom who grew up eating the great cheeses of England.
To this day, we finish Christmas with Huntsman's blue and cheddar.
English food
in Food Traditions & Culture
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Haaa, that's what I get for typing in the dark, my son was watching his nite-nite movie.
I've heard both good and bad re: the pubs, as my mom says, order the ploughman's lunch, bread, cheese, ham, hard to goof that up!!