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  1. Been away a while... Just life.

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    Fish pie. The red bits are actually brown, there's some weird low-light processing going on by my Huawei.

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    Fish pie mix from Sainsbury's, prawns from the freezer, hard boiled eggs, something like bechamel for the white sauce.

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  2. 6 hours ago, liuzhou said:

    I'm rather fond of these bowls I picked up a few days ago. $2.20 USD each.

     

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    The are half coconut shells and come with those rubber rings for stability. Very ecological. 5½" / 14cm diameter at the rim. They are actually visually the same inside. The one on the left in my image is wet.

     

    Very cool. Weird that in Kerala where we use every bit of the coconut tree for everything, we don't do this.

  3. Sandwiches were egg mayonnaise, salmon, ham and coronation chicken. Sweets were date cake with crystalline ginger and butter cream topping, a cookie, chocolate brownie with honeycomb, scones, strawberry cheesecake. Clotted cream and strawberry jam out of shot. The coronation chicken was the surprising winner of the savouries, the cookies and cheesecakes fighting for first in the sweets. Unlimited sandwiches! so we had extra coronation chicken sandwiches, and had to bring back a lot of the sweets in boxes.

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  4. Afternoon tea at Tom Brown's in East Bridgford near Nottingham.

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    Savoury sandwiches on the benches, scones and cakes on the table top set upon a green "lawn."

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    Various teas.

    Kitsch, but delicious and generous.

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  5. Bacon, egg, toast. I buttered the toast, which is unusual for me, and of course it tasted better. The dark bits are crumbled fried chillies. With a moka coffee.

     

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  6. Seared sea bass with leaves, tomatoes, sparkling water and a ton of sunshine!

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    I made a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and mustard. The whole experience was fabulous, especially after two hours of paperwork and then an hour at the gym and then the pool. Hunger is definitely the best sauce!

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  7. 45 minutes ago, Duvel said:


    Germans eat a lot of pork. When we say „Fleisch“ (meat) it is usually understood that it means pork. That being said, every slaughtered animal will undergo the Fleischbeschau by a veterinarian, where selected organs and cuts will be examined for potential diseases. For pork this examination includes a test for trichinosis. The last reported case of trichinosis in Germany as a food-borne illness was in 1970.

    That is reassuring. I'll be more adventurous next time I'm there!

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  8. My buddy Nigel is over for the weekend. I made the bangers and mash, which looked pretty standard, and Nige made this Yorkshire pudding.

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    Lots of gravy to go with it!

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  9. Roast chicken last night so chicken soup for lunch. My mate Nigel is over for the weekend. He's a chef and he just looked at the leek and carrots and they fell apart diced!

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  10. The museum is about 2/3+ devoted to the sardine canning history. There's a Portuguese black and white documentary shot back in the 50's that feels like a jolly Pathe newsreel, subtitled in English and French. The process shown is very close to the Pinhais factory clips earlier in this thread, so Pinhais at least is staying true to tradition.

    It's very worrying how much smaller current day sardines are compared to what we see in the documentary and in the representations at the museum.

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  11. One of the things I love eating in Portugal is grilled sardines, but they seem to be out of season.

    I took a day trip to Portamao. The main museum is the converted La Rose sardine canning factory.

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    The tins were stamped and shaped from the sheet metal right on site.

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    Very interesting museum, great walking through the factory and touching the actual machines.

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    IMG_20230407_133529.thumb.jpg.f743b27f0259daa27ccc917cc8c5c7f5.jpgSardines seemed to have been much plumper in those days.

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    Anyway, I picked up a couple a few La Rose tins from the local supermarket.

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    The wife says I eat a can in a day, so it will only take me a couple of weeks to get through this lot!

     

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