LIVE THREAD! HAPPY NEW YEAR WEEKEND!!-Resolutions?Recipes? Family? Plans? Hopes? Dreams? Share here!

All our wonderful friends!! ^ | 12/30/05 | Jim Robinson, for bringing us together!

[cubreporter]

Oh noooo, Maryland crabcakes are delicious too. Blackeyed peas...another tradition by a lot of people to begin New Years. We have relatives in Severna Park. :)

[snugs]

English or Welsh lamb is a lot more expensive and is mainly sold fresh not frozen. The frozen New Zealand lamb is much cheaper.

Personally also I prefer the taste of New Zealand lamb as well unless I get some Welsh lamb from our butcher who has a farm in Wales but that is very very expensive probably 2 - 3 times the price of the frozen New Zealand lamb.

The New Zealand half leg of lamb has a nice flavour and roasts well especially if you do it slowly and at the price I can get it is a joint that I can afford every Sunday if I so wish.

[snugs]

Yes that is very true our petrol is something like 6.00 - 7.00 dollars a gallon dependant upon whether you count it as a US or a British gallon - British gallon is the greater measure.

[caryatid]

... at the price I can get it is a joint that I can afford every Sunday if I so wish.

YUM !       Lucky you!

[Rte66]

OK--I was just teasing, anyway, because it's so expensive here. A whole leg, that is. I've seen half-legs but haven't priced them. Once we consumers of lamb talked the butchers into slicing us off some nice-sized steaks from the top of the leg, I was happy. Pass the mint jelly! (Or mint "sauce"?)

Hey, have you ever had "Branston Pickle"? I bought it two days ago in place of the chutney I usually buy, because I wanted to try it. It's delicious and I'm having some with cream cheese on a cracker.

(For those who know what Pickapeppa Sauce is, imagine that mixed with mincemeat--yeah, I know, sounds bad--but tastes gooood!)

[Warriormom]

I love pork - chops, tenderloin, ham, bacon. I make more pork dishes than anything else.

The crabcakes were delicious. There were actually 4 types: Crab, Crab & Shrimp, Crab & Lobster and Crab & Scallions. I made rice sauted with onions and garlic with a little chicken base for seasoning. I offered jalepeno peppers with the blackeyed peas, but I was the only taker. We finished off with apple pie.

I think we'll have kraut and kielbasa tomorrow though! Actually, I do have pork tenderloin in the freezer. I think I'll take it out!!!!

[snugs]

Are you kidding Branston Pickle is part of staple British diet.

One of our favourite sandwiches is cheese and pickle and that means cheddar cheese and Branston Pickle, try it it is lovely with fresh soft white bread with a crispy crust.

Alternatively a ploughman's lunch:-
Chunk of Cheddar Cheese
Slice of fresh off the bone ham
Chunk of bread
Pickle onion
Tablespoon Branston Pickle

[Rte66]

Oh, I love crab cakes "done right" with big pieces of crabmeat and very little binding or breading. Lots of Old Bay, I assume. Yummmm! Can't imagine "Crab and Lobster cakes" - heaven!

Yikes, I totally forgot to work on the Seafood Casserole today. All obsessed with counting my blackeyes and tasting my Branston Pickle. Mmmmm, something to look forward to! Lobster and Velveeta.

[Rte66]

Oh, I will definitely try that! I have a very nice extra-sharp cheddar on-hand. Perfect! Just need a little ham slice. (I won't give you my opinion of pickled onions/ cocktail onions. Love onions, despise those things. A childhood trauma, I think.)

I'd heard there are BP "freaks" like there are Vegemite "freaks". And I have Weetabix in my pantry, too.

[caryatid]

We should have colonies! Lamb-producing colonies! I'll call George. Errr, Karl.

It sounds as though you love lamb as much as I do!

[Warriormom]

They were delicious! I have an aunt who lives in Maryland that sends them to me. We visited her this year and ate some of the biggest shrimp we've ever seen at Captain Billy's on the Potomac.

[caryatid]

... soft white bread with a crispy crust.

We call that "French bread".

A ploughman's lunch is about the best lunch there is.   YUM !

[snugs]

I do not like cocktail onions but big crisp hot pickled onions I love.

Do you like Vegemite? Try marmite if you do that is IMHO better, my mum like Weetabix not a favourite of mine. The advert for Marmite in Britain is you love it or you hate it and you see people virtually being ill at the taste of it so I understand your Vegemite comment.

Time I turned in - thanks for the company enjoyed our culture food chat.

Night Eleanor .

[snugs]

French bread is a bagette or a french stick what I mean is a freshly baked white loaf preferably still slightly warm with a crisp shell. We would call it a farmhouse loaf.

[snugs]

Night all and happy new year been a great time love the cultural exchanges.

[caryatid]

snugs, this has turned into a discussion one would expect to have in New Orleans where I lived for many, many years! All conversations there soon turn to food ... if they did not begin with food in the first place.  LOL !

Happy New Year, snugs!

[Rte66]

G'night, snugs! Enjoyed it.

[Rte66]

I posted to you sometime yesterday to "revenir dans la Louisiane, Jolie Blonde!"

[caryatid]

I know you did. I saw it ... and then had to dress to go out. When I came home ... I looked for it again ... but, well, maybe I had had too much bubbly.   LOL

I left a big piece of my heart ... and many friends ... in Louisiana when I left. And, I do know what it means to miss New Orleens ...

You and I do both seem to be Anglophiles ... BP ... Lamb ... YUM !

[Rte66]

Stop! You bet your life you'll linger there, a little while ... there's a heaven right here on earth, with those beautiful queens ... way down yonder in Nooooo Ore Leeeens. I'm sure you've shed countless tears as I have over the Queen City of the Delta. It's too hard to talk about, really.

And I'm just a foodophile, lol.