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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!

Posted on 12/30/2005 6:10:49 PM PST by paulat

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006; auldlangsyne; godblessuseveryone; happynewyear; happynewyearweekend; livethread; newyearresolution; nye; resolution; timessquare
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To: Warriormom

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. :)


1,041 posted on 01/01/2006 8:30:17 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than anyone will ever know. He's A++)
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To: caryatid
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.
1,042 posted on 01/01/2006 8:36:52 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: caryatid
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.
1,043 posted on 01/01/2006 8:39:37 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: snugs
... at the price I can get it is a joint that I can afford every Sunday if I so wish.

YUM !       Lucky you!

1,044 posted on 01/01/2006 8:41:39 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: snugs

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!)


1,045 posted on 01/01/2006 8:45:36 PM PST by Rte66
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To: cubreporter

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!!!!


1,046 posted on 01/01/2006 8:45:54 PM PST by Warriormom
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To: Rte66

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


1,047 posted on 01/01/2006 8:52:53 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: Warriormom

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.


1,048 posted on 01/01/2006 9:01:29 PM PST by Rte66
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To: snugs

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.


1,049 posted on 01/01/2006 9:06:03 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Rte66
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!

1,050 posted on 01/01/2006 9:06:21 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: Rte66

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.


1,051 posted on 01/01/2006 9:08:29 PM PST by Warriormom
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To: snugs
... soft white bread with a crispy crust.

We call that "French bread".

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

1,052 posted on 01/01/2006 9:10:28 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: Rte66
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 .
1,053 posted on 01/01/2006 9:11:34 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: caryatid

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.


1,054 posted on 01/01/2006 9:13:02 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: All

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


1,055 posted on 01/01/2006 9:14:09 PM PST by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: snugs
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!

1,056 posted on 01/01/2006 9:17:15 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: snugs

G'night, snugs! Enjoyed it.


1,057 posted on 01/01/2006 9:18:34 PM PST by Rte66
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To: caryatid

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


1,058 posted on 01/01/2006 9:19:56 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Rte66
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 !

1,059 posted on 01/01/2006 9:58:10 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: caryatid

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.


1,060 posted on 01/01/2006 10:21:16 PM PST by Rte66
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