Culinary delight thread...

I'm having to cook for myself. Mermaid's going to see her mum in Somerset today, so I'm all neglected. She's laid out a load of frozen microwave meals for me!

Ah, but did she leave the microwave instruction manual and a magnifying glass so you can read the instructions on the packets...

That chippy around the corner stays open late.

Roast chicken ( 1.3kg whole chicken for 3 euro in local shop, couldn't pass it up ), roast tatties and glazed carrots. All of them ( cept carrots are cooking now ). E.T.E., 6:15pm.

The Lone Ranger wrote:I'm having to cook for myself. Mermaid's going to see her mum in Somerset today, so I'm all neglected. She's laid out a load of frozen microwave meals for me!

Adam Mint wrote:Ah, but did she leave the microwave instruction manual and a magnifying glass so you can read the instructions on the packets...

3rdforum wrote:That chippy around the corner stays open late.

Me and Annie disappear Tenerife for two weeks, she stocks up the freezer with frozen meals, burgers, pizzas etc, for her three kids who still live with her, daughters 22 and 16, son 19, we come back, freezer is still full, cooker is spotless never been used,,, rubbish bin full to the brim with takeaway cartons...

  

I'll probably do that too! That's her been dropped off at the Park & Ride shuttle doodah..

How she travelling, plane or train?

Plane

And you didn't take her to the airport,,, just stuffed her on a bus,,, true Scotsman there...

I'm just in from my feckin' work! There's no danger I'm going to Edinburgh airport at rush hour time!

You can get a bus direct to the airport from Dunfermline? ( just checking in case I come a knocking some night! )

Wouldent have thought so Dermo, not much call for it from them peasants who live in the sticks...

Bus into Prince's Street and tram out to the airport?

3rdforum wrote:You can get a bus direct to the airport from Dunfermline? ( just checking in case I come a knocking some night! )

Yep, it calls in at the Inverkeithing Park & Ride on the way over.

Microwave chicken hotpot...very nice!

3rdforum wrote:Roast chicken ( 1.3kg whole chicken for 3 euro in local shop, couldn't pass it up ), roast tatties and glazed carrots. All of them ( cept carrots are cooking now ). E.T.E., 6:15pm.

7/10. the chicken was very fatty. I saw a program on tv last Friday. The guy ( a radio dj) was researching food for his own interest cos he liked a pint and liked a bag of chips on the way home, and wanted to find out just how bad they were for him. Anyway, his research was a real eye opener. He showed how the supermarkets turn 400g of pork in a kg of sausages. Loads of water , then washing powder ( essentially) to bind the water and meat, and 2 or 3 other things that I cant remember but were awful. Anyway, he got a nutritionist in who analysed a chicken fillet ( regular supermarket one ). Gram for gram it had more calories than a beef burger and a 20% higher fat content. He said it was down to the diet of battery chickens and that they dont get any exercise. They did a test with 10 people from the audience to see if they could tell battery ( 60 days harvesting time )and free range organic ( 120 days harvesting ). All 10 of them said the free range was much tastier and better texture than the off the shelf stuff.

I'm having an easter egg...

Boiled or fried...

Pan fried mackerel and mixed veg with a lot of light soy sauce. Then Eileen came in with curry chips so I had some of them as well. Then I had 2 choc digestives and two mint choc biccies. 

Annie's had a few boxes of chocolates handed in, she ain't in to them, and actually neither am I, never ever buy chocolates or sweets, don't even do deserts,,, but couple of nights back I'm watching something on the telly having a glass of the red stuff, there's a box of chocolates staring me in the face,,, not for long, scoffed the lot...

mmmm, there's still one box of them Ferrero Rocher things staring me in the face............

Shit that got me started, Annie allways has a few bars of chocolate (Snickers, Twix, Twirl, etc) for her kids, she keeps them in the fridge so they don't melt,,, just demolished a Twril as I typed this...

Arghhhh,,, them Rocher things are in danger now...

You'll end up sick!!

Yip, nothing to do with the wine,,, it's the chocolate...

My easter egg had rollos inside it!

I cant have chocolate    Well i can but best not to  I really want some - NOW