The food and wine thread
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Brushing with a blend of olive oil, lemon, & oregano is entirely optional and I do at times.
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I left myself wide open for that one, and a mod was the first to lay the boots in!
Savage times in BigFooty. I will not edit the original statement, so it will remain a lesson for me to keep the guard up!
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Wife sent me a text "... can you please get some spring onions and a bag of small snow peas" - assume she mean't a small bag of snow peas. Duly presented the items to wife saying " assumed you mean't small bag of snow peas" to which she replied "no I mean't what I said... bag of small snow peas". I then listened carefully to the explanation that the small snow peas are more tender and don't have the stringy bits at the end!
Being unaware of the micro-distinctions in the snow pea species I replied that if she had said " .. .a bag of the smaller, tender snow peas" it would have been clearer!
She duly trimmed the snow peas - see Diag 1
Diag 1
She makes an excellent fried rice using leftover pork from roast pork.
On the self-serve checkout snow peas were listed as "peas snow" - told the attendant they are universally referred to as "snow peas" so that need to be fixed!
Shall enjoy the fried rice with a glass of white hopefully before Pies spank Dogs!
Being unaware of the micro-distinctions in the snow pea species I replied that if she had said " .. .a bag of the smaller, tender snow peas" it would have been clearer!
She duly trimmed the snow peas - see Diag 1
Diag 1
She makes an excellent fried rice using leftover pork from roast pork.
On the self-serve checkout snow peas were listed as "peas snow" - told the attendant they are universally referred to as "snow peas" so that need to be fixed!
Shall enjoy the fried rice with a glass of white hopefully before Pies spank Dogs!
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I never buy snow peas, they are always such a let down for the ones you grow, unfortunately.
My Mrs is an award winning Produce Manager for the biggest independent regional supermarket in Victoria.Wife sent me a text "... can you please get some spring onions and a bag of small snow peas" - assume she mean't a small bag of snow peas. Duly presented the items to wife saying " assumed you mean't small bag of snow peas" to which she replied "no I mean't what I said... bag of small snow peas". I then listened carefully to the explanation that the small snow peas are more tender and don't have the stringy bits at the end!
Being unaware of the micro-distinctions in the snow pea species I replied that if she had said " .. .a bag of the smaller, tender snow peas" it would have been clearer!
She duly trimmed the snow peas - see Diag 1
Diag 1
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She makes an excellent fried rice using leftover pork from roast pork.
On the self-serve checkout snow peas were listed as "peas snow" - told the attendant they are universally referred to as "snow peas" so that need to be fixed!
Shall enjoy the fried rice with a glass of white hopefully before Pies spank Dogs!
She laughed at the concept of “small snow peas”.
Never seen that on an order list.
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Perhaps we should introduce our wives while we have a glass of the good grape?
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Thought it appropriate to have Turkish bread with the Anzac Day BBQ... - balanced diet?
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Getting into winter - time for comfort food - coq au vin
This is early on - plonk (red) at bottom - became nicely red during the cooking - simple recipe - v tasty!!
This is early on - plonk (red) at bottom - became nicely red during the cooking - simple recipe - v tasty!!
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had the in-laws over for a bbq
used to be a nice house - never again!!!
used to be a nice house - never again!!!
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You asked Maynard to close the door?
needs garlic and lemon juice
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Truly wonderful reply
PS - be happy if Maynard does that to the opposition next week (and week after that?)
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Aldi are selling some very nice wines for incredibly low prices....not really sure how they do it, but I'm enjoying it
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Picked up a French Champagne (Brut) today after sampling a bottle yesterday.............taste as good as Veuve Cliquot.
The price is embarrassing at a whopping $7.00.
Also the Rosé wines from Italy & France are fantastic.
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How do they do it?
I buy first rate New Zealand Whites for under $10 a bottle, the equivalent anywhere else would be $20 to $25
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They go direct to the Wineries and buy the lot.
The Germans are very smart operators.....I don’t remember the last time I went to Dan Murphy’s.
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They do indeed - perfectly drinkable and enjoyable - the taste difference between some of the Aldi wines and let's say a $20-$25 bottle bought elsewhere is not obvious to me
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Their Spanish sangria is a very pleasant warm weather drop
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Aldi also have a most acceptable soft Danish blue cheese - around $5 - bit on a dry cracker - perfect with a glass of their white
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I think a lot of people don't remember the last time they went to Dan Murphy's
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Slightly late comment re the bolded - but I haven't used my keyboard since I accidentally up-ended a glass of Kenwood shiraz over it a few years ago, giving it a terminal hangover. Since then I have used an on-screen keyboard, selecting the letters with a mouse.
Much slower than touch-typing, and if going at a clip can cause one's eyes to swivel in different directions independently of each other, reminiscent of a gecko, but it frees the keyboard up nicely for eating snacks, leaning on, and as a handy base for post-it stickers.
One blogger thought it somewhat Strangelovian and wanted to know if I had a white cat. Damned impertinence, but it works for me...
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