Stormy Weather

[scottycelt]

Do you similarly take the wrapper off the Mars bar before battering and deep-frying it?

Excuse me for battering in here but that is a total non-issue. In my homeland we use a special type of 100%-proof frying oil which immediately dissolves and destroys any impurities like wrappers, which, it goes without saying, are yet another undesirable import from south of the border. A double mars bar is especially delicious deep-fried whether wrapped or not. I, like many before me, can thoroughly recommend this energising delicacy, especially served with a carefully-prepared haggis and mutton-pie side salad, accompanied by a healthy quart of full-strength Caledonian stout..

[Eudaimonia]

Sal: Chocolate is indeed a great consolation in cold weather. Or anytime, really.

Is your house too far out of the way to order F&C and get it delivered? Just this morning, some restaurant had a kid going up and down the halls in my apartment building jamming menus under our front doors. Let's see...yesterday it was a Dominican place with specials on chicken stew and fried plantains; today the Palace of Japan. They even have a URL for their website, have a look!

http://www.palaceofjapan.com/

My friend G orders takeout for me from this place all the time, good stuff. I'm not even expecting it, and he'll suddenly show up and drop off a box of sushi for me out of nowhere, haha! Go to the "photo gallery", and click on the second row, second from right. That's the "Spicy Girl Roll"--salmon, tuna, yellowtail, crab, avocado and tobiko wrapped in pink seaweed and served with spicy mayo. I think he started getting it for me because of the name, but it's so delicious I could eat it every single day and never get sick of it.

So far, my food intake today consists of a microwaved yam. So healthy, right? Sigh!

Enjoy your chocs!

Cheers, ~E.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It looks as though the weekend trip to East Sussex is off. :(

[mangerton]

A double mars bar is especially delicious deep-fried whether wrapped or not.

Yes, that's it, scotty. Delicious and nutritious, fried in healthy beef dripping. Served with Irn Bru by the neck.

Actually, all joking apart, a properly cooked fish supper is healthier than a lot of other fast foods, eg hamburgers from American chains, and Chinese and Indian carry outs.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

What a horrible thought - tampering with perfection (a Mars bar).
It's much the same when Hawes Wensleydale cheese is contaminated with cranberries or other alien foods. Some foods are so perfect, they should be left alone.

[Petrushka]

Heavy snow here this morning but just two miles down the railway line - absolutely nothing! Most peculiar.

[salymap]

This takes me back to when I was a teenager at the orchestral library. Friend A invited me for the weekend,
friend B, a notorious joker told her that I always had a Mars Bar for breakfast.Next morning, friend A's beaming mother put one on my plate, saying she knew what I loved to eat. I chomped though it, feeling sick,whilst everyone else had toast, cereal, all the usual things. Not my idea of early morning grub, fried or not.

[Chris Newman]

Morning everyone, About three inches of snow in the Market Square. Most of the traders have braved the weather though my favourite olive and continental bread seller has not arrived from London.

[Globaltruth]

Still just a light covering here in the peaks, temperatures still sub zero so another hard frost.the cats have checked out that the weather is the same at the front door as at the back door and are settling down for another 23 hour snooze.
They may have the right approach...

[salymap]

New boiler roaring away all night,[why does the latest boiler make such a noise?] but minus 10 according to my home page at 2am ish. It feels it. Only a thin layer of snow in Kent borders with London, however the cold takes one's breath away, not literally I hope. TAKE CARE

[greenilex]

Gloriously pretty untouched Xmas card here but persons will keep walking on it.

Wish our Bargate market was five minutes away instead of fifteen (on foot). It certainly is below our seasonal average, whether Fahrenheit or Reaumur, I suspect.

[Mary Chambers]

Magically beautiful snow here (NW England), too. Feed the birds. everybody!

[Chris Newman]

The snow now falling is fairly damp and seeming to help the thick layer on parked cars to slide off. Apropos my earlier message: the olive and continental bread man reached Salisbury Market at 8.45 and has set up his stall. He said that London was not too bad: the problem there was surface ice where rain had frozen. He said he hit heavy snow once he passed Basingstoke.

[Uncle Monty]

About six inches of flocculation here in rural Somerset overnight. My half-mile trudge to see to the chickens this morning was real hard work! Now it's the labradors. . .

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

granite cold in the middle kingdom, no snow to speak of, but patches of lethal ice everywhere to catch the unwary foot .... slip sliding awayeeee