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brisket? .... with cabbage tatties and carrots boiled in a pan ....
an obvious accompaniment : brown sauce [HP} ....
just clouded over this morning but a brilliant blue morning; ,,, yesterday drove through Herts from Baldock to Old Harlow for a memorial Concert ...[the St Johns Arts and Recreation Centre in old Harlow is a delightful hall and seems to offer plenty of local music making ...] .... the North Hertfordshire landscape is a bit special ...one village Cottered was picture book perfection ... everything glowed with the late afternoon sun and a cloudless sky .... on the journey back the new moon was low in the sky with an accompanying star ... quite dramatic ...According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Tis bollito misto, Caliban!Originally posted by Caliban View Post
What the hell is it, marthe ?!
Sounds eminently dislikeable!!
Ideal for a trencher-citizen like yourself
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You mean grass is actually growing between the rock and the hard place, ER?Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostPlenty of
round here today!
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What the hell is it, marthe ?!
Sounds eminently dislikeable!!
I think calum's photo (post 3062) sums it up pretty well. I like the component parts but find it pretty disgusting when they're all boiled up together. According to historian David Hackett Fischer in Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, New England Puritans brought with them the foodways of East Anglia with an emphasis on boiled and baked things (boiled dinner, pease puddings, pies). They combined their food traditions with austere religious belief and came up with traditional NE cookery for what it's worth! He describes Boiled Dinner as "...meat and vegetables submerged in plain water and boiled relentlessly without seasoning of any kind." (Fischer, 136). They did wash it down with dark ale!Comment
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Ah, so, then there would have been "some" nutritional residue remaining in their victuals!Originally posted by marthe View PostComment
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.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostYou mean grass is actually growing between the rock and the hard place, ER?
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I'm glad to say I had a better lunch than the boiled up with plain water stuff. Admittedly it was a sweet and sour chicken and egg fried rice, not cooked by me but a ready meal. Add some more rice and it's quite a plateful for a hungry pensioner
Horrible weather here, very gloomy atm.
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Sounds much nicer than Boiled Dinner! It's sunny but brisk here and Daylight Savings Time starts in about two weeks. Longer days are on their way!Comment
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Well, I have never cooked a "boil up dinner" and the cabbage in Calum's pic looks horribly overcooked and slimy! (your sweet & sour chicken is more inviting!) but I have slowly braised a joint of brisket with root vegs and ale which can be really delicious. Grey, gloomy here as well saly but steady rain now, not complaining, we need it so much. All along the old mill leat on the river the water level is down to the silt and pebbles whereas normally it should be rushing along.Originally posted by salymap View PostComment
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Arrived back yesterday from a really great brass band weekend, up in Blackpool. Bascially it was the North West Area of the National Brass Band Cahmpionships of GB. I was with some freinds of ours(who are more like family really), and had a great time! Also met up with someone else there from the banding scene. infact, we all know each other from a brass band forum www.themouthpiece.com.
Came back to a rather cold house!!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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A very happy St David's Day to all my Welsh friends, on and off the MBs.Comment
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..........and from me too!!
Another sunny day today!!Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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Well, make the most of today - not just on behalf of Anna and all our Welsh friends and relatives, but because today appears to be the last warm one for a while. Tomorrow and Saturday look like being mainly cloudy and cooler, with a bit of rain on Saturday as a weakish cold front passes through; to be followed by what looks like being the first proper, substantial rain in the South this year on Sunday, as a small but quite nasty-looking depression heads NE across Kent. Next week looks uncertain at the mo', but definitely colder.Originally posted by salymap View Post
So, enjoy the sunshine today, and St David's, and I'm off for a leek now to celebrate!
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