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Boogie
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I was really pleased with the coffee morning - we raised £100 towards "Coffee" which is great as I did hardly any publicity. I have another in May and will work harder at attracting the crowds. My target is double the number (which was 20).
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Well done Boogie
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... And fried bread.
I was just about to say, what, no fried bread? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I haven't been over the door today: the snow which the Weather Channel was predicting from about 11 in the morning actually started at about 2 in the afternoon, and carried on until about 5-ish, but then turned to rain, so now it's really just a bit of a mess.
Our friends made it round for supper (one of them lives out in the country, where they tend to get more weather than we do), and everything seemed to go down well - everyone had second helpings and there wasn't much in the way of left-overs.
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Well done Boogie! I imagine you had lots of snow, which is well done all those who came!!
Spitting snow here again. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Has anybody else tried frying good bread in butter and olive oil and then spread it with marmalade? It really is quite delicious!
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Has anybody else tried frying good bread in butter and olive oil and then spread it with marmalade? It really is quite delicious!
When I was a kid, my mother would do that with bacon fat and we would spread peanut butter or something on it. But I think that was because she was out of margarine (we couldn't afford butter)
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Welease Woderwick: Has anybody else tried frying good bread in butter and olive oil and then spread it with marmalade?
I usually do that with cheese.
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Fried bread - yuk, you can keep it. Hard, crunchy bread I don't like (and that includes Melba toast and that sort of thing). Fried bread always seems to be saturated with grease and is barely one stop short of being deep fried. Horrid.
And YM may V but my Sunday morning treat is hot potato cakes with butter and a sprinkle of sea salt, accompanied by a fried egg, and a cup of tea. I've almost mastered the art of frying eggs now.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "potato cakes". My mum used to make tattie scones with a recipe that I imagine was similar to this.
We could eat them as fast as she could turn them out, spread with butter, rolled up, and another knob of butter added before each bite.
Heaven on a plate (without the plate). ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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Ariel, I agree about hard and crunchy fried bread - yukky!
I take a frozen slice about 1.5 - 2 cms thick and have the oil and butter mixture a bit scant and quite hot then the fried bread is crisp on the outside but soft inside - goes well covered in doctored baked beans, too - in fact I think I'll make some for lunch as I'm on my own today.
With a couple of fried eggs.
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That actually sounds rather nice. It's just that the stuff I've been served really has been more like deep-fried toast.
The tattie scones sound very similar to potato cakes, though my recipe doesn’t involve baking powder and I don’t put in salt or butter - those go on afterwards - but otherwise the procedure is much the same. I divide the mixture into balls and flatten them into small individual rounds rather than make triangles.
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The joys of having a new 10 week old puppy. He is the centre of attraction at shops; church and hairdresser. Also a frequent visitor to vet!!! First injections x 2 lots and 10am mircro-chip today. He is getting a complex about visiting the vet
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posted by Welease Woderwick quote:
Has anybody else tried frying good bread in butter and olive oil and then spread it with marmalade? It really is quite delicious!
Someone not a million miles away (!!) advocated that people try it a while ago on a thread about, I think, breakfast.
Yes, absolutely delicious: marmalade should be proper stuff, slightly bitter - if you don't make your own Cooper's Oxford is ideal.
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I quite like fried bread but I think it would have been a bit superfluous in husband en rouge’s fry-up – he already had muffins which is quite enough white starch to be going on with. I am also quite chuffed that he bought all the stuff in our local supermarket and didn’t have to go to any special shops for it. Anglophilia is becoming quite a thing here. They don’t have English sausages though. You still have to take a trip to Marks and Sparks for those.
In response to Ariel’s question, husband en rouge is prepared to drink English tea with milk when in England. The rest of the time you’ll tear his expresso machine out of his cold dead hands.
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I adore fried bread! But you lot can all stoppit!!
I only have 6Kg to lose now and I'm very determined!
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I have spent the morning sticking flowers, made by my art class (aged 11) to a board. They will be cut out and become part of a large 'sculpture'.
Here is a photo.
Tomorrow butterflies!
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The heating at work is broken. I'm free this afternoon! (Well, I'm going to do a bit of work at home.)
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Absolutely gorgeous day here - the moors are still snow-covered and really sparkle in the sun at this time of day. (late-ish afternoon)
Hopefully it will get warmer and Spring will arrive. I'm optimistic! (still a bit chilly up north!)
Mothering Sunday celebrated very happily with daughter and flowers. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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The joys of having a new 10 week old puppy. He is the centre of attraction at shops; church and hairdresser. Also a frequent visitor to vet!!! First injections x 2 lots and 10am mircro-chip today. He is getting a complex about visiting the vet
What sort of dog have you got? It sounds like he' getting well and truly socialised.
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He is a Yorkie. And a real handful.
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LeRoc
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Some tiny snow flakes in MK this morning. When is this 'spring' thing going to happen?
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Ariel
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2017.
(We wouldn't want to rush into anything, would we?)
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Welease Woderwick
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It's well on the way here.
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Ariel
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Do you actually have spring in South India? If so, how does it manifest itself?
I'd have expected it would be more the three standard seasons of equatorial countries: hot, hotter and rainy.
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Welease Woderwick
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Well, it is moving toward hotter here at the moment; a bit earlier than usual, I think - but I think I am so attuned to the four seasons from growing up in UK that I still tend to think that way. But indicators of spring here are thinks like the mangoes beginning to ripen and the hedges coming into bloom. It's a great time of year.
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LeRoc
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Heh, I'm used to the mangoes ripening in November in Brazil.
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The lurgy has struck, just a week after my mother commented to me that I'd gone all winter without a cold.
Half the office has the sniffles, and one of our team is off today.
Woe is me! Woe is me!
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Welease Woderwick
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The Priyu variety will be in the shops next month and then we move on through until September of October - the Neelam, my favourite, and the Tinduram, etc. will be a bit later - the Neelam are just the most wonderful fruit ever. There are imports from other states almost all year.
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LeRoc
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Hm, we call the most common ones manga rosa and manga espada in Brazil (I have the latter variety in my garden). I'll do a bit of duckduckgoing to find out if they coincide with the Indian ones.
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I think of mangoes as being seasonal in June because that is when you see ripe Indian/Pakistani ones at markets sold by the box. So much better than rock-hard supermarket ones.
Over the weekend I visited an Asian supermarket in Southall and now have a fruitbowl full of yellow guava, custard apples and passion fruit.
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LeRoc
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ArachnidinElmet: Over the weekend I visited an Asian supermarket in Southall
Which of the 100,000 ones?
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ArachnidinElmet: Over the weekend I visited an Asian supermarket in Southall
Which of the 100,000 ones?
Good Point. I meant large supermarket, rather than small shop or market stall, though that probably doesn't narrow it down much either.
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We just pick a passionfruit or 2 as we need them - they grow almost as prolifically as a choko vine.
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Mmm, mangoes. One of my abiding memories of being in Kenya a couple of years ago was mango fresh from the tree. Being a westerner, I was not quite so adept at eating it and ended up covered in juice, but thoroughly happy.
Having had our ofsted report published (official verdict: good, but we knew that!), we now have our SIAMS (church school) inspection all day tomorrow - we've had a week's notice of this, rather than the half-day ofsted give, which somehow seems to have made it worse. Time enough to really get worried, but not to do much that's truly productive. Fingers crossed...
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Good luck again, Moonfruit!
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My son had a mango tree in the front yard of his previous Defence Force house. They had to pick the mangoes as quickly as they could before the fruit bats got to them, hence the freezer was well-stocked with fruit. They were Kensington Pride, I believe, which may have come as a seed from India, but was cultivated in North Queensland, and is now a major variety across northern Australia.
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We leave Kenya at the end of the month so will miss our mango and avocado trees coming into fruit.
The weather pattern here has been really weird for the last year so nothing has quite done what it usually does at the usual time.
I really will be sad about not picking mango and avocado straight from the tree....but fully intend to compensate with cheese once I'm back in the UK!
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Kensington Pride are the best mangoes, IOHO.
Sydney is marginal for mangoes and avocadoes. I know of one ancient avocado tree in Darling Point, which bears very good fruit and there are others around. The area around Bayview is good as it's pretty well sheltered from the south and the temperatures are moderated at sea level.
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All this talk of mangoes reminds me of this poem. Mmm.
Years ago, we had some friends whose family came over from Pakistan with a suitcase of fruit from their back garden. Probably totally illegal, definitely totally scrummy...
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Welease Woderwick
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Thanks for the link, Ferijen, great poem!
Some people say that the best way to eat a mango is to smear the flesh over your naked partner and then lick it off - but that's a bit too messy even for me!
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LeRoc
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Hehe, I do admit that after 14+ years in Brazil, my face still gets messy eating a mango. As it should be.
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I really will be sad about not picking mango and avocado straight from the tree....
You will, you will!
I was brought up in South Africa. We had figs, apricots, mulberries, plums and peaches - too many to eat and even to give away. Wonderful.
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LeRoc
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I am a bad-ass coconut opener. If you're ever stuck on a desert island with a coconut tree, me and a hammer, you have nothing to worry about.
(On second thought, perhaps you do )
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Thanks for the link, Ferijen, great poem!
Some people say that the best way to eat a mango is to smear the flesh over your naked partner and then lick it off - but that's a bit too messy even for me!
Many, many years ago, I brought back to my brother's place a mango, which had just been picked. Since my then 9 years old nephew, was salivating, I gave it to him. His mother made him strip down to his underpants and eat it over the sink.
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I was just beginning to think from all these descriptions that the best place to eat a mango must be in the bath.
I've never actually eaten an entire mango, although I've had a sort of fruit punch that had mango juice in it and TBH it didn't really float my boat - too sweet.
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This is where it's useful to have rellies in far off places (Mauritius, FYI) as they all have interesting fruit trees in their gardens (it's also useful for a good supply of run, but that's another story). The first time I went over, my Gran kept trying to show me how to eat a pomegranate, because she didn't realise that we had them in the UK.
The flip side is when my aunts and cousins come over, It's my job to feed them European fruit and veg: blackberries, gooseberries, even parsnips are very exotic if you don't normally have them. Aunt #1 was amazed at how apple-y the apples tasted over here.
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I wouldn't recommend trying to eat an entire mango Piglet. There's a large part in the middle which would present some difficulties to such an endeavour.
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All this talk of mangoes has made me decide to add one to my next shopping list.
I like them chopped and mixed with cottage cheese
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Three big labs snoozing nicely after a long walk together. I have had two silly busy days. I'm finding staying retired a bit difficult just now. Is this typical of the early days of retirement?
I worked Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons then helped with Brownies yesterday evening and we're looking after my friend's dog.
Too much! I must learn those words 'I'll get back to you' then 'no!'.
Luckily the Wednesday work is a short term art project - just three more afternoons to go.
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Welease Woderwick
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Boogie, you can't actually retire until you stop going to work!
Just saying.
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