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Wet Kipper
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it was a waffer-theen slice
a "shaving" if you will
I like the way the gritty, salty-ness dissolves on the tongue, and yes, the mint added a lighter "top note" to the taste
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Baptist Trainfan
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I love the taste of Parmesan but (a) it's expensive and (b) it's fattening.
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I love the taste of Parmesan but (a) it's expensive and (b) it's fattening.
Don't dispute the expensive bit but fattening? Not according to the latest disagreement amongst nutritionists and scientists! Its carbs that make you fat, which includes sugar of course, and anyway, carbohydrates are changed into sugar in the body. Fats and proteins are OK things now. Which apparently just leads to the much-acclaimed "Mediterranean diet" of fish, nuts, olive oil and veggies.
This is all very well, but don't the Italians, at least, wolf down pasta by the bucket load, Greeks seem to eat their lovely bread at every meal, and Spaniards are a sort of mixture of both?
Think I'll stick to the Biblical instruction of "moderation in all things"!
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Welease Woderwick
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I'll check when we go to the shop next week but I think that Parmesan here isn't too bad at about forty quid a kilo, not that we buy it in that sort of quantity - how much is it in UK now?
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Welease Woderwick
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I'll check when we go to the shop next week but I think that Parmesan here isn't too bad at about forty quid a kilo, not that we buy it in that sort of quantity - how much is it in UK now?
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Ferijen
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Essential Waitrose is £15.40 a kilo.
Mine comes direct from Italy, on her return visits my sister's baggage allowance always contains several kilos of the stuff from her local delicatessen. The owner fulfils every stereotype of 'proud Italian foodie' when wrapping his produce for export...
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Originally posted by Piglet:
Parmesan cheese and mint ... ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Not sure about that at all, but to my palate, Parm is something grated very sparingly over risottos and, occasionally, over Piglet's Pancetta Pasta; it would never occur to me to eat it in chunks.
You're missing something ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
In Florence there is a very nice eatery by the name of the Hostelry of the Holy Spirit. We largely went there because we liked the name (having once been good little penties) but it turns out that the Holy Spirit is running an excellent kitchen ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) . Rather than grating the parmesan into the risotto, they throw it in big chunks which are only partly melted when it arrives at the table. It is utterly delicious. Since then, we've never prepared risotto with grated parmesan ever again.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
Essential Waitrose is £15.40 a kilo.
Certain other retailers have it cheaper. (I've never bought it there, but said store does a splendid Hungarian Tokai wine at a ridiculous price at Christmas-time).
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Sioni Sais
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For what it's worth we've just had a very nice risotto with courgettes, leeks and peppers but no cheese.
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I've been a slightly busy piglet today; we had coffee and a catch-up with a couple of friends in the afternoon, and then I made a batch of chicken stock (mostly in order to clear the chicken carcasses out of the freezer) and I've now got a pot of bacon, lentil and tomato soup bubbling merrily on the stove for tomorrow's lunch.
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I'm also v. pissed off at Bill the Usually Absent Handyman for being, once again, completely absent on a day when he could have got the outside painting finished. If he doesn't turn up tomorrow (for which the forecast is good) I'll be monstrously pissed off, as on Monday the Americans are supposed to be sending us the remains of Colin, their current hurricane, along with several inches of rain. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Ferijen
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
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Originally posted by Ferijen:
Essential Waitrose is £15.40 a kilo.
Certain other retailers have it cheaper. (I've never bought it there, but said store does a splendid Hungarian Tokai wine at a ridiculous price at Christmas-time).
Indeed... Sadly Certain Other Retailers don't deliver and have an app on my phone.
Whenever I go to Aldi (I try to avoid going into any supermarket) I get distracted by the Aisle Of Pointless Stuff I Don't Need. Craft stuff for Ferijenet this week (when I learned that an A3 pad of paper is awkward to fit into the pram. The chocolate brioche is amazing. Love that stuff...
The elder ferijenet (just turned 4) is camping with his Dad at scout camp this weekend, so it's me and baby ferijenet who has just for the first time given me nearly five hours of sleep in a row. Sadly he now thinks it's time for a party to celebrate,.. Yawn... ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
In other food related news, last night I cut myself a slice of Parmesan cheese (may have been generic Italian Hard Cheese™) with the same knife my wife had just used to chop fresh mint leaves.
The combined taste effect was most pleasant
is this another one of these "strawberry & balsamic vinegar" combinations that refined palates are already aware of, or have I stumbled across something new ?
I was just browsing the New York Times website. Mark Bittman, Times food columnist and cookbook author, has a recipe posted for " Pasta with Mint and Parmesan." I believe this was just posted today, so he obviously got the idea from this thread.
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I would like to make clear that my post above concerning Mark Bittman was said as a joke*. Mr. Bittman is a distinguished writer, and his cookbooks are excellent. I was not seriously accusing him of getting his ideas from a thread on British weather on a website I doubt he's ever heard of! It's a fun coincidence, but nothing more.
*Notice the wink.
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Parmesan? Yuk. That is all.
![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
(I suppose it is just as well that people have different tastes, but...MrStEverild has currently got some Brie in, and it is making its presence felt throughout the entire house. And its presence is...unpleasant! He says it tastes wonderful!)
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Welease Woderwick
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Okay, today I bought Parmesan at £24 per kilo which, considering how far it has to travel to get here is not too bad.
As for Brie, I love it but last year a UK friend said it was, and I quote, the most disgusting thing he'd ever tasted - before he comes next time I must try to get some Dutch Kernhem or possibly just some Camembert!
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Baptist Trainfan
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My wife cannot stand Stilton cheese. I, on the other hand, think that a good one is a Thing of Great Delectability.
P.S. My wife likes the Hungarian liqueur called "Unicum". It has no redeeming features whatsoever and turns one's tongue black.
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We seem to be getting a slight taste of summer here: the sun's shining, bits of the sky are blue and it's neither raining nor blowing a gale - yet. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Still no sign of Bill the Absent though.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Okay, today I bought Parmesan at £24 per kilo which, considering how far it has to travel to get here is not too bad.
As for Brie, I love it but last year a UK friend said it was, and I quote, the most disgusting thing he'd ever tasted - before he comes next time I must try to get some Dutch Kernhem or possibly just some Camembert!
That's nothing! Try Pont l'eveque, which smells like the lid has been taken off an old dustbin. Livarot is pretty offensive too.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Piglet:
... Still no sign of Bill the Absent ...
He finally turned up! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) He's nearly finished the outside painting (just a couple of windowsills and the top-floor dormers to go) and fitted the skirting-board in the hall, so it now looks properly finished.
With any luck we should be able to get the estate agent round on Tuesday afternoon to take the photographs, and then it'll be in the lap of the gods ...
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Sipech
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Glad that Bill finally turned up.
Am currently stressing over an absentee too. I haven't had a holiday in 6 years, but booked a week and a half away, flying this Saturday. Tickets were supposed to arrive on Wednesday but as yet, there's been no sign of them. The holiday company I booked with weren't answering their phone on Saturday, when I spent 2 hours trying to get through to them. ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Hopefully all is well - I haven't seen any news reports of travel firms in difficulties. Perhaps they're having IT problems?
Talking of the weather, this morning I took out my wife. Here it was raining hard, 500 yards away it was barely drizzling and the ground was dry.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
... this morning I took out my wife ...
Really???
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
... this morning I took out my wife ...
Really???
That made for the plot of a rather enjoyable film starring Jack Lemmon and Terry-Thomas.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Ho-hum, such as the dangers of not wanting to split infinitives. Call it "collateral damage" (although my wife might disagree).
Alternatively, you might conclude that the rain softened the ground and so helped me to bury her quickly (in, of course, a shallow grave).
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Piglet
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And you a man of the cloth. What is the world coming to?
![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
In other news, the predicted weather seems to have arrived (thank you JJ ) and the view from outside my office has gone away. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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By not using an infinitive in the sentence at all, you were certainly guaranteed not to split one.
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Sioni Sais
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Had an exceellent vegetarian dinner last night courtesy of one of those firms that delivers organic food to your door. £15 (plus drinks) for food like that is a steal.
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Piglet
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That does sound like good value. What did you have?
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Sipech
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Good(ish) news on the holiday front. Have been told that my tickets are being sent by special delivery and should be with me by tomorrow lunchtime. Downside is that I've now looked at the weather forecast and it looks like my first holiday in 6 years is going to be a complete washout. Heavy rain and thunderstorms is the kind of weather you want to go mountain climbing in.
So any (clean!) ideas for what one can do in a hotel by oneself for a fortnight?
If anything, I'm thinking it might be good if the tickets didn't turn up so I could get a refund and try again next year.
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Read "War and Peace" (in the original Russian) or the complete "Harry Potter" series?
Complete a 10,000 piece jigsaw?
Make a matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower (but how would you get it home?)
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Originally posted by Sipech:
So any (clean!) ideas for what one can do in a hotel by oneself for a fortnight?
Avail oneself of the hotel facilities - check out the indoor pool, gym, bar, whatever?
Practice your language skills with foreign TV, radio, chatting to people, etc?
Take an excursion somewhere else for the day?
Say "stuff it" and go and explore the nearest town, have a meal out, etc, despite the rain?
Wait and see what the weather is actually like in practice? Forecasts can be wrong ("Surely not!" I hear people exclaim).
Give up, succumb to depression and boredom, cut it short and go home feeling miserable?
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moonlitdoor
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My experience of the Alps doesn't amount to a weather forecast of course, but I have found summer storms in the Alps to be quite short lived usually.
Often it's fine in the morning, starts pouring down about 3, and then is fine again by the evening.
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Learn to knit, and make clothes for the fish and chip babies.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Had an excellent vegetarian dinner last night courtesy of one of those firms that delivers organic food to your door. £15 (plus drinks) for food like that is a steal.
In response to piglet the bill of fare was:
Sourdough bread
Beetroot pickled eggs with celery salt
Pak choi with garlic & chilli
Baby spinach, asparagus, broad beans and greens with tahini dressing
Watermelon, cucumber and tomato salad with sheep's cheese
Roast radishes with grilled asparagus
Roast red peppers with dukkah on a white bean mash
Not a huge amount of any but there were six courses after all.
For pudding an assortment of strawberries and clotted cream with link peppercorns, candied carrot and (outstanding this) frozen fennel with fennel sherbet.
That lot for £15, drinks extra. Utterly, utterly brilliant.
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[...] So any (clean!) ideas for what one can do in a hotel by oneself for a fortnight? [...]
Museums of all sorts and kinds? - They usually have roofs, except perhaps for the open-air ones. Though you might need to leave the hotel. But just take a brolly for the stroll to the place of your choice, or to the bus or the train thereunto (which have roofs too)! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
My experience of the Alps doesn't amount to a weather forecast of course, but I have found summer storms in the Alps to be quite short lived usually.
Often it's fine in the morning, starts pouring down about 3, and then is fine again by the evening.
From what I gather, this year's been rather a disaster since mid-May - and in part quite literally! Wash-outs in France, Germany, Switzerland and other areas. Landslides, mudslides, flooding. This is quite exceptional.
Moonlitdoor's weather observations don't seem to wholly apply this year, unfortunately!
Sensible advice for any mountains of course is (as has been suggested above): a) check the forecast; b) in case of predicted severe weather, simply don't go up. You risk your life. (You don't want a lightning storm approaching; there's no place for shelter far and wide. I once had a lucky escape, though I'm normally very careful. Aaargh! )
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SS, that sounds v. delish, especially the watermelon, cucumber and tomato - lovely and cooling if the other dishes were spicy.
Sipech, I think if I were in your shoes, I'd either buy a book of Grauniad crosswords or use whatever interweb facilities were available to download them (they're free, unlike the Times and Telegraph ones).
I'd also agree with Wesley about museum and similar - at least they're indoors (and might even be quite interesting).
Hope you don't have to resort to either though.
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Welease Woderwick
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Sipech - I am shocked [shocked, I tell you] that Piglet didn't mention GIN as as alternative way of spending your time!
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Sipech - I am shocked [shocked, I tell you] that Piglet didn't mention GIN as as alternative way of spending your time!
That obviously goes without saying.
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Piglet
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In certain parts of the Alps, GIN might be a very expensive, if enjoyable, way of spending your time.
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Sipech
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Tickets finally arrived (72 hours before the plane takes off).
If I am to spend my time in a bar, then if it's a holiday I'll be on the cognac, not gin. Give me some credit...
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Bon voyage, Sipech!
In non-drink-related news, we've instigated the customary proseed-cake for making an offer on a house in Fredericton. It's on the south side of the river (shorter commute, avoiding the bridge, which is apparently a pain during rush hour), about 10 minutes' drive from the Cathedral and all the downtown amenities* and looks as if it would suit us well.
Our estate agent here is coming on Thursday afternoon to take the photos of Château Piglet for the interweb; nearly all the tidying and titivating has already been done, but there'll be a bit more ...
Piglet, trying not to get too excited
* Fredericton has some very nice-looking restaurants which will have to be researched.
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Barnabas Aus
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Sipech, why not invest in the excellent Swiss Travel Pass [formerly known as Swiss Pass] if the weather is unwilling to cooperate. Unlimited travel, and free admission to almost 500 venues, and various purchasing options available. This is part of our next planned international vacation - 2017 we hope.
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In non-drink-related news, we've instigated the customary proseed-cake...
Ah, cake-related news. I actually had seed cake recently for the first time in centuries. What a shame it's fallen out of fashion, it's lovely, but I suppose caraway doesn't appeal to everyone and it's hard to find in the shops anyway.
Good luck with the house thing. I hope you find somewhere nice that you feel at home in.
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Sipech
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Originally posted by Barnabas Aus:
Sipech, why not invest in the excellent Swiss Travel Pass [formerly known as Swiss Pass] if the weather is unwilling to cooperate. Unlimited travel, and free admission to almost 500 venues, and various purchasing options available. This is part of our next planned international vacation - 2017 we hope.
I had something in my post. I was expecting train tickets for each of the journeys I'd had and a separate card which gives me half price travel on all other transport, but it seems the Swiss rail system isn't based on the same idea as the British (the only rail network I've ever travelled on) and I only had one ticket - and it's not clear what it's for. I spent 2 hours trying to get my head round it last night and am none the wiser.
I think a special ticket would have to wait until a second visit to the country, when I've had some experience. At the moment, it's as comprehensible to me as a drunk Norwegian talking about microbiology.
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Barnabas Aus
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From this distance it's difficult to tell, but that sounds like one of the varieties of pass. Although it's been a number of years since we visited, the Swiss system is much more unified and efficient than the British, and is renowned for its accurate timekeeping.
A friend of mine visits every couple of years, bases himself in cheap digs at the end of a tramline in Bern, and catches the tram to the main station each day, working out his destination by the likely weather and other factors which are most attractive, jumps on a train and goes.
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It was wet today as I wore up on my head as I walked it there.
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ArachnidinElmet
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It's been supremely soggy here too. I thought for a moment there we were going to have to take on two of each animal.
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Daughter cb's back garden has become a very muddy swimming pool. Her vegetable plot is drowning.
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