RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 33 minutes ago, iL Dottore said: The @polybear version. SPÄTZLE A LA FORESTIÈRE (serves 2 -4. 1 About 232234 kcals) 1 tbs olive oil 120g Guanciale lardons* 250g onions, roughly chopped 250g celery, chopped into fairly small pieces 250g mixed mushrooms (preferably wild), roughly chopped** 500g good quality Bärlauch Spätlze*** Tin of beans Box of curly fries Add the oil to a large sauté pan on a medium heat Add the Guanciale lardons and let them sweat for about five minutes or so, to get them to release their fat into the pan. Add the chopped onion and sweat until soft. Add the chopped celery and again sweat, until you reach the desired crunchiness for the celery**** Then add the chopped mushrooms, and raising the heat, a bit, stir, fry the onions, mushrooms, onions, celery, and lardons, until the mushrooms are done. When the mushrooms are done tip everything into a bowl, but do not wipe out the sauté plant. Add a knob of butter and increase the temperature to high. Quickly sauté the spätzle until slightly coloured at which point, you tip the mushroom mixture back into the pain and give it a good stir and shake to mix everything up well. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve. Open tin chuck contents in microwave Open box, chuck contents onto baking tray and throw into oven Scrape onto plate Smother with tomato sauce Scoff Brilliant recipe iD @iL Dottore - there's hope for you yet..... 1 1 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 11 hours ago, iL Dottore said: To illustrate: @polybear and I have a long running “in-joke” about the merits (or lack thereof) of tinned baked beans and frozen curly fries versus homemade from fresh ingredients. I think that tinned baked beans (TBB) are, well, basically inedible. In fact (and this is really stretching it a bit) I could say that I am offended by any mention/reference to/image of TBB. As if Bear would be so inconsiderate...... 1 1 2 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 20 minutes ago, polybear said: As if Bear would be so inconsiderate...... As the advertising jingle used to go A million housewives every day Pick up a tin of beans and say Beanz Meanz Fartz... Well thats how WE used to sing it! 1 5 1 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iL Dottore Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) And here’s one for you @polybear p.s. you’ve responded to the wrong thread! Edited March 27 by iL Dottore Note added 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post polybear Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27 Bear here...... Wellwottacrapnightthatwas 🤬 - awake at 03-30 and diddly squat sleep again until gettin' up time at 05-30. Rattin' Piggin' Turdycurses. Today? Well no low flying donuts were encountered 😭 - instead Bear had to deal with this instead..... T'was a tough job, but some Bear had to do it..... Yep, another day at the Hospice - three shops today plus a House clearance** job (well, part of - there's more to do). (**Not usually undertaken - unless it's for someone known or linked to the Charity in some way; furniture isn't taken though - just small stuff) Fellow ER'ers may wonder how Bear can scoff such a goodie (it was a Giant ikkystickygooey Cookie, incidentally - and no, Bear didn't get to scoff the lot 😢) whilst being involved with a certain dreaded four-letter word beginning with D? Well even though din dins today (actually at tea-time) included Pizza & Chips, it was (a) a Mini Pizza 😒 (not something I normally buy or eat - but it was a part of a Co-op very special deal), and (b) the quantity of Chips (50g, or 110 cals) was a mere THREE Chips.....😭. The rest of din dins was padded out with 3 of 5 a day (fresh carrots, cauli, broccoli) - which is a mere 97 cals. Bung an apple in for pud 😒 and today's total intake was 1622 cals (apparently the normal going rate for an adult male Bear is in the region of 2500 cals). That's the secret - along with piddlin' in the pool, going walkies and 'umpin n' dumpin' at the Hospice of course. Bear gone.... 4 2 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 58 minutes ago, Hroth said: As the advertising jingle used to go A million housewives every day Pick up a tin of beans and say Beanz Meanz Fartz... Well thats how WE used to sing it! Still does for me with IBS which is strange because five years ago it didnt, cant eat prawns either doh! 1 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium polybear Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, iL Dottore said: And here’s one for you @polybear **CENSORED BY BEAR** On the news tonight there was a guy (in the UK) that was bitten on the hand by a "False Widow Spider" - it was a 999 jobbie and he spent 3 days unconscious in Hospital; the docs on just managed to save his hand and they told him another 12 hours and he would've been a goner - sepsis didn't help either. Buggerthatforagameofsoldiers. 2 1 2 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Gwiwer Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Hroth said: A million housewives every day Pick up a tin of beans and say Beanz Meanz Fartz. Heinz Beanz good for your heart Heinz Beanz make you fart The more you fart the better you feel So let's have beanz with every meal That was our schoolyard version. In other news today has been cancelled. I woke with a head full of cold. I therefore cancelled my watch as I didn't wish to risk spending four hours in a small room spreading germs to a colleague. In the end I slept until around midday. I also cancelled MRC for much the same reason and dozed through much of the afternoon on the sofa in front of something inane on the idiot-box. I had breakfast for lunch and lunch for dinner therefore I should probably get up and have something like iD's feast at 3am to catch up with myself! If I do get hungry I'll have twistellati in a basic pomodorous sauce. Because pasta really only comes in three formats - twistellati, flatellati and tanglytelle. And the sauce derives from tins which proclaim "pomodoro" on the labels. An early night beckons. More sleep should help this cold on its way. If it reaches you remember I sent it! 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 Evening all from Estuary-Land. This afternoon just disappeared, mainly composing an e-mail to the editor of a magazine I subscribe to. I've just finished watching the BBC4 program on Indian hill railways, I thought I may have seen them before but the date at the end was MMX, 2010 so I probably have seen them before. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 11 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: I've just finished watching the BBC4 program on Indian hill railways, I thought I may have seen them before … Yes, the Himalayan-Darjeeling just keeps coming round … 10 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post The White Rabbit Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27 Evenin' awl, A busy day, hopefully I made some progress, from whackin' it to the Kafkaesque filth which infest our lives through to more honest activity making 'stuff' through working with one's hands to turn raw materials into a finished product. There are a few things round home which needed repairing/fixing, all being well I crossed a few off the list today. On the subject of food, particularly carbs, I saw: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/26/forget-roast-mash-and-boiled-alternative-potato-side-dishes-kitchen-aide earlier. Nice to see some variety. Random thought for the day, why does some food taste better when cold and other dishes when hot? There must be a scientific explanation (I hope!) - but it'd be interesting to have a pointer as to why. Just as an example, my quiches are supposedly just as tasty hot or cold - though different - same story with my treacle tart, and I did some venison sausage rolls yesterday and they were tastier hot than cold (lunch today) though still very pleasant cold and my version of Gala pie (very crudely, pork pie with egg) is significantly tastier cold than from the oven. Any thoughts? ION... it's piddlin' down... again... hailstones earlier... pah.... I think I shall emulate Achilles and retire, sulking... G' night all... 14 3 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post zarniwhoop Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27 To the optician. 3 pairs of specs (distance, distance with 'intermediate' - what I use to read computer screens, should work for reading the Satnav and for reading the LED items on the controls, and intermediate plus close-up : those are NOT bifocal, which can only have distant at the top. Some amount of confusion along the way, and had to go for narrower lenses for these. Only the equivalent of a current Hornby d.c. 4-VEP was sacrificed (not sure what that is in Deltics, but slightly more than a forthcoming Roco HOe Engerth). Speaking to the assistant, she apparently lives along where the gas roadworks on the A270 are at the moment and she'd been asking the bus driver: Buses will be routed down Olive Road, Hove which is most of the way to Hove Cemetery - a long walk for her, and it's the the first part of the A270, from Benfield Valley to Southern Cross, which will be closed 8am to 6pm - for about a month! 2 20 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post New Haven Neil Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted March 27 A little thought about the ship/bridge interface - haven't heard any chat today about autonomous vessels that were all the rage in the news last week. No crew, so super cheap to run by a youngster watching a telly on a warm office in Londiium....or Beijing. I wonder what the computer will do when number 2 generator throws a leg out of the bed at a crucial moment, say, when approaching a narrow bridge, as a for instance? Turn it off and on again? Pah, full rant. 3 4 13 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted March 27 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 27 3 hours ago, iL Dottore said: don’t know whether or not you can get Bärlauch Spätlze in the UK Plenty of wild garlic about. Spätzle are just another noodle. I do like them.It is noticeable when you get south enough in Germany how they appear. 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 5 minutes ago, zarniwhoop said: and it's the the first part of the A270, from Benfield Valley to Southern Cross, which will be closed 8am to 6pm - for about a month! Not wanting to be Captain Obvious, but why cant they close it from 9PM until 6AM instead...? 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 Goodnight all. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Tony_S said: Plenty of wild garlic about. Spätzle are just another noodle. I do like them.It is noticeable when you get south enough in Germany how they appear. For a while here some species or other of garlic or maybe garlic chives was very popular in public garden bed areas in places like carparks, children's playgrounds etc, mass planted by councils or business owners as a clumpy semi- groundcover between the shrubs. I don't know if it was an edible type but the air sure smelt strongly of garlic whenever I got out my car at such places! Edited March 27 by monkeysarefun 9 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 26 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Not wanting to be Captain Obvious, but why cant they close it from 9PM until 6AM instead...? Because the good folk of Hove like their beauty sleep and don't want to be kept awake by the sound of jack-hammers, excavators and other heavy equipment associated with major road works. 4 2 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Because the good folk of Hove like their beauty sleep and don't want to be kept awake by the sound of jack-hammers, excavators and other heavy equipment associated with major road works. And it's dark then . 😎 Edited March 27 by Sidecar Racer 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dave Hunt Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 18 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Because the good folk of Hove like their beauty sleep and don't want to be kept awake by the sound of jack-hammers, excavators and other heavy equipment associated with major road works. The cynic in me also can’t help thinking that the council would have to pay more for night work. Dave 2 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Cuttle Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, polybear said: On the news tonight there was a guy (in the UK) that was bitten on the hand by a "False Widow Spider" - it was a 999 jobbie and he spent 3 days unconscious in Hospital; the docs on just managed to save his hand and they told him another 12 hours and he would've been a goner - sepsis didn't help either. Buggerthatforagameofsoldiers. I saw that a couple of days ago, think it was in Dorset. Whilst he was in hospital a pest control team wnt to his property and under a window they found a large nest of about five hundred of those little critters. What with that and the new menace of Asian hornets whose numbers have doubled in the South of England. 1 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, monkeysarefun said: Not wanting to be Captain Obvious, but why cant they close it from 9PM until 6AM instead...? I assume it will be very noisy - there are houses and flats. But who knows. 3 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BSW01 Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 Goodnight all 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted March 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 27 1 hour ago, Gwiwer said: Because the good folk of Hove like their beauty sleep and don't want to be kept awake by the sound of jack-hammers, excavators and other heavy equipment associated with major road works. I'll have you know we are the good folk of Portslade, not Hove! The boundary on the South side of the road is some way to the East (the Station Road I mentioned a few pages ago), and the first house in Hangleton ((which is part of Hove) is opposite that. 9 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 (edited) 1 hour ago, Sidecar Racer said: And it's dark then . 😎 I take it electrickrry hasn't reached Hove * then. Oops Portslade Edited March 27 by Winslow Boy 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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