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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: amigov6 on 27 June 2009, 17:31:14
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Just cooked a Lamb & spinach curry..(Saag Gosht on your indian menu). Served with mushroom rice.
I'm in England cooking Indian food so the irony is:-
Lamb:- New Zealand.
Coriander:- Portugal.
Mushrooms:- Ireland.
Red chillies:- Egypt.
Green chillies:-Zambia.
& Spinach:- Belgium.
Onions & tomatoes were bought loose so who knows? ::)
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We deliberately buy British food
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Well I have just cooked and enjoyed
Liver from New Zealand
Bacon produced from Dutch pork,
New potatoes from Jersey, (EDITTED)
and Greens from Lincolnshire,
covered with Bisto gravy - well your guess is as good as mine for all the various ingediants!! ::) ::)
It was all lovely though!! :-* :-* ;D ;D ;) ;)
So yes our food comes from...............everywhere! :D :D ;)
PS And the gas used to cook it probably came from Russia! ;D ;D ;D ;)
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A girl after my own heart there Lizzie :P That is my favourite meal , have you got any left overs you could send over :y
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A girl after my own heart there Lizzie :P That is my favourite meal , have you got any left overs you could send over :y
Well actually I always cook extra to freeze down if no one else is here to enjoy! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
I'll post it to you Monday! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Sounds great Lizzie...no mash?
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Sounds great Lizzie...no mash?
Oh yes, I forgot about the potatoes ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Usually I would do mash Amigo, but instead I cooked lovely Jersey Royal 'new' potatoes :-* :-* 8-) 8-)
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There are more pigs in Denmark than People!!
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.......and now I am tucking into strawberries from Kent 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) and double cream from (?? well it's Sainsbury's own! ;D ;D ;D ;D)
;) ;) ;)
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Thanks Lizzie I will sit at the front door waiting for it :D
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Thanks Lizzie I will sit at the front door waiting for it :D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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We are preparing our evening meal. As usual it comprises of stuff grown or produced in Spain. It is very, very hard to find stuff here grown, reared or produced in another country. If it is then it is probably from a South American Spanish speaking country.
I think it is a sad indictment of the British mentality to have everything from anywhere in the world at any month of the year. Probably at the expense of British farmers too. We were only talking the other day about plums from the Vale of Evesham.
Got to go my Pork and Cold beer awaits me!
varche
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzRPPEuJ-M[/media]
brilliant Zulu ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :y
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Lettuce from the garden. Local tomatos, local spring onions rest from as local as possible
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Sounds great Lizzie...no mash?
Oh yes, I forgot about the potatoes ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
Usually I would do mash Amigo, but instead I cooked lovely Jersey Royal 'new' potatoes :-* :-* 8-) 8-)
Oh yeah! Jersey royals par boiled, let 'em cool then shallow fry in olive oil & butter, mixed herbs, garlic & seasoning. Turn heat off & grate mature cheddar over, stir in & serve.
Indulgent & calorific? Yes but mmmmmmm!!!! :P
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If you visit Tesco, they are selling strawberries from Spain.
Today, I picked four punnets only five miles away from the store.
Support the local producer I say :y :y
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all our food is grown locally.theres a little place 2 miles away called asda and they grow it on their shelves :D
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Lettuce from the garden. Local tomatos, local spring onions rest from as local as possible
I had mine 'delivered' today..........From Tesco but still ended up in Morrisons for some bits.... ::) ::)
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If you visit Tesco, they are selling strawberries from Spain.
Today, I picked four punnets only five miles away from the store.
Support the local producer I say :y :y
Yet another good reason not to shop in one of those stores! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D :D
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If you visit Tesco, they are selling strawberries from Spain.
Today, I picked four punnets only five miles away from the store.
Support the local producer I say :y :y
I've been eating them from the garden!
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Today, I picked four punnets only five miles away from the store.
and it was fun. Went out in Miggy and took the wife and our son. Glorious sunshine and as many strawberries as we could eat carry ::) ;)
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Mine gets delivered tomorrow, from Asda. Should have been today, but I screwed up on thier new web setup. :-[
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We have the best animal welfare in the world. If you buy cheap bacon and chicken from supermarkets you are contributing not only to the decline of the British farming industry, but also the suffering of animals in farms that are VERY loosely regulated compared to ours. :(
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We have the best animal welfare in the world. If you buy cheap bacon and chicken from supermarkets you are contributing not only to the decline of the British farming industry, but also the suffering of animals in farms that are VERY loosely regulated compared to ours. :(
Don't buy much meat from supermarkets, use local place that slaughter and retail local meat. If I do buy in supermarket I look for British. But, like many of us, at the end of the day I am on a budget and have a family to feed and house........ :)
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We have the best animal welfare in the world. If you buy cheap bacon and chicken from supermarkets you are contributing not only to the decline of the British farming industry, but also the suffering of animals in farms that are VERY loosely regulated compared to ours. :(
And the highest rate of Animal cruelty :-/
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We buy everything local, there's an M & S food store within a mile ::)
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We have an independant farmshop on the outkirts of Immingham. The veggies are locally grown (Lincolnshire), cheap & taste good. They sell homemade chutneys & pickled stuff, the most beautiful duck eggs, bread rolls & allsorts.
Sadly the fact remains if you have an adventurous palate there are some things you need which simply aren't grown here. ::)
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Not sure I agree with Britain having the worst animal cruelty. The Spanish treat their animals badly. I think it maybe something to do with animals not having souls in the RC world but don't know. It is only in recent years that the Spanish have been made to stop throwing live donkeys off towers each year!
We have seen loads of captive wild red legged partridge in open cages tethered by brass wires through their breast bone.
They love puppies but as soon as they reach maturity they get booted out and fed at best on a stale bit of bread each day. At worst they get abandoned a distance from home and if lucky become semi feral.
I have a photo of two large pigs that live under a fig tree tethered by a short length of chain through the nose and no access to water, presumably they would knock it over.
If it was England someone would complain to the RSPCA.
One of the many corrupt mayors on the Costa Del Sol accepted over 100 prize horses as bribes/gifts. When they were visited by some welfare dept a quarter had to be put down immediately and more later in the week as they were in such a bad neglected condition.
I was deeply shocked to find out recently that in some places Britain keeps intensive cows in sheds for milk rather than let them graze free! I would expect that here where there is little grass.
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