Cooking Languange

[Jenny A]

My personal, special cooking language includes such words as "burn", overcook", undercook", "complete nightmare" and, "how the hell did you manage that?"

My cooking sucks!

Glad I have no plans to be a wife.

I cook because I like to cook. It doesn't have much to do with being a wife these days.

But I didn't have any problem with "burn," "overcook," "overcook," complete nightmare," or "how the hell did you manage that." My language barrier has mostly been in restaurants. --at least in English speaking countries. I do remember hopping up and down with my hands up over my ears to convince an Italian butcher that I knew I was buying rabbit. He was very good to me in the following days and I remember pork loin rolled around prosciutto, a cheese I couldn't identify, and mushroom I couldn't identify either. He was sure I would like it and I did.

Oh and the grocery in London the last trip was funny. We stayed way out in Barking which is very ethnic. British English with a foreign accent on top was harder than Italian or French for us. Where is the soy sauce was not a question we could get an understandable answer to, though we found it next to the ketchup eventually.

[Exian]

My personal, special cooking language includes such words as "burn", overcook", undercook", "complete nightmare" and, "how the hell did you manage that?"

My cooking sucks!

Glad I have no plans to be a wife.

You sound perfect for me.

Beccs, will you not marry me?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I just admire you for having the nerve to sample Limey cooking.

[Jenny A]

I must admit that while I go anticipating food in Italy, France, Spain, and Greece, that's not what I anticipate in England, Scotland and Wales. But I do love clotted cream and scones are good. And their beer is much better than ours. And I do like hard cider. Omelets for dinner and dessert are both good. I love lamb. Duck and goose are more common and I like them both. Malted vinegar is better on fried potato than catchup. And they have better variations on cheddar. Oh, and while not really English, Indian food is as common there as Mexican is here and it's very very good. Chutney as adopted by the British is fine too.

But I must admit that blood pudding is beyond me. Haggis too. Though I like a number of meat pies. And I can't eat out in Britain long before I miss vegetables.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Oh, I'm teasing. My woman's a Londoner, I'm expanding my palate and some of their stuff looks good.

I took a liking to lamb from living in Iran, and to broaden my cooking with it taught myself to do lamb stew and shepherd's pie made with it. I like stews in general, and English cheeses that I've had here seem pretty goddamned good.

I detest organ meats and won't eat them.

[c172]

Sure, but 'spud' is generally taken to mean raw potatoes, as in He bought ten pounds of spuds. You almost never hear He had spuds with his dinner.

Spuds are also purdies, pratties, and tatties.

We don't have purdies, pratties, and tatties, but do have taters, also baked Idaho. Idaho is famous for it's taters.

Do you have anything like what we can an English muffin or is it as I suspect and American invention? It's a flat yeast bread cut out like a biscuit, but pan fried. We cut it in half and toast it with butter and maybe add jelly.

I know you didn't ask me, but it was something I had been curious about for a while, so I looked it up. Apparently they do have English muffins in England, but they are called muffins. Interesting. I actually thought they were crumpets.

What we deem a muffin is an American muffin.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin

[Jenny A]

Oh, I'm teasing. My woman's a Londoner, I'm expanding my palate and some of their stuff looks good.

I took a liking to lamb from living in Iran, and to broaden my cooking with it taught myself to do lamb stew and shepherd's pie made with it. I like stews in general, and English cheeses that I've had here seem pretty goddamned good.

I detest organ meats and won't eat them.

I'm with you about organ meats.

[The Valkyrie]

Oh, I'm teasing. My woman's a Londoner, I'm expanding my palate and some of their stuff looks good.

I took a liking to lamb from living in Iran, and to broaden my cooking with it taught myself to do lamb stew and shepherd's pie made with it. I like stews in general, and English cheeses that I've had here seem pretty goddamned good.

I detest organ meats and won't eat them.

I'm with you about organ meats.

Agreed entirely.

My mother used to love making steak and kidney stews.

"Can I just have the steak?"

"No!"

"I'll eat out."

[Neo-Scholastic]

American Midwest Salad: fruit cocktail suspended in jello

[Alex K]

American Midwest Salad: fruit cocktail suspended in jello

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