THE LOCAL CHURCH HAS JUST TRIED TO KILL ME, I think. As I strolled past, cyder in hand, I got pulled into their barbecue: "but I've got to go, I've gotta be home in five minutes!" I protested. "This will only take one minute," the man informed me. Gestured to their barbecue. "All free. Take some!" So I had a beefburger. In a bap. With tomato ketchup. Took to munching it on the way back and .. ukk!! Inside was sloppy and raw. And cold. Quite disgusting. I hope I do not get food poisoning from this. "Hygeine", in fact, was the very reason I did not choose anything from their chicken drumstick display. Then I thought back... realized they'd cooked the chicken before the burgers (I'd seen them do it as I passed by earlier) ... so hey-hum. The worst of both worlds. Raw beefburger cooked atop an already chicken-salmonella'd griddle!!
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SAINSBURY'S ARE NOW DOING "VALUE" fresh mushroom tortelloni: £1.50 for 600g. So I got this and Red Leicester cheese for grating atop. And white cyder and lemonade to wash it down. Those Welshcakes are going to have to wait; I want to know they're going to come out properly or making them will be a waste of time. As I said, I don't have sugar in my kitchen (Matran once got really annoyed when I refused him a "loan" of sugar, disbelieving that anyone could not have it. Why would I? I never drink hot drinks now and don't do baking. So why would I need sugar? Also when I did used to buy it to put in my tea I was using nearly a kilo every week or two which I think is ridiculous (I was drinking a lot of tea and coffee ...)
OK wish me luck I'm off to cook pasta.
BTW international question: what cheese do people eat in North America? I've never in my life come across American cheese ... and seem to recall just once, in a totally isolated incident, coming across Canadian "cheddar" ... what cheeses do you have over there? Does America and Canada really do cheese? If so what is it like and what is it called? I'm fascinated to know ...
Ouch . . .
ReplyDeleteMy heart goes out to your intestinal tract . . .
i've not got ill yet though ...
ReplyDeleteAfter sitting next to someone with the trots on a five hour flight last night I hope the salmonella doesn't get you! :(
ReplyDeletehope you are okay gled!
ReplyDeleteas to what cheese we eat? i love swiss, i hate american cheese, i think that is the only thing american i can say that about! i also like cheddar and brie. i don't usually eat very much cheese though.
smiles, bee
cheese: monterey jack(mild white cheese), asiago, parmesan, mozzerella, cheddar, blue cheese, all kinds of strinky french cheese, american cheese is really plastic(or so I tell my boys), swiss cheese,havarti, and on and on. Probably mostly the same as you except for plastic cheese. The state below Washington is Oregon and they are famous for their Tillamook cheese and ice cream. Wisconsin(middle north of country) is almost very famous for it's cheese.
ReplyDeleteWhy did the church serve raw meat? ICK. Any meat I eat better be well done.
Pasta...YUMMERS
akelamalu: do you know what, the nearest i've come to horsetrots so far today is that sloppy white munched up fermenting grass flavoured Brie cheese. Ukk! It is the premium quality one (they even do "value" Brie now) ... it WAS half price, however. Maybe this means they knew it was going off ..?
ReplyDeleteNothing, as I say, has given ME the horse-trots yet though ...
Empress: so do you mean most of the "speciality" cheese like Brie, Stilton, Double Gloucester, Cammembert, Jarlesberg, Danish Blue is imported from England, France and so on and the standard cheddary stuff is home made?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about well-done meat. I've never been into pink steaks. I like my meat incinerated. ESPECIALLY when bbq'd - isn't that the point? Smoky incineration ...? Surely!
Oh dear burger sounded yukk, hope your not ill after eating it.
ReplyDeleteCatching up as always,your description of the streets of London made me smile, have to say I never feel comfortable when I visit my daughter, she lives in the finsbury park area, but loved walking up Brick Lane all those curry houses lol As for cheeses I love all the smellies especially Gorgonzola.
Delighted and relieved you still have a roof over your head.. :)
ugh! .... beware churchman bearing uncooked meat *!*
ReplyDeleteWelshcakes hot off the griddle are just the closest thing to heaven. Do make some. Shall I post you some sugar?
ReplyDeleteIt was probably the cyder that did it. The church saw that as a sign that you were a needy person and dragged you in to save your body and then your soul. (No, that's unfair of me; they probably meant well.)
the tortellini sounds good.
I am all curious about Welshcakes now... must look up a recipe. I plan on opening a cake shop one day and need good recipes that are somewhat traditional and that people have made at home or recipes that run in their family. If your Welshcakes turn out well mail me the recipe and they'll be Gledwood's Welshcakes in my shop one day.
ReplyDeleteOf course America does cheese, you goose! While undergoing chemo, I developed an aversion to cheese that I haven't gotten over (yet?). Before that, though--swiss, cheddar, mozzarella, cream cheese, edam, Monterrey Jack. Wait. This is making me nauseated.
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