OK THIS POST BEGAN with my chicken and peppers sandwiches craving... hopped on to egg fried rice as I got some free eggs today (already have eggcups-full of rice (haha!!)), the red peppers are the ones I particularly like when I feel flush. They're stronger and less watery than red bellpeppers. The top picture looks more like "poor Baby Itchy Roborovski" than anything else I've seen (especially robopictures)... (she is poor because just about every time she manages to get 5 mins rest there I am again poking her out of the nest saying "come out you tiny trotter!" or something stupid like that)... ahem... anyway... Imagine having a doggie like that you can cradle in the palm of your hand? That's what Itchy's like... I'd TRY to get a photo of her but most of my pets photos turn out so unflattering... like that 3cm long ~ with ruler ~ African pygmy mouse pic, which has the mouse all extra-pointy-nosed, like one of the devil's sprites from hell... (read on for further details...)And re Lea and Perrins*... This was inspired by a radio programme I heard the other day... while I was sleeping... it inspired the weirdest dreams... I just found out this is an international phenomenon... is this true? I had always assumed it was a British secret. Like Marmite, Oxo, HP Sauce, marmelade, Vindaloo/Balti/Tikka etc.... I had a click on their supposedly "American" website. At first I thought all the British expressions were there to be quaintly Lea and Perrinsy. Then I saw the recipe was given in British style weights and not "cups" (which are an American invention ~ and far more handy if you want my view). Hmmm. Actually ... with a bit more clicking... I just found the Great Lea & Perrins International Converter Page... If anybody has great things to say about Worcester Sauce you know where to comment...
Here is a joke I promised a friend...
A sinner died and went to hell. He was undergoing the Introductory Guided Tour (TM) by the Devil to pick what torture he was to suffer for all eternity. "You have three options," he was informed. "Look first, then take your choice."
Option one: A pit full of fleas where naked men were being alternately whipped and then poked with hot irons. "No thank you!" thought the sinner.
Option two: A boiling hot room, flames shooting from the floor. Men stretched out on racks of sharp irons as molten lead dropped on all over their sizzling bodies.
"No WAY!" he said aloud.
Option three: A canal full of the most inglorious human sewage. Men were submerged up to their necks in the foul slime, hardly able to breathe for the sheer stench of it. Diarrhoea was dripping off their hair...
"Well, if it's a choice of those three, I'll have to go for the last," said the sinner without hesitation.
The Devil passed the sinner over to the Chief Demon.
Gratefully our sinner submersed himself in the putrid slimes. Only a minute had passed when a call rang out from the Chief Demon. "OK ~ tea break's over lads. Back on your heads!"
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR SOMETHING POETIC?
Listen to this:
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers...
IN THE NEWS:
Dwarves hide in luggage to rob long-distance coaches...
*ps I don't know why I'm pretentiously calling it "Lea & Perrins" to be "international"... EVERYBODY in Britain (except the stupid lady at the intro to the radio prog I flagged up above which I am "listening to again" who insists on "Worcestershire" ~ dur!... calls it Worcester Sauce which is pronounced "Wooster" the oo as in "foot"...
pps did you know (despite the legally required "best before date" on all modern bottles) even the manufacturers agree that Worcester sauce gets better and better over years and years well past the sell-by date...
Videos:
Harvest Mouse on Grass Stalk
Harvest Mice on Wheel
African Pygmy Mice Nibbling Cheese
(Winter White Russian Hamster) Laid-Back Spaghetti... (this one's new and really funny...)
Has NOBODY listened to my Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo? You MUST do... it is dead poetic... about a love affair between a 23 year old exchange student from the People's Republic of China and a rather odd 44 year old English guy... she is studying English... and partly in pidgin, she speaks pure poetry. If you WANT to listen, you must click before the weekend's out, as it comes in 5 daily episodes only saved for seven days, so by Monday episode 1 shall sadly have disappeared....
... Wow! I got all six continents again! ...
Yep we have lea & perrins in the states! Your post is certainly all over the landscape Gledwood LOL and.. making me hungry might I add!
ReplyDeletehaha! I'm just off to cook Egg Fly Lice... sorry nonegg boiled rice... chuck rice in fridge for 30 mins... fry chicken (in lea and perrins maybe!!) and have lovverly chicken fried rice... eggs are not allowed in this as I think chicken & eggs together is somehow sick...
ReplyDeletewell, your mean sounds heavy. I have bad stomach.
ReplyDeletemean? you mean meal~?!?
ReplyDeletethat was 2 meals... the chicken peppers sandwiches actually I had yesterday...
today I had chicken fried rice... preroasted chicken stirfried in chili-oil and a few dashes Lea~'n'~Perrins then the rice chucked over and fried highheat atop it... luvvery jubberly!!!
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I've had a bottle of 'Wooster' sauce for years and yes, it does get better with age. I particularly like it in a bloody mary but I do use it in cooking too. :)
ReplyDeleteI had to tell the pronounciation ~::~ haven't you seen the TV ad with that woman from the American deep south calling it "Wor-ssester-SHYRE saaausss!"?!?
ReplyDelete... & as for bloody Maries::~ indispensible!
Lea & Perrins is one of my favorites. My dad calls it "WorCHESTER sauce". My mum in law soon set me straight on the correct pronunciation.
ReplyDeleteWe also have Oxo, Marmite, etc.
Hi Gleds, Marmite, Oxo, HP Sauce Lea and Perrins.are all available and well used over here.
ReplyDeleteI think ill go cook some flyed lice for dinner and add egg. Take care be back soon
Hi Gleds
ReplyDeleteI have some Worcestershire sauce in my pantry...I always have some. You can have it with so much!
What's wrong with chicken and eggs together? Apart from the fact that it may be mother and child...
See, I'm as warped as you...heheh!
Thanks for your comments, Gleds. It's good to hear from you. BTW, I actually have another post up today...been a bit slack this week, but the post will tell you why.
Cheers!
Gled, thanks for the link to the Concise English-Chinese Dictionary. It's great. Listening to first episode right now.
ReplyDeleteCapsiacin is my favorite food category. Here's a thank you for the story link.
Thank You
Debs: Marmite in Canada... is it popular..? As the advertising says here "you either love it or hate it"... I love it as was fed it as a baby... can understand why non-baby-initiates would hate it though!
ReplyDeleteJeanette: didn't know you had HP Sauce Down Under! (you learn something new every day...)
PussInBoots: yeah Worcester Sauce rules!
Steve:... hey I'm glad someone liked that Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers... I thought it was fantastic!
as useful as sell by dates may be, we all know certain things last way beyond them. however, when you have a bean like i do, he merrily tosses everything in the dustbin once that date has arrived... quite annoying sometimes. oh, and they get me into huge poo poo too. i tend to buy impulse stuff and they end up in the freezer. once hubby pulled something out there that was 2 years gone and had a fit! okay, i would also toss it, but he needn't know about that. proves once again, men shouldn't go into freezers when there's a woman around the house....
ReplyDeletei found some lovely food yesterday... in a cardboard box, on the street... pasta sauces, tea, etc etc... all long past its sellby date. I opened a bottle of peach juice a year and a half past "best before"... put it to nose - fine. No fermenting fizzing... drank the whole thing. Absolutely perfect!
ReplyDeleteAh I've read the joke now, I've heard it before but it's still funny! I don't know how I missed it before I must have been concentrating on the Lee & Perrins or maybe I subconciously bypassed it as it didn't go with the food content of the post too well. :)
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