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Started 2 years ago by GTS206
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GTS206

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Watching Gordon Ramsey and I need some ingredient help:

Castor Sugar
Double Cream

Obviously not an "eat healthy" espisode :)

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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Superfine Sugar/Heavy Cream :-)

Posted 2 years ago #
SunriseSunset

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Ah, but it's bangers and mash I'm now craving. Penny, anywhere closeby for authentic fare? I have Isernio's Italian version of British Sausage in the freezer. That may have to do me for dinner.

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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SS...

My house!

Are those the sausages with the big Union Jack sticker? You should make Toad In The Hole. Yum :-)

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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Hey ladies! You're making me hungry... just back from my first walk in two weeks, feel just great... now see what you've done, SS & Pennygirl... only know cure for what I've just contracted is a trip to Brittania Arms for bangers and mash...

No haggis...

Posted 2 years ago #
SunriseSunset

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Yep, Penny, Union Jack on the sticker. oldguybc--a walk must have felt wonderful after being cooped and drugged and flat on your back. Hooray.

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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Whoa, big hiccup there... anyhow, thanks SS, feels so very good, walking with a few smaller grandbabies, coming back to a few of the bigger girls making cookies with Grammie, gonna be a great Christmas for me, hope everyone else is having one too...

Posted 2 years ago #
DDF

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Mmmmmm...Empire Biscuits!

Posted 2 years ago #
VeganBiker

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GYS206 - Darn it, I thought this topic was going to be about PG becoming a yank!

FWIW after my last visit to the UK I now realize that I am an American!

Posted 2 years ago #
wally

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For superfine sugar, you can just process regular granulated sugar in a food processor.

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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I think PG would sooner become a ManU fan (aka= the dark side) before she left her heritage behind...
BTW, am going to one of those Barclays League sessions this weekend at about 1AM at the Brittania Arms, anyone do that up there?

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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oldguybc...

Oh gawd, what a choice. Is there a third option?

Posted 2 years ago #
VeganBiker

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ogbc - I think you are right about PG!

Lots of games on Boxing Day! Do you have a fav team?
And I am sure there will be a similar day at George and the Dragon and the Market Arms here in Seattle.

Where are you now?

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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3rd option, hmmmm, let's see, Haggis?

Chelsea fan all the way ;)

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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I'm not sure about the Boxing Day games VB. This weekend nearly everything was cancelled due to the snow, including my long awaited Wolves/Baggies clash :-(

Who knows if they'll have it all shovelled out by this weekend.

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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VB, our dear friend Margaret just went back to dear old Blighty for the season (she is the one that used to translate for you, PG & H8 (BTW what has become of the portly head chopper?), i.e., apples and pears, Bob's your uncle, etc.

Posted 2 years ago #
oldguybc

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PG... they've got a good chance against Wigan... (?)

Posted 2 years ago #
gordy

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Haggis is actually pretty tasty if you don't think about the ingredients. What I remember from English meals is gammon (ham steak) served with roast potatoes. All desserts seemed to involve heavy cream. ahhhhhh

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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oldguybc...

It will be a good old fashioned drubbing, I guarantee it!

Edit - I've always been an optimist.

Posted 2 years ago #
teigyr

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Makes me long for the Kings Head in Santa Monica. LOVE English breakfasts, even down to the poor soggy grilled tomato.

I could really do with mushy peas, does anywhere up here serve them?

Posted 2 years ago #
pennygirl

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teigyr...

I don't know who serves them, but you used to be able to get cans of mushy peas at the 'Hillbilly' QFC (tm. Alli) on Holman.

Posted 2 years ago #
Edog

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How on earth did we miss this?

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/justin-bieber-turns-brit-radio-interview-171320699.html

Posted 10 months ago #
VeganBiker

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Edog - ees not bad, actually sounds more of a Brit than I do! :)

Posted 10 months ago #
dsomers

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How do the bangers and mash at Fados downtown compare? I have never been to the UK and have nothing to compare it with?

I would have assumed that castor sugar involved beavers being done in (not Justin of course) and then sweetened. As for double cream....well that is clearly twice as much cream as is called for....which is never enough either way!

Vegan!! You have become an official Yank? Bummer! There goes my one connection to the isles!! <grin>

D

Posted 10 months ago #
VeganBiker

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D - I have people asking me where I am from but many think I am from the East coast, Boston area.
But I am listening to Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen every day now that the Tour de France is on and I can get a bit of a Brit thing going. So don't give up on me yet. ;)

Posted 10 months ago #
Mondoman

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vb - now that you mention it, I also noticed the accents of the two British commentators on the TDF coverage while watching the TV coverage on Sunday -- really enjoyed them. I think one of them is Liverpudlian -- is that right?
Also, any good website recs for TDF, both summary and full-day coverage?

Posted 10 months ago #
Ernie

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Mondo:

http://velonews.competitor.com/

http://www.letour.fr/indexTDF_us.html

If you have cable, it's live every day on CBS Sports Network. We DVR the live show with Paul and Phil, watching right now.

Posted 10 months ago #
pennygirl

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Mondo...

Liggett is a Scouser and Sherwen is nearly a Scouser.

Posted 10 months ago #
iPlod

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So Liggett was a Boy Scouse?

Posted 10 months ago #
Mondoman

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Ernie, my $10 bare minimum cable channel set only includes the local channels, public service and a few others like the biker gang/hot rod/crabbing channel. No CBS Sports...

Posted 10 months ago #
Ernie

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I guess, like so many things in life, you get what you pay for.....

http://bit.ly/Lxeor8

Posted 10 months ago #
Mondoman

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My lazy axx deserved that -- thanks!

Posted 10 months ago #
RichY

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Mondoman, look into PlayOn at PlayOn.tv this will allow you to watch the web feeds on your TV - I am able to get most network shows, all BBC channels as well as Canadian channels and other international shows. The software is a DLNA sever so it will stream your own movies as well to your roku, Blue ray, WII, xbox, TV and so on.

I paid $45 for a lifetime subscription and it is better than cable (ok much cheaper)

Posted 10 months ago #