That all sounds very yummy...! When I'm cooking I like to add extras to make whatever I'm cooking a little more special and a little healthier. A healthy body is a happy body after all.
Meatballs have to be made with love. And shop meatballs are revolting. And nobody hates making pasta and meat and tomatoes more than my wife. Sometimes on spaghetti night I feel I should arrange myself at a trough. 'Knock yourself out, pig,' she says tenderly. She eats one meatball. She's even part of the movement that exchanges pasta for strips of courgette, the most inedible vegetable after kale
The black stuff is Turkish olives, and the wrapped things are mini smoked cheeses, no awful pairings there.
I remember my sister always saying: "It doesn't matter what food you're making but it has to be made with love! It can turn any horrible food into a delicious lunch." I miss my sister, she was a very bubbly and happy person. Always had something nice or helpful to say.
I'm sorry about that. And that's a lovely thing your sister said. I was kidding around the fact that sometimes cooking is a chore and some meals especially if you have made them 1000 times.
Your post made me smile, it reminded me of when she'd said that. I love cooking! I used to really loathe it but now it's a pleasure making meals for my family. I enjoy making the Christmas dinner most of all on Christmas Day!
As much as I love kale, I was always taught to never trust someone that doesn't eat carbs. What are they hiding? Carbs are basically a part of the human condition. If it wasn't for the growing of carbs and gluten in the Fertile Crescent, civilization as we know it wouldn't have existed. Now trading that mass of curdled carbohydrates for leafy matter?!?! What is she? A sleeper cell for herbivores trying to buck out oppressive omnivocracy? Is she out for revenge for her fallen fuzzy brethren? Mankind is doomed and it's the vegetarians at the forefront.
That is definitely the best time to make it... Hats off to you though; Christmas dinner is incredibly hard work! And it has to be extra-good. I have only done turkey once and that was because I had sixteen people coming for lunch. Great theatre with my ex-brother-in-law carving ham at one end of the table and me carving a turkey the size of an ostrich at the other. I skipped Christmas last year - crappy time, won't go into it here - but the year before I had a very small do with a couple of "gourmand" friends - pate, soup (cock-a-leekie as "he" is Scottish), goose, chestnut stuffing, bread sauce, "drunken" apple sauce (normal apple sauce mixed with raisins swollen with brandy), Stollen ("she" is German) ...
They weren't quite revolting, they were "Swedish style" apparently, so like little round pork sausages, but I am generally with you. Thing is it is being inventive and using bargain-basement food that allows me to laze around and do wtf I like on a limited income write full time I have made a couple of very nice curries based around kale - you need to cook it until it softens though, which can take a while. Fully with you on courgettes though. I tried vegetarianism for a few months a couple of years ago and I discovered that courgettes are the most disgusting thing on god's clean earth with no more right to be on the dinner plate than chitterlings made from fluke-worms. Worse than parsley.
Ha ha yeah Christmas dinners are usually at their best on Christmas Day...! Yeah it is hard work, but defos worth it, especially when I see my bf and daughter enjoying it so much. Makes it all worth while for me. Oh goodness, sixteen people!! That's a lot of cooking... Suddenly just cooking for my little family doesn't seem so much hard work Aw I'm sorry you didn't celebrate Christmas last year, hopefully instead you'll have a super one this year!? I love Christmas! It's a magical time and I think, or at least for me, it's always bought people closer together
Excellent and robust answer. My trail is your blaze. She's okay with food, she's just so little. If she fell on my plate she'd be 'fucked up' as young fellas say.
It can be heaven, it can be hell. Whatever is going on between the ears, I have rarely known it not to be intense
That was over 2000 years ago As this is a cooking thread - I don't know about Christmas day, but on the Saturday after I have 20 friends coming over to go to a rugby match at Twickenham and then back to my place for curry... I love a challenge
