| Lochalsh
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I always thought King Edwards were cigars.
Roasted, Lesley?
Reply #1221. Aug 16 10, 8:07 PM
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Deunan 
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A whole year? Wow! Congratulations on their one year of dating. She does sound like a keeper.
Hi ya', Lesley. How are things today? Remember, no taking the stairs two at a time for a while yet. Everything in its own time.
Hugs.
Reply #1222. Aug 17 10, 8:55 AM
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Jazmee27
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Hope everything continues going well for you.
Reply #1223. Aug 17 10, 9:18 AM
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| lesley153
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Nope, Lochalsh, King Edwards are one of Britain's favourite potatoes, and good for just about anything you want to do with them. I think they "went out of fashion" (food fashion? sad) for a while, but they're coming back into favour, and they deserve to.
 http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/137491/Roast-potatoes
Roasted? Yes, parboiled then oven-baked in the hottest possible oil or fat till they're golden brown and crispy on the outsides, light and fluffy on the insides. Nice.
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/roast%20potatoes.jpg
Thanks, Deunan - congrats will be passed on, and I'm glad you agree about the keeper. I can't imagine many people, of any age but certainly not young ones, doing what she did.
Today is good, thank you - every day is just a bit better than the day before. I'm down to about one codeine and one or two paracetamols a day, and am looking forward to being off painkillers completely in about a week, with luck. I am so happy to be able to do stairs like a grown-up again. Two at a time? In my best dreams. :) |
Reply #1224. Aug 17 10, 9:32 AM
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| lesley153
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| And thank you Jazmee too. Goodness, I did spend a long time looking at pictures of potatoes! |
Reply #1225. Aug 17 10, 9:33 AM
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| Lochalsh
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The "roasted" was in response to what I thought you were going to do with cigars. I know potatoes can be prepared that way!
Reply #1226. Aug 17 10, 9:38 AM
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garrysouders
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Good morning sweet Lesley, it is raining here, we are agog, havn't seen any in so long had almost forgotten. Carol and I had taken fluffy for a walk and were about two blocks from the house when the rain came, we got drenched, but it was heavenly. Raised my spirts and I know the okra needed a drink. Tell Johnathan for me congrats. Nice gentle hugs to you from me.
Reply #1227. Aug 17 10, 9:43 AM
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| lesley153
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That's a relief.
There was a news story years ago about a man who smoked every cigar in his collection, then claimed on his domestic insurance because they had been damaged by fire. I don't think the insurers took him very seriously. They didn't charge him with attempted fraud - they just told him to go away. :| |
Reply #1228. Aug 17 10, 9:44 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you Garry for the congrats and the hugs. I am so pleased to hear that the heavens have taken pity on your okra. I think the okra was beginning to wonder.
Do you think you will turn into a gentleman farmer who writes and performs poetry? Or will you stick with being a poet who grows okra? |
Reply #1229. Aug 17 10, 9:47 AM
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| Professer
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wow Lesley does not seem like a year am glad Jonathan has found a nie girl.
The best potatoes for roasting and chipping are maris piper also good for mash as well i learnt a lot about pots when i worked in a chippy, Desiree a red is also good for roasting but not mash and is good chips, is odd as i can tell the difference as well,
Reply #1230. Aug 17 10, 9:55 AM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Gary, it's gone quickly and I am delighted.
Ooh when did you work in a chippy?
Anything beginning with Maris is good, specially those little ones you can boil in 20 minutes. Desiree make brilliant chips and roasties, but didn't you find that they're very dense and seem to need much longer, gentle cooking?
I don't know where Vivaldi came from, but they seem to have sunk without trace. They were hyped as buttery. How about tasteless? A couple of years ago, I was in a supermarket and wanted Edwards, but there weren't any. The management gave me a big bag of Vivaldi to try. That should have told me that nobody wanted to buy them.
We're doing well considering that a few years ago all we knew was reds, whites and Edwards. |
Reply #1231. Aug 17 10, 10:04 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Lesley, both you and Jonathan seem to have 'hit the jackpot' with the GF! Good news.
I'd be afraid to put hot oil in the oven...I'm sure the fire department would be involved. :)
Reply #1232. Aug 17 10, 10:09 AM
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| Lochalsh
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There was a news story years ago about a man who smoked every cigar in his collection, then claimed on his domestic insurance because they had been damaged by fire. I don't think the insurers took him very seriously. They didn't charge him with attempted fraud - they just told him to go away. :|
Men and their cigars! (Oops, Freudian slip. ;))
Was that claim made in the UK? Are you all (you lot) emulating our litigious, fraud-ridden society across the pond?
Reply #1233. Aug 17 10, 10:22 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Okra-homa! It's that time of year!(It is good stuff, especially in gumbo and when fried.)
Reply #1234. Aug 17 10, 10:23 AM
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| Professer
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Lesley long story regards working in Chippy but basics was i was in bedsit so lived on chips. A greek chap took over and we got quite friendly me him and his wife and he offered to teach me the trade so took him up on it.
He was taught by his father in law who was best fish n chips in bridgenorth, I worked for him for 2,5 years until my asthma prevented me carrying on. However on one occassions he had trouble in shop and his wife was pregnant and was busiest day friday tea time so i took over the running of thigs whilst she was taken to hospital, cut a long story short his fatehr in law offered to bank roll me in a shop of my own as he thought i was a better fryer then hos son in law des. I did enjoy it and learnt a lot about potatos etc.
Reply #1235. Aug 17 10, 10:43 AM
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| lesley153
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VM, haven't we just!
You don't have to put a cauldron of boiling oil in the oven. Here is someone who has learnt to roast two pounds of potatoes in two tablespoons of goose fat, which could just as easily be two tablespoons of any other fat or oil - or even a coating from an oil spray.
http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/recipe-sunday-roast-perfect-roast-potatoes-95
Yes, I believe it was made in Britain. Where else? Stella Awards have gone to people who blamed Taser for not making it easy to distinguish their stun gun from a real gun which shoots bullets and kills people: or blamed fast food for failing to warn customers that fast food is unhealthy; or was attacked by a bird outside a shop, and sued the owners of the shop for allowing wild birds to fly around unchecked.
Oh dear - it seems that it wasn't made anywhere.
http://overlawyered.com/2003/06/lawsuit-urban-legends/
That's really disappointing. :(
Okrahoma? Brilliant! Garry - here's your trade name! |
Reply #1236. Aug 17 10, 11:02 AM
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| lesley153
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| Gary, you'd have to learn a lot about potatoes if you were running a chippy. But you didn't say - did you accept the FIL's offer to set you up in your own shop? or just smile at the compliment and leave them to it? |
Reply #1237. Aug 17 10, 11:05 AM
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| Professer
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My health dictated i said i thank you most graciously but whilst my health is as it is i could no do it justice so turned down his most gracious offer. The most embarassing thing about it all was his FIL told him in front of me albeit in Greek that i was a better fish fryer then him.
Reply #1238. Aug 17 10, 11:10 AM
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| Lochalsh
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"Τηγανίζετε τα ψάρια καλύτερα από ο γαμπρός μου."
Reply #1239. Aug 17 10, 11:19 AM
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| lesley153
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Hmm. Embarrassing. Many years ago, my cousin and her husband came to stay for the weekend, and I cooked all the meals. One dinnertime, we were sitting round the table happily scoffing, when he turned to her and said "Why can't you cook like this? OUCH!" as he clutched his freshly-kicked ankle.
Actually - and this is totally irrelevant - the weekend went well till Sunday. They wanted to go to the local Sunday market. I stayed to cook lunch, which would be ready at one o'clock, and my husband never wanted to go anywhere anyway, so off they went. They got back well after two o'clock and said they weren't hungry because they'd eaten a whole pile of chocolate bars. (She's the one I don't talk to now.)
Lochalsh, I wish you wouldn't do that! Translate, please? |
Reply #1240. Aug 17 10, 11:47 AM
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