daymare 
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You could try to be kind to her.
You could not go.
You could just accept people for who they are and let it end.
Reply #3741. Oct 07 11, 9:31 AM
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daymare
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You even know when MarchHare goes to bed. Keeping tabs on people it appears.
Reply #3742. Oct 07 11, 9:32 AM
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| lesley153
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Jazmee, thank you - I shall.
Daymare, this is a woman who lectures and preaches, and thinks she has the right to try to inflict her lifestyle on me. The fact that she is still alive is a tribute to my kindness and to my self-restraint. When I need to be told how to behave, you'll be the first to know.
MarchHare actually said goodnight to me, but you weren't there so you wouldn't know.
Jonathan is having a post-haircut shower. When he emerges, we shall have poached trout and pommes boulangere. TTFN! |
Reply #3743. Oct 07 11, 9:49 AM
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daymare
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"Daymare, this is a woman who lectures and preaches, and thinks she has the right to try to inflict her lifestyle on me. The fact that she is still alive is a tribute to my kindness and to my self-restraint. When I need to be told how to behave, you'll be the first to know."
I suggested, never told. Don't tell me, I won't care.
Reply #3744. Oct 07 11, 10:18 AM
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daymare
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lol
Reply #3745. Oct 07 11, 10:20 AM
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| lesley153
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He made pommes boulangere in his own flat last night, but he said that the one I made for us today looked better and tasted better, which was a huge compliment.
I made a veggie stock for the fish - yes, from real veggies! - and that paid off because the trouts looked happy and tasted happy.
Off now, with full tummies.
Peace. |
Reply #3746. Oct 07 11, 10:50 AM
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| trojan11
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Glad you enjoyed the fish, Lesley. Did you remove the head and wiggling little fins first - or do you like to scoff the whole lot?
Battered, I think, is the best way with fish. Well and truly battered.lol
Reply #3747. Oct 07 11, 7:01 PM
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MarchHare007
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Hi Daymare. Weather is fine at present, thank you.
Some days I feel it's like the movie - 'Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs'....lol
Reply #3748. Oct 07 11, 8:02 PM
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MarchHare007
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Leslie, My Pet Nerd's GF is rather sweet and a Vegie (as is he) - and she tends to over react with people who aren't.
I find it very annoying too.
So did my niece, when she deliberately piled her plate high at a family BBQ just to poke said GF...
I have no problems with anyone as far as food preferences or most anything else for that matter but they Do need reminding sometimes that is IS Their preference. Having dogged example thrust upon one is quite wearing.
Reply #3749. Oct 07 11, 8:07 PM
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MarchHare007
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Love pommes boulangere Lesley. Would you share your recipe?
It's So worth the effort to make stock from scratch and if you have lovely fresh fish they certainly deserve a well seasoned bath.
Can't come at eating whole fish so I buy mine filletted.
Something about having my food staring at me as I prepare it is a tad off-putting......
Reply #3750. Oct 07 11, 8:13 PM
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MarchHare007
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Does that mean you don't like fish Trojan or just a reflection on how it should be served?
Reply #3751. Oct 07 11, 8:15 PM
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daymare
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Perhaps they are looking for reassurance they made the right decision when they became vegi-specific. Then when they talk about it and others don't join them in their opinions, they get defensive and go overboard.
My 'overboard' person stated every women needed a fur coat. I informed her I don't like coats period as I find them uncomfortable, her response was 'it doesn't matter if you are comfortable or not. All that matters is that it's FUR.' Frankly, I don't care if others have them, wear them or just look at them. It's their choice.
Reply #3752. Oct 07 11, 8:25 PM
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MarchHare007
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True Daymare.
I don't why some people tend to become fixated.
As far as GF - she appears quite set as a Vegie but has to make disparaging remarks regarding what other people are eating at the time.
If someone finds something beneficial and wants to share the experience, that's great!
It's the beating over the head that can accompany the sharing I object to.
Reply #3753. Oct 07 11, 8:39 PM
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daymare
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Someone should advise her vegis scream when they are picked. Tell her where eggs come from (in great detail if she happens to like them). Then there is the subject of fertilizer and where it originates and how it often is used to grow the vegis.
Reply #3754. Oct 07 11, 8:46 PM
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satguru
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You can make a nice fish out of quorn and as long as you have a heavy cold would never know the difference. God forbid...
Reply #3755. Oct 07 11, 8:56 PM
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daymare
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satguru - I read 'corn' and then looked again. Then I looked up quorn.
Goodnight.
Reply #3756. Oct 07 11, 8:58 PM
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MotherGoose
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If a vegetarian starts preaching at me, I usually check to see if they are wearing any leather products (belt, shoes, handbag etc).
Reply #3757. Oct 07 11, 11:06 PM
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| C30
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My wife is Vegetarian, I am not, whilst it makes preparing meals "interesting", neither of us has a problem with the others preference.
It is merely unfortunate that as a Vegetarian she doesn't particularly like vegetables, whereas I whilst liking my meat, am often quite happy to have a meal consisting mainly of vegetables.
Reply #3758. Oct 08 11, 1:58 AM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, we both enjoyed it enormously. No, I put them into the liquid whole. The wiggling little fins have stopped wiggling by then, and it’s much easier to deal with the bits you don’t want after they’re cooked. The heads don’t bother us although I understand that they bother a lot of – er – normal people. Battered is good too but whole trout is good simply baked, or bathed in gently simmering broth. Yum.
Yes, that’s exactly my problem with The VEGETARIAN! But she was quite well-behaved last night, thank goodness. Mo lectures, no preaching, no threats of red paint. I have told her that carrots scream when plucked mercilessly from the soft warm earth – but not recently. I seem to remember that she avoids eggs and milk, which makes her approaching vegan. Oh and she doesn’t wear leather either – how annoying is that?
If people see what you do, like it, and copy it: fine. I don’t think preaching to the unconverted ever works. It only irritates and alienates. As witness piled-up plates of BBQ food in the presence of a foaming veggie!
Pommes boulangere recipe on its way.
When an omnivore entertains a vegetarian, the meal will be vegetarian. When it’s the other way round, the meal will be vegetarian. How does that happen?
I heard a nice little story from a friend of a friend who worked in a large and famous department store in Brompton Road. They introduced a new credit system for a small group of regular customers who were so rich they wouldn’t recognise a coin if it fell on them, mostly sheiks who would come in to buy the identical mink coat for each of twelve wives. They didn’t have to flash a card and provide a signature or PIN, like normal, poor people: they just had to be there, smile and wave, and make off with the goods.
One of the favoured came in for a fur coat. The new recruit who served him realised, too late, that he hadn’t identified him. Panic! He took his life in his hands and asked the boss what to do. The boss said relax, we’ll just invoice the coat to everyone on the favoured list, and delete the ones who query it. So they added a fur coat to every statement, and not one person queried it.
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Reply #3759. Oct 08 11, 3:35 AM
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MotherGoose
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My husband currently has two work colleagues visiting from India and he asked me if I would mind having them over for a homecooked meal (they are here for a month for work, and staying in a hotel). Of course I said yes and asked him to check their dietary requirements as I suspected beef and pork would probably be off-limits because of religion. Sure enough, he came home and said one was a vegetarian. So I made a pumpkin and carrot soup, followed by vegetarian lasagne, salad, and garlic bread and my husband cooked chicken separately on the barbecue for the non-vegetarians. I made a lovely lemon sorbet for dessert but our vegetarian guest couldn't eat it because there was an egg white in it.
Reply #3760. Oct 08 11, 6:34 AM
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