Yeah, got half a plateful in honour if Mick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
Yeah, got half a plateful in honour if Mick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
Look and taste like little snot bags, but hey! I'm happy for you to fill yer little pot bellies full of them. The more you eat, the less there are for sale here! :p
Mick
It's weekend so we slept over decent breakfast time. Howevers, for dinner i smoked some salmon and grilled some moose while wifey made some casserole of potatoes, cream, onions and lot of blue cheese. And of course some sea buckthorn juice.
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For dessert some cake with romanov sauce and fresh raspberries:
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And the gang of 'undetectable, silent observers' again.
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I think they have given me a sore tummy :-(Quote:
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I can't say no to this......Very well done Sailor. Bravo !!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor
DOGGIES !!!!!Quote:
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Before I show mine,......Tomi, I would love to try that Buckthorn Juice ! The Mrs' outdid herself as did you sir. Okay my turn You know'em,you love'em PANCAKES !!! We have maple links with cakes and butter n Honey. Nom,nom,nom !! :) Attachment 136952Attachment 136953
Oh by the way...for anyone who might be curious. I was showing off pics at work the other day and found out that lots of people take pictures of their food.....besides us of course. That's pretty cool because lets face it. Money is tight and when you can eat good,it's really awesome to revisit what you had and enjoy the memory of it. simple pleasures are the best !:chapeau
What are maple links, are they the sausages?
Looks tasty by the way.
Did you warm the pancake plate? :-)
Sea buckthorns taste like ... sea buckthorns. Pure buckthorns are almost impossible to eat as they are very strong and sour. Some love them, most hate them. They are very healthy; in a single berry smaller than a half of a nail of your little finger there's more vitamin C than in big apple.
Howvers, they are such a PIA to pick as the bushes are full of thorns. Takes few days until your hands are used enough to pick berries. I've heard there's some techical innovations to help picking these but i've never tried any.
In general buckthorns grow only on a narrow coastline here, mostly on hard, rocky and windy shores. They do not success inlands. We have 'few' bushes on our property and they keep spreading more than necessary.
From one bush you get about 1/2 litres of pure juice, so we get about 20-30 litres annually. We freeze them into cubes and my wife also makes some jam, or dries some and mills into dry herbs. Howevers, i mix one ice cube of pure juice (must be 1-2 teaspoons) into 1 liter of water. Even that is pretty strong and sour but i like it.
And now as we are talking aboiut pancakes. After seeing your pics i guess i have to make some soon. As a dessert, with cream and berries.
Yes...maple flavored sausage links...not too shabby.....Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Stop or I will call your Mom and tell on you !Quote:
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That'll work....don't forgetthe Pics sir !. I'm off to work guys.....have an awesome day ! :chapeauQuote:
Originally Posted by Sailor
i have in the cupboard a litre of sea buckthorn gin i made last year. never tried it for breakfast yet though.
sailor i will prune the branches full of berries off, put them in a strong bag because of the spikes and stick the whole thing in the freezer overnight. the next morning the berries just shake right off.
Inspired by all of Ed's Chef cooked mining magnate meals, I said as a joke to my wife, in the most pompous voice I could manage "I see you've got bacon out for breakfast. I think I would like Eggs benedict with that thank-you!" Lo and behold...She actually had a go at it. Not perfect, but it was something new to both of us. We could feel the arteries clogging up with each bite, but it was really nice. :D. Oh yes, and that thing that looks like the sole of a kids shoe is what we call Hash Browns (shop bought). They taste very much like I imagine the sole of a shoe would taste and I've never liked them, but I always seem to end up with one or more on my plate when SWMBO cooks them.
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Buckthorn here in Minnesota is a BAD word. It is an invasive species that makes people cringe. But I am speaking about European and Glossy buckthorn.Quote:
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A guy I work with was wondering around where the deer are in his woods there was much purple urine marks in the snow this spring. Whats wrong with the deer? The conclusion that we came up with is that they are eating buckthorn.
I went to visit Randydance yesterday and he had some yellow ones in his garden. He thought i was weird when I asked to sample the buds!!!:dropjaw: I tried one and he did sample it. They were mild compared to the orange ones in my garden. I then pinched a couple of orange ones but then they had a curly type of flower. Those were also good but had a milder and different taste.Quote:
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I do not eat mining magnates. Sounds like jelousy to me, I think I have said it before meals are a bit of a highlight of the day, though today it will be my shave for sure as it is musical acompanyment day. That's where they get us a band of our choice (resurected if required) to enteratain us, will either get leonard Cohen or the Flaming lips. Only kidding I have to use my mp3 player.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
Glad you enjoyed it, though I don't know what you have against.hash browns, you could always drown it in some sort of Condiment. That bacon looks good, I like bacon that looks as done as that.
Well I most certainly did drown the hash browns in a respectable tomato sauce, Heinz I believe. As for mining magnates, you eat as many of them as you can, but I think they might taste like snot bags too, so don't give yourself a tummy ache!
Bring on the Leonard Cohen...Hard to believe I thought the man a total psychopath when I first heard his music...Well that hasn't changed, but I like his music much better now. I must have gotten used to it. Don't cut the wires to the ear buds on the ATG pass mate. Terrible when that happens!
That bacon, thanks to my lovely wife, was cooked to total perfection. She knows I like to hear some feeble oink's, bleat's or moo's coming from my animal products :).
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Best for me to withdraw from the mining magnate conversation, they have ears everywhere you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
Heinz was a good choice, nicer than rosella from what I remeber, I think we have both in the condiment fridge, I might get a bit of both and compare.
I find lennie someone I can listen to over and over, there is a lot of beauty there, and I find that it creates some really nice aural imagery.
Got a steak the other night that was much rarer than I would normally order, pretty much only cooked through the first couple of mm, (Carl that is between 1/16 and 1/8 of an inch :-), it was fairly good, as long as I didn't look at it too closely, normally prefer it when its pink in the middle rather than red, but it wasn't bloody, that I would have struggled with.
I don't mind how my steak comes really, but I prefer them from a dark pink to arterial bleeding, but I find less arterial bleeding to be a little more socially acceptable. :)
Mick
Medium fer me on the steak . As for hash browns no mater sauce fer me..... sausage gravy !! Ah now that's the arterial mana from above that is ! Bacon looks good there Mick,glade to see yer eatin yer pork vegetables. Yer wife is cool for making the attempt on the eggs Benedict. I would eat a plate of that along with ya. I gotta go grocery shoppin tomorrow, already planning future breakkies. in fact, I am going to focus on breakfast more and have simpler dinners this month. I love breakfast (snif) I really do. Even if I don't use warm toast plates !!!!!! Ha I didn't forget this morning !
I have no idea what I'm having for brekky tomorrow. I'll have to think on it over that cup of tea I'm about to go and have. :)
Mick
Fruit for the heart, meat for the soul, dairy for love and bread for family........and tea.:chapeauQuote:
Originally Posted by MickR
Fruit toast, fruit toasT, fruit toaST, fruit toAST, fruit tOAST, fruit TOAST, fruiT TOAST, fruIT TOAST, frUIT TOAST, fRUIT TOAST, FRUIT TOAST. Fruit toast and a pile of butter.Quote:
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If we had some, I think I probably would have some Fruit Toast...With a double coating of butter. But for the life of me, I just don't know why I have the craving for it all of a sudden! ;)
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Fruit toast should be pronounced......... Only kidding, you say it as you please.Quote:
Originally Posted by MickR
A nice fruit smoothie with lots of bananas and strawberries sounds like heaven but I guess I will have a boiled egg instead.
kay you lot.....if we should ever meet face to face at a breakfast table,(you, me ,Mick) swords and shield must be left at the door and no dictionary allowed..fair dinkum ??Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
I reckon it'd be ok, I would be too worried about warming plates to start a fight, I guess that would be quite an occasion, would definately call for a breakfast banquet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightblade
In fact we might even run to fourth or fifth breakfast.
Right there with ya Elevensies too !:) I'm off to drudgery now...have a good day you guys !Quote:
Originally Posted by edhewitt
Well I will be to bed soon, feel like an owl, your all waking up and stuff, and I have to go sleepies.
A bit of porridge for breakfast this morning, sweetened with blueberries placed artistically on top to form a stylised map of Australia and including our Kiwi cousins Land of the long white cloud...Alright so I'm not much of a sculptor in porridge and fruit, but I'm not too bad with a pencil and paper.
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Good work, i like blueberries, but rarely have them, I might buy some on Wednesday.Quote:
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Like the book inclusion.
Glad it appeals to your sense of grandiloquence, your gasconaded mate (geez I love flipping through the thesaurus :)). ;)
Mick
I may very well have some porridge for supper tonight...That looks fantastic. You are the quintessential pontification of early dawn culinary artisianal endeavors(Pinky extended) Ha...I didn't need no Terantosorris fer that. What's dinosores got's ta do wid it anyway ???????:thinking:Quote:
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I assume by gasconaded you don't mean that I have been turned into a city in Missouri? Didn't know we were having a gasconading competition.Quote:
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Because I will have you know that I invented blueberries.
My, but that's a lot of big words you be using, and we ain't nought but 'umble Pyrate's around 'ere...My thor-arse only gives words and not meanings, so I don't know what the hell I said in my previous post. I just reckoned it sounded good. :) And you so did not invent blueberries Ed! Kangaroo's did! :D
Mick
I offered my kids Corn-flakes, Weet-Bix, Porridge, toast and baked-beans or any combination of the list for dinner tonight...Anything, but Noooo, The little so and so's were not going to accept any of that. The only damn thing left was curried chicken and rice. How I hate curry!
Mick
[QUOTE=MickR;1191896]My, but that's a lot of big words you be using, and we ain't nought but 'umble Pyrate's around 'ere...My thor-arse only gives words and not meanings, so I don't know what the hell I said in my previous post. I just reckoned it sounded good. :) And you so did not invent blueberries Ed! Kangaroo's did! :D
Mic[QUOTE]
by the power of Google, I discovered that gasconade was a frenchie who pretty much won a war on his own by his own accounts, so is now used to mean someone who is boastful, or it is a place in Missouri.
In much the same way as I am trying to introduce "carling" to mean indecisive. :-)
