Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

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  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited February 2024
    Oops, wrong thread 😆 it’s all that talk about food…
  • Piglet wrote: »
    Kale soup is probably quite nice, if you put in plenty of garlic, onions and whatnot ... :mrgreen:

    There is a lovely Portuguese soup, which can be made with kale, called "Caldo Verde". Highly recommended!
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited February 2024
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  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    My parents (who in fact like kale, unlike me) told me that it used to be mostly grown as winter fodder for cows.
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Enjoy. . I've also seen a recipe for breakfast ones.
  • The problem with Kale isn't the taste, but the fact that it's like eating cellophane.
  • My wife, looking into the garden, has just seen a large rat. Ugh! (We've had them before, but not recently).
  • Kale and bacon soup is delicious, kale and bacon pasta bake is good, kale as a side vegetable is hugely improved by a scattering of snippets of bacon. We had a glut of kale in the garden one year and our consumption of bacon increased accordingly.
  • My wife, looking into the garden, has just seen a large rat. Ugh! (We've had them before, but not recently).

    Dunno how they go with kale, but ketchup is definitely needed.
  • My wife, looking into the garden, has just seen a large rat. Ugh! (We've had them before, but not recently).

    Dunno how they go with kale, but ketchup is definitely needed.

    And bacon. Don't forget the bacon.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    I can believe kale is nice with bacon, and it is nice with butter and garlic. Most vegetables are nice with bacon, or butter and garlic.
  • “ Rats were roasted whole at Brentford and on Victoria Dock/ and a day of celebration was commanded in Bangkok”

    ( with reluctant apologies to Thomas Stearnes Eliot)
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    edited February 2024
    My wife, looking into the garden, has just seen a large rat. Ugh! (We've had them before, but not recently).

    Dunno how they go with kale, but ketchup is definitely needed.

    We used to keep rats as pets (captivity-bred, fancy rats, not ones dragged up out of a sewer :lol: ) and they used to love eating raw kale, particularly as youngsters. In fact, they ate it with such gusto that I tried it myself once. Only once :flushed: . I've never tried cooking it, but quite a few things are improved by frying in butter.
  • Kale and bacon soup is delicious.
    The Portuguese soup I mentioned had chourico in it, so a similar effect.

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited February 2024
    I thought the BACON was for wrapping around the fried rats...rather like Pigs in Blankets at Christmas IYSWIM.
    :wink:

    @Piglet - a Tin Of All-Day Breakfast consisteth mostly of BAKED BEANS, with a couple of small SOSSIDGES, some MUSHROOMS, and bits of BACON...

    I usually add a dash of Worcester Sauce, and accompany the feast with some BREAD (perhaps toasted) and BUTTER.
    :yum:
  • We had a bumper crop of kale in 2022. In 2023, various garden pests realised that someone was actually taking care of the garden again, and our kale was attacked by two different types of caterpillar (one very large), then small snails, and finally pigeons. So we haven’t eaten anywhere near as much of it.
  • I like kale, I even liked it before it was a thing.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... kale as a side vegetable is hugely improved by a scattering of snippets of bacon ...
    Most things are improved by a scattering of bacon. :mrgreen:

    I vaguely remember having kale as a side veg in a pub somewhere in the depths of Suffolk, having never had it before, and thinking it was surprisingly edible. I can't remember what it was flavoured with though, but I don't think it was bacon.

    BF, thanks for the explanation - I'm not sure it would be something I'd want to try, as to me all that is required for BEANS is TOAST - no other additives (not even bacon!), and I don't actually like beans with breakfast - they get all mixed up with the egg whites, which is imho Not Very Nice.

  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    It has been possible to get Christmas Dinner in a tin.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Crikey! :flushed:
  • Ariel wrote: »
    It has been possible to get Christmas Dinner in a tin.

    Straining the definition of "Christmas Dinner", and indeed "Dinner" almost to breaking point.
  • Is one of those layers Christmas pudding?
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    Yes. What it is, starting at the top, layer by layer:

    Scrambled egg and bacon
    Two mince pies
    Turkey and potatoes
    Gravy
    Bread sauce
    Cranberry sauce
    Brussels sprouts (or broccoli) and stuffing
    Roast carrots and parsnips
    Christmas pudding.
  • Ariel wrote: »
    Yes. What it is, starting at the top, layer by layer:

    Scrambled egg and bacon
    Two mince pies
    Turkey and potatoes
    Gravy
    Bread sauce
    Cranberry sauce
    Brussels sprouts (or broccoli) and stuffing
    Roast carrots and parsnips
    Christmas pudding.

    How quite, quite revolting
  • Ariel wrote: »
    It has been possible to get Christmas Dinner in a tin.

    No, that is just wrong in so many ways.
  • Ariel wrote: »
    Yes. What it is, starting at the top, layer by layer:

    Scrambled egg and bacon
    Two mince pies
    Turkey and potatoes
    Gravy
    Bread sauce
    Cranberry sauce
    Brussels sprouts (or broccoli) and stuffing
    Roast carrots and parsnips
    Christmas pudding.

    Where can I buy a tin?
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    RockyRoger wrote: »
    Where can I buy a tin?

    Afraid you might have to wait until nearer the time. It is a seasonal delicacy, after all.

  • Delicacy?
  • Delicacy?

    I think a "disconnect your irony meter" warning was required there.
  • Duly disconnected!
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Delicacy?

    Aren't most delicacies revolting things hallowed by time?
  • ArielAriel Shipmate
    I'm just not sure how you'd heat it up without the layers merging into each other, though I suppose you could stick the opened tin into the oven then eat the contents with a spoon out of the can to avoid scrambled dinner on the plate. It is aimed at gamers who don't want to break off from playing, I believe.

    Hugely calorific, too.
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    We have coffee after church some Sundays, and it is a good time for getting tom know each other. I do partake ("half a cup, please") but then have some decent coffee when I'm home (where we never drink instant coffee except in the direst emergency!)

    We find plain black tea (which is how we drink it at home) to be the safest when at an after-church, theatre interval etc event.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    TICTH Scaffolding. Our building is surrounded by the stuff while they replace the cladding. Not only does it cut out a lot of natural light, it plays havoc with my phone signal. Oh, and the total lack of privacy while they’re working unless we shut the curtains which cuts down even more light. It’s going to be up for about 30 weeks apparently.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    30 weeks?!?!? :flushed:
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    Judging by the two blocks of flats near me having cladding replaced, it could well be longer than 30 weeks...
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Where I used to live, the bathroom had a skylight. When next door (a taller house) had scaffolding put up to fix their chimneys, the workmen had a very good view of my loo - and I didn't have any way to fix curtains on the skylight!
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    I’ve been meaning to fit a roller blind to the window in the kitchen ever since we moved here nearly 8 years ago. Now that we’ve got people working right outside the window, I’ve got around to buying one and hope to fit it over the weekend
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    Good luck with that. Fitting blinds in my house is a nightmare, as the windows have concrete lintels. Even professional fitters have sworn as they struggled.
  • I had the opposite problem in the last house I *owned* - the walls never seemed to be strong enough to take the weight of even a small roller blind or curtain-rod...it was a little terraced house c1900, but I suspect it was the weight of the houses on either side that kept it upright...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I need to get new blinds for the kitchen and sitting-room; when my nephew did the decorating, I asked him to ditch them, as they weren't very good (the one in the sitting-room got stuck on "closed" and I had to tie it up with string ...). I want proper ones that you just need to pull on one cord to put them up, and the other one to put them down.

  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    Eigon wrote: »
    Where I used to live, the bathroom had a skylight. When next door (a taller house) had scaffolding put up to fix their chimneys, the workmen had a very good view of my loo - and I didn't have any way to fix curtains on the skylight!

    Did you take an umbrella in with you?

    We had the same problem for a day or two when they were putting on the new roof. Don't know who thought it was a great idea to put five large windows in the bathroom plus a skylight.

    Windows in the SHOWER.... (which of course had glass doors all around, and the neighbor's eye-level driveway five feet away out the shower windows)
  • Gee DGee D Shipmate
    Spike wrote: »
    I’ve been meaning to fit a roller blind to the window in the kitchen ever since we moved here nearly 8 years ago. Now that we’ve got people working right outside the window, I’ve got around to buying one and hope to fit it over the weekend

    But which weekend? Nearly the end of Saturday here, and no start yet on any of the work planned for the weekend
  • TICTH rain (again).
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    TICTH rain (again).

    Same here.

    Squelchland Mudland Arkland is getting rather damp...and I need to go out shopping soon...
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Come to sunny West Lothian - it was a beautiful, if rather chilly, day here! :)
  • Took the dog out for a walk. A little drizzle of rain. Five minutes in the sky opened up, rain poured down and the wind was unbelievable. I tried to get the dog to hurry home, she was fine wondered what my concern was, and stopped to sniff. Wet rain did not seem to bother her while a bath is a very scary thing.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Lamb Chopped - I wish I'd thought of an umbrella! I just waited until it got quiet and hoped for the best!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    ... Wet rain ...
    Is there any other sort? :mrgreen:

  • Yes: wetter rain.
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