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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 10, 2018 22:26:16 GMT
Mish mosh soup remnants.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2018 0:35:04 GMT
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Post by rikita on Aug 14, 2018 13:36:06 GMT
couscous with some leftover green beans. and i somehow got this idea to mix a bit of peanut butter into the couscous, and that actually tasted nice, i thought ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 5, 2018 11:56:54 GMT
I had spicy cole slaw, coppa and feta. A very international lunch.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 5, 2018 12:09:10 GMT
Toasted bacon sandwich
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Post by rikita on Sept 7, 2018 13:57:56 GMT
bread with some leftover fried sweet potatoes and peanut sauce.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2018 15:14:28 GMT
I had a sandwich of grilled merguez with cole slaw.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 12, 2018 5:29:58 GMT
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Post by rikita on Sept 13, 2018 1:07:42 GMT
went to the office today and we went to a cafeteria for lunch. i had meat balls (it said they are spicy, but they weren't), with potato rösti (kind of small potato pancakes) and baked hokkaido pumpkin. also some cucumber salad and some bell pepper.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2018 19:22:34 GMT
I had BOT sandwiches for lunch instead of BLT. O for onion.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 4, 2018 23:42:40 GMT
I think your pumpkin is what we call potimarron in French. I've also heard them called Red kuri in English. They are yummy.
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Post by rikita on Oct 5, 2018 11:50:50 GMT
today it's leftovers: mashed potatoes, green beans, fish fingers
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 20, 2018 11:25:48 GMT
Since there were no witnesses, I put beef cubes into my soup of shredded pork and miniature macaroni.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 20, 2018 14:14:41 GMT
Ha! I confess to using cubes as well, but this morning I've started a big pot of stock from bones - a fresh chicken carcass and several little plastic bags of "used" bones, as from my little organic chicken that I'd been eating all week.
Not really having lunck as I had a late breakfast: the second half of thick omelette with more vegetable (greens, potato, onion) than egg.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 20, 2018 14:52:51 GMT
I am wondering why nobody makes pork cubes. Does pork not have a specific flavour?
In France, I can get beef, chicken, mutton and herbal cubes, nothing else.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 20, 2018 15:23:47 GMT
Knorr do. Try Lidl.
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Post by rikita on Oct 20, 2018 23:39:18 GMT
well, i don't often use cubes - but instead i use the powdered instant broth that comes in a glass, so basically the same thing i suppose.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 30, 2018 14:29:33 GMT
A deliciously oily Spanish dish of potatoes, onions,peppers, chorizo and ham. Should have eggs as well but as a non egg eater they were taken off.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 30, 2018 15:16:23 GMT
Huevos rotos?
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 30, 2018 17:49:54 GMT
Si.
They were quite shocked when I said I wanted it without eggs.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 31, 2018 18:51:12 GMT
I had smelt. Cooked it for supper and reheated the leftovers today. I love it, but must confess that my kitchen smelt.
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Post by rikita on Nov 2, 2018 10:54:00 GMT
will have some of the leftover lentil soup. there's lots more left over than i can eat, though ...
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 2, 2018 13:55:05 GMT
Tomato and onion salad at a beach bar. Heaven!
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Post by lagatta on Nov 2, 2018 16:04:03 GMT
rikita, soup freezes well.
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Post by rikita on Nov 2, 2018 17:09:51 GMT
yeah but we decided to have the rest for dinner today - that way, i don't need to cook, and mr. r. is fine with me just warming up what he cooked yesterday, even though it's my turn to cook today ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2018 16:47:15 GMT
Off topic: I am wondering what happens when Mexico catches you with something innocuous albeit forbidden. Of course, having used the system there (which Guatemala also uses), I know that you press a button at customs and have a one-in-ten (one-in-twenty?) chance of getting the red light instead of the green light. I got the red light once in Cancun and had my baggage inspected. For example, the Guatemala rules said that it was illegal to bring in any kind of nut and yet I had several packages of pistachios in my baggage for my friend. Considering all of the trips I made to the United States, I would say that I was intercepted maybe only 3 times out of at least 50 trips. The US accepts canned meats although it did ban beef products during the mad cow phase (maybe it still does). But I brought in all sorts of sausages and country bacon in total infraction of all rules. My parents needed them! The few times that customs caught me, they just confiscated the items with a regretful smile and gave me a form to fill out in case I felt that I had been mistreated. Reading various travel forums, I know that the general feeling of Americans is that they are going to be thrown in prison or have to pay gigantic fines if they get caught with anything. Naturally, I can well imagine that this is a fear that the authorities prefer to nurture, even if it is baseless. My (adoptive) father always wanted to respect the rules, but not enough to stop my mother an me from doing what we wanted. He probably would have visited us in prison. But what was pretty amazing was when my parents moved back to the US in 1981 after living in France for 9 years. One of the things that my mother did not want to abandon no matter what the cost were the last bottles of Mirabelle brandy from my grandmother's cellar. I think they had something like ten litres (more than 100 proof). So my father declared them and had to pay.... about $4 duty for the ten bottles. Here is a another (very amusing!) post that I missed when I was not home. It popped to the top of the page just now, so I saw it. Kerouac, of course you know that everything got way more stringent after September of 2001, with the C students manning the gates pouncing on simply everything. I think in the old days they were more realistic and probably more inclined to look the other way. One of my cousins has a funny story about bringing in very pungent Romano cheese back in the more relaxed days. It appears duty on liquor has not gone up terribly much since 1981. When I lived on the Texas-Mexico border in the 90s, it was a dollar a bottle. The main reason to avoid paying it was because no one wanted to go stand in the line to do so. I was very surprised at a friend of mine who recently returned from a visit to the States. She has traveled quite a bit to various countries, but is a consummate checker of baggage. She came back into Mexico this time with carry-on holding containers of hummus she'd bought in California and was shattered when they were taken away. It came out when she was telling me about it that she didn't know about the 3.4 oz/100ml container size limit on liquids, gels, pastes, etc.!
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Post by mich64 on Nov 3, 2018 17:31:35 GMT
I always put all my purchases/gifts into a carry on with all the receipts together and with the total noted ready to write this information on the custom declaration form that the flight attendant distributes to us so we can present it when going through customs. Well this time while going through security at the Dublin airport they took the jam I bought for my dad . While kind of silly, but I always buy my dad some jam. The security person was actually sad for me too as he could see it upset me, he very politely explained that it was now considered a liquid. I have been bringing back a bottle of jam for my dad this way for years. I did buy him a lovely strawberry vanilla jam in one of the stores in the airport (but his was special, unique and locally made from a shop I had researched in Belfast, Northern Ireland ) Lesson learned, I should have paid more attention to what I packed in the bag. Actually, I did not realize I would have lost the second bottle of jam along with a bottle of gin I bought at the duty free in Dublin when going through security again in Toronto, if it were not for a very nice many noticing the bottle in the bag we were carrying. Apparently, when my husband showed our boarding pass at the duty free shop in Dublin, it was the boarding pass for our flight to Toronto and therefore they were not required to seal the bag, however, if they knew we were then going on an additional flight, they would have known to seal it. Thankfully the attendant in the Toronto airport directed us to the Air Canada baggage line where we could check the carry on where we could add the bottle of gin, and the attendant told me they would have taken my jam too at the security check before boarding our second flight. I will not forget to pack the jam in my checked luggage next year!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 3, 2018 21:50:09 GMT
Oh, great idea about saving and organizing the receipts, Mich!
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 4, 2018 19:16:28 GMT
I had cod accras for lunch. I love them and hate them at the same time. I like the crispy fried puff feeling of them, but I hate the fact that you cannot taste even a hint of fish in them. They could just as easily be called potato accras or chicken accras and I'm sure that I could not tell the difference. I eat them dipped in spicy mango chutney, so I suppose that it doesn't make any difference.
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Post by mich64 on Nov 4, 2018 19:18:11 GMT
Two boiled eggs, some cottage cheese and a slice of salami.
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