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Post by rikita on Dec 20, 2012 20:41:29 GMT
i tend to forget lunch. and then get hungry about an hour before dinner...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2012 20:45:26 GMT
I missed lunch today, too, but I was on the road in Belgium at lunch time.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 20, 2012 20:54:20 GMT
December 20, 2012: Carbonnades Flamande from our freezer; steamed red and green chard with garlic and olive oil; baked potato, no dressing except carbonnades gravy.
Cerveza Nochebuena x 2.
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Post by htmb on Dec 20, 2012 21:20:03 GMT
I missed lunch today, too, but I was on the road in Belgium at lunch time. Okay, this made me really laugh, too. At lunchtime, you were on the road in Belgium; I was riding a bike through the North Florida woods alongside Hogtown Creek. Mine just doesn't sound all that exotic for some reason, while your excuse reeks of international mystery. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 11:14:43 GMT
It would be hard to reek -- it was pouring rain the entire time, washing away all mystery.
Today I had a can of mackerel in mustard sauce for lunch. In memory of an ancient thread where people wrote of drinking pickle juice, I drank the extra mustard sauce out of the tin.
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Post by htmb on Dec 21, 2012 13:21:15 GMT
.......is awash with international mystery.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 21, 2012 22:45:27 GMT
It would be hard to reek -- it was pouring rain the entire time, washing away all mystery. Today I had a can of mackerel in mustard sauce for lunch. In memory of an ancient thread where people wrote of drinking pickle juice, I drank the extra mustard sauce out of the tin. Once, many years ago, while on a long and arduous caving trip in the large, wet and muddy Rowland Cave, Arkansas; we stopped for a food break at a point where our cold, wet and fatigued bodies could take no more. When we opened our caving packs, we looked in, then pooled our foods. I had a can of Vienna Sausages, a can of sliced peaches, and a can of sardines in mustard sauce, and a can of condensed milk. (No wonder I was tired, from carrying all that weight of tinned food.) But all were smaller sized cans. I opened all of them, poured the mustard sauce over the Viennas; then the condensed milk over the peach slices and that was dessert. That grotesque (Inadvertent pun! ;D ) supper gave us enough calories to start the several hours return to the entrance. Note that it was SOP for some of cavers to drink the sardine liquors after eating the little fishies.
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Post by rikita on Dec 22, 2012 18:12:08 GMT
today i had a breadroll with cheese and tomato, and a croissant for lunch. they were meant for breakfast, but i only got around to eating them at lunch.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 22, 2012 19:06:50 GMT
Right now, a snack to tide us over until our housekeepers finish cleaning*: black radish-egg salad on slices of sour, "Russian" style rye bread.
*We are banished to the outside "porch" during the weekly cleanings. I had to cat nap in the van within the garage.
Later, homemade vegetable beef soup.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2012 21:23:14 GMT
Today I had two excellent bacon and endive baguette sandwiches with probably too much mayonnaise (but it was great!).
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 23, 2012 21:19:45 GMT
December 23, 2012: pizza at home. First, a Margherita, with fresh basil that is still growing in pots on the porch, despite the grasshoppers and cold nights. Second, a sweet peppers and onion plus bacon pizza.
And the famed no fat no mayo coleslaw. Someday I'll give the "recipe".
¡Feliz Navidad!
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Post by rikita on Dec 24, 2012 12:45:14 GMT
might have a yoghurt in a bit.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 24, 2012 19:26:56 GMT
December 24, 2012: leftover pizza, reheated in the iron skillet, to start, a bit of crispy fatty chicharrón, to accompany a small Wyborowa Vodka with a chaser of home improvised sangrita.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2012 6:59:25 GMT
The leg of lamb is going in the oven soon.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 25, 2012 13:51:08 GMT
I think leftover salad, plus some spinach leaves, some crumbled cheese over it. Could finish the 2 slices of pizza.
EDIT: 12:29 PM: Looks like it turned out to be guacamole with a handful of chicharrones, a Cerveza Nochebuena alnog side.
We'll see about that salad and leftover pizza much later.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 27, 2012 12:04:56 GMT
Time to open a can of tuna.
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Post by rikita on Dec 27, 2012 12:47:52 GMT
think i will fry the potatoes and red cabbage that is left over from yesterday.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 27, 2012 20:26:56 GMT
An elaborate salad, with abase of spinach and cress leaves, spiked with some cilantro. PLUS tomato wedged, sliced cold baked potato, sliced turkey breast, radishes. Optional flor de jamaica dressing, chicharrón crumbles, queso añejo.
Leftover add-ons: black radish salad, cole slaw and/or guacamole.
I had an aperitivo of Tequila Cabritos and a homemade sangrita chaser.
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Post by rikita on Dec 30, 2012 19:47:35 GMT
toast with scrambled eggs and tomatoes.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Dec 31, 2012 21:53:39 GMT
Sopa de Acelgas y Garbanzos con Chorizos* and toasted rye bread.
* A profuse gas generator.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 10:43:43 GMT
I am having a shrimp boil and using the last of my Zatarain's mix.
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Post by tod2 on Jan 1, 2013 11:37:13 GMT
I am having a shrimp boil and using the last of my Zatarain's mix. You've gotta tell us what's Zatarain's Mix? I take it that it is a condiment. Is it sold under the name Zatarain? New Year's Day lunch at my house was planned around a sweltering 36C but guess what.....it's only about 18C!! So no salad that was to accompany the fish cakes I made, instead petite pois tossed in garlic and tomato concasse, and Risotto Pomodori Secchi Pronto from Gallo! Surprisingly good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 12:20:37 GMT
voilà!
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Post by htmb on Jan 1, 2013 13:19:57 GMT
You cannot purchase Zatarains in France?
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jan 1, 2013 13:39:16 GMT
I have a big jar of Zatarin's Crab Boil that friends left with us, but we don't have much in the way of crabs in Lake Pátzcuaro, so I have used very little so far.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 14:27:22 GMT
You cannot purchase Zatarains in France? I have never seen it anywhere, but I have never been to the shops for expats where they might have that sort of thing.
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Post by rikita on Jan 1, 2013 17:26:13 GMT
skipped it again - and now i feel kind of sick and hungry. i got hungry about the time we decided to order food, so i thought then, it's not worth while eating something now, the food was supposed to be here within 45 minutes... now, an hour and a half later...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2013 17:28:00 GMT
Well, your baby is not going to want to miss his sixteen meals a day, so that'll probably make you hungry all the time, too.
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Post by rikita on Jan 1, 2013 17:28:55 GMT
so maybe then i won't forget about lunch...
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Post by tod2 on Jan 1, 2013 18:17:16 GMT
OK Kerouac, I see on the box it says "Boil in bag" - How did you make the shrimp boil? I've never boiled shrimps or prawns except for seafood cocktail.
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