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ARGH! That should read 'I'm NOT talking about special food ...'
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Well my wonderful Scottish friend, here are some of the things we eat here on the West Coast in Washington. I will just give you some of my favorites.
Corned beef and cabbage with baby carrots and potatoes. Love it.
Top Sirloin steak with mashed potatoes and milk gravy or a baked potato.
Fried or BBQ'd chicken, potato salad.
Venison and elk steak.
Beef stew
Chicken and dumplings, yummy
Since we are basically on the Pacific Ocean, we have a variety of seafood.
Fresh Scallops, oysters(hate them), shrimp, prawns, Razor Clams, Goeducks, butter clams, mussels and lots of cod, salmon, and halibut.
Are you wondering what a razor clam is? It is a small shelled oblong clam whose shell edge can really cut fingers when you dig them. You go to the oceans edge and look for small finger tip size depressions in the sand. Then you have to be quick taking a shovel full of sand out and get on hands and knees and stick your hand in the hole and grab it. Sometimes you need two shovel fulls of sand out before you go after it. More than once I have been down on hands and knees with my arm in the hole and just varily have a hold of the clam and a wave goes over the top of you. Very cold. They can range in size (legal to keep) from 5 inches to 10 inches. The depression in the sand you see is from their 3 inch neck that sometimes pokes out of the sand for them to feed on things in the salt water. You usually take them out of the shell, slice them down the middle lengthwise, batter them with egg and flour or egg and cracker crumbs and fry them. They are a treat.
The Goeducks look like the razor clams but they are anywhere from a foot long to almost 2 feet long. They are really ugly. LOL Google them, to take a peek. You make chowder out of their huge necks and fry the rest. They are very good.
I will think of some more treats just for you.
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I will think of some more treats just for you.
Thank you :-)
Yes, I'm a great fan of corned beef, although Mrs RD is not keen. We used to eat Corned Beef Hash as kids, which was corned beef mixed with the previous days leftover potatoes, mashed then fried. A meaty variation of Bubble and Squeak, which is yesterday's mashed potato and cabbage, mixed, mashed and fried.
I have enjoyed venison, although never had the opportunity to eat elk.
I guess various stews and casseroles are popular, world wide. Another staple food from my childhood, made with the cheaper cuts of meat - usually beef or lamb - cooked long and slow. Wonderful.
Razor Clams! I have never seen one, so found this link.
Goeducks ? Never heard of 'em, but now know they are pronounced gooeyducks, and look disgusting :-) I would try, though - if someone else cooked 'em <grin>
I'm not really sure what chowder is, either
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I will think of some more treats just for you.
Thank you :-)
Yes, I'm a great fan of corned beef, although Mrs RD is not keen. We used to eat Corned Beef Hash as kids, which was corned beef mixed with the previous days leftover potatoes, mashed then fried. A meaty variation of Bubble and Squeak, which is yesterday's mashed potato and cabbage, mixed, mashed and fried.
I have enjoyed venison, although never had the opportunity to eat elk.
I guess various stews and casseroles are popular, world wide. Another staple food from my childhood, made with the cheaper cuts of meat - usually beef or lamb - cooked long and slow. Wonderful.
Razor Clams! I have never seen one, so found this link.
Goeducks ? Never heard of 'em, but now know they are pronounced gooeyducks, and look disgusting :-) I would try, though - if someone else cooked 'em <grin>
I'm not really sure what chowder is, either
Now those are both gross, one looks like it has a tongue sticking out and the other one looks like it has great big toes sticking out ewwwwwww!!!!!
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I'll take some of your fried chicken and potato salad and sirloin steak with baked potato but you can keep the rest scooter not much of a seafood fan but love steak and chicken....
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I'll take some of your fried chicken and potato salad and sirloin steak with baked potato but you can keep the rest scooter not much of a seafood fan but love steak and chicken....
We quite like fish, and have been eating pollock recently. Pollock is a white fish, like cod, although not one I have seen for sale in the UK until recently. I think it is caught in Canadian waters?
Just enjoyed bacon rolls for lunch :-)
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I'm with you micky!!!!
I didn't like the look of those Goeducks AT ALL - hmph and you talk about haggis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Morning all. Sounds like we have some very interesting foods this morning.
We eat a lot of mexican food such as enchiladas, tacos, tamales, chili rellanos, pinto beans(red beans) rice.
Then there is BBQ: beef, chicken, pork sered with potato salad, coleslaw, pinto beans.
Steak, baked potaoes, garden salad hot rolls.
Dessert: apple or pecan pies, banana pudding, carrot or german chocolate cakes, these are the standard desserts around here.
Last night I made chili ( texas style) Just beef, pinto beans, tomato sauce, onions, garlic and Jalepenos. We don't make our chili with vegetables like they do in the northern part of this country we call that stew or soup.
Hope all has a good day and Scooter hope your driver wins the last race today. Mr. Rdee what a clever idea I like learning about different cultures.
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Morning all. Sounds like we have some very interesting foods this morning.
We eat a lot of mexican food such as enchiladas, tacos, tamales, chili rellanos, pinto beans(red beans) rice.
Then there is BBQ: beef, chicken, pork sered with potato salad, coleslaw, pinto beans.
Steak, baked potaoes, garden salad hot rolls.
Dessert: apple or pecan pies, banana pudding, carrot or german chocolate cakes, these are the standard desserts around here.
Last night I made chili ( texas style) Just beef, pinto beans, tomato sauce, onions, garlic and Jalepenos. We don't make our chili with vegetables like they do in the northern part of this country we call that stew or soup.
Hope all has a good day and Scooter hope your driver wins the last race today. Mr. Rdee what a clever idea I like learning about different cultures.
should be served my fingers are not working yet this morning More Coffee for me LOL
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We eat a lot of mexican food such as enchiladas, tacos, tamales, chili rellanos, pinto beans(red beans) rice.
Then there is BBQ: beef, chicken, pork sered with potato salad, coleslaw, pinto beans.
Steak, baked potaoes, garden salad hot rolls.
Dessert: apple or pecan pies, banana pudding, carrot or german chocolate cakes, these are the standard desserts around here.
Last night I made chili ( texas style) Just beef, pinto beans, tomato sauce, onions, garlic and Jalepenos. We don't make our chili with vegetables like they do in the northern part of this country we call that stew or soup.
Hope all has a good day and Scooter hope your driver wins the last race today. Mr. Rdee what a clever idea I like learning about different cultures.
Thanks Granny. I really enjoyed that message and yes, I agree, learning a little about different cultures from real, ordinary everyday people, just like me, it what makes the Internet worthwhile.
We have our versions of enchiladas, but I'm not sure how authentic they are. Salsa, sour cream and stuff. We enjoy both pasta and rice, and, of course, pizza, but that is international :-)
We love BBQs in the garden, but I guess our summer is not long or warm enough to have as many as we might like. A warm summer evening, BBQ going, bottle of chilled white South Afrian wine ...
Mrs RD says to tell you that I'm a wimp, because I cannot cope with hot food. 'Tis true. I do love mild spicy food though, if that makes any sense. We have enjoyed Mrs RD's home made Thai, Chinese and Indian food recently, but perhaps not as hot as Mrs RD would really like :-)
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Food, Glorious Food, or Around the World in 80 Courses
Report as InappropriatePosted on 11/15/08, 03:32pm
Food, Glorious Food is the name of a song from the Lionel Bart musical Oliver!, as you probably know, but this thread is not about music, or lyrics - it is about food.
The food I see mentioned by my friends around the world fascinates me, as does the differences in the foods we eat in various countries. I read about apples and cabbages, and all sorts of fine things, and need to know more.
I'm talking about the special feast you prepare when you first meet your prospective in-laws, or entertain The Boss. I mean ordinary, everyday food that you eat at home. What is a typical menu? Which are the foods that regularly appear on your table? What are your family's favourites?
Example. Tonight, we enjoyed sausages and chips. British chips i.e. chipped potatoes, like French fries. RD Junior had baked beans with his, his Mum had cauliflower and I had eggs. Pud, or dessert, was ice cream.
Tomorrow evening we will have roast pork, roast potatoes and parsnips, steamed vegetables and gravy, possibly followed by apple crumble. We had a bumper apple crop this year.
Other typical mealsin the RD household include spag bol, cottage pie, burgers, various fish, cold cuts with salad and meat pies. What do you eat, at home?
C'mon, share :-)
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