Be Excellent To Each Other

So, what are you having for dinner tonight?

Just got done prepping mine. It's all gone into the slow cooker.

Rabbit stew with carrots, leek and swede (chopped). All sat in gravy (slightly reduced to stop it going sticky).

It'll cook for about 6-7 hours then it'll be yums.

So does anyone cook? what's on the menu?

Restaurant tonight.

It's Friday so it's fish and chips.. It's the law.

I'm driving home. So the options are either an overpriced scrotum burger at a miserable service station en route or whatever I can find in darkened corners of increasingly empty cupboards before I go.

I had fish n chips last night.
*Runs off singing Judas Priest songs*

Wullie, don't you get fed up with fish?

A risotto of some variety, this evening. Probably mushroom.

Wednesday night is fish and chips night for us

Tonight I am doing pork chops-mmm

Yeah I was saving this rabbit all week for either the weekend or friday.

I don't eat out much any more (inc fish and chips) because of the prices. It's just ludicrous.

Using the slow cooker is extremely easy. Ten mins of prep and that's it. Of course it has it's merits though. Meat in it is like nothing else, especially pork & spare ribs. There really is only one way to cook pork and that's slow and long at a lower temp.

I do get the odd kebab (like one every 6 months) but even that is just laced with shitty salad (like, one piece of fookin tomato) and hardly has any meat in and costs 6 pound fifty.

For 6 pound fifty I can get 2 steaks at my butchers.

No it's rissotto Vyv.

NEIL I KNOW BLOODY SNOW WHEN I SEE IT !

I had a donor kebab teh night before last. it was epic.

You're going to the wrong kebab house. When I get one it's £4 and a lot more meat than I can eat (and I'm a man who can eat a lot of meat. Er.)

I don't think I'll ever be able to consider myself a proper man until I've shot, skinned, and eaten a rabbit.

It's 'over a barrel' town here.

There are no delivery companies (Pizza hut, Dominoes) and so on so they have all jacked their prices up.

Which of course is dumb because then they sell half the ammount.

Only way to get something fast & greasy without having your pants down is to drive to somewhere like Bognor Regis and that's about 25 miles away.

Not much here tbh. We do however have a sublime butcher and it's at the end of our house row. So I usually get all my meat in there (their chicken is to die for).

They hand make sausys to order too, which is awesome.

I cheated. (hey at least I'm honest). The rabbit was a gift from my uncle who does deliveries for his local butcher. Every now and again he scores some awesome meat (like Turkey wings. We had hundreds of them over xmas !) so I didn't need to gut this bugger.

Done a few Deer whilst in the USA. Venison is just incredible when you eat it within hours of it walking breathing and pooing.

When I lived in Ohio the bloke nextdoor used to have them hanging from a tree sliced wide open in his front garden

Every time we went outside (housemate had 2 little girls) you'd hear the girls go ewwwwwww and there would be a deer slowly rotating around on the tree haha.

Pardon?

I want a Chinese Take away tonight but Mrs Z wants burgers and salad, so I'm ok with that.

Making Pad Thai Chicken Noodles tomorrow though

Looked in the fridge, this evening I will be enjoying mince n tatties.You'd think so, but there's that much you can do with it and that many varieties... plus you can swap it for moneys or barter with farmers.Learn to kick the shit out batter your fish and fry them properly and you end up with better fish than most chippies give you anyway. My chippy is great though, for £4 you get a tasty bag of fish n chips suitable for feeding 2 people.

I have been on junk food all week with the wife being in hospital... and not getting home late.

I will be booking Mrs C fav resturant as soon as she wants to go out.

There is something rewarding about a nice meal in a resturant.

I think it wall be fish and chips tonight, if Kov junior does not grace the world with it's pressence

Last night I made one of my special omelettes and MrsP made some custard tarts for afters.

Num Num

I had my first Mcdonalds yesterday in about 6 months... god that stuff is bland!! Thank you america.

Oh will Babas gender be a surprise then?

Yes, but as it is taking 14 days to get ready, it could be a woman

It tastes nothing like it does here, there.

Probably because Mcds are in trouble and have started to really cut out the sodium and fat.

In the US macdonalds is greasy and good (if youre in the mood for that) but it's horrible for you. And people have wisened up lately here and that's why Mcds are advertising healthier food.

I don't like battered fish any way tbh. I always bread mine.

Faves are Large mouth bass (very similar to seabass but more meaty and wild tasting) cod and plaice (or flounder).

I do that every month or so using fresh toast in the food proc for breadcrumbs.

I've never been a fan of batter..

Well I won't be have a mc anything for a while
Of course it is better in america... how dare I suggest other wise...

I prefer teh burgers from our butchers or the ones Mrs C makes.

Sorry man, but you are a freak, how can you be British and not like fish and chips from a chips shop.

I think we need to get you deported to the 'Land of the Free'

Hehe, I've never liked fit and shit. Shit? yeah man. Loooove greasy soggy chips. Mmm. But never ever liked batter. It's just a grease sponge yuck.

You must go to the wrong chips shops..

I'll more than likely just cook some pasta, whack some ham and mushrooms in, then bake it with loads of cheese on top.

Miss Malabar is on some sort of diet, so I have to make all my disgustingly calorific meals for one these days. Apparently her body can't handle it as well as mine: sucka!

Grim... coming for dinner is he?

Cod from English fish and chips shops have been on the decline for ages. You can get nice stuff if you pay, of course, but the traditional chip shop (which is cheap) tends to have soggy stuff that's been left in the warming thing for ages.

In Ireland (including the north), you can go to any cheap chip shop and get really nice cod with nice batter.

I reckon it's because they sell a wider range of stuff, here. The one I go to in ireland doesn't even sell kebabs.

The same thing I have every night due to spending most of my student loan in a month or so

Pasta
with
Onion
Tinned toms
Beans
Whatever meat is reduced (Tonight sausages)
Cumin
Chilli powder
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Hendersons Relish

Does me 4 meals, I am getting a little sick of it now tho...

I had a good chippy last night, half pizza in batter supper with curry sauce...yum yum!

Tonight I might make home made burgers, although my Mrs stupidly casually mentioned Nandos to me and once I hear that magical word I can't rest until I have one, so I will have to see if I can convince her that a drive to Glasgow is worth it just for some dinner.

I'm thinking through all the ones near me, and I can't think of any Fish and Chip shops that sell kebabs.

All the fish and chip shops near me sell kebabs. Perhaps it's not a southern thing.

No fish and chip shops here sell kebabs. Kebab shops sell chips, but never fish. Those be orthogonal specialities.

Deep fried pizza?

Oh, we have plenty of kebab shops that don't sell fish and chips, though.

My local chippy sells everything, from the usual chips, fish, burgers and sausages to Chinese, Thai and kebabs. It's not bad, either.

Snorkers.

Hell yeah! Is that weird? I thought pizza was normal for a chippy. My favourite thing from the chip shop is either half pizza in batter with curry sauce, or haggis in batter. Both are equally delicious.

On the kebab shop/chippy thing, round here you get a chippy or a kebab shop. I can't think of one which combines the two except for perhaps some rubbish ones in glasgow.

"You don't boil pizza!" - Bill Hicks RIP.

Cwmbran's premier all-you-can-eat BBQ/oriental/pizza/rotisserie/salad/pasta/carvery place.

Can anyone find that Simpsons clip of the food fair? The one with the underground kitchen slopping meat on different conveyor belts going to each stall?

the leftovers from yesterday

Thats one of the best things about going to scotland!

£3.50 here! It's been that price for years which is why the chip shop is always packed on a Friday night. I get served by the same person every week and the conversation never gets further than me answering positivly to "salt and Vinegar?"

That and the warm and welcoming locals (subs please check).