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Fingolfin
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It's about lunchtime here in central Europe and I've got a question for you: What do you like to eat?
Are you vegetarians, mammoth hunters (meat eaters) or you like different meals at different times? Which one is your favourite cuisine?
My attitude. I'm a mammoth hunter prefering poultry to everything else, more preferable sauté in a sauce with pasta. Pasta with sauce (or salsa), that's my thing. But, honestly, I eat almost everything (edible! What did you think!?).
Marek
P.S. I assume that those of you who swallow will claim that their top meal is their boyfriend's cum. 
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- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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timmy
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Pretty much anything, except, when offered tropical fruit papaya is not the answer. And Durian is evil. Leeks with custard.
I have no wish to try snails or slugs, or wriggly things with or without legs on TV reality shows, but I'll eat anything within reason and enjoy it.
Whoever thought okra was good to eat should be shot, though!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Fingolfin
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Dried papaya is quite cool (horribly sweet), never heard of okra and durian before. I looked it up, both are tropical and I'm pretty sure that there's no shop or market in Slovakia to find them...
You mentioned snails and slugs, hm, how about shrimps, lobsters or calamary. I love the latter, never tried shrimps and lobsters, though.
Thanks for reply
Marek
P.S. Oh, and I loooooooooooooove pizza. Do I have Italian ancestors? Hell, I don't know... ??
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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timmy
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Shrimps and prawns etc, yes.
Okra we get here. It is either stringy or slimy. Yucko.
I have a very mongrel background. Father from Vienna, Uncle from somewhere in Czechoslovakia when that is what it was, Uncle from Hungary, others from Germany, and then there is the plain English side.
By no means all were blood relatives, but all influenced my childhood food profile.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Fingolfin
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Uncle from Czechoslovakia sounds interesting (guess why!). have you ever been here? Or eaten and drunk our specialties?
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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timmy
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The closest I have been is Austria or Hungary. I plan Slovakia and other neighbours one day. Jndrisch Klaubauf was the Uncle. No idea precisely where he was from. Small man who reminded me of a mouse facially!
We suspect he had a wife who died in the holocaust
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Fingolfin
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Klaubauf is definitely a german surname, I deciphered the given name to be Czech Jindřich (pronounced "Yeen.dreekh"), Henry in English translation.
As to your future trip to Central Europe: good luck, have fun, and, if we are both still Forum-active, I am looking forward to meeting you in person (during day, in a public place etc. etc.  ))...
Marek
P.S. As to your "mongrel" background. It is seen as a general truth that people with mixed genomes are healthier, prettier etc. Mongrels in this rule. Thumbs up
[Updated on: Wed, 27 August 2008 12:10]
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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Like Timmy and you, I'll eat just about anything in moderation. Particularly British and continental food, though (like most British people) I also enjoy a good Indian or Chinese from time to time. It's a while since I've been abroad (beyond France), so I haven't tasted very much genuine foreign food lately (as opposed to foreign food packaged for a British market).
As a personal preference, I tend to prefer meat (beef, pork, lamb) over poultry, particularly roast.
What I actually end up eating differs rather a lot from what I actually like, though! When I'm alone, I haven't really got beyond student cooking, so I tend to eat rather a lot of baked beans on toast, pizza, pasta sauce, sandwiches and takeaways. Not awfully good for me, I suspect.
David
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Fingolfin
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When you are alone there's usually no energy (or willingness) to cook. What point in cooking for one?
I like Indian food, myself, pretty anything with curry in it, actually.
As to beyond student cooking... Do different sauces for pasta count for beyond student (campus) cooking???
Marek
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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I think anything involving pasta is probably pretty standard student fare -- though, of course, in the hands of a good cook, it can be elevated far beyond that. Perhaps it depends on the amount of time and effort expended.
The main reason I don't cook much, to be honest, is that I get back from work, and I'm so exhausted I don't have the energy to cook anything.
The thing that concerns me most is that it's none of the food is terribly healthy. Occasionally I stop at Morrison's (the local supermarket) and put together a fresh salad from the salad bar there. It's probably the only healthy thing I eat all week.
David
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Fingolfin
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Healthy or unhealthy?
I think this heavily depends on your attitude towards extras. If you avoid extras like potatoes or such things and have a salad or fresh vegetables instead, it really cannot harm you, even if it's a roastbeef or steak.
It is estimated that the real "unhealthy" thing that causes problems and obesity is drinking (soft drinks). Pops with loads of sugar are the public enemy no. 1. But,... it's not always easy to avoid them.
Marek
P.S. As I'm staring at your avatar I'm pretty sure you're a healthy young man, fit and slim... No worries.
It is better to switch on a small light than to curse the darkness.
- Vincent Šikula, Slovak writer
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timmy
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I have just christened my new cooker. We have not had a home cooked meal since 24th July, and we only just have a cooker in commission now.
Turkey breast steaks grilled (is that broiled? Radiant heat from above) with onions, sweet red peppers and ginger, served with steamed cauliflower and broccoli, and new potatoes.
A wonderfully simple meal and so welcome.
But the kitchen is still nowhere near finished. We are now five weeks into a three week project.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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You can't beat a good curry; the little bits of mango chutney end up all over the kitchen walls.
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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You are, of course, insane, and that is pure insanitary.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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One excellent part of our trip to Sri Lanka was the food.
The national dish is rice and curry. This is unlike any UK curry house (almost all of which are Bengali (Bangla Deshi) not true Indian. And Sri Lanka is also a separate nation from India, despite being lumped together into a sort of "Greater India" under the British Raj.
The rice is plentiful, though a couple of places used a weird spice that scented it very much like drains!
The curry, though this is not a vegetarian nation, tends to be dahl (lentils), with extra dishes such as jackfruit, okra (well, one gets used to it!), sometimes fish, almost never meat, but if so beef (we were expecting mutton). And there are extra dishes, my favourite was coconut sambal (spelling?) which is fresh coconut meat, finely ground, mixed with onion and fresh red chillies.
You eat with fingers, with your right hand only. Oddly there is a skill to it. A waiter very tactfully taught me, for which I was grateful. I was honoured that he troubled to tell me, and he seemed happy that I was eating with my hand.
There is sufficient variety in the curry side dishes that you don't get tired of it untuk about day eight. And the rice varies in type and texture.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I'm pretty much of a carnivore - meat at most meals. Cooking for one person isn't all that great, so two or three days a week I might just have a salad and cold meat. I begrudge spending time peeling potatoes, so I rarely have them, and dislike most pasta - though I do bake my own bread and get through a fair bit of that. Cooked meals? Tonight was typical - a couple of large pork chops, fried onions, steamed sweetcorn, steamed green beans. A bit heavy on the cholesterol, perhaps ... though I do have fish at least once a week. Winter sees a lot of stews, braises and casseroles - I usually make enough for three or four meals, and freeze the leftovers for days when I can't cook from scratch (sometimes even using the microwave is a struggle).
Ever since I started cooking for myself, it has been a point of pride to cook a full roast meal once a week - known as "Sunday Lunch", though it can be any meal from Thursday night to Sunday night! If I can get a decent (free-range organic) chicken, that's favourite, Or Welsh lamb. Or real grass-fed organic beef - though I haven't even seen any of that for a couple of years! Or if I happen to be near a decent game-dealer, hare, rabbit, pigeon, venison ...
Favourite cusine? If I could move to Portugal and live on their peasant diet, I'd be happy. But based in London ... on the rare occasions I use or adapt a recipe, I tend to cook fairly modern light versions of English classics. Toad in the Hole is greatly under-rated!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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I am the odd man out here, it seems. I am a vegan. (That means that I don't consume any animal products at all, ans do not just refrain from meat and fish as do vegetarians.)
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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I never know how to deal with compliments.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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In polite society you sprinkle pepper, but put a little salt on the side of your plate.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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The salt question was discussed at length in the Daily Telegraph many years ago. The conclusion of the readers was that if the salt cellar was a small dish with a miniscule spoon the correct behaviour was to put a little salt on the side of the plate. If the salt cellar was a pot with a perforated lid, the salt should be sprinkled.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Dear Marek,
I'll eat most things but I don't think I'll try octopus again and there are some things (green and red peppers and pimento) that make me ill.
In this house we do eat very well. Many kinds of fish and meat and rarely a meal with only two vegetables or one without wine (we have a cellar!)
I would go out of my way to eat a Chateaubriand or a Chinese banquet but there are many other delicious meals in that category and some that were memorable because they suited the occasion (such as whitebait on the beach on the island of port-cros).
Love,
Anthony
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