No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!Dinner out: full English of bacon, fried egg, sausage, peas (instead of baked beans), half a tomato, mushrooms and one small hash brown.
Ah, you were early enough to see the remains of Kings night! Night is for getting drunk in the streets, day is for selling all the stuff you don't need anymore plus getting drunk again. Clad in orange of course!A walk through a Dutch town, they celebrated Kings day early and well according to the huge amounts of plastic glasses strewn every where from last night.
A few possibilies come to mind:Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me, when a very few chips or 1 roasted doesn’t?
I have always eaten a big breakfast, as I could not work on a empty stomach. Small or no breakfasts maye be ok for office workers that do not do manual labour.Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
And there’s always brunch and high tea. I too had to Google smoko but now I just like saying it!No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!
Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
Although I must admit I've always been amazed by the English eating a full dinner for breakfast so far...
Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me
The worst is Spain where no restaurants open before my bedtime in the evening!always chuckle when Canadian tourists to South Africa complain that they could not find any restaurant open on a Sunday evening!
Yup!I kind of remember that in the UK it is also at lunch time, but my memory might not be up to date!
I’d call that restrainedI can report that a 250g bag of walnut pieces is 1/2 empty now ( opened lunchtime today)
No wonder I'm still completely confused by English meals, even after all those years!
Breakfast and lunch I get, but after that it becomes an incomprehensible mess of dinner, supper, tea, which sometimes means the same thing but not always (and that's leaving out the odd elevenses or smoko's), and now it turns out you even eat breakfast for dinner!
Although I must admit I've always been amazed by the English eating a full dinner for breakfast so far...
B: plain yoghurt with seeds. Hams and cheese slices
A walk through a Dutch town, they celebrated Kings day early and well according to the huge amounts of plastic glasses strewn every where from last night. Was interesting seeing all the families strolling the streets today at Street and flea markets.
L: caulfower soup, fish and veg 1 scoop icecream. Bg shot up to 10 and stayed there. Later found the caulifower soup was in fact potato based.
D: salad, pork, cheese, wine and 1 brandy.
Does anyone have any idea why a potato based soup should spike me, when a very few chips or 1 roasted doesn’t?
I have always eaten a big breakfast, as I could not work on a empty stomach. Small or no breakfasts maye be ok for office workers that do not do manual labour.
Smoko's are what the name suggest, you have a sandwich, pie etc, cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette in 15 minures.
Lunch is around midday, another smoko in the arvo.
Dinner is the evening meal, although some people call it tea, I do not know why.
At the moment my evening meal is called supper at six, where I have something light and easy to cook and eat.
Since eating meals this way my bgl has come down in to the 4's on my fasting test, my weekly bgl average is 5.6 mmol/L
LOL, I was just going to explain it when I saw Annb had beaten me to it!!
That looks very tasty!
that looks tasty.Happy Kings day from the Netherlands everyone!
Turned out I completely accidentally went along with the orange craziness going over my country on this day.
Made a very tasty bell pepper soup. I only had yellow and orange bell peppers, and I added some freshly grated turmeric as well, so the result is very fitting for Koningsdag.
I put 5 bell peppers and half a bulb of garlic in the oven without preparation. Took out the garlic after 20 minutes, left the bell pepper for 45. Peeled both after cooling.that looks tasty.
how did you make it please
tub of tzatziki with smoked crispy bacon strips for dippers. .
I put 5 bell peppers and half a bulb of garlic in the oven without preparation. Took out the garlic after 20 minutes, left the bell pepper for 45. Peeled both after cooling.
Fried onion, added a stalk of celery after a while, and freshly grated ginger and turmeric. Added tomato paste.
Added water, two stock cubes (herbs, not meat) and some dried green herbs, no idea which ones, I just used the first pot I saw.
Let it simmer until everything was soft, added 2/3 of the bell pepper and all of the garlic and used the stick blender.
Added the rest of the pepper cut in small pieces.
Added the leftover cream, not creamy enough so I added some cream cheese as well.
When dinner time came I garnished with parmesan and smoked paprika before putting the bowl of soup in the microwave.
I think today I'll throw in some fried bacon cubes as well. I think halloumi cubes would work well too, if you prefer vegetarian, but I don't have halloumi and I do have bacon.
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