A Tasty Meme before breakfast
Nov. 11th, 2005 08:32 amWhat's your favourite...
wine: It depends (this may be a theme...) Sauternes, or something from Alsace. A 10 year old Gerwutztraminer, Yum.
beer: No - don't touch the stuff
other beverage: Beverage. What a silly word. But Scotch Malt Whisky Society casks, espescially numbers 4, 14 and 24, (Highland Park, Talisker and McCallan) with 14 having the edge.
hot drink: A dangerous weakness for triple-shot skinny lattes, or Twinnings Breakfast blend for tea.
fruit: Only if I have too..Brambles from the side of the road to Kilberry in Kintyre
vegetable: No thanks. Oh, all right, potatos
cheese: Blue, usually - Dunsyre or Lanark
nut: Cashews (bless you)
ethnic food: Indian or Chinese or Thai or Italian or Mongolian or occasionally American
fast food: The seafood shed on the Cal-Mac pier at Oban, for their scallops in Garlic butter with brown bread and salad, all in a tub for 4 quid.
pizza: DiMaggio's Calzone - meat and cheese and mushrooms and Yum!
main dish: A good steak - although if you'd said starter I would have gone with Loch Fyne Scallops. In fact, for a main dish their seafood platter is hard to beat, although you really should share it.
salad: No. I'm Scottish
soup: Cullen Skink! The amuse bouche (or whatever you call it) in the Ubi Chip is great, and Gandolfi's is superb.
snack food: Dates!
cookie: Tunnocks teacakes
pie: caramel shortcake
ice cream: Crolla's, who used to run ice-cream vans in Glasgow when I were a boy, and still turn up in the odd cafe or restaurant.
wine: It depends (this may be a theme...) Sauternes, or something from Alsace. A 10 year old Gerwutztraminer, Yum.
beer: No - don't touch the stuff
other beverage: Beverage. What a silly word. But Scotch Malt Whisky Society casks, espescially numbers 4, 14 and 24, (Highland Park, Talisker and McCallan) with 14 having the edge.
hot drink: A dangerous weakness for triple-shot skinny lattes, or Twinnings Breakfast blend for tea.
fruit: Only if I have too..Brambles from the side of the road to Kilberry in Kintyre
vegetable: No thanks. Oh, all right, potatos
cheese: Blue, usually - Dunsyre or Lanark
nut: Cashews (bless you)
ethnic food: Indian or Chinese or Thai or Italian or Mongolian or occasionally American
fast food: The seafood shed on the Cal-Mac pier at Oban, for their scallops in Garlic butter with brown bread and salad, all in a tub for 4 quid.
pizza: DiMaggio's Calzone - meat and cheese and mushrooms and Yum!
main dish: A good steak - although if you'd said starter I would have gone with Loch Fyne Scallops. In fact, for a main dish their seafood platter is hard to beat, although you really should share it.
salad: No. I'm Scottish
soup: Cullen Skink! The amuse bouche (or whatever you call it) in the Ubi Chip is great, and Gandolfi's is superb.
snack food: Dates!
cookie: Tunnocks teacakes
pie: caramel shortcake
ice cream: Crolla's, who used to run ice-cream vans in Glasgow when I were a boy, and still turn up in the odd cafe or restaurant.
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Date: 2005-11-11 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-11 09:40 am (UTC)Now - explain this:
"salad: No. I'm Scottish"
"fast food: The seafood shed on the Cal-Mac pier at Oban, for their scallops in Garlic butter with brown bread and salad, all in a tub for 4 quid."
Betcha throw it away...
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Date: 2005-11-11 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-11 02:18 pm (UTC)beer: Crag Rat!
other beverage: Hendricks gin and tonic (and it's Scottish, which explains the Dutch name), margarita straight up and no salt, Bellini, tap water.
hot drink: camomile tea.
fruit: lychees and raspberries. Most fruits if they're good, though, with the exception of bananas and anything with pips. Aren't dates fruit?
vegetable: cherry tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. Actually, anything except turnips, swedes, beetroot and sprouts.
cheese: Buffalo mozza
nut: Pistaches.
ethnic food: Indian or Chinese or Thai or Italian or Mongolian or occasionally American
fast food: sushi
pizza: Veneziana
main dish: tagliatelle and tomato sauce, cooked by K. Sushi.
salad: Did I mention cherry tomatoes?
soup: Fish bisque, the one with rouille and cheese and stuff.
snack food: sushi
cookie: Trying to avoid. Pret brownie ain't half bad.
pie: sherry trifle, loads of booze and not much cream
ice cream: Hill Station cinnamon, or vanilla with loads of hot chocolate sauce
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Date: 2005-11-11 02:32 pm (UTC)There should be a category of "Things I can't drink" which includes Gin (K's fault) Sangria (Kenny's fault - though what do you excpect from a sax-playing accountant) and Italian Reds (Badminton club dinner dance).
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Date: 2005-11-11 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-11 03:02 pm (UTC)In lieu of salad, Favourite Deep Fried Thing?
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Date: 2005-11-11 03:16 pm (UTC)beer: not mad keen, but if forced I can choke down a bottle of Miller High Life aka "the champagne of beers"
other beverage: Gin and tonic
hot drink: earl grey tea
fruit: granny smith apples, passion fruit, lycees
vegetable: parsnips
cheese: comte
nut: almonds, coconut.
ethnic food: anything except Mexican.
fast food: sushi
pizza: Four seasons
main dish: roast lamb
salad: tomato
soup: spicy corn chowder; my mother's "cauldron"
snack food: those round French toasty things with currants in them.
cookie: garibaldi biscuits
pudding: rhubarb crumble, bakewell tart, spotted dick
ice cream: coconut.
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Date: 2005-11-11 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-11 03:56 pm (UTC)As a matter of fact, are you looking at my beer?
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-12 01:19 pm (UTC)According to my father, it is a nut - it's a palm.
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Date: 2005-11-11 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-11-12 01:20 pm (UTC)Chocolate digestives, every time.
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Date: 2005-11-12 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-11 08:24 pm (UTC)wine: Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc or a really jammy red...
beer: Raspberry or Peach Belgian Beer, or Desparado (Beer with Tequila)
other beverage: Highland Park, or Bombay Sapphire & Tonic, or Mount Gay Rum & Coke, or Lynchburg Lemonade, or Marguerita with Crushed Ice. Not Vodka.
hot drink: Chai Tea Latte, Skinny Latte or normal Tea.
fruit: Mango
vegetable: Courgette, Mushroom or anything else that soaks up butter.
cheese: Cambazola, or the one that's rolled in pinhead oatmeal and black pepper.
nut: Cashews or Macademias
ethnic food: Thai, Japanese
fast food: Fish'n'chips
pizza: Four Seasons
main dish: Steak
salad: Caesar
soup: home made Curried Parsnip
snack food: Nairn's Wheat Free Biscuits
cookie: Boasters
pie: Lemon Meringue
ice cream: Mackie's of Old Meldrum
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Date: 2005-11-18 11:44 am (UTC)