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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    We had some friends round today for lunch, and this is some of the food we enjoyed...

    To start, fresh tortellini filled with spinach and ricotta and a fresh sage and butter sauce:



    Accompanied with some crusty bread (and Parmesan cheese for the pasta):



    Caprese salad (sliced vine tomatoes, drizzled with vinaigrette and topped with fresh basil, and 'Burrata' Mozzarella cheese):



    Some 'dirty' potatoes (with soil still on) for making chips:





    Washed, cut and ready for frying:





    Dressed fine green beans and chopped shallots:



    Getting the BBQ ready for a T-bone steak:



    ...almost done:



    And served:



    To finish, some fresh fruit salad, marinated in white wine and some sugar, to create a nice fruity, alcoholic juice:



    All enjoyed in 19C sunshine, al fresco!

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    Looks great Marco, is that a Webber I spy as well?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    We had some friends round today for lunch, and this is some of the food we enjoyed...

    To start, fresh tortellini filled with spinach and ricotta and a fresh sage and butter sauce:



    Accompanied with some crusty bread (and Parmesan cheese for the pasta):



    Caprese salad (sliced vine tomatoes, drizzled with vinaigrette and topped with fresh basil, and 'Burrata' Mozzarella cheese):



    Some 'dirty' potatoes (with soil still on) for making chips:





    Washed, cut and ready for frying:





    Dressed fine green beans and chopped shallots:



    Getting the BBQ ready for a T-bone steak:



    ...almost done:



    And served:



    To finish, some fresh fruit salad, marinated in white wine and some sugar, to create a nice fruity, alcoholic juice:



    All enjoyed in 19C sunshine, al fresco!

    Marco.
    This looks fab too Marco...That steak look very inviting..I remember way way back when beef on the bone was banned from sale..I was buying 6 t-bones for a fiver..from a now long retired butcher in Pelaw Gateshead ..a proper butcher..they were superb...maybe that's why I'm a loony...

    He used to have aged meat on display...getting that gnarley brown look..and no-one would buy it..except a few who knew what they were buying...so he had to cook it and make pies with it..it was criminal..but the pies all sold out in the first half of the day...they were fantastic, made with the best cuts of beef...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zoidburg View Post
    Looks great Marco, is that a Webber I spy as well?
    Cheers, mate. Yup, indeed it was. They're great BBQs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mad-moon View Post
    This looks fab too Marco...That steak look very inviting..I remember way way back when beef on the bone was banned from sale..I was buying 6 t-bones for a fiver..from a now long retired butcher in Pelaw Gateshead ..a proper butcher..they were superb...maybe that's why I'm a loony...
    Haha, belter.... When was it banned, though? Can't say I remember, as we've always bought it (from butchers).

    He used to have aged meat on display...getting that gnarley brown look..and no-one would buy it..except a few who knew what they were buying...so he had to cook it and make pies with it..it was criminal..but the pies all sold out in the first half of the day...they were fantastic, made with the best cuts of beef...
    Lol yeah, I know. Aged and well-hung (just like you) is the way to go!

    The T-bones we did on the BBQ were from our local butcher, and dry-aged, which makes quite a difference to the flavour

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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Haha, belter.... When was it banned, though? Can't say I remember, as we've always bought it (from butchers).



    Lol yeah, I know. Aged and well-hung (just like you) is the way to go!

    The T-bones we did on the BBQ were from our local butcher, and dry-aged, which makes quite a difference to the flavour

    Marco.
    1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs. actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs. actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol
    Eating flesh has always carried risks. Variant CJD (among other things) is still about, very nasty!
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs. actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol
    I remember the mad cow disease, but not my meat eating habits ever being restricted for years, and as I'm not a big breast guy [apart from THAT), I'd have thought i'd have remembered. Perhaps we still managed to obtain it from our local butcher 'under the counter', dunno...

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    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I remember the mad cow disease, but not my meat eating habits ever being restricted for years, and as I'm not a big breast guy [apart from THAT), I'd have thought i'd have remembered. Perhaps we still managed to obtain it from our local butcher 'under the counter', dunno...

    Marco.
    i think ban was only a few yrs if memory is right, but i never heard it had been lifted and working away a lot, i must have missed the announcement. i started making hough again when i did as lots of folk loved the real deal; not the crap you got in butchers.
    its too much work for me now tho. i still make the family recipe oatmeal tho...lol
    Regards,
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    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Fish n chips.

    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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