OK, What's For Lunch or Tea Today? II

[Jimbo]

No, it was a rump steak, cooked medium rare, with a peppercorn sauce.

Ah- just the mushrooms and sauce reminded me of Steak Diane. I used to cook that in a Gastro Pub some years back.

Unfortunately the pub owners were trying to attract customers so had a very adventurous menu which included Aligator and Ostrich amongst loads of other things. The Ostrich steaks weren't bad.

[Barry]

Ah- just the mushrooms and sauce reminded me of Steak Diane. I used to cook that in a Gastro Pub some years back.

Unfortunately the pub owners were trying to attract customers so had a very adventurous menu which included Aligator and Ostrich amongst loads of other things. The Ostrich steaks weren't bad.

Ostrich meat is delicious and very low in chloresterol. They tried to farm them in this country, but ostrich need a large area to be comfortable, otherwise they get stressed and the quality of their meat suffers.

I haven't eaten alligator but I would imagine their flesh tastes more of meat than fish.

[hifi_dave]

It's just like Chicken.

[Alex_UK]

The Kings Head in Bawburgh near Norwich used to do all sorts, as well as ostrich and alligator I remember trying kangaroo and zebra.

I recall alligator was like fishy cotton wool, although if you google it that would probably depend on what bit of it you get on the plate.

[Jimbo]

The Kings Head in Bawburgh near Norwich used to do all sorts, as well as ostrich and alligator I remember trying kangaroo and zebra.

I recall alligator was like fishy cotton wool, although if you google it that would probably depend on what bit of it you get on the plate.

Alligator was a bit like chicken when I cooked it. Ostrich steaks were very nice but very lean. Not sure I would like to try Kangaroo or Zebra but I suppose meat is meat.

Lions seem to enjoy them!

[Barry]

Whilst on my travels I have eaten a lot of unusual things: some of them delicious, some OK but unmemorable, and a very few downright disgusting.

Of the usual bovine beasts of burden, I have eaten: Yak (or Dri) in Tibet; Water buffalo in Nepal, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia; Zebu in Botswana; Boran(?) in Ethiopia, and venison in Finland. To my knowledge what I haven't eaten is zebra, giraffe, or camel (the latter of which are usually worked too hard so their meat quickly becomes sinewy).

I have eaten most kind of fowl; very few of which I enjoy. And no doubt various kinds of porcine animals: e.g. warthog. I might have eaten turtle, but I do know I ate tortoise in Laos which was disgusting!

[Barry]

Tonight:

Macédoine (an African potato salad)



followed by

Chicken Tikka Masala

[Barry]

Some more Chicken Tikka Masala:

with a large orange for desert.

[Barry]

Tonight,

Some more Macédoine to start, followed by smoked salmon with rice, vegetables and a spicy prawn, onion and tomato sauce:

A slice of chocolate gateaux for dessert, and a glass or two of a 2023 Château de Colombe, Sainte-Colombe, Castillion, Côtes de Bordeaux.

[Barry]

Starter:

Avocado, egg, carrot, tomato and celery salad.

Followed by:

On a bed of spaghetti, jakowcawa (a Polish sausage), carrot, sugarsnap peas with a pesto sauce.

A glass or two of a 2014 Château Alcée, Castillion Côtes de Bordeaux to drink.