Recipes for scrumptious and reasonably healthy food

[Marco]

Yuk!

I'd rather have an aneurysm!

Loll... You'd have loved the chicken (and even the pasta): hot and spicy as fuck with all that infused garlic, dried chilli and fresh rosemary - a real 'arse burner'! Oi lurves cheeli....

Marco.

[Marco]

Hi Jeff,

Marco,
That meal looks good enough for any fine restaurant, I love Italian food maybe I'll cook some before the weeks out.

Cheers, dude. It was scrummy! I'm very fortunate that Del is a fabulous cook

I love beef my wife loves chicken,we both love lamb but it is so expensive here in the U.S. for some reason like good fish $$$$.

I like all meats, but try not to eat too much red meat, or if I do, then preferably something very lean, like venison. Lamb is also a favourite, and we're fortunate that in Wales the lamb is arguably the best in the world. We get ours direct from a farm in Overton, 15 mins away from our house, and it's not terribly expensive either - about half the price of the cack (posing as lamb) that they sell in some supermarkets

I also love fresh fish and seafood, but that is always quite expensive.

For Sunday lunch tomorrow we're having a whole leg of lamb roasted and infused with garlic and rosemary. My mum and dad have moved down from Scotland to live in North Wales, so we've invited them over for our first Sunday lunch together here, so there will be all sorts getting made on top of that, along with some serious wines drunk!

My main staple meat, though, is chicken. I can have it 3-4 times a week, no problem without getting fed up of it, but cooked all different ways, from Italian and French, to Chinese and Indian, but one thing I could NEVER do without is home-made pasta with home-made pasta sauce! I was brought up with that stuff.

As for pork It has been over a year now since we stopped eating it.
I never understood exactly why after the new testament pork was ok to eat,or exactly why the food restrictions where lifted?
I just took it for granted that it was ok because everyone ate it.
And I loved eating bacon.
After a long debate with a devout Muslim I realized that the food restrictions where lifted due to a vision/dream from Paul.
There was always clean and unclean animals for sacrifice and that was no longer necessary after the crucifixion.
So until I figure it all out pork is at least on hold for now,my wife still eats pizza with pepperoni though she never ate pork till she came here,the first time she ate a big pork chop it made he a little sick but she loves it now so we have been substituting with turkey bacon.

Yeah, that's understandable, with your wife's religion. I like pork, too - I guess my favourite is ribs. There are various ways we cook them, but my favourite way is the really hot & spicy Chinese ones that Del does. She makes a special marinade that blows your head off, but is *seriously* tasty! We also use it on chicken wings.

Marco.

[Marco]

Hi Andre,

I think i'd rather eat Italian grub that tons of that stuff Americans eat.Beef is my least fav meat, infact i seldom eat it. Chicken & Pork are the main things in our house,I like Lamb but can't stand the smell of it cooking!

Lol - that's a bit unusual. Are you sure you're cooking it properly and are using good fresh produce? Because when we cook lamb, the smell of all the juices reducing down and the herbs and garlic is awesome!

i love Fish, the wife isnt too much of a fan but i'd rather eat fish over meat anyday.

I love fish, too, but probably don't eat as much of it as I should. It can sometimes be difficult to get the best quality, unless you go to a proper fishmonger, and that means a separate trip somewhere else. The other thing, too, is that Del doesn't like the smell of it cooking. But now my dad's down here (a serious fish and seafood lover), I suspect that we'll be having more of it than before!

To be honest i don't like eating, i think it's a pain in the arse..

Lol - again, that's a bit of a mad one, dude. What do you mean by it's a pain in the arse?

I'm the polar opposite! You know the old saying: some folks eat to live, and others live to eat - well it doesn't take much to guess which category I come under....

I guess it's an Italian thing. I was brought up with amazing cooks all around me. Both my grandmothers and aunts, and of course my mum, were/are all superb cooks, and so enjoying good food has always been a big part of my life.

There's nothing we enjoy more than, as we did this afternoon, sitting outside in the garden in the sunshine having a lovely meal together, and enjoying a few glasses of wine, just relaxing in peace and tranquillity, chatting and playing with cats. We can happily spend hours there...

We also love entertaining and having friends round for a meal, which usually includes a music sesh - and that can go on until the wee small hours!!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

I just don't like the smell of cooking lamb..

Eating is a pain in the arse because i don't have time to eat, i think it's a total waste of time & money, but of course you have to eat to survive. Honestly mate if i were on my own it would be one meal a day when i can fit it in.

[Marco]

I guess it just depends on your lifestyle, dude. I suspect you'd have a different attitude if you had more time to enjoy it. In the summer, when the weather is nice, we can spend hours enjoying a meal outside in the garden. We're major foodies!

Does Cheryl (is that your wife's name, mate?) not enjoy cooking?

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Hi Dude
Yeh Chery's the wife, no i do all the cooking..everything, i'm good at it but hate it.

[Marco]

Lol - that's a shame, especially as you're good at it, but hey, such is life

Friends have always said that we should open up a restaurant, but that sounds too much like hard work!

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

When your cooking all week at home & at work you get fed up of seeing it..I understand you love your food & that it's an important factor within your lifestyle, but i'm afraid for me meals just use up too much time.i have loads of intrests other than Hi-Fi & music to be wasting my time on

[Marco]

Yeah, I forgot that you also cook at work! That makes a big difference....

Marco.

[goraman]

Hi Jeff,

Yeah, that's understandable, with your wife's religion.

Marco, My wife is Roman Catholic,her family converted to Catholicism even before the 1940's when Pakistan was still part of India.Her great,great,great Grandfather left Hinduism after meeting a Catholic missionary.
We where married in Islamabad on one of the few Catholic churches still there.Our Lady of Fatima that has been burned and rebuilt.
There is one more in Khanawal St.Josphs,I don't think there are any more.
Both churches have been there since before it was Pakistan.
But pigs are forbidden as is eating pork so she never had it till coming here to the U.S. and now I'm not sure eating it is really the right thing to do.