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    Yeah, similar here. What I like about stuff like that is that it encourages you to eat properly (in a civilised manner), and at a table enjoying a nice selection of freshly prepared food, not a 'TV dinner' plonked on a tray, with a plateful of just anything!

    As I've said before too, the continental way of eating is not to have your plate piled high with food, almost as if, if you didn't do that someone would beat you to it (lol), but with an empty plate and separate bowls/serving spoons for veg and meat, which you then put a *little* of on your plate (as much as you think you'll manage in one sitting), then once you've eaten that if you're still hungry, going back for more, whilst everything is kept nice and warm.

    I've no idea where the habit originated from here, with the 'pile plates high full of food' thing, as a) it's not very appealing to look at (a big pile of mush), b) makes you feel pressurised into finishing it all/clearing your plate, whether you feel for it or not, and c) encourages waste..

    That's why when I take pics of the food I've eaten, sometimes it might not look like much on the plate, but it doesn't mean to say that's all I've eaten, as second helpings often apply!

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    Bangers, chips & vine tomatoes


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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post

    I've no idea where the habit originated from here, with the 'pile plates high full of food' thing
    My Mum I think? Her Sunday dinners were like an eating challenge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    Bangers, chips & vine tomatoes
    I've done that combination myself, it works very well. Mine look somewhat less regimented though!
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    I've done that combination myself, it works very well. Mine look somewhat less regimented though!
    Got to line your snags up . I blitz the toms in the microwave, they're better hot and it softens them up a little.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    I blitz the toms in the microwave, they're better hot and it softens them up a little.
    I do that too, but not always. I like hot tomatoes with a dribble of tomato ketchup over them. Odd as that may seem, it works.
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    Lunch was a cheese and pickle sandwich and a bottle of beer.

    (12 month cellar-aged Compté with Branston's pickle in seeded-batch bread with a bottle of Peroni Nastro Azzurro to be precise. )
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    Last night’s dinner, a sort-of variation on Butter Chicken (without the cream).

    Marinated Chicken Thighs overnight in yoghurt, fresh ginger, turmeric, cayenne, garam masala, cumin and salt.

    Browned the chicken off in a pan, then cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, green chilli, Patak’s Butter Chicken paste, water and fresh, chopped tomatoes.

    Finished off cooking with a splash of milk (to thicken), fresh Coriander and Kasoori Methi (dried fenugreek leaves).

    Served with brown rice and a bottle of Peroni beer.

    Was yum.







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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    My Mum I think? Her Sunday dinners were like an eating challenge.
    Lol - overall, there could've still been the same amount of food, just not ALL on the plate at once

    I can see now where you've inherited your portion sizes!

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    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    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.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


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