Today we had Al Bondigas. Half beef and half chicken meatballs, eggs, breadcrumbs, a pinch of pepper, salt, garlic, saffron, and parsley. The sauce has olive oil, onion, tomatoes, carrots and green peas.
thm, do you like to cook?
The honest answer, my wife loves cooking so much and it's my wife's choice. I think she is brilliant, she is very happy that we love her food, it works for us.
When one of her parents are ill and she has to go to look after them, I do the cooking. I have to say, I do enjoy it.
Bit like in my house then, I love to cook and see people wolfing it down and enjoying it. But if i'm ever ill or can't cook then Mr Penguin will happily do it. He actually is a great cook and enjoys doing it. Yesterday he cooked a beef dinner, made his own horseradish sauce( I would have used a jar), gravy from scratch ( I probably would have used granules), and the biggest and bestest Yorkshire puds I've ever had.
I do miss English food, Sue. It sounds like Mr Penguin is a lot better in the kitchen, than I am.
Cottage Pie, carrots, runner beans,broccoli and onion gravy.
Faggots
Tbh there's not many foods that I miss now, I can get most of what I want online. Although I do still miss a proper chip shop with proper fish n chips. Also a decent Chinese takeaway. He does ok, I find it hard to believe when someone says ' I can't cook ' if you have the ingredients and can read then all you have to do is follow a recipe.
What foods do you miss?
I love fish and chips, in the south of England I have found it very hard to find decent Fish&chip shops. I am sure there are some, just not where I stay, when I'm in the UK.
I usually go for a week just north of Newcastle, when I come back. There are some superb fish and chip shops up there. I go to a fantastic chippy in a place called Amble , another in Blyth and another one in a place called Seahouses. Thick white chunky cod, huge portions of well cooked chips.
I miss roast meals on a Sunday, roast beef especially. My wife makes a trifle at Christmas, bless her, it is never the same as my late mother's.
An English breakfast too. When I come back to England, I usually put on a stone on in a month, eating all the things I have missed so much.
First meal is always fish n chips when I get back, and always to the one by my moms. Not sure its still open as it will have been 2 years since I was last over. Hope it is. Oh yes, trifle, me nan used to make a bostin one too. And yes, with all the eating out and eating things that you cant get, like pork pies etc, I will probably be living on salads for 3 months when I get back to the States!
Weirdly, Manchester doesn't really do chippies. At least South Manchester where Langers and I used to live* doesn't.
*We lived in the same area, independently. I do love him, but not that much.