Goingnorth, I just cannot wait to cook this recipe, exact to the directions so that I will have in front of me the exact platter you are telling me about, and I'll be able to see, and smell and taste, and share the exact meal, just as if you had laid it before me yourself, cooked by your own hand. I find this really exciting. I've never know this idea of sharing recipies. I thank you for introducing me to this idea. I can't wait.

 

I will BBQ the fish, but it is just rain, rain and more rain this year. I have an allotment and I've had potato blight, etc. But that is where I will BBQ it, as I have a little hut where I can mix the sause.

 

These recipies have got me thinking about what I could swap, and it has made me realise how dull and boring I am in this area, but I have an idea or two, but they need some experimentation to just exactly be able to give you info so that you can reproduce it exactly, which for me is the fun of it. What a good do.

 

I've been laughing all week at something someone said to me. I was talking with this bloke and we were on about money, bills, cost of living, tax, etc, and how unfair it can often be with some people never working and gettting money from the government, and others working and being forced to pay for those who do nothing, etc, and he was getting worked up a bit, more and more, clearly feeling the strain of that kind of thing. He was on about the disgusting wastes of money by the government, etc, and I told him about a story I had heard about some people who had got a massive grant from The Arts Council to go around Europe, shooting a film, and when they came back they didn't project the film, rather they merely wove the celluliod together and put it in a frame and hung it on a wall. He was beginning to blow a gasket and said that HE was going to apply for an Arts Council grant, so that he could go up before the panel and (gestureing with his pointed finger) say, 'You're a w**ker, you're a w**ker, you're a w**ker, you're a w**ker, you're a w**ker, and you're a w**nker. None of you know anything about real life!'.

 

Check you later.

Lotty,

 

Why are your potatos blighted?  

 

Don't BBQ that cod.  Put the pot of water onto the BBQ -- to boil.  I think it should be cooked outside or it's gonna smell up the house.   

 

 

GN

 

 

Hiya Goingnorth. The Potato Song. Very catchy. I'll be humming that before the month is out. Thanks.

 

Yes, I'll boil the fish. I am going to cook it on my camping holiday. It's a bit of a struggle to get salted fish here, but where I am going, apparently, it is used very much.

 

My blighted potatoes. I'd bought a cheap sack of potatoes, but didn't like them, so I left them and they sprouted, so I decided to plant them and eat the new potatoes produced. It could be I've simply used bad seed, or, morelikely, that the earth has been constantly wet and damp, which is great for the blight virus. I'm new to the job.

 

The breasts covered in mayonnaise were delicious. Thankyou very much.

 

I have two recipes for you.

 

The first is a classic; the humble egg butty. But there are many versions, and so this is mine: Get some white sliced bread (2 slices) and butter it. Then fry an egg in vegetable oil, splitting the yolk and moving it around so that any portion would have an equal amount of yolk and white. Cook on both sides till slightly brown and totally hard. Then place the egg on one of the slices of bread and put on a bit of salt and pepper, and, most importantly, one blob (two level dessert spoons) of HP brown sauce, and spread over the whole egg. Then put the other slice on top to form a 'butty', and cut in half. Then eat with big bites, washing down with warm, milky tea.

 

The second recipe is an absolute belter, but handle with care as it can be highly addictive.  My grandma called it Crackerjack.  First, put 1 cup (250ml) of  Lyle's Goldern Syrup (important it is Lyle's) in a pan, and add to this 200grams of salted butter, and then gently bring this mixture to the boil, and then boil for 20 mins, giving a little stir now-and-then. Then, add 3 cups of milled porage oats, and stir them in. Then take a greased baking tray and put the mixture in it and spread it to fill the area of the tin and to a depth of about 9mm. Then put in per-heated oven (gas 7, 450F), middle shelf, for 7 mins.

 

When you take it out of the oven, use a straight-edged spatula to divide the slab so that when cooled you can easily break it to suitable portions. Then tip it onto a cooling tray, face down is ok. Then, when cool, break into pieces and place in a tin, and wait a day before eating, as there is a maturing aspect.

 

I am hoping you will take my egg butty seriously, and re-create it as I describe, and then tell me what you truely think. I look upon it as a true delicacy.

 

Now, here's something for you ladies. Look and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJKaFpsrNxE

 

 

Lotty,

 

Where are you going camping?  I hope you have a good time! 

 

GN

 

P.S.  I'll go over your recipes as soon as I can.  Just got back from holiday myself and have loads of laundry and mail.  :-)  Have a good time. 

Goingnorth, Hope you had a good holiday. Be careful with the crackerjack. I made a second batch and slightly over-cooked it. I suppose you could knock a couple of mins off the boiling time, and turn the oven down a notch.

 

Anyway, I've got to go. I'm hitting the holiday road in hours, travelling around the south of Spain (where they invented salted cod, so I'll cook the baccalla there). But I want to leave this thread, as part of ending a chapter and then starting anew, and perhaps in the future there can be a new fun thread. I have enjoyed this thread so much that I'll remember it, word for word, for the rest of my life. I feel that to be amongst such lovely people as are on this site is a very fine consolation prize to the hurt we have suffered as N/P victims, and it has been good to have fun here to deny the N/P our inner light of joy and humanity.

 

I think the N/P business is complex, but it seems to me that there is something in us victims that illuminates something within the N/P which comples them to prove something to themselves by way of being able to have the ability to hurt us. The gun and the knife are their last crude resort, in extreme cases, to, in their own mind, be able to say they are ultimately 'the best/the winner'. But the knife or gun  is not the only method of inflicting hurt (the ability to hurt thus 'proving' their dominant power), there is a multitude of methods, and these are all the things which the N/P has done to us victims. By understanding this sickness, we victims can hopefully reason the thing out of our lives, and not have it coursing around us in a loop which disables us, which is what the N/P wishes to achieve,...... in my view, of course.

 

In this clip from 'Easy Rider', Jack talks about the effect of the notion of freedom and its effect on the human condition. But the word freedom could easily be exchanged for such as: a person's looks, or happiness, or inner beauty, or contentment, or achievement, etc, etc........ and the speech would still stand up, because I suppose it all boils down to Jealousy.  Perhaps N/Ps are simply jealous of us. Eitherway, like jack says, 'It makes 'em dangerous'. So, watch out, Goingnorth, to remain open, but not leave yourself open. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpvRvaki-E

 

But, Goingnorth, back to a lighter note, here's a special song for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EpvRvaki-E

 

 

And as for me now....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfFL-ZX7LwU

 

All the best..... D

 

 

Well that was a big flop. It's a bit like this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSs13-jxw0Q. I'm not too good with computers, so I'll have to go the long way around to paste up those last two songs.

Here's the special song for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kXDZgvrZ_0

And as for me now......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfFL-ZX7LwU.

 

Well, it looks like I can't get this one right. But it's Madonna Holiday Brixton live 12" dance mix.

 

All the best...........D

I can say much in response to your last post(s), D, and I will. 

 

For now, I'm hoping you're having a wonderful time in Spain. 

 

As for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kXDZgvrZ_0:

 

I received the usual e-mail not long ago . . .  "Send this to 15 people and your fondest dreams will come true." 

 

I sent it to one person.  I joking said that if I sent to only one person, maybe I would get one dream.  I wondered if perhaps I'd get to see a unicorn. 

 

Close, Lotty.  That video was very close.  Thanks so much.  I hope you're having a good holiday in Spain.   

 

GN

Hi Lotty

 

Glad to see your thread is still going strong, reminds me too, to get my bacon and eggs for tomorrow LOL..........just wanted to say a quick hello

 

x

Hey Lotty,

 

Don't forget to check in when you get back from Spain.  Let us know how you are and if you had a good time.  Thanks.

 

GN 

 

 

I'm just here at this old msn site having a look around for the last time. It is strange that it is so quiet, but yet it still echoes to all the human life played out here.

 

I had a really good time with this thread. It helped a lot, a real lot, for us all to preserve a sense of humour and happy chatsby in the face of it all. Mega mates.

 

Great to have met you, and see you over on the other site. 

 

Cheers.

 

Yours insincerely,

                   

                     Lotty

how do I get to the new group?

leckberg,  If you go onto the general board on this site you will see a post from femfree called THIS SITE WILL ONLY BE READ AS OF 30TH NOVEMBER, and if you click on that you will see that there is a code address for you to click on, and that should take you there and then you have to fill some details in and that kind of thing. If you still struggle, you could contact femfree on her e-mail for this sort of thing, which is [email protected]