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Post by George61 on May 15, 2006 16:19:28 GMT 7
Sliced tomato on Vegemite toast!
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Post by Loops on May 15, 2006 16:39:32 GMT 7
Ooohhh, Vegemite...yum, yum....
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Post by acjade on May 15, 2006 18:24:03 GMT 7
Ooohhh, Vegemite...yum, yum.... Better than Prairie oysters.
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Post by acjade on May 15, 2006 18:27:13 GMT 7
Woza, as delicious as that sounds, I'm trying to think sandwich in as easy as pie. Roasted eggplant is tres delicious but I want easy and plain. When I come down your way you can show me how to do the roasted eggplant. (The only thing I know what to do with that is Moussaka.)
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 15, 2006 19:53:17 GMT 7
Tonight I had tian ban nui rou, pidan doufu and chaoyan mougu. (Sizzling steak and onions strips, 1000 year eggs chopped up with doufu and deep-fried mushrooms with hua jiao spice). Didn't have to wash up, walked out and left the mess - restaurants are great. For 3 of us, with a bottle of beer, this cost 30Y.
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Post by acjade on May 15, 2006 20:03:04 GMT 7
LE as much as I love the Chinese food there are times I have to eat plain. A sandwich and a cup of home made soup costs knicks. But it's not the money. It's just that I can't take too much excitement when I eat. I grew up in a boarding school ( think boiled cabbage and boiled swede) and my father was on a forced strict plain diet for most of my life so I just can't do the spicey food thing every meal. I just want my body nourished, not have the roof of my mouth or the lining of my stomache taken out on something basic as daily digestive drills.
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Post by Loops on May 15, 2006 22:42:45 GMT 7
...boiled Swedes??? I didn't know Aussies were cannibals....it would explain alot of things, tho...
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Post by Raoul Duke on May 16, 2006 0:04:05 GMT 7
Ja snookums, I was wondering about that myself. I was thinking they might be a touch on the stringy side, but less oily than a Belgian.
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Post by acjade on May 16, 2006 0:20:25 GMT 7
Yeahs. Thankyou for that little fantasy.,.. where's your sandwich filling?
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Post by George61 on May 16, 2006 1:25:06 GMT 7
......and not as swede as a Turkish delight, but more filling than an American pie!
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 16, 2006 5:39:41 GMT 7
Less fatty than French fried.
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Post by George61 on May 16, 2006 5:45:16 GMT 7
..and not half as interesting as English Muffin, or French Toasted.
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Post by acjade on May 16, 2006 16:52:32 GMT 7
If I didn't love you buggers so much I'd give the lot of you a good clip around the ear with Gretch's penguin's right hander.
I'm asking for real food ideas here. Not because I love reading recipes, although I may have eaten parts of a Swede in a past fantasy or two but because I'm one of those disgusting people whom have to be tempted to eat the nourishment that keeps body and soul together.
Sorry but that's the way the flag hangs.
I know I'm a fussy eater. I grew up in hotels and sat down to breakfast with a menu and silver service. I refused to eat the slops at boarding school and therefore became ill and therefore got early parole. So in my crazy little mind somewhere I associate not eating with control over my environment. As I am about to pack up my worldly goods and depart for Downtown Xi'an on a residency visa which entails me working as few as two hours a week or one if I want I am in a state known as fear. Moving my books always induces extreme anxiety in me and one of the things I do in that state is automatically stop eating.
Overload me with spices and I have no hope of getting into the kitchen or canteen so I think I've put this as openly as I can.
Plain food. Nutritious. Easy to prepare and digest.
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 16, 2006 18:52:56 GMT 7
Stuffed hard boiled eggs - use what herbs there are around for adding flavour. Leftovers can be mashed and used on sandwiches.
Metro has tuna and mayo packs - easy as for sandwiches.
Pesto on cucumber
Fruit salad and no-sugar or pure yoghurt (available at Ren Ren Le)
Sloppy joe made from dried tomatoes, tomatoes and left over veges. Use the bing instead of hamburger buns.
Bing pizza - cheese, tomato, olives (Metro) and whatever else happens to be in the fridge.
Tim tams.
Please note it is rare for me to do many of the above - although today I had a visit from a Japanese Kiwi and she bought me a pack of REAL TimTams!!
Eating out - try pidan doufu - not spicy. You can also get non-spicy chao mian and chao fan. The scrambled egg and tomato dish is not spciy and tastes good, as does chaofan with egg.
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Post by acjade on May 16, 2006 18:57:51 GMT 7
Thanks LE.
Will go with the boiled eggs with herbs mashed in butter. Easy and can get them down the gullet. Thanks. The rest. No.
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 17, 2006 14:03:26 GMT 7
Coming back from the gym today I bought tianguo - (they look like apple cucumbers), cherries, watermelon and little tomatoes. I am a nibbler when by myself, so will chop up the tianguo into large bite size pieces, mix with the tomatoes, toss a bit of chili sauce or pesto over them and nibble away. For summer I freeze grapes and nibble on them - very nice. Was that you on the back of a motorbike in Gaoxin Lu today Jade? If it was you looked a little concerned about riding on the footpath.
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Post by acjade on May 17, 2006 16:26:08 GMT 7
I bought watermelon and canteloup today and I'll chop up a quarter of each to make a fruit salad with some pistachios and aloe Vera Yogurt for dinner. Too hot for anything else.
Definately NOT me on the back of a motor bike. But if it was, riding on the footpath wouldn't worry me.
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Post by woza17 on May 17, 2006 16:47:04 GMT 7
For lunch today I made mashed potatoes, cauliflower and carrots in garlic butter and the sesame and sunflower. A chili been dish with 5 different vegies in a spicy tomato sauce all up we had 9 different vegies for lunch. Our maid has quit so we have to fend for ourselves, which I am happy about she was a lovely girl but not a very good cook. Our next home help is coming next week from Guilin. We are on to our 4 th
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Post by acjade on May 17, 2006 17:13:57 GMT 7
It's so..oh hard finding good staff these days!!!
I remember one of the chefs my parents employed back in the land of OZ. Every Friday night my parents had a date night. They treated themselves to something they really liked as being in the middle of the wheat and sheep district there was no where to go on a regular basis for a night out. Except the pub which was where we lived 24/7. So one Friday night they bought fresh oysters. (Delivered from the Melbourne Fish market by train) The chef quaffed the lot and then threw a knife at my father when he objected to his pilfering the bosses larder. Bad tempered bugger but he made terrific chocolate eclairs.
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 17, 2006 17:22:19 GMT 7
No 4? We missed out on 3 I think - knew No 1 was leaving, heard a little about No 2. What happened?
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Post by woza17 on May 17, 2006 20:50:45 GMT 7
Well No 2 was actually a relative and she is living with us but has got a job, training girls to do facials. She is my favourite and it is great having her here No 3 was a young girl only 19 and she quit too much work. We now have 3 and a half and Eri is not happy with her and I think she is right next week we get no 4.
I did like the first one too now my room is a mess a pile of beer cans. The dog is sharing the same toilet as me At lunch today Dennis and I broached the subject of disposable nappies and that wouldn't it be better to use cloth ones. Eri said quite innocently but who will wash them? Dennis and I cracked up and listed the 3 people in the house that possibly could and we came up with Eri. Then Eri's argument went like this, well disposable nappies absorb the piss and the baby doesn't feel the discomfort thereby they don't wake up as much. Good argument. I am still thinking of my counter argument. I justt hate disposable nappies. Also why we are at it. do babies that are breast fed poo 7 times a day is that normal and is it because of the breast milk?
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Post by acjade on May 17, 2006 20:54:43 GMT 7
It's time Eri got outta bed. Mother of Jude she is. Queen of the world she is not.
And yes. Breast fed babies poo more. Like runny peanut butter.
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Post by Lotus Eater on May 17, 2006 22:05:03 GMT 7
But it smells better than formula/cows milk/goats milk fed babies.
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Post by woza17 on May 18, 2006 12:25:24 GMT 7
Hey I say nothing I really love Eri and I will let her do her own thing and in a couple of weeks or months approach it again. The potential 4th maid when she found out how big the apartment is declined. But someones cousin is coming tomorrow I spent 2 hours scrubbing the kitchen this morning and made a great lunch, tuna patties with Thai sweet chilli sauce Thai rice and stir fried vegies. Eri and Dennis love my cooking. Tonight fried rice and fruit salad. I like the domestic side of life .
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Post by acjade on May 18, 2006 13:02:38 GMT 7
Me too.
Tuna fish cakes sound yummy. I had egg salad for lunch and a strawberry icecream
On Monday I noticed that at Ai jia a dozen eggs were 8.5kwai. Up in the village I bought a jin for 2.5 kwai. A jin's worth came to eight big uns.
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