I know of a couple of country bakeries that serve Kangaroo Pies.....complete with pastry kangaroo shape identifier on top.
Given the choice of beef, lamb or kangaroo pies, I choose kangaroo everytime.....delicious and nourishing.
Dan.
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There is no fresh fish in any of their sushi (they have no sashimi). It's mostly veggie or surimi here maybe some fairly mediocre shrimp.
Speaking of shrimp, Cal will identify with this, find a market run by Asians, and I finally did in this culinary wasteland. A dozen kinds of whole local fish several types that no one else eats, frog legs, live crab, and whole body shrimp. My guests weren't into sucking heads and peeling their own, more for me.
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If you ever get the chance, some of the best head sucking happens with Spot prawns. The tail part not so much.
Memory lane, a childhood of fried frog legs* at relatives in Belgium.
(*likely too greasy for some)
I remember the good old days in the 1960's where your fish and chips were fried in lard. They tasted so good then.
Also tasted way better in a sheet of parchment paper and a newspaper page, a plastic bin really doesn't cut it.
(I can almost taste the last decent F&C with loads of V&O I had in Newmarket, wrapped in a page of the local freebee rag, the chips carried ink lettering)
What ever happened to turnip ?
I loved it as a kid.
All we can buy now is swedes.
My father in law was a farmer and he used to get turnips for me as they used to feed sheep with them.
I loved it as a kid.
All we can buy now is swedes.
My father in law was a farmer and he used to get turnips for me as they used to feed sheep with them.
Was all set to make "bigos" but 'mamselle said that she'd have to take another hydrochlorothiazide owing to the salt content of the ham and sausage.
Plenty here, I think you mean white the yellow here are your swedes I think.
They're in all supermarkets all the time here. And yes, that's a great vegetable 😉
I don't know as a kid I had a strange fascination with things that came in polystyrene cups and containers. Even used to eat the cups or chew on them for quite a while after drinking the contents.
I guess the fact that it was bad for the environment kind of made it like I was eating something rare and old fashioned and so therefore was going out of style, so therefore was immediately better in some way.
You English with your strange English words!
Here we have lots of turnips, or maybe they are rutabagas? I have never seen the word Swede applied to a vegetable outside of an English cook book. Maybe turnips are the whitings of the vegetable world, one overloaded word denoting many roots.
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I enjoyed the fish and chips I had in Scotland a couple of years ago (Oban), and the fish was quite good and very fresh, but maybe not as good as the best I have had locally. Sadly the places that make the best fish seldom make the best chips, though one of my faves makes up for it with spectacular pie. Best chips in the world are sold from a truck called Bud the Spud right here in Halifax, usually parked by the old library. I do recall a place in Glasgow, which I didn't try, but a great name, called The Chippy Doon the Lane.
Any decent supermarket in Belgium carries mountain chicken legs*.
Cuisses de grenouilles, beurre a l'ail
(*usually frozen ones from Asia nowadays. I gathered Indonesia is a major exporter)