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That plate looks very small !No thanks I’m sitting having my early dinner of roast lamb in Torwood garden centre restaurant in Larbert ??View attachment 31060
So I guess it’s a late lunch tonight of oatcakes and a bit of mousetrap ?
Aye I have to say I sent it backThat plate looks very small !
Of the five items on your plate, all are available here in France, but they are just not the same.
It’s OK I’d be quite delighted with all you described there. I’m really hungry now ??When our kids were younger, we went to France quite a few times. My sister had a place in Brittany and we went to see a friend of Mrs S in Paris and again when he moved to the Loire valley.
I am a huge cheese fan and Brittany (well, France in general) is bursting with incredible cheeses. It's a big milk-producing area and the milks, creams, butters and cheeses are all fantastique!
Brittany has great apples too, so excellent Tartes Tatin, ciders and lambig.
Buckwheat crepes and shortbread are amazing too.
In the Loire valley, we went to a farmers' show where we had the most amazing fries, made with just cropped potatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil. Such a clean, fresh taste!
I remember in Paris ordering a salad and explaining that I was veggie, so could I have the cheese and ham salad, but without the ham? When the waitress brought the food, it was a huge dish so completely covered in grated Emmental that I could not see the salad. She told me that the chef felt sorry for me, so gave me extra cheese in place of the ham!
As I said, I don't eat meat, but if I did, I would keep away from Andouillettes: a food that is a very acquired taste!
There is of course great food here, but a fried Chadwicks Bury black pudding, Middle cut bacon , and some HP baked beans with a fried piece of Warburtons toasty deserves royal recognition. Plonk on a couple of eggs from our chickens , perfect. Unfortunately its just the eggs for me.When our kids were younger, we went to France quite a few times. My sister had a place in Brittany and we went to see a friend of Mrs S in Paris and again when he moved to the Loire valley.
I am a huge cheese fan and Brittany (well, France in general) is bursting with incredible cheeses. It's a big milk-producing area and the milks, creams, butters and cheeses are all fantastique!
Brittany has great apples too, so excellent Tartes Tatin, ciders and lambig.
Buckwheat crepes and shortbread are amazing too.
In the Loire valley, we went to a farmers' show where we had the most amazing fries, made with just cropped potatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil. Such a clean, fresh taste!
I remember in Paris ordering a salad and explaining that I was veggie, so could I have the cheese and ham salad, but without the ham? When the waitress brought the food, it was a huge dish so completely covered in grated Emmental that I could not see the salad. She told me that the chef felt sorry for me, so gave me extra cheese in place of the ham!
As I said, I don't eat meat, but if I did, I would keep away from Andouillettes: a food that is a very acquired taste!
Aldi baked beans , eggs and bacon , Tescos bread and has to be Bury black puddingOf the five items on your plate, all are available here in France, but they are just not the same.
Very jealous.
Got to be crispy bacon with fried eggs, fried bread, fried tomatoes, and a couple of sausages. Mushrooms and black pudding are optional extras although I'm not keen on hash browns as they are American interlopers and it's supposed to be a full English.Aldi baked beans , eggs and bacon , Tescos bread and has to be Bury black pudding
Plus mug of coffee or builders tea
Free range moorland haggis with a grand wee neep and tatties for dinner tonight with the added delight of leftover haggis sandwiches for a picnic lunch somewhere tomorrow.
Good - more of that fantastic Simon Howie spicy haggis for meI'll just have the neeps and tatties, please.
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Good - more of that fantastic Simon Howie spicy haggis for me![]()
I really enjoyed eating haggis when I worked up in Edinburgh, especially the free range stuff,Sounds offal to me.![]()
You wouldn't really know it was offal when you eat it.
Yep - sublimeSounds offal to me.![]()
it was magnificentI really enjoyed eating haggis when I worked up in Edinburgh, especially the free range stuff,but I like faggots of the eating variety too.
You wouldn't really know it was offal when you eat it.
Now that IS bloody offalThat's true. A lot of folk, including me. Won't each something because they know what's in it. Same with Black Pudding, love it, but when I found out, what it actually is, I thought ugh! But to be fair I still eat it, with a Full English.![]()