View Full Version : Cooking just for yourself is a pain in the arse, isn't it? Who can be bothered?
Berni
05-27-2015, 01:18 PM
I certainly can't. My wife is away for the week and I seem to have regressed. I have not eaten a meal off a plate since Sunday, preferring to grab handfuls of whatever I find in the fridge, shove them into my mouth and move on.
As I ate alternate handfuls of cold roast pork and cooked, cold cabbage left over from Sunday's dinner on Monday, I wondered if perhaps things had gone a little bit wrong. So last night I cooked. I made popcorn. With a microwave.
I expect I'll be going through people's bins by Friday. :shrug:
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:20 PM
The stereotype food of students but a fine meal nonetheless.
Or cheese on toast.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:21 PM
Surely there will be some kebab action?
I'm thinking of making some Thai-style crab cakes tonight, but I'm worried that they won't hold together on the spit.
As well as extremely pissed.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:25 PM
You sir have surely moved into the area of 'takeaway food when one is alone'.
Berni
05-27-2015, 01:28 PM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:28 PM
his chosen method of dealing with this issue is eating leftovers from the fridge.
Surely, under these circumstances, any caring friend would recommend the kebab option?
Witharby 2-3 weeks
05-27-2015, 01:30 PM
and eat what you like every night. Might die sooner than expected but it's great fun
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 01:31 PM
I had the same sort of situation. Ended up sick a dog throwing up constantly.
It might have been that I had takeaway Pizza for 2 days in a row for each meal :hide:
so it didn't turn out to be the ****ing, junkfood, playstation fest I had envisaged.
Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))
05-27-2015, 01:31 PM
And I think they alert the local coronary hospital unit when you order one... :nurse:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11633235/Pizza-Hut-j ust-put-eight-meat-pies-in-its-pizza-crust.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11633235/Pizza-Hut-just-put-eight-meat-pies-in-its-pizza-crust.html)
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03319/pizzahut_3319465b.jpg
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:32 PM
Simply that I like to stick to the topic.
Ftr I nearly had a kebab for lunch just now but instead went for Nasi Goreng which I am hugely disappointed to admit came with a fried egg that was not soft / runny.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:35 PM
A man who has faced an over cooked egg may face any travail with impunity, sw.
Berni
05-27-2015, 01:37 PM
pointless, inadequate, unsatisfactory and ultimately rather depressing thing. :-(
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:37 PM
*******s to the merit of character building.
I think it was Shaw, George Bernard.
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:40 PM
I love a deep pan pizza, me, it's literally my favourite variety but these stuffed crusts are a step too far
Berni
05-27-2015, 01:40 PM
happens :-( I had it once in a Cafe Rouge (I know!) and complained. They told me company policy was not to serve runny eggs. :cry:
Less forgivably, I once had it happen in The Ritz. But, since someone else was paying and it was a business meeting, I felt it would have been wrong to send it back.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:40 PM
I expect it sounds a gentle as the breeze.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:40 PM
I did for a second think "bet Jorge would like that".
And there we have it.
Billy Goat Sverige
05-27-2015, 01:42 PM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:42 PM
Surely he reposes south of the border?
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:42 PM
I mean, there's enough cheese/meat etc on the pizza, no?
Also, your crust is literally your reference point for the rigidity of the thing.
Stop this stuff crust madness
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:43 PM
Also, are you playing in Rich's position today?
Berni
05-27-2015, 01:44 PM
It's the thick end of the wedge. Quite liderally.
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:45 PM
Well I say "I have" it's more the Mrs and her doughey kitchen aid stylings
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:45 PM
Sure and indeed begorrah.
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 01:47 PM
are not even done over there. They trial them here first. Like the Hotdog crust.
This country is becoming verrrrrrrry strange. I overheard some business types the other day talking about a WOW Factor Meeting.
:-(
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 01:47 PM
I have had said dish in the past and been served crispy rashers, which admittedly were nice but not what I had asked for.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:47 PM
Nothing at all like the northern benefit junkies who eat at Pizza Hut.
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:48 PM
Not that I dont like napoletana, romana or taglio. It's a broad church, just without Sophie from Peep Show and Dr Who
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:49 PM
http://www.pizzahut.co.uk/locations
A pizza shouldn't look and taste like a cake, basics.
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:50 PM
Like the provisional wing
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:51 PM
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:52 PM
I was using 'northern' in its most literal sense, meaning 'common'. :nod:
Classic Jorge
05-27-2015, 01:54 PM
Except, of course, that refers to a certain town in Kent
I'm sure you had plenty of experience before you were married.
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 01:56 PM
somebody says something 'Sucked' How weird did that sound.
You couldn't imagine saying it yourself.
Now everyone is talking like a c**t. Endless baseball expressions being used too.
:shrug:
I like Americans. Let Americans do that american stuff. I am in England and more or less English. When I go for dinner I don't want some fake chirpy woman referring to our table as 'HEY GUYS'
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 01:57 PM
which as you know is anathema to my egalitarian principles.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 02:00 PM
It's a slippery slope.
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 02:01 PM
May I recommend avoiding won with a Floyd rose tremolo system.
I've been trying to tune it properly for 3 days :-( guitar is lovely otherwise.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:01 PM
Luis Anaconda
05-27-2015, 02:02 PM
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:03 PM
Now he uses the term "pissed" to mean annoyed, in the American sense.
Not even pissed off, just pissed.
Causes a lot of confusion here when he often refers to being pissed.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 02:04 PM
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 02:04 PM
I was only there 3 years but enough, Plus my Dad talks funny.
Sir Charlie of Nicholas
05-27-2015, 02:06 PM
There is a lilting, lyrical, rhythmic quality that reminds me of birdsong, and early morning hoors on the streets of Swansea.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:08 PM
:-|
Pat Vegas
05-27-2015, 02:08 PM
My dad's lived in England now 30 something years but still has his Canadian accent.
But Irish people always ask him if he's from Cork.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:14 PM
Trust me.
Berni
05-27-2015, 02:16 PM
He would never do such a thing. And clearly she is a woman beyond reproach (as witnessed by her excellent choice in husbands).
Luis Anaconda
05-27-2015, 02:17 PM
I work/socialise with a lot of Americans - so it is sometimes easier to adopt their terminology - though I refuse to use the term douche, that is just silly.
I was with an Australian and and Yank the other day and mentioned that I was going on a stag do in a couple of weeks. Blank looks all around. "A bachelor party" - recognition from the American, blank look from the Aussie. :rolleyes: "A buck's party" - ah all got it now. Three nations divided by one language as they say. At least the Canadians say Stag, I believe
Berni
05-27-2015, 02:20 PM
I mean I sort of know what they are, but have no reason to use them as derogatory terms. You might as well call someone a bidet.
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:28 PM
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:30 PM
Now PM me your IBAN details for payment.
Berni
05-27-2015, 02:32 PM
I can tell you're curious and susceptible to a bit of flattery. A few drinks, a nice meal - maybe dancing - and I reckon you'd be putty in my hands. ;-)
Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler
05-27-2015, 02:36 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-duDKzm3mY
Luis Anaconda
05-27-2015, 02:36 PM
Berni
05-27-2015, 02:47 PM
on an angry rat. Priceless.
So good I almost missed the chap playing the accordion who I first thought was a midget standing up, only to realise belatedly (and with not a little disappointment) that it was a trick of the black and white footage and his dark suit.
eastgermanautos
05-27-2015, 03:39 PM
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