Had one of the 3oz. bags of Andy Capp's Hot Fries and a Mountain Dew. 

Water

Coffee. Strong.

Corn Flakes for elevenses - I approve

I live to eat.

Snow Dog wrote: Dean wrote: I live to eat. I love how adventurous your diet is. I really must extend my range.

Thanks. My late Mum, (bless her), was a good cook (and a great baker) but not very adventurous - if it's Tuesday then it must be chops - "foreign" food was unknown in our house, my late Dad (bless him too) thought lamb with rosemary was exotic. She taught me to cook and bake and grounded me in the fundamentals, but we never experimented beyond putting a few raisins in ginger bread - it was simple food simply cooked and damn fine it was. It wasn't until I went to Uni in '79 that I discovered there was other food out there - Leicester market was a revelation to me - strange looking vegetables, cheese that wasn't cheddar, all kinds of fresh and cured meat, all manner of bread that wasn't Wonderloaf - stuff I'd honestly never seen when I was growing up in darkest rural north Bedfordshire... I'd never even drunk real coffee because we only had instant at home and that gave me migraines. I ate my first Indian meal there (didn't like it much) and my first chili (loved it) - even my first real hamburger (not Wimpy) was bought in Leicester; Even then, I'd never eaten Italian (except frozen pizza and "school" spag-bog) or Chinese food until I moved to Edinburgh a couple of years later. But as a student I couldn't afford to eat out all the time so learnt to adapt what my Mum had taught me to mimic those "foreign" meals - a few herbs and spices here and there in the "English" meals I knew how to make and is sort of grew from there. (with lots of encouragement from Debs, who had grown up with a more varied diet, though chitlins and tripe and onions are still a no-no for me - I remember the first meal I cooked for her - roast beef with all the trimmings and rice-pudding - later she cooked me home made pizza with fresh tomato sauce, proper mozarella, bell peppers and hot pepperoni - which I proceeded to liberally coat with HP sauce ). But even now and then I get stuck in a repeat loop of cooking the same meals just like my Mum did - my daugher once remarked - ug, not coq au vin again...

Ancient Tree wrote:   Veggie Burger and drinking water  99.9% Healthy

Mmm - I love veggie burgers, even the sad looking McDonalds ones. A tin of mixed beans mashed up, made into patties and fried in sunflower oil, then coated with sweet chili sauce and served in a fresh toasted bun with a quality salad harvested from the garden (with maybe some tangerine segments scattered over it) - yum! I could do that for tonight's dinner - sounds ideal.  

Edited by Dean - June 22 2012 at 06:44

Dean wrote: Ancient Tree wrote:   Veggie Burger and drinking water  99.9% Healthy  Mmm - I love veggie burgers, even the sad looking McDonalds ones. A tin of mixed beans mashed up, made into patties and fried in sunflower oil, then coated with sweet chili sauce and served in a fresh toasted bun with a quality salad harvested from the garden (with maybe some tangerine segments scattered over it) - yum! I could do that for tonight's dinner - sounds ideal.

Thanks guys - just finished a horribly foreshortened cheese salad sandwich from the van which visits our office... I really should start making my own again

Snow Dog wrote: My mother actually wasn't a great cook so I started doing it myself from about 18 I suppose. I do the majority of the cooking now but I think I'm starting o get a bit safe and need to push myself out of the comfort zone. Sometimes I use"instinct" (actually it's accumulated cooking knowledge) and make stuff up. Sometimes with very good results.

Same here - back at Uni a small tin of fruit cocktail (you know - diced pears, peaches, grapes and cherries in heavy syrup) tipped into a small saucepan with a glug of Heinz ketchup and a splash of malt vinegar slowly heated up so it didn't stick then poured over a grilled chop became my take on sweet and sour pork. Cooking on instinct - it wasn't authentic, but they contained all the right ingredients so seemed like it would work, and it did.