morning glory <morning_glory@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "CP" <colinpaulturner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
news:a3576a3d-e762-4056-b87e-a625439d5b28@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Jul 1, 7:21 pm, d4g...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor
> > (*)) wrote:
> >
> >> I've got chicken legs baking nicely in the oven at the moment.
Marinated
> >> in a coriander, tomato, garlic and white wine 'salsa' along with
roasted
> >> peppers and a few new potatoes. Also having (saffron) rice, with
steamed
> >> broccolini.
> >
> > Well it's alright for some, isn't it? ;-) We were reduced to Quorn
> > lasagne after arriving back late owing to a three-hour train delay
> > from Birmingham to Durham. The first hitch came courtesy of someone
> > throwing themselves onto the track at Sutton Coldfield; the second was
> > the result of a car cra****ng into a railway bridge just as we were
> > approaching Derby. Got home to find that the boiler was on the blink
> > and we had no hot water. After cold showers all round, we settled down
> > to aforementioned meat-substitute delight.
> >
> > Broccolini?? I should coco!!!
>
> You poor things! Quorn can be OK if you are in the mood but I can't
imagine
> it hit the spot tonight. I'm not sure what brocolini is anyway. Is it
just
> baby brocolli?
You've probably seen it in the supermarkets- it's called tenderstem
broccoli. It's not actually related to broccoli (it's closer to cabbage
apparently!) but is delicious. The non-relation****p notwithstanding, I
rarely eat broccoli now- much prefering tenderstem- and young purple
broccoli (which I suspect is related to broccoli) is to die for too!
--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net
(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins
|
