Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

I love mushrooms. They are my favouritre part of an english breakfast, mushrooms on toast are just divine, with steak, with chicken, pasta or risotto. My favourite thing though is mushroom tart. Oh yum.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I love mushrooms. They are my favouritre part of an english breakfast, mushrooms on toast are just divine, with steak, with chicken, pasta or risotto. My favourite thing though is mushroom tart. Oh yum.

Gently cooked in a little butter and added to red wine roast beef gravy.

Cooked with a little black truffle and bacon and used to stuff cabbage leaves.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I love mushrooms.

We had another puff ball in July, but I just couldn't face it somehow. I'd only just finished kicking what we didn't eat of the last one around the garden!

I don't really want another dog. When I was a kid I had an Old English Sheepdog for a year, and he was very bright. We had him from a widow who couldn't afford him, but when we couldn't take him into a rental, she had him back. By that time, she'd married a builder and had plenty of dosh. Fairy tale!

When I was about 10 I was given a Golden Retriever, rescued from a fighter pilot who was posted overseas. She was the most intelligent animal I've had the pleasure of knowing, being easily trained to alert me to the presence of any human within dog hearing/smelling distance, or about half a mile if it was the fish bailiff on his motorbike. :rotfl:She knew the difference between upstream & downstream, so could act as lookout and still follow her own agenda. The only creature she ever came second best to was a mink. :eek:

Like a lot of pedigree dogs, my Retriever didn't make old bones. I lost her when she was about 6. I was caught by gamekeepers on the local estate shortly afterwards.

Many years later, when I married, I gained the joy of walking a Border Collie every morning at 6am. She was highly obedient to the point of being boring, but wasn't terribly bright. I could leave her outside any shop with certainty that she'd wait there for however long I took. Indeed, we once left her behind at Longleat, but she was still sitting where the car had been when I returned in a state of panic half an hour later. When she went, aged 14, I said, "No more dogs."

Mind you, that was before I was introduced to the frustrating task of taking two ferrets out on a lead! :rotfl:

GDB2222

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lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Gently cooked in a little butter and added to red wine roast beef gravy.

Cooked with a little black truffle and bacon and used to stuff cabbage leaves.

Yes to the first, no to the second please.....I don't like truffle!

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

Like a lot of pedigree dogs, my Retriever didn't make old bones. I lost her when she was about 6.

That's young, even for a pedigree dog. Perhaps she lied about her age?

misskool

Davesnave wrote: »

We had another puff ball in July, but I just couldn't face it somehow. I'd only just finished kicking what we didn't eat of the last one around the garden!

I would have paid you for it!!

Like lir, I adore mushrooms, I could eat mushrooms of all varieties all day.


But that said, I'm ill again and contemplating not bothering with the gp.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

I would have paid you for it!!

Like lir, I adore mushrooms, I could eat mushrooms of all varieties all day.


But that said, I'm ill again and contemplating not bothering with the gp.

Do you want to try a puffball? We had a lot last year, haven't got one yet, but if we do I can send it up fir fir delivery service

GO TO THE DOCTOR (says me ) because you know what happened last time...you felt dreadful.



6 is VERY young to lose a golden retreiver. That said, I think some of the bigger more popular breeds that should by merit of population number be healthier, often don't look as far for mates. I'm lucky that my showing/breeding friends are as international as our families. Its not unusual at all for people to go overseas for new blood, and for matings. Dog-dog is italian bred from swedish lines (that have some states and brit in them too!), so if we have puppies I have a chose of ''local'' stud dogs. Or go for a dog imported from the states. We've decided to go and talk to her breeder, who would like some pups and see who she'd recommend and if we like any of them may be........

we owned the longest living dog at the time of the other breed.

purch

Cooked with a little black truffle and bacon and used to stuff cabbage leaves

Chocolate, Bacon and Cabbage....:eek:.........you're weird

PasturesNew

I don't like mushrooms... don't mind a few bits of it in a chicken/mushroom pie .... but I'd not choose to eat mushrooms. They look horrible and taste horrible to me.

I'm really, really tired today .... it's been hot and there was a lot of hammering going on where I was; it's sent me a bit weird to be honest.... (I have environment/noise issues with my speshulness).... really need to pack ear plugs if I do this again.

I think I'm having chips later... I know there's a chippy a mile up the road that's open until just after 9pm.... and they have my favourite pies but it's too hot and been a long day so I couldn't manage a pie too. Might get curry sauce .... I guess if they have gravy I should ask for that though to keep what's-er-face happy