Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mmm.. IIRC from a previous version of NPT, he has form in this area..

We still have stilton in the freezer from january 2011.

Its ridiculus. there is only so much cheese we can eat.

I am going to have to make stilton muffins or something for a np meet up.:D. You have been warned.

He also brought back milk. He is a dairy fanantic. He once was told he could not take one of those big tubs/trays of clotted cream through to air side in his hand luggage so he went and got a spoon from a coffee shop and ate it. ATE THE WHOLE THING. And bought milk to wash it down with. I had little sympathy when he arrived back in milan with heart burn.

I asked what else he did in milan yesterday and it went something like this:

Had an estivo with a friend (i hate this coffee drink that he gets from a particular bar near duomo)' bought a panzaroti, with a friend bought another one in a new flavour, but friend didn't Went to have some raw fish at the raw fish bar with anpother friend, went back and got another estivo by himself, Had lunch at that place we like with the excellent risotto with a friend, went to the supermarket in ripamonti, went to the supermarket in Solari, grabbed an icecream from a new icecream bar with amazing flavours....he had lavender and honey) grabbed a coffee because needed the loo (not surprising really) ......met a friend for coffee. Back near duomo....went to the epicurean shop near la scala and ate a mozzerella with the owner.

Then he grabbed Some cranberry juice at the train station and then when he got home had supper with me.

Its really not fair that he is not whale sized. He has put on a little weight recently, so i guess he is finally getting an adult metabolism. He used to be anorexic. He is pretty well over that!

PasturesNew

Have you thought about dairy farming and making your own cheese?

Or is that too hard? Land is wrong type?

Or, you could just convert a building and buy local milk and just do the cheese bit.

Open up a coffee shop on the premises ... and only sell things beginning with "C". Cheese, coffee, cake....

PasturesNew

Brilliant programme on BBC4. Horizon Guide to something or other. All sciency about interesting stuff.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Have you thought about dairy farming and making your own cheese?

Or is that too hard? Land is wrong type?

Or, you could just convert a building and buy local milk and just do the cheese bit.

Not on your nelly. I sometimes help my neighbours out, which means getting up even earlier than i usually do, but has other benefits for us. P

Our dairy would not pass modern milking standard requiremtns, and needs a lot of money to bring up to modern acceptable standartds. I wouldn't mind having a couple of cows and putting one in calf alternately so we have our own milk, but food production (as opposed to meat) of that sort is too big a commitment both time and money wise to give us any sort of payback and also......i want a life.

Cheese making is fun, my neighbour and i are planning on having ago at making wiltshire cheese soon.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh has brought a cheese mountain home from italy. Not sure what we will do with it all.

Put it with my parma ham, mortadella, spec mountain.

Mr Spirit spent circa £50 at an italian food market on Sunday...and then went to Copenhagen leaving me with more cold meat than I know what to do with.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Put it with my parma ham, mortadella, spec mountain.

Mr Spirit spent circa £50 at an italian food market on Sunday...and then went to Copenhagen leaving me with more cold meat than I know what to do with.

Oh dear! Mine did bring meats, but a more decent amount, and some cured sausage that will keep. I would personally work your way through the parma first.

I used to make a lovely pasta or tagliette, poached quails eggs, (whose yolks burst under the fork to coat the pasta lightly) asparagus and parma ham and a wee bit of shaved parmesan. Obviously designed to be decadent, but brilliant at this rime of year, and as the meat is the most expensive single bit it might help you make an inroad!

I am not a mortadella fan i am afraid, so no suggestions but i wish you lots of luck. Atkins week maybe?:D

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Cheese making is fun, my neighbour and i are planning on having ago at making wiltshire cheese soon.

I have a virtual friend who owns a dairy farm on the Isle of Man. He doesn't make cheese either. Inherited farm, been in the family hundreds of years, he milks the cows and gets drunk ... that's all. No desire to do anything different.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have a virtual friend who owns a dairy farm on the Isle of Man. He doesn't make cheese either. Inherited farm, been in the family hundreds of years, he milks the cows and gets drunk ... that's all. No desire to do anything different.

Sounds like an awful lot of dairy farmers!

PasturesNew

Just google the name of each cheese/meat, then click on the Google Images tab and scroll down until you see something scrummy looking - then click and see if that recipe's doable or too much faff

With a new data allocation in my online recipe book, today I used up 10MB of my 60MB/month limit adding in the stuff I found yesterday. 320 recipes now.

One day I'll have a home and my stuff around me and might even make a few of them. I'm happy looking at the pictures and scoffing wine gums.

Today's meals have been:

Lunch: Packet of tomato ketchup crisps
Tea: Jacket spud with cheese and beans... and 6 wine gums for dessert.

lostinrates

Lemonjelly, dh wishes me to tell you that in his opinion the peninsula in oxford is the best chinese restaurant in the entire western world bar the new world for a different sort of chinese food.

(i thou the peninsula was ok i think, tbh, don't really remember it . Have an impression we went down some stairs)