Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

Yorkies were a great success. The Girl was very cross that there was only one. The Boy is just starting to get to like them. Mrs Generali was annoyed that they don't fit into her diet well enough to have more than one.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Yorkies were a great success. The Girl was very cross that there was only one. The Boy is just starting to get to like them. Mrs Generali was annoyed that they don't fit into her diet well enough to have more than one.

Two points:
• One is ridiculous .... you need a minimum of 12 for a family of four.
• If you look at the calories in a Yorkshire .... you quickly realise that a GIANT Yorkshire, filled with veggies/gravy is quite low in calories. I'd recommend that as a man meal for any greedy person, that loves volume in food, who is on a diet.

To back this up, there's 43 calories for one small Aunt Bessie's http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=254754415
Although if you calculate it by pack weight the figure increases to 53 calories.

370g at 174 kcal/100g then divided by 12 in a pack is 53 .... so maybe the pack weight includes packaging. Anyway ... not horrendous.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Two points:
• One is ridiculous .... you need a minimum of 12 for a family of four.
• If you look at the calories in a Yorkshire .... you quickly realise that a GIANT Yorkshire, filled with veggies/gravy is quite low in calories. I'd recommend that as a man meal for any greedy person, that loves volume in food, who is on a diet.

There might have been one person around the table that got 2.:EasterBun

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

There might have been one person around the table that got 2

If you make them you can toss them into the freezer and the following week you just need to pull out how many you want and toss them into the hot oven for 3-5 minutes.

You can never have too many Yorkshires..... I always start a carvery plate with 3 on one edge of the plate .... then pop a roastie into each one - that's the foundation of my food stack.

When cooking I've even been known to make a Yorkshire .... and then chuck another dish of mix into the oven as the meal's served up ... so anybody wanting more a bit later can be presented with a whole/new Yorkshire.... just when they thought they were about to explode. They're also brilliant cold.... especially those soggy middle bits

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

You can never have too many Yorkshires.....

Another t shirt slogan idea... well, that's two I've got from this thread in just as many days.

I love Yorkies... but I fill mine with mint sauce... or I've done them once for Boxing day with goats cheese and cranberry in, they were nice too.

mystic_trev

I was in North Yorkshire couple of weeks ago, on a walking Holiday with some friends. We stopped off at a Pub one lunchtime, and a dish called Parmo was on the menu. We asked what it was, to be told it was a local speciality.



Here's what it consists of :eek:

Chicken or pork fillets are flattened, then dipped in egg and then bread crumbs, after which it is deep-fried. Onto this is poured a thick, white sauce (similar to b!chamel sauce, but butter may be partially or wholly replaced by other fats) and then it is topped with grated cheese. The cheese is usually cheddar, rather than the Parmesan cheese that originally gave the dish its name. The dish is then grilled or baked to melt the cheese.

So not too much cholesterol :rotfl:

Needless to say I only had a small one.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

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But it's not like they're employing "child labour" for $20/day.

I disagree. It is not what you pay them, it is that they are working like that at all.

Reading that children were given lunch but eating it with hands covered in tobacco residue just added to my low opinion of this. What value is placed on the life of a child are they just a commodity unless they are a consumer? Where is the protection and investment that poor children are entitled to in the first world?

Last year I heard a clinician speaking following from visiting a world class hospital in the US. Whilst there the staff were raising money to contribute to the cost of cancer treatment for one of their support staff as their insurance would not cover it. The colleague said this was a treatable cancer with proven clinical pathway, normal for the NHS but beyond the 'working people' and that this absence of cover was not unusual, nor was the fund raising which was for treatment and food/social costs whilst the sick colleague was not working.

The US clinicians were amazed at the concept of paid maternity leave...could not believe the UK clinicians had had more than one paid maternity and that maternal/infant health was built into terms and conditions.

What they did get, which staff in the UK do not get, was free coffee and pastries in the Theatre staff room.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Spirit,

I am very happy for your OH. If you'd like e to take you to a space nk in prep for this wonderful situation for your DH let me know. You could come here, park and meet my deplorable critters and we could go To Bath and perhaps if she is able to, meet Lydia for lunch? Not sure if any of your non working days coincide?

Btw, not that you NEED a trip to space nk! its just you mentioned an interest in buying stuff and I had recommended space nk. There must be one nearer to you mind you,

I remember talking about how much he had put into this, and if know what it is to be proud of a husband and supportive.

I would love a trip to Bath with you and others. The make up has not progressed beyond the mascara! Shall we make a date regardless of whether I go with him or not, as that is conditional on my health whilst an outing to Bath should be fine if you are up to it. It would be good to see you after your own recent ups and downs.

Thanks for the support, this has had very many chances of going t!ts up as the regional crisis developed and ebbed. Much beyond his control, he has just had to keep the wheels from falling off and has done so whilst keeping everyone "on board" by being a Nice man.

No word from him today as he will be at sea and busy, weather on land says it is raining with low wind:(

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you make them you can toss them into the freezer and the following week you just need to pull out how many you want and toss them into the hot oven for 3-5 minutes.

You can never have too many Yorkshires..... I always start a carvery plate with 3 on one edge of the plate .... then pop a roastie into each one - that's the foundation of my food stack.

When cooking I've even been known to make a Yorkshire .... and then chuck another dish of mix into the oven as the meal's served up ... so anybody wanting more a bit later can be presented with a whole/new Yorkshire.... just when they thought they were about to explode. They're also brilliant cold.... especially those soggy middle bits

I need guidance from you...I have posted before that my Yorkshires are a bit hit and miss.

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

Parmo

I think I've heard of this before, maybe seen it on one of the endless cookery programmes.... the difference is just presentation. If you took that recipe/ingredients and said it's a chicken escalope with fromage bechamel and a side portion of chips ... and made it look presentable it could be served anywhere.

What they appear to have done is got the local hamfisted handyman, given him a mallet and a vague idea and told him he's now the cook.

I bet it tasted nice!