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Quorn! What's it good for'
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
If you ask Chumley to answer this question, his reply would be a resounding, "Absolutely nothing!" ?It seems we have had a bit of a barney over meat replacement. ?Here's my side of the story.I accidentally ordered Quorn Chili in a restaurant, thinking it would contain little bits of corn. ?It sounded interesting. It was officially good, despite the lack of niblets.? As I learned later, Quorn is a meat replacement, or mycoprotien, as it's more properly known. ?It's a...
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Have a Cracking Christmas!
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
If you're headed toward a place setting at an English Christmas do or holiday dinner near you, you should be chuffed (excited) to see one of these at your spot. No, it's not an extra festive toilet paper roll. It's not a holiday recreation of Sputnik, although the sound they make has been known to launch excitable me into orbit. It's a Christmas cracker, a festive, dinnertime mini explosive that contains a joke or motto or riddle, a prize of debatable value, and that...
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Back to Reality
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
One gentle reader expressed interest some time ago in my take on UK healthcare. Using the NHS, England's socialized healthcare program, is a major learning curve for Americans living here for any length of time. National healthcare is also a political issue back home at the moment, and I'd choose bog diving over political discussions any day. In general, my impressions are very favorable thus far. There are pitfalls to navigate, just as there are in the land of...
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Move Over, Martha!
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Meet my new favorite celebrity foodie, Delia Smith. She's no revelation to the English, but for Americans, she flies much lower on radar than the potty-mouthed Gordon Ramsay or voluptuous Nigella Lawson. She's without a gimmick: she's into old-fangled and cozy snacks, real butter, and her housecat is quite fluffy. At least he was groomed well in her Christmas special.I'm sure I'm not alone in losing whatever opinion I had of Martha Stewart post her stint in the...
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Sunrise, Sunset
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The picture above could be our back garden at 8 a.m. One of the most striking things when I first lived in England for a while in 2001 was the lovely, long length of day in summer. It was even better than visiting Minnesota, where we marveled that in the summertime, it wasn't uncommon for the neighbors to start mowing the grass at 5:30 in the morning. Lawncare lunatics.It's not quite the winter of my discontent, but I could use a dose of light therapy. According to the...
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Thanksgiving, Observed
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
As one of my most ambitious cultural experiments to date, I cooked a facsimile of Thanksgiving dinner for five all-British dining companions over the weekend. As I have never actually dabbled in turkey myself, and now truly appreciate my mother for all the years of work she's amassed while entertaining us, it was somewhat daunting. My mantra was, "It's just a large chicken." Here was the menu:Crudites with cream cheese chive dipFruit and nut mixMulled ciderGingered...
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Nevermind That Flesh Wound. How About a Nice Tea'
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I've been hitting the book lately. At least, the UK Highway Code. Americans living in the UK have a year to drive on our US driver's license, but after the year, the party is over. To continue the fun in our clown car, we'll need a full UK driving license. Getting a US license is a cakewalk compared to the rigors of UK licensure. There's a theory test, and an accompanying hazard perception video where one sits at a touch screen and watches a scene,...
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Getting Down With OAPs
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In my relentless quest for beneficial daytime experiences, I decided to take a day off swimming my mile but wanted some form of exercise. I have noted that a group of women I generally refer to as the gray-haired mafia completely book up a large number of the daytime exercise classes at our gym, but there was one opening left in this morning's aqua aerobics. I know it is almost always booked full, so I hopped on the last slot. An "OAP" is island lingo for Old Age...
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Death by Rhubarb
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Some people have irrational fears. Some of these fears are stranger than others. I am mostly paranoid of dogs. Ages ago, a fellow co-worker of mine had Crock-Pot-O-Phobia, which is the fear of slow cookers. This person would not only steer far away from Crock Pots at work potlucks, but shiver at the prospect of eating food that could have possibly been prepared in a Crock Pot. She didn't seem to have the same phobia of electric skillets, however. I did...
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The English Excel at Remembrance
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The Queen is on TV at Westminster Abbey at the moment to commemorate Armistice Day, which honors the end of World War I. Today is also Veteran's Day in the States. It doesn't quite have the pomp, but it is a national holiday, as my dad has the day off work. England observes two minutes of silence at 11 a.m.... which I did. Now I can tell you about the poppies, which came to symbolize the dead of World War I thanks to the poem, "In Flanders Fields."People have been...
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What Happened to This Guy'
From Stuck in the Toffee Pudding, 2 year ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
This past week, I've been hearing the pop of the occasional backyard fireworks display in honor of Guy Fawkes Day (or Bonfire Night), which was Nov. 5. It's an interesting holiday in that it celebrates the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when a mercenary from York named Guy Fawkes (also known as Guido from his days fighting in Spain) was found on a tip in the cellars below Parliament with a smidge of gunpowder. Maybe 36 barrels is more than a smidge. It seems the...
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