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[Headstall]

19 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

What is in your Xmas cake?

 

he's Irish so you can bet there's a wee dram of something.  

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie said:

  Fish and chips generally means the British version here, so if I ordered fish and chips I would expect it to come with French fries.  Where I live, Friday night is traditionally for fish frys, which usually comes with a giant piece of beer-battered haddock, French fries, macaroni or potato salad (or both), cole slaw,  and lemon.  Some places will sub a garden salad for potato or macaroni salad.  

Damn... I want fish and chips now.  

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

he's Irish so you can bet there's a wee dram of something.  

I'm guessing he's already had a wee dram, since he's baking a cake at 10 pm.   

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

Damn... I want fish and chips now.  

Best fish and chips I ever had was at a British pub in Minneapolis the first time I visited Cole.  OMG  the fish was incredible.  

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Valkyrie said:

Best fish and chips I ever had was at a British pub in Minneapolis the first time I visited Cole.  OMG  the fish was incredible.  

Best fish and chips I've had were in New Brunswick. The last time I was there it was just as good as I remembered... everyone knows how to serve great fish and chips there... big restaurants and small.  

[Marty]

43 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

What is in your Xmas cake?

I could tell you ...

... but, as it's my own secret recipe, I'd then have to kill you.

Actually it's a version of a Rich Fruit Cake.

A typical recipe can be found here. But, as I say, I've adapted it for my own use. In particular, I have used different spices to give it a seasonal flavour.

43 minutes ago, clochette said:

Wow I know there is some time difference between Ireland and France but I didn't thought it was counting in weeks, months even!

A rich fruit cake only improves with age. It will be wrapped in baking parchment and tinfoil, and unwrapped at weekly intervals and a dessert spoonful of Irish Whiskey carefully poured over to soak into it. About a week before Christmas, I'll cover it in marzipan (almond paste) and then ice it a few days before the big day. 

Edited November 1, 2019 by Marty
Correcting another of my inevitable typos.

[Marty]

21 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Damn... I want fish and chips now.  

I actually met a young friend for lunch today and had fish and chips (with a side salad).

Edited November 1, 2019 by Marty
Correcting another of my inevitable typos.

[Valkyrie]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

A rich fruit cake only improves with age. It will be wrapped in baking parchment and tinfoil, and unwrapped at weekly intervals and a dessert spoonful of Irish Whiskey carefully poured over to sak into it. About a week before Christmas, I'll cover it in marzipan (almond paste) and then ice it a few days before the big day. 

Wow... that sounds soooo good! 

[Headstall]

3 minutes ago, Marty said:

I could tell you ...

... but, as it's my own secret recipe, I'd then have to kill you.

Actually it's a version of a Rich Fruit Cake.

A typical recipe can be found here. But, as I say, I've adapted it for my own use. In particular, I have used different spices to give it a seasonal flavour.

A rich fruit cake only improves with age. It will be wrapped in baking parchment and tinfoil, and unwrapped at weekly intervals and a dessert spoonful of Irish Whiskey carefully poured over to sak into it. About a week before Christmas, I'll cover it in marzipan (almond paste) and then ice it a few days before the big day. 

Now I want some of that.   

[Marty]

1 minute ago, Headstall said:

Now I want some of that.   

One of them is actually going to Germany with a friend. I'll bring the other one to England when I go over to my sister's for Christmas.

Sorry, buddy, I won't have time to make a third one to post across The Pond...  

[Marty]

Now... whilst the cake is baking, I have to edit some photographs...

Chat yous all later.  

[Headstall]

1 minute ago, Marty said:

One of them is actually going to Germany with a friend. I'll bring the other one to England when I go over to my sister's for Christmas.

Sorry, buddy, I won't have time to make a third one to post across The Pond...  

That's okay... I guess I'll have to make one... maybe...  

[Headstall]

Just now, Marty said:

Now... whilst the cake is baking, I have to edit some photographs...

Chat yous all later.  

See ya later, buddy.  

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

Were having fish and chips

I had that for lunch. Well, it was really a fish sandwich and fries but it was tasty.

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Valkyrie said:

 I couldn't sleep last night due to the high winds.  Plus the cats were crazy all night, chasing leaves through the window.  There was lots of damage and flooding from the storm, but thankfully I never lost my power and the basement stayed dry. There's lots of flooding along the Mohawk and the river reached a record high crest.  The drive this afternoon was nice, though.  Cloudy, no rain, and the wind wasn't too bad.  For driving, anyway.  It was brutal when I stopped at the rest stops.  Because of this storm, the trees definitely look like November trees.  Bye bye Fall!  Southern areas of where I live are supposed to get 3-6" of snow this weekend.  Bleh.  I'm at the hotel right now, waiting for my friend to arrive.  I brought some soup with me for dinner and am going to take advantage of the down time to do some writing  I'll check in when I can  

Honest, she never heard me, I was very quiet when I snuck in with the treats for the herd.

[dughlas]

1 hour ago, Marty said:

I'm currently mixing the ingredients for my second Christmas cake...

 

1 hour ago, Albert1434 said:

What is in your Xmas cake?

 

Thank you Albert, saves me asking. So Marty ...

[dughlas]

51 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

  Fish and chips generally means the British version here, so if I ordered fish and chips I would expect it to come with French fries.  Where I live, Friday night is traditionally for fish frys, which usually comes with a giant piece of beer-battered haddock, French fries, macaroni or potato salad (or both), cole slaw,  and lemon.  Some places will sub a garden salad for potato or macaroni salad.  

Scratch the potato/macaroni salad. Here we do the fish, either haddock or cod, fries, cole slaw and I want malt vinegar rather than lemon.

[dughlas]

57 minutes ago, Headstall said:

he's Irish so you can bet there's a wee dram of something.  

Just one dram?

[Albert1434]

57 minutes ago, Headstall said:

Damn... I want fish and chips now.  

Come to my house Gary and Ill feed ya

[Albert1434]

57 minutes ago, Valkyrie said:

Best fish and chips I ever had was at a British pub in Minneapolis the first time I visited Cole.  OMG  the fish was incredible.  

The best Fish and chips I had was at a car wash 

[Albert1434]

And to have the best Fish and Chips it must have Malt Vinegar and Icelandic cod 

[Valkyrie]

Just now, Albert1434 said:

And to have the best Fish and Chips it must have Malt Vinegar and Icelandic cod 

The one I had in Minneapolis may have been cod.  In my area, it's typically haddock.  I love it with malt vinegar too, but I also like fish with lemon. Malt vinegar with fries is delicious. 

[Albert1434]

You are so right Val 

[dughlas]

49 minutes ago, Marty said:

I could tell you ...

... but, as it's my own secret recipe, I'd then have to kill you.

Actually it's a version of a Rich Fruit Cake.

A typical recipe can be found here. But, as I say, I've adapted it for my own use. In particular, I have used different spices to give it a seasonal flavour.

A rich fruit cake only improves with age. It will be wrapped in baking parchment and tinfoil, and unwrapped at weekly intervals and a dessert spoonful of Irish Whiskey carefully poured over to soak into it. About a week before Christmas, I'll cover it in marzipan (almond paste) and then ice it a few days before the big day. 

Mum and I will be making fruitcakes after we get back to her home in SC in three weeks. Ideally we would do them earlier but we already have a car full of things. We make small loafpan sized ones. Half will be frozen for next year. They age very well that way. Oh, and we douse ours with bourbon, they are afterall Southern fruitcakes.

[Albert1434]

We have a Whooping cough outbreak here sigh😲