Americans tend to over-cook eggs.

People not in America tend to eat eggs raw'ish.

Barbarians!

Tonight im eating a can of spaghetti o's that accidentally made their way into my cart at the store (think it must have fallen in while I was looking at spaghetti sauce (I remember hearing something fall into the cart but it didnt register until unpacking.)

I've not had spaghetti o's since I was a kid!

Well on Sunday we had the postponed Burns Supper after my friend's mother had the audacity to go and leave this world, so pumpkin soup from home grown pumpkin, followed by, Haggis, neeps, and tatties and cranachan for desert meal was accompanied by a selection of beers from Belgium and Scotland and of course a drappie o' the amber nectar: Founders reserve Glen Livet single malt whisky.

Monday was left overs
Tuesday was pizza 13 x 13"(32cm) pizzas for 5 kids and 9 adults there was none left at the end of the meal.
Wednesday was Osso buco, with garlic bread, glad I had made extra as we had an unexpected guest for dinner
Last night was take away as we were working on my son's new house so it was chicken kebab and kapsalon (French fries covered in spicy beef strips with an Andalouse sauce with melted cheese on top and a salad on top of that)
Tonight, well, still to go shopping after the Kinder Karnival - School kids fancy dress parade through the town,

For being a retired guy, you sure do have an interesting and action-packed life Alicatt.

Sorry to hear about your friend's mother.

**raises hand** Me too!


I like my eggs runny. If the yolk in the egg has hardened then it's way over-cooked for me.

Me too! Fried, I want all soft juice yoke, even if it means the white is a little runny.

Although I try not to think about what runny egg whites kinda look like.

you need a runny yolk to dip your soldiers in to

when making a milk shake I usually put a raw egg in it, I know the sources of the eggs and what they are fed and therefore am not worried about contaminated ones. Father in law has free range chickens and brings in about 10 eggs every fortnight or so to us.

Thanks PM, and yes I do have an interesting life here sometimes I wish it would back off a little Tuesdays can be a little too hectic around here, can't wait until it goes back to a Friday and we can relax over the meal and socialise properly.

That's awesome, Alicatt.

We normally buy Costco organic cage-free or whatever (probably a farce) but whenever possible, from a local farmer's market or someone we know (usually get lots of brownish and greenish colored eggs).

Yep it is, we get free range eggs from the middle son and from the F-I-L, I have not bought an egg in a store in many years. We get free range turkeys from the father in law of the friend mentioned above, those turkeys are in the 20 to 25kg range in size and are usually getting slaughtered around thanksgiving time.

Pumpkins and butternut squash we grow ourselves, also 3 grape vines which produce some really delicious grapes, a few gooseberry bushes green and red, and we have an assortment of all sorts of different strawberries. 4 plum trees at the front of the house, I planted a walnut tree a few years ago and it is now about 1.5" in diameter and about 3 meters tall, it will be a good few years before it bares nuts, we also have a couple of olive trees and last year they started to bare fruit, they are about 25 years old now so a lot of growing still to go, but we are keeping them more for decoration than fruit. My daughter in law gave me a small bayleaf tree which has been kept small but it has wonderfully flavourful leaves which I use in cooking, there are various herbs in pots all around the garden for cooking with too.

Tuesday is the local market day here and the town square is packed with sellers from local producers, the only interloper is the fish van which comes over from Holland but their produce is quite fresh and my wife loves their maatjes haring with onions.

It sounds like you live on a grand farming estate or something similar Alicatt.

It is a rural village we live in, and we are near the edge of it. Most people here had a large garden that they farmed in one manner or another and usually an out house with a pig in it to dispose of the kitchen waste etc. I don't have that large a garden compared with some, Vic the youngest son has about the largest garden in the family at 32Are (34,444sq ft), mine is the smallest at 10are (10,764sq ft)

Now I used to have 2 farms, but sold the last of it off in 2010, together they were about 124 hectares (306 acres) but most of it was scrub heather hill side, and a swamp called the Dubh Loch (black lake) as it was really liquid peat bog.

My house, gable end on to the road, the round white thing is 2" thick insulation panels for the blow-up swimpool, it is being replaced this year with a 9.5m x 4.5 swimming pool which will occupy most of the grass on that side of the driveway.


To the left is my youngest son's house where we are working at just now, and next to it is the middle son's house and workshop where he runs his steel construction business from, It was originally a farm and the workshop was the barn and stables.

My my my. If the two stages of cooked eggs are 1) overcooked or 2) raw-ish, we have serious problems!

What is the loaded missile launcher for Alicatt? (the white object on the right of the photo)

LOL looks like a boat to me.

Oh...and you sure can't eat it for dinner!

It's a catamaran, not mine, been there for a good number of years too and I have never seen it move. usually horses in that field.

I know it is a catamaran.

...but what am I?

Chicken salad and bread rolls for me tonight. Oh, and vodka.

A humongous piece of King Cake with a large cup of Community Mardi Gras King Cake coffee (w/cream and sugar...dessert coffee as I'm used to drinking it plain black). And I'm thinking about going back for seconds.

That's supper. Sometimes ya gotta live.

Salmon
with roasted zucchini and roasted cherry tomato