Well, what can I say? I'm on the right side of that pond
State of the Game
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Sounds about right! Fortunately in the last 40 or so years brits have gotten a little more adventurous with cooking - those who really cook, rather than get 'ready meals' from the supermarket - so flavour is much more common than when I was a youngster.
So true! My folks were both pretty good cooks, but I remember going to a friends house and having "spaghetti bolognese" - which was basically overcooked unseasoned pasta with mince and onions that I think had probably been boiled not fried and I still remember eating it all out of politeness whilst trying not to vomit.....
I stick with pies and puddings - those are really good.
A few (think 30+) years ago one of my friends invited me over for chilli-con-carne, with the caveat that it was made 'really hot'...
Dunno what his 'chilli' was, but it really wasn't very hot... But, even that long ago I'd already been cooking 'proper' curry and jerk recipies, so maybe it was just me!
If you ain't sweatin', you ain't eatin'.
some people consider tabasco to be hot - merely 2500 scoville units - that's not hot at all.
Nope, it isn't. Mind you, I always keep a bottle around just in case I need to slightly "adjust" a dish, so I do like my Tabasco. But I wouldn't call it "hot" either.
I remember being very disappointed by my first 'chilli-dog' when I went to the States. I was wondering where the 'Chilli' had gone.
Luckily, later in the trip I started with a friend of Mexican decent (living in the San Fernando Valley area), and his parents weren't used to a non-Mexican's that liked hot food.
you live in a good spot for multi-cultural cookery - well, me too, with all the asians, south africans, americans and europeans around here. Not so much mexicans though, taco bell and pizza hut have a merged restaurant here - so not that much in regards to mexican foodstuffs.
Wrong part of the States, obviously
You need a proper three or four alarm chili. On the other hand, "chili dog" is really a misnomer in most places since there is not an ounce of chili in it especially if you buy it in a store, in which case it's just ground beef'n'gravy.
I like it to spice up my morning eggs - scrambled or boiled, doesn't matter - but I lately eat more turkish style eggs - cilbir - or the north african style - shashuka.
I'd prefer Autumn or Spring all year around.
that is about what Tasmania is like all year round -at least at the coast line. in summer average temperature of 22C, winter like 11-15C - cool but not really cold. It's windy here though all year round, it doesn't rain that often in the southern parts, but if, the rain might come sideways - so you rarely need a brolly too. Hm, maybe I should add, that we have "3 seasons in a day" quite often - can be cool at times even in summer and eventually even get up to 40C in summer - but not for long.
The fact that McDonalds, Taco Bell, and the Pizza Huts of this world have the audacity to call themselves restaurants boils my ** nevermind the ** they serve up to try and justify it.
it's great to spice up some bloody marry as well - even I prefer mine with gin instead of vodka.
well, that's true, but it is one of the only places where I can get tacos in this part of the world.
this said, the australian brekkie burger at McDonalds isn't bad - btw. McDonalds is called Macca's in most of straya, just not in tassie.
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heh, another clipped pather...