My attempt to bridge DD with reality, baby steps

[J Noland]

So these are the Cornish pasties I've just cooked today. I have never been to Cornwall, never eaten a Cornish pasty, nor have I ever tried to cook any sort of pie. However, many of my dd's have English characters (I'm American) and I ran into several news articles debating exactly what constitutes a proper "Cornish" pasty. So being a self repecting Brit loving MD person with a day off...I attempted to make them using a recipe found on the internet. No carrots! I haven't tried them yet. I don't know what they're supposed to taste like. They look good. Anyways, the important thing is is that I did something in real life rather than just dd'ing about it. Maybe I'll make a brisket next!

[Katherine]

Sasi, love the Eton Mess suggestion!!

[sasi]

Set me a place at the table(or maybe 2,1 for me ,1 for my crush).I'll bring dessert.

As we're going British,how about Eton Mess?

[J Noland]

Katherine- I was reading about the pasties having a sweet end and that miners' wives would mark the end that they were supposed to eat first so they'd have a dessert at the end. A neat little history lesson. Who knew a little pie could be so interesting? Over 10 years ago I lived in England for a couple years and I remember there was news story about kababs overtaking fish and chips as the preferred English food. I never tried the kebabs (alot of them had mayonaise-ick). But of course I did have fish and chips :)

Scotch eggs look really good! I found a recipe to bake them instead of fry which I may try. It looks like the perfect breakfast to avoid getting hungry before lunchtime. We love fried food in the US, (we fry candy bars!) I'm surprised Scotch eggs aren't popular here.

[J Noland]

Oh how exciting! Of course I'm going to complicate things by being in a completely different time zone. It's just nearly 1pm here so I am 3 hours behind roxanne and 8 hours behind Katherine...But my Saturdays are always wide open and I'm not at all opposed to a medieval castle dinner early in the day!

[Katherine]

Maybe it could be a lunch/afternoon tea party.

[roxanne]

it's 2:58, so I'm 5 hours behind.  Let's see where JN is, and any one else who imagines themselves a cook. 

[Katherine]

That sounds cool! What time is where you are? 7.48pm here

[roxanne]

Let's have a dinner party.  Some sat. night (I know we're all different time zones, but as imaginative as we all are...), anyway, some night we should all plan the same dinner with a recipe (from Middle Ages would be awesome - but not too complicated or hard to get items)that  we decide on, get together on line with Jen's wine in some dreamy castle.  Sounds like a great Sat. night, plus a nice mix of fiction & reality.  All bring dates or special friends, of course.

[Katherine]

Looking at the Cornish Pasty recipe triggered my memory - sometimes the pasty would be made with one of the endings having a sweet filling, like jam, so that it was a main course and pudding in one.

 

Scotch Eggs are made with a portion of hard boiled egg in the middle, sausage meat rolled around it to form a ball then rolled in breadcrumbs and deepfried.

 

Indian food is extremely popular in England too.  I'm eatting an Indian takeaway right now :-)

[J Noland]

http://www.foodtimeline.org seems like a good one. I lost the link to the first site I saw.

Yeah I had to look up swede too. I'd never bought nor eaten a rutabega before either. Not as exciting as skydiving but adventurous for me. It was hard to cut up, definitely. And even the check out person didn't know what it was. A glass of wine and a castle kitchen, yep that about sums up my little cooking dd. Oh, and my fave crush close by.