Gravy Is Important...

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

The Gods gave us the oven and the 'Roast' - chop all the veg up and slam it into the oven and then go get drunk...

Ah - but then there is the gravy - I used to say to hell with it all - yeah thats what I used to say - and made my gravy with all the drippings and other chunks scraped from the the bottom of the roaster...

But this year - I ran same thru a collander or seive or whatever - and I said to my wife - 'THIS IS GOOD' - as she ducked the hot bits of fat and other being flung about the room by my mad whisking...

I WAS FEARLESS AND FEELING NO PAIN - as I had donned my Rum and Egg Nog - it was beautiful - I whisked the gravy - and may I say - VIGORIOUSLY - with one hand while I dodged the flesh burning fatty bits with my glass of Rum and well - a little Egg Nog - I was like Wonder Woman and her bullet dodging bracelets - It must have been something to see - from my wifes point of view - I remember her crawling upon the floor in search of refuge..:)

I looked at my wife - as she crawled in vain to some area of respite - and I thought - DAMN - she looks a lot like Linda Carter - really - HMMM...

AHEM - we must stop this thought there - I know I stopped stirring the pot around or about this time...:)

So - to put a pun to Van De Rohe - 'the details are in the gravy' - or - 'God is in the gravy'...

Gravy is good and it demands our attention...:)

From now on - I will base my attentions and design philosophy around the quality of 'the gravy'...

Whenever I am getting stumped - I will roast some meat and make more gravy...:)

So I can watch my wife duck and dodge - and imagine her in a Wonder Woman suit...

Has anyone seen my mind - I remember leaving it somewhere - there was a tree...

Yum...

SH.

[westlawn5554X]

When I was in Australia studying... booz and curry gravy is a passage of youth, I had a choice of 20 curry in the shop, eat me fill and throw up when exit... I meet all sort of Australian teaching me to throw up...

I like my gravy with black guiness when cooking... thick and blackish... :D:D:D

[safewalrus]

gravy is for loosers - it masks the taste of the poorly cooked meat and should be seen as an insult to the chef - not only that I don't like slop!!!

[Kay9]

Slop!!...Thats the food of sailors....Why if it wasnt for slop, I wouldnt be the overwieght, cancer laiden man I am today.

[safewalrus]

Ah Sirius you knew and no doubt sailed with the same cooks as I did! Amazing how no matter the country or fleet the cooks are trained in the same way!!



No doubt I will have some cook whinging about this - unfortunately it seems true!

[masalai]

Oooooh Safie, I feel sorry for you, I could make a sauce for you where you would have the sauce only especially my "sweet & sour". I used to put it in with the pork pieces in 'Chinese night' dinners & some who hadn't tried the sauce (like you) would want separation, which pleased the knowledgeable who would indulge their taste buds (and alcohol cravings) on the liquid nectar.

I also make a 'power soup" based on various fungi & flying-fox meat etc....

[safewalrus]

There are certain 'cu-seens' that require the sauce as part of the dish, e.g. sweet and sour! There are others were the addition of a 'slop' will, in my opinion only ruin the dish, or mask its flafour if poorly cooked, e.g. roast turkey and trimmings - now thats what I'm on about - the 'grave-y' other sauces are not mentioned!

[Bergalia]

There are certain 'cu-seens' that require the sauce as part of the dish...


Ah sweet memories of youth, Walrus. Mincing down the 'slop' line with the mess-tin at the ready...Sausage, beans, fried-egg, chips (french-fries to the US readers), apricots and custard - with a generous lump of gravy - all mixed in....

"I say, Chiefie old chap...cook's put it all in one dish...."

"It mixes in yer gut, don't it....? Now get it down yer...or you'll be on report...." :(

[Jimbo1490]

Linda Carter was SO hot :D

Jimbo

[Frosty]

What was the name of that Swedish bird that did a song on the back of a truck going through the centre of New york. You know --oh ---err-- whats er name ---you know. Bjorn or Djok or something.

Horrible little mousy faced pratt. I think she got arrested for sucking on Volvo tail pipes

[Frosty]

Yo Walrus --do you eat battleships down your way.

Its a meat pie in soup.

Ille bet your Mum made you that didnt she?--- eh-- Ille bet she did.

I used to sneak into the Salvation army soup kitchen. I used to say I was cleaning the chimney.

[masalai]

What's a meat pie in mushy peas?

[Frosty]

What's a meat pie in mushy peas?



Errr,--- meat pie and peas.

Dont forget the HP sauce, inedible without.

By appointment the her majesty the Queen, No not Elton John.

[Bergalia]

What's a meat pie in mushy peas?


This dear Masalai, is what sets the civilised man above the Australian......
Mushy peas - shucked peas beaten to a pulp in a zinc bucket, with a dash of vinegar (or lemon juice)...plus a hint of black pepper.
Served on a 'real' pie (not the ersatz Aussie variety) with, as Frosty suggests, a smear of HP (certainly never tomato ketchup).
Once assembled - throw in the bin, and eat the chips....:(

[masalai]

I was trying to pander to the tastes (lack of) so far expressed by others - including wonder woman in her wonder (blow-up) bra? Almost as sexless as the "iron lady"? and appear to wear bullet proof under-ware, have no nipples and declare "no sex - were brutish".

[safewalrus]

Yo Walrus --do you eat battleships down your way.

Its a meat pie in soup.

Ille bet your Mum made you that didnt she?--- eh-- Ille bet she did.

I used to sneak into the Salvation army soup kitchen. I used to say I was cleaning the chimney.


Can't say I remember them, not even during my short stay in Yorkshire (1956 -57 Kingston upon .... area or just North, from were I picked up this 'orrible tyke accent which I can't get rid of) Not a local Cornish delicacy either!

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

You have exposed yourself - Masalai - your English and sense of humour is spot on...

Iron Lady - no sex we are Brutish - that’s funny...

I am on to you - no pun intended - and do not knock Wonder Woman - Lynda Carters breasts pointed many North American boys in the right direction...

And a few into doing stage shows in drag - poor buggers - no pun intended...

Me - I just like golden Imperial Eagles emblazoned on big breasts...

I came here looking for my piece of string - can anyone point me to the door I entered from...

Holy grammar crisis...

SH.

[Sean Herron]

Hello - again...

The U and the I are beside one another - Masi' just made a great leap of humour...

Were British - we are brutish - find the apostrophe...

I find things like this fascinating - I think about these things while I twiddle string...

SH.

[masalai]

Hi Sean, When you find your piece of string, are you going to tie it into a loop and play at making "cats cradels" (u find the apostrophe). Its difficult to please all of the people etc...... and keep multiple meanings at many intellectual levels.

I wasn't objecting to the heavy metal flack jacket, but compared to the "civilian" dress I must adhere to my analysis. I prefer the uplifted form of some of the multi-armed Indian Goddesses. A bit like my wife, bless her.

I don't know anyone with sufficiently large breasts on which to drape a Golden Eagle - What is the wingspan of said bird?

[Sean Herron]

Hello...

This is getting too weird...

Everyone jump to the left...

SH.

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[artemis]

Hello...

This is getting too weird...

Everyone jump to the left...

SH.

....
And then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips
You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the Time Warp again!

Happy New Year everyone. :D

[kach22i]

Yet another zany thread, but the wife said she has seen you guys go off worse.

Keep up the good work and keep in the direction Linda Carter pointed you in, Happy New Year to all.:)

[masalai]

One degree course I started had a heavy psychology component, and the Doctor of Psy who was our lecturer, regularly said he could not make me out? I think he was hoping I would submit to analysis and give him a professorial research subject.

He must have been in commercial practice as he was well equipped with quality tailored suits & drove an expensive car (definitely not academic revenue do-able).

After the first lecture, having drawn attention to myself by quoting diverse academic and research texts, I spoke to him afterwards and suggested that "impersonal gray" was not necessary in academia as opposed to commercial practice and that he should relax in his favourite casual wear.

Bugger me if at next lecture I hardly recognised him in cheque shirt & blue denim "country gear". All I could say that day was "Hooley Dooley"........

[safewalrus]

Mr Lee was that like "Hooley Dooley you look a Fooley?" but that would have given the game away that you are really sane (compared to most on here that is) Gerungit spaglybugle bits and a half yer honoriship!

[masalai]

Hi Safie, Sorry I am a bit pissed off with this persistent inclement weather. I yearn to get out to do some testing on my model.

Apparently Fanie has captured all the fine weather & has the hide to complain about it :D :D

"Little dic" is busily bragging about arneson drives - trying to sell them with plastic women images & upsetting both frosty & self with insults to someone's intelligence.

Good gravy is important (not from a packet) but derived from the natural juices arising through cooking quality meat in a little natural butter. . . I can't stand artificial products such as . . silicone tits, Botox lips, dumb blonds, solarium tans, liposuction, plastic surgery..... yeuch, how typically American, plastic & chrome, adulterated GM food, McDonalds et al.

[safewalrus]

The only time that you get 'good' gravy is when you use that natural ingrediant made form fermented grapes in goodly amounts!

The wife does it at regular intervals - the eight year old (number four son) has it covered - "mummy's falling down soup" he calls it! Tomato soup but were some use water and some use stock she uses a bottle of white wine!

After a bowl of her soup nobody has ever complained about her cooking - too bloody peed to care!!

[masalai]

Oh I am so sorry for you, I thought everyone had good wine flowing from their kitchen taps?. We drink lots of "water" from our kitchen taps, we call it "holy water" cause everyone says "Holy...." then finishes the drink & with a pleased grin, asks for another!

The one with the red top has Port & turns to the left, and the other a cheeky white. I suppose thats where I got my mane???? :D :D

[safewalrus]

I want a kitchen like yours mate! (well the plumbing anyway - just chuck the dirty dishes out in the yard the dogs can lick 'em clean)