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By TheophileEscargot (Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 01:59:19 AM EST) photo, photostory, cooking, steam, George Foreman, recipe (all tags)

Cooking with TheophileEscargot: a photostory.

1. Potatoes take the longest, so start by chopping into chunks and add to the steamer. Balance a plate on top to make it hot, which keeps the food warm longer. You now have 25 to 30 minutes to complete your mission.
Steamer

Steamer

2. Take two lamb chops. Delicately season with salt, pepper and a touch of paprika as befits a sensitive palate. Add a little oil if OBLF permits. Turn on the George Foreman grill to medium heat at T-15 minutes.
Actually just shovel on as much as it can take

3. Shell the peas. Soothing. It's like nature's bubble wrap.
Nature`s bubble wrap

4. Chops and veg both take about 10 minutes, so stick the chops in the Foreman and the veg in the steamer in the same visit to the kitchen.
Loaded

5. Thoughtfully add the carrot peelings and peapods to the council's Food Waste recycling bin. Thoughtlessly chuck the plastic bag you used for the pods in the normal bin.
Compost to stink up somewhere

6. Lay the table: plenty of water and the essential Tesco Healthy Living Yoghurt and Mint dressing.
Also keeping the remotes handy

7. Check on the chops.
Sizzling

8. Wash up the dishes used so far.
All good cooks do this. That may be the only think I have in common with them

9. Put food on plate and serve.
Yum

10. A very short time later.
Finished

11. Eat a delicious hand-crafted dessert.
Just one cornetto. Give it to me. Delicious ice cream. From Italy.

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What the fuck is with you Brits and peas? by BadDoggie (2.00 / 0) #1 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 02:40:01 AM EST

Peas and lamb do not go together. Is there anything you lot don't serve peas with?

Most of our veg scrap is saved for making soup stocks.

Also: lamb requires rosemary. PLZFIXKTHXBYE!

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ?

What goes with peas? by hulver (4.00 / 3) #2 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 03:44:11 AM EST

Mint.

What goes with Lamb?

Mint.

I rest my case.
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smart, pretty, sane. pick two - georgeha
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mint by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 05:08:54 AM EST

The french think mint sauce is hilarious.
Personally, I think the greeks have got lamb right - garlic, oregano, lemon juice and olive oil. Yum.

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Attn: Merekat by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #10 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 06:32:06 AM EST

Nobody in the rest of the world cares what France thinks ... about pretty much anything, come to think of it.

I've had garlic-y lamb dishes cooked by awesome French chefs and mint-y dishes cooked the traditional British way. They're both terrific. Case closed.

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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself - Joseph Pulitzer
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I disagree by Merekat (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 06:52:52 AM EST

There is much entertainment in watching annoyed French people.

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: Lots of people have lamb right. by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #12 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 08:50:06 AM EST

This is because it is the most delicious food evar!
We roast it better than the Greeks, but they do it better barbecued, obviously. Except half the time they use the fattiest pork instead, for no apparent reason.

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Mint with peas?! by BadDoggie (2.00 / 0) #8 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 05:35:48 AM EST

Butter, some salt, but not mint. Ugh.

Mint with lamb is very nice, but the lamb still needs some rosemary (unless cooked Belgian-style in a tomato-based sauce, as BG and I proved last night).

woof.

OMG WE'RE FUCKED! -- duxup ?
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: Mint goes with just about everything by hulver (4.00 / 1) #9 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 06:03:56 AM EST

Just depends how much vinegar you mix it with.
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smart, pretty, sane. pick two - georgeha
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peas by Merekat (4.00 / 2) #3 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 04:40:06 AM EST

Since they've undergone extensive training since childhood to eat peas by balancing them on the back of a fork, they need to eat them frequently to maintain this skill.

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it's the religious upbringing by martingale (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 05:13:24 AM EST

All that singing about god's lamb and going with the peas of the lord. It explains a lot really, when you think about it :)
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Needs more dressing by stark (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 04:59:47 AM EST

Actually looks remarkably healthy. I'm particularly impressed with the freshly-shelled peas; I remember the taste of real peas from when my folks used to grow them. Quite a lot nicer than the frozen variety.
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One of your remotes by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #7 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 05:25:03 AM EST

Looks like one of my remotes

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It's political correctness gone mad!

Also, and sadly, by MrPlough (2.00 / 0) #13 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 12:30:34 PM EST

I was looking at that table in Ikea the other day. Man, I've come up in the world.
No work.
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Sagem Freeview box? [nt] by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #14 Mon Jun 26, 2006 at 01:10:28 PM EST

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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." -- Bertrand Russell
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: The one in the middle by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Jun 28, 2006 at 05:54:20 AM EST

Looks like my DVD remote, and now you mention it, the black one looks like my old freeview box remote.
However, most remotes look alike.
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It's political correctness gone mad!
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