tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post9113823193752118855..comments2023-10-11T14:18:03.816+01:00Comments on Works Well: Works Well: desperate attempt to be popularRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-37786637706589655112011-11-29T08:16:00.143+00:002011-11-29T08:16:00.143+00:00Julia: Boyo is a lazy sentence suffix to indicate ...Julia: Boyo is a lazy sentence suffix to indicate that a Welsh person is speaking. In this case (since Abergavenny is in Wales) there's an imaginary dialogue going on with a Welsh person pointing out my inadequacies. Perhaps too ambitious for a 300-word post.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-1019645765668198452011-11-28T15:36:37.038+00:002011-11-28T15:36:37.038+00:00Stuffing (otherwise known as dressing in the South...Stuffing (otherwise known as dressing in the South) is easier than pie, and usually involves day old cornbread around here. Does Mrs BB add starch to her onions and other vegetables?<br /><br />Boyo - is this a Masterchef reference by any chance?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381204473168533313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-60908654438762723782011-11-28T07:13:08.861+00:002011-11-28T07:13:08.861+00:00EB: Your wish is my command (see above). I checked...EB: Your wish is my command (see above). I checked out Wordpress and note it's a more glamorous form of blog than Blogger. Prettier. I'm not sure what else it does.<br /><br />RW (zS): Crumpet: For one thing crumpet is a synonym (vulg.) for pulchritude, as in: "We went to the dance but didn't see any crumpet." Otherwise it's a 5½-in. dia. disc of bready substance, with holes drilled into it on one side, and a slightly leathery skin which is heated under the grill and (as far as the BBs are concerned) used as the basis for something savoury. Occasionally just melted butter. A tea-time snack on a cold day. Only alcoholics would use it as an accompaniment for beer<br /><br />M-L: It's only two short steps from wit to teasing to being wounding. In fact I thought I'd recently transgressed this way on your blog having left a huge post with you which never subsequently appeared. Too wounding, I thought.<br /><br />Lucy: Yeah, it's kinda anti-climax to find that, after a huge cultural crusade (careful with that word these days), you find the stuff's available in a supermarket. I like TL because of its well-judged sweetnes. I can't stand over-sweet, esp with chocolate, and once allowed one of my daughters to feed a creme egg (not knowing what it was) into my mouth while driving, and nearly honked over the steering wheel.<br /><br />Malt loaf's fine and we're both addicts. But should we ever meet again I'd avoid references to Paxo. Mrs BB doesn't do rudeness but you'll notice a middle-class tightening of the bottom jaw. Actually that isn't the sticking point about stuffing; it's made-up dishes in the supermarket ("foreign kickshaws") that involve stuffing she's against. Given the elaboracy (doesn't exist; needs inventing) of the reports from your kitchen I would have thought Paxo was a fairly rare example of your backsliding. Mrs BB's stuffing is more like an extra serving of vegetable, with onions predominant. I seem to be in dangerous territory here and feel inclined to delete the third part of this comment. West Riding meanness will probably ensure this doesn't happen.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-90827652071004267402011-11-26T15:44:24.067+00:002011-11-26T15:44:24.067+00:00Had to come back to this to check out teisin lap, ...Had to come back to this to check out teisin lap, all the years I lived in Wales I never came across it. I went to Google images to confirm what it might look like. It needs to be cooked on one of those bakestone/griddle/girdle things, which it always amuses me to imagine being worn as some kind of stomach-flattening early foundation garment. <br /><br />The deeply repugnant food critics on MChef got very excited when presented with an 'offal fritter', so doubtless your ox cheek would have them in a positive frenzy.<br /><br />Crumpets, bacon and egg would be worthy of Christmas morning round here, and while I agree with Mrs BB in principle, I have been known to succumb to Paxo sage and onion when I've seen it. And I used up a quarter kilo of my precious 10 kilos Ryanair luggage allowance on my way home last time with a Soreen malt loaf.<br /><br />Princeling eats cassoulet like many British infants eat beans on toast, but it may well be out of a tin.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-90038704152211640732011-11-26T15:18:52.256+00:002011-11-26T15:18:52.256+00:00Ah, that's it, my blog needs a food column to ...Ah, that's it, my blog needs a food column to make it popular... plus some wit, methinks, with some beer.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-13165384976079521642011-11-26T14:54:23.127+00:002011-11-26T14:54:23.127+00:00The crumpet dish sounds amazing! (What's a cru...The crumpet dish sounds amazing! (What's a crumpet?) I could google it, I suppose, but Mrs. BB is one cool egg, and I suppose her crumpets are especially crumpety in the most delicious way. Is it something one could drink an ale with? <br /><br />P.S. I agree with Mrs. BB about the stuffing. These fancy smancy cooks have forgotten about simple goodness, like the fancy smancy brewers who add all sorts of odd things to a beer.Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763772100015353700.post-88934596958622949712011-11-26T13:25:15.002+00:002011-11-26T13:25:15.002+00:00Perhaps you could post the cassoulet extract from ...Perhaps you could post the cassoulet extract from the novel? Surely that would run to several posts of 300 words.<br /><br />Or you could switch over to Wordpress.earlybirdhttp://mangetoutetc.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com