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  • #687721

    I’m off now for a bit.

    See you all later in the café perhaps.

    Eat well!

    #687722

    Black pepper was far too exotic for us! I didn’t know it existed until I was in my 20s.

    We only had one sort of pepper widely available in the shops and that was finely ready ground (well powdered really) white pepper. The sort of stuff that makes people sneeze when you shake it onto food.

    Really going now – see you later.

    #687723
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    #687724
    Dee
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    That is really interesting, PM. I wonder if it was different in Spain because they grew up very poor. But, her father was a bootlegger…so maybe he had black pepper connections…haha!

    #687725
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    PM, ok now I see what it is, we used to have that for lunch at times when I was growing up. My Mom would make it and yes we would put S&P on it.

    Dee, thanks for the zucchini recipe link 🙂

    #687726
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    Dee, lol on the bootlegger comment. A couple of people I work with, their grandfathers were bootleggers and we were talking about that a few nights ago.

    #687727
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    Well going to take my allergy meds, was outside this evening trimming the sucker branches off the mostly dead lemon tree. One of the area hummingbirds did not like that one bit, never heard one sound like he/she was *growling* at me while I was cutting them off. Plus was doing fly-by shots at my head and arms, little bully thing!

    #687728
    Davesmum
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    Used to love my mums Bubble and Squeak, just like others I have tried to make it since but it is never as good as my mums. We used to have it on Boxing Day with Turkey rissoles, pickles and Bread and butter. Nom nom nom…..

    #687729
    AV
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    Good early morning everyone!….. just ‘checking in’ before I get ready to fly out…….

    …. being raised in Fla. (and in the South)…… my family’s ‘bubble and squeak’ oft times consisted of re-fried yams and bacon…… my Grandma did fry EVERYTHING in lard and many times she mixed left over collards with corn meal and made her own version of a fried veg mash……… oh the memories of childhood!……

    …… looks like Irene stayed well east of Fla. so I’m happy to be heading down to meet Mr. AV and MIL……. hope everyone has a great weekend, don’t know if I’ll be on much, depends on my availability to ‘Bob’s computer……. love you guys and hope everyone stays safe!

    #687730
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Bread & dripping is what was eaten during the depression of the 1930’s and then again during WWII. My Mum remembers it but I can’t remember if it was fondly or not.

    DM, I agree that it is difficult to recreate how our Mums made bubble & squeak.

    LOL Deb, such a tiny bird taking you on? Why would the hummingbird be doing that? It’s not nesting time.

    #687731

    My Mum and my sister always regarded it as a treat and my sister would fight for the first scrape of the dripping. I always found it too fatty and lacking in taste (probably because she had had all the really tasty bits). Can’t remember if my Dad ever ate it. Probably not. I grew up in the era when the man of the family got steak and the rest of us had mince.

    #687732
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    First in, best fed.

    I’m off early tonight, we have an early wake up and drive to take Airy to the train to take her to KK’s.

    Nighty night all, see you on my tomorrow. Have a great Friday and Irene please ease up.

    #687733

    Morning everyone. I’m working from home today so gotta go now. Will check in tonight. Have a great day and stay safe, friends.

    #687734
    GD
    Participant

    Morning/evening, peep! I’d like some Welch rarebit and bubble and squeak, please. Gotta’ admit, I had to google Welch rarebit – for whatever reason rabbit came to mind and I wouldn’t want to eat that.

    Our left-over food in Denmark would be whatever meat we had had the night before cut in cubes fried up with pieces of potato and onion. And my dad for whatever reason would put a fried egg on top og his. I never liked that meal.

    The other staple during times when money was tight was an egg dish in the oven with pieces of ham – man, I hated that one!

    #687735

    I’m off to lunch now – see you all later.

    Let’s hope I won’t be served bread and dripping followed by bubble and squeak.

    Actually bread and dripping was also know as “bread and grumble” …..

    #687736
    GD
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    Have a nice lunch, PM! No bread and dripping for me either,

    #687737
    Davesmum
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    If money was tight in our house dinner was Egg and chips!! Actually still quite like that meal now and again, even better with Baked Beans!!!

    #687738

    My Mum was born in 1922 so only knew austerity in its severest forms until she was married with two children (in her late 20s early 30s).

    We used to grow all our own vegs and kept chickens etc to augment an otherwise very poor diet. Her “soul food” was runner beans with a very lightly poached egg on top. So lightly poached that the white was barely set – we used to refer to it as “wobbly white”, and Mum really loved wobbly white. I must stop now, I’m gagging …. I now do not eat eggs at all, ever. But I must admit that I adore runner beans.

    #687739
    GD
    Participant

    Eww on the wobbly whites, PM!

    My dad was born in 1926. Grew up eating very strange stuff indeed, during the occupation of Denmark. He used to eat bread with sugar – guess to fatten all the kids up (he was one of nine). When there was no sugar, they ate bread topped with sliced apple. And as a treat he’d whisk up a raw egg yolk with sugar. He taught my brother and I to love that treat as well – no one ever mentioned salmonella 🙂

    #687740
    GD
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    Oh, one other thing my dad would make that I would love: boiled mussels in a white sauce that he’d put on top of white bread. Yummy! My grandma had a summer home by the beach and we’d go collect the mussels right at the beach and go home and cook them up. When we weren’t by the beach, we had to buy the mussels.

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