SWMBO is away, what to have?
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Right as per title SWMBO is away from for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
So what do you all have when your better half is not around?
My OH doesnt like anything too spicy or with bones or to rare so these are things I am looking to indulge in whilst she is away, along with coupious amounts of beer.
Reply below and give me some inspiration on what I can have on these days !
So what do you all have when your better half is not around?
My OH doesnt like anything too spicy or with bones or to rare so these are things I am looking to indulge in whilst she is away, along with coupious amounts of beer.
Reply below and give me some inspiration on what I can have on these days !
My other half has just been away for two weeks. I am trying to control the size of my gut, so I didn't take advantage of the situation, but, gawd, I wanted to. She's a veggy, so it could have been an opportunity to fill the house with the smell of tasty, tasty dead animals. Ho hum. So it's pure fantasy land for me, but I'd kick off with a takeaway curry pig-out ... maybe a lamb madras, cobra or three ... steak tartare at the local french gaff with a bottle of chinon ... bbq a rib eye, baked spud, coleslaw, goulashy vegetable spicy splat alongside, plus claret ... and start the day with some grilled kippers one day and the full monty the next.
And tonight I will mostly be eating vegetables. It's hardly what you'd call "life".
And tonight I will mostly be eating vegetables. It's hardly what you'd call "life".
ATG said:
My other half has just been away for two weeks. I am trying to control the size of my gut, so I didn't take advantage of the situation, but, gawd, I wanted to. She's a veggy, so it could have been an opportunity to fill the house with the smell of tasty, tasty dead animals. Ho hum. So it's pure fantasy land for me, but I'd kick off with a takeaway curry pig-out ... maybe a lamb madras, cobra or three ... steak tartare at the local french gaff with a bottle of chinon ... bbq a rib eye, baked spud, coleslaw, goulashy vegetable spicy splat alongside, plus claret ... and start the day with some grilled kippers one day and the full monty the next.
And tonight I will mostly be eating vegetables. It's hardly what you'd call "life".
Bacon!And tonight I will mostly be eating vegetables. It's hardly what you'd call "life".
It might even convert the missus!
I will be in a similar situation soon (wife off to Euro Disney with daughter, me not interested!!). I have 24 hours "downtime" before I pick them up again at Ebbsfleet - so I have a plan and it works like this:
Drop off at Ebbsfleet 9am, then off to McDonalds at Greenhithe to purchase a Double Sausage Egg McMuffin plus 3 hashbrowns and an orange juice (keep up the vitamins), back down the A2 should see me back at Bexley in 12 minutes. Yum!
Between grub: watch IT Crowd series 2/Spaced series 2
For lunch: Off to Blackfen for a Half Pounder with Cheese and onions plus chips from the Masterfryer. Yum, yum!!
Between grub: watch Red Dwarf series 3/The Inbetweeners series 2
For Dinner: Over to Blackheath and into Khan's Indian Restaurant for one portion Chicken Vindaloo, one portion of lemon rice, one portion of onion bhajee, one portion of bombay aloo.
After grub: watch Blade Runner/Book of Eli
Drop off at Ebbsfleet 9am, then off to McDonalds at Greenhithe to purchase a Double Sausage Egg McMuffin plus 3 hashbrowns and an orange juice (keep up the vitamins), back down the A2 should see me back at Bexley in 12 minutes. Yum!
Between grub: watch IT Crowd series 2/Spaced series 2
For lunch: Off to Blackfen for a Half Pounder with Cheese and onions plus chips from the Masterfryer. Yum, yum!!
Between grub: watch Red Dwarf series 3/The Inbetweeners series 2
For Dinner: Over to Blackheath and into Khan's Indian Restaurant for one portion Chicken Vindaloo, one portion of lemon rice, one portion of onion bhajee, one portion of bombay aloo.
After grub: watch Blade Runner/Book of Eli
Jesus TF Christ said:
One of my proudest moments was feeding a bacon sarnie to a vegetarian Jew.
Honestly, bacon is proof that vegetablists/Jews/Muslims are wrong.
We managed to turn a Student who was a muslim into a crazed bacon eating strip club fiend.Honestly, bacon is proof that vegetablists/Jews/Muslims are wrong.
Begining of the year he was against bacon and all that malark. It took us about 3 months and then ate a bacon roll every day till the end of the year.
He also said he wont look at women in "that" way. Work night out, took him to a strip club, next minute we saw him at the bar with 8 strippers buying them all shots before heading into a backroom.
He got off lightly though...only £180 in there!
mmm bacon
rich0411 said:
My OH doesnt like anything too spicy or with bones or to rare so these are things I am looking to indulge in whilst she is away, along with coupious amounts of beer.
Just because she does not like them why does that stop you eating them? But in answer to your question Spicy - curry
Bones - BBQ ribs
Rare - steak (while you wait for the ribs to cook)
For those of you with PITA fussy other halves, persevere! I've turned my partner from someone who would literally only eat cheese, bread, vegetables and a bit of chicken in to someone with a good appreciation for most foods.
Granted it's taken almost six years but still.
The key to it is to do some of the cooking yourself rather than let them dictate what you're eating all week.
When my o/h goes home to her parents she can't beleive what they serve to her younger sisters and brother (processed convenience food all week, and tiny portions too)
Do some cooking and they'll be pork-belly-eating champions in no time!
Granted it's taken almost six years but still.
The key to it is to do some of the cooking yourself rather than let them dictate what you're eating all week.
When my o/h goes home to her parents she can't beleive what they serve to her younger sisters and brother (processed convenience food all week, and tiny portions too)
Do some cooking and they'll be pork-belly-eating champions in no time!
Pferdestarke said:
For those of you with PITA fussy other halves, persevere! I've turned my partner from someone who would literally only eat cheese, bread, vegetables and a bit of chicken in to someone with a good appreciation for most foods.
Granted it's taken almost six years but still.
I'm intrigued that you can do this... I don't think I'm a particular food-snob (most of my good mates aren't that into eating), but if a woman's not interested in eating/ cooking decent grub, I find it very difficult to 'click' with her!Granted it's taken almost six years but still.
Pferdestarke said:
The key to it is to do some of the cooking yourself rather than let them dictate what you're eating all week.
Totally agree - I guess for me cooking for each other is one of the most fun things (apart from the obvious!) about being in a relationship!
Pferdestarke said:
For those of you with PITA fussy other halves, persevere!
I'm so pleased you put it like that. That will make it so much easier for me if she ever reads this thread. Still, I've had a good life, no regrets, had a bit of fun. So, good bye gents, it's been a pleasure ... it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever knownrich0411 said:
Right as per title SWMBO is away from for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
So what do you all have when your better half is not around?
My OH doesnt like anything too spicy or with bones or to rare so these are things I am looking to indulge in whilst she is away, along with coupious amounts of beer.
Reply below and give me some inspiration on what I can have on these days !
If you don't mind cooking, get the biggest casserole pan you have.So what do you all have when your better half is not around?
My OH doesnt like anything too spicy or with bones or to rare so these are things I am looking to indulge in whilst she is away, along with coupious amounts of beer.
Reply below and give me some inspiration on what I can have on these days !
3-4 onions
2-3 peppers (red & green)
as much garlic, root ginger and fresh chilli's (with seeds!) as you like
1kg of mince beef
carton of mushrooms
bunch of spring onions
jar of chilli sauce (whichever brand)
2 fresh large tomatoes chopped
tin of chopped tomatoes
tins of butter beans, kidney beans & chick peas
2 oxo cubes, chilli powder, ground coriander, turmeric (small amount), white pepper, tomato puree, some fresh parsley/coriander and some dried mixed herbs.
Cook it somewhat in this order, for a few hours preferably and you have a huge pan of chilli con carne which will feed you for the entire weekend and better still taste better as time goes on over the weekend. If you cook it fri evening, refrigerate the casserole pan sat am and freeze whatever is left sunday evening. Have with rice and plenty of beer (the beer best consumed while cooking, then leave the chilli to rest and have many more beers until you eat later), the rice is best flavoured I find, a chicken stock cube plus herbs, pepper, salt and strangely garam masala produces a lovely flavoured and coloured rice not a million miles from pilau. Naan bread also goes nicely if you don't mind mixing continents!
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