Tea? (Part 1)

[Arch]

Condensed soup tinned tuna and pasta all molded into one looks like pasta covered in cat sick. But it tastes fantastic and costs about a quid.
Il be happy with a clean squat.

Ah, condensed-soup-as-pasta-sauce... Condensed chicken soup, with some fried bacon chopped up in it for extra luxury....

 

[TheDoctor]

Work going well then Arch?

The pasta thing sounds nice (except for the tinned tuna )

 

[Milo]

MMM tastes like poverty.

 

[tdr1nka]

Yum!
I can't eat pesto anymore after a lean period where I had pasta & pesto for every other meal.
BTW the catsick reference was probably far too accurate.

 

[Milo]

Pops on a jazz funk album.
Washing up music!

 

[TheDoctor]

MMM tastes like poverty.

My costs-sod-all dinner of choice is a version of pasta carbonara.
Cook dried pasta in whatever shape you want or have, or was on special offer. While that boils...
Get some Tesco Value Cooking Bacon out of the freezer and hack a lump off. Chop into tiny bits, and fry. Add a small squirt of garlic puree if you have any.
Grate the bit of cheese that went hard because it got left out of the bag.

Drain the pasta, tip in the bacon, fat and all, and the cheese. Stir well.
If you've got an egg, break that in as well. One egg will do, unless you're cooking for more than about 4.
4.5 metric sh1tloads of black pepper on top.
Enjoy with cheap red wine. Sainsburys do one in a plastic bottle at about £4.50 for 1.5 litres. That's around 20p per glass, and the second glass tastes better than the first.
It's great!

 

[tdr1nka]

The tdr1nkas have a phrase for eating on a tiny or non existent budget,
we call it 'living on borrowed toast'!

 

[TheDoctor]

Please don't tell me you return it after use!

Must admit, I've saved a whole heap of money by keeping rolls, cottage cheese etc in the fridge at work rather than going to the sandwich shop. Probably £10- £15 a week or so. I was saving up for a 105 groupset, but my mates BF has given me an Ultegra gruppo once I take it off his old Trek Madone.
It'll cost me a load of alcohol, but top bloke.
And they've asked me to share the driving to the Marmotte, so I'll give Alpe D'Huez a bash.
Life is looking rather good at the moment! So much stuff to look forward to.

 

[Arch]

My costs-sod-all dinner of choice is a version of pasta carbonara.

Did I ever mention my fondness for a decent carbonara? Can be hard to get eating out, because they insist on adding mushrooms.

BTW, you all realise why bacon or gammon or ham and eggs are such a common combo? Because for hundreds of years, millennia in fact, chickens and pigs were the livestock you could easily keep in a back yard in town or country and feed on scraps.

Yeah, yeah, work, I'm on my lunch break!

I love "living on borrowed toast"!

 

[TheDoctor]

Did I ever mention my fondness for a decent carbonara? Can be hard to get eating out, because they insist on adding mushrooms.

BTW, you all realise why bacon or gammon or ham and eggs are such a common combo? Because for hundreds of years, millennia in fact, chickens and pigs were the livestock you could easily keep in a back yard in town or country and feed on scraps.

Yeah, yeah, work, I'm on my lunch break!

I love "living on borrowed toast"!

Aqua in Welwyn Village does a good carbonara - no mushrooms. If you and tdr1nka check old PMs, I mention it on the map I sent you.

On a related topic, the fondue and related things arose as a way of surviving in an Alpine farming village in midwinter, when the cheese had gone hard, the bread was stale and you'd drunk all the decent wine.
Now of course, they just flog it to tourists for 25 times the price and eat decent food!

 

[tdr1nka]

Arch, you'll always be our 'Lellow Lable Lady'

 

[walker]

Did I ever mention my fondness for a decent carbonara? Can be hard to get eating out, because they insist on adding mushrooms.

!

that would be a mushroom Carbonara


WAHEEEEY

My first post in 'TEA'

 

[Arch]

that would be a mushroom Carbonara


WAHEEEEY

My first post in 'TEA'

Hmph. Anything with mushrooms in ought to be called Forestiere... Although I suppose the charcoal burners imortalised in 'carbonara' did live in forests...

Anyway, welcome to tea? Pull up a chair, pour a cuppa. Off to do more envelope stuffing, see you all later!

 

[tdr1nka]

Hiya Walker!

Good to see ya, have you in my minds eye pootling along Evelyn
St.

I wonder if you'd be interested in meeting with the CycleChat jersey exchange, whenever it hits London?

*Hands out tea*

 

[Milo]

Whats that all about?