Do you like sprouts yes / no

[Chris Head]

It's a device for slicing food Gary, slices fingers fairly efficeintly too! (The 'e' before the 'i' looks wrong, but it's after a 'c' so it can't be)

Edit, that's the second edit, oh sod it, I don't care.

[Bugsy]

It does contradict because it's 'efficiency', why I know not..................where's Dick ?

[Dick Smith]

The rule is i before e except after c except when it isn't.

[Bugsy]

Our (read SWMBO) recipe for sprouts is to cook them and serve with chestnuts.

[Chris Head]

Sprouts and chestnuts are just great if tweaked a little. Cook the sprouts until they're not quite cooked enough, the chestnuts have to be roasted, peel them and set aside. Slice up some bacon, start to fry it off in butter in a large frying pan or wok on a medium heat with a couple of crushed cloves of garlic, after a couple of minutes add the sprouts and chestnuts and cook through for ten minutes or so, glaze with the jus that will be served with on the table and serve hot.

I learned alot from a very close friend of mine who is wonderful chef trained in the French classic methods. My interest started just after I had met my now wife, he and her are soulmates. I spent hours with him boning out various poultry (six birds I think) for the BBB that was the family Christmas meal.

Edit, he's also possibly the longest term AIDS sufferer in the UK, 27 years (I think) diagnosed. He's an amazing man.

[Cassis]

Sprouts are great if you like them but not if you don't.

[quote user="Gary Bugbear"]It does contradict because it's 'efficiency', why I know not..................where's Dick ?[/quote]

"i" before "e" when the sound is "ee" except after "c".

Not sure where that leaves "weird" - it is is strange werd. [:)]

[cooperlola]

And why is the name Neil spelt as it is?  It's always sounded more like Niel to me.  Funny thing this English lingo.

[Cassis]

That's because people called Neil are often weird.

[Dick Smith]

Please see previous posts regarding Professor Albrow and his Polysystemic Spelling System.

[cooperlola]

[quote user="Dick Smith"]Please see previous posts regarding Professor Albrow and his Polysystemic Spelling System.
[/quote]I looked but did not see, Dick; it's too late in the evening if you understand my meaning!

[Cassis]

I looked but it's buried too deeply.  Maybe the best thing for it.

[Mark]

[quote user="Cassis"]Sprouts are great if you like them but not if you don't.

[quote user="Gary Bugbear"]It does contradict because it's 'efficiency', why I know not..................where's Dick ?[/quote]

"i" before "e" when the sound is "ee" except after "c".

Not sure where that leaves "weird" - it is is strange werd. [:)]
[/quote]

Hang on, isn't your whole argument skewed somewhat by your insistence on speaking with that funny regional accent henny pet?  Can't really trust you on phonetic matters can we? [;-)]

[Cassis]

Aah, hadawayanshite. Ah divvent reyt leyk ah speek, man.

[Mark]

[quote user="Cassis"]Aah, hadawayanshite. Ah divvent reyt leyk ah speek, man.

[/quote]

Nor me.  My mum was struck by lightning when I was being delivered, rendering me unable to speak anything other than Basque, yet my written first language is English, or at least the Herefordian variant of it, which some cruelsters would suggest is, in fact, Welsh.

[Cassis]

Weird.  I didn't even know I could read Welsh, yet I can read your posts just like they are in English.  Or is this not your first language you're writing in?  I can't tell, to be honest.  Whatever, it's a lot better than most.  English was Joseph Conrad's third language yet he wrote a few half decent books in English (though he's not considered PC these days).

[cooperlola]

Me too Cassis.  Maybe we have a weird form of Susac's syndrome?

http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/825674/ShowPost.aspx

[Cassis]

Ah yes, Sinead Cusack.  She was a very attractive actress, though I

didn't understand what she was saying most of the time.  I think she

was in something by Shakespeare when I saw her, which would explain my problem.

[Mark]

My keyboard goes through a filter.  I've had to replace the 'L' key many, many times in the last year or so.

[Mark]

George Bush had a fling with her.  Or it might have been Best.

[Pads]

Talking about the English language have you every wondered...........................

How come your house can burn up while its burning down?

Or how you have to fill in a form to fill it out

Plus you have to chop down a tree before you can chop it up

You have a nose that runs and a feet that smell.

  when the lights are out they are invisible when the stars are out they are visible ?

  

[Meg]

Blimey DT a bit deep for such an hour on a Sunday!! You obviously didn't waste your afternoon watching Eastenders!!

[cooperlola]

Don't get me started : you used to meet people; now you seem to meet up with them, you parked your car, now you park it up - there are loads more.  How come we now need more words to say what we mean than we used to.

Sprouts?  Yes - if properly cooked.

[Meg]

[quote user="Chris Head"]Try them finely shredded on a mandolin (watch the pinkies), seasoned and pan/wok fried with sesame oil and a touch of butter, keep the heat high and keep them moving.[/quote]

Tried it and it's lovely. Also added some chopped walnuts. Didn't taste at all sprout like!!!

[Missy]

[quote user="KathyC"]No way - they're the spawn of the devil![/quote]

 

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I never thought of them as such but they are definitely not allowed on my plate!   Ever!

 

[Nico]

i hate the taste of them but i guess xmas wouldnt be the same without eating them so i will be forcing some down! the trick is to bite it only a couple of times and swallow each piece whole!