On a wintry night...

[khiemtran]

We're having this lamb stew... What are you having?




Also... Argentinean garlic is huge! (This is just one clove, not a whole bulb...)



For those who don't know how big an Australian 50 cent piece is - yet do know how big my hand is.



I was going to use "just one clove" with this braised chicken, but I thought better of it and used half a clove instead. I've never done that before!

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That is a humungous clove of garlic!

I don't actually know what we'll be having for dinner tonight because we're going out somewhere to eat. There isn't all that much choice in Caerleon, so it's likely to be pub grub, but it's nice to have someone else do the cooking for a change.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

The chicken didn't taste particularly garlicky, so I wonder if it just had the strength of a normal clove. No cooking for me tonight because it will be ... lamb stew! (And chicken!)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

The meal turned out to be acceptable pub grub. I had haddock and chips and G had lasagne. But we ended up eating in a hostelry that (according to the plaque in the bar) had once been visited by Alfred Lord Tennyson. I was not aware that Tennyson had visited Wales, but perhaps he was interested in the Roman ruins? Caerleon (City of the Legion) is the ancient Roman Isca.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's interesting! According to wikipedia (which, as you know, is never wrong...) Tennyson actually wrote Idylls of the King while staying in Caerleon.

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

A friend just posted a link to 44-clove garlic soup (feeds 4). This could get... interesting...

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I've seen bakuteh recipes that need up to two bulbs. I guess that still wouldn't be much more than 20 normal sized cloves though.

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's my kind of garlic!:)

For dinner we keep light:yoghurt, fruit, salad or something of the sort, the main meal over here is lunch.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

So what do you do when it's winter?

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Baked potatoes (just the potato with a bit of salt and butter), cooked vegetables with some fresh cheese, light soups,... otherwise I wouldn't be able to go through doors.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's very interesting. Over here, dinner is definitely the main meal. Just yesterday, there was a French-born celebrity chef on the radio complaining about how Australian kids ate just sandwiches for lunch "every day of the year"...

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Over here, traditionally, the family got together at lunch time, many still do.

Till a few years ago we didn't have full-time schooling in Italy and people (but for factory workers)came home for lunch, dinner was (and often is)more casual.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

that braised chicken looks so tasty. If ever you are in Egypt, you are more than welcome to cook for us. :D

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

What's the food like in Egypt? (Normally, that is. I don't know how things are at the moment. Is everything shut down or is it one of those times when life goes on around the edges?)

[88greenthumb.livejournal.com]

Lamb stew and braised chicken! Yummm! And with lots of garlic-double or triple yummm!...I have some garlic growing in my raised bed garden but I don't think they're Argentinean. They're just the regular, organic garlic-which I got from Trader Joe's.

It's July 4th here. Don't know yet what I'm having-too wrapped up in something else, so no time to even think or plan on what to eat. Maybe I'll get invited to a barbecue or something or maybe not!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Happy July 4th! Hope you have a good time!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The thing I like about really big specimens of things--whether it's giant cloves of garlic or giant cups for drinking out of--is that they make me feel, by comparison, tiny. Like maybe I've stumbled into a giant's world, or contrariwise, maybe I myself have shrunk. It's fun, it's like a transformation's happened.

That stew looks *delicious*

tonight for dinner we had eggplant Japanese style, in a miso sauce, with rice.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Like maybe I've stumbled into a giant's world, or contrariwise, maybe I myself have shrunk. It's fun, it's like a transformation's happened.

I think that's very true. Sometimes I wonder if the reason kids always seem so happy is simply that they spend most of their time looking up at things. It's hard to be gloomy when your face and back are arched back towards the sky.

ETA: Sorry, that was a bit non-sequitur. I meant to say: yes, and the same goes for giant oversized furniture, and from there my brain jumped to looking up at things in a giant's world, without actually mentioning all the steps that led there...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I totally understood! And I think you're right: I think that perspective *does*contribute to kids' happiness.