Tag: curry

Lots of Beans for me…

I love my beans, just don’t stand too close to me at the end of the day…

What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals?

There are just two of us in this house, and I’m going to list the top three meals after I have just had a discussion with my wife, whilst in bed, having an early morning cuppa. It’s cold outside, the heating is on and there is a nice sunny glow entering the window whilst everything outside has a crisp white coating of frost.

It’s chilly today

My wife’s choices are simple, and I didn’t even have to ask her first choice as it’s ingrained in my memory banks. Whenever we go out if there is one meal on the menu, I know it will be ordered and that meal is Ham, egg and chips. She adores it. Her second favourite is Lamb and her third is traditional home made rice pudding.

For me I’m also very simplistic. My favourite go to is quite simply Baked beans on toast, I may glamourise it a bit by adding a sprinkling of cheese, but plain old beans on toast is my favourite. Followed closely by sausage and mashed potato that may or may not also contain baked beans, (there’s a trend emerging here!) and last but not least, probably due to my living in the East Midlands, I do love a good tasty Curry, not one of those blisteringly hot ones, and preferably chicken based. (No baked beans here though!)

Baked beans on toast

So that’s it really, taking the wife and I out for dinner is never an expensive outing as we both have quite “cheap” tastes. Good food doesn’t need to be expensive poncey creations, good old fashioned wholesome food is probably the go to food for the majority of people wandering around this bit of rock floating in outer space.

Have a good meal, take care and stay safe. Keep warm!

A nice Stifado

What are your favorite types of foods?

Probably one of my biggest downfalls is in the calories I eat. I’m known throughout the family as “Swill bin” due to when we are a restaurant I always end up with stuff the family don’t like, being piled on my plate. It’s not that I ask for it it’s because they don’t like to waste food so I guess it gives them comfort to shove it in my direction, and if I try to refuse I get asked if I’m unwell? I can’t really win so I don’t normally complain.

There’s not much food I don’t like, and I am a staunch believer that if you visit a foreign country that you show them respect by indulging in the local cuisine. I love this about foreign travel and it’s one of the things I enjoy most about being on holiday.

When we visit Cyprus we go to all the really out of the way eateries in the local communities and I have to say my favourite is the beef stew meal called “Stifado”. It’s amazing how the taste changes as you go through different towns, all eateries use different recipes passed down through the ages and all have different additions and spices. I love it.

I also love a lamb dish called “Kleftiko” that is cooked for many hours in an oven, absolutely gorgeous.

And the Mediterranean fruit and veg is on a different level. Tomatoes and cucumbers have a devine taste and are not the tasteless water parcels we get here in the Uk. They are gorgeous.

At home I like spicy foods, living in the East Midlands means I have a penchant for curries, and again I’m lucky to have neighbours who will knock to give me something to try that they have just prepared and would like an opinion of. I’m lucky here.

Yes I like a whole multitude of food but for me the eastern Mediterranean gets my vote every time.

Have a good day.