doctor scrumpy

Yeah I know what you mean, Mary Ann has typed a Honey Do list that makes War & Peace looklike a note for the milkman.

Do you mean to say that they have invented a washing machine that does not either work by itself or work just for women?? :scared

doctor scrumpy

make that :scared: even

Rockgurl

It's terrifying walking down the ice cream aisle at Super Stop and Shop, and I need to have willpower of a superhero, but thank god, in America, you can get the entire Atkins range! I lost 20 pounds in the last 5 months thanks to Atkins and I want it to stay that way. We had Atkins ice cream recently and it rocked! The worst thing is my girlfriend weighs about 3 stone or something, and can eat for the entire English rugby team (don't you hate people like that?) but all I have to do is look at a cream cake and I put on a stone.

doctor scrumpy

But I thought nurses were meant to be big & cuddly like Hattie Jacques ?

Rockgurl

Oh please! I do so much running around I'm surprised I don't look like Twiggy!

PrincessofWales

Just found out my folks and grandma are coming over for their first thanksgiving with us...can't wait.

No green bean casserole and marshmallow gunk though, I am planning a good old British roast with yorkshires, roast taties, turkey, stuffing and all the trimmings!

Getting fat at the thought of it!

ScarlettHill

Yep, hooray for Jan and her lovely hubby


So good to hear you so happy, Jan.

Regards
-=-
Scarlett

whatever

Wow that pic you attached was not the princess of wales but in fact the princess of whales!!!!!!!:scared:

PS can you please stop with the yorkshires and roast taties - you're making me droooooooll!

whatever

I know from past trips that it's dangerous eating out over there! 1 Portion??? That's usually enough to feed our whole family for the weekend! Okay, so I exagerate slightly but they are pretty generous........ and sooooo yummy! How can anyone resist? Especially the Chinese - why is the American Chinese so different to Uk Chinese??? I could never figure that out!

Jan Alaska

why thankyou Scarlett , Patrick and all ......... I'm not really a self depreciating type .... more of a realist and I am truly happy with my life right now

our website is www.dog-berry.com .... we've just got back from a weekend taking in all the autumn colour ... its wonderful !

Jan

NC Penguin

Chinese food in the US is pretty far removed from Chinese food because the cuisine has been adapted to fit the American "palate". On the other hand, British Chinese food is closer to the real thing because the British are more tolerant to non-native cuisines and so Chinese food doesn't end up so British (in general).

e.g. the ubiquitous brown sauce in Chinese American dishes.

I like Chinese food a lot but eat it far less often than in the UK because I like authentic Chinese food and there's far fewer places to eat it (in the Triangle at least).

I'm miss dim sum especially...




NC Penguin

ScarlettHill

Lovely photos, Jan. Where you live looks beautiful. The English ones made me a bit homesick. I took Garth out to Castlerigg last summer. I miss the mountains

ladyofthelake

Don't you believe it! Chinese food in the UK still has a long way to go before it can compete with the real stuff. Less stodge and more taste over in china. Also, when did you last see a menu in the UK with chicken paw (claws) on it?

NC Penguin

A Hong Kong Chinese friend spent six months travelling in China and told me (from having eaten it) that the everyday food Chinese people eat is not at all tasty and nothing like food served in restaurants in China (or Hong Kong for that matter).

I don't know if you ate Chinese food in Chinese people's homes or in restaurants.

In fact, one of the dishes I miss is chicken feet. I used to eat that as dimsum back in the UK. Apparently there is a Chinese restaurant in Durham that serves chicken feet during its dimsum hours but I"ve not seen it (probably serves it all before I arrive).

Having eaten Chinese food in various parts of the States, inc. Chinatowns around the US, the US has further to go than the UK to get close to authenticity.

Anyway, we're talking about food in the US and not in the native countries




NC Penguin

Pimpbot

I made my mum cook us a sunday roast before she left lol. I sure had missed roast potatos and Yorkshire pud!, as I used to go to my parents house every sunday for dinner.