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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #15 on: July 04, 2005, 12:09:45 PM »
Quote from: New-Dawn on July 04, 2005, 11:50:08 AM
has this thread made anyone else really flipping hungry? I just had a tuna sandwich at 11.30 !

Yep - I've already eaten my lunch and I still have an hour to go till my actual lunch hour!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2005, 11:25:47 AM »
i'm hungry as anything now! i have to stop reading the food talk threads!!!!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2005, 01:58:50 PM »
He he well let me make you hungrier.  Our guests arrive early morning at Heathrow. By the time they get here it will be lunchtime so this is what I'm planning on serving them for their first lunch in the UK:

Scottish salmon - if it's a hot day this will be poached & then chilled and served with potato salad (made with salad cream of course!)  and green salad; if it's a cool day I plan to grill the salmon and serve with pommes dauphinoise & vegetables

followed by

TRIFLE! But I'll have to hold off the sherry as Stu's neice is only 7 years old.

Oh and a big jug of Pimms to wash it all down.
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2005, 02:02:39 PM »
:grins:

well luckily i dont like fish!! heh!!!!       but potato salad is always nice!!!!


mmm.... trifle...


wait. i'll just skip to the Pimms ;)


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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2005, 02:02:59 PM »
Mmmmm....we went through 2 jugs of Pimms & lemonade yesterday.  Darn it was hot!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2005, 03:03:37 PM »
Hmm what is Pimms? I've never heard of it, must be good though  :)
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2005, 03:16:35 PM »
Liz, when my dad and family came to visit me, the thing that went over really well was the cheese platter after dinner!  Everybody just loved the selection.  Here in the states, cheese is often served as nibblies before dinner. 

I've always been a fan of the cheese platter and served them during the family visit to stretch the meals.  We're all big eaters and my brothers were both teenagers at the time (with the "growing boy" appetites to match!)  Huge, huge hit!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2005, 03:23:10 PM »
Mmmm....cheese platter.

Some lovely cheddar on Hovis digestive biscuits.....I'm drooling, I tell ya!  ;D
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2005, 03:33:46 PM »
Quote from: peedal on July 11, 2005, 03:23:10 PM
Mmmm....cheese platter.

Some lovely cheddar on Hovis digestive biscuits.....I'm drooling, I tell ya!  ;D

I'm drooling too!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2005, 05:26:23 PM »
If you do a cheese platter, remember to not serve it cold out of the fridge.  Depending on the type of cheese, the flavour is much better when at room temp.  Oooooo - that sounds SO good!!!

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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #25 on: July 11, 2005, 05:29:39 PM »
Yeah I was thinking of doing a cheese platter at some point, yummy Wensleydale, Caerphilly, Red Leicester, smoked Applewood Cheddar  etc.

MMmm cheesaholic me.
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #26 on: July 11, 2005, 05:30:17 PM »
Quote from: Britwife on July 11, 2005, 05:29:39 PM
Yeah I was thinking of doing a cheese platter at some point, yummy Wensleydale, Caerphilly, Red Leicester, smoked Applewood Cheddar  etc.

MMmm cheesaholic me.

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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2005, 05:30:45 PM »
Of course you can!!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2005, 05:31:34 PM »
Quote from: Britwife on July 11, 2005, 01:58:50 PM
served with potato salad (made with salad cream of course!) 

"proper" potato salad ;)

I don't like salmon or even trifle, but I'd like this lunch as it does sound perfect for this weather! Oh to be a guest at your house- lucky devils!
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Re: Brit food to serve US in laws
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2005, 09:56:11 PM »
Quote from: Britwife on July 11, 2005, 01:58:50 PM
...potato salad (made with salad cream of course!)

Quote from: New-Dawn on July 11, 2005, 05:31:34 PM
"proper" potato salad ;)

Proper potato salad?!?!?!!  Salad cream? [smiley=puke.gif]

I honestly don't 'get' the salad cream thing here -- it tastes like...nothing.  I make a fabulous American-style potato salad...and hubby makes a wonderful garlicky-Dijon-mayo Spanish style potato salad...I would never dream of doing potato salad with salad cream.  Bleurgh.
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