Recipes / British Election [split dual topic]

[laylalex 7,247]

12 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Now that looks good, very good.

 

Where is the shopping list...

 

Any thoughts about the election? Going to try and stay up tomorrow for the results. 

It is very good, and one of Al's favorites. Really not that hard, but be careful with the sage. Nigel Slater is right that it can overwhelm the dish. I like it because it's not too fatty, and you can cook it lower than 400°F for longer, so if I know he won't be home until later, I can just throw it in there and adjust temp/time. The biggest problem I have is getting apples small enough to be classified as "eating." I fudge it sometimes and just use fewer wedges, and for the whole ones I halve anything that's too big and only put 2 in.

 

Reports I'm getting from my UK friends are that some of them are just going to hold their noses and vote Labour even though they all hate Corbyn. I have one friend who can't bring himself to vote Labour so he's holding his nose and going for the Lib Dem. This is a guy who I think has been voting Tory since forever but he's seriously wigged out by the prospect of more Johnson. Which is hilarious because physically he reminds me of Boris Johnson but with brown and less messy hair.

 

Who knows how it's going to go? I know the Lib Dem leader said she wouldn't go into coalition with Labour if Corbyn is leading the party, so...? That Tory lead looks slim. 

 

 

[Boiler 43,433]

There is a link to apple crumble....

 

I have no idea, can not work out anything from the media coverage and I have been so wrong so many times I will just wait and see.

 

I think I have only ever voted for somebody who got in once.

[laylalex 7,247]

10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

There is a link to apple crumble....

 

I have no idea, can not work out anything from the media coverage and I have been so wrong so many times I will just wait and see.

 

I think I have only ever voted for somebody who got in once.

I will look for the apple crumble link -- mine are never quite as good as my former sister-in-law's. My cobbler is good, I think, and they are pretty much the same thing except for the topping, but I never get the consistency right. I think it is probably down to availability of ingredients over here compared to there -- I can't get demerara sugar too easily, and brown sugar isn't the same. 

 

I think waiting and seeing is just about the only thing to do, because the polls are always wonky anyway. Alex is doing the proxy vote. He will not tell me who he is voting for, because "it's a secret ballot, and it's not very secret if I just tell you when you ask." I mentioned that it doesn't really matter because it's not like I can vote anyway, and of course his proxy knows! But he still won't tell me. Pretty sure it's to wind me up.

[Boiler 43,433]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/applecrumble_89166

 

I think I have an American recipe somewhere but optimised for altitude.

 

I do have a good Bread Pudding.

 

Presumably SNP in Scotland?

[laylalex 7,247]

55 minutes ago, Boiler said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/applecrumble_89166

 

I think I have an American recipe somewhere but optimised for altitude.

 

I do have a good Bread Pudding.

 

Presumably SNP in Scotland?

Thank you for the recipe! I loveloveLOVE bread pudding. There is one I had this summer when I was visiting LA that was a banana bread pudding with caramel sauce that I still think about. I have a picture of it but I just looked at it again and it looks kind of unappetizing, so I won't post but I swear I was in rapture. Also it has Alex's finger pointing at it in the top of the pic and there's something kind of ... gross about it?  I think it's the knuckle hairs.

 

Right before he left in October 2017 he changed his registration from where he was living in London to his family home in Scotland, so I'm guessing SNP.  His current MP was in a band called Big Country, which had a song which I guess was big over there but it sounds so over the top faux-Scottish with bagpipes (okay Wikipedia is telling me it is not bagpipes but a guitar made to sound like bagpipes but still...). It won't be a Tory or Brexit Party candidate, and he has said the Labour candidate is not impressive and he has serious ideological issues with the Labour party anyway and like everyone else seems to hate Corbyn with a passion. But from what I can tell the election up there in Perthshire last time was very close between the SNP and the Tories, so it's a good guess he'll vote SNP. 

[Boiler 43,433]

I have not forgotten, need to find it.

[laylalex 7,247]

Looking bad for Labour, or really anybody but the Tories, and the SNP up in Scotland. There's a lot of people in my Facebook feed over there moaning and everyone's throwing it right at Corbyn's feet. I don't blame them -- he's toxic. I can't see why they didn't get rid of him ages ago, or how he can hang on at this point. What an embarrassment. 

 

Voldemort has posted a pic on Instagram of himself with Boris from back when Boris was mayor, just before Voldy moved over here, at some cocktail party. I threw up a little in my mouth (well, figuratively). I remember him (Voldy) asking me if I thought Boris could help move his K1 along in London and I was like... 🙄 No.

 

Please post the bread pudding recipe when you find it!

 

 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

Just now, laylalex said:

Looking bad for Labour, or really anybody but the Tories, and the SNP up in Scotland. There's a lot of people in my Facebook feed over there moaning and everyone's throwing it right at Corbyn's feet. I don't blame them -- he's toxic. I can't see why they didn't get rid of him ages ago, or how he can hang on at this point. What an embarrassment. 

 

Voldemort has posted a pic on Instagram of himself with Boris from back when Boris was mayor, just before Voldy moved over here, at some cocktail party. I threw up a little in my mouth (well, figuratively). I remember him (Voldy) asking me if I thought Boris could help move his K1 along in London and I was like... 🙄 No.

 

Please post the bread pudding recipe when you find it!

 

 

I agree

[laylalex 7,247]

Just now, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

I agree

With what?  

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,315]

Just now, laylalex said:

With what?  

I have no idea 

[laylalex 7,247]

Okay then! I also have no idea so that makes you and me both.  

[yuna628 9,528]

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

Looking bad for Labour, or really anybody but the Tories, and the SNP up in Scotland. There's a lot of people in my Facebook feed over there moaning and everyone's throwing it right at Corbyn's feet. I don't blame them -- he's toxic. I can't see why they didn't get rid of him ages ago, or how he can hang on at this point. What an embarrassment. 

 

Voldemort has posted a pic on Instagram of himself with Boris from back when Boris was mayor, just before Voldy moved over here, at some cocktail party. I threw up a little in my mouth (well, figuratively). I remember him (Voldy) asking me if I thought Boris could help move his K1 along in London and I was like... 🙄 No.

 

Please post the bread pudding recipe when you find it!

 

 

Did they find Boris in the fridge yet?

 

This was Corbyn's election to lose, honestly - but the Tories and Labour did not offer a good choice to those who wanted to Remain, meaning the vote would be easily split into other parties that hadn't a snowballs chance in protest votes. Sanity may prevail far off in the future and hopefully Labour will learn hard lessons and rebuild from the ground up. But at what cost of course? Husband voted ages ago by postal but it filled him with a sense of dread as he knew exactly what the outcome would be. It makes him further glad he left his country behind, but still ever terrified for the family that remain.

[laylalex 7,247]

4 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

Did they find Boris in the fridge yet?

 

This was Corbyn's election to lose, honestly - but the Tories and Labour did not offer a good choice to those who wanted to Remain, meaning the vote would be easily split into other parties that hadn't a snowballs chance in protest votes. Sanity may prevail far off in the future and hopefully Labour will learn hard lessons and rebuild from the ground up. But at what cost of course? Husband voted ages ago by postal but it filled him with a sense of dread as he knew exactly what the outcome would be. It makes him further glad he left his country behind, but still ever terrified for the family that remain.

I just "liked" this, but only because there isn't an upvote anymore. I'm watching the live updates on the Guardian website, and they are depressing. I think there is a very good chance of a Scottish independence referendum now, which in my fiance's family home is something that they do not agree on. On an emotional level, he's so sick of being mired in the mess that the UK has become, and identifies more strongly with being Scottish than British, which is something which wasn't always the case. On a practical level, he thinks independence would be a social, political and economic disaster not any better than Brexit, and possibly more ruinous. His sister is quite pro-independence, but it really comes from an emotional place more than anything else. She's only ever lived up there and will only go south of the Tweed if it's something work-related. His mum is nominally English though has lived in Scotland since she was a teenager, and refuses to take much of a stance on it at all, worrying more about hyper-local issues and doesn't see how staying or leaving would make much difference to her. 

 

I agree with you about the Remain issue -- my friends are all solidly Remain, even though several of them were unabashedly blue for years. But where do they turn when the Tory and Labour candidates both suck in their constituencies? My Tory friend who voted Lib Dem did so in good conscience, but he seems to be the exception not the rule simply because there was a viable Lib Dem candidate standing. One of my friends is drunk-posting on Facebook and tagged me in a post asking if I knew any available American men who are looking for a wife. I commented that it's not a whole lot better here! 

 

It seems just so shocking to me that Labour has cocked this up so much. Corbyn really has to go.

[yuna628 9,528]

13 minutes ago, laylalex said:

I just "liked" this, but only because there isn't an upvote anymore. I'm watching the live updates on the Guardian website, and they are depressing. I think there is a very good chance of a Scottish independence referendum now, which in my fiance's family home is something that they do not agree on. On an emotional level, he's so sick of being mired in the mess that the UK has become, and identifies more strongly with being Scottish than British, which is something which wasn't always the case. On a practical level, he thinks independence would be a social, political and economic disaster not any better than Brexit, and possibly more ruinous. His sister is quite pro-independence, but it really comes from an emotional place more than anything else. She's only ever lived up there and will only go south of the Tweed if it's something work-related. His mum is nominally English though has lived in Scotland since she was a teenager, and refuses to take much of a stance on it at all, worrying more about hyper-local issues and doesn't see how staying or leaving would make much difference to her. 

 

I agree with you about the Remain issue -- my friends are all solidly Remain, even though several of them were unabashedly blue for years. But where do they turn when the Tory and Labour candidates both suck in their constituencies? My Tory friend who voted Lib Dem did so in good conscience, but he seems to be the exception not the rule simply because there was a viable Lib Dem candidate standing. One of my friends is drunk-posting on Facebook and tagged me in a post asking if I knew any available American men who are looking for a wife. I commented that it's not a whole lot better here! 

 

It seems just so shocking to me that Labour has cocked this up so much. Corbyn really has to go.

Labour has an antisemitism problem, that is not to say that the Tories haven't got their own anti problem too. Corbyn is also too far to the left and is stuck in a... (have you ever watched Mrs. Maisel? Corbyn reminds me of Abe this season) well.. I'm not sure, but he's stuck. He's not the working common man and not understood by them. He's a 60's beatnik reading poetry on his bike and ranting about an idealist socialism will solve it all. Times have changed and he hasn't. Nevertheless he also supported Brexit, (something no Remainer would feel comfortable voting for) but had no actual plan of how to do it. He may have a subset of idealist young followers, but the rest are looking for something better. I think of all the passionate voices that stood up to Boris, every time he lost a vote.. it's those younger to middle aged persons the party should turn to.

 

Scottish Independence is on the table, but worse...I think we're heading into deeper troubling times for NI and the eventual breakup of the UK.

Edited December 13, 2019 by yuna628

[90DayFinancier 910]

1 hour ago, yuna628 said:

Labour has an antisemitism problem, that is not to say that the Tories haven't got their own anti problem too. Corbyn is also too far to the left and is stuck in a... (have you ever watched Mrs. Maisel? Corbyn reminds me of Abe this season) well.. I'm not sure, but he's stuck. He's not the working common man and not understood by them. He's a 60's beatnik reading poetry on his bike and ranting about an idealist socialism will solve it all. Times have changed and he hasn't. Nevertheless he also supported Brexit, (something no Remainer would feel comfortable voting for) but had no actual plan of how to do it. He may have a subset of idealist young followers, but the rest are looking for something better. I think of all the passionate voices that stood up to Boris, every time he lost a vote.. it's those younger to middle aged persons the party should turn to.

 

Scottish Independence is on the table, but worse...I think we're heading into deeper troubling times for NI and the eventual breakup of the UK.

If you thought it was difficult to work out the No. Ireland border, try to put Scotland in the EU with England out.