It sounds like things have been a bit rough lately dear Jeannie- god bless mashed potatoes and butter! :)

I'm afraid unlike Gail's healthy Indian food today for me was a dietary bust! :eek:

It started with a Carmel machiato and a bacon Gouda breakfast sandwich from Starbucks. Lunch ended up being...and this is so sad, lol, I ate my kids leftovers!...two fried eggs and a piece of bacon and a slice of toast with jam (really? I microwaved that?) and to top it off dinner was mcdonalds! The two cheeseburger meal with fries, I don't really do soda pop but I even drank a half of one. A bacon kind of day, oh dear...

Homemade veggie soup......my mommas recipe....it is sooooooooo good, on this cold, DAMP winter's night!!!

I'm impressed! How in the world did you ever hold down TWO cheeseburgers!!! Sounds so good, though, with the fries and pop - or Coke, as we call them in Texas - lol - no matter what flavor they are. Bet you were sick as a dog, though, by the time you'd noshed all that food down.

Have you ever had a Wendy's Baconator cheeseburger? Heaven on earth - but you cannot possibly eat the whole thing, even the Junior size!

Yep - good old buttery mashed potatoes are as satisfying as anything when you just need plain comfort food. I'd been craving mashed potatoes forever so now I've got enough for a whole family! But soooo good, though.

:eek: Ohhhh Jeanie!!!! I LOVE mashed potatoes, with loads of butter, a pinch of salt, and a gloop of 'single cream'....

Oh, and sometimes, a big spoonful of whole-grain mustard stirred in...

Oh, and other sometimes :p, a whole load of cheddar cheese grated into it - then put into the oven to brown off....:D

You've got tooooo much going on, young lady - think you need to have a little Surrey visit - I'll look after you - feed you up....!!!! ;) :D

Oh, wowzer, drooling here and any and all those variations sound creamy and dreamy. Love me some plain old mashed potatoes with just butter and salt, pepper plus any and all "upgrades" to the dish. Any and all additions and variations I've always loved, especially anything to do with cheeses. For some reason, most winters, I just crave potatoes and eat them at least twice a day in some form or other. Cannot get enough of potatoes, ever.

What is "single cream"? Sounds yummy whatever it is. I'm for anything that has the word "cream" in the title.

A trip to Surrey sounds just the ticket, Sally. I would love to just watch you cook all those wonderful things you all have to eat, not to mention get to chow down on them. What a treat that would be, girl! :) Wahoo!

:D You could always come over for a Jeanie/Harry Happy Birthday celebration....!!! ;) :D

Single cream, I THINK, is the same(ish) as your 'light cream'?

I make my mash differently now...ever since I had my back/shoulder problems....

Our 'top chefs' recommend doing baked potatoes in the oven (we call them 'jackets') then scoop out the middle, into a bowl and gently fork over, so there is no huge bashing/mashing involved - and the taste is amazing...:D

Jeanie you have not lived until you have tasted Englands creams. They have double cream, single cream, devon cream. The closest we could get here is if you know a milk dairy farmer. When I lived in an ashram we had a dairy farmer who supplied our cream and milk - heavenly. I might be wrong but the double cream is the thickest cream that rises to the top of the milk.


This is the real deal... Double cream is even heavier than our whipping cream, single cream closest approximation would be what we call in Canada Table cream 018% or some such.

A boiled potatoe with butter salt pepper - and a nod to healthy eating with a tblsp of parsley.


Dinner was Pizza Pizza SAusage Melt - it was very good:D

:) Thank you for explaining - I had no idea how to compare - just another reason why I love YT so much...:)

And THE very best 'over here' is Cornish Clotted Cream...Rodda's - Rodda's - on freshly baked warm scones with home-made raspberry jam....;) :heart to:dreaming:

Woops - and meant to add - happy to hear you eventually found your parsley.....!!! :p :D

Oh, it all sounds so delicious!!! I'm starving for all of it!

My sister and I took a class called "The English Way of Tea" together and the veddy proper English teacher taught us about and provided many samples of English teas and talked endlessly about the difference in the teas, jams, eggs and dairy products there and here, providing some samples for tasting and cooking from an English restaurant or bakery in Dallas who supposedly had many of their baking supplies, dairy, eggs overnighted-in from England, in addition to teaching us the "proper" way to make tea and set up the table, how to pick our teapots, china, linens, etc., and prepare for a basic afternoon tea, which we had every class.

We made butter and cucumber and other finger sandwiches, baked our own scones and little cakes during most of the lessons and learned how to slice meats and breads very, very thinly! My scones were almost always a wreck(way too dry) when we baked them but some turned out wonderfully and teacher was pleased. She provided several English jams and marmalades almost each lesson and we enjoyed everything enormously. We learned about high tea as well as a cream tea. We had a ball during the classes, must have gained 5 lbs. or more each and ended our lessons, which began in late January through early April, with a tea the class attended by the fireplace at The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas.

I've forgotten most of what I learned in that class but remember discovering my ever-abiding love for Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk in that class and have been addicted to it ever since - how like an American to have that be one of my abiding memories from English tea class. Still, one day I hope to take tea in England and eat chicken in or very near Bresse.

Left over Roast Beef, Gravy, Boiled Potatoes (with Parsley), and mixed veges.


How-ever lunch was a buttery crumpet and goat cheese, with roasted red peppers on too :D

I will regret it later but when I got back from the vet, I ordered pizza from Papa Johns along with the chicken poppers and giant cookie. Since I live alone, there is plenty left over that I will probably eat tomorrow.😳

:D I do stuff like that....then generally eat the lot round about midnight....:D

Just had chicken korma with pilau rice - and (I KNOW it doesn't really go with it!!! ;)) but a whole lot of very garlicky, drippy baguette for dipping - how bad is that...?!!!? :eek: :thumbup: :D

Sounds yummy to me!😀

I'd pay $100.00 for that dinner right now.

Still, my hot tomato soup with lots of Saltines and iced tea was pretty darn satisfying - but, gotta admit it was no where near as tasty as roast beef, those sides and that buttery crumpet and goat cheese!

Eggplant parm, tossed green salad with lots of sliced radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes, baby spinach.... garlic Texas toast, and sweet iced tea. Dessert is sweet potato pie and Blue Bell Homade Vanilla Ice Cream.

This thread always reminds me of that skit on HEE HAW, where they asked Grandpa what was a cookin' and he would rattle of the best sounding menue you ever heard!!!!

Wow! I thought I was the last person on Earth that remembered HEE HAW! And yes, he always made me hungry...lol.

I LOVED Hee Haw and all the people on there...just looked up the Hagger Twins last month to see how they are doing..........both gone....

I've only had maybe three or four Egg McMuffins in my whole life - one of them the day Tibbe had his December dental - but I sure could use one RIGHT NOW with a huge coffee. That yeasty roll they are on is soooo good.

I had about 4,000 calories today from the following:


pop tart x 4


1 tea x 1 sugar


crackers x 3


pasta olive oil parm cheese


crackers x 10


cheese pasty + fries


can anyone say FAT!!!!! This gastritis has meant that I've been on less than 1200 calories a day and today, being the first day I've felt better in over two weeks, meant that I ate everything in the house. I thought I felt better but now I just feel FAT!

:eek: Sooooo naughty - everyone's asleep (it's nearly mid-night) but I just had a big mug of hot chocolate (with LOADS of chocolate - not the '3 teaspoons' they recommend :D)....along with 3 dark chocolate digestive biscuits which I dunked into it....:eek: :D

Falafel in pita bread, lots of veges, but then there was the tzaziki (sp?) sauce, and for dessert the last 2 shortbread cookies with Hagen Daas French Vanilla Almond ice cream.


Delish, but I think I'm still hungry!

Half a toasted Bagel and Philly cream cheese with coffee.

Omelette - with goat cheese, tomatoes and onions and a roll

Lunch Caesar Salad Dinner Curried Cauliflower soup.

A jumbo marshmallow...yes, I am proud

Grits...I love grits.....!!!!!!!!!

Are they really good? I've never had them because the opinions are always so varied! Do you put butter and sugar in them like oatmeal or what?

Half a lemon fried pie and coffee for breakfast is long gone and I'm so hungry.