Contractors favorite gourmet food.

[Moscow Mule]

Back on topic.
Best food EVER;

Lobster Thermidor is the best starter (made by Wally at the Sheraton in Cairo - but I think that hotel may be closed now)

Beef Wellington is the best main course (made by the CPO Chef at HMS Collingwood)

Best pud??? So hard to choose, I'll think on it.

[Pondlife]

(btw: I believe God stops people from eating a specific category of food because of a good reason which is better health to his children)

Totally off topic but why does 'he' let some of his children eat them and not others?

Better still, why put them there in the first place?

[Weltchy]

What is it with lobster? The GF and myself have had the lobster platter quite a few times at Loch Fyne when we dine out. Now, don't get me wrong, its nice, but, for a starter, I much prefer King Scallops.

Beef wellington is a must!!!

PS - Has anyone tried Kobe beef? What did you think of it?

[SandyDown]

Totally off topic but why does 'he' let some of his children eat them and not others?

Better still, why put them there in the first place?

If I recall it correctly, Jesus said he was sent to complete the testament (i.e. the old testament) the new testament is a kind of biography of his life, however he still recognised the old testament, most Jewish laws (dos and don’ts) are also repeated in the Koran.
However, Christian interpreted the fact Jesus freed them to be they are allowed to do whatever they like (as long as they agree with the commandment)

Apart from one story about Paul not wanting to eat shellfish with the local (cuz he was still stuck in his old Jewish eating ways) then feeling bad about snubbing the locals and what they are eating, I haven’t ready anywhere that Jesus actually did eat the stuff that were not allowed in the old testament.

The repetition of some of the laws in the Koran concludes to me that the source of all these commandment is the same (no pork, no blood, Kosher (or halal) , separate the clean and the dirty (contamination) etc etc
However the shellfish issue and mixing meat and cheese(diary) is not repeated in the Koran (I think)

Again, new age diets have invented other foods i.e. human eating other carnivore animals (e.g. alligator steak etc – not sure how healthy is that) the norm is for humans to only eat vegetarian animals (cows/sheep/chicken/duck/ geese) that’s why we got the plague of mad cow disease when farmers started feeding their cows and sheep animal protein – from my research into the matter usually there is a very good reason for most of these laws in the ancient books. And I do believe the laws are consistent.

As for your question why are they there – it’s the cycle of life, predator species are there to control the population of other species, other species are there because they benefit the soil or use up waste created by other species (e.g. worms) nature is orchestrated in an amazing way.

[TimberWolf]

That rule of thumb kind of breaks down when it comes to birds and fish. Cod for example feed on molluscs, crabs, starfish, worms, squid, and other small fish. Predators, being higher up in the food chain, probably contain more heavy metals and other potential pathogens/lergies.

[SandyDown]

That rule of thumb kind of breaks down when it comes to birds and fish. Cod for example feed on molluscs, crabs, starfish, worms, squid, and other small fish. Predators, being higher up in the food chain, probably contain more heavy metals and other potential pathogens/lergies.

Why do you think the rule of thumb breaks down, I think from what you said it seems that it enforces it.

[TimberWolf]

The rule of thunmb that predators (or we) don't eat predators. Fish was served on the mount. I may have misinterpreted your point however.

[SandyDown]

The rule of thunmb that predators (or we) don't eat predators. Fish was served on the mount. I may have misinterpreted your point however.

I see, and agreed, don’t think they served Cod though :- )

I would have interpreted this that we don’t eat anything that eats hot other blooded or mammals, however some people do eat shark and whale, who do eat hot blooded and other mammal animals – mind you am not sure about religion points re eating whales and sharks.

Also I remember one of the rules that we shouldn’t eat an animal that works for us – e.g. a mule, horse, donkey – all those are vegetarian but there is a rule (don’t remember if this rule is Islamic or Jewish) that we shouldn’t eat them, other animals that work for us (Dogs, cats= work in catching mice, owls= work for hunters) have both rules apply to them i.e. they eat hot blooded animals and work for us, so definitely a big no no [unless you are Korean!!]

[BoredBloke]

Who cares! It's all made up anyway.

Where is Chico these days?

[darmstadt]

Last night in my hotel room I boiled up a couple of potatoes then cut into little bits, diced an onion, chopped up a couple of cloves of garlic and sliced 2 bockwursts. Fried that lot up together with some chilli and garlic then added 2 whisked eggs with a bit of milk, pepper and paprika. A nice version of Bauernschmaus.