What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Wandering Willy]

Don't think I could ever give up cheese.

Back to the imposters on the food chain - joining celery at the top of the list is the radish. Evil little bastard.

[Bruce Rioja]

A jacket spud and beans

no finer scran (as long as you didn't do it in the microwave - and you added some cheese to melt into the beans!)

Weeeeeell, in my defence, your honour, my microwave is one of those combo jobbies so it cooks the spud and crisps the skin - they come out lovely. And I'm afraid that cheese is on this particular fat lad's banned list for now.

Sea bream tagine recommended....

Sounds fantastic Will, and healthy to boot. Bonus!

[Lord Kangana]

Don't think I could ever give up cheese.

Back to the imposters on the food chain - joining celery at the top of the list is the radish. Evil little bastard.

Try thinly sliced radish and fennel in a vinaigrette with some really fresh white fish.

You'll thank me for this one day.

[Wandering Willy]

Don't eat fish.


Unless it's cod, battered.

With chips.

[Lord Kangana]

Are you saying your chippy doesn't serve fresh fish?

[Wandering Willy]

No.

I like fishfingers too, on a butty. Wouldn't soil them with a radish though, however thinly sliced. It'd spoil the taste of the salad cream.

[Lord Kangana]

Expensive vinaigrette.

[Bruce Rioja]

Don't think I could ever give up cheese.

Have to say, Willy, it was easier giving up the cigs

[Wandering Willy]

Expensive vinaigrette.

Aye - I'm posh me when I want to be.

Were you away recently?

[Lord Kangana]

Why do you ask?

[Wandering Willy]

Because standards slipped a week or so ago.


You need to have a word with that girl on the counter - peas were cold and the pickled egg jar was empty.

[Lord Kangana]

Still had plenty of babys yeds though?

[Wandering Willy]

Oh yes indeed.

[William the White]

Don't think I could ever give up cheese.

Have to say, Willy, it was easier giving up the cigs

Indeed - I still struggle with giving up cheese - especially roquefort - and other feckin delicious high salt, high fat, blue cheese, totally consumable daily if only you could, with sweet white wines (tyvm Lord Kangana, just to make it even harder)... This is a struggle I'm winning... don't know how exactly... allowing myself a monthly 'treat' (I feckin look forward to this n all)... and eating a lot of spicy foods and, counter-intuitively, very plain, very fresh fish, which I love, and occasionally bunging said fish into spicy tagine... Mmmm... this is, actually, getting more than occasional...

[Wandering Willy]

On topic, but off thread a bit:

I haven't managed to give up the cigs yet. Given up everything else which was easy, but I enjoy a good smoke. Strangely, I don't smoke indoors at all, nor in the car - just outside which helps keep the numbers down.

[Lord Kangana]

Well heads up folks, because cheese made from sheep and goats milk is not bad for you at all. Its quackery to suggest otherwise. Cows milk, yes, theres too many components to it that are just too robust for our system. And theres more saturated fat in there.

[William the White]

On topic, but off thread a bit:

I haven't managed to give up the cigs yet. Given up everything else which was easy, but I enjoy a good smoke. Strangely, I don't smoke indoors at all, nor in the car - just outside which helps keep the numbers down.

Willy - The wonderful discovery for me was that giving up smoking was actually piss easy - it really was - once i really knew, deep inside, that is what I wanted to do... before that never managed more than four months...

Ten years ago - only rarely tempted since, never succumbed...

Errrrmmmm... it only took me about thirty five years to get to that place though....

Good luck, man - you'll never regret...

[William the White]

Well heads up folks, because cheese made from sheep and goats milk is not bad for you at all. Its quackery to suggest otherwise. Cows milk, yes, theres too many components to it that are just too robust for our system. And theres more saturated fat in there.

please list 'safe' blue cheeses...

and have you ever paid any attention to Moroccan food?

[Wandering Willy]

Willy - The wonderful discovery for me was that giving up smoking was actually piss easy - it really was - once i really knew, deep inside, that is what I wanted to do... before that never managed more than four months...

Ten years ago - only rarely tempted since, never succumbed...

Errrrmmmm... it only took me about thirty five years to get to that place though....

Good luck, man - you'll never regret...

Aye - that's how I was with giving up other things. Not mentally there with smoking, still enjoy it. so no point in trying to give up until I'm ready.

[William the White]

Willy - The wonderful discovery for me was that giving up smoking was actually piss easy - it really was - once i really knew, deep inside, that is what I wanted to do... before that never managed more than four months...

Ten years ago - only rarely tempted since, never succumbed...

Errrrmmmm... it only took me about thirty five years to get to that place though....

Good luck, man - you'll never regret...

Aye - that's how I was with giving up other things. Not mentally there with smoking, still enjoy it. so no point in trying to give up until I'm ready.

You know - that's true - until then, even if you manage it, it will be provisional... Can I offer you (no 'smugness' or anything intended, absolutely not) this thought... there might well come a time - as it did with me - when you are just sick of being a smoker, sick of the money, sick of the hours spent outside, sick of killing yourself, sick of being stupid, sick of despising yourself... And I - honestly - got there - and gave up like it was a liberation... two tough weeks (actually not that tough, really, once i looked at it as freedom ahead)... and done forever... And then, which of those addictions would you be stupid enough to pick up again... ??? Eh???