For The Love Of Port

I've just had Wood Pigeon breasts, wrapped in bacon, to spice up this rather ordinary Taylors LBV 2001, and I can heartily recommend it as an accompaniment to our favourite tipple.
I shoot them in the back garden with the air rifle. My better half cant get her head round the violence, plucking and chopping involved, but spends hours pondering which chicken or steak to choose in the shops!
Alan.

Let me guess...theres gonna be some humour in this, although every word is true! :twisted:

I'm about 2 minutes walk from Trafalgar Square at the moment. I'll see if I can buy an air pistol and bag some pigeons for myself while I'm so close.

You can send me the recipe at:
Her Majesty's Prison
Ford
Hampshire


Alex

Alan , here in Canada , you lost me after , breasts , nipples & my better half

Ha,ha,ha.
Luc,

if you dont get Wood pigeons in Canada, hard luck. They are not like the pigeons Alex see's in Trafalger Square, which are more like flying rats! The Wood pigeon is cursed, in that it will only eat quality seeds and the like. (to be fair, a bit like a Vintage Port Drinker!). So the general concensus it is a lovely meat. A few days ago on our tv, we had the finals of Master Chef in which one of the participants used wood pigeon for the main course.
Now that I've taken you on a Nature Trail, I will leave it to the imagination how you turned Tipple into Nipple!!!
But as your Mum would say, 'Go Tanker,Go!'

Alan.

The pigeons in Trafalgar square are probably related to the ones in Victoria square in Montréal .
My better half cooked a meal consisting of veal ( basted in a Dow LBV 2OOO ) onions , veggies & potatoes , hmmmm .
However your pigeon breasts wrapped in bacon merit further investigation .

but Alan, do put any Grey Puopon on it

Andy,

In short...No!
I had to Google it to see what it was. (In that respect, could you spell it right next time.)
For those fellow Ignoramus's on our side, its an American type of Dijoun Mustard, with white wine.
Two breasts, wrapped in smokey streaky bacon, with two glasses of your favourite Port...A Supper that will cheer up your darkest hour,

Alan

I see how it is, you guys won't eat it, so you send it over here for us.....its a conspiricy....the voices tell me that

Hey, give me back my voices

Alan,

I would suggest that you give up trying to educate Andy on fine dining - you should have seen the trouble I had trying to teach him what to do with cutlery at dinner in the Douro in October 06 :? - we never should have given up the colonies, civilisation has disintegrated over there since we let them run ther own affairs

Derek

Well, how many knives, forks, and spoons (and what was that other thing) does one need at lunch? We just use our hands here in L.A., saves on doing dishes

Derek,

Couldn't agree more! They are like the boisterous teenager, we all love, but in need of a loving slap!!!!
And I'm fed up moaning about what they've done to OUR language.

Alan

Alan C wrote:Derek,

Couldn't agree more! They are like the boisterous teenager, we all love, but in need of a loving slap!!!!
And I'm fed up moaning about what they've done to OUR language.

Alan

:devil: :blah: :help:

Alan,

Don't slap Andy - he's got a gun


Andy, "that other thing" was a dinner plate - it's what you put your Big Mac on instead of eating it out of a "styrofoam" box :?

Derek

How many people live in the UK? 300 Million? Aint it our language now?

Jay

Yeah, you tell 'em Jay

Jay & Andy,

Gentlemen, I'm sure you are erudite enough to be aware that the English speaking people of the world dwarf your 300 million. (I'm presuming you've heard of Canada,Australia,etc,etc.).
Now we bestowed our language with good grace and best wishes. So why are you the only Nation that wants to change it!!!
We didn't want gratitude, or obsequious behaviour...Just leave the sodding thing alone!!!
Right, I've got that off my chest. :wall:

Have a nice day y'all...Arghh!

Alan. :)

Hey guys , wish I could join in , however , French being my mother tongue , I will refrain from discussing the pros & cons of Shakespeare vs Voltaire :)

Luc

Two things:

Alan doesn't need a gun - he's a British policeman and a quick word and a clip round the ear are the only weapons he needs.

Note the name "English" - if you want to use a weird dialect and claim it for your own then give it another name and stop pretending it's the same language.

OK OK, lets just face the facts, we screw just about everything we get our hands on

Andy V. wrote:OK OK, lets just face the facts, we screw just about everything we get our hands on

"screw" ? - I thought you told me it was called a hook-up :?


Anyway, in an attempt to avoid further international conflict I will offer this information to our ex-colonial cousins from over the pond - if you want to hear some real examples of incomprehensible dialects of the English language look no further than within a 30 mile radius of the homes of Alan C or KillerB - you Yanks haven't done so bad with the old mother tongue after all, although your table manners do leave a lot to be desired

...and before the Al and Al show start chiping in - no, I am not from Glasgow, which would have qualified for inclusion in the above paragraph

Derek