Last night

[janestarz]

Christmas dinner at my dad's. Cow's meat, Haricots verts, broccoli, sauce Hollandaise, and taters. Lots of wine. The food was good. Jos was talking most of the time, I retreat like I always do. He overshadows me always because he's the eldest. Always has. I certainly am no match for him. What have I to say.
I didn't mind either. Made my dinner quiet and filled with rest. It was good seeing him and his girl again.

After dinner, before the icecream, we unwrapped presents. They got coupons for perfume (you know...my dad pays an amount of money, and she gets to pick up a nice perfume) and hotels. Raphael got an mp3/discman and I got a sleepingbag which is resistant to cold from -16 to -4 degrees. Yeay. Now I'll never be cold on a larp anymore!

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[janestarz.livejournal.com]

We celebrated early. All my brothers fault, really. Father and stepmom, his girl's father and mother, and then ofcourse our mother and her boyfriend. All of them asking wheter he's coming over for christmas dinner.

I'm as easy as onetwothree. Always available and never too much trouble to travel half the country for some dinner.

Really it's hard planning stuff like this.

[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

Wait... I thought cow's meat was beef. Or is that some specific dish, called 'cow's meat'? Am I missing something?

And good sleeping bags are very useful. We have these two great down bags that are something like twice as old as I am, but are about as good as it gets at keeping you warm short of expedition quality bags. They made them good back then. I used to go winter camping fairly frequently, and the only time I have ever been cold at night was the one time I took only a thin fleece bag camping with me one summer. But then, I seem to make abnormal amounts of heat or something, because I am rarely cold, and generally wear about one less layer than everyone else.

Woohoo for random tangents!

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Dunno really. It was meat, it came from a cow, I didn't particulary like it. In Dutch I believe it's called "draadjesvlees" (threadmeat) and if cooked properly, it falls apart if you look at it. But this wasn't.
I'm quite growing against meat again. I should spend more time with vegetarians. The only occasions I seem to eat meat nowadays is at occasions like these. I was a vegetarian once, couldn't live without my hamburgers from the Burger King though.


*whoohoo's along*

[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

Hmm... most anything that comes from a cow is called beef in English. Unless you are refering to a specific dish, of course. Those are generally called steaks, or something along those lines. Although I do not think much of anything classified a 'steak' would fall apart easily. Maybe if very well cooked.

But then, of course, English has all sorts of oddity. The meat of a calf is called veal, and pig meat has all sorts of names for it - pork, bacon, ham, etc. depending upon how it is prepared, or what part of the pig it is, etc.

What is really interesting, linguistically, is the derivations of these terms. Although cow and pig are Germanic terms, beef and pork come from French. When the Normans conquered England, the nobles would have pig and cow served to them, and so would refer to them by in French as by the 'beouf' and 'porc' or whatever the terms where back then, since they only really dealt with the meat. Therefore the original English (spoken by the Anglo-Saxon peasants, who dealt with the animals) for the animals stuck, but the French words for the meat came into the language.

Random trivia, really.

Personally, I do not much care for Burger King. I much prefer McDonalds in general. But I much prefer a well done steak. I am very much a meat eater. Heck, I much prefer a poorly done steak. But a well done New York style steak.. ah... makes the mouth water.

Sorry if I disturb you with my culinary reminiscing. *smile*

Then you'll hear my culinary rambling as well.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

I mostly prefer chickenlegs, properly seasoned. However I can enjoy a well-cooked steak. Best spare-ribs I ever ate were at an Argentinian restaurant somewhere suburbian Rotterdamn. With perfefct seasoning and honey.

I am very fond of Mushrooms in several dishes. Shrooms good....

Re: Then you'll hear my culinary rambling as well.

[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.. I never really have liked chicken much. It is a little to... not meaty enough for me, I guess is the best I can say. I do not dislike it, but I just do not like it much. I guess I just prefer the flesh of mammals. *smile* Beef, pork, lambe or mutton, those are what I really like. But then I generally really like hearty, substancial food.

I never really have been one for mushrooms either. I just do not find them all that flavorful. Maybe I have just not had the right types, though.

Re: Then you'll hear my culinary rambling as well.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

But but but...they're so healthy!
*Grins*
That's a good thing. They go with just about anything.

Re: Then you'll hear my culinary rambling as well.

[troglodyteking.livejournal.com]

See, I frankly do not really care much about that. I have never watched what I eat (although my mother watches what she serves to some degree, so indirectly I do to some degree), and I have always basically maintained a steady weight, so I frankly only concern myself with whether or not something tastes good and agrees with me.