minging ????

MINGING ????

are you serious ??????

er...ok.....you munch them....

Just to clear up any possible confusion, it's minging with a hard g in the middle, as in Ming the Merciless.

From the Scots word Mingin - ie stinking, stinky, smelly, mallodorous etc.

Quite often used in the Army, ie Your kits minging get it cleaned!

Julien

Yet another thing the Scots have given to us.

Today's word, then (continuing the Scottishness), is:

cockaleekie

Cock-a-Leekie Soup This famous Scottish soup - 'a pullet with some prunes in the broth' - is the traditional starter for a Burns Supper. The original recipe included pieces of leftover beef, so feel free to add some strips of roast beef if you fancy it
Dish Details:

INGREDIENTS:

25g unsalted butter
1 free-range chicken or about 500-600g chicken portions
2 large (or 3-4 small) leeks
2 or 3 bacon rashers, chopped (optional)
2-2 1/4 litres chicken stock
bouquet garni (thyme, bay and parsley)
salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 prunes, stoned and halved
parsley sprigs to garnish

PREPARATION:

1. Melt the butter in a large pot and fry the chicken on all sides, turning occasionally until lightly brown all over.
2. Roughly chop the white part of the leeks (reserve the green tips for later) and add to the pot. If you're using the bacon, add now. Fry for about 5 minutes, until the leeks are tender.

3. Pour in the chicken stock and add the bouqet garni. Finely chop the remaining green parts of the leek and add these too.

4. Cover and simmer for 1 hour, topping up with water or more stock if necessary.

5. Season the soup to taste and add the prunes. Cover and simmer for a further 30 minutes.

6. Remove the chicken, strip the meat from the carcass and chop into pieces. Skim the soup if necessary. To serve, place the chicken pieces in bowls and pour over the soup. Garnish with the parsley.

Luvly!

Julien

Sounds delicious. I'll have to try that. Thanks Julien.

er.....ummm....

it's something that scottish people do on a friday and saturday night....or so I'm told.














I've never been to Scotland...

How un-cannie!!! me and the missus sat down to a bowl full of cockaleekie soup the other night, very nice



Regards,


JB.

I went in 1983, it was lovely. I keep meaning to go back, but it's a long drive.


Was it tinned or freshly-made? I've only ever had tinned, but Julien's recipe is very tempting.

Cock-a-leekie: a sign of impending prostate trouble.

Or of the need for incontinence pants.

Right, today's word is:

kittens

Anyone got any recipes for that?

Apart from eating pussy jokes, there's this... http://www.reliantkitten.co.uk/ The 4 wheeled Rialto.

Briliant! Looks like a VW Polo that shrank in the wash.

How about this;

Kitten Pie

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I was only joking!

The pie goes down a treat with a cold pint of stout beer! MMMMMMM!

A kitten (Old English diminutive of cat) is a juvenile domesticated cat (Felis catus) that is not yet fully-grown.

The young of big cats are called cubs rather than kittens. Either term may be used for the young of smaller wild felids such as ocelots, caracals, and lynx, but "kitten" is usually more common for these species.

Que some cute pics!



Julien

I like Kittens.

Kittens: what cats wear on their paws when it's cold.

If you want cute, check out the Daily Kitten website.

Nice pic, Julien.






Checked out, thanks. Awww! I love kittens.

Recipes, eh? How about.....

Kitten on toast
Kitten roast
Kitten pasties
Kitten flavoured crisps
Kitten bread (with kitten trapped inside)
Kitten juice (blender required)
Kitten with chips
Kitten sarnies

...and if you can find one small enough you could have a kitten hotdog - or should that be hotkitty....or, if hotkitties aren't your thing, how about this - if you've ran over a kitten in your car, scoop it up, cook it and make a kitty burger out of it!

Just ask the Koreans, they'll help you make these dishes!

You're a sick man, Naka-san!

Thanks You asked

Today's word:

frog

Frog: the original model kit.

The earliest Frog kits are estimated to be around 20,000 years old, having been found in a cave under a pile of mammoth bones and unspeakable detritus. They appear to have been a range of 1/72 scale sticks, based on the discovery of a number of small sticks and markings on the cave wall that have been interpreted as "fit is terrible, detail non-existent, colour is all wrong". Frogs are an example of an evolutionary backwater: they still exist, substantially unchanged, although the external skin has altered slightly and may now read "Revell" or "Modelcraft". They occupy an ecological niche that would in other circumstances be described as bottom-feeding - but, just as some people love catfish, some people swear by Frog kits. The rest of us swear at them.

Little-known but true fact: the frog is the little ding in the top of a brick where you put the mortar.

Other little-known but true fact: all that vermicelli on a Napoleonic officer's uniform is called frogging. No-one knows why. (Well, I don't, at any rate.)

Nice one!

Not the Frog (Species Rana - cut one up at College) but the pre war models, the initials spelled - Flies Right Off (the) Ground.

David

There is a story (and I don't know if it's true or apocryphal) that after the success of the flying model aeroplanes under the Frog name, the company chose 'Frog Penguins' as the name for the new line of 1/72 static kits, because Penguins can't fly.

'Tis true - it was in Arthur Ward's Airfix book.

A Confectionery Delight.

Thanks Sean, that must be where I read it. Probably last night actually, while Mrs Obi-Jiff was watching Taggart - made in Scotland from murders.

Nice link, Ivan. Now, anyone for an Anthrax Ripple?

Greeny - browny and slippery.

ribbet.....

in green

...and I will shoot anybody who eats kittens.....

A frog is the soft, V shaped bit in the centre of a horse's hoof.

A frog is also the name for the vee-shaped bit of rail in the middle of a set of railway points (or turn-out).

24 hours of frogs, and no-one mentioned a certain nation just across the Channel. What good people you are!

Today's word is:

kraut

sorry, I mean:

lemming

OVER DA CLIFF !!!!!

Lemming suicide the myth



The reality



regards Chef

Brilliant!

Named after the horsey parts, because of the resemblance!

The name given to grockles, sorry 'tourists' by the SAR bods, due to their habits of flocking to the coast in droves and throwing themselves off the cliffs!

I suspected as much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWuiGWkd7mM

Lemming: playing the guitar in the style of a certain slightly warty heavy metal artiste.

OH&S Lemmings

Lemming Pie.



I love lemming pies on a hot day so I’m going to reveal my secret recipe.

First off we’ve got to make the dough.

1. Get a really big bowl.
2. Pour about twenty cups of milk into the bowl.
3. Pour about eight cups of flour into the bowl.
4. Put in one dab of sugar.
5. Put in eighteen dabs of salt.
6. Put in 300.5 dabs of hot sauce.
7. Mix everything together for 15.75 minutes. If you’re near sea level do it for an hour and a half longer.

Now for the main ingredient. Get six large lemmings and 4 small lemmings. Pour the batter into a really large pie pan.

Now put the lemmings in the pie pan and put everything into the oven for five minutes with the temperature at 0 degrees.

After five minutes take the pie out and and put it beside the swimming pool. Then say in a loud voice, “Alright, you lemming pie, that there is a big cliff.” When the pie hears you it will think the side of the pool is a big cliff and go over it. Then you follow.

If you get tired of swimming with the pie, say in a loud voice, “Alright, you lemming pie, it’ll cost you five bucks to swim in this here pool.” When the pie hears you it will scamper out of the pool like hookers at a James Dobson rally.

Lemming is what I call myself when I make a mistake on a model.

Whatever he's on, I want some!

Perhaps lemmings have a narcotic effect when baked.