One of the things that I find enjoyably ironic, especially in these days of anti-Muslim frenzy, is that many of our traditional Christmas foods, including mince pies, derive from Middle-Eastern recipes that the Crusaders brought back with them. In Morocco you can still eat wonderful dishes like b'stilla, which is delicious, and to me is very reminiscent of mince pie as you've described it.
B > On 2 Jan 2016, at 16:58, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mince pie... It's been getting harder and harder to find mince pies around > here but this year I found one that actually included meat - in this case > chuck roast. Found it in an Amish bakery in Indiana. I think its the first > time I've had genuine "mince meat" pie and it was very good! > >> On 1/2/2016 1:11 AM, John Francis wrote: >>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 05:04:23PM +1300, David Mann wrote: >>> I think I must have had the most boring NYE of the lot of us. I did >>> absolutely nothing special and went to bed at the usual time. I haven't >>> bothered with the midnight thing for a few years now. It'll be midnight >>> somewhere in the world throughout the whole day so there's no need to stay >>> up :) >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dave >> We pretty much match you for that. >> >> I never work between Christmas and New Year (with one exception). >> This year my wife chose to take a couple of weeks off to recharge >> after a hectic last few months of the year, so we spent the whole >> two weeks just lazing around the house doing nothing much except >> playing games or watching movies. >> >> We don't have any family out here (my brother lives in Texas, but >> apart from that almost all our relatives are back in England), so >> Christmas day itself isn't a big thing. We do still cook ourselves >> a traditional turkey dinner, and we make lots of other nice items >> (mince pies, veal ham and egg pie, Dundee cake, etc.) to snack on >> during the off-work break. >> >> On New Year's Eve we did consume a bottle of champagne-in-all-but- >> name over the course of the evening, but we didn't bother to stay >> up until midnight. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
