The clash

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Chinese New Year and Burns Night this year are both on January 25th. Do you celebrate both? Either? Neither?

Fuchsia Dunlop has some recipes in today's Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/j ... sia-dunlop

I adore haggis but the OH absolutely loathes it so I will probably get one next week when they've been reduced to clear. It freezes well.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Now on the right thread
I am out on Saturday so will be celebrating on Sunday 26th, so I get a 3 way clash with Australia day

I wonder if it is auspicious to Brexit in the year of the Rat?

I usually do mark both Burns night and Chinese New Year with appropriate foods, so I may well adopt the same strategy of a small Chinese feast and hoping for a haggis rtc.

Maybe I’ll try to get some Chinese pastries for the evenit on Saturday.

[strictlysalsaclare Profile]

Or if you can get some Scotch beef, buy some steak and make a Chinese stir fry with it. I've done that before!

[Suffs Profile]

The chap on the checkout in Wrose yesterday and I were pondering on the feasibility of haggis dim sum dumplings ...

[Renee Profile]

Now that's a thought Suffs!

I might make a Chinese dish.

[Badger's Mate Profile]

I was intrigued by the title and opened this thread thinking it would be about music!

I might do something Chinese, I've got a lot of bits and bobs from Loon Fung to use up. Our local butcher has got some haggis ('freshly shot'). There's a swede and a couple of sacks of spuds in the shed.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

There was a lot of haggis available at Borough last Friday. I was tempted .

[Suffs Profile]

We have a McSween’s in the fridge, a ‘swede’ in the veg tub with the potatoes and a bottle of Bowmore single malt ready and waiting ... we both have a bit of Scottish blood ... OH more than me ... we make the most of it

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Badger’s Mate, I was a teacher for over forty years. Be very sure I’d have used a capital C if I’d meant the band!!!

Meanwhile, Chinese dumplings in London. Now I’m very hungry.

https://london.eater.com/2020/1/21/2107 ... nts-london

[Badger's Mate Profile]

[scullion Profile]

I thought it was a punk referal, too!

[Lusciouslush Profile]

in the veg tub with the potatoes and a bottle of Bowmore single malt ready and waiting ..

I like your style Suffs - keeping single malt in with the veg - sounds like my kinda gal...….

[jeral Profile]

I wondered if it was the clash, thinking I must be cool even to know their name. Never heard their music though so not even vaguely cool, doh.

It'll be Chinese here mainly because I've no idea what Scottish food is aside from haggis, swede, and deep fried Mars bars. What do I not know?

I do tend to make the same Chinese meal though, i.e. stir fry (with the proper veg), rice plus noodles with a hint of sesame oil. No point telling me to drench everything in chilli oil as that ain't gonna happen.

Vegan dumplings (me being non meat) can be bought so are on the list, to eat with gravy, as per much earlier thread re gravy.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

I have to admit I have never celebrated Chinese New Year, and have only celebrated Burn´s Night once - in 1984.
The following day, I couldn´t have distinguished a sporran from a dead raccoon.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

By the way, Suffs - you have a remarkable single malt in your possession. Bowmore is delicious - with just a touch of the Islay peat.
I actually stayed in the hotel right opposite the distillery in 2001. They had a bottle of Bowmore Black: only distilled once every 10 years, and only 10 barrels distilled. At that time, it cost 1000 quid a shot!!

[Badger's Mate Profile]

We're pretty well stocked for malts. Love the Islay ones. Have never been, which is scandalous given our love of birding and the local produce. We've long considered staying up there to see the geese, just haven't got a round tuit.

[Suffs Profile]

in the veg tub with the potatoes and a bottle of Bowmore single malt ready and waiting ..

I like your style Suffs - keeping single malt in with the veg - sounds like my kinda gal...….

One of my five a day

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Morrison’s have no haggis! The posh butcher will have them if nowhere else

[Sakkarin Profile]

They had haggii in Tesco just now for two quid. I hadn't acknowledged the Burns night thing on this thread, just the Chinese bit, so I was wondering why a bunch of Scottish products were on special offer. I actually picked up a pack and was on the verge of trying it, but then I thought "lungs" and put it down again.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

but then I thought "lungs" and put it down again.

All those years ago when I ate haggis in Caracas... If I´d known it was lungs, heart, brains, innards, I probably wouldn´t have touched it with a bargepole.
However, since there was plenty of usquebuagh available, I just washed it down. Looked like minced meat to me.