I would not have picked you as one who had destroyed their taste buds with too much pepper, spice & curry, in their youth Luddy.

From the middle ages, until we developed refrigeration we know people had to go out into the woods, & pick all kinds of strong flavoured weeds, & stick them in their food, to help disguise the fact that the meat was rotten.

These weeds, dried became known as herbs, & perhaps spices. People became rich importing ship loads of the stuff to disguise the smell of putrefaction.

Today people who still do this garbage to the good food we have available have become known as chefs. Strangely this is no longer a derogatory term, which of course it should be.

This should become obvious when we realise our current Olympic team had a chef de mission, & look at their success.

I was amused when I saw the sign at the navy cooking school in Cerberus, years ago. It had something about chefs as well. they were probably taught to add weeds to navy food, if they could find any.

Of course to make sure they stayed on track, the sign on the wall, in large painted letters, renewed regularly proclaimed this to be, "THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF TUCKER FCUKERS". Probably to do with those said weeds.

Hasbeen my dad was one of those cooks, he could, cook.
Sister wed one, and bought him home to live, for 4 years he could not.
Tight? he smuggled food out of camp and bought it home rather than pay Bord!
Gee the chooks liked it!

Aaaaaah Haaaahahahahaaa.

Hasbeen, you are a very funny old fart!!

You enrich my life greatly. You alone make my continuance with OLO worthwhile ( :>)

So…. what is your favourite condiment?

Or favourite herb or spice.... or weed?

Luddy, I work on the KISS principle old mate.

Just some nice {salted} butter to cook the stake in, in a very hot pan.

Then some coconut milk to do the veggies in, but careful, not too much, done in the microwave.

Try some sliced mushrooms, in a little coconut milk, done in the microwave, for about 6 minutes or so. Do be careful with the quantity of coconut milk, if your not a regular coconut eater, it is an excellent cure for constipation, if used to excess the first few times.

Ludwig it is your fault!
Tipped the last of the stew out.
Feeding the Myna Birds.
Cooked three whiting after lite soaking in plum sauce baked a spud pumpkin.
Covered the lot in salt pepper and back on track, must be spring.

Haz, you old salt, sailing around tropical islands.

Your fav is coconut milk. I shoulda known!

Mushrooms in coconut milk. Sounds great.

Mushrooms in coconut milk with a copious dousing of white pepper – PERRFECT!!