Gordon, you got me to looking up what your egg was. Looks tasty.
Proper Scotch Egg

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I just got back from The Irish Rover, which is as authentic an Irish pub as you'll ever get in Kentucky. The owners are from over there, and they've been serving some scrumptious Guinness and Scotch eggs since 1994.

I had my Guinness, and ordered a Scotch egg to go. Just got home. Here's a picture before I've sliced it:

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Eric enjoys drinking Guinness. I enjoy that freaky thing about Guinness in a glass.... the bubbles go down!!!

It's like a beer milkshake. I love it.

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If you want to try another recipe for that rhubarb there's one you might find interesting in the Washington Post.

Beans

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Sweden admits their meatballs are made from a Turkish Recipe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43960739

Sweden admits their meatballs are made from a Turkish Recipe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43960739

LOL:)
Yes. They do eat meat balls in Turkey.
And in Sweden perhaps even before Swedes knew what Turkey is.
Like in every country that I have been too.
In Italy and France they eat Frikadeller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikadeller
In the US hamburger, just different shape and size.

There are millions of recipes for meat balls in the world.
However cabbage rools are perhaps inspired by the Turk cuisine and maybe brought here by King Karl XXII of Sweden.
They resembles like stuffed vine leaves.

Speaking of Turkey, I wish we had a doner kebab shop here in town. Like the ones with the rotating hunk of meat over a spit.

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No kebabs? Strange. Here I think all places that serve pizza also serve kebab.
btw. In the Middle East they have Smörgåsbord like we have as well.
It's called Meze. Only difference between them is that Meze is vegetarian and our have meat dishes.

After talking about our mutual inabilities to cook, my brother and I came up with this recipe one night..

Espresso Pancakes

1/2 carafe of cold coffee
Flour
Baking powder (opt.)

- Preheat a lightly oiled skillet until a drop of water skitters across the surface.
- Pour flour into bowl.
- If desired, add 1/2 spoonful of baking powder and stir in lightly.
- Add enough coffee to form a thick batter. If thinner pancakes are desired add more coffee to make a thinner batter.
- Pour batter into skillet and cook until browned on one side. Flip once and continue cooking until done.
- Serve and eat quickly with remaining coffee (microwaved if desired).

And if this style of cooking is to your taste, you might also like kasha varnishkes

Just had a nice cabbage meal. It was wrapped in crescent roll dough. The crescent roll is like a pie shell around the steamed cabbage, mozzarella cheese, onion and seasoned ground beef filling.

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I find the cuisine of Persia (Iran) to be very subtle and delicious. I did learn how to cook most of it and can do an authentic job with the ingredients that I can still get here in the States. The buffet at the King's Hotel in Teheran was magnificent back in the time of the Shah. We had our International singles club events there. The buffet was fairly expensive and I had to keep one of our members who was a SAVAK Major (secret police) from sneaking in the back door to keep from paying.

If you are interested I suggest that you investigate Jujeh Kabob (use Key West lime juice and chicken wings) and Gormeh Sabzi (buy limu omani and dried greens at an international food store--add fresh cilantro, leeks and parsley) I use chuck roast instead of Lamb; but ,if you are rich enough go for the lamb.

There's a couple places downtown here that serve Persian cuisine. I've never tried it.

Saffron's

Pesto's

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Gormeh Sabzi:) Very nice dish with a lot of nice herbs and served with saffron basmati rice.
I think you forgot to mention that fresh dill and dried fenugreek should also be included.
Take time to cook though. Between 2 and 3 hours with preparation...
But so do all meat stews.

btw. International Ghormeh Sabzi Day is usually two days after Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

There's a couple places downtown here that serve Persian cuisine. I've never tried it.
Pesto's

You should try it.
Pesto's serve Gormeh Sabzi .
And they serve Kashk-e Bademjan! The most popular side dish in the Persian cuisine.
I have actually been cooking that side dish made from aubergines with an Iranian woman.
It took time. Almost an hour...
Funny:) It resemble like guacomolo that is served with Tex Chili, another meat stew, as a side dish with bread:)

And Kufteh! Yes Turkish meatballs. Not Swedish ones:)

There's a good take-away Chinese restaurant near me, but it's the strangest thing about their fortune cookies. I always seem to get one that says, "How about another fortune cookie?". A couple times, there's not even been a little piece of paper inside the cookie. It's really funny.

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I've had a couple of no fortune papers. I have even seen a empty plastic wrapper. Then you know your luck is bad then. Lol.

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There's a good take-away Chinese restaurant near me, but it's the strangest thing about their fortune cookies. I always seem to get one that says, "How about another fortune cookie?". A couple times, there's not even been a little piece of paper inside the cookie. It's really funny.

Why do you go to a Chinese restaurant to get a fortune cookie?
The cake does not occur in China and Taiwan, but is an American invention. It is thought to originate in a kind of unsweetened Japanese cake, which in California in the 1900's was made sweet, got its shape and the idea of a paper with a fortune in the cookie.