The Country's Most Obsessive Smiths fan.

Now, there are a lot of options P.

If I could suggest my personal favourite, which involves carrots. Now, once suitably prepared, the carrots somehow adopt a beautiful taste different to their native taste.

Unfortunately I only consume rather than prepare this particular appetiser (or main meal). My bird has the magical methods.

In short, a liquidiser puts pay to the initial carrot shape, which I think is then entered into a slow burning pan with vegetable cream and milk for about 20. Its an easy fix and great for cold nights which you will have never experienced unless a space craft blotted out the sun in the early nineties (the hey day of space alien sightings).

Potato can be either added to this (and squashed up) or prepared standalone.

So carrot soup and potato soup seem to make the best soup I've ever tasted with the home cooking touch. Beautiful, extremely healthy and great with granular fresh bread. Again quite fortunately, my bird prepares her own bread.

Hope this helps.

Would you like me to post the proper way of doing it P?

the soup that is.

Here is a little something P which may suffice if your feeling a little partial.

http://www.vegsoc.org/nvw/2003/carrotsp.html

Thanks for your tips on carrots and potatoes, H. Any recipe that requires strenuous preparation is out of the question for me, I'm afraid. Frozen carrots are one of my standard soup items, as are canned potatoes. Occasionaly I use baby food (liquified) carrots. One of my relatively recent ingredients is frozen chopped spinach, but unfortunately it seems to have now become impossible to find truly chopped spinach. Larger pieces are unacceptable. The one fresh vegetable that I am prepared to use is celery, which to my mind is delightful in soup.

Mmmm. I'll have to consult to see if celery has ever appeared on our soup night.

You've mentioned soup before which I presume is a foodstuff of choice quite regularly, perhaps mostly down to the fact its quite easy to prepare and quick.

Frozen vegetables are a new addition to our stock room, but they've found their own niche. I have read that FZV's retain more goodness than FV's.

We sometimes enjoy Chinese frozen vegetables as stir fry. Not sure if they can be obtained in Cincinatti but they really taste very good - borderline meat somehow. The trick with being a vege is to seek out food that is as tasty and juicy as, say, a steak. So anything near that is good. Although the Chinese vegetables aren't quite that (they are obviously different and wonderful in other ways) they do give a kick. An easy meal, veg. in a wok with oil for 20 mins. On the plate and on the couch with a fork.

I recently enjoyed crispy aromatic duck (a vegetarian version) and it was possibly the best vegetarian meal I had ever tasted. Imagine the original meat version, well, it tasted like that. They refused to offer me the recipe but the place was a renouned vegetarian joint with a good reputation. So no it wasn't actually duck (before you ask).

Mind, I rarely mention I'm a vege because people usually take the piss.

Be sure to stop by our house next time your passing P and your welcome to share a meal of only the finest home grown sloup, followed by something quite nice and glass of something special.

Many thanks for your kind invitation, H. Unfortunately, my passport has expired.

It is rather difficult to imagine vegetarian duck. I'm sure you appreciate that difficulty.

There are frozen sacks of Chinese vegetables in the grocery store I go to; perhaps I should try them in soup, which is my daily dinner.

Someone at my job who went to the first showing of The Mattress Reupholstered said it was a disappointment.

Originally posted by Hank Wiseass© > Originally posted by Huntsman> > Hanky Panky - I've just realised you were playing a gaff and that obviously Shuttle is either the one on the left or the gentleman on the right. Which alien being is it?> >

Spot the LOWEST common denominator.

WOW is that Fred West's doppelganger on the RHS

... interesting link Murv - it looks a bit like one of them pictures you develop and you think; who the hell was that guy!?

P - I'm sorry to hear that the Mansion Re-tiled is dog food. Was there any mention of the dirt track?

Shunter, your e-maker is sat in prominence on my desking type of top. I have not yet made it to the shops to extract a couple of E200's. Rest assured the task is at the forefront of my mind's eye and I do fully intend to dispatch the goodies in a special container.

Care to contribute to the soup discussion Steam Pudding? - surely the ShipShaper has a belter of a Scotch Broth pot for us all to enjoy and experience for the first time.

If not, just make something up.

I did not inquire about the dirt track, H. I admit it was a shocking omission on my part.

So, Shugsy, are both of those pictures really you? At around the same time? One of them looks younger to me.

Patrick, surely you are duty bound to relinquish our fears that the spacious filth slide run in Manton Evacuated is possibly the most exhilarating speed chase since Death Slide 4 starring Bomber Johns.

Originally posted by ShugZV©
> Originally posted by Patrick> I did not inquire about the dirt track, H. I admit it was a shocking omission on my part.> > So, Shugsy, are both of those pictures really you? At around the same time? One of them looks younger to me.>

The one with Bez was taken before the Liverpool gig in July 2001, the other was not long after a bunch of pals shaved my head - while I was bevvied at a party - that was taken before the Finsbury gig June 2002.....the guy on the left is Dutch Jim, then Me, Hanky and Benny McCarthy. Just out of shot is the famous ATR. The guy on the left of BEZ is my Uncly John (Larsson 7 on here) So yep - Guilty Yer Honour;)

Well, to my eyes, at least, the YOU in the indoor shot looks strikingly younger than the YOU in the outdoor shot; not that either one looks old, mind you.

After all these posts Al Jarvis hasn't even suggested a decent recipe for soup.

Do Londoners not eat soup? - I mean, how does he keep creative writing books if he has no access to tomato soup?

Originally posted by ShugZV©
Cheers dudely, Kez-bah was out with us that day as well, and one of her mates, or maybe even her sister said I looked about 16She also took a look at the Rocket, and said - should he not be in a home.....honest guv

16 is about what I would have said too, Shugsy. I take it you are in fact slightly more than that?

Originally posted by ShugZV©
> Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Mystic> so let me see if I've got this right...that mad bastard is 34, and he still lives with his parents???> > is that a common thing in Engerland???> > because a 34 year old living with the folks is a wee bit odd on this side of the pond???

Where the fuck did you get 34? or are you talking about someone else ya mad bast? and I've been in me own place for nearly a year Now don't be losing your rag mate!

I'm probably the "most obsessive Smiths fan" in Oconee County, and all I've got is Hatful of Hollow, The Queen Is Dead (she bloody well should be! Oops, wrong thread), the US version of The World Won't Listen (something to do with "Bombs", the title is) and the '95 Singles collection. My coz is just a little bit worse: He's got Mozza's solo efforts as well as the Smiths catalogue (I first exposed him to the Smiths and Joy Division, so I can't help but feel a little pride)

Originally posted by Rocket Mick > Originally posted by ShugZV©
> Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Mystic> so let me see if I've got this right...that mad bastard is 34, and he still lives with his parents???> > is that a common thing in Engerland???> > because a 34 year old living with the folks is a wee bit odd on this side of the pond???

Where the fuck did you get 34? or are you talking about someone else ya mad bast? and I've been in me own place for nearly a year Now don't be losing your rag mate!

Hey, hey guys.....is 23 considered to be an odd age to still be living with the parents (in my case, the grans)? You know, just wondering (might hurt my chances with the ladies, you know)

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Mystic hmm...I think this may be about the third time that I've stayed on topic...and it was a very difficult thing to do...now what the hell were we discussing again???

The Smiths (I think, I just caught this thread when you and Shug were having a tiff)

Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Mystic > Originally posted by Taboo # 7> > > > Originally posted by Grigori Rasputin, the Mad Mystic> > hmm...I think this may be about the third time that I've stayed on topic...and it was a very difficult thing to do...> > > > now what the hell were we discussing again???>

The Smiths (I think, I just caught this thread when you and Shug were having a tiff)

Robert Smith and his family??? How boring....

I'd live with Robert Smith and his wife any old day. They could adopt me! Sure, it wouldn't be the most fast-paced life, but what do you expect from ol' Robert? Heavy drinking and hanging around cemeteries and hanging gardens and the like while reading Baudelaire and Camus isn't exactly skydiving, now is it? Hell, it's not even cricket. But, although he may not look like it, I'm sure he gets off the couch every now and then to go do SOMETHING.