Today in pictures

[DtheP47]

Last night in Manchester:
Two pints of Earl Grey IPA @ 6.8% in the Marble Arch on Rochdale Road and then Fleetwood Mac at the Arena.
"Life doesn't get much better that this"

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

It looks lovely...but why contaminate a burger with chorizo?
That is just me and my dislike of food that has been 'messed with'.
I prefer my burgers made with just beef(freshly minced where possible) and just a hint of condiments.
I am very wary of commercial burgers....I like to make my own.....and when I am feeling very adventurous(which isn't often these days)..... I add dry mustard to the mix before frying.

Somewhere I read they apply the one mile rule in sourcing their produce.The burgers were in no way commercial burgers Margaret can you not tell that from the photo? A beautiful hand crafted beef patty. How is chorizo* contaminating it ???All of the meat and over 100 different vegetables, fruit and herbs are grown at Church Farm across the road. Heritage varieties and rare breeds over there enables them to offer the best local ingredients.
* btw Try some morcilla from Brazil.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes you could see that the burgers were not the McDonalds style, but I still think that a good beef burger made like that needs no fancy additions to improve it(the first line of my post gave you a clue - I said it looked lovely)....it just makes it pretentious....and if you knew anything about me you would know that I have a real aversion to foreign food....so I won't be heeding your advice to try morcilla...they have it in Spain and I think it originated from there.
I don't eat English black pudding so I won't be eating that.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Yes you could see that the burgers were not the McDonalds style, but I still think that a good beef burger made like that needs no fancy additions to improve it(the first line of my post gave you a clue - I said it looked lovely)....it just makes it pretentious....and if you knew anything about me you would know that I have a real aversion to foreign food....so I won't be heeding your advice to try morcilla...they have it in Spain and I think it originated from there.
I don't eat English black pudding so I won't be eating that.

Can't see how the fusion of different tastes is pretentious Margaret.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Well it is taking something that is basically simple and adding something that has become(for the want of a better word) fashionable.
But then if you want your food fused that is your choice.
I prefer my food to be of a simpler variety....and simpler does not have to be boring.
Pretentious is making something basic(and good) into something that is seen as 'fashionable'.
See....now you have me repeating myself.
Just my opinion, there are other opinions available for you to make a choice from.
Have burger, have chorizo, but don't bastardise (am I allowed to say that ?)both by adding them to each other.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Well it is taking something that is basically simple and adding something that has become(for the want of a better word) fashionable.
But then if you want your food fused that is your choice.
I prefer my food to be of a simpler variety....and simpler does not have to be boring.
Pretentious is making something basic(and good) into something that is seen as 'fashionable'.
See....now you have me repeating myself.
Just my opinion, there are other opinions available for you to make a choice from.
Have burger, have chorizo, but don't bastardise (am I allowed to say that ?)both by adding them to each other.

We are probably gonna get lambasted (not that that's got owt to do with sheep) by the Mods Margaret for this thread wander.
Foreign food Margaret?
Didn't Sir Francis D bring us the humble potato back from his travels?
Tomato and Ketchup from the Amercan Indian
Beef burger plain and simple from the German settlers into the US.
Of course, we eat plenty of stuff that other nations would label as “foreign muck”, from tripe and onions to Gala Pie. And the truth is, our intolerance has never been unique. We might be unimpressed by the idea of eating snails, but the French can be equally dismissive of faggots.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Ok, you made your point.....everything has to start somewhere I guess.....But potatoes grow here....they don't taste funny(unless they are curried...bleugh)
If I don't like the look of something, i don't put it in my mouth.
I only broke this rule once.....with haggis!
I won't be doing that again.
I am the woman who spent ten days in Hong Kong and only ate English food.
Back to photography (to get us back on track)
I liked the picture of the fat chips as a side order to your burger.....now I could really have eaten those with some mustard!

[maxthecollie]

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Let's get this thread back on track. We went on a stroll from Greenberfield Locks to East Marton today

[Eric]

The day after Canada Day ... am I ever hung over Unlike Turtle's, my Canada Day was more traditional. ... BBQ: Lake trout from Lake Ontario, bambi burgers, spuds and veggies grown in Canada, Canadian wine, beer, rye, and vodka. Good Canadian weed.. Took it easy today and read an old friend ... that would be pic one. No. 2 is an old friend with the hair of the dog. And the rest ... Coons. In one pic, you can see the aromatic smoke from a recovery joint. And that's it for coon pics this year; thought I'd get them out of my system in one swell foop.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Love those critters Eric.

[DtheP47]

Originally Posted by Eric

In one pic, you can see the aromatic smoke from a recovery joint. And that's it for coon pics this year; thought I'd get them out of my system in one swell foop.

You mention the C word Eric, it reminded me of this sheet music I saw in an Amsterdam Flea market a couple of weeks ago. I have been kicking myself ever since for not buying it, getting it framed to hang on my home office

[Margaret Pilkington]

You should always go with your gut instinct when it comes to pictures!

[shillelagh]

this morning ...

Police on the scene after Rising Bridge post office robbed - Rossendale Free Press

[Mick]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

this morning ...

Police on the scene after Rising Bridge post office robbed - Rossendale Free Press

if you needed money for a coffee shillelagh you could have asked I would lend it to you no need to go to that extreme

[maxthecollie]

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A stroll from BallGrove to Wycoller and back yesterday. When we arrived at Ball Grove Car Park. I discovered that my battery on my DSLR Camera was flat so I had to use my Olympus D 750 pocket camera without a viewfinder.So it was pot luck what I took as the sun was shining on the screen and I could not see anything.