I'm all for curry too!

I can either cook fajitas one night or lunch, OR I can take on the persona of sandwich chef, bring my panini maker and rustle up some awesome paninis for lunch one/both days.

I'll volunteer to be a breakfast sous-chef too.

I second curry on Saturday night.

Can I vote for Scott's Japanese food on Sunday night?

Graham

I'm happy to cook for one slot: Thai green curry, meatballs in sauce, home made burgers (might be good for lunch), etc.

In fact, why don't I do home made burgers for one lunch?

Also: highly dubious about Japanese, as I have a seafood allergy. Sorry.

Cheers
Malcolm

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I'm anti seafood too, but I don't think japanese has to equate to fish!

I sense someone needs to make a decision, and I'm actually quite drunk, so let me try.

Friday evening: Bolognese alla Stokesa

Saturday breakfast: Traditional Stokes breakfast

Saturday lunch: Craig Burgers

Saturday dinner: Curry

Sunday breakfast: Bacon And Eggs Stokes Style

Sunday lunch: Fajita Kenricci

Sunday Evening: Dorwarde Japanese No Seafood

As I say, I'm slightly pissed, so do correct me if that's rubbish.

Graham

Are you always slightly pissed Graham? And that sounds splendid to me, although I notice your skillet will go unused ...

The meal I was planning is entirely fish-free, or at least it will be if I leave the bonito flakes out of the stock. It's called Parent and Child, and involves chicken and egg cooked in mirin (sweetened Sake). I'll probably also do some miso soup as a starter. Does this appeal?

If I get time, I'll also bake some cookies or shortbread to bring along.

Yum! Miso soup! Although Parent and Child sounds ever so slightly sinister, like something you might find in a Dead of Night scenario.

That's why I like it: it's tasty _and_ sardonic. Who could ask for more?

I will happily lend hand in anyway I can. I can be a bit of a morning person so will happily help out with breakfasts. I can even whip up some pancakes with bacon and maple syrup if required. Will need to get supplies when I get there though.

Cheers

Iain

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I would like to endorse the Walmsley Menu. Drunk or otherwise.

Oh, and coffee. Not instant, French roast if possible, strong. I cannot stress this point strongly enough. There will be a coffee maker of somekind, won't there?

Cheers
Malcolm

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If there's no coffee maker, I'll happily bring a cafetiere.

Andrew, I'm not often drunk; it's just that when I do have a pint or two, I like to post on the Internet when I get home. This is not always a good thing.

Graham

Beer + internet = the perfect combination to me!

Walmsley menu it is then. That sounds ideal.

Graham, yes, bring a cafetière. I doubt there will be such facilities at the cottage. (although I might be wrong)

What about things like teabags, milk and the like?

Also, what are we doing with paying for food - are we splitting the costs between us?

First:

If you want to make sure it's there, bring it yourself or make sure someone does. Tea bags, coffee, sugar, lavender scented soap etc. bring them yourself.

Second: If you are cooking, bring everything you need. That means, yes, you're buying all the ingredients. Which, yes, will be expensive for the people cooking. Which would be rubbish if this was not addressed.

People buying food:

Malcolm - Burgers
Andrew - Fajitas
Scott - Scary Chicken
Claire - Spag Bol
Rich - Breakfasts

So not buying food is:

Iain
Janos
James
Graham

The idea is to make sure these guys buy about the same value of stuff as everyone else, without getting anally retentive about it.

So if you're NOT cooking anything or buying ingredients, you need to make that up somehow. I'm tempted to say "buy beer/wine/whatever for the people who do cook", but that seems a little unfair. Slightly fairer might be that those not cooking or buying ingredients pay for the curry on Saturday night? But again, a bit likely to be unfair.

What strikes me as better might be:

Iain, split the cost of burger stuffs with Malcolm.

James splits the cost of Scary Chicken with Scott.

Janos splits the cost of the Fajitas with Andrew.

Graham gives Claire something towards the Spag Bol.

I'll cover breakfast. HOPEFULLY there will be enough left over from people's contributions to cover that without me getting totally bankrupted.

Does that sound OK?

Everyone brings their own booze.

Everyone pays for their own curry (Except me, who'll inevitably end up paying for Claire's too ;)

I bring mucho Milk.

If there's anything left out (ie, which we realise we don't have on Friday evening) we can pop to Long Buckby and pick it up before we get pissed.

Sounds all nice and friendly!

I've asked Janos to pop his head in about his allergy - it's not as simple as wheat though, but I always get it muddled so best leave it to him to explain!

He emailed to correct me last night, it's actually dairy and not wheat so much.

He said pasta was fine for example, but that he wouldn't be adding cheese to his. Although I got the impression that a small amount of butter or whatever used in cooking wouldn't be a problem. Just no milkshakes.

Hopefully he will confirm that/correct me!

Since I'm bringing the cafetiere, let me also bring coffee and tea.

I'll also bring great fucking bucketloads of wine. Well, a few bottles.

I'm happy to chip in for Claire's spag bol: if she'll accept a bottle of wine in exchange, even better, otherwise she can have a tenner or whatever.

Graham

This all sounds great - I'm certainly happy with splitting cost of Fajita's with Andrew and chipping in for curry/drinks etc to cover my not buying food.

I'm also more then happy to line-chef if anyone wants help with their cooking; I can chop, slice, mix, boil...whatever is required. Plus of course washing up duty.

Just to confirm my allergies - yes my primary one is dairy. However small amounts of milk/butter/etc used in cooking isn't going to bother me - I just shouldn't eat raw cheese, drink milkshakes and so on. I'll be bringing soya milk/butter for my tea/toast anyway so its there if anyone wants to use it, but generally don't worry - I won't die ;-)

Otherwise the food all looks great, both from the persepctive of my allergies, and yummy deliciousness.