Folk Song and Cooking!

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 07:57 PM

McGrath: Sorry, gentille. No goyish omelets in this house.

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 06:36 PM

Now, you've done it! You have uncovered another of my passions, the others being the arts, the outdoors and the obvious. I do nearly all the cooking in our house. I spent over 30 years in the wine and food business, and can't seem to shed the need to express myself in the kitchen. While there are countless songs that refer to foods or are sung in praise thereof, I'm having trouble recollecting a food-related song that I can actually do while cooking. It would have to be a capella, since I need my hands for other things.

On the other hand, a glass or two of wine can lead to limitless possibilities... Have some Madeira, M'dear?

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 06:26 PM

gentile?

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Joe_F
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 09:00 PM

While making breakfast I often sing

Omelette, gentile omelette,
Omelette, je te mangerai.
Je te mangerai les oeufs, etc.

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Tangledwood
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:59 PM

Tim, do you deliver?

If you haven't already heard it, listen to Nicole Murray's (Cloudstreet) "The Wooden Spoon".

Wooden Spoon

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:15 PM

As Adam McNaughton put it

Cholesterol, Cholesterol
My chance o' surviving is small
The way that I dine I'm on course for angina
But I love my cholesterol

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Spot
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 05:57 PM

Hallloo everybody..

                   Saturday night in with wife... Haunch of venison roasting with cloves and apples... purple sprouting broccoli..chanteray carrots...fresh garden peas... Jersey mids ( when I can get em!!)....   (Empty stomach and a few Brakspears Oxford ales during the procedure!!).    O aye, an Bob Fox wafting in from living room....      Oh my, that is living, thank you!!


                Regards to all, as ever...Spot :-)

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: maire-aine
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 04:25 PM

I'd say I'm more of a baker than a cook. Cakes & cookies are more my line.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 04:23 PM

And hence my growing number of songs about chocolate!

LTS

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Charmion
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 11:23 AM

You call that a problem? I call that one of the reasons for sticking with the tradition!

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: GUEST,Bob L
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 08:15 AM

I find that some records, or even just tracks, awake particular cravings in me. I cannot, for example, listen to "A Tale of Ale" for long without a tankard in hand, and as for Hamish Moore's "South Bank of the Spey"...

Anyone else have this problem?

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 07:54 AM

I hate cooking

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: breezy
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 06:03 AM

Tom Bliss has a composition that would be of interest to you.

It is a recipe and prep instructions

The vocabulary is of, and this is the clever part,                                                                                                   place names, mainly English, I heard it on Monday.

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: GUEST,baz parkes
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 04:25 AM

me :-))

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 03:42 AM

Oh and to make it a musical thread - I sing when I'm cooking...

LTS

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 03:41 AM

I spent many years working in catering and still love to put on a big dinner... I love to cook and I love to experiment... but I hate watching certain family members smother it in mustard, sauce or seasonings without tasting it. I might just as well serve up a plate of sauce. I swear if I boiled the contents of the cat litter tray and put brown sauce on it, he'd eat it.

I'm also at a loss when it comes to different meals. Certain family members don't like many vegetables and refuse to try anything different.

Still at least they're not so rigid as my parents... you could tell what day of the week it was by what lunch was served.

Sunday, roast pork or chicken, veggies, roast potatoes.
Monday, cold leftover roast pork or chicken with fry up of leftover veggies from Sunday, boiled potatoes.
Tuesday, stew made from any remaining roast pork or chicken with boiled potatoes.
Wednesday - market day/shopping, canned vegetable soup or tinned ham with boiled potatoes.
Thursday, beans on toast.
Friday, tinned ham, boiled potatoes.
Saturday, chips, sausages, baked beans.

I still remember 25+ years after leaving home.... and can hardly face a plain boiled potato even now!

LTS

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 03:06 AM

I do, certainly. Absolutely hate following rigid recipes. I mostly like Middle Eastern, Caucasian and Ukranian cooking.

Subject: RE: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 01:29 AM

My husband does all the cooking in our house. I know I love good food and I know he cooks it. I know my brother in law can't remember one meal to the next which appals my sistert (his wife0 and me hugely........food is sooooooo important.....

Subject: Folk Song and Cooking!
From: RTim
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 07:47 PM

There is probably (except my Wife and family) two thingsthat are very important to me - Folk Song & Music and COOKING!
I wondered how many other Mudcatters have the same interests?
I even write every night in my diary what I have cooked, and have many years records to look back on. In a similaar way, if I sing somewhere, I write down what I performed, so that next time I sing in the same place, I don't repeat myself - something I learnt from Vin Garbutt years ago!!
I try not to repeat myself when cooking also - as I find the same thing over and over again can be a little boring...

Tim Radford
(Who cooked pan seared Pork Chop served with Spinach and Garlic and Couscous with thyme and peas tonight)