Great to hear from you! Thanks for taking time out to update us.
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Pies from the farmers market. One rabbit, the other homity. We’ll have them with chips and, probably, peas. That’s Brit chips, not Yank chips.
Pies are hard wired into the DNA of we northwesterners. As are chips for that matter. We did invent fish & chips, after all. First documented for sale in 1863, in the town of Mossley - about 30 minutes drive from me, on the eastern side of the metro area.
As for those pies, the World Pie Eating Championship is held in Wigan, another town in the metro area. As the joke about the town runs - “What’s a Wigan kebab? Three pies on a stick.”
Then there’s the pie barm - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/pie-barm-twitter-wigan-kebab
Yes, we take our pies seriously in these parts.
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GREAT to hear from you!!!
My ex-BIL is from/still lives in Wigan. We visited him and my SIL twice and the first thing I remember seeing as we pulled into town was “The Pie Shop.” I know they meant business.
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I love this article! But the best line was this: “Pies are always fully encased in pastry, none of this slop with a crust only on top. They can be meat and potato or steak. If you’re vegetarian you can have a chicken pie, I suppose.”
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thanks. will do as soon as I can get myself together.
Driving to and from home to ophthalmologist took 2-3 hours one way and had to do it twice plus immediate post op visits and in between.
That as well as my son wanting to have new surgery for back problem, not yet approved and traveling to Germany to see surgeon as well as to different surgeons in US was taking lots of my time. No surgery as yet. BCBS will not pay for it, still arg ing with them.
I did not know there is a special 'gardening thread for 2019"
Will try to look for it
Our local one is called “Lord of the Pies”. I lurve puns
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I will post some of my harvest in a short while
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Hi ccj, the vegetables garden link is here if you need it.
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I scanned some of your meals quickly, and very glad to hear from @ccj.
Flew from Hong Kong to Korea since Tuesday, dinner was at the Gwangjang market tonight, we tried 2 different stalls.
First stall was pork feet
Dumplings with kimchi and green vegetables
Assortment of sausages, including blood sausages
The second stand was pancakes
The two Koreans sat next to us were quite funny, kept pouring us Makgeolli and talked to us about everything politics, travel, etc. Not 100% sure what they said but it was fun as they tried to teach us to drink alcohol in Korean style, and another pair of Korean arrived saying soju was much better than with 17% alcohol than the makgeolli which is 6%. Mr n was served all the time, very hospitalic ppl and loves alcohol. But I am afraid the wife of one of the Koreans won’t be happy that he was so drunk 
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Early dinner. These are from the bakery where we became friends with the owners last year. The middle one is a cracker-like crust stuffed with ground beef, not sure what it’s called. The bottom one is often called a Chinese hamburger, I’m going to say it is Sichuan in origin. The top one is a meat pie. We’re actually leaving for Ningxia tomorrow to attend the bakery owner’s son’s wedding. Should be interesting.
Late dinner: Cold veggies, green beans and eggplant. Also, grilled lamb meat and fat.
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That’s the difference between being a traveler and a tourist! It’s wonderful that you’ve been able to meet people and connect in that way. So many folks don’t have a chance to take the time and interact one on one when visiting other areas. The wedding should be quite interesting.
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I love muslim food in China. Your “burger” looks so much better than mine flying from PEK to CTU (Chengdu). Basically just the bun and a few slices of meat.
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Your salad inspired my lunch today - tuna and cannelini bean with kale and scallions in a mustardy ramp, rosemary, and thyme vinaigrette.
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yes! The Proverbial Shit-Ton of Butter! aka TPSTOB™!
come on everybody, get with the program!
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omg so much amazing food! keep it coming!
The UK’s Vegetarian Society held its first meeting in Manchester in 1848. It still has its headquarters in the metro area - albeit in the leafy suburb of Altrincham, just down the road from me, not the pie eaters’ paradise of Wigan. But I bet if you ask most northwesterners about vegetarianism, you’ll get a quizzical look which asks " But wouldnt that mean not having a bacon butty?".
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