CATALONIA ? Who Cares ?

One could always help Hoist the Sails of the Sloop John B (an unabashed plug)

Wooden ships on the water very free...

You're fat shaming the bunny because he can no longer fit in his safe space.  So triggered.

As expected the fat shaming continues... 

Luckily the bunny has created a generous enough safe space here

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/fatgainers-chat-room-the-only-legitimate-chat-room

I think I belong there for now, I've been storing some extra fuel here and there. 

I saw some of the dishes in there...

batgirl I'd like to share my special lamb & peas stew recipe with you:

 Lightly fry some onions and lamb (or mutton) in a pot until golden brown - season with a little salt.

 Add minced garlic (and ginger), diced bell pepper, and cayenne pepper powder and let it fry up a bit.

 Gradually add in small amounts of water just to brase the meat until it's soft.

 When meat is soft, throw in a large amount of peas and add a small amount of water to begin stewing.

 Season with some basil, thyme, and origanum.

 lastly, when the peas is halfway done pour in a good dose of sour cream, season with salt and pepper, and simmer until ready.

 Try to keep water at a minimum throughout, which means frequent stirring and gradual additions of water 👈

🎅

Since I'm a vegetarian, I would never eat a little lamb  but you also managed to find possibly the only vegetable I don't like:  sugar peas. 

What is it with people and peas...I love the taste of peas. I'm sorry about the meat though, I obviously weren't aware you were a vegetarian, but I sort of guessed it... I think it's the sense compassion you give off.

I haven't had meat in a while myself. I don't really like stewing vegetables, I prefer them raw or stirfryed.

Edit 

Or roasted. Every pirate likes roasted veggies, starting with corn and potatoes.

My favorite vegetable is brussel sprouts, another one of those that people either love or hate.  I eat veggies raw, sautéed, oven fried, roasted, steamed … all depending on the vegetable and the tools available. 

I don't think I've had those. I should very much like to try them soon 😁. They sort of look like baby cabbages.

Anyway, it's nice to know your favourite vegetable.

If I had to choose one, I would say mine is milies (yellow white maize corn) - boiled in slightly salted water. Yum yum, corn on the cob.

I'd never heard the term milies before.  I feel a lot smarter now.

All corn is good to me. 

Corn and Brussel sprouts almost sound like a good combination to me... that's if sprouts taste anything like asparagus or gem squash.

They don't.  Brussel sprouts are distinctive. I like to either sauté them with onions or cut them in half and roast them with olive oil.  Squash, particularly what we call crook-neck or yellow squash is also one of my favorites. I usually steam squash. I often season it with different spices and honey. Like potatoes, squash is like a blank canvas. 

I never thought of it that way. It's beautiful. I've definitely done a variety of things with potatoes.

And thanks for the Brussel sprout tip. Have you ever tried yam before? They're not exactly everyone's taste, or even common for that matter, but I like them.

I think it's pretty safe to call these exotic:

They're more like a cuisine than anything else, but blank slate foods remind me of these. It doesn't get more blank than these yams, and yet they have a deliciously subtle flavor when they're served cold and are of the dry variety.

Definitely food for a pirate 😉

I fix sweet potatoes, of course, but yams I usually buy canned and candied (if they are, in fact, yams and not sweet potatoes being passed off as yams). 

This has become the non-Catalonian cooking Thread.

Aiy, me bad captain. But what's more pirate than discussing food when out at sea 😁.

Thanks for treating with me... signing out (waves crashing).

Drinking grog, I suppose.