Steak in creamy mushroom sauce....

Sounds good, but as I had an appointment with my GP today re. the results of my blood test, it's off limits for me!

Phoenix hope all is well with you. How is the job hunting going?

Bags that sounds lovely especially the caramelised onions. We went out with one of my husband's (very) old university friends for lunch. We had chicken satay skewers followed by chorizo hash with a poached egg on top. It was delicious. Downside was the old friend's wife who had verbal diarrohea (sp) so I was exhausted by the time we got home. Supper was a lovely glass of wine and Philadelphia cheese on black pepper biscuits as I was too tired to think of anything else.

Hi kittylester job hunting not brilliant, to be honest!

I have lost count of what I have applied for, only had 1 interview so far and didn't get the job.

I had appointments with 3 agencies on Tuesday, all 3 said that they didn't think I would be on the market very long, but they also all said they had nothing suitable at present!

However 1 in particular seems to be very proactive, she gave me a call today to say that she had been in touch with some of her clients that didn't even have current vacancies, as she feels that when it comes to sales positions, some firms will create a vacancy for the right person. She was so complimentary about me, both on a personal and professional level, I was quite "made up"!

Bagitha sorry for the thread hijack, back to your yummy sounding dinner!

Sounds lovely, too late for tonight, we are having chicken in creamy mustard sauce with new potatoes and stir fried greens. May do the caramelised onions tomorrow,yummy

No steak for DH and me , we read somewhere it doesn"t help BP . Something to do with it it being a bit hard to digest and "sitting" in the stomach . Missed though , but get used to everything in time

Meat, including steak, is easier to digest than cabbage, or any other vegetable matter. That's why carnivores have shorter digestive tracts than herbivores.

nonuand all the "research" done recently about red meat was about processed red meat as in burgers etc. If you looked hard, in the papers that published the story, it was written in small letters somewhere "this research doesn't include non processed meat, such as steaks and meat joints". Remember when they told us to switch to "vegetable oil spread" instead of butter? In now transpires that the transfats used in the production of the so called healthier spreads are much worse for us than the natural fat found in butter. Beware of what you "read somewhere". A bit of what you fancy, (unless proper medical opinion forbids it) can't harm you.

kitty Chorizo mash sounds delish I think I will have a go at that,and bags I do like a good steak I buy mine from Costco butcher Aberdeen Angus and have always been more than happy with it.

But meat stays in the gut, putrefying, for a long time - doesn't it?

We never had steak at home when I was growing up (too expensive I suppose) so I first tasted it with a rich boyfriend (a bit of a wide boy actually) who used to take me out to dinner in his E-type and we'd have steak with all the trimmings and a bottle of Mateus Rose or Blue Nun!

When I got married (NOT to dreadful wide boy) we ate really well but I never bought steak (again, too expensive). But now, in our dotage, I regularly buy fillet steaks from M&S and they never, ever disappoint. Yummy with cream, brandy and pink peppercorns stirred into the steak juices just before serving.

jackOh the memories of a bottle of Blue Nun and using the empty bottles from Mateus Rose for candle decorations on the tables at the late night cafe bar we used to go to when we where just to young to go to the clubs legally

No, ariadne. Meat is digested quickly and doesn't putrify in the gut at all. The pepsin in the stomach starts the process and trypsin in the small intestine continues it. Proteins take longer to be broken down into their constituent amino acids than simple carbohydrates take to break down into sugars, but that's why a protein meal will 'last' you longer than a high carbohydrate one.

Herbivores, on the other hand, have things like fermenting chambers (extra stomachs) to deal with the very difficult to digest cellulose of their diets.

My son in law refuses to eat pork because he read somewhere that it sits, undigested, in your stomach for 3 weeks! He has lots of funny ideas!!

Oh, OK. But I still prefer not to eat it!

That's fine of course. Your choice. Just so long as you don't keep believing people who tell you meat is difficult to digest, since it isn't true.

Adriane agree with you

Bags of course not; I know that you are an expert in many areas.
Anyway, my decision not to eat meat is based on other factors, about which I prefer not to evangelicize! My choice.

Basic biology is hardly expert!

There are a lot of non-expert myths around concerning nutrition.

Koalas eat nothing but eucalyptus leaves and have to spend almost their entire day either eating or sitting about digesting their food. The rest of their time is spent growling at each other - they have very bad tempers because of their chronic indigestion.

There's a lovely bit (one of many!) in one of David Attenborough's programmes. He is talking about a sloth. He comments on its slowness and says: "This is what happens to you when you eat only leaves".

Think I'll leave it there.

ariadne .

It was back to the steak for us yesterday so that visiting DD could have some. She liked it too. It is delicious, even when I overdo the cream a bit . Roast chicken tonight. Yum.