Google is on your turf.
http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#turkey
This is relevant to at least one members interests....
Landing pages are for one day (or week, or whatever). Top ten lockouts are forever. How the hell do you get to that then?
LOL - yep, I have 'a few' recipe sites.
I am not scared of those bullies at Google - they may have hundreds of phds but I have magic elves to help me :)
Quote from: TallTroll on November 25, 2010, 09:59:18 PM
Landing pages are for one day (or week, or whatever). Top ten lockouts are forever.
Interesting to see the level of residual links that are acquired by placing a link on the google.com homepage for one day
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/uk/siteexplorer/search?p=www.google.com%2Flanding%2Fthanksgiving%2F&bwm=i&bwmf=u&bwms=p&fr2=seo-rd-se#turkey
So I get this page ranking 3 for "Thanksgiving Recipes" recipes today. G HP link is gone, but will the residual links and domain authority keep it up there? Maybe
> Surely these are Yorkshire puddings
Yeah, we call those popovers here.
My mother-in-law is English and she makes Yorkshire puddings. If there's any difference, it's that she cooks them in a pool of oil at the bottom of each tin. Popovers are more dry. Not that I'm Jamie Oliver or anything.
My mom always made yorkshire pudding in one big pan, not individual cups... I never saw an individual-size pudding until I went over to the UK. hehe
But popovers are always single-serving muffin-type things, afaik.
I have made Yorkshire pudding a couple times after cooking a prime rib and I just used a couple big cast iron skillets with the drippings from the meat. Awesome stuff. There are a few good things that come out of the UK.
JasonD, me, yorkshire puddings, wife beater (Stella Artois) - wait Stella is french right?
Tramp Fuel hehe
Beater, well known the land over
Quoteyorkshire pudding in one big pan,
Stick in a few Cumberland sausages, and you have toad-in-the-hole. We had it monday night :)
Quote from: Rupert on December 01, 2010, 10:42:08 PM
Stick in a few Cumberland sausages, and you have toad-in-the-hole. We had it monday night :)
Ahh, but my mom's a vegetarian, and always made the pudding with butter instead of drippings... don't think she'd've gone for the sausage idea. ;) Unless she used the gawdawful vegetarian sausages she used to like. :-X
Quotebutter instead of drippings.
Ah well, not as bad as oil. A bit like using anything other than goose fat for roast potatoes.
Hey 4eyes, you getting all this?
It is how they do them in Cumbria isn't it? In a spiral.
But My local butcher does a spicyish sausage he calls Cumbrian, which is quite fat. I am sure that is what the supermarkets do too. (yuk)
> drippings, not oil
Ah, that's surely what my mum-in-law uses then. She does use a muffin tin.
She's from Surrey. I don't know if that makes them proper or not. :)
Crap, is this out in the open? she's probably reading!
All I know is that I always enjoy spending the holidays at their house because it involves crackers, mincemeat pies, and christmas pudding shipped from Marks and Spencer (they're in Connecticut now).
> "dripping" not "drippings"
excellent, I learned something today, and it's only 5:40 am. (up with the 2 year old and the dev team in India)
> mincemeat in the US
Yes we do, though I wouldn't say it's a terribly popular dessert choice.
Certainly above your Christmas pudding on the list though.
(though I enjoy both, catapulting me straight to the top of the favorite son-in-law list)
QuoteHey 4eyes, you getting all this?
Sure - there is so much on-topic text here, I'd try spamming a link from this thread if it wasn't for the fact that I don't want you guys finding my multi-million pound network of recipe spam sites.
:ahem:
... yorkshire pudding my a**e - the only true on-dessert pudding is 'black pudding'
Did y'all know that we have a member here who has appeared on TV in the World Black Pudding throwing championships?
Nah - thought you didn't!
Can't do that - the person concerned might want to preserve their anonymity - this kind of international fame can ruin a persons life.
...... however, if she reads this at her secret training camp in Alaska, perhaps the person concerned will be be prepared to reveal her identity.
QuoteDoes "this person" eat Black Pudding though
Yes indeed - as I recall she is quite fond of gourmet pigs blood based food.
The ides behind the Black Pudding throwing competition is to throw black puddings at stacks of Yorkshire puddings - the ultimate 'food fight' Wars of the Roses :)
This is turning into a Harry Hill moment
This may indeed be true Jason. but my experiments with hotpot throwing shows that it lacks the range and penetration of a solid Bury Black Pudding.
Harry Hill moment or not, this is a genuine event :)
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRO30PWQEc
hxxp://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2004/09/13/black_pudding_throwing_feature.shtml
Actually its in Ramsbottom (or as the locals know it 'Tupsarse')
*ahem* Thankfully, Alaska is far enough away from the "real" world, it's easy enough to avoid fame up here. ;D And yes, I've been known to eat the stuff and enjoy it. :) As time goes on and more good beers become available up here, I find two of the top things I look forward to visiting the UK for are black pudding and haggis.
Yes, I may be mentally unstable, but that's OK. I like myself just the way I am. :P
That said, and speaking of completely random food-related things I've been known to do, my alarm has just gone off to let me know it's time to leave work and head over to the local greek restaurant to pick up a large tin of Cretan olive oil... toodles!
Quote from: JasonD on December 01, 2010, 07:42:10 PM
Wife beater is as accepted and embraced into our culture as tramp p##s (Super Tennants)
I always thought that Carlsberg Special was wife beater. Maybe it was legopener. My wife calls what we in the UK call vests, wife beaters. She calls waistcoats, vests!
Quote from: JasonD on January 16, 2011, 06:24:00 PM
Talking of which I've never understood why every North American I know and have worked with "in a business environment" always wears a t shirt under a shirt!
When I asked about that years ago when I was sweltering in the humidity of a New York summer, I was told that the t-shirt soaked up the sweat so that the shirt still looked dry. I tried it maybe a couple of times but maybe I just sweat more than a NYer. Half the time I just wore a Breacan with nae knickers to keep kewl.
Quote...... I think I sweat more than an 25 stone prostitute working next door to a boys boarding school in Abu Dhabi
That is gross.
and that surprises you because?......
Jason, no more detail please. My mind is adding enough without any more help.
I think it is due more to staining from perspiration and chaffing. T-shirts are cheap compared to dress shirts to replace. Almost universal air conditioning, or places with cooler climate, makes it easier to get by without a t-shirt, but back before A/C hot humid days were brutal.
The thing is cotton does not work so well in hot humid climates because once it gets wet it stays wet. (Cotton works great in Arizona where hot and dry.) Cotton was the best we had, but now the new synthetic "wicking" t-shirts are much better.
>metaphor
That is now seared into my brain-pan. I'll never be the same again.