Limey's new travel and food critique
 

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Lebanese breakfast and I'd not even left the UK. This very tasty dish, featuring spicy lamb sausage and delivered to my table in its own hot skillets, is what I started my day with at Gatwick airport.

Mr Limey was recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic (ever the follower of fashion, he!) and, while we're not going all-out paleo in our diet, we've been advised to restrict intake of carbohydrates (and substitute brown for white wherever possible). At home this is easy, but travelling ... well ....
I have left Mr Limey at home to look after the cats, but nevertheless I have a heightened awareness of the carbohydrates on my plate now.
I quite like the food on Turkish Airlines (my carrier of choice for many, if not all, of the destinations I get to go to). But with a new, critical eye, I looked at my airline tray (no pics, sorry Sundae!). Green bean and tomato salad for starter (OK!), beef stew and ratatouille with a generous portion of (white, BOO!) rice ... so far not too bad. But also, a brown bread roll, a packet of savoury biscuits (in fact I got two!), and plum cake for dessert. I ate the brown bread roll (with butter, mustn't go too mad!), left half the rice and all the other carbs. But I did have a beer. The air hostess assumed I'd want European, and it took them a little while to find an Efes (Turkish beer) for me.
As I have another Turkish Airlines flight in a couple of hours (currently posting from Istanbul Ataturk airport), perhaps I'll remember to take a pic of the next meal ....

ohmigod that pan of food looks fabulous!

Sorry to hear about Mr L's diagnosis. That must be a bit of a pain.

That food makes even me want to eat.
Although I'd probably leave 2/3.

I don't worry about carbs as my body seems to thrive on them. Although I've had little
bread and no rice or pasta for a while now. Or potatoes. Oh actually I lie. I ate a lot of everything when I was at Mum's for the Bank Holiday. She'd gone out to buy things for me specially.

I think I would like Turkish food. Except for all the bits I had to pick out.

Keep them coming! You let us see parts of the world we never evere would otherwise.

limey - you are truly a woman of international intrigue. please post more

:lol2: It looks awful!..:lol2:

I bet it was delicious.

:)

Sorry I have been remiss. Here is a local beer - very hoppy and quite mild. I'll be happy to drink it again.
And rack of lamb, ribs really, roasted with a slightly spicy rub which I ate with the beer this evening in the hotel restaurant.
And the fruit bowl I had delivered by room service this afternoon.
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I should add I am currently in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

I think they gave me a straw for the beer because I'm a girlie. The Texan (man) who also ordered a beer didn't get a straw.

They gave you a straw because you look so young.
Gorgeous fruit bowl btw (not a euphemism). Nice use of pen to establish scale too, clever girl.

The twisty straw in the beer made me literally LOL... :lol: hahahahhahahahhhahah......

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Tonight's dinner was Kuurdak (mutton, tomatoes, potatoes,onion and bell pepper).
The beer isn't actually 11% by volume, that's what used to be referred to as original gravity, I think. In the small print it say 4% ....
Oh, and no straw tonight. Maybe the bar staff read teh Cellar :eek: !

Did the bendy straw's corrugations make the beer foam on the way up?


Hard to beat meat & spuds...

That looks like very classy expense account chow. :haha:
I'd assume you've traveled in that part of the world enough to know what to avoid and what their secret treasures are.

I like to try the local food. One of the perks and quirks of my travelling gig is that I get a per diem allowance and if I don't spend it all I get to keep the change (less a slice for the taxman). It can be hard finding the line between eating exotic and eating inedible when trying to reasonably economise.

Good old home cooking at a former Soviet holiday camp on Lake Issyl Kul. Here's last night's dinner: chakhochbili (referred to on the internets as "Georgian chicken ragout"). With a side dish of beetroot salad (grated beetroot with crushed garlic and a slug, literally, of sour cream!). Bread, and a bun with a sweet tvorog filling (hey, Ortho, I'm looking at you here ;) ).
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