Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Dholes with Sole




Team members
❅ Cat
❅ Danielle
❅ Sarah
❅ Katie
❅ Pat
❅ Marie

Team Spreadsheet

Status Sheet

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Ohhh lookie, another team trouble!

Soooo, are you meals going to be wrath inducing? Or ignite the inner fire?

Sonia wrote: "Ohhh lookie, another team trouble!

Soooo, are you meals going to be wrath inducing? Or ignite the inner fire?"

Entirely possible. Like pizzas with fruit on them, for a start! that always winds people up (for the record: WRONG! fruit has no home on a pizza)

Plus, we are the Dholes from Wobble, so expect some raw meat and large haunches!

Cat wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Ohhh lookie, another team trouble!

Soooo, are you meals going to be wrath inducing? Or ignite the inner fire?"

Entirely possible. Like pizzas with fruit on them, for a start! that a..."

How about Brownies?! 😉

Well... I'm the one that liked peaches and pineapple on her chicken salad...

You know... like this:

Sonia wrote: "Well... I'm the one that liked peaches and pineapple on her chicken salad..."

argh! nooooo! in general I abhor sweet fruit in my savoury foods. I pick out sultanas from couscous, for instance. As a pescatarian I can avoid the questions like "duck a l'orange"; duck with cherries; duck with etc etc (why's it always duck that gets foisted with fruit?!) then I heard of a "classic" dish of sole with grapes and had to go lie down in a darkened room for a bit!

Sonia wrote: "Well... I'm the one that liked peaches and pineapple on her chicken salad..."

That’s just too much mixing of food groups.

Like original cornish pasties as taken down t'pits back in the day: half with the mince & veg and half with pudding. Imagine if you bit into the wrong end first! Also, the pudding half would still have been made with savoury style pastry, surely? glad I didn't have to endure it!

I love raisins and nuts ANYWHERE

And apples and berries and peaches and grapes are great additions to summer salads.

Eni doesn't like fruit, so I need to have the extra step to not cross contaminate food, hence I don't do it as often...

And yes, I like fruit in pizza too.

But I'm weird since I'm not a fan of pepperoni

*sits munching on a coronation chicken sandwich she just made. With sultanas!*

But fruit can be soooo delicious in a savoury meal. Pork & apple casserole, sweet & sour chicken, lemon chicken, chicken & pineapple pizza. chicken goes really well with fruit, lol.

And since tomatoes are a fruit too, that would be about 2/3 of my repertoire out the window :P

Sonia wrote: "And yes, I like fruit in pizza too.

But I'm weird since I'm not a fan of pepperoni"

Ditto! Love salami, chorizo and pretty much everything else, but pepperoni has a horrible aftertaste...

I'm Portuguese... we have tons of different chorizo variations... pepperoni is not a good one.

Sonia wrote: "I'm Portuguese... we have tons of different chorizo variations... pepperoni is not a good one."

Remind me to move Portugal up on the "places I need to visit" list ;)

Cat wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Well... I'm the one that liked peaches and pineapple on her chicken salad..."

argh! nooooo! in general I abhor sweet fruit in my savoury foods. I pick out sultanas from couscous, for..."


sole with grapes is delicious our local pub used to include melon and strawberries with salad it was a big hit

Sammy wrote: "Sonia wrote: "I'm Portuguese... we have tons of different chorizo variations... pepperoni is not a good one."

Remind me to move Portugal up on the "places I need to visit" list ;)"

You mean it wasn't on the top 5 already?! Pshhh..

Nothing wrong with pineapple on a pizza... Sultanas on the other hand are abominations.

i have just read the instructions about filling in the google sheets- i got lost at fresh and frozen = I am off with a damp cloth to lie in a darkened room. Cat and Danielle it is over to you

I think it will come OK in the end. I think we'll want to bung in an extra column or two to note down spell out letters and food&drink mentions, so we can work out our spread of options for meals.

Did we decide on a team name? and restaurant name (obvs could be the same if we are uninspired!)

Options for team Name / Restaurant name

Sarah Suggested Dholes with Sole
Pat Dholes Dragging dinner home, or Kitchen NIghtmares
Cat Dholes Diner
I will put in The Dhole Domaine - maybe as restaurant name

Are there any more suggestions

Personally I like Dholes with Sole for team name we could use one of the others for Restaurant name what does anyone think

Yes, on it be useful have those extra columns.

As for name, I don’t mind really. I can never come up with team names.

I really wanna be Dholes with Sole. Let's do that one. Then we could call the restaurant The Sole Food Diner".

Cat wrote: "Plus, we are the Dholes from Wobble, so expect some raw meat and large haunches!..."

We are legends in the raw meat department, for real and true. LOL

ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell

Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P

Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

lovely

Sonia wrote: "Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

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This made my morning. LOL

Judith wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

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This made my morning. LOL"

It was too much of a good line to resist

*giggles*

I feel the need to point out that my hair is (slightly) better cut than that!

I'm pretty sure your fashion sense is better as well.

But it would be cool if you had your own battle cat.

Judith wrote: "I'm pretty sure your fashion sense is better as well.

But it would be cool if you had your own battle cat."

That it would! We never watched much He-Man when we were growing up, but did have a LOT of Thunder-thunder-thundercat! and also Dogtanian (woof woof!)

I watched He-Man, She-Ra and Thundercats.

Also Defenders of the Earth, which curious enough, I'm the only one on my age range that remembers it!

I had to google Dogtanian. We had that one too. We called it Dartacão.

Cão = Dog.

Judith wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

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This made my morning. LOL"

What she said!

Though I suspect we're showing our age here, lol.

Sammy wrote: "Judith wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Cat wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "ok lets go with dholes with sole and the sole diner who do we tell"

I have the power to make the changes! ;-P"

"

This made my morning...."

Oh I don't know.... He-man, Thundercats and even She-ra had not long ago remakes.

My niece checked a few episodes of She-ra and the princesses of power on Netflix.

Cat wrote: "Judith wrote: "I'm pretty sure your fashion sense is better as well.

But it would be cool if you had your own battle cat."

That it would! We never watched much He-Man when we were growing up, but did have a LOT of Thunder-thunder-thundercat! and also Dogtanian (woof woof!)."

Muskehounds are always ready.

Sonia wrote: "I had to google Dogtanian. We had that one too. We called it Dartacão.

Cão = Dog."

I suspect the puns on The Three Musketeers is more than somewhat lost in translation :(

Nope. We got that too.

Musketeers translates as Mosqueteiros

So we had Dartacão and the three Moscãoteiros

Awesome!

Just had a check when this one starts, as I couldn’t quite remember exactly.
4 days and some hours

Still so long to go!

A heads up : we've incentivised the BOMs again. Though I'll understand if the first one doesn't excite (Chain of Gold). October's adult one is Circe, which I absolutely don't mind rereading (esp as it works as a one book option for SRC 15 point task)

I’m not sure on Chain of Gold.
Circe is on scribd (I think), so I’ll probably read that one and I already have Truly Devious, the YA one from the last round of uno that I didn’t read then.

I've put a hold on Circe at the library, don't mind reading it again. I'll probably try to do the other two.

I'm patiently sitting on a library book with vinegar in it. I will not start it until we're off!

And I've just requested access to the team spreadsheet as I can't even view it.

i really am not a lover of the books of the month. I find the questions wind me up. I will try to do at least one but it just isnt the way i read noemally

ETA offered to do DQs for Truly Devious

may join in circe but need to find a different fit in SRC and have read before

Don't worry too much about the BOMs - it just gives us more flexibility with getting the right customers, really.

Everyone ready for the start tomorrow? Kick-off is 10pm UK time, so realistically I'm not going to be starting any books until Sunday morning - and that'l include Chain of Gold (the first BOM)

As the best books for this challenge will be longer ones, I've a few chunksters, which I am hoping have sufficient food words! The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages and Steel Crow Saga among my planned books. Turf Wars might start suffering...

oh, Sarah's comment reminds me: can everyone access the sheet?
request access through the sheet if you can't.

I know it looks horrendous, but you only really need to add information to the Books Read tab, and then we'll discuss every so often what meals we want to make, to keep on top of that as a group :)