A variety of tomato with large red fruits with good flavour. It is an indeterminate variety. The tomatoes are ideal for slicing and cooking.
A small, bright red chilli with a pointed tip which is used dried. It is very hot and used to flavour vinegars and sauces, comparable to a cayenne pepper. Heat = 8.
Decaffeinated drrinks are caffeinated drinks, teas, coffees etc, from which the caffeine has been removed. This can occur by the use of a number of processes. To quote Wikipedia, "The process is usually performed on unroasted (green) beans, and starts with steaming of the beans. They are then rinsed with a solvent that contains as much of the chemical composition of coffee as possible without also containing the caffeine in a soluble form. The process is repeated anywhere from 8 to 12 times until it meets either the international standard of having removed 97% of the caffeine in the beans or the EU standard of having the beans 99.9% caffeine free by mass. Coffee contains over 400 chemicals important to the taste and aroma of the final drink; this makes it challenging to remove only caffeine while leaving the other chemicals at their original concentrations. Coffea arabica normally contains about half the caffeine of Coffea robusta. A Coffea arabica bean containing little caffeine was discovered in Ethiopia in 2004."
Decaffeinated coffee is that from which the caffeine has been removed. This can occur by the use of a number of processes. To quote Wikipedia, "The process is usually performed on unroasted (green) beans, and starts with steaming of the beans. They are then rinsed with a solvent that contains as much of the chemical composition of coffee as possible without also containing the caffeine in a soluble form. The process is repeated anywhere from 8 to 12 times until it meets either the international standard of having removed 97% of the caffeine in the beans or the EU standard of having the beans 99.9% caffeine free by mass. Coffee contains over 400 chemicals important to the taste and aroma of the final drink; this makes it challenging to remove only caffeine while leaving the other chemicals at their original concentrations. Coffea arabica normally contains about half the caffeine of Coffea robusta. A Coffea arabica bean containing little caffeine was discovered in Ethiopia in 2004."
False bolete. Edible but not of the quality of the true boletus.
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the western calendar> The month in which Christmas falls on 25th and which is midwinter in the northern hemisphere.
Blade meat. A sub-primal cut of the beef primal rib. It is the lean flesh overlying the rib eye and ribs.
The Christmas edition of The Lancet (Vol 364:9452, December 18-31 2004) carried an article by David S Morrison and Mark Petticrew entitled "Deep and crisp and eaten: Scotland's deep-fried Mars bar". In 1995 the Scottish Daily Record cited the deep-fried Mars bar as typifying Scotland's diet. Morrison and Petticrew conducted a telephone survey in June 2004 of a random selection of the 627 fish and chip shops in Scotland. Of 488 telephoned, 303 (62%) responded. 66 (22%) shops sold deep-fried Mars bars, though an additional 51 (17%) had in the past. Mean weekly sales were 23 bars but ten shops sold much higher numbers, from 50-200 a week. They were mainly sold to children and young people. Cooks reported that they made a mess of the frying equipment. Shops had also deep-fried Cream eggs, Snickers bars and the authors report evidence of the penetration of the Mediterranean diet in that it is now possible to find deep-fried pizza.
