Thursday’s quiz

1. Who said: Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.?

2. What is the name for the French slow-cooked casserole which contains meat and beans?

3. It’s glace in French; ghiaccio in Italian, hielo in Spanish and tio in Maori, what is it in English?

4. What is the winter Olympic sport of skeleton?

5. What’s your favourite winter warmer of the culinary kind?

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  1. Andrei's avatar Andrei says:
    02/07/2015 at 12:42 pm

    (1) –

    (2) Cassoulet

    (3) Ice

    (4) scary –

    actually a really basic small one man sled upon which you lie upon your tummy as flat as you can so you end up doing 130 kph+ with your nose mere centimeters from the ice 🙂

    (5) Borscht accompanied with home made sourdough bread

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  2. Gravedodger's avatar Gravedodger says:
    02/07/2015 at 9:44 pm

    1 Victor Hugo
    2 No idea, sounds great so does a hotpot from the slow cooker to use up some of the bits that come with the fillet, rump, ribeye, topside, silverside, porterhouse when the meat comes from the whole beef.
    3 Ice.
    4 a crazy event where a solo, rides a frame down a luge, face down with the ice millimetres from chin.
    5 starter/ snack; pumpkin or vege soup with mustard or curry or just pepper.
    A light meal; a curry, korma, or other indian dish with rice and narn bread if poss,
    A main meal hard to go past a corned beef, swedes, spuds, mustard sauce, with hot apple pie (flaky pastry or crumble) for pud.

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