Re: Well...
May I suggest an old family favourite for the main:
1 Lightly grease a baking tray (I use olive oil rather than lard as I'm watching my cholesterol)
2 Lay a nice plump cylinder of acetylene on the tray and strew coarsely chopped spuds, carrots and parsnips around.
3 My cousin used to drape a couple of rashers of bacon over the cylinder but that branch of the family has been wiped out by bowel cancer, so I'd give that a miss.
4 Whack it into a preheated oven for a couple of hours at gas mark 37 (1250°C)
Et voilà: Beautiful roast acetylene flambé.
Goes really well with a nice pint of paraquat. ---->