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I've had a right run-in with a Persian caterer recently. Quoted me a thousand quid to do a shitty event for which everyone else is quoting Ł300, I told him the price was no good, then he called me three times a day begging me to reconsider and that his offer was great value actually and I'd got it all wrong.
Luckily I'm well practised at confrontational discussions with Persians so managed to shake him off after about three weeks.
Taz providing that valuable life experience. :drool:
Something something have gammon instead something.
I hope Kiko's next picture in this thread is a gammon joint.
I hope that really is a shitty event because one does not simply substitute Ghormeh Sabzi and Barg with chicken nuggets and potato smileys on the basis of financial savings without risk.
No pics but it was a huge lamb and chicken kebab with a ridiculous amount of rice.
The food at "Dinner" was really very good.
https://i.imgur.com/sLi046T.jpeg
The famous "Meat Fruit", which is chicken liver and foie gras parfait in Mandarin jelly. I almost didn't order it because it is just pate and toast at the end of the day, but I'm glad I did. It is gloriously good.
https://i.imgur.com/QtF5Z2v.jpeg
Wife's starter was crab salad on crab brioche toast with cucumber ketchup and trout roe. Very fresh dish but I really don't like cucumber so not for me.
https://i.imgur.com/rSB7dI3.jpeg
My main was duck, duck hearts, turnips (fondant, puree, pickled) and red wine sauce. This was my favourite dish. Duck was perfect.
https://i.imgur.com/Lhmcryh.jpeg
Wife's main; salmon, champagne jelly, caviar, seaweed butter sauce, asparagus.
https://i.imgur.com/jB0tM71.jpeg
My dessert: chocolate ganache, passion fruit jam, mango sorbet. Banging.
https://i.imgur.com/yWvkG8u.jpeg
Finally wife's dessert which is their other very famous dish, the tipsy cake. It's a good dessert but overly sweet for me and not up to the hype. She absolutely loved it though. The pineapple is incredible.
The restaurant really doesn't suit the room though. They go for quite cosy and not overly formal service (which is what I prefer) but it's set in a big, grand, high-ceilinged room in a fancy hotel and it just doesn't match the space.
The bread was meh and came with "lightly salted" butter, which is an insufficient level of salting. Cocktails were great.
You can definitely see Heston Blumenthal's obsession with trying to find the best way to do things rather than the received wisdom way in the food. The sorbet - which they freeze with liquid nitrogen - was another level of smoothness, for example.
I'll stick with a mixed kebab and a choc ice.
"Hi, can you give me a sorbet that doesn't look like a sex toy? Thanks."
"Insufficient level of salting". Have a day off.
These meals make me want to kick people in the face. Ideally the people "designing" them.
Fuccking state of those pics wheres the fucking gravy and chips dickhead
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My pizza place has closed. Good that I am leaving this shithole in a few months.
Looks class that, RL.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/br...soup-with-lime
Made this for dinner and it was banging. Looks a prime candidate for the list of quick but not tragic weeknight dinners. Bang in some noodles for heft.
You could drag stuff out of landfill and itemise it, if you ended the list '...with lime' I would scoff it for days.
Got into corned beef recently
Did you end up going?Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Corned beef on buttered white bread is about the best sandwich going. FACT.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Ye it's quality. Mustard or no mustard for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Brown sauce. :drool:
I always liked corned beef. Not sure why it has so many detractors, as I continue my campaign against every supermarket having display after display of shit watery ham.
Corned beef is bloody expensive now though. Was a cheap lunch when I were a lad.
Corned beef stuffed jacket potatoes are a marvellous thing.
Do you mean real corned beef or the tinned spam stye stuff?
Tinned obviously. Our cuisine isn't renowned for nothing you know.
Has to be. Can't be having mustard on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Red sauce.
Nothing else.Quote:
Originally Posted by igor_balis
Went to Gautier last night for the grand diner which was interesting. French vegan sounds like an oxymoron. Quite impressive what they did, although I will admit that I could probably have polished off a kebab on the train home.
Will have to see how it stacks up against Plates as I'm off there in August.
Also went back to Heritage again the other day which seems to get better with each visit.
I've recently become aware of menemen as a thing. Spicy menemen with sucuk is absolutely top tier shit.
It is indeed. Although I prefer Shakshuka, which is similar but the eggs are poached in the sauce, rather than scrambled into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
https://i.ibb.co/cC76crB/best-shakshuka-recipe-3.jpg
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My wife makes that all the time. Good shit.
I've been a vocal critic of people taking photos of their food but this seems a bit excessive.
Big fan of octopus but not sure that's what I'd have picked as my last meal.
I've become slightly obsessed with this man but I have to share it.
What a truly absurd amount of peas.
The absolute state of that fish to be handing someone too.
Healthier than 99% of dinners eaten on this island last night, good on him
6000 calories in that mash alone.
Very strange post to go viral, fish can do with a bit more grilling and heathens may point to an excessive pea portion if they fail to recognise the glory those green bastards hold but, as James says, that's a very good meal, especially in this day and age.
It's more Pea than Fish!
Outdated, arbitrary and straight-up wrong conventions like the a meal must include meat or that the meat should be the primary focus and portion are the reasons why we find ourselves where we do.
If they were those dried marrowfats I'd eat double that amount and just leave the fish and spuds.
Which is why you're built like an 8 year old girl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
Get some protein in yourself, lad.
Peas are actually pretty good for protein.
I could do without having to look it in the eye, but that looks good to me. Fish, mash and peas is good shit. :drool:
Not really. They're only about 5g per 100g. Better than a lettuce, but no grown man is getting their protein needs from veg alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
Not without eating an unholy amount, anyway. And even then, it's not the same quality of protein you get from meat.
Unusually I'm with Taz here, the masses of British twitter seem to favour only one kind of food which is just utter shite, they detest vegetables or salad, fried meat and chips only for them.
Peas and mash is a sad side-pairing. Rice and beans obviously the best.