Mahow's all new, all new, all new food thread

[Ian]

I think I'm going to make the effort to make something out of the Rick Stein India book this weekend, on that note. Haven't in ages but everything I've made in it has been lovely.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've still only made two things from it. The lamb dopiaza and then the beef vindaloo which ruined the rest of the book for me. I only cook the vindaloo now and can't see myself cooking another curry.

[phonics]

Big fat sausages with lentils tonight. Lush. Love a lentil.

Although saying this I'll probably get home and just do chips and gravy because I'm fucking lazy.

[Giggles]

I've made near everything in it that isn't vegetarian or fish.

[randomlegend]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-My-Name-Ice-Cream-ebook/dp/B01HWKSBAG

Got this to go along with my ice cream maker. It's a great little book.

[Magic]

Had a nice coconut chilli chicken Thai style from a 30 min cook book. Nice, nothing more.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-My-Name-Ice-Cream-ebook/dp/B01HWKSBAG

Got this to go along with my ice cream maker. It's a great little book.

You need to make this-

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/chocolate-hazelnut-gelato-recipe-1946008

Texture is spot on straight out the freezer.

[randomlegend]

Thanks, will give it a go.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Thanks, will give it a go.

Forgot about this strawberry one too-

https://www.askchefdennis.com/strawberry-gelato/

I made it using milk and it was perfect. I think a lot of fruit ones can end up quite icy but not that.

Use the best strawberries you can get your hands on i.e. none of the imported shite.

[Pepe]

I ordered myself some Meal Squares (https://www.mealsquares.com/). My life is about to change!

[Lewis]

Have a sandwich mate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He doesn't get an extra hour with a sandwich though.

[Pepe]

Exactly. Life hacking and all.

[-james-]

Discovered pasta puttanesca a while back and I'm properly hooked on it at the moment. Think I've had it for dinner three times in the last week.

[John]

The hooker's dinner.

[Boydy]

Fucking love puttanesca. It must be the best dish going for reward in terms of effort.

Have you seen that Huel shit, Pepe?

[Pepe]

Have you seen that Huel shit, Pepe?

Hadn't seen that one before, but I just googled it. Seems similar to Soylent. I am not sure that just mixing micronutrients and making a drink out of it is as healthy as eating the same amount of nutrients from real food. Just guessing though. Also, I don't like liquid food.

EDIT: The ones I bought are probably BS too, mostly got them out of curiosity/for the lols.

[Mazuuurk]

"I just throw some MealSquares in my bag and feel like I can do whatever I want with my day.
--Nathan"


Good on Nathan really. Wonder what it was he was eating that was imposing regulations on his activities previously. I would like to avoid that myself really.


Bet it was Bananas.
I always thought they were a bit bent.

[igor_balis]

Discovered pasta puttanesca a while back and I'm properly hooked on it at the moment. Think I've had it for dinner three times in the last week.

i didn't even know it was a thing until just now, but i do something almost identical to it myself and it is indeed an easy yet delicious meal. i usually have pine nuts and prawns as well in mine.

[Mazuuurk]

Anchovies are amazing really. I stick them in anything I'm not serving the lady
(so, unfortunately not enough things).

Had some Cherry tomatoes, Buffalo Mozzarella & Anchovies for lunch yesterday, with one of those snooty Olive oils on :drool:

[Pepe]

I ordered myself some Meal Squares (https://www.mealsquares.com/). My life is about to change!

Received them yesterday so I decided to have one for breakfast today. The time saved on not having to prepare breakfast was spent slowly biting through the dense, dry cake, each bite followed by a sip of milk to wash it down. At least the taste is good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Read that in a Partridge voice for full effect, although Pepe has probably never heard of the scoundrel.

[Pepe]

Can confirm that I've never heard of him.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Going to Poland on Wednesday for a few days for an Auntie's 60th.

I was told it's happening at a restaurant which isn't quite a restaurant (it's just a standard venue who will cook some food but you can bring your own food and drinks) and she's ordered some salads for every along with chicken stuffed with mozzarella and peach.

I'm not the biggest fan of fruit and meat but chicken, cheese and fucking peach? The fuck?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can see that working. Salt and sweet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Had slow cooked beef cheeks with a creamy mushroom sauce and cabbage pierogi.

I've been saying that Polish food needs modernising for about 20 years now. Seems they've finally realised that. Easily the best thing I've eaten in Poland.

[Baz]

When I was in Poland they gave me raw mince meat mixed with wholegrain mustard. How I didn’t die/have a bad poo I’ve no idea.

[randomlegend]

I'm doing this:

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/wild-mushrooms-slow-cooked-duck-egg-recipe

this:

For the meateaters:
http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/braised-lamb-shoulder-recipe

For the vegetables:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/mushroom-lasagne-yotam-ottolenghi

and a variation on this:

http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/chocolate-tart-bergamot-ice-cream-recipe

for 10 on Saturday.

Not as much work as last time (WHICH I NEVER POSTED PICTURES FOR John DID YOU NOTICE MATE?) so should be quite good fun.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

When I was in Poland they gave me raw mince meat mixed with wholegrain mustard. How I didn’t die/have a bad poo I’ve no idea.
Steak tartare is glorious.

Just mustard? It's amazing when there's an egg yolk, gherkins and onions to mix in with what they call Maggi (it's their version of Worcester sauce).

[John]

I've been saying that Polish food needs modernising for about 20 years now. Seems they've finally realised that. Easily the best thing I've eaten in Poland.

You've been talking about modernising a national cuisine since you were ten?

[Disco]

Alright beef cheeks.

[Giggles]

That meal doesn't sound all that modern. Was there just very little of it on a huge plate or something?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You've been talking about modernising a national cuisine since you were ten?

Pretty much. It's been the same forever.

Breaded pork chop, boiled potatoes and cabbage.

The food is boring plain and it doesn't change based on the seasons.

It's been communism food forever, they're finally starting to move from that.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That meal doesn't sound all that modern. Was there just very little of it on a huge plate or something?

It's hugely modern for Poland.

[Raoul Duke]

The Polish crew at work brought in a shedload of Polish doughnuts today for "fat Thursday" as they called it. Good shit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yeah, it's their pancake Tuesday.

Restaurant I went too even gave us a load for free.

Faworki is also popular today, it's just bits of fried dough caked in powdered sugar.

[Giggles]

I wondered why the Polish lad in work was eating them today.

[Baz]

Steak tartare is glorious.

Just mustard? It's amazing when there's an egg yolk, gherkins and onions to mix in with what they call Maggi (it's their version of Worcester sauce).I can't remember the specifics. To this day I'm glad to have survived it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Flaki is probably the best Polish thing. It's tripe soup and it's outstanding.

[-james-]

Grocer's near me has started doing packs containing a variety of weird wild mushrooms. Just made a risotto from them, with some rehydrated porcinis stuck in as well, and absolutely nailed it. Lemon juice and parmesan at the end fairly crucial imo.

[five time]

what they call Maggi (it's their version of Worcester sauce).

Is it this stuff?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71X5ymHpUdL._SY355_.jpg

Girlfriend's family (and most other west africans I've encountered) use it and the cubes in everything.

[Giggles]

Is monkfish worth buying in a restaurant and how high is the possibility of bones? Last thing I want to do is pay €35 for it and then have to shove it to one side after the first bite having one in it.

[Disco]

A fillet may have bones but if it's cheeks then I don't think there are any in it to begin with.

Alright fish cheeks.

[Giggles]

A fillet may have bones but if it's cheeks then I don't think there are any in it to begin with.

Alright fish cheeks.

Tail according to the menu.

[randomlegend]

Anywhere you're paying €35 for a dish should be removing the bones from fish properly, surely?

Made the base for the blood orange sherbet (IDK either, it's like halfway between an ice cream and a sorbet and not the powder you dip your liquorice wand in) and it's bloody yummy. Churn it up tomorrow.

[Giggles]

Anywhere you're paying €35 for a dish should be removing the bones from fish properly, surely?

Made the base for the blood orange sherbet (IDK either, it's like halfway between an ice cream and a sorbet and not the powder you dip your liquorice wand in) and it's bloody yummy. Churn it up tomorrow.

Yeah but everywhere tries to remove them but it doesn't mean they actually do. If it's one that's normally full of them I'll just get the lamb or duck.

[randomlegend]

You'd be within your rights to send it back if it had bones in somewhere charging that amount, I'd have thought.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is it this stuff?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71X5ymHpUdL._SY355_.jpg

Girlfriend's family (and most other west africans I've encountered) use it and the cubes in everything.
Yeah, that's the stuff.

[Clunge]

Making za’atar chicken tonight with chickpeas, a lebanese salad, a shitload of fresh herbs, pomegranate, yoghurt and flatbread. Unffffff.

[Giggles]

I just nailed a magical kebab. A place finally opened nearby that does real ones :drool:

[John]

I've just ordered a large mixed kebab on naan. :drool:

[Clunge]

We have two ‘babbies next to each other where I live. On the surface, they look like classic ‘babbies. However, one is your bog standard Turkish donor dross. The schwarma place next door though will do you a double kofta for a third of the price and it’s 735796678534x better. In short - always go to schwarma places if you have a choice.

[phonics]

I actually find schwarma less edible than a doner. There's something about the texture of lots of crispy bits of individual meat versus the slice of wet nonsense.

[John]

I can only imagine what sort of bonkers, cartoon accent you have if 'babbies sounds like an acceptable thing to say.

[Giggles]

I'm with John. Never say that again.

[John]

https://i.imgur.com/TwJZ3EO.jpg

On a shitty old Samsung until Monday so the picture isn't great, but oh yes. Absolutely filthy.

[Giggles]

:drool:

[Raoul Duke]

I'm eating some Choco Leibniz. One hell of a biscuit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is that three different animals in there, or lamb done two ways? Impressive even for Scotland.

[John]

Is that three different animals in there, or lamb done two ways? Impressive even for Scotland.

Both.

[phonics]

The greenness of the photo is making me want to throw up what i got on the way back. The lamb blended into the color of the bread. :sick:

[randomlegend]

Yeah it looks fucking rank.

[Adamski]

And I would eat every dirty bit of it :drool:

In Chelsea for the weekend and passed about 10 of those Paul places someone was going on about. Fucking everywhere.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just done some research, there are 29 of them in London (only one, Wimbledon, outside zone 2) and just two outside London (Newbury and Oxford). Reckon it's possible that no Leave voter has ever dined at one.

[John]

Yeah it looks fucking rank.

Pure jealousy that people have noticed my picture.

[Giggles]

:lol:

The only bad thing about John's is that it made my one look poor.

[Disco]

All kebabs look utterly fucking horrible (and most of them are) but unless you're trying to make me eat one then I couldn't care less.

[Adamski]

Just done some research, there are 29 of them in London (only one, Wimbledon, outside zone 2) and just two outside London (Newbury and Oxford). Reckon it's possible that no Leave voter has ever dined at one.

Don’t you (leave voters) just eat pies and jellied eels?

[Kikó]

https://t.co/Nph3YJtvkw

Get on it.

[Giggles]

I've the pancake mix made. Breakfast and tea :drool:

[niko_cee]

Is it better to make it tonight and let it rest or just knock up the batter in the morning? Doesn't it separate anyway in the fridge? May have answered my own question there.

[Giggles]

I always would only have made a mix for an actual batter the day before but a pancake one is fine to do before you use it. I only have it done now for handiness.

[Kikó]

I'm going for the savoury then sweet option tomorrow.

What will you put on yours?

[Disco]

Sugar and lemon is still the king but I'm a big fan of maple syrup too. Not sold on the savory option, does nothing for me.

[Kikó]

Spinach and ricotta :sherlock:

[John]

Never let it be forgotten that Hammer has his with gravy.

[Giggles]

I still prefer absolutely nothing on them.

[Raoul Duke]

Never let it be forgotten that Hammer has his with gravy.

Absolute wrongcock.


I still prefer absolutely nothing on them.

This is peak Giggles

[Boydy]

Are you lot making shitty thin pancakes, aye?

[Giggles]

I'm not American so mine will be thin.

[Giggles]

Just had mine :drool:

[Baz]

I like both but the fat ones are superior.

[Giggles]

I like both but the fat ones are superior.

Relationship thread is down the page.

[Giggles]

Chickened out of ordering the monkfish after. Just awaiting my duck.

[Baz]

Chickened out of ordering the monkfish after. Just awaiting my duck.http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/9949903598de0dccba9b8991edaed04f64788a9b.jpg

[John]

There's a new Indian takeaway opening fifteen seconds from my front door. Hopefully it's crap because that's far too handy.

[Giggles]

I've just had one of those nice pizzas that you get covered in cling film down the supermarket.

[Ian]

Tried a burger place called The Counter at the Quay in Glasgow last night. it was super average.

[Lewis]

I was waiting for some chips in the Chinese when this woman came in to collect her order. The teenage Chinaman behind the counter asked in the back for it, told her 'about fifteen minutes', so she goes 'I ordered it twenty minutes ago and you told me half an hour' and starts kicking off about having to collect a pizza as well and wishing she hadn't bothered. Think about it love. Anyway, the young kid goes to ask after it again and you just hear 'IT IN THE FUCKIN QUEUE WHAT THEY WANT?!' I burst out lolling, set a few other people off, 7om junior behind the counter stifles a little lol, and then she stormed out. :harold:

[Giggles]

I hope she realised later on when she calmed down :D

[John]

There's a new Indian takeaway opening fifteen seconds from my front door. Hopefully it's crap because that's far too handy.

It isn't crap. Not even close to crap.

[Ian]

RIP John's bank balance / not weighing 50 stone.

I've made a load of corned beef (and cheese and worcestshire sauce and stuff) -stuffed jacket potatoes tonight. :drool:

[John]

Bank balance will be fine. They must be passing pigeons off as chicken or something because it's mercifully cheap.

Been out all day and couldn't be arsed making anything when I got in so got chips, cheese, and spicy chicken on the way past. Four fifty.

[Ian]

That's not bad. Chips, cheese and [insert dubious meat of your choice] really is a winner.

I think my on-the-way-home curryhouse does chips and curry sauce but with proper curry sauce so I really need to give that a go. The yellow "chinese" stuff can get fucked.

[John]

There's a takeaway place attached to a proper curry house nearby that will do chips and cheese topped with a curry of your choice but I couldn't do that to a South Indian garlic chilli chicken.

[Ian]

Do it.

[Ian]

I made a British Beef Raj Curry or whatever it's called from the Rick Stein book and it's fucking smashing.

Also work put me up in a swish hotel last night and they have a buffet-ish dinner option where for £22 you get:

- An a la carte starter (I had portobello mushroom 'fries' with a blue cheese thing)
- An all you can eat buffet for your main but with good stuff. So it had some rice and pasta options, veg etc. but it also had a really nice fish thing, a big tray of proper steak pie, pork belly, some sort of little hoi sin beef pakora or whatever you'd call them.
- An all you can eat dessert buffet, with cakes, mousses, etc.

It was fucking outstanding and decent value for money if you fill yourself up like I did on it.

[Giggles]

Someone just had me taste "golden milk". Dear God it would want to be really good for you because it is fucking vile.

[randomlegend]

I thought you meant Jersey milk (gold top) and was going to go apeshit, but having googled it it looks like some fad turmeric tea bollocks.

[niko_cee]

My mum got co-opted into some massive turmeric idiocy a while back. I think there's still tons of the stuff (paste) in her freezer. You have to like the taste of turmeric should be the strap-line. She doesn't particularly.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I thought someone had pissed in his semi-skimmed.

[Giggles]

I like it, in small doses, in curry etc where it belongs but this was woeful.

Anyway if it was as magic as I was being told then everyone would be living in the stuff and it'd be €30 a jar.

[Giggles]

I thought someone had pissed in his semi-skimmed.

No low-fat milk (I think that's the equivalent of semi skimmed here). Fake milk, butter, etc are terrible.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, the paste is alright if you dump it in curry, or even rice. But it does make anything else quite 'earthy' and I'm pretty sure the claims about its benefits are almost complete bollocks.

[Giggles]

I won't be making a batch anyway. Though I should make a few more curries with it in it, haven't used it in ages.

[Ian]

My first visit to Pizza Punks yesterday and it was really good. The Itison voucher was a bargain too, a tenner for two people.

[Reg]

(re. last page) http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancer-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative-therapies/individual-therapies/turmeric

"Promising" signs for cancer treatment, so not bollocks.

[Giggles]

Even if it was, I'd rather just eat a spoon of it than have that drink.

[Reg]

Fair enough. Seems it'd be better to take a curcumin supplement rather than trying to chug down bottles worth of turmeric anyway. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-turmeric#modal-close

[igor_balis]

American lady took me to a Korean place in Leicester. It was one of those slightly grubby, unassuming places with almost entirely Korean clientele and only took cash, so as you can imagine it was fucking CLASS. Korean food is wicked.

[Ian]

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/orange-coriander-drizzle-cake

Made this today. Piece of piss and damn tasty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://www.rodiziorico.com/

Went there tonight and it was fucking glorious.

Didn't pace myself all that well as they brought so much in the first 5 minutes but I think I got to try all the meats.

Wasn't all that keen on chicken hearts (they ate well to start but the aftertaste was too organy) but the rump steak was insanely good.

Really good experience though as they were coming out with fresh meat regularly which was all seasoned well and cooked perfectly.

[Kikó]

One of those near me and agree with you. Don't fill up on the bread Homie.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I didn't have any bread (it was all gone when I first went to the little area) and I didn't even get to fill up on any sides.

As soon as I sat down I had 2 chicken legs, some lamb and then a guy just gave me 6 huge bits of beef shish. From there it was just a constant stream of meat and it was glorious.

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/NU4tj0O.jpg?1

Stress-made some brownies. This Nigel Slater recipe for them really is an absolutely banger.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/jun/13/foodanddrink.shopping2

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I'll need to give them a go, haven't made brownies in ages. Usually like to make mine really rich and have raspberries in the mix.

[Ian]

I'm liking these stupidly named Walkers Max Strong crisps.

[Samadini]

I can do without the Wasabi ones, but the others are very good. There are basically no bad crisps, but the very best are the ones with shit loads of flavour dust, it's strange that there aren't as many available that have good amounts. It's not like people are eating crisps to be healthy, so just give us what we want.

[Ian]

I've not had the Wasabi, I've had the Chilli & Lime and Red Hot Chicken Wings (or whatever they're called) so far with a bag of the Jalapeno/Cheese ones to try later.

The flavour dust can't cost that much in itself so you'd think that if anything shitter crisps would make a point of giving you more to hide the fact that they're pretty shit crisps.

[Samadini]

You've saved the best for last.

In order of goodness

Jalapeno & Cheese
Chilli and Lime
Chicken Wings
Wasabi

I'll stop buying them once they're at normal price and not £1.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've only tried the Jalapeno and Cheese but it's brilliant.

[Baz]

Got a big copper pan that you can fry stuff in on the hob, and then bake stuff in in the oven. Every time I bloody use it I take it out the oven, wander off to do something else and then come back and touch the scalding hot handle. :cry:

[randomlegend]

We're at Benedict's in Norwich tonight for Tom Kerridge's guest chef night. It's been brilliant so far. Wine with every course though and we don't really drink so we're going to be monged by the end.

[randomlegend]

Well as predicted we were sloshed by the end, but the food was really amazing.

There was a treacle-cured beef dish which was the best thing I've ever eaten.

[Boydy]

Was it a tasting menu?

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/aCxzqE6.jpg

That was the menu.

[Spikey M]

What a cunt.

[randomlegend]

What a cunt.

https://i.imgur.com/kVsw6NW.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/joDMKvz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/e4UojtQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jIKEROZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TJvRgCT.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/UGCHSPQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lHgI0Ts.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Fa9Ycv3.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/v2qE8Li.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OMLyaYy.jpg

:swing: :swing: :swing: :swing: :swing:

[Jimmy Floyd]

That does look decent.

[phonics]

That green bilge with the croutons in it :D

No-ones ever paying you to Instagram food, thats for sure.

[Spikey M]

Plate of mushrooms? £18.50. Sorry, 18.5.

I stand by my statement. Get a burger. And I want normal coloured Sesame on the bun.

[SvN]

£18½

[phonics]

The whole lot looks like one of those Martinis you get in a Trump Hotel.

https://i.imgur.com/0V3C1Sq.png

[Magic]

That does look decent.

It probably was but in the photos it looks awful.

[Lewis]

The beef and the cake sound alright, but the rest... You wouldn't give cod to a dog.

[Lewis]

O2 just sent me a two-for-one at the local Harvester. Anyone fancy it?

[Giggles]

Some of it looks better than it sounds, but still give me a plate of chicken goujons and chips any day.

[randomlegend]

Fucking plebs.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's by Tom Kerridge.

It probably all tastes fucking amazing.

[Spikey M]

If his food was that good he wouldn’t have lost all that weight.

[-james-]

I don't think I ever posted about the 23 course tasting menu I had at Disfrutar in Barcelona last summer. They don't give you the menu until the end. I'm seriously glad we didn't go for the extended 27 course option

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhFfDKW_Bn1Ttx3hv0zleuJE1Na9

A lot of it was extremely good, but a couple of things like the "liquid salad" and "pigeon bonbon" were really not great. It was almost as much about the theatre of it as the food, and though it was an enjoyable experience and by far the most expensive meal I've ever eaten, I'm not sure that sort of thing is for me.

The combination of two hours of intense eating, intense alcohol and caffeine consumption and running about Barcelona in the middle of the summer made me puke in the toilet as soon as we got back.

[-james-]

There's loads of misdirection involved. The olives are just a plate of what looks exactly like two olives, but are actually these (http://en.disfrutarbarcelona.com/photo-video/). They taste incredible.

[Giggles]

It's by Tom Kerridge.

It probably all tastes fucking amazing.

He's good enough at normal food.

[phonics]

Celebrity chefs came up in a conversation with my Mum today so I showed her RL's pictures and her face was like:

https://i.imgur.com/boncSva.jpg

[Spikey M]

I’m having a kebab tonight like a real LAD.

[phonics]

I'm going Chinese. Black Bean Beef and some Prawn Toast.

[Magic]

I just TRASHED the kitchen because I couldn't find the peeler. Cutlery everywhere.

[Giggles]

I'm making tacos.

[Magic]

On the plus side I chucked a load of shit out and now I can actually get in the drawer. Hoovered too so nobody will notice my meltdown. Sometimes exceptional violence is the way forward.

[Spikey M]

The second sentence of that could be on Benoits headstone.

[Magic]

Was the universe created via thorough thought and planning?

[Spikey M]

GS’ headstone?

[hfswjyr]

What phone/camera do you have RL?

[randomlegend]

Girlfriend took the pictures, I think she has a Samsung A3? It was pretty dingy lighting and didn't want to have the flash going which is probably part of the reason the photos are crap. That and they weren't taken with the intention of being instagrammed.

[Giggles]

She's no Asian tourist anyway.

[randomlegend]

She's not, but I loves her.

[igor_balis]

Oh no I got back into kebabs and burgers and the weight I lost last year is starting to come back on, how do you resist delicious stodge??

[Spikey M]

She's not, but I loves her.

Then you should have taken her somewhere nice.

[Spikey M]

Oh no I got back into kebabs and burgers and the weight I lost last year is starting to come back on, how do you resist delicious stodge??

Don’t. Become ‘body positive’ and post repulsive pictures on social media.

[Magic]

Oh no I got back into kebabs and burgers and the weight I lost last year is starting to come back on, how do you resist delicious stodge??

Tide pods.

[igor_balis]

Don’t. Become ‘body positive’ and post repulsive pictures on social media.

well i already do the latter to be fair

[Giggles]

Just checked JustEat and Pizza Hut opens at midday :drool:

[SvN]

I'm fairly sure it's been slated on the board in the past, but I had Wahaca last night and it really is fucking delicious.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Just checked JustEat and Pizza Hut opens at midday :drool:

I'm in this sort of mood as well, just googled 'Fast food near me'. I need American shite with 'cheese' and I need it now.

[Giggles]

Bank holiday feeding. I see now there's also an Indian and fried chicken establishment open at 12 too. And a place that does monstrous burgers at 3. Chinese at 5.

I think I need to put some options in a hat.

[Adamski]

You’ll all be delighted to know the takeaway at my new house does a salt and chilli munchie box on par, if not better than the last place which I posted on here a while back :drool:

[Magic]

Yeah real jealous!

[Giggles]

Chicken won in the end.

[Raoul Duke]

Found a new place that opened near us which is Ecuadorian. Had their equivalent to a fry up which was pulled pork, black beans, scrambled eggs and some other bits and bobs. Decent effort. Waitress was :drool: too.

[Spikey M]

Found a new place that opened near us which is Ecuadorian. Had their equivalent to a fry up which was pulled pork, black beans, scrambled eggs and some other bits and bobs. Decent effort. Waitress was :drool: too.

:face:

Anyway, moving on, I’ve got Steak and Ale pie tonight. Gonna put gravy on my chips as well, and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop me.

[Giggles]

:face:

Anyway, moving on, I’ve got Steak and Ale pie tonight. Gonna put gravy on my chips as well, and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop me.

No sane person would want to stop you.

[Lewis]

I realised the other week that whenever I eat out I always gravitate towards the steak [and ale] (fuck off kidney) pie, and, whilst I'm sure my doing so was a major factor in getting the Brexit vote out across the country, I've probably completed that level. We're leaving. It's time to make a conscious effort not to order them.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're a bit Peter Bone, whilst, similarly, some other meals can get a bit too Dan Hannan. Fish and chips is the way forward.

[Giggles]

Christ.

[Lewis]

The only people who eat fish and chips in a restaurant are wankers and pensioners.

[Spikey M]

Two circles that intersect to a degree that you may as well just have one circle.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Those of us who don't live in windswept northern port towns have to resort to pubs. The chippies down here are tragic.

[Lewis]

That is a point. You can go in the pensioner pile and not care whether or not the chips are hand cut.

[Boydy]

The only people who eat fish and chips in a restaurant are wankers and pensioners.

Who the fuck gets a pie in a restaurant?

[Lewis]

Patriots.

[Boydy]

Pies are pub grub.

[Baz]

I never go to restaurants, I don’t think. Like if I go out for tea I go a pub. Or otherwise I’ll go for a curry in a curryhouse (“an Indian”) or get Chinese takeaway (“a Chinese”) but never a restaurant where you can get pies. Unless people count pubs as restaurants?

[Lewis]

I'm using 'restaurant' in the widest buying and eating food sense. I've yet to go to an Italian restaurant where they offer steak pies (which explains a lot about them as a loser country).

[Giggles]

I'm using 'restaurant' in the widest buying and eating food sense. I've yet to go to an Italian restaurant where they offer steak pies (which explains a lot about them as a loser country).

Do you just mean Greggs?

[Lewis]

Greggs is rubbish mate.

[Ian]

:face:

Anyway, moving on, I’ve got Steak and Ale pie tonight. Gonna put gravy on my chips as well, and there’s nothing any of you can do to stop me.

You're the hero Britain deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

Edit: nah fuck it, you're the one we need too.

[Spikey M]

You're the hero Britain deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

Edit: nah fuck it, you're the one we need too.

Not all heroes wear capes. But I do, because capes are cool.

[phonics]

On the other end of the food scale I bought some cuts that were going cheap. I thought it was some posh packaged chicken but turns out it's quail. I've got no idea what to do with it so I'm shoving it in a stir fry.

[SincereTheRebel]

Tagliette in a cheese sauce with double cream is the new quick fix go to food.

[phonics]

Tagliatelle is the boss of Spaghetti-esque pastas.

[SincereTheRebel]

Delicious it is.

[randomlegend]

Shells are my favourite of all the pasta shapes, spaghetti-like or otherwise.

[SincereTheRebel]

How does mixing the shapes taste? I used to mix my cereal all the time and everyone thought I was some type of weirdo. I don't eat cereal too often anymore so that mix has died down.

[phonics]

Shells are my favourite of all the pasta shapes, spaghetti-like or otherwise.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3oz8xLd9DJq2l2VFtu/giphy.gif

[randomlegend]

Given it's Trump saying wrong, I assume that gif means you agree with me.

[phonics]

Broken clocks right twice a day.

[randomlegend]

Clock's*

I'm also not wrong. It IS my favourite.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Not one for the little bow ties?

[Giggles]

Clock's*

I'm also not wrong. It IS my favourite.

An opinion on pasta? You know that's not allowed.

Also SincereTheRebel, if they're the same colour then mix away. There's no differences in taste no matter what the shape.

[randomlegend]

The hibiscus frozen yoghurt was delicious, by the way.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A pasta shape is defined by its ability to hold sauce, and for that reason RL is correct to say that the shell is king.

[Pepe]

Different shapes work best with different sauces. Everyone should know that.

[Giggles]

The hibiscus frozen yoghurt was delicious, by the way.

After drinking a load of beers the other day with it in it, even though I've no idea what it is, I'd be open to that.

[Baz]

Had to put artichoke hearts in to some recipe yesterday. What a waste of time those things are.

[Giggles]

I got a tin of them March last year but I've never opened it.

[Disco]

Even the different coloured pasta is barely any different, especially seeing as you're putting a load of sauce over it.

Fusilli forever.

[Jimmy Floyd]

League table:

1. Shells
2. Rigatoni
3. Tagliatelle
4. Penne
5. Fusilli
6. Fettucine
7. Farfalli
8. Spaghetti
9. Linguine
...
14,542. Macaroni

[Disco]

I put it to you that tagliatelle and fettuccine are exactly the same.

[phonics]

I find they're a bit more like noodles in consistency than tagliatelle.

[Magic]

I love the pretentious ones Sainsburys do.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/food-cupboard/taste-the-difference-289438-44#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10123&categoryId=289438&parent_category_rn=12422&top_category=12422&pageSize=36&orderBy=FAVOURITES_ONLY%7CTOP_SELLERS&searchTerm=&beginIndex=0&hideFilters=true

:drool:

[Boydy]

Different shapes work best with different sauces. Everyone should know that.

I know that's the theory but how does that actually work?

[Magic]

Well sauce and stuff will go in the shell, to an extent spirals too. Spaghetti holds nothing so...

[Boydy]

I know that much but which sauces are meant to be better if they're contained by the pasta and so on?

Sauce still clings to spaghetti even if there's no actual place for it to be held.

[phonics]

I know that's the theory but how does that actually work?

You wouldn't do a tuna based sauce because it'll all just get stuck in the shells.

[Giggles]

If you finish the portion you get the exact same amount of sauce anyway.

[phonics]

May as well just go on Soylent.

[Boydy]

https://www.olivemagazine.com/guides/how-to/matching-pasta-shapes-and-sauce-best-guide/


Linguine (or ‘little tongues’) is of course perfect with pesto, but linguine alle vongole (with clams) has to be one of life’s finest pleasures. And, as far as I am concerned, one of the quickest, easiest dishes to make… but please, always in bianco and never, ever with tomatoes!


For the world’s most popular form of pasta, there are many perfect sauces. Especially puttanesca (or whore’s sauce), originally a Neapolitan recipe that’s very delicious whatever the connotations!

There's really not that much difference between linguine and spaghetti but apparently you should never have linguine with tomatoes but puttanesca (tomato-based!) is the perfect dish for spaghetti.

What a load of shit.

[Disco]

I find they're a bit more like noodles in consistency than tagliatelle.

They're made in exactly the same way, they just come from slightly different parts of the country.

[phonics]

https://www.olivemagazine.com/guides/how-to/matching-pasta-shapes-and-sauce-best-guide/





There's really not that much difference between linguine and spaghetti but apparently you should never have linguine with tomatoes but puttanesca (tomato-based!) is the perfect dish for spaghetti.

What a load of shit.

That's people being wanks.


They're made in exactly the same way, they just come from slightly different parts of the country.


Then that's me being a wank.

[Magic]

Italian is the most boring cuisine along with Mexican so they can get fucked.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

I'll have a bit of everything.

Nobody seems more militant about their food than the Italians though. Most youtube videos with Italian food just has some plank bitching 'this isn't authentic bolognese!!' etc. in the comments.

[Kikó]

Italian food is great because of its simplicity. If you don't have great ingredients or it's done poorly, it's just a plate of blandness.

I've got loads of stories about tomatoes but that's for another day.

[Boydy]

I'll have a bit of everything.

Nobody seems more militant about their food than the Italians though. Most youtube videos with Italian food just has some plank bitching 'this isn't authentic bolognese!!' etc. in the comments.

Check out italians mad at food (@ItalianComments): https://twitter.com/ItalianComments?s=09

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Check out italians mad at food (@ItalianComments): https://twitter.com/ItalianComments?s=09

They can't even agree with each other half the time.

[Disco]

I think that's on the flag isn't it?

[randomlegend]

Italian is the most boring cuisine along with Mexican so they can get fucked.

Absolute retard.

[Magic]

Absolute retard.

Enjoy your proboscis monkey ice cream you nerd. Make sure it doesn't give you brain freeze.

[Boydy]

Enjoy your proboscis monkey ice cream you nerd. Make sure it doesn't give you brain freeze.

:lol:

[randomlegend]

That's not one of your better ones to be honest, magic.

[hfswjyr]

I'll have a bit of everything.

Nobody seems more militant about their food than the Italians though. Most youtube videos with Italian food just has some plank bitching 'this isn't authentic bolognese!!' etc. in the comments.

I would have previously quite happily taken this view, but after having meals in Italy I've completely changed my mind. There is something special.

[phonics]

On the other end of the food scale I bought some cuts that were going cheap. I thought it was some posh packaged chicken but turns out it's quail. I've got no idea what to do with it so I'm shoving it in a stir fry.

Quail :drool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

http://heirloompizzapie.com

Went there tonight and it's one of, if not the best pizza, I've ever eaten.

We had the slider and napoli on thin crusts. The crust was perfect and the toppings were amazing. The slider had whole garlic gloves which were soft and caramelized beautifully.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Carnitas chilaquiles with a tomatillo salsa sauce :drool:

[Pepe]

The state of that sentence. :face:

[Jimmy Floyd]

It basically says 'breads meat with a little tomato sauce sauce'. Right?

That said I'm pretty sure the yanks butcher literally everything Mexican so I'm not sure how you survive.

[Pepe]

I survive because, luckily, there is a Mexican supermarket that makes quality tacos only ~20 minutes away from here. I am still not sure how I am going to survive once I move to Shithole PA though.

[randomlegend]

I've made this:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/01/chicken-tinga-spicy-mexican-shredded-chicken-recipe.html

quite a few times, although I've substituted the canned chipotles for dried ones and made my own adobo sauce (for which I think I used this: https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/mexican-adobo-sauce-31342 recipe with a bit of cider vinegar added).

On a scale of 1 to 'paying for the wall' how much would that upset a Mexican? Is there anywhere good for authentic Mexican recipes online?

[Pepe]

That Tinga looks alright actually. At home we would just use tomatoes though, no tomatillo. No garlic either. We don't use garlic that much in general. Frankly, I'd stick to the canned chipotles. Also, what the fuck is fish sauce?

[Pepe]

As for recipes, I don't know. My wife has a book that is good. I'll check out what it is later and post it.

[Giggles]

That Tinga looks alright actually. At home we would just use tomatoes though, no tomatillo. No garlic either. We don't use garlic that much in general. Frankly, I'd stick to the canned chipotles. Also, what the fuck is fish sauce?


Fish sauce is a condiment made from fish coated in salt and fermented for weeks to up to two years.[1] It is used as a staple seasoning in various cuisines in Southeast and East Asia, particularly Indonesian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese cuisines, although it has become embraced globally by chefs and home cooks for its savory umami flavor. Soy sauce is the vegetarian answer to fish sauce, and, where soy has not grown well, fish sauce usually takes its place as a salty all-purpose seasoning.

It smells like piss.

[Pepe]

Yeah, definitely keep that shit away from it.

[randomlegend]

As for recipes, I don't know. My wife has a book that is good. I'll check out what it is later and post it.

:thbup:

I only make it myself because it's easier/cheaper to get the ingredients than the canned chillies

[randomlegend]

Yeah, definitely keep that shit away from it.

It's just a bit of umami/saltiness. It's not strong in the recipe.

[Pepe]

:thbup:

I only make it myself because it's easier/cheaper to get the ingredients than the canned chillies

Ah fair enough.


It's just a bit of umami/saltiness. It's not strong in the recipe.

Figured it is basically salt. There is already salt and chicken stock though, how many salty things do you need? Not that it is a big deal, I'd just usually go for simpler. Then again, I am not into cooking.

Tinga goes great in tostadas btw. Just add some refried beans, cream and a green salsa. :drool:

[Giggles]

Canned chipotles are a fucker to get this side of the atlantic. I buy the ones in the adobo sauce from an American online shop here but the price is a cunt when I used to get them in Walmart for next to nothing.

I get the chillies themselves, along with pasillas and guajillos for making chilli powder, from South Devon Chilli farm. Their stuff is class.

[randomlegend]

I get my chillies off eBay. :uhoh:

They've always seemed good.

[Giggles]

I'm going to check that out now too. Never even thought to look.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The state of that sentence. :face:
It was amazing though with some perfectly fried eggs on top.

[Boydy]

I just buy these (https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-chipotle-chilli-flakes-45g), you poncy fucks.

[Pepe]

It was amazing though with some perfectly fried eggs on top.

I do like fried eggs on my chilaquiles. As long as there was no lettuce on them, I am willing to give them a pass.