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

[mugbull]

+1 on America being the home of pizza

[SvN]

Dirty pizza > poncy pizza

[Jimmy Floyd]

Team Ponce on this one. If you want to eat thick sliced bread with a heart attack on it, just put a McDonald's on some Hovis. The sort of pizza you're all on about should be renamed American Wankbread.

[Shindig]

I've just googled Big Mac Toastie and I've not go the answer I was looking for.

[Disco]

+1 for whichever camp has thinner crust, 'deep dish' can do one.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Deep dish is disturbing.

Although I do like those frozen Chicago Town mini deep dish ones.

[mugbull]

Deep dish is great but you almost can’t call it pizza. Its a totally different experiment

[Giggles]

Team Ponce on this one. If you want to eat thick sliced bread with a heart attack on it, just put a McDonald's on some Hovis. The sort of pizza you're all on about should be renamed American Wankbread.

Doesn’t need to be a heart attack, it just needs to be more edible than floured aeroboard that’s only been half covered. That fucking cotton mouth feeling from the excessive flour :sick:

[randomlegend]

Doesn’t need to be a heart attack, it just needs to be more edible than floured aeroboard that’s only been half covered. That fucking cotton mouth feeling from the excessive flour :sick:

I think you've just had shit Italian pizzas by the sounds of things.

[Giggles]

They’re all the same basic style. The Americans are miles ahead of them.

Fucking hell, Asda are miles ahead of them.

[randomlegend]

I would have thought the fact that there can be vast differences in quality between things of the same basic style was a fairly well established concept.

Good Italian pizzas aren't horribly floury.

[Luca]

I’m proud to be on Team Ponce with Jimmy. A thick doughy crust with 2 inches of shit on top is fine, and I’ll eat it happily (because pizza is delicious), just not my favourite.

It’s unfortunate you had something that was over-floured and under-seasoned, Giggles. Done right the base/topping balance is usually great.

[Giggles]

The style of bread used in Italian style pizza is not to my liking regardless.

[phonics]

I'm not a big fan of Neopolitan pizza but Roman is good.

[Kikó]

Team Ponce on this one. If you want to eat thick sliced bread with a heart attack on it, just put a McDonald's on some Hovis. The sort of pizza you're all on about should be renamed American Wankbread.

This is my favourite post ever.

McDonald's on hovis could work.

[Kikó]

I might order some American wankbread tonight or a kebab. Fancy the latter.

[Luca]

I’m making (thin crust) pizza in honour of Giggles.

[Baz]

That tray of meat is Goatse.

[Giggles]

Thin crust is good so long as it’s light and not like floury leather.

[phonics]

I spent 50 quid on Chinese. Half was good. Half was crap.

[Luca]

The Chinese food they do on continental Europe is, on the whole, utter shite.

Actually, yeah - I’ve had Chinese food in Switzerland. It was crap.

[Giggles]

Chinese takeaway here is brilliant. Yeah it’s nothing like the food they eat in China, but I don’t want the food they eat in China.

[niko_cee]

Continental Europe, stand down, this is not our fight.

[Luca]

Great Chinese food in the UK, both of the actual Chinese and takeaway variety. Unsure about Ireland.

Italy was always toss. Switzerland was toss (although I was in a small mountain town, so my sample size is small). Spain was toss.

[phonics]

There's loads of good pan-Asian food. I'm in a city where 43% of the population are foreign. Luca judging a nations takeaway situation from a town half way up a mountain is poor form.

My old favourite was Mike Wong.

http://www.mike-wong.ch/sites/all/themes/mikewong/logo.png

Yes that is a Nike swoosh and an upside down McDonalds M you see.

It shut down recently when their illegal immigrant staff asked for a raise so he shipped them all to the authorities and closed his doors.

[Lewis]

Chinese food is rubbish. If it wasn't, why would they rather eat living shit-fed mice?

[Pepe]

Heard the batburgers are good.

[Luca]

There's loads of good pan-Asian food. I'm in a city where 43% of the population are foreign. Luca judging a nations takeaway situation from a town half way up a mountain is poor form.

My old favourite was Mike Wong.

http://www.mike-wong.ch/sites/all/themes/mikewong/logo.png

Yes that is a Nike swoosh and an upside down McDonalds M you see.

It shut down recently when their illegal immigrant staff asked for a raise so he shipped them all to the authorities and closed his doors.

“Pan-Asian” is shit, so I think I’m right here.

[Shindig]

Had some breaded mushrooms today. Like, I enjoyed them at the time but I don't think I'll grab them again. I feel like they need something with the mushroom otherwise it's kinda bland.

[Giggles]

Had some breaded mushrooms today. Like, I enjoyed them at the time but I don't think I'll grab them again. I feel like they need something with the mushroom otherwise it's kinda bland.

Were they garlic?

[Shindig]

Nah, just mushrooms and breadcrumbs. They had a serving suggestion of draping garlic sauce over it but I had nowt in.

[niko_cee]

Deep fried mushrooms need a garlic or maybe tartare-style dipping sauce.

[Giggles]

I never seen them without being garlic.

[Baz]

The missus wants to order from this pizza place cos they also sell waffles.

Choose me a kebab, lads: https://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurants-pizza-power-new-st-helens/menu

I’m thinking chicken and doner on a naan. :drool:

[Spikey M]

Do they do those munch boxes you fellas all seem to get up there? Get one of them.

[Giggles]

Munchie is always the way.

[Baz]

Not an option. I literally sent a link to the menu. :cab:

Chicken and doner naan it is. Not sure if them spelling it as donna is a good or bad sign.

[Ian]

I'm sure it's what Donna would have wanted.

[Giggles]

Minus the chicken and double the Donna.

[Kikó]

Might get a Donna tonight. Uber eats has a 50% off on.

[Giggles]

And mini fillets with chips.

[Giggles]

I’m buying nothing from a takeaway for the foreseeable.

[Kikó]

I was thinking that as well tbh. Balance between looking after the local economy and not dying.

[Baz]

I’ve been informed they’ll leave it on my doorstep, knock and then leg it.

[Spikey M]

Not an option. I literally sent a link to the menu. :cab:

Chicken and doner naan it is. Not sure if them spelling it as donna is a good or bad sign.

I have made my policy on clicking your links explicitly clear.

[Giggles]

I’ve been informed they’ll leave it on my doorstep, knock and then leg it.

Make sure it’s not whipped.

[Kikó]

If the chef making it has got the corona then it's all game over anyway.

[Baz]

It came an hour early :cab:

One star review INCOMING

[Spikey M]

Turn it away.......

[Baz]

Turn it away.......

He couldn’t speak English. Besides, the same boxes would come back an hour later, with added pubes and spit.

[Luca]

One of the great tragedies of this board is that John Arne is not more active in this thread.

I think Vietnamese in my favourite cuisine outside of Italian (which leads for obvious sentimental reasons) these days. Just :drool:.

[Giggles]

It’s always been a very trendy one in the US hasn’t it?

[Kikó]

I had a biriyani and a sheekh kebab yesterday. I have put on a kg.

[SvN]

I had chicken burgers for lunch and steak burgers for dinner. This isolation has really fucked with my diet.

[Shindig]

I'd usually eat better as well. Like, I'd normally have fresh chicken rather than chicken kievs. Fresh meat instead of fish cakes.

[Ian]

I've still got a good bit of a Musclefood order either waiting to be cooked up or already cooking into portions of stuff and in the freezer so I'm not doing too bad.

To try and stop me becoming even blimpier I'm doing some workout videos off Youtube when I finish work.

[SvN]

I have plenty of good food in, but we've just not been eating it. We've been drinking way too much too, probably out of boredom.

[Ian]

Yeah even when I've been to the shop I've not bought much by way of junk or booze because I'm not to be trusted.

[Kikó]

I don't really see the point of me going to the shop because I end up spending the same amount of money the next day for food I'm also not going to eat. And the drinking is ridiculous.

[John]

I'm the same, I bought a couple of bags of frozen chicken breasts, but the only other thing I've bought in bulk is booze. Six bottles of wine and seventy two cans/bottles of various beers.

So far today I've had three cereal bars and the glorious scheme lunch of potato waffles covered in grated cheese then a tin of beans and sausages over that. I'm definitely emerging from isolation at least a stone heavier.

[Shindig]

I'll tell you what, this time of global crisis has really helped me get portion control down. I eat way too much so learning to stretch it and eat like a normal person is great.

[Giggles]

I have my Tesco order arriving tomorrow. Don’t really need it now but it took so long that I probably should in case it’s weeks before I can get another one.

[Luca]

It’s always been a very trendy one in the US hasn’t it?

Historically it has been overshadowed by Thai, although a number of “trendy” Vietnamese places have popped up in the last ~5 years.

I prefer my shithole, laminated-menu place where nary a word of English is spoken and the extra large bowl fills you for the day.

[Boydy]

I have my Tesco order arriving tomorrow. Don’t really need it now but it took so long that I probably should in case it’s weeks before I can get another one.

How much of what you ordered are you actually getting?

[Giggles]

How much of what you ordered are you actually getting?

After checking and changing some bits that were showing unavailable, all of what’s on it as it stands. There are very few things in short supply.

[Boydy]

After checking and changing some bits that were showing unavailable, all of what’s on it as it stands. There are very few things in short supply.
I did that the night before I got my click and collect last week. When I actually got it though there were still quite a few substituions and about 6 or 7 things they just didn't have.

[Giggles]

I did that the night before I got my click and collect last week. When I actually got it though there were still quite a few substituions and about 6 or 7 things they just didn't have.

I might just change the whole order to fags.

[Giggles]

I’m cooking dinner before 10am. The boredom is real.

[Spikey M]

Our ribs last night were top notch. I started slow cooking them at about 10. Brushing with Spikey M's homemade BBQ sauce* every 2 hours.




*it came in a bag from the butchers. Just mixes with water and brushed on.

https://i.ibb.co/p1QzFtf/Screenshot-20200329-102251-Whats-App.jpg

That's just my half. Had to cut it up so I could fit chips and coleslaw on the plate.

[Giggles]

I have ribs in the freezer that I must take out after seeing those :drool:

[Foe]

Might have some mini kievs and chilli heatwave Doritos for tea.

Treat yo self!

[Giggles]

I’m making tomorrows lunch now. I miss being able to stop and buy my lunch.

[niko_cee]

The problem with this lockdown is that everyone is eating themselves into comorbidity status.

What's the appropriate intervention for an obesity epidemic. Food shortages?

[Giggles]

The problem with this lockdown is that everyone is eating themselves into comorbidity status.

What's the appropriate intervention for an obesity epidemic. Food shortages?

I’m eating far less and far better because I’m still working all week and I can’t have chicken fillet rolls or sausage sandwiches at lunch time.

I don’t like it.

[Shindig]

Eating less but not eating well.

[Giggles]

Some brown pasta, onion, mushroom, and vegetarian sausages vs a beautiful big cheesy chicken fillet roll. No, definitely eating better as well as less.

[Foe]

The problem with this lockdown is that everyone is eating themselves into comorbidity status.

What's the appropriate intervention for an obesity epidemic. Food shortages?

Flippant comment above aside my diet is actually much more regular and balanced.

At the office I wouldn’t eat breakfast, have “something and chips for lunch” and then cereal for tea with snacks.

I’ve basically cut cake and chips out of my diet.

[Boydy]

Some brown pasta, onion, mushroom, and vegetarian sausages vs a beautiful big cheesy chicken fillet roll. No, definitely eating better as well as less.

You're eating vegetarian sausages?!

[Giggles]

You're eating vegetarian sausages?!

I’ll eat anything so long as they’re nice. Denny vegetarian sausages and Eden burgers are two I buy regularly for both shelf life and safe rehearing purposes. Both are definitely nice enough to eat in a world of vile vegetarian things. Clonakilty vegetarian white pudding is also epic and close enough to their real white pudding that you’d hardly know the difference.
I’d normally put strips of smoked (real) rashers in my pasta too but I had 3 veg sausages to use up so there was no need.

[Boydy]

I’ll eat anything so long as they’re nice. Denny vegetarian sausages and Eden burgers are two I buy regularly for both shelf life and safe rehearing purposes. Both are definitely nice enough to eat.
I’d normally put strips of smoked (real) rashers in my pasta too but I had 3 veg sausages to use up so there was no need.
Fair enough. Have you tried the Richmond meat-free sausages? They're pretty good.

[Giggles]

Fair enough. Have you tried the Richmond meat-free sausages? They're pretty good.

Not sure if they have them here though I think I’ve seen their regular sausages for sale so they might be. The local tesco has a fairly big section.
The denny ones are the best I’ve found (quoin - not too bad to eat but nothing like a sausage, Linda Mc - absolutely disgusting), they’re a bit odd and you’d know if they were with a fry but chopped up into something like pasta and someone would easily think they’re just a different brand of meat one.

[Ian]

I'm attempting fried chicken for the first time tonight.

[Giggles]

:drool:

Have you buttermilked it? I have no means of frying it or I’d love to make a bit too.

[Kikó]

I had veggie sausages this morning. Pretty fucking good but looking at the ingredients, it's just random words so not sure it's any better than the pork ones.

[Ian]

:drool:

Have you buttermilked it? I have no means of frying it or I’d love to make a bit too.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/next-level-fried-chicken

That's the recipe, a sort-of buttermilk. It's been marinading in that overnight. Didn't have enough paprika so I've put in a little cumin and a bit more chilli powder to top up the spice mix.

[Ian]

Well I had some issues getting the oil on the right temperature and keeping it there so the cooking on the coating of my fried chicken varied a bit from piece to piece but on the whole it was delicious.

Great success.

[Giggles]

I made popcorn in a pan for the first time. It worked.

[Kikó]

https://i.ibb.co/v19pZXg/IMG-20200402-185904.jpg

The chippy is open.

[Shindig]

Those mushy peas could use more mush.

[Kikó]

It's London mate, I'm just impressed they have them.

[Shindig]

Fair fucks.

[Raoul Duke]

I made banana bread yesterday and have some sourdough cooking in the machine right now :drool:

[Giggles]

Those chips look excellent.

[Kikó]

Can confirm they were proper.

[Giggles]

I found a pizza base mix in the press. That’s tomorrow sorted.

[niko_cee]

London chippies were universally wank, in my experience. Even the ones that were 'meant to be good' (there was one on Kingsland Road - Faulkners?) were dross. I saw one around Hammersmith whilst I was there over Christmas that looked to be 're-inventing the chippie' and then I think I spied another of the same name in the O2 so I guess it was probably part of some dreadful chain. Looked rubbish. I think the problem is that the focus is always on the fish in the fancier places (and all chip shops outside of the UK - I'm looking at you Australia) when it is actually the humble chip you have to nail to be a top chippie. The battered things are pretty easy generally.

[Ian]

I may have mentioned on here before that the chippy over the road from me has started giving seabass as an option for your fish supper. Best part of double the price. Now I like a bit of seabass but I don't live in the nicest part of town so I'm not sure wo they think their target market is.

Maybe all the addicts who've built up an appetite waiting outside the pharmacy.

[Kikó]

The one I went to had Cod, Haddock, Cornish Plaice and another which I've forgotten. Obviously went for plaice.

Decent on everything but the peas. Wife got prawn tacos (Wtf is a chippy even) which looked pretty immense.

[Ian]

I mean prawn tacos sound ace but from a chippy?

[Kikó]

Again, London. They were deep fried so I guess that makes sense?

[Giggles]

Cod is probably the best overall but ray is popular here and rather nice.

[Lewis]

Cod is filth. Haddock is the daddy.

[Ian]

I know both are flatfish so I assume rayis something like skate? I cooked that for the first time recently and it was a bit of a faff to eat* but super tasty.

*I assume if you're getting it from a chippy they do the hard work for you.

[Giggles]

I know both are flatfish so I assume rayis something like skate? I cooked that for the first time recently and it was a bit of a faff to eat* but super tasty.

*I assume if you're getting it from a chippy they do the hard work for you.

Yeah it’s battered like the cod. Looking forward to getting one again whenever the fuck that will be. And if they survive that long.

[Ian]

I really have the fear that the takeaway near me that does my salt and chilli spicy bag will die and I'll never have one again.

[Luca]

London chippies were universally wank, in my experience. Even the ones that were 'meant to be good' (there was one on Kingsland Road - Faulkners?) were dross. I saw one around Hammersmith whilst I was there over Christmas that looked to be 're-inventing the chippie' and then I think I spied another of the same name in the O2 so I guess it was probably part of some dreadful chain. Looked rubbish. I think the problem is that the focus is always on the fish in the fancier places (and all chip shops outside of the UK - I'm looking at you Australia) when it is actually the humble chip you have to nail to be a top chippie. The battered things are pretty easy generally.

Tbf I had the best fish and chips I've ever had from some shoddy stand on a pier in Tasmania, and reflecting on it, it was because they got this right. The fish was good (because presumably it was plucked out of the sea about 20 minutes before I had it), but the chips were magnificent. The chips make the difference.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I noticed that the kebab van near me was still doing a roaring trade in broad daylight at 5pm. Do vans have a magical loophole they fall into which allows them to stay open? Fair fucks to this trooper if so, been in the same spot since 1985 and no contagious coward virus is going to stop him now.

[Spikey M]

Our local kebab shop is still open. It's only sit-down restaurants they shut, no?

[Spikey M]

Fish and Chips is such a con. Every Summer we get the entirety of East London descend on us, with their 10 kids each, 1980's boomboxes and complete inability to put things in bins.

They go fucking mad for Fish and Chips. I know you're by the sea lads, but that Cod wasn't plucked out of the Thames Estuary at the end of the Peir.

[Foe]

Our local kebab shop is still open. It's only sit-down restaurants they shut, no?

Theres an ice cream parlour I walk past on my days walks which is still open that baffles me.

[Giggles]

I’ve plucked up the courage to order an indian. I still don’t know if I’ll have the stones to eat it when it arrives but we’ll see.

[randomlegend]

I’ve plucked up the courage to order an indian. I still don’t know if I’ll have the stones to eat it when it arrives but we’ll see.

The advice is apparently to move it onto your own plates/bowls/whatever and then microwave it.

[Shindig]

Or isolate it for 7 days before consuming. :dc:

[niko_cee]

The advice is apparently to move it onto your own plates/bowls/whatever and then microwave it.

Whoever came up with that advice (I originally saw it for a takeaway pizza) was having a laugh.

[John]

I've just been in my local one and it's fucking bedlam, their little Just Eat machine didn't stop printing the whole time I was in.

[Giggles]

It’ll be slid into the bin before I destroy it in a microwave.

[Don]

I filled out an online police report for a 'donut' and refreshments van that was parked at my local lake. I wouldn't normally be so pathetic but it was that or PM-ing Giggles some insults in terms of today's agenda and although it was just a middle-aged lass probs trying to leave her prostitution days behind her as she provides for her 2 bastard children, it was encouraging congregation and I ain't having that when I'm trying to enjoy it all to myself.

Now don't really know if I agree with my actions or not but I've wanked five times and feel like I can go another five #quarlife

[Spikey M]

Only 3 chinese takeaways open locally. What the raas.

[Giggles]

I filled out an online police report for a 'donut' and refreshments van that was parked at my local lake. I wouldn't normally be so pathetic but it was that or PM-ing Giggles some insults in terms of today's agenda and although it was just a middle-aged lass probs trying to leave her prostitution days behind her as she provides for her 2 bastard children, it was encouraging congregation and I ain't having that when I'm trying to enjoy it all to myself.

Now don't really know if I agree with my actions or not but I've wanked five times and feel like I can go another five #quarlife

Quiet day. No toddlers to buy?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Only 3 chinese takeaways open locally. What the raas.

Each of the 4 along my road has A4 pages of WordArt pinned up in the windows offering incentives to order delivery. It would be touching if eating their food wasn't likely to start another respiratory pandemic.

[John]

Giggles Spikey M

I've just had a look at the updated menu my local place put in the bag, and they've added a new calzone. Donner, chicken tikka, lamb tikka, spiced mince, spiced onion, and chilli sauce. Sounds like it could be a bit much, but there's no world in which I don't buy one to find out.

[Spikey M]

It will almost certainly be too much, but sometimes 'too much' is all that will do. Are you getting one tonight?

[Giggles]

God yes.

You could always leave some :uhoh:

[Kikó]

Just made Rick Stein Lamb and Spinach Karahi plus some chipati and did a wanky tweet:

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[Giggles]

That was just about acceptable (and the food looks excellent) until the Braw. Undid all the good work.

[Kikó]

It's for the father in law. Epic 4.5 hours making it.

[Lewis]

Could have just messaged him a picture then couldn't you you wanker.

[Kikó]

Oh but then I wouldn't be able to get you calling me a wanker.

https://toastedspecial.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/rick-stein-mumrez-khan-karachi-lamb-spinach-karahi/

[John]

It will almost certainly be too much, but sometimes 'too much' is all that will do. Are you getting one tonight?

No, I got a bhuna 'pizza naan'. Garlic naan bread covered in chicken bhuna then topped with cheese and grilled. It's a filthy, sloppy mess of a thing but absolutely brilliant.

[niko_cee]

Saffa cab sav can do one.

[Smjffy]

First effort but I'm really happy with it. :cool: Tomorrow I'm going to try and make my own butter and try wrap my head around making some sort of jam or peanut butter.

[Boydy]

What sort of bread is it, Smiff? Looks good.

I ordered some kitchen scales and I'm gonna have a go at being a sourdough wanker when they arrive.

[Queenslander]

Full days at home have given me the motivation to teach myself how to use a Weber.

Beef Shorties is my third attempt after playing around with silverside and lamb shoulder. This easily my best effort so far with the help of a beef rub and cherry wood. I was super keen and took them.off at 195f which is a touch too soon.



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Im sorry I cant get the spoiler things to work.

[Shindig]

This tin of macaroni and cheese might be the worst thing I've ever eaten. And I fucking love mac and cheese.

I can't even finish it. The other can's going to the food bank. Jesus.

[Bob Sacamano]

I've attempted a couple of the easier How To BBQ Right dishes.

Malcolm Reid is an absolute don, this is the absolute dream. :drool:

[phonics]

This guy who buys tins of maccaroni cheese has the fucking gall to talk about anyone else's life choices...

[Queenslander]

I've attempted a couple of the easier How To BBQ Right dishes.

Malcolm Reid is an absolute don, this is the absolute dream. :drool:

Using gas or charcoal?

[Spikey M]

Gas :nono:

[Giggles]

If he’s BBQing then he’s not using gas.

[Queenslander]

You would be surprised.

Bbq covers both down here.

[Spikey M]

I mean, you can buy a 'Gas Barbecue' here, but it's no more a Barbecue than a Smart Car is Smart. Or a Car.

[Queenslander]

Gonna try and brine a chicken for a night chuck it on the coals next week. Luckliy the BBQ store near has brine and rub for sale so I can look like a wiz but Im actually a noob.

[Baz]

A wiz :D

[niko_cee]

Referring to a (weber) BBQ as 'a weber' is worse than any fuel based snobbery. Gas is fine. Call it a cook out if you have to be an absolute wanker about it. Coal is good fun (and better), but it's a massive faff and most people are fucking shit at it, so any benefits are completely offset by the fact that you usually either eat 3 hours later than planned or everything is incinerated.

[Spikey M]

If you're not eating black sausages that are still raw in the middle, what's the point? Are we meant to just chuck decades of tradition out the window?

[niko_cee]

Absolutely not, but why wait the extra 3 hours for the privilege?

I suppose being paralytic might help with the eating. You've got me.

[Giggles]

Referring to a (weber) BBQ as 'a weber' is worse than any fuel based snobbery. Gas is fine. Call it a cook out if you have to be an absolute wanker about it. Coal is good fun (and better), but it's a massive faff and most people are fucking shit at it, so any benefits are completely offset by the fact that you usually either eat 3 hours later than planned or everything is incinerated.

Gas is not fine. No smoke, no bbq. Might as well chuck it all in the oven.

[niko_cee]

You just need to keep your gas bbq in a state of sufficient disrepair/uncleanliness and then there's smoke aplenty. I suppose you could biff some wood chip in if you were a mentalist.

I'm not really sure cooking food outside on a grill, however you power it, is really barbecuing in the full dickhead sense of the term, but that's what it is. Cooking outside, preferably in the sun, not in some smoke filled contraption you've named after your 3rd ex-wife or Vietnam platoon commander.

[Spikey M]

How is Wimpy still going?

Just had one delivered owing to it having the shortest delivery time and it was wank. A burger in a brown bun with lettuce and the burger sauce you find at every burger van going. £9 for a meal.

[Ian]

How desperate for a takeaway were you?

[Spikey M]

It must be atleast 15 years since I last had one. I look forward to the next 15.

[Boydy]

That is grim, Spikey.

[Lewis]

There is a Wimpy on Portsmouth front that isn't bad (right up your street (https://wimpy.uk.com/food-stories/bender-bun) Idiotmouse). They use good bread.

[niko_cee]

The chicken thing was always better in the wimpy, probably the best of any burger chain, although we're talking decades ago here, and I vaguely recall attending one at an M25 services more recently (like in the last 10 years at some point) and being disappointed by it. Do they still do the bender in a bun?

[John]

That's what Lewis has linked to above.

[Ian]

Apparently that is "revered by the public."

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like the fact that they once changed its name (presumably to avoid being seen as massive homophobes) and then changed it back due to public pressure. God Save the Queen.

[Spikey M]

Getting a ruby in tonight but fancy something different. Recommendations required. No hotter than a Madras please lads.

[Giggles]

Without knowing the specials, from the normal stuff I’d go for a pathia.

[Spikey M]

Gone with that. It sounds like a spicy sweet and sour but I'm assuming it's different? Anything Tamarind based is usually a winner anyway.

[Giggles]

It is a sweet and sour but not how your brain imagines it if you’ve never had it. If it’s done right it should be really sticky tasting.

I made one on Thursday and forgot how much I loved it. Very hard to get in a takeaway here but I know it’s a regular on a UK menu.

[phonics]

I'm a Rogan Josh man with some Saag Paneer.

[Spikey M]

I usually go Madras, Rogan Josh or Jalfrezi.

[John]

If I'm getting a curry it's rare I'll go for something other than a South Indian garlic chilli chicken.

[Giggles]

I’m not making the mistake of chucking another takeaway out this week so I’m cooking goujons.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like a dhansak when mixing it up a bit, but a pathia's good too.

[Giggles]

I love the taste of a dhansak but lentils are not pleasant.

[phonics]

Lentils are absolutely fantastic you heathen.

[Spikey M]

The truth is somewhere in the middle of those 2 statements.

[Giggles]

Meat and rice are absolutely fantastic. Lentils are not.

[randomlegend]

I love the taste of a dhansak but lentils are not pleasant.

Isn't a Dhansak just a pathia with lentils?

[Giggles]

Isn't a Dhansak just a pathia with lentils?

In some places they’ll use the same sauce for both yeah.

[randomlegend]

In some places they’ll use the same sauce for both yeah.

Can't remember the thumb up

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lentils are absolutely fantastic you heathen.

For once I find myself fully behind a Phonics post.

[Giggles]

Can't remember the thumb up

A lot of the time people will block out traumatic experiences.

[Spikey M]

It is a sweet and sour but not how your brain imagines it if you’ve never had it. If it’s done right it should be really sticky tasting.

I made one on Thursday and forgot how much I loved it. Very hard to get in a takeaway here but I know it’s a regular on a UK menu.

It was good shit. I was worried it would be like a Chinese Sweet and Sour - of which I'm not a fan, it's all sweet, fuck all sour to be found - but it is a low key sweet and a limey sour. Decent spice level as well.

Obscene amount of oil in it, but it didn't ruin it and that may be the restaurants fault rather than the dish?

[Kikó]

I had Caribbean last night - chicken curry and jerk chicken and loads of random shit dumpling stuff and a festival (like a churro almost). The jerk was brilliant.

[Giggles]

Made jerk skewers during the week one day myself. It’s very nice.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Curry goat and a dumpling is a brilliant Caribbean meal.

[Ian]

I did my first attempt at a crispy salt and chilli chicken tonight and it was pretty decent.

[Luca]

Making fajitas tonight; if I'm ever out at one of those wanky 'sports bars'/franchised 'grills', the kinds of which you only really find this side of the Atlantic, they are my go-to choice.

Steak and chicken. :drool:

[randomlegend]

https://i.imgur.com/CYkXRUk.png

Did some sausage rolls yesterday. Apple, caramelised onion and a bit of wholegrain mustard. Belting.

[Luca]

The Thermapen is a beast :cool:

[Spikey M]

You shouldn't be going round your nans to borrow her biscuit tin though.

[Queenslander]

The quality of meat and seafood showing up in the super markets atm because we arent sending it to China is great.

[Adamski]

Takeaway from my local restaurant last night. Honey BBQ/Salt & chilli wings, bacon cheeseburger, bacon cheese chicken burger, haggis fries and some dirty macaroni.

https://i.imgur.com/WMfS2kD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tlOn1uB.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n8q3phl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/raeKyvc.jpg

[Spikey M]

That gooks great. Shame about the chips.

[Luca]

The BBQ sauce to wing ratio leaves something to be desired.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That picture of the haggis and chips should henceforth replace the saltire.

[Giggles]

Frozen chips are perfectly fine with that kind of food. He’s not eating a battered cod down the sea front.

Could do with losing the offal though and even though wings are always pointless, those are fairly decent looking if you’re into sucking bones.

[Giggles]

The bottom photo made me think they were branding their burgers with transformers for a second.

[Kikó]

Looks like a good heart attack meal. Haggis from a takeaway, surely it's no good?

[Foe]

Guess I’m in the minority thinking that looks pretty rough.

The burger looks almost passable if a bit dry.

Closest I’ve come to a takeaway recently was swinging by an Indian on a walk home to buy a couple of naan breads to go alongside a curry I made myself.

[Giggles]

Looks like a good heart attack meal. Haggis from a takeaway, surely it's no good?

There’s probably more fat and calories in your creamed celeriac purée and caviar risotto.

[Kikó]

What about my chicken and mushroom pie?

[niko_cee]

Looks like a last meal.

[Queenslander]

Pitboss.

https://i.ibb.co/0r6RYW9/20200417-163954.jpg (https://ibb.co/vkT6Lrd)
https://i.ibb.co/pj61BYX/20200417-112251.jpg (https://ibb.co/230F1GK)

[Jimmy Floyd]

The real heroism in Adamski's meal is that I can only see two sets of cutlery in the first picture, which I'm hoping means that two of you saw off every last morsel.

God I love pork belly.

[Spikey M]

Pitboss.

https://i.ibb.co/0r6RYW9/20200417-163954.jpg (https://ibb.co/vkT6Lrd)
https://i.ibb.co/pj61BYX/20200417-112251.jpg (https://ibb.co/230F1GK)

What's the rub/marinade?

[Spikey M]

The real heroism in Adamski's meal is that I can only see two sets of cutlery in the first picture, which I'm hoping means that two of you saw off every last morsel.

God I love pork belly.

There's a kids plate present in the first photo.

Unless he or his better half is eating off plastic plates, anyway.

[Giggles]

Paper plates are the way forward.

[Shindig]

God I love pork belly.

Same here. I know it winds up being mostly fat but it's so good.

[Spikey M]

I mean, that's WHY it's so good.

[Queenslander]

What's the rub/marinade?

https://i.ibb.co/ggTZz9z/HCC-BLACK.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

Send me your address.

[Adamski]

Looks like a good heart attack meal. Haggis from a takeaway, surely it's no good?

It’s a steak restaurant that’s started doing some different stuff to takeaway during lockdown. I was a bit worried how some of it would travel but it was pretty good!

[Adamski]

Pitboss.

https://i.ibb.co/0r6RYW9/20200417-163954.jpg (https://ibb.co/vkT6Lrd)
https://i.ibb.co/pj61BYX/20200417-112251.jpg (https://ibb.co/230F1GK)

Looks incredible. Big pork belly fan as well. Think I’ve got some coming this week.


The real heroism in Adamski's meal is that I can only see two sets of cutlery in the first picture, which I'm hoping means that two of you saw off every last morsel.

God I love pork belly.

Two of us took that down, yeah. 4 year old had her own macaroni.

[Spikey M]

https://i.ibb.co/ggTZz9z/HCC-BLACK.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

Send me your address.

What flavour is it? And, serious?

[Giggles]

What flavour is it? And, serious?

It’s only so as you can forward it on to me.

[Queenslander]

What flavour is it? And, serious?

https://www.hardcorecarnivore.com/products/hardcore-carnivore-black

Take it to the PMs

[Queenslander]

Looks incredible. Big pork belly fan as well. Think I’ve got some coming this week.



Two of us took that down, yeah. 4 year old had her own macaroni.

Im doing all the beef cuts before I change animals. Lamb willl be next then Pork with chicken in between

You must smash the Lamb being Greek.


Pork Belly goes off in the Air Fyer

[John]

That takeaway looks quite repellent. The haggis chips in particular look like someone held a well fed baby over some burger van chips and squeezed it.

The pork belly looks obscenely good though.

[Queenslander]

That takeaway looks quite repellent. The haggis chips in particular look like someone held a well fed baby over some burger van chips and squeezed it.

The pork belly looks obscenely good though.

Follow the recipe for pork belly and the oven is your friend.

https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/asian-crispy-pork-belly/58a29e98-c6d4-47f8-ac8a-f58bbac24a1c

Bloody Chinese do the best pork belly.

[Spikey M]

The Haggis fries are an abomination, but the rest looks fine. I've never had a branded burger.

[Lewis]

Aren't they haggis chips rather than haggis fries?

[John]

Whatever you want to call them they look disgusting.

Tesco have, along with every other shop I'd imagine, put the prices of their Easter stuff through the floor. I've just got three big Thorntons eggs which combined contain about the equivalent of a full box of sweets for less than a fiver. Big bags of mini eggs for 50p too. :drool:

[Giggles]

Couldn’t get an egg anywhere by Easter Monday, not even the dear ones. I’d say there’s stunts with attic fulls.

[Lewis]

I got a few bargains from Asda in the week and I scoffed them in a couple of days, so I'm telling myself not to stock up.

[Disco]

Sainsburys was still full of them yesterday but I'm not sure that's any different to other years.

[Giggles]

I’ve went back and looked at those chips of the Ski’s again and you’re all still wrong.

[Giggles]

Was running low on sauce so ordered a few of these. Tasted the chilli bbq and the foam and fury one at a market before and they were lovely.


https://www.micschilli.com/#hot30

[Adamski]

Was nice haggis, they use MacSween which is a good brand and the chips weren’t any worse than standard restaurant style ones tbh.

7/10 all round, would munch again.

[John]

I’ve went back and looked at those chips of the Ski’s again and you’re all still wrong.

The chips themselves look nice, but you can't honestly think that meconium piled on top is appetising.

[Giggles]

The chips themselves look nice, but you can't honestly think that meconium piled on top is appetising.

God no. I wouldn’t eat haggis no matter where it came from but I thought everyone just meant the actual chips.

[Spikey M]

God no. I wouldn’t eat haggis no matter where it came from but I thought everyone just meant the actual chips.

No, what they did to the poor chips.

[Giggles]

That makes more sense. I thought you meant they should be the ‘chippy’ kind.

[niko_cee]

Haggis is top tier, stop outing yourselves as a bunch of numpties.

Not sure about it on chips as 'a side', but in isolation that'd be fine.

[Kikó]

Agree with niko.

[John]

Haggis is great. That haggis looks like it's been left out on a roof for a week before blighting those chips.

[Spikey M]

Didn't know Scotland had a Shoreditch branch.

[randomlegend]

Couldn’t get an egg anywhere by Easter Monday, not even the dear ones. I’d say there’s stunts with attic fulls.

We got another 150 dropped off at work a couple of days ago.

[Adamski]

Do we have anyone in Manchester?

These always look incredible:

https://www.facebook.com/1511791709055587/posts/2649164838651596/?d=n&substory_index=0

[Giggles]

We got another 150 dropped off at work a couple of days ago.

The Mrs has ordered us Lily O’Briens ones and Lindt bunnies for the day so I was both sick as a dog and very happy.

[Giggles]

Do we have anyone in Manchester?

These always look incredible:

https://www.facebook.com/1511791709055587/posts/2649164838651596/?d=n&substory_index=0

That does look amazing.

[Lewis]

Poutine is just ruined chips and gravy.

[Adamski]

Haggis is great. That haggis looks like it's been left out on a roof for a week before blighting those chips.

I’m sure you’re just being deliberately obtuse but I should clarify it has peppercorn sauce on it (and you can barely see the actual haggis)

[Giggles]

I’d never eat haggis but to be honest the way Adamski has it is the way I’d want it. Cut thin and crispy. A bit like liver in a northy Chinese.

[John]

I’m sure you’re just being deliberately obtuse but I should clarify it has peppercorn sauce on it (and you can barely see the actual haggis)

I mean it doesn't look like great peppercorn sauce either, but you've turned it around there.

[phonics]

Poutine is just ruined chips and gravy.

This has inspired me to do Chips,Cheese,Gravy but with Haloumi :drool:

[Spikey M]

I'd knock the Haggis on the head but Peppercorn sauce dirty fries is a DUB.

[Lewis]

Giggles, I made the porridge bread with a big spoon of Marmite in. It's spectacular.

[Luca]

That does look amazing.

Looks like they’re using actual cheese curds as well, which is a welcome touch of authenticity.

Poutine is second only to kebabs as the best post-drink food.

[Giggles]

Giggles, I made the porridge bread with a big spoon of Marmite in. It's spectacular.

Nice. That’s going to happen tonight with Bovril :drool:

[Kikó]

https://i.imgur.com/mEL51GG.jpg

More Jamaican

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:drool:

Never been a fan of plantain (unless it's a crisp) though.

[-james-]

This (https://gasmarkfive.com/2015/07/04/one-pot-mushroom-and-bay-biryani/) mushroom biryani is proper. Dead easy and full of flavour. Serve it with pomegranate seeds on top and a load of yoghurt on the side.

It's from this (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Way-Cook-Anna-Jones/dp/0008124493) book, which is excellent in spite of its shit title. Everything's well thought out and pretty straightforward. I think everything I've made from it has been good/great. Strong rec.

[Ian]

My favourite pizza place has re-opened. :drool:

[Pepe]

Mine never closed. :drool:

[Giggles]

Fuck it I’m getting a chinks this weekend. Bank holiday and all and I’m gagging for a spice box.

[Boydy]

I only found out today that the UK has moved the bank holiday to Friday to coincide with VE Day.

Moving the holiday for international workers day for a festival of petty jingoism. What a shithole.

[Ian]

Fuck it I’m getting a chinks this weekend. Bank holiday and all and I’m gagging for a spice box.

The place near me which does the salt and chilli chicken / chips "spicy bag", easily my favourite takeaway, is still closed. :(