Only seems right that I start the thread...
So, what we cooking and eating lads?
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Only seems right that I start the thread...
So, what we cooking and eating lads?
I just had some chicken and sweet chilli rolls and a cup of tea after work.
Working late, Boydy.
Good to see it champ.
I fancy a sandwich of some description.
Think tonight gone make some taco's - my favourite of the mexican dishes.
Choco Pillows for breakfast. No where near the level of Kraves.
I had a chicken roll with cheese. Happy now.
Think it's going to be potato wedges with cheese and salami for lunch.
Potato smiles here
Deep fried I hope. They are pish when baked.
Marks and Sparks Cajun chicken strips loaded into a sandwich for me :drool:
Just got back from a tart making course with the (Quite Excellent) Tim Kinnaird of Masterchef fame, who now owns a cake shop and cookery school in Norwich.
These are the results of my labours, with which I am very pleased:
Lemon:
http://i.imgur.com/kFjBehe.jpg?3
Chocolate:
http://i.imgur.com/Hvi64M7.jpg?2
Fruit and creme patissiere:
http://i.imgur.com/PdmhL5h.jpg?1
You're a tart.
What cake shop does he own?
http://www.macaronsandmore.com/
It's down the Arcade, opposite "Jamie's".
I hope he lolled his hole off at the chocolate ones.
Oh. That. I've never tried a macaron.
The Orange Tree (St George's Street?) in Norwich does amazing caramel slices. Go and buy some.
Why did you even up the pastry on the other ones then?
Crème Pâtissière? :gay:
That's custard mate.
The cases were baked differently for the big lemon tart and the little chocolate tartlets. Couldn't really do that for the chocolate ones, and unless you shove a camera two inches away it doesn't really show.
I dunno why you have to be such git about it though :(
Don't listen to him they look fine, I'll have some of the lemon one please.
Don't let him off. Keep at it. The fruit allocation is uneven.
I had a McDonald's today, because my mate was craving it after football. It was awful.
Need to be earlier. The muffin and hash brown are immense.
They've got a Greek salad going at the moment, which I really should have tried (it looked quite excellent), but I decided to be a fat cunt.
It would have been dripping in beef fat and oil, Luca.
Although, having looked at McDonalds Canada, I'd be all over one of those Mighty Angus burgers.
Can't remember if I posted about it on old TTH but I bought some sea bass fillets off the discount shelf recently and with the first one just griddled it and then stuck it in a crusty batch with halloumi and chips. It was ace. Similar again with the other one tonight but with some slices of potato par-boiled then grilled, then the fish (griddled again) and lots of salt and vinegar.
Feels like it should be a waste of a nice bit of fish but it's really easy and really good.
Steak and chips tonight.
Had sea bass last night, with peas, asparagus and mint and a lemon sauce.
More smiles here
I had a curry because my fridge has carrots, celery and some milk in it. Bastards forgot my coke though. :panda:
Have a chilli on the go with 2 scotch bonnet peppers in it.
I have a feeling that I should have stuck with one.
Also, I'm absolutely terrified to touch any part of my body right now in case the three hand washes didn't take away all of the chilli oil on my fingers.
Live dangerously. Have a wank.
Having a proper fat day, with Papa Johns and Ben & Jerrys.
Peanut butter cup ice cream is incredible.
You need to be a member of the royal family to afford Ben & Jerry's here in Denmark.
How come we only have about five flavours of that to choose from here?
And how was the wank?
Glorious, your mother took my ejaculate to the face like a real trooper.
'My ejaculate' :sick:
New Board Mahow is the worst.
Didn't even know my mum could work a webcam.
Duck legs are ruddy :henn0rz: good. Roasted with Chinese 5 spice and a redcurrant sauce and you're onto a winner.
Odd place for that smiley.
Is it?
Have I missed some sort of duck joke? :(
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sour...2j0l4.1632j0j7
I was so chuffed with myself too, didn't even notice until I read it back.
Oh I see.
It's mallard to remember the names of different breeds of duck.
My parents have given me some really fancy confit d'onion which is like an onion marmalade. What do I do with it?
Spread it on toast?
Homely cottage pie tonight for tea. :drool:
Eat it with cheese and crackers/biscuits.
He does, yeah, the backwards idiot.
Just had a sainsburys jerk chicken pizza, it was pretty decent. Is it just me, or are pizza express pizzas a bit shit?
The supermarket ones or the actual ones you buy from Pizza Express itself? The former are just okay, the latter are pretty good.
Also, you should definitely have done a video review of your pizza.
The former. Not disgusting, but no better than the own brand ones.
The Asda finest pizzas are great though, easily the nicest supermarket ones I've had. All you cunts should try the stonebaked herb chicken one, it is fucking mega.
And I already did a video review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiWSKpAR7sc
I made a satay sauce last night to go with chicken and rice. Somewhere along the road I must have not added some sort of thinning out agent, because it was the thickest, richest sauce I have ever made (and I'm a bit of a sauce fiend (wahey! (lads))). Bloody nice though.
The 'Sloppy Joe' takeaway style Chicago Town pizzas are the best by miles.
Pizza is never one that is really look forward to over other fast foods.
My favourite of all would nearly be the supermarket ones you get covered in clingfilm from the deli counter.
Can you cook, Igor?
Yeah, I'm pretty decent actually. Make a fucking killer tomato and vegetable pasta sauce. Supermarket pizzas are just my go-to lazy dinner.
I made a great lasagna last night, and home-made garlic cheesy bread. Got it for lunch today as well, minus the garlic bread.
Made thai green chicken skewers with ginger and sesame KEEENWAAAH tonight. It was nice, but I'm weird craving ice cream after.
Them ponce pizzas supermarkets do annoy me, with their stupid crusts and blobs of tasteless mozzarella that don't serve any purpose. The create your own ones Asda do are the best shop pizzas around, and probably the best value pizzas in the entire universe.
In fact, apart from when you get heavily-discounted bread before the shop shuts, they might be the best value food generally. It's three fifty for a fourteen inch pizza with whatever you want on it. You can pay three fifty for a shit pasty in train stations (as David Cameron lied about doing). I'm getting emotional thinking about it.
Yep they're the ones I meant earlier. Asda ones being particularly good. Mountains of stuff on them.
They're so good that I put up with the div who makes them taking liberties and being overly-familiar with me. If that happened at a sandwich shop I would burn it down or murder him.
Just ordered a pizza. You could select five toppings so I went with:
Chicken
Sausage
Sweetcorn
Extra mozzarella
Olives
Not sure what made me choose olives but I can't wait. :drool: £14 well spent.
Sure I could have gone Asda and saved a bit of moolah but I've had 2 beers already.
Should have got a bus to Asda.
Olives on a pizza is amazing.
Not a fan of sweetcorn on a pizza though.
I don't hate sweetcorn, but I've noticed it is disproportionately eaten by the fussy eater brigade. I've known a few people who 'don't like fruit and veg' but eat sweetcorn. The Coldplay of vegetables.
It never appeals to me, but I have a couple of corn on the cobs if I need a good clearout.
I used to take a tin of sweetcorn into work with me for lunch and just eat straight out of it with a fork. :cool:
I really abhor chicken on a pizza.
Sweetcorn goes brilliantly on a pizza with pepperoni, but not much else.
http://i.imgur.com/PzRljSo.png
It was magnificent.
Got a Dominos for tea after, was a bit meh. I should have braved the rugby cunts and their horrid spawn earlier and went out for a proper meal.
I made a steak and kidney pie tonight. It was banging.
Thinking about getting a curry in tonight.
Home made bolognese from the freezer tonight. How lonely.
I've never understood why people ruin perfectly good steak pies by putting shitty, paper-tasting kidney in them.
I liked it, it gives it a different flavour. I made it for my dad though. He'd been talking about making one for ages and hadn't got round to it and it was his birthday today so I was being nice.
:)
Driving fat people's cars for them, making tea for the elderly. Mate you're on form this week.
It's Owen Jones' fault.
I'm lovely, I just don't show you bastards that.
1 Chicken Karma Bahar
1 Pilau Rice
1 Keema Naan
1 Bombay Aloo
:drool:
Have you got two curries there?
Nope.
Curry
Rice
Bread
Potatoes
No Chicken Chaat is a missed opportunity though.
Not tried that Sarge. What's the crack?
Normally they are two curry dishes. I've never seen solitary aloo.
That's getting ordered next time if my local does it.
Keema. :drool:
I think it was Giggles I was advising on the Keema paratha a while ago. Superb.
Have you had a South Indian garlic chilli chicken from your place, Yev? Made well it's the best curry.
Anyone know the name of that crispy pork (I think its pork) that you wrap in lettuce is called. It's Chinese.
And if so, is it easy to make?
South Indian garlic chilli is the business.
I've discovered that a hotel/bar right near me does a seriously good curry. Their chicken tikka sizzler is fantastic.
What's your favourite curries then gents?
Janter Manter
Rajisthani
Are my favourites from a curry house.
I like to make Makhanis and Balti Butters. I can't seem to make a nice Jalfrezi though.
A Dansak.
I struggle to go for anything other than a Chicken Jalfrezi, it's pretty much perfect, throw in a naan and some raita and it's good to go.
I'm fairly unadventurous when it comes to Indian food. I like it but don't have it that often so I usually don't want to try something new that I might not like. I usually just go for a madras.
Some sort of buffet would be good so I could go and try loads of stuff but they seem to be far less common for Indian food than Chinese.
The ones I've had don't taste especially garlic-y to me but I dunno if they would if you're not keen on garlic and would thus notice it more.
I had a south indian garlic chili the other week actually. It was proper shit, but I think I just got it from a rubbish place. Lamb jalfrezi is my usual selection, or anything lamb that is hot but not vindaloo hot.
Paratha or puri are my favourite breads, but nowt wrong with a naan either.
I got one after and it really was superb. Also got the latter from my local one recently and I'd definitely get it again.
@Magic Mine is a lamb pathia from a takeaway/restaurant or a vindalu if I'm making it myself.
Must have been a tad undercooked.
Spot on lads. Anyone know if it's easy to make then?
edit: Ah fuck you need Spring Onions. Yet another Chinese meal I can't make. That shit is rarer and more expensive than Saffron over here for some reason.
You can't get spring onions in Switzerland? :cab:
Not so great now, is it? Earning all that money and no spring onions to spend it on.
Pav Bhaji is probably my favourite Indian dish; Chili Chicken if we're opening it up to Indo-Chinese dishes.
My favourite curry to make is an amazing Kashmiri Lamb dish, which roughly equates to a Lamb Rogan Josh.
It's kind of got two layers of spicing to it - a hit of whole spices which sit in the background, particularly black cardamom, and then a variety of typical dry spices on top, mainly Kashmiri chilli powder.
The base of the sauce is an onion, ginger and garlic paste, as well as a tomato paste I make and then yoghurt as well. The most important thing though is a proper, homemade lamb stock that MUST have all the bone marrow, etc, in it to make it gloopy and gelatinous.
I make it with lamb shoulder usually and give the bones a good bash to crack them open and then boil the hell out of them with a load of veg. Sometimes chuck some cracked chicken bones in the stock too.
Got a mega Jalfrezi recipe stored away somewhere that's made with loads of fresh seeds - mainly fenugreek and black onion/nigella, while the sauce is mainly tomato with loads of chunky peppers cut in it and lots of lemon juice at the end.
tl;dr - I've spent the last 15 years cooking curries from scratch and it's pretty much one of my favourite hobbies. Anyone who's ever thought about dabbling in curry making more seriously, get this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Currie...amilla+punjabi
The recipes are flawless.
Got a slow cooker a couple of days ago, going to stick a lump of beef in there with some green chillies, salsa and onions to use as a burrito filling. Think it will be good curries too, although the girlfriend doesn't like lamb and chicken isn't particularly good for slow cooking, as it's so lean.
It can work, you just need to keep enough moisture in there. Pork works really well though, have a go with that.
Yeah pork, beef and lamb are good because of the fattyness of the meats. I guess chicken thighs are quite fatty, they could work? Otherwise you're right, you'd just need to keep on top of the moisture, using broth or coconut milk or something I guess.
Whole chicken is good in the slow cooker. I only ever do thighs in a curry if I'm slow cooking.
Currently making some cheesy potato pancakes with leftover mash from yesterday. Holy shit, they're delicious.
Doesn anyone else watch Chef's Night Out on MUNCHIES from Vice?
It's such a nice show to watch, and it always makes me F U C K I N G hungry and F U C K I N G thirsty for some booze.
Threw together a decent veg curry tonight, aubergine, chickpeas and spinach. Overcooked the spinach a bit sadly.
Took all of my will power not to buy shit loads of gulab jamun when I picked up the spices.
I've got some puff pastry left over. What should I do with it? I'm looking at you, Randrew.
Sausage rolls.
Little tart or some kind of sausage roll.
Damn I want some sausage rolls now, put loads of nutmeg and Worcester Sauce in the mixture and they're even better.
Sausage and black pudding rolls :drool:
I was thinking more along the lines of something sweet.
http://whiteonricecouple.com/recipes/berry-puff-pastry/
Just put whatever fruits you want inside.
Or for something easy.
Get two puff pastry discs and make a 'sandwich' with cream and fruits.
I've never seen the point of portobello mushroom "burgers" (after all, why not just have a meatburger?) but in trying to find some for lunch I had one there. Two portobello mushrooms bunged in the oven topped with cheddar and salami for about ten minutes then put in a crusty batch.
Damn tasty.
Making this tonight: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/9535/...i.aspx?o_is=LV
And this: http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/29686...ub_TopRecipe_4
Looks nice.
Made some salted caramel and chocolate éclairs the other day which were banging, even if the choux pastry was terribly piped.
Edit: that accent is an autocorrect, I'm not a cunt.
Oh here's a question, I really don't like baking? it seems anyone can do it if you chuck enough icing sugar at it? Home made cakes and stuff taste alright, it just makes your teeth fall out almost instantly? I much prefer actual cooking?
That's not a question...
I was questioning my own attitudes toward food.
OK mate :)
Home made stuff is much better if you're any good at it.
Nah, baking's actually pretty fucking difficult.
Is it really though? I get the whole bake off thing is difficult but baking a cake? I also know pastry can be difficult to work with also.
The problem with baking is that if you fuck it up it's generally quite disastrous. Cooking is a bit more forgiving in that mistakes are often quite salvageable.
EDIT: 'Baking a cake' that tastes sweet and looks like a cake is pretty easy, yeah. In the same way that any idiot can make something recognisable as a 'curry'.
Making a really good cake is difficult (as is making a really good curry).
I tried baking cakes before and even they turned out pretty crap. I'm a decent cook though.
I don't understand how you can shit up a cake. Mix + gas mark 6 for so many minutes + some icing sugar at the end = job done.
It looks easy when Ms. Pepe does it.
Icing sugar. :sick:
The problem with baking is that it costs money and takes ages.
Yeah, unless it's a regular hobby, it's far cheaper to just buy a cake.
Do you eat this stuff all yourself?
My girlfriend is obsessed with baking, which is annoying because she mostly makes shit stuff that I have to pretend to like. Chocolate-based stuff is the worst since the chocolate just tastes better by itself.
No. The tarts from before got shared about amongst mine and my girlfriend's families. Those eclairs were eaten by my group at Uni (I had one).
That's part of the reason I don't bake more to be honest - I don't want to end up an amorphous blob.
You'd be a diabetic by about half six if you tried to scoff that lot yourself.
Those eclairs look minging, to be honest.
What? I think they look great. Generally everything RL posts that he's cooked looks great. I'd love to be his friend.
I agree, his cooking looks pretty tits normally, however those eclairs don't look like they'd all that much.
In Benny's cooking world, I've put my slow cooker to good use, got a chilli to look forward to tonight. Cooked it last night (used Guinness and Chipotle peppers to be extra poncy) and have let it rest for the day, the flavours are going to blow my mind.
My girlfriend bought a food processor. Last week she used it to make guacamole. The quality is not the same as hand made. She was told so and she is back to doing it by hand. Guacamole. :drool:
Pureed guacamole is dreadful, you have my backing on that one Pepe.
It wasn't even pureed, it was just not the same. Hand chopped/mashed is the only way to go.
You should just bin off that medicine rubbish and open a patisserie, RL.
Just had what was essentially a Mugshot mixed with Smash, and it was incredible. :drool:
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurant...-dd7/menu#cat4
Someone suggest a curry to try that isn't the norm, pls
I bought some Irish black pudding, and it has so much roughage in it that it's basically haggis. Is that how they make it, or did I buy a shit version?
Chamak Chalo and Patan Gosht both look alright. Bit of an average menu though.
Is a Dansak considered normal?
'Moonlit Chicken' sounds alright, but I'll always recommend the same thing. South Indian garlic chilli chicken. If they don't do it find a new takeaway.
The food is pretty great and its only £1.50 delivery. Thank you v much for the suggestions.
Great enough that someone in Arbroath might pay a fiver for delivery? Lol at that even being an option. Also, the idea of getting a prawn marie rose from an Indian. :sick:
There's varying degrees of it. I prefer the totally smooth one personally but the one you will normally see on a resraurant menu here is full of grains, as is the main brand that the tourists always go mad for. Very hard to find one with proper blood in it these days too.
The one you want is Rudd's if you see it anywhere.
.
While we're on takeaways, are dedicated dessert delivery places a thing anywhere else? I know of about five that have opened up in the last year, offering nothing but ice cream and various cakes, and it all seems completely unnecessary. There's no chance there are enough bereaved women and fat wankers, even in Glasgow, to support five of them, so who the fuck is keeping them afloat?
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/restaurant...u?opt=0a344914
That, for example.
Who's getting that delivered for four quid?Quote:
Bowl Me Over Milkshake
Skittles & blue Millions topped with marshmallow & bubble gum sauce
Waff have you been to Titanic pizza seeing as how you're a teuchtar?
Go mate. It's ran by two older lesbians and they only employ young student girls, not a Moslem in sight. Plus it's all freshly made.
I had myself a steak, carrot & swede mash and some salad just now. Washed down with some chai tea and a Bounty :drool:
Do you reckon they're into anal beads and shit?
Not sure about the scat but anal beads definitely. The older lesbians are definitely piss tasters.
Wtf is quinoa? My wife wants me to make a Spring Quinoa Salad with Honey Lemon Vinaigrette for us to eat this week and has dropped the recipe on the desk for me to look at.
And has better health benefits.
Cheers, Giggles. Just googled it for further information. I then realised what I was calling quin-o-ah is the stuff I've heard of before called kin-wah.
EDIT: and Kiko too.
Keenwah is delicious. :)
Used it recently in a chilli to replace the minced beef and it wasn't bad. Needed a lot of flavour added (and a bank loan), but was a decent change.
Nando's have started doing a quinoa salad, and as a lovely visual representation of the plebbery of both their business and their customer base, their big advertising sandwich boards tout it as a 'keenwah salad'.
I tried KFC the other day for the first time in ages. It's absolutely fucking horrible. Lol at the people saying it's the same as Nando's.
I've got some flour kicking about that I want to make something with to at least use some of it up. I was thinking about these as I've got most of the ingredients and I imagine they'd be nice - http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cr...tbutterc_87012 . Can I use normal granulated sugar instead of caster sugar though? Will that make much difference?
Also, I saw this on Buzzfeed - http://www.buzzfeed.com/sweetestmenu...14y#.tqmYpPJWO
I was thinking some chopped up Twix added to the peanut butter cookie recipe might be nice but should I reduce the sugar a bit then so they're not too sweet?
You can but the texture will be a bit grainy.
That's what I thought would probably happen. Probably won't bother then.
Couldn't you blend it? That would make it finer.
I don't have a blender.
Separate the chocolate and caramel from the biscuit. Melt the former, smash the latter to bits in a bowl, and proceed as instructed.
Mortar and pestle?
If you've 'got some flour kicking about' you leave it in the cupboard. Have a wank if you're that bored.
So keep going. Magic will sort you some videos.
I'm ready to go to war against Quinoa. It's an absolutely awful product. Who goes, "You know what this rice needs? Crunchiness.". It's got to the point where people think it's acceptable to serve a quinoa salad instead of a taboule or one of it's many not shit friends.
Also the fact that it's Keenwah not Kwi-Noah just makes it that extra level of hateful.
edit: Oh the threads moved onto the Mediocre Boydy Bake Off. My comments still stand even if they are a little redundant.
Do you not makes soups Boyd?
No but even when I did/if I ever do, I wouldn't blend them.
He's from Northern Ireland. Soup there is whole veg, water, and barley.
Oh right, didn't realise that was a culinary faux pas!
:rolleyes:
I didn't say it was, I'm just saying I wouldn't blend them.
I didn't like the tone of the post.
I've never understood blending soups.
Chunky is king.
I don't blend all soups, just when it's required.
You can do both. Blended chestnut soup with a load of potato, carrot, some broad beans, and strips of beef thrown in is great. My aunt does it at Christmas every year, though being a vegetarian she omits the beef in her own pot, and it's always superb.
Both is fine, especially a pea and ham soup but I just don't get fully blended soups.
I've been pronouncing it 'Queen Oh' which now feels quite embarrassing.
Went to Almost Famous in Manchester yesterday lunchtime, the 'Good Morning America' burger includes a poptart and cheerios and appears to cater exclusively to twats
http://i.imgur.com/vei0NtH.jpg?1
It wasn't that bad.
That looks horrific. :|
'I just picked the breakfast crap off.'
They were all on the side when it came out, mainly because it all fell apart. All the other burgers had Frazzles in too, but I didn't bother as that sounded a bit weird.
Yeah I agree, Frazzles do sound weird compared to a poptart.
Heron have got a job lot of this in, and, whilst the branding is nothing short horrific, the vanilla custard one is incredible. Has anybody had it?
Custard flavoured ice cream sounds all kinds of amazing, get it bought, I'll even send you some cash if the giro won't cover it.
I bought some (I'm eating it with apple crumble as we speak), because Heron is amazing and they're going for a quid a tub. Nobody else seems to be buying it because it's obviously too new and RADICAL, so I might pack the freezer with it. The dog likes ice cream and custard, so I'll say it's for him when he comes back.
How does custard flavoured ice cream work? Isn't ice cream essentially made from a custard base anyway (if done properly)?
It's in a tub and you eat it with a spoon.
Couldn't you do that with a tub of custard?
You certainly can with the excellent Alpro vanilla stuff.
Yes, I am a grown man.
Did anyone ever try that Custard Creme spread from Tesco? There was a Bourbon one too.
Less of that or I'll tell that Jane Austen on your money woman about your hate crimes.
I made custard once (for a large tart) and it is probably the greatest thing I have ever made.
After filling the pastry I sat in front of about 10 people at our house just eating the leftovers right from the pan. They probably all thought I was a cunt for not even letting them try but they'd have had to kill me to get to it.
I sometimes even buy those cold custard pots and eat them.
http://images2.mysupermarket.co.uk/P...033422.jpg?v=6
Not as great as the home-made stuff but it's still glorious.
Custard is dog shit. I'd rather have some of that flavouring they put in medicine to taste like Banana.
What kind of wrong'un doesn't like custard?
This turned out surprisingly well. Quinoa, bacon, feta cheese, peas, fresh basil+coriander and crushed almonds all mixed together with a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice, honey and salt. Tossed it with some fresh baby spinach leaves and it came up a treat.
It was a large serving, so my wife took the leftovers to work for her and her assistant and they both enjoyed it so much that a new batch has been demanded of me.
Ah man, I always get this craving for Spring Quinoa Sallads.
Chicky? Too much time with the kid, magic mate.
Done some pulled pork (wanker) for tomorrow lunch, had to shred it this morning due to not having the time to do it later. I couldn't tell if I was nauseous or hungry by the smell and sight of it at 7am.
Does anyone here make their own ice cream? Trying blood orange ice cream (paired with dark chocolate ice cream makes for a chocolate orange master-class) on holiday has convinced me to buy a machine.
Possibly the wrong thread, but green tea and almond milk is pretty nice. Unsweetened isn't as good but healthier.
Aspartame. :sick:
Sorry, I forgot.
#cleaneats #paleo.
Had some pork in the slow cooker all day (after 3 bouts boiling it in water for 12 minutes each time, to get rid of all the salt) that's almost ready to be pulled. :drool:
Why are McDonalds advertising their new range of wraps by showing them being made by a filthy unwashed looking wretch?
Did anybody know Warburtons now do 'Giant Crumpets'? I bought a pack, and I think you were better off just having two normal ones.
I saw that the other day. Ridiculous. Are they trying to market Maccy D's to hipsters now?
Crumpets are boss, not seen giant ones.
I've seen Tesco have stopped selling lemon and raisin pancakes. True shame as I fucking loved those .
Anyone like crumpets straight out of the pack? It's like bread-flavoured rubber but I like it.
I never really saw the fuss with crumpets. Gimme a Scotch pancake over them any day.
I bought American pancakes the other day instead and they were much nicer.
Aren't American pancakes and Scotch pancakes the same thing?
As opposed to those shitty crepe things that the English refer to as 'pancakes'.
EDIT: Yeah, same thing basically. They're great.
The scotch ones are like the ones I used to get in NI that people toast and butter. These American ones (I'd never seen them before) were a lot thicker and looked a lot like a crumpet without the dimples. May have been just that type and not typical of what they normally are though. I like the scotch ones too though.
Crumpets. :drool:
I fucking hate crumpets. Like eating a sponge. And not the good type of cake sponge.
What you have to understand with crumpets is that they themselves are not the attraction of eating crumpets. They serve merely as the perfect receptacle for excessive amounts of melting butter. They should probably be the national dish of England.
I'm quite fond of a CHEEKY bit of jam/marmalade on a crumpet :nodd:
Penne is the worst pasta. Awful stuff.
Lol that looks atrocious.
Just spent £15 on two fillet steaks for tonight. Broccoli stems, green beans and red potato creamy mash and finally peppercorn sauce to accompany.
Sauted with butter and garlic though. :drool:
Pasta shapes are more about what they do to the sauce, which in penne's case is hold it in quite nicely. Conchiglie (shells) are the kings though.
Penne is alright (Rigatoni is a better version), but I agree that Conchiglie is the best. Farfalle can go to hell though.
So was phonics just complaining about the shapes of the tubes not getting enough sauce or does he think they taste differently?
Tagliatelle is probably my favourite, though I tend to use spaghetti (should that be without the 'h') the most. Not a fan of Conchiglie or Fusilli for some reason, and macaroni is probably the one I actively avoid. Penne is alright.
When it comes to longer pasta, the wider it is the better. Pappardelle > Tagliatelle > Spaghetti. I need to make Pappardelle more often. :drool:
They're all too messy for me. If I'm stuck and there's only long pasta in the house it needs broken up before cooking.
By broccoli stems do you mean tenderstem broccoli Magic?
The co-op had some special pasta shape thing called lumaconi or somesuch on offer a while ago, which was a high quality dried pasta shape.
Yup, only one way to eat 'long' pasta. :rolleyes:
I had no idea Giggles was seven.
Never read that many of his posts then.
So the steaks are off because the in laws invited us for tea, Old El Paso enchiladas. :drool:
:cry:
So it doesn't matter what pasta you eat but if you eat that one you're a cunt.
Well done mate.
You don't need a spoon.
Eating it for show.
:D
Fucking hipsters!
Eating spaghetti for show. :D
You're a fucking idiot, Giggles.
Can be the only reason for eating it unless it's what you're given and you've no choice.
I do like how I get this and phonics can say penne is disgusting and it just passes by. Not what's said, but who says it.
If I had opened with penne is rank then we'd never have got to spaghetti because I'd be still copping abuse for that.
Job done.
You have more in common with Liverpool than I thought, Giggles.
You've missed the point by a billion miles, as usual.
You probably get more grief because you seem a bit more passionate about this than Phonics.
Don't take the BANTER too hard.
I can be a bit of a food snob, but I'd rather spunk £5 on posh jam sometimes than live in a World where anything except stale bread and tap-water is gratuitous poncery for hipster wankers.
I'm with him on all packet pasta tasting the same, and if the difference is to be found in 'what they do to the sauce' then you aren't using enough sauce.
You should read back yourself. RL lolled at you for breaking up the pasta and others got involved when you suggested you couldn't eat spaghetti without getting covered in sauce. You weren't set upon for saying you break spaghetti up, you were set upon for eating like a child, and then set upon further when you turned into a complete wanker and claimed people only eat fucking spaghetti to show off.
Bin the victim complex, you're bad enough as it is.
It's probably time to start treating you like Harold.
Add 'politicians' to the list of things you don't understand.
I can barely eat spaghetti without covering myself in food, but I'm the most cack-handed person I know. I briefly thought I was dyspraxic or something, but I'm just an idiot.
I answered by telling you that your premise was wrong. You didn't 'cop it' for saying you smashed spaghetti up, you copped it for implying you couldn't eat it without covering yourself in it if you didn't smash it up. That you then went on to say that people eating spaghetti were showing off is just parmesan.
That's not the same as saying penne is shit, so your pathetic little tantrum was based on a falsehood.
A discussion about pasta turns into this, fucking hell. :D
Spaghetti :cool:
I am so going to make these.
http://tiphero.com/spaghetti-and-meatball-muffin-bites/
The original pic looked quote nice too.
Giggles proper fucking meltdown mate.
Between this and bowling it's been an exceptionally bad night.
This thread was a meltdown, the bowling stuff was just lol.
I made cheese puffs today, were nice but needed more cheese. Might add Parmesan next time.
How have I only just discovered breakfast burritos now? :drool:
I was a big fan of their Sylvester Stallone advert, but Warburtons' new Muppets one is spectacular. I'll buy some more of their bollocks giant crumpets in tribute.
My fillet steaks were incredible. Well worth the price.
I've just had a Solero for the first time in ages.
It feels inherently wrong to be eating an ice cream at midnight in November but fuck me it was good. :drool:
You've never quite been able to act working class, have you mate?
I'm Jewish Working Class at a push.
Hot on the heels of Chinese takeaways adopting the 'munchy box', and immediately one upping themselves with the 'salt and pepper munchy box', now fucking breakfast cafes have started doing them.
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I give it maybe six months until every food in Scotland is available in stupid quantities squashed into a pizza box.
What's a salt and pepper munchy box?
A munchy box consisting of nothing but their 'salt and pepper' versions of things. Ribs, chicken balls, chips, wings, etc.
Salt and pepper munchy box? Fucking want that. Though if they're mostly made up of things on the bone I'm a bit suspicious of those from takeaways because they tend to be so inconsistent.
I want nothing on the bone ever from a takeaway. Or anywhere for that matter, it's only a mess.
I still haven't tried the local places munchie box yet, but from the sign they don't seem to have chips in it. I'll need to investigate further.
.....
That looks horrible.
.....
Is that a fish bowl?
.....
Who cares if it looks like the picture, it'll taste magic.
It's loaded with Baileys so I highly doubt it.
That's the best thing about it, and the mint bits look easily removable. Perfect.
Baileys is pretty rank, as are Baileys things like cheesecakes or the aforementioned trifle.
Proper trifle, though, is one of Britain's greatest gifts to the world. There can't be many better desserts, if any.
I can't have had a trifle for about 15 years. That bastard Blair got me hooked on tiramisu.
In recent years the trifle I've had seems to be using more shitey fruit and less of that sponge in the jelly foundations, so put that down to Blair.
Trifle is shit.
Trifle is good. Seems like whoever invented it just had a bunch of ingredients left over and gave no thought to the order of the layers, but it worked out.
I had an amazing tiramasu in Rome. It was the best thing I ate there. It seems pizza is pizza, wherever you get it. Saying that we didn't go to any fancy restaurants.
Tiramisu is the thinking man's trifle.
Thinking that it tastes too much of coffee. I like a subtle flavour or a coffee with my dessert, but tirimasu is too much.
Tiramisu is shit too.
'Shit' is being kind to it.
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I think I will do a Korean inspired grilled octopus tomorrow :drool:
Just the thought of it is making me drool.
Do almonds go off/mouldy?
Some idiot left a bag of them open on the backseat of my car and they've ended up everywhere, in places I can't reach. I don't want them to make the car smell nutty or something.
I just ate some the other day that I know have been opened (not in a bag just loose) in our kitchen drawer for over a year and they tasted fine.
Also made some lovely peanut stir fry thing last night, so much easier and convenient than a packet.
You found loose almonds in your kitchen drawer that you knew had been there for over a year and you ate them?
Yes. Unblanched.
Fresh almonds shit all over all other nuts but sadly I don't think they are sold in the UK.
Roasted almonds are the shit.
Tesco honey roast cashews :drool:
For normal unflavored nuts I like macadamia and brazil.
When you're fucked off with things there really is no better soother than ice cream.
This is the best I've made yet, comfortably-
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/g...mmunityReviews
I bought some of that 'Skyr' Icelandic yogurt earlier, and I've just given it a try now.
Consider my support for them in the Euros withdrawn. That's a fucking war crime.
Vile shit. Greek, it is not.
We have assembled possibly the best cheese board of all time for Christmas. A whole Stilton, a whole truckle of Cheddar, and so as not to be too UKIP about it, we've also got a few French numbers including a goat's cheese which is wrapped in soggy chestnut leaves and is the most pungently superb thing I've tasted in a long time. Add a couple of Camemberts which I'm going to bake at some point, and expanding by another stone will be a small and sweet, sweet price to pay.
Anyone got a good slow cooker recipe for pulled pork?
An auntie hates turkey so my Mum thought we could lob a shoulder into the slow cooker so she has something and everyone else has just that bit more meat.
Tell the awkward bitch to go without or stay at home.
It does mean more meat for the rest of us though...
How can you hate turkey? It's tasteless.
I do it in this.
500g carton of passata
2 chopped onions
2 cloves garlic chopped
200ml cheap cola
6 tbsp sugar (4 white, 2 brown or 4 white and a good squeeze of maple syrup)
7 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1½ tsp chilli powder
1 tsp English mustard powder
1 tsp smoked paprika
Fry the onions, garlic, and chilli powder until softening. Add the cola and bump up the heat and stir til it's all gloopy after reducing.
Mix that and everything else up, pour over the meat, and stick it on for 12 hours.
Fire in a few drops of liquid smoke to the mix too if you have it.
If they're presumably having all the other stuff you'd normally have with turkey with it, it's not really going to need a lot of flavouring, is it? Especially not some sort of barbecue flavouring.
I bought a pulled pork spice mix and added oregano, thyme and cumin which went onto the pork the night before. It then spent about 12 hours in the slow cooker with a bit of stock and a tin of chopped tomatoes.
Came out exceptionally well, so much so that I'll be making doing it again purely to have sandwiches with. Although I'll be using more spices, something like carnitas :drool:
Black forest yule log I made for Christmas day:
http://i.imgur.com/FJQlpVO.jpg?1
Bit of a mammoth effort and a couple of mistakes along the way, but I was pleased with how it came out in the end. Tasted good which is the main thing.
I didn't take any I'm afraid, but it was another Tim Kinnaird recipe and this is one from his shop's facebook:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...3a&oe=5707AC96
:drool:
Anyone got a health fryer? Are they worth the outlay?
Got one a while back as we only have a single oven and it's very handy. Very fast to cook and we'd use it over the oven for most things now.
That's the stuff.
http://i.imgur.com/2h3aHbA.jpg
Anyone else use a slow cooker and find their stuff ends up a bit too watery? I know you're not meant to add as much liquid but I didn't think I had the other day when I was making a chilli. I just used some passata which is normally quite thick but it ended up more like a soup. Suppose some moisture came out of the vegetables I chucked in as well.
Also, if anyone has any good slow cooker recipes, please share.
Near better to half steam the veg first and then put them in.
I've s good few recipes knocking about. I'll gather them up and PM them to you, though most slow cooker stuff is what you could make in a casserole dish anyway. It just lets you use tougher meat and can be more convenient.
I've always done that with root veg as the temperature never cooks it enough for me on low.
http://www.simplybeefandlamb.co.uk/r....7UqXYvuV.dpuf
Just put that on although I've used stock, halved shallots and I had to cube up some proper turnips as I couldn't get baby ones.
What else have you tried as a stew?
I've found lamb and red wine to be the best combination so far.
In the slow cooker? Nothing.
I've done a pork belly stew and a lentil and sausage one in the oven using a casserole dish.
I might try this next:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1...pea-casserole-
It looks :drool:
What sort of biryani has fruit in it?
Made this today:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1...ef-with-ginger
And it's lovely. I used brisket
That looks bloody delicious.
I managed to not bite clean through the star anise I got in tonight's portion as well, which I'm calling a massive bonus.
These are going to be so wonderfully dirty in around 6 hours time :drool:
http://i.imgur.com/Ei0viGx.jpg
What is that? Ribs?
Yep, bacon ribs.
I'm lazy, so the meals I opt to make most often are ones that take under half an hour involve as little washing up as possible. A favourite at the moment is blitzing some sundried tomatoes, basil, olive oil, garlic & parmesan and chucking it over some pasta.
Any in a similar vein I should be aware of?
Crisps.
Aye, that book is cracking. All of his books that we have are great in fact.
Well those ribs were fucking amazing.
The heart, liver and lungs of a sheep boiled in its own stomach tonight.
:drool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCR4try5LHI&t=17m30s
Christ, I need to go there.
Need something cheap and easy for 4. Suggestions please.
Do a simple roast.
He's saving that for after dinner, Disco. :henn0rz:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3...-with-couscous
Delicious and a piece of piss. I think I've only done it a couple of times with the couscous, other times I've taken a bit more time to make a spicy rice or something to go with it because couscous is yawn. The lamb is the business though.
Along similar lines in terms of how easy it is to make: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2.../chorizo-pilaf
They might be easier than you're actually after if you want something that looks a bit more impressive.
Surely "cheap and easy" for Magic would be only hiring the second best catering company in town to do it.
Made chocolate and blood orange marshmallows the other day.
My god :drool:
http://static.approvedfood.co.uk/thu...auce_142ml.jpg
I bought this today, it's fucking glorious.
What's in it that makes it Brazilian?
The Zika virus.
:D
Went to a Taiwanese restaurant and had the 'hot and spicy chitterlings'. It was superb. :drool:
http://www.restaurantbenedicts.com/menu/
Went here tonight for the girlfriend's birthday. Had the lamb, the pigeon and the trifle (with the cocktail). She had the mussels, the cod and the same for dessert. It was all absolutely bloody lovely. I should have done something in food instead of medicine.
Is that the second Great British Menu item you've tried now?
Well third with the trifle.
I don't think I've had any before tonight.
We went to the Caxton Grill (twice :uhoh:) which is Adam Handling's restaurant, who came runner up on Professional Masterchef. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of. The first time we went there for the tasting menu was the best meal (I hate that word) I've ever had.
No (sadly :(), we tried to book to go there with some friends but it's fucking impossible.
That and the goat dish this past year are what I'd love to try.
Was that the one with the cylindrical chips?
Both of the Great British Menu dishes tonight were pretty special, but I thought the pigeon was the star. It was sensational.
EDIT: The duck was, yeah. I've got the recipe for it actually...
I know he's lost a lot of weight, but it's no secret how he got so fat after seeing the recipes in that book. Buttered ham for fuck's sake.
Has anyone ever made soda bread? I bought some the other day from Morrisons (the proper brown loaf stuff with oats on, rather than the right-angle 'farls') and it was mega, but I rarely go to Morrisons, and nobody else sells it. However, it seems easy enough to make, since it doesn't need the yeast and pissing about that has always put me off threatening to make bread, so I thought I might have a crack at it because my life is utterly without meaning.
I've not, but give it a go and report back.
I can't imagine you making bread :D
I once got it into my head that making my own malt loaf was a good idea, but then I worked out that it was about three times cheaper to buy. This makes sense because it's seemingly made with shit we already have.
I fucking love the idea of you baking, Lewis.
I just had a nice cheese and onion sandwich.
Soda bread is supposed to be very easy to make.
I want to try and make my own Mozzarella after watching that 'Jimmy' ponce do it last night.
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2...ch-recipe.html
I've not had a go yet (will at some point) but the serious eats recipes tend to be really good.
I had haggis for the first time yesterday (at a slightly delayed Burns night birthday thing). It was pretty awesome, despite looking like a headless seal :|
3 pancakes down. One with sugar, lemon and integrated sultanas, one with lotus biscuit spread and one with bonne maman caramel spread (winning so far).
:drool:
I need to get milk on the way home to make some this evening. I can't stand anything on them though.
:D
What's the point?
It's some going to make pancakes a depressing thing.
KUTGW
I'm having pancakes tomorrow. Easily one of the best nights of the year.
You English lot can't do pancakes properly anyway.
Giggles drinks water from the toilet cistern because taps are for pretentious media types. Well, pretentious media types and sheeple just trying to go along with the consensus. Fair play for being such a trailblazer of belligerent philistinism.
Plain pancakes :D
Scottish style pancakes are quite nice plain, but it probably is a sweeter recipe. I usually try a bit of the first one to make sure the recipe is right and end up eating the whole thing on its own.
I'm not offended by it and nobody else is you weirdo, everyone is just playfully taking the piss because it is CLASSIC giggles. I've been posting on this forum for about 5 minutes compared to everyone else, and even I would immediately guess you if someone showed me a post on here about liking pancakes plain with your name and avatar redacted.
The CLASSIC giggles is where you're a complete twat though. People don't have to like or dislike something because of a persona or because people feel they should, it should just be down to what they like.
If I never bothered trying them with anything because I thought it was pretentious or force fed myself them plain even though I think they're nicer coated, then you could CLASSIC away to your little hearts content. You're trying too hard in this case and just blowing your wad a little easy.
Stand your ground son. Liking his pancakes plain is absolutely CLASSIC Giggles, and I don't know why he's so bum-devestated about it.
We have a company line on pancake toppings now? When did that happen? I'll update the handbook.
It absolutely fits your persona to have pancakes plain, though. Whether you're doing it deliberately is irrelevant.
Going bonkers over a tiny poke is also CLASSIC Giggles, come to think of it. You're on a roll here.
Does he eat these without incident or do they go everywhere?
I bet it's Scotch pancakes (the thick ones made with self-raising flour) he's on about and you're all going to look like dicks.
And if it is, he's also right.
Had a ham and cheese pancake for lunch. It was quality.
Will probably hold off doing all three meals in pancake form.
Well I call them Northy pancakes but I expect they're the same. That said, I also like the thin ones with nothing as I like the taste but it's the self raising ones I'm making. Just made the mix.
Why let being right or having a preference get in the way of the forum narrative though?
I'm having some with mushrooms garlic and cheese which are rolled up, bread-crumbed and fried again.
They're a Polish staple.
That Mahow post has given me a semi. Fuuuarrrk.
Gravy or golden syrup for me.
Pancakes are basically the same thing as Yorkshire puddings so gravy is perfectly appropriate, before any cunt starts piping up about it.
Gravy?! On pancakes?
You really are a pervert.
EDIT: I was so outraged I didn't even read the rest of the post. :rosebud:
Wait, what?
Like proper gravy? :cab:
Pancakes are basically the same thing as Yorkshire puddings so gravy is perfectly appropriate, before any cunt starts piping up about it.
You're doing either pancakes or Yorkshire puddings wrong if they're basically the same thing.
It's the same mixture.
Well they do have the same ingredients in pretty much the same proportions and so aren't particularly different in terms of taste. I guess it logically should kind of make sense.
In reality it doesn't though, and you should be ashamed of yourself for doing it.
You're all a bunch of fucking cunts.
Try it. Go on.
Hammer's right. My friend told me this at school and my mind was blown.
Pancakes only seem really different because we put sugar and lemon and whatnot on them.
Someone give me a good (and preferably easy) recipe for a tasty soup in the slow cooker.
I was looking at some that looked pretty nice but they were all like 'fry this and that first'. Fuck that. I want to just dump it all in and leave it.
CLASSIC Hammer, gravy on everything.
To be fair, the gravy would even the textures out.
I also like my women covered in gravy.
Fucking housemate has acted like I've shit on the floor when I told her why I was turning the kettle on. Daft mare.
Those two posts go beautifully together.
:D
They really do. Superb.
It is obviously not Fat Tuesday for the rest of the thread. What is the UK version?
Sadly I'm in the non-New Orleans (or the shit) part of the US today so it is just taking the afternoon off, King Cake, and teaching my daughters how to make gumbo today.
Pancake day. Hence all the pancake talk.
The fuck is 'fat tuesday'?
Mardi Gras
We tend not to have that here.
Do they do the pancakes on the continent too or is that just a UK thing?
Poland do 'Fat Thursday' (Tłusty Czwartek).
Doughnuts and over fried dough products are eaten.
You lot are definitely doing pancakes wrong if you accept the idea they're just Yorkshire puddings cooked differently. Put some sugar in for fuck's sake.
Yeah, we're the ones doing it wrong not putting sugar in it :cab:
People do savoury crepes here. I tell them to get to fuck and pass the Nutella.
Just because lots of you are wrong doesn't mean you're any less wrong.
Even allowing for the ingredients being exactly the same they're such obviously different things that saying so isn't a justification for putting gravy on a pancake. Use the same justification and serve up a pancake with your next roast dinner, see how that goes down with the family.
I've never seen a pancake recipe use sugar.
Then I suggest you educate yourself.
I didn't have mine til this morning. I'd nothing to put on them though so didn't really enjoy them.
It'll be Irn Bru and Buckfast in the mix next.
You don't put sugar in the mix you maniacs, what if some people are having savoury toppings/fillings?
You'll have then the way this shower of cunts says you should have them Tobes.
Pancake Day pancakes are little thin fellas with lemon and sugar. I don't think I have them any other day, thinking about it. I've had the big stack of pancakes with syrup in the US, but that's more of a 'when in Rome' thing.
And that stretches to pancakes? Jesus Christ.
I wouldn't mind if I'd said I refused to ever try them with anything on. I can be sour as fuck but lot really need to thibk for yourselves and change the record when it comes to absolutely everything. This place isn't the gospel according to John you know.
I've just put a beef and stout stew on. Smells fucking class already.
#PlainPancakesMatter
I did my thesis on pancakes but only my mum and next door neighbour have read it, does that count?
Was it reviewed by a panel of pancake experts?
:D
I was going to make a joke on those lines when RL chucked up his Google results.
Pancakes were Googled? I missed that.
Oh dear.
Your dad sounds rather full of himself.
My dad is more credible than your dad.
What an absolute fucking heathen.
I decided that I'm going to use Hollywood Paul Hollywood's soda bread recipe, but it requires buttermilk. Nowhere in Hedon sells that, Asda don't sell it, and the big Tesco doesn't sell it (they also don't sell gold top so their milk game is appalling). I bet Morrisons sell it; but if I'm there I could just buy the soda bread and save myself the aggro. This is why nobody fucking bakes.
The internet sez that you can just sour milk with lemon juice as a buttermilk substitute, but I am wary of things like that. Please advise.
Did you ask someone or just go to where the milk is and look yourself?
I've found that buttermilk is usually with the single/double/clotted cream etc.
I know they used to have it, because I picked some up a while back and it was open and it made my hand stink, but tonight it was missing and the person on the fridge told me they've stopped selling it. WELL THAT'S FUCKING HANDY ISN'T IT MATE?
So I bought some white Milka and a couple of egg custards for the dog and left. Bastards.
I'm not sure the buttermilk really does anything that yoghurt, creme fraiche, cream or milk wouldn't. it's just one of those things for awkwardness.
Feeding egg custard to a dog sounds like a recipe for a nuclear disaster.
My mother dropped one once and he had practically inhaled it before she could stop him, so they're probably his favourite thing now.
I thought ice cream was his favourite.
Oreo Thins are a game changer.
The soda bread is in the oven. I'm already never bothering again (the fucking buttermilk cost more than the Morrisons loaf), but if it's shit I'm going to be seething.
soda bread is quality
I sort of hope it's shit just because the seethe will be more entertaining than if it's gone well.
It will be immense :drool:
Five minutes to launch...
Maybe more. I'll protest Hollywood Paul Hollywood's next 'baking and banter' tour if it fails.
'You know that terrorist who won last time? Well, I remember when Mary first saw her...'
'WHAT ABOUT MY BREAD, HOLLYWOOD, YOU SCOUSE BASTARD?!'
'.....'
'WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING BREAD?!'
It's looking good (it looks like bread, so I'm not pissing about with pictures), so the seethe will have to wait until it cools.
It's pretty great. I'm officially TTH's best baker now.
Isn't that smiffy?
http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/09/michel...v-food-5671342
Purnell :cool:
Two venison sausages and a tattie scone for tea. Am I legible for food bank visits now?
As part of giving up meat for lent I'm having a tofu spag bol :uhoh:
Will report back.
I've never really understood the fascination with trying to recreate meat based dishes without the meat, it's almost always disappointing. Why not just make one of the million things that don't have any meat in them?
Like what?
A salad.
Indeed.
I want something hefty. Something that'll fill me up properly. I also batch cook a few days' worth of food at once. Best way of doing all that as far as I can see is cooking something proper but with a meat substitute.
Christ.
One of my housemates in Norwich was a vegan (he was just an embarrassment all round really) and he seemed to spend all afternoon preparing his wanker meals. I would live on cheese and onion pasties and crisps.
Yeah it really is crap, even more so when people use straight meat substitutes like Quorn instead of adapting even so far as to replace it with veg or pulses or whatever else.
Sadly hasn't been updated in ages but there are some great vegetarian recipes through the archives here: http://www.foodhappy.ca/
It's worked for me so far. Quorn is decent but quite expensive so I'm trying tofu instead. I can't imagine it fucking the meal up that much, but we'll see.
Just get supermarket own-brand veggie mince.
Morrison's don't do it, as far as I'm aware.
I've only ever seen Quorn veggie mince tbh.
Edit: oh my shit https://groceries.morrisons.com/webs...ince_SHELFVIEW
I like most of the Quorn stuff but the mince is woeful.
I don't really get that. Mince is usually used amongst other things which would mask its taste, so I'd have thought you'd notice the difference less. Like in spag bol, for example. I've had a Quorn burgers which are nice but you can obviously taste the difference, whereas in spag bol it isn't really noticeable to me.
And on that note, tofu was alright in the spag bol. I do prefer mince, but it's lent innit.
Also, do you (as in English) do lent? I didn't realise you did.
I think it's a general Christian thing, rather than any particular country. I'm not a Christian but my housemates are and they're getting on it so i've jumped on the bandwagon.
A good bolognese should build on the flavour of the meat, not mask it to such an extent that non-meat can replace it seamlessly.
There's a bar/restaurant/shop in Glasgow with an entirely vegan menu in which I tried a substance called 'seitan'. It's a meat replacement which doesn't make you immediately want to kill everyone involved in the supply chain and is actually quite close to beef in terms of consistency, in comparison to Quorn and the like at least. I had a burger of it and tried some chilli that a friend had ordered, both of which were like versions of those dishes produced with slightly lower quality beef.
There was a meat substitute my girlfriend got a couple of times which was actually pretty decent imitation for chicken, at least texture-wise. I think she got it from Waitrose but they stopped it. Can't remember what it was called.
It's controversial but I think that a three bean burger is superior to an actual burger. You can't replicate that crunch and this serialising of burger restaurants is proving that no matter what one you order it's going to be 7/10 fare.
http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/c...-dau-hu-sot-ca
I've made that a few times and it's damn tasty.
Went to the Brewdog place in Merchant City yesterday and shared their "Trinity sampler".
Was absolutely delicious and I'm not sure I really want to eat anything else ever again.
That menu looks amazing. I never knew that's what those places did.
I've just done up my paste for a vindalu for tomorrow. Smells so good.
http://bisonbar.ie/bbq/
This place here has a similar menu but those prices are awful and it's hipster central. For some reason, all the Texas BBQ spots attracted them in droves from day one.
Insert party line.
The main practical reason it's a pain is because they tend to like to sit for a very long time over the end of a drink after their meal, which makes it a lot harder to even get a table in a place that doesn't do bookings.
Not doing bookings does seem to be a hipster thing and it's fucking stupid.
That's the fault of the restaurant though, not the customers.
None of the three bbq places will take a booking. One of them is totally off the scale with drinks in jamjars, soap in sauce bottles, and all that shite, but it's probably the meanest and worst of the them anyway.
It doesn't matter how many times i have it, whenever i eat asparagus the next time i pee the smell always catches me off guard.
Not sure if i like it or hate it.
@Giggles - Vindaloo Paste? Nice. Have you toned down the spice, or will it blow your bollocks off?
Sugar Puffs do that too.
The asparagus piss smell thing is genetic apparently.
Only some people produce funny smelling piss after eating asparagus, and only some people can smell the smell.
6 dried birdseyes in the ground spices which is conservative enough on heat considering the whole curry will have 4 servings. 3 green chillies (seeds out) will be added in cooking.
I definitely prefer them to have a good vinegar twang as opposed to a mad chilli heat. Can taste the cinnamon and cloves better with less chilli heat too.
The meat is marinading in the paste in the fridge now. I'll cook it tomorrow evening.
Does minimal mean good?
It autocorrected manimal.
Looks very tasty. Thumbs up from me.
Was a tad too hot, I'll be cutting a couple of chillies next time. It's a solid 3rd on my list anyway. Nothing will ever beat the Stein one.
Which Stein was it? I need to do something from that book again.
The beef one on page 266, the tamarind definitely adds a lot to it compared to the Madhur Jaffrey one I made above.
I just bought that book recently, I think I'm going to dip my toe in with the lamb dopiaza on page 238.
'Tip all the ingredients into a deep pan, mix together, cover with a tight lid and bring gently to a boil. Simmer over a low heat for 2 hours. Serve.'
Can't get much easier than that and I'd imagine obscenely good, might serve if with the dry fried okra. Will have to try the beef vindaloo next week too.
Only just started cooking the dopiaza and it already smells amazing.
Couldn't find any kashmiri chillies so I dropped 3 dried cascabel chillies in (the only thing I could get) as well as some paprika and a bit of cayenne.
They won't make much difference. It's really nice.
The British Beef Raj one is well worth a try too. I'm going to try the Chettinad Chicken later in the week.
It wont but I've ordered 250g of the chillies for the vindaloo next week.
I didn't get any but loads of those Stein recipes ask for Kashmiri chillies so I Googled where to buy them.
Of course you can get them from Amazon.
South Devon Chilli Farm. They've a great selection of dried ones and loads more stuff too. Their chipotle sauce is gorgeous.
https://www.southdevonchillifarm.co.uk
Cheers, they aren't far away at all.
They do, there's all kinds of stuff by the looks of it.
Take one for the team and go and try a Carolina Reaper chilli, Disco.
I got a chilli growing kit from that South Devon Farm.
The plants grew pretty well, but I ended up not bothering to water them and they died. RIP
I can't say I'm surprised.
As for the dopiaza, I'd say half the ghee and at least half the water.
Tastes brilliant though.
Has anyone ever made Borscht before?
Homemade chow mein. :drool:
I would add some five spice to the marinade and put a handful of bean sprouts in near the end.
I have ribs that I boiled last night that have been submerged in barbeque sauce since then in the fridge. Half hour blast in the oven later :drool:
Bean sprouts are so shit.
Took my girlfriend here for her birthday last night, my first time in a proper Michelin star restaurant (I've been to Tim Ho Wan in Hong Kong but it's not really the same). I'd say it was well deserved as it was a brilliant meal.
Sadly started to get an upset stomach about midway through and ended up chucking most of it up, having barely managed to touch the last of our six courses. That's not a common occurrence for me and I've no idea what caused it, but it definitely wasn't the food. :moop:
That stir fry was delicious. Bean Sprouts and Five spice a great shout.
The prices (I've made this exact joke before).
I'm going to voice a potentially unpopular opinion here, but I've think I've come to find "fancy" western food very boring really. Other than the dessert course, the rest is just a big pile of meh.
Give me fancy asian food, or even good ribs/fish&chips/burgers any time.
'Fancy' Asian food. :harold:
This was the main course at the most expensive meal I've ever paid for. 7 courses at a castle in Scotland. It was nice, but that's about it.
http://i.imgur.com/bG8me7cl.jpg
Same goes for most other "fancy" western meals I've had.
It may have been expensive but it's certainly not fancy. Looks like something you'd knock up from leftovers on December 26th.
That looks fucking shit. :D
Was there an angel delight course?
Pot Noodle starter? :harold:
A roast dinner is not fancy :D
Go somewhere like here: http://lyleslondon.com and actually taste some fancy food.
Buckfast aperitif.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restau...a_England.html
We went here for sushi a few months ago. I had never had sushi before so I don't have anything to compare it to, but it was seriously bloody nice.
The sushi platter looks nice. I find with sushi there's about three or four things I really like but a lot of it I can leave.
Yeah we shared a few starters, then had that along with two other mains (http://www.ciscoes.com/menus.html 'Tokyo Tower' and 'Full-on Futomaki') between four of us. Tonnes of food and came to about £20 each from what I remember. Should definitely get back there.
I've never had Buckfast, but I had Haggis recently and it was fantastic.
The sorbet was quite sweet. When you get over the cough medicine consistency of Buckfast it's actually quite pleasant.
Battered haggis is the best thing chippies do.
On 'Scottish things', we tried Irn Bru when we were in Glasgow since you barely see it down here and it was ubiquitous there.
It's horrible to an extent which defies belief.
Haggis is disgusting. Irn is only good for a hangover.
Interested to hear how much that meal cost? If it's any more than £6 (rough price of a carvery) then they've had you and probably laughed about it after.
I love how you took a picture. :D
Oh dear. It was 99GBP for the whole lunch, with wine being extra...
One of the many deserts:
http://i.imgur.com/3MEdAvRl.jpg
99 quid each?
Yep.
Some squirty cream and digestive crumble? Christ, mate. Go somewhere decent next time. No wonder you've got a bad impression of European food.
:lol: :lol:
Bloody hell.
You'll be paying a premium on that for Christmas dining, but even then a hundred quid for that unless one of the courses was a cheateaubriand each is laughable. You've been done.
Is that a Christmas dinner featuring a pork pie?
Christmas day surcharge doesn't help either.
Points to whoever can guess where I had the meal though. You already know it's in Scotland.
http://i.imgur.com/Aipc69bl.jpg
spoons
Ah Christmas day dinner. Yes I know how expensively shit that can be.
Fucking hell. Was it some kind of Xmas work lunch thing? Where was it?
Nor have I, though there's a new place in Glasgow called "The Pie Howff" which specialises in ale and pies and I saw that one of their specials last week was the "Duckfast", a pie of duck and a Buckfast stew. I'd have given it a bash.
Really, really need to go in there.
Fucking hell, vowels.
Menu we had was pretty different to the sample on the website, Raoul, as I think they change it daily. Only meat I had was duck (once as a canape with fig, and another as foie gras), with the rest of the menu being more seafood oriented.
Going back to the last page, isn't Irn Bru available everywhere? Never not seen it in a supermarket wherever in the UK I've been.
One of the view pops that is acceptable in its 'diet' form, obviously I don't bother through choice, but if forced you'll find the sugar free one tastes closer to the real deal than anything else does.
Oh yeah it's in shops here, but I think it was on the menu of every restaurant we went to there.
I've still not had a glass bottle of it, reckon I'd go there just for that.
Quality shit from a proper cold can.
Do you mean desserts featuring Irn Bru or just that they served it as a drink?
I've seen Irn Bru ice cream, which was actually quite nice, but only in one restaurant.
As a drink. I don't think I've ever seen it on a menu down here.
Was there last weekend, but didn't think about grabbing a dirty bottle.
Went into Aladdins Cave though.
Looses Emporium down the road is good as well.
Didn't think Lewis would go to Muslim shops.
The newsagents were all thieves, and they sold glass bottle drinks, so I just held my nose.
The answer was Carberry Tower, where Queen Mary of Scots surrendered.
'Queen Mary of Scots'? GS will not be happy about this.
:D
Hf's had a shocker here.
Whoops, I was even warned about that one when I was up there. This whole history thing is hard work.
Got a raspberry magnum at the garage, pretty decent.
I got a Lindt egg on the way home from Halfords. So nice.
Curry later on.
I made some delicious eastern European soup.
Had a banging takeaway last night: Saag aloo, lamb vindaloo, pilau rice and a garlic naan. Off the charts.
Went to a Chinese restaurant tonight, was pretty standard but they had soft shell crab which is always great and sizzling venison in black pepper which was fucking ludicrously good.
'Great' and 'fucking ludicrously good' don't really tally with the original 'pretty standard' assessment.
Were you using one of those stupid 'share' roulette things in the middle of the table? I hate those and always assume most sensible people will too, so I had that as you saying your starter and main were amazing, but the place was somehow standard overall.
I was hoping for an anecdote were your group left one member light or a triad sword fight had erupted.
No only children like the roulette tables.
There was only three of us and it's an all you can eat place but not buffet style.
For three you order 5 starters, 2 second courses and 5 mains. If you want more you can request more from those selections but some you can only order once (the crab was one of those).
http://www.regentcottage.co.uk/wpima...f73e2e2_06.png
We went for tempura prawns, squid in salt and pepper, seaweed, crispy beef and satay chicken for starters. Duck and crab for second course with venison, special fried rice, plain noodles, sweet and sour pork and chicken in black bean sauce for main. We only ordered noodles again (the portion was pretty tiny for three) and the venison although I'd have been happy to eat about 6 of those on their own.
http://i3.manchestereveningnews.co.u...k-Sundae-1.jpg
I tried this pulled pork sundae the other day. I thought the world's gone mad, but then I remember all the times I've had ice cream for breakfast.
It was alright, but huge.
That looks, quite simply, disgusting.
Christ, that Sundae looks grim. :D
There's a Chinese near us which works like that place Mahow posted, where it's all you can eat but you order rather than it being a buffet. It's the tits.
I was fearful about the onions on top, but they glaze them so that was a relief.
By 'roulette tables' do you mean the lazy Susan things? What about those is worthy of hatred?
Made my ass a chilli con carne for this week.
Chilli :drool:
That's taking the fetish stuff a bit far, surely.
Just made some burgers for later. They already smell :drool: raw.
Bought some kimchi on Amazon, it's damn tasty.
That looks properrr noice.
Best I could knock up between the bottles. Chips could have done with 5 minutes more but all good overall.
Tried churros for the first time today.
Jesus fuck are they good.
Tried them about 5 times. Had them in Auckland, London, and even Madrid.
What's the fuss? Dough in chocolate?
Fried dough (which was warm) with a shit tonne of cinnamon sugar and chocolate sauce. It's a perfect combination but what do I know, I've never spent £99 on a roast dinner.
I'm such a fat bastard though. I went to a restaurant today to eat some lunch before going to uni to get some work done. I had a 3 course meal and then had to go home to lay in bed for 3 hours :\
Suppose it's one of those kind of foods for me. Same with doughnuts. I'll happily eat them to fill myself up, but I'm much happier to see just about any other snack.
Unless they open a Cinnabon here any time soon then is take a doughnut over just about any sweet treat.
If you like greasy stodge and dying of heart attacks, and who doesn't, churros are basically the peak of the genre. Dip them in hot chocolate sauce for extra points.
I had them from a kiosk in Seville, which probably helped. No doubt other countries try and make them healthy.
Yeah, churros are mega. 'Cinnabons', on the other hand, are not.
Tonight I will mostly be using crushed cornflakes instead of panko breadcrumbs to make tonkatsu. It's on Nigella if it's shit.
Doughnuts are good when they're kept simple. Like a plain sugar coated one (they get called gravy rings here - is that a thing in the rest of the UK?) and those glazed Krispy Kreme ones. The ones which try to do too much with loads of icing and flavoured shit inside are just too sweet.
A woman in work brought in some lemon drizzle cake she'd made today. It was fucking great. Maybe the middle aged women aren't so bad.
Them Krispy Kremes being about fifteen quid each is worse than the wank some of them come with.
I only had a Cinnabon once but the thing I got was the nicest dessert thing I've ever had. Not sure if it was their regular type thing but it wasn't cinnamony (which would be a big no for me).
One of the women in work brought in banoffee and red velvet doughnuts to work the other day which were amazing, though I do like the regular Tim Horton ones too.
Never heard the gravy ring thing in my time up there.
Aren't cinnabons a breakfast item (I know, it's America etc)?
Also, I've no idea what tonkatsu is but crushed up cornflakes are better than breadcrumbs in most situations I've found that I'd need breadcrumbs.
Cinnabon is without question the worst food product in America. Even worse than aircraft fuel gallon sized fountain drinks at gas stations. It is not a surprise that their outlets can be found almost exclusively in mall food courts or airports. All places where people are effectively trapped.
I have never seen one in an American airport, or even America for that matter. Must be a regional thing.
He's right though, Cinnabon is fucking disgusting. Far too sweet and sickly for anyone over 7 to cope with.
I liked the one I had anyway.
I travel fairly extensively for work and I've never seen one outside of those settings. They are among the least regional thing in existence. Our regional food is generally good and our generic stuff is horrid. Generic corporate copies of regional food like Cinnabon must violate the Geneva convention.
Cinnabon's are so popular in prison that they're the effective currency rather than cigarettes now. (I say that with a large apparently, I read it somewhere ages ago)
I had a cinnabon in a stand alone 'high street' outlet somewhere in California. Something beach, maybe Pismo?
Anyway, the cornflakes were awesome.
Churros are boss. There's a Cinnabon on Oxford Street that always smells great, but I've never been there.
Recently I've been eating shitloads of tapas in Barcelona. I've no idea how everyone in Spain isn't obese, I barely saw a vegetable whilst I was out there (aside from patatas bravas for dayz)
Office work is basically signing up for type 2 diabetes if you find it hard to resist free food. I don't think I ever went more than about a week in my last job like that without some middle aged woman bringing in about 10 cakes because it was someone's birthday or wedding or some shit.
Speaking of petty office politics/diabetes: we have free fruit delivered on Monday morning. Quite a few people take an absolute shitload (like, a bowl full - maybe 5-6 pieces). I'm going to put a snide note in to the anonymous suggestion box at our next company meeting that we should limit this to 2 pieces per person, just to make a load of people seethe :drool:
Yes, definitely one of those. I'm always going to choose a restaurant where they cook things instead of reheating something frozen or from a vat. There are always cheap local options that are better: taquerias, meat and threes, diners, or whatever.
Lamb bhuna :drool:
Lamb karahi. :drool:
Lamb. :drool:
My mother took me for some 'Italian tapas' (they have their own word for it, but who cares?) so I could TRY SOME NEW THINGS. I just stuck to small pizzas and pasta, because new things are crap, but what a brilliant idea.
The La Tasca near me closed and has been replaced by a Bella Italia. An upgrade in options, if not quality.
Antipasto has always struck me as a daft name for it. It sounds like you hate pasta.
Trying my hand at a joint of pulled pork. Had it marinating overnight in a wet marinade of bbq sauce, paprika, brown sugar, garlic and salt and just going to stick it in for 6 hours on a tray with some water underneath.
Wish be luck, it cost me about £20 tip buy everything for it.
Slow cooker is a great job for this too.
Yeah don't own one unfortunately otherwise that's what I'd have used.
Good idea with the water anyway. Is there vinegar in the bbq sauce?
I just tried making a Victoria sponge (I think I've mentioned how bored I am), but when it said to 'fold' the flour in I just tipped it into the mixer. Is that why it was a foamy mess that failed to rise?
My friend in America is at some pizza gaff on his dinner break, and they have a challenge on the board that sez if seven of you can eat this fifty-four inch, two-hundred dollar pizza in two hours you win a grand (and get the pizza free). Is this me giving it the large'un again, or is that not particularly daunting provided your team didn't have any birds/losers holding you back? On the other hand, if it was that easy you would expect LADS to be in there all the time eating for free, so fuck I don't know.
54 inch per side? That's an area of 2916 in^2. The regular pizza you get over here is 14 inch (my missus and I usually share one), which has an area of 154 in^2. I reckon I could eat it all on my own plus probably half more if I was motivated. So my contribution would be 231 in^2. Seven me's would fall way short at 1617 in^2. Then again, I am 145 lbs. You basically need each person to be able to eat almost three full 14 inch pizzas each to make it.
It all depends how thick it is, really.
I'm with you, between seven that looks doable.
If Pepe is correct (and when is he not?), I'm having second thoughts now.
2 people to dedicate themselves to each flavour and the seventh is the fattest cunt of the group who gets stuck with the Margarita.
If that has an American style doughy base there's absolutely no chance. If it's thin and the topping is most of the deal, then you could maybe have a dig at it with shrewd team selection.
You need a normal sized pizza near it for scale - I reckon it'd look fucking ginormous then.
The real question is how to distribute the earnings. Would you divide it evenly, or based on who ate more?
By contribution, I reckon.
If history has taught us anything, the promise of an equal share would just encourage people to sit there doing nothing whilst two of you struggled to finish it.
But what if you're all going for it and at some point you realize you're falling way behind from the others? You could, of course, step it up. You could also tell them that either they give you your 'fair share' or you don't eat any more, potentially leaving everyone empty handed.
I would go into it thinking that we don't win enough, and that, once we've chucked you off our team and made China pick up the drinks, we'll piss it.
I ate a 15 inch by myself once but could have done more.
I'm in.
Eating challenges are such a load of shit (alright Hammer). There's entertainment to be had in watching some nutcase like that Joey Chestnut take down a five pound meal in thirty seconds, but being one of seven twats sweating their way through a massive pizza just sounds like a nightmare. You win about three shifts of minimum wage at the end of it, but you spend the next week with indigestion and a blocked toilet. Not a good deal.
I couldn't even read whatever John has posted because of Mahow's aura.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVlvQMXQQAw
It really is one of the greatest things ever.
I've also watched a load of eating competitions (Polish Eurosport is shit) and Kobayashi is a don.
I've got Rick Stein's beef vindaloo marinating in the fridge for tomorrow. I cannot fucking wait, the marinade smelt so damn good.
I've a pound of lamb chunks here so I was going to make some sort of a stew with carrots, spuds, onions that are around too.
What flavourings would be best to go with the lamb, it's not something I cook often with apart from curries. Like if I was making a chicken stew/casserole I'd be using garlic and sage but not sure what to base the lamb on.
Don't be afraid to mix it up. Red wine is great with a lamb stew though, tend to throw in some rosemary/thyme as well.
http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.c...itle=lamb-stew
I've been keen to try something like this with lamb for a while.
If you're looking at other things to do with lamb, I posted this a while back-
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/a...osh-lamb-balti
Probably the best thing I've come across.
It's going to be one of those, good shout on both.
The beef vindaloo is probably the best curry I've ever had.
Rick is a genius.
I thought it wasn't hot enough during the first few bites but it built up so nicely.
I put a bit more vinegar than the recipe stated and didn't bother taking out the seeds too. I think those two things just put it at another level.
You've improved on genius. Well played.
I think Stein's book is all recipes he picked up making the TV show anyway.
Sunday affie 'av a kebab mate
http://i.imgur.com/4en4GFy.jpg
Chicken :nono:
No salad?
Red cabbage is brilliant in kebabs.
Also, kofte > all other 'meats' done by kebab places.
I don't know if there have been adverts, but Pizza Hut appears to have undergone something of a make-over. :cool:
Just had a chicken schwarma wrap and some chips. Sober kebabs :drool:
What the fuck is that, Giggles?
Did you buy an extra one or just not eat any last night?
I really want a kebab now.
Eating a kebab on the bus would be a cunt's trick anyway, seating or no. Why wouldn't you eat it when you got home though?
Also, did you get the kebab from the bar, an idea which makes me unwell, or from another place that's on the way home?
No it's a kebab place in Temple Bar, we had twenty minutes wait for the bus and it's pretty much beside it.
Was going to take into it when I got home but it was already cold (bus is 40 mins) so I thought it'd save cooking today. Fuck eating on the bus is right, there was some 50-something skanger eating a taco chip opposite us and it near put me off food altogether :sick:
Doesn't look like much of a kebab, by the way, but then they're often the best ones. The colour of that sauce makes it look like a smashed Subway.
Rifling through the chips of a McDonald's or something is fine, but there's nothing worse than the stench of someone else's fish supper wafting around when you're pissed. I once had someone open their own tub of rice and flip it into a Tupperware of curry beside me in the cinema, which is orders of magnitude worse than anything short of shitting on a bus.
No salad and it's about 12 inches long :drool: It's the meat that makes it though, really nice stuff. They build up the spit with chillies mixed through the lamb so there's little flecks of it through it. The sauce is a strange colour but I think when you ask for chilli sauce and garlic sauce they use one that's already a mix of the two so it's pinkish.
Who the fuck brings a curry Into the cinema? :D
Made the Rick Stein tamarind and green chilli pork curry today. Took me ages because I was never very good at the 'prep' in the first place and getting out of practice hasn't helped but it was worth it. Absolutely delicious.
I made some banana bread yesterday. Turned out pretty well, and was really easy. It was maybe a little too moist for my liking but I didn't want to burn it.
Doing the vindaloo again tonight :drool:
Those 'stand n stuff' tacos Danny Trejo is all over the TV with at the moment are very good. I've made my own chilli obviously, the shit Old El Paso provide is barely fit for a dog, but I might grab another three or four of those sets while they're cheap just for the shells.
Asshole wife made spag bol with a jar tonight. To show my disgust I put the remainder in the bin rather than tubbing up as usual. That'll teach her.
How to be a spiteful misery?
Bought a picanha cut of beef to put on the barbecue today :drool:
Anything interesting to do with quailes eggs? Picked up two dozen this morning as they were only €3 but as it stands I'm just going to boil some.
You could make some smaller scotch eggs.
I'm sure others have done them on TV as well, I believe someone did them as part of his starter on Great British Menu too.
I can barely move but fucking hell, I don't think a good barbecue can be beaten.
Some corn, a bit of halloumi, a venison burger and a massive brilliant steak :drool:
Someone give me a good curry recipe that doesn't require too many different ingredients. I've got the normal coriander, cumin, garam masala stuff in the house. I was looking at Madhur Jaffrey's lamb bhuna recipe but it needs a ridiculous amount of different things I don't have.
I've nothing. Even my simplest one has tamarind in it. If you can get that then the rest of the stuff is easy to get.
I'm not even sure what tamarind is.
You could probably get that in the supermarket though, right?
They sell it in Sainsburys.
I got mine in Tesco. The one I use is a thick concentrate in a bottle.
Yeah that's alright then. Have you got a link for it?
The recipe, I mean. Not the tamarind.
Bought a cote de boeuf to put on the barbecue tonight.
It's obscenely good, probably the best steak I've eaten.
Late to this but for curries, get Mr Patak's paste (think it is called that. Maybe just Patak's).
If you're arsed to grind your own spices then you are a better man / have more time than me, but the above is a great substitute.
Some variation on this is honestly fine if you don't have that many ingredients in.
https://youtu.be/y-VjBxMufhw
Had some Chinese last night. Chicken and prawns marinated just in honey, five spice, ginger and soy. Lovely and dead easy.
BBC Food/Good Food is being shutdown :(
There's currently a petition going on to save the recipes.
https://www.change.org/p/bbc-save-th...recipe-archive
I saw that. That's shit.
Good Food isn't being shut down, and Food isn't really either, it just won't be updated anymore.
Good food :(
Good job too, it's not like they could get rid of one of the seven layers of management instead.
That seems like surely one of the things they could actually monetise quite easily (overseas).
Yes they are, or a lot of them anyway.
EDIT:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36308976Quote:
The 11,000 existing recipes on the BBC Food website will not be searchable which could make them harder to find online unless you know the URL.
Actually not quite true. But still.
The Mrs wants to get Thai one night over the weekend but everything in a Thai place always seemed very wishy washy raw veg to me, and the curries are full of lemongrass. Is there anything in them that would suit someone that mainly likes Indian?
Jungle Curry can be good, but it can also be quite watery. I don't know what it is with Thai food, there always seems a vast array of differences in the same dishes (from establishment to establishment), which you don't see with most other cuisines.
Actually, traditionally I think it is quite watery (no coconut milk), but the one I get obviously doesn't adhere to this convention.
:cab:
I tried to make some cookies this weekend as part of the whole wasting my life thing. You had to leave the dough to 'chill' for a bit (shut up), and the ones I tried cooking were sort of boring, so I just ended up eating the dough.
It's getting desperate now, quite frankly.
There are ways out other than baking.
Model trains, for example.
I still have the trains from my train set. You need wide corners for the Eurostar though, so I don't know if I could get a new track set up on the cheap.
I made some sweet potato, coconut and chilli soup for lunch for the rest of the week tonight. I tasted it and while it's nice I think it's a bit too spicy. My arse is gonna be burning by tomorrow night.
:(
I don't get the hard on everyone has for sweet potato these days. Make me feel sick.
Sweet potatoes are shite.
+1 for sweet potato disdain.
The chipped efforts are by far the worst.
I'm guessing you haven't tried them in crisps form.
Absolutely disgusting.
:D
Not sure (they may have been lost in with the other general horrors of non [proper] potato crisps), although they sound like they would be like those rogue crisps you come across at a 5 year old's birthday party, which have been sucked and then returned to the bowl. It's too late . . .
Kale chips. I don't even.
I like sweet potato chips but I like everything.
The sign of somebody with healthy teeth and bones. :cool:
I had a curry the other day that was a bit too hot for my pathetic pallet and got the waiter to get me a glass of milk. My mates took the piss and I blurted out 'oh buying milk out and about isn't that weird, this guy called lewis...' then just admitted it was off this place cus my mouth was stinging too much to think of a cover story and they know i'm a fucking loser already.
I got another free pint of it the other day because they didn't know what to charge me and decided on 'it's only a bit of milk'. Well it was only a bit of beer as well, and you had a fiver out of me for that piss.
What would you do if they only had skimmed milk?
I love the ad for that yellow topped stuff that claims to "taste as good as" semi-skimmed. Might as well sell shoes that are "as comfortable as having your feet hacked off!"
I bought some soft scoop ice cream today, and, because it annoys me when people just spoon in and make a fucking mess of it all when it melts and re-sets and everything, when I eat ice cream from the tubs (I bought it I'll do what I want) I patiently scrape it up with the spoon.
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I mention this because my mother has just clocked it, called it 'weird', and refused to have any; so I want to know whether anybody else does likewise.
That is the correct way to eat ice cream, Miss Byron ruining the tubs of Ben and Jerrys we buy is grounds for divorce.
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Best way to eat Ben and Jerry's type tubs of ice cream.
I'm not really sure what Lewis' problem is. Is he saying he keeps it level all across the tub rather than just scooping out at one end then working to the other end?
I get annoyed when people do that with the butter :moop:
Surely you just cut chunks off butter.
Spreadable stuff, not actual butter butter.
You just cut off how much you want, whip off the cardboard and stick it in a bowl. Then put the lid back on top of whatever's left.
Digging in the tub results in it all getting a bit melty and then being shit the next time (unless you eat it in one go). You also have to make a second trip to the freezer.
Getting some out with a spoon into a bowl is a pain in the arse after it's just come out the freezer (cutting it is much easier). Either you end up with a million little tiny bits and a bent spoon or you let it melt a bit and have the same problem as in part a of this explanation. I guess all the freezers in my life so far could've just been too cold, though.
Never knew eating ice cream was so complicated.
It's not, if you do it properly.
Finding myself opting for the vegetarian option more and more this year. Had some veggie sausages earlier and they were the nuts.
There's a joke there about them not being vegetarian if they were 'the nuts', but it falls down on the basis of the proper meaning of nuts.
What a quandary.
Spinach and pine nut pasta salad is a game changer.
So I ordered Louisiana Chicken Foccacia. I thought it was pasta, turns out it's a noncey sandwich. Awesome. Italian cunts.
Dear lord.
More like failing at being middle class.
How did you not know focaccia is a type of bread?
You thought Focaccia was pasta?
I'm not that big on Italian noncery to be honest. Of all the cuisines it's the shittest.
Magic. :*)
Londoners, tell me about a burrito place named 'Tortilla'.
It's decent. Quite cheap if I remember correctly, though I've only been once.
'Californian-style Mexican food'
I'll predict a ':harold:' from Pepe.
The prices do look reasonable, even more so since they're doing all food half price until Friday. My main concern was the 'began after a four year search for a decent taco' shit in their blurb, which makes it sound like it's run by mahow.
I genuinely thought the same when I read that.
It's definitely something that I would do, I'm constantly pissed off that there are no decent Mexican or Korean (a Mexican/Korean gaff would be amazing, they blend so well) places here.
Does risotto work with basmati rice? Turns out it does, although if you don't use risotto rice is it still called a risotto?
Tackling the big questions tonight.
Probably not as it won't be as creamy as a risotto made with aborio rice.
In which case I just had rice with stuff I found in the fridge.
I like how they try so hard to make tacos so fucking complicated. Grab a (corn) tortilla, stick some meat in it. That's a taco. 'Salsa', cheese, sour cream, and lettuce can all fuck off.
The abuse the term barbacoa gets from all these fast food places like Chipotle and the like does fuck me off I have to admit.
Made some brownies (these ones http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...rink.shopping2 which I'm sure I've espoused the virtues of before) and some salted caramel last night, and just had it with some vanilla ice cream.
Fucking HELL. :drool:
Tortilla is good. It's a Subway style affair so you just pick what you want as they go along and make it for you. Everything tasted properly fresh though and it was stuffed past bursting point, so I've no complaints for two seventy.
Sounds like most burrito places except for the price.
Had boodles for the first time tonight. For once, a pretty tasty alternative.
The gin?
No the healthy noodle alternative.
Noodles are unhealthy now? I feel like I'm missing something.
Those bare naked ones? They look rank.
Carbs. Carbs are bad. The girl that sits opposite me in work is doing some fitness 'bootcamp' thing and she got an eating plan from it. It's done by some of those clean eating no carbs wankers. I hate that shit.
I find it especially strange considering that low fat is better for a person than low carbs.
Carbs are bad now, but fat is no longer bad, now it is good. Only the good fat though, bad fat is bad.
Oh well, bollocks to that then. By happy coincidence Boodles the gin is quite nice too.
Boodles is just a butternut squash that's been grated to look like noodles. I think. One of my five a day, anyway.
Played Tragic.
Butternut squash is fucking repugnant. My aunt is a vegetarian and absolutely loves all that stuff, I tried a butternut squash lasagne she was raving about once and it was like sick.
Tesco finest Swiss White Chocolate & Honeycomb cookies.
Thank me later.
Sitting in Burger King hating myself. There goes the boodles benefit.
You're a fucking boodle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedei_Porcelana
I bought a bar of this recently.
I don't know if you can ever really argue that a bar of chocolate that size is 'worth' what it cost, but fucking hell it was spectacularly nice.
My Co-Op had a load of that fancy chocolate they do on clearance prices. A good sized bar of milk chocolate with toffee and Himalayan red salt (???) for 40p. :drool:
Didn't check the date of a bottle of soy sauce I found in the cupboard (it was sealed) and ended up putting a splash in my fried rice before I noticed it looked watery as fuck. Checked the date and it's about 18 months gone.
Just a small splash has ruined my fried rice.
Doesn't quite taste right and it's watery as hell :(
Bought a coconut. Eating it just now. Pretty awesome, though quite hard to prepare and eat raw. Not sure what else to do with it? The coconut juice though. :drool:
I made a chicken ramen yesterday. In the spirit of Brexit, I sacked off all the dirty foreign ingredients like bamboo and the detestable pak choi, replacing them with blighty's very own fresh spinach.
It was absolutely sensational. Having posh chicken stock made the difference.
Chicken noodle soup then?
I've got a stew going, but it's still an hour away. Not sure how I survive this.
Bought William Curley's two books the other week:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Couture-Cho.../dp/1906417598
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Patisserie-.../dp/1909342211
They are brilliant, if a little daunting. Going to have a try at making some blackcurrant tea-cakes out of the chocolate one after exams are done.
I embraced Brexit this evening by going to a pub and drinking ale then eating sausage and batter and chips :brittania:
I thought 150cal per 30g of some cereals was excessive, some even 200. Without milk. So I poured a bowl of the amount I have then poured it on the scales.
100g. 100 fucking grams. That means nearly every morning my breakfast is 500+ calories. Oh lol.
Flicking through Facebook and I've just been confronted with a picture of someone's dinner. Spaghetti bolognese and mashed potatoes. The picture itself may be too upsetting to post.
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A nice vegetarian meal, that is.
You'd have paid about sixty quid for it.
Is that spag bol from a can as well?
Why would you eat that and even worse, why would you post a photo of it?
That's properly tragic :D
See a lot of people doing it with (terrible) roast dinners.
"Mum's roasts are the best ever!"
My mother makes crap roast dinners, but telling her so would probably devastate her (somebody should have done so in 1981 before she started thinking she was good), so I pretend that I want to learn how to do it whilst actually improving it with advice gleaned from my brother.
There was a great one of those doing the rounds at Christmas. A tiny roast dinner with no gravy, no pigs in blankets, and no decent veg, captioned on Snapchat with 'better than sex'.
EDIT - Found it.
http://i.imgur.com/0VnigLK.png
That's just tragic.
Molton wants to know who can stomach a meal of such hedonistic extravagance.
What're the best sausages? I'm getting sick of the Quorn ones.
Go to a decent local butcher
You can't get the Morrisons man to deliver them. :thbdn:
Just buy ones with the most pork in them.
The 'Heck' ones are shit hot. All varieties.
Their squares shoved in a baguette :nodd:
Went to a Chinese supermarket today.
Selling bags of frozen pig uteri is taking things a bit too far I felt.
Bee Larvae all round!
Ordered 3 more bars of really nice (read expensive) chocolate :uhoh:
I'm going to bankrupt myself with this.
So I've gone vegetarian for the past month and I'm going to stick with it. Get to it, Boyd.
I'm actually doing the whole no carb thing at the minute.
That was my 2015. I look forward to your evolution.
Wish I could do something like that. Pity the wife only likes unhealthy stuff.
Says the man who eats Greggs.
Most people in relationships eat utter shit. Oh to be comfortable.
I don't eat Greggs.
Chicken sausages. I don't think you can be throwing 'gay' around at anyone.
They were reduced because their date was up today. Homosexuals would never go for that.
I've tried them because my Mum bought some and they're not too bad.
Not a patch on pork obviously.
I've just had a Twinkie because Tesco are doing them less than half price and I hadn't had one since I was about fourteen in America. Fuck me, they're vile, and I immediately feel like I'm on course for a massive stroke.
They are fucking awesome
You just tell yourself that because you pay four quid for them in a cereal cafe.
They're two fifty for ten in Tesco, so if you love them that much stock up. It's like off squirty cream in a sponge that's been baked for a little too long.
The big Tesco in Hackney has an American section with loads of ridiculous "food" there like marshmallow sandwich spread, Lucky Charms and whatnot.
I'm going on holiday in a few weeks so there's no chance I'm getting involved.
Same as the one near me. They have about fifty flavours of 'Pop Tarts'. There's an Irish section right beside it which sells their crisps. 'Tayto' is the brand, which made me lol.
Not a program I could imagine you watching, much less enjoying. It has a sense of humour. You have to put the image location in the tags, not the site URL.
Trying to find the brand name of the stuff they sell in Tesco I've come across this serving suggestion.
You fucking wot? Bad enough that exists, but that name from the country who changed 'titbit' because it sounded too rude?Quote:
Marshmallow creme and peanut butter are used to create a fluffernutter sandwich.
If TTH ever does a holiday it should be an eating 'n' lolling tour of America.
I bet that barely has enough power to move.
It's ok though, only $2 a gallon.
Less in Texas.
Look at the grass receding and dying as he goes past.
http://www.figbarnorwich.com/#home
This place has just opened in Norwich. It's fucking spectacular.
Really? That shit has existed for ages:
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-st...67015072-5.jpg
They'se superb. :drool:
Oh. Sounds shite. :D
They way the coating melts in your mouth. :drool:
Can't go wrong with lime flavored anything.
This is mega, lads.
Marnalade. :harold:
MarMalade is quality you fucking pleb.
I must admit, Pepe's nuts look good.
Had half a massive Asda deli counter pizza for lunch today. I don't think we talk about pizza enough on here.
Bought a bag of Red Pan Masala today without realising what it was. I thought by the look of it that it would be a sort of different flavoured Panch Phooran mix, but it's an after dinner mint :face:
Got a young lady coming round so I'm making her my classic mediocre vegetable pasta sauce. :eyemouth:
I bought a baguette and filled it with steak, halloumi, mushrooms & caramelised onions today. It was good.
Do you have one of these to wear?
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I've just boiled 10 chicken fillets.
Boiled?
The not so foody version of 'poached'.
Molton thought Giggles was some plain pasta away from a feast fit for a king until he lost the plot and said it was for curries and stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XILbEZlS0U
I'm sold, I've ruined too many eggs and pans in my life.
They'd be horrible to eat.
Kitchen gadgets review: the Egg Master – a horrifying, unholy affair
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandst...y_to_clipboard
Jesus, what the fuck is that monstrosity. Why would you think that was a good idea?
The ads are brilliant. Some the random flailing about and throwing the egg at the pan while they sweat like a rapist.
How do you even stick an egg to a frying pan? You'd need to be using loctite instead of oil.
That's the point. His column is funny.
In my defence it is in the Gaurdian, he could easily just have been a wanker.
I knew I'd seen this somewhere before, it's been on Ashens' sofa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFP5mmPZe_c
They look like what a kid would get as a treat if they were being raised gender-neutral.
Just had a plate of 12 oysters and a pint of stout handed to me. After 8, I think I like.
Just had my vegetable pasta sauce for dinner for the 5th night out of 7. The special ingredients are chilli powder and laziness.
https://www.heckfood.co.uk/uploads/f...chipolatas.jpg
Got myself some smoky paprika chicken ones for tea. Will probably cook six, with a bt of mash, mushy peas and loads of gravy. :drool: All while I sit down to binge watch Master Of None. What a night.
Then I've got four left over for breakfast. :nod:
I want one of these.
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A doorstep sandwich layered with pork, then smoked sausage, then bacon, and topped off with a medium-rare beefsteak, it is finished with a fried egg and covered in a thick coat of cheesy sauce. It is heated through and then drenched in a murky dark sauce. A mountain of french fries is served on the side. Health food it’s not.
Lose the egg and sorted.
Indeed, I'm not sold on eggs.
You can just imagine a disgusting, fat Portugeuse fisherman version of Giggles chewing on that with his obese mouth wide open, spraying every cunt with spit residue and chip fat.
Better than spraying people in a kebab shop with bits of teeth and blood.
Better than travelling to an active warzone because some camwhore talked back to you online thus cementing the scenario in your head that a reasonably attractive slut who rents herself out to fat disgusting perverts on the internet would choose to fall in love with one that looks like a Mammoth's hairball with an underactive thyroid.
The Portuguese love an egg. I was in two different restaurants there where you had to specifically ask for it if you didn't want an egg on your pizza. It was as much a part of the standard recipe as the cheese.
Could Kiko's mum look any more awkward in that photo?
Plus, cheese on the outside? Get a grip.
I think you've got Kikos family relations a bit wrong.
Also, tinypic rotates photos for some unknown reason.
Are they chicken dippers?
:harold:
Oh dear.