What is the go to fish of 'and chip' fame then? Vietnamese catfish?
I always think fish at the chippy is ludicrously overpriced.
What is the go to fish of 'and chip' fame then? Vietnamese catfish?
I always think fish at the chippy is ludicrously overpriced.
Dunno about Vietnamese, but catfish is the nicest one I ever tasted. Blackened catfish at that.
had catfish stew in budapest, was flippin wicked
If I ever go back it's the first place I'm hitting.
http://catfishparlour.com/south-austin---menu.html
Is that a type of dish or a type of cutlery?Originally Posted by Adamski
Rogano?
Isn't it a type of pasta?
No it's the best seafood restaurant in Glasgow.
Well then Sweden doesn't really qualify either. 20 years ago maybe, but since then we overfished and Eastern Europe poisoned the Baltic sea, so these days Cod is a fucking "delicacy", simply by virtue of being rare.
I just paid a fiver for a beetroot juice.
Glad to hear you have your priorities right.
I think we get sold Chinese wank that isn't cod as 'cod'. Cod is meant to be more sustainable these days though.
It's more sustainable wherever they have fairly strict limitations of how much you can fish, basically, just like with anything.
'Cod' is pollock or coley these days isn't it?
Oh. No I was in the Isle of Man. Rings a bell though, I think my friend's brother works there.
Seafood from my holiday.
Queen scallops with garlic and bacon:
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Lobster and queen scallops:
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And saving the least interesting picture for last, a kipper, rocket and salsa baguette:
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And it was all
You're gonna end up on here.
I'm a twit
Half of them aren't even hipsters.
Two instances of square plates on the first page alone, burn them all down.
At least square plates are still plates.
Place near my hotel advertised itself as the home of "steak on a stone." Not really sure what the point is supposed to be.
Fuck me, we're deep inside the rabbit hole now.
They're just copying the Asians.
That's the heated stone thing that you're meant to cook your steak on yourself rather than it just being a shitty plate substitute. Still sounds like a shitty idea.
If I went to a restaurant and they expected me to cook the food myself I think I'd probably just leave.
That stone steak thing is good if you're a slow eater because it means every bite is fresh and hot, but it is a bit of a faff and I wouldn't bother with it again.
You must have looked like a right div taking a picture of a baguette, Ian.
I was the only one in there and even the chap behind the counter had wandered off.
That one was more being surprised at the price (about a fiver, including the salad, pasta, spuds, etc.) while I was talking to my sister about it on Whatsapp. I don't use Facebook or Instagram or anything so I only make a twat of myself taking pictures of food if it's for a specific reason rather than, say, the guy at my work who apparently has some mad urge to photograph basically every dinner he has or cooks to put on Instagram.
On the topic of hipstery - how large food snobs are you guys?
For every year that passes, I've noticed I'm becoming more and more faffy about the food I cook and eat, to the point where I've become what I probably used to despise 5 years ago.
I don't think I'm very snobby. For all that I'll pay lots for good stuff like the above and I like cooking nice stuff I still enjoy junk as well. My lunch last Saturday was basically just a bowl of breaded chicken bits that I found on offer in Co-Op.
I can eat anything and will eat anything without a problem.
Bar beetroot, aniseed, raisins, blue cheese and things which have alcohol in them which hasn't been burned off (I am aware that it doesn't burn it all away but the flavour it brings with a reduced alcohol content is ok with me).
I'll eat anything apart from olives. Girlfriend is a fussy eater and doesn't like red meat so it's a massive pain in the arse trying to get a bit of variety when cooking meals together.
What have you got against alcohol, Mahow?
I'm not a big fan of alcohol in food, I had to stage an intervention when my mother starting putting beer in stew/casserole.
I know someone who swears by Buckfast in a shepherd's pie, but I don't have the jakey credentials to try it.
MacGregor's Pie Howff in Glasgow do a 'duckfast' pie which I tried more because I like duck (I've never tried Buckfast) and it was cracking. How easilythe same or a similar gravy could have been achieved without Buckfast I don't know but it was nice all the same.
I started putting wine or stout in my stews and really like it. Kind of tastes like something is missing if I don't now.
I don't like the taste of it, I hated the my Dad used to get drunk and talk shit about my Mum when I was young and I hate the idea of getting drunk and not being in control.
The cam girl got me to drink 2-3 cocktails when I was out there and I hated it. Tasted foul.
Cocktails in provincial Ukraine?
Hmmm.
It was just orange or cherry juice mixed with, presumably, vodka.
I don't think I am a food snob. I can be quite picky about quality of ingredients, but only with certain things. I hate cheap sliced bread, and to use a more niche example I really hate cheap tinned tomatoes for cooking with (they're shit and watery and dilute the taste of whatever it is you're making).
People who turn their nose up at any prole food are wankers, but I don't like it when people try to claim that there's no difference between shit ingredients and good ingredients. Perfect example is my old flat-mate who'd make fucking spag bol on an almost nightly basis, would always use shit smart price tinned tomatoes then be all 'hmm I dunno why it is so watery'. Yet when I tentatively suggested it might be the cheap tinned tomatoes it just wouldn't compute.
He was so committed to this idea that paying more money for expensive stuff like that was like falling for a scam or something. Fair enough with stuff like own-brand paracetamol which is pretty much identical to the more expensive stuff, but it isn't like that with everything.
I've always found passata works better than chopped tomatoes but maybe that's because I always bought the cheapo chopped tomatoes.
Though actually now I think about it he'd always pour a bit of water into his spag bol as it was cooking to 'make it go further' so it was probably more that than the tomatoes.
I use cheapo tomatoes for making lasagne, they are more watery but you can just reduce the mixture down a bit more to compensate.
Yeah and bang in some tomato puree if you have any. I think it is more an issue of my dickhead ex-flatmate being a shit cook, I'll experiment with them and get back to TTH with my findings.
My brother is a massive [food] dickhead, so last Christmas I bought some of that mega Aldi fudge (the seemingly special festive stuff that sells out within seconds) so that I could give him some and then go 'It's from Aldi, you fat-headed twat!', like Jeremy Beadle, but I did all four boxes in before I had the chance.
He'd pour water into it and then wonder why it was watery?
I KNOW. He was a weirdo in general though. He drank 4 litres of pepsi max everyday, and my mate who visited refers to him as 'two pizzas' because when he was round we watched him eat two big pizzas for dinner. One was a garlic bread pizza thing, but still.He'd pour water into it and then wonder why it was watery?
Your mate thinks that somebody eating two big pizzas is noteworthy enough to make a nickname out of it?
Not in isolation - it is more what the pizzas represented. He was a slovenly fat bastard who did nasty farts all the time and just generally had a weird demeanour. I'm sure if he ate two big pizzas and was a top bloke he'd have internalised his incredulity.
I have a mate who's spent about fifteen years called 'Ten Cans' because he once lied about having drank ten cans of Stella before a night out. It happened before I knew him but the name's stuck and even his parents call him by it now.
Within reason, I try and buy decent ingredients depending on what I'm making. It's all about working out where you can get away with a cheaper substitute vs. where you need to spring for the good shit. There's no chance I'm not getting proper Heinz ketchup for example, but likewise cheaping out on a steak will leave you feeling like you're eating a shoe.
I try to buy organic stuff if I can, and avoid over-produced food. I try and limit the amount of meat I eat as well.
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