One of the great tragedies of this board is that @John Arne is not more active in this thread.
I think Vietnamese in my favourite cuisine outside of Italian (which leads for obvious sentimental reasons) these days. Just .
One of the great tragedies of this board is that @John Arne is not more active in this thread.
I think Vietnamese in my favourite cuisine outside of Italian (which leads for obvious sentimental reasons) these days. Just .
It’s always been a very trendy one in the US hasn’t it?
I had a biriyani and a sheekh kebab yesterday. I have put on a kg.
I had chicken burgers for lunch and steak burgers for dinner. This isolation has really fucked with my diet.
I'd usually eat better as well. Like, I'd normally have fresh chicken rather than chicken kievs. Fresh meat instead of fish cakes.
I've still got a good bit of a Musclefood order either waiting to be cooked up or already cooking into portions of stuff and in the freezer so I'm not doing too bad.
To try and stop me becoming even blimpier I'm doing some workout videos off Youtube when I finish work.
I have plenty of good food in, but we've just not been eating it. We've been drinking way too much too, probably out of boredom.
Yeah even when I've been to the shop I've not bought much by way of junk or booze because I'm not to be trusted.
I don't really see the point of me going to the shop because I end up spending the same amount of money the next day for food I'm also not going to eat. And the drinking is ridiculous.
I'm the same, I bought a couple of bags of frozen chicken breasts, but the only other thing I've bought in bulk is booze. Six bottles of wine and seventy two cans/bottles of various beers.
So far today I've had three cereal bars and the glorious scheme lunch of potato waffles covered in grated cheese then a tin of beans and sausages over that. I'm definitely emerging from isolation at least a stone heavier.
I'll tell you what, this time of global crisis has really helped me get portion control down. I eat way too much so learning to stretch it and eat like a normal person is great.
I have my Tesco order arriving tomorrow. Don’t really need it now but it took so long that I probably should in case it’s weeks before I can get another one.
I’m cooking dinner before 10am. The boredom is real.
Our ribs last night were top notch. I started slow cooking them at about 10. Brushing with Spikey M's homemade BBQ sauce* every 2 hours.
*it came in a bag from the butchers. Just mixes with water and brushed on.
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That's just my half. Had to cut it up so I could fit chips and coleslaw on the plate.
I have ribs in the freezer that I must take out after seeing those
Might have some mini kievs and chilli heatwave Doritos for tea.
Treat yo self!
I’m making tomorrows lunch now. I miss being able to stop and buy my lunch.
The problem with this lockdown is that everyone is eating themselves into comorbidity status.
What's the appropriate intervention for an obesity epidemic. Food shortages?
Eating less but not eating well.
Some brown pasta, onion, mushroom, and vegetarian sausages vs a beautiful big cheesy chicken fillet roll. No, definitely eating better as well as less.
I’ll eat anything so long as they’re nice. Denny vegetarian sausages and Eden burgers are two I buy regularly for both shelf life and safe rehearing purposes. Both are definitely nice enough to eat in a world of vile vegetarian things. Clonakilty vegetarian white pudding is also epic and close enough to their real white pudding that you’d hardly know the difference.
I’d normally put strips of smoked (real) rashers in my pasta too but I had 3 veg sausages to use up so there was no need.
Not sure if they have them here though I think I’ve seen their regular sausages for sale so they might be. The local tesco has a fairly big section.
The denny ones are the best I’ve found (quoin - not too bad to eat but nothing like a sausage, Linda Mc - absolutely disgusting), they’re a bit odd and you’d know if they were with a fry but chopped up into something like pasta and someone would easily think they’re just a different brand of meat one.
I'm attempting fried chicken for the first time tonight.
Have you buttermilked it? I have no means of frying it or I’d love to make a bit too.
I had veggie sausages this morning. Pretty fucking good but looking at the ingredients, it's just random words so not sure it's any better than the pork ones.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/...-fried-chicken
That's the recipe, a sort-of buttermilk. It's been marinading in that overnight. Didn't have enough paprika so I've put in a little cumin and a bit more chilli powder to top up the spice mix.
Well I had some issues getting the oil on the right temperature and keeping it there so the cooking on the coating of my fried chicken varied a bit from piece to piece but on the whole it was delicious.
Great success.
I made popcorn in a pan for the first time. It worked.
The chippy is open.
Those mushy peas could use more mush.
It's London mate, I'm just impressed they have them.
Fair fucks.
I made banana bread yesterday and have some sourdough cooking in the machine right now
Those chips look excellent.
Can confirm they were proper.
I found a pizza base mix in the press. That’s tomorrow sorted.
London chippies were universally wank, in my experience. Even the ones that were 'meant to be good' (there was one on Kingsland Road - Faulkners?) were dross. I saw one around Hammersmith whilst I was there over Christmas that looked to be 're-inventing the chippie' and then I think I spied another of the same name in the O2 so I guess it was probably part of some dreadful chain. Looked rubbish. I think the problem is that the focus is always on the fish in the fancier places (and all chip shops outside of the UK - I'm looking at you Australia) when it is actually the humble chip you have to nail to be a top chippie. The battered things are pretty easy generally.
I may have mentioned on here before that the chippy over the road from me has started giving seabass as an option for your fish supper. Best part of double the price. Now I like a bit of seabass but I don't live in the nicest part of town so I'm not sure wo they think their target market is.
Maybe all the addicts who've built up an appetite waiting outside the pharmacy.
The one I went to had Cod, Haddock, Cornish Plaice and another which I've forgotten. Obviously went for plaice.
Decent on everything but the peas. Wife got prawn tacos (Wtf is a chippy even) which looked pretty immense.
I mean prawn tacos sound ace but from a chippy?
Again, London. They were deep fried so I guess that makes sense?