Chicken Salt: is it worth the hype?
Chicken Salt: is it worth the hype?
No idea. Celery salt however. Is.
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Discovered this stuff recently, and it's lead me to have a stir fry for dinner about five nights of the last seven. Incredible scenes. I reckon you could just mix it through some plain noodles/rice and it would be a pretty good meal.
Laoganma is basically the chinese equivalent to korean kimchi or maybe mayo/ketchup in western places. Basically it can go with anything.
Oh, yeah, laoganma is the tits. They make a peanut version which is equally exceptional.
What it’s it? Some sort of stinking fermented thing or just a sauce?
It says on the tin. Preserved black bean in chili oil. It's cheap as chips as well.
If and when the Chinese do take over the world and enslave us all, it will largely be down to their preponderance for eating black beans. I don't know a better foodstuff.
Was it delicious?
We eat way more black beans than the fucking Chinese.
Black beans.
I had a venison and cranberry burger in Ambleside last night and it was probably the best burger I’ve ever had.
I'm a twit
Iceland hash brown waffles. Why did nobody notify me of these before?
Isn't that just like a potato waffle?
No, but they have those too though.
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Crisped up some belly pork last night. First time I've cooked it for myself. Ludicrously tasty for so little effort.
Top work.
Pork belly is the food of the gods, especially when done like that.
The missus brought some of this homemade stuff back from Russia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food)
Incredible stuff. Gammon redemption.
There's a banging Gordon Ramsey pork belly recipe where you slow cook the meat in a braising liquid but leave the skin exposed to get the crackling which is absolutely banging.
I've got a whole pork belly in my freezer which I'm going to roll up with a load of herbs and cook it on my rotisserie as a Porchetta, be looking forward to that cook for a while.
It's got to be the best value for money cut of meat going when cooked properly.
Pork belly burnt ends on the BBQ are a winner as well once grilling season is back.
Yeah, I'll be probably getting a joint or some pork belly for Christmas.
"I almost didn't finish it."
Going to a place like that and moaning that it was weird is like going to a brewery and complaining that it stank of beer.
They aren't. We went to restaurant Nathan Outlaw before he closed it (which had two stars) and it was 4 good-sized courses of just insanely good food + bread and snacks. The fish course was literally a big old piece of fish, sauce and a few veg and was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
As soon as Heston Blumenthal was allowed to get away with his shit I think we all lost the right to complain if we go to these places and they serve cum porridge and twigs or whatever.
Stop ruining my narrative.
You’d probably get road kill at a Heston Blumenthal affair.
He'd probably serve you some roadkill to be fair, barbecued over burning shoes for a month and then stuffed with lemon mousse and old N64 controllers.
Edit: see, you fart about trying to make a joke more bantsy and you get beaten to the punch.
You win this round, Giggles.
I liked your imagery better.
It's good, but it needs a Jus made from the break fluid of the Audi that killed it.
Sounding like something from Slaughter's.
I'd 100% go to the Fat Duck if someone else was paying. I'd happily pay myself to go to Dinner.
I think I'd rather go to a Toby.
I wasn't overly impressed with Dinner if that's the one in the Mandarin Oriental [or whatever that hotel is now known as].
On the recommendation of this thread I bought Laoganma, now what? Just stir it into a stir fry?
Give me stuffing recipes. Nothing weird.
Did you get the black bean in chilli oil one? There are a few but that's the main one I know. It's good on anything you'd have rice with I'd say, stir fries etc. Mix it into a marinade/sauce and/or just dollop it over at the end. Also fantastic on a fried egg.
Made bao again tonight. They really are so fucking good.
This trip to France has been a complete nightmare, but the food is quite excellent.
Is everything closed or you just not enjoying it?