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Whats your favourite meal? How do you cook it?
I would start with one but I think everyone knows how to cook a jacket potato, and I not sure how to cook a Big Mac :bigeyes:
My favourite meal is chips and sausages :blush:
phantos02
09-03-06, 09:23 PM
ooh banana i love calamari!!
It would be difficult to pick a favourite meal as I love nearly all food... home-made curry would probably come near the top though :)
Banana you lost me on the tentacly bits... 8-X . I am so weak stomached :hihi:
Jimmy, sausage and chips thats more my ability... :hihi:
Phantos I make a mean curry but Mr T and the kids won't eat it.
Mr T just said its not mean is vicious :(
I love scampi, with loads of tartare sauce :)
Or chicken in cheese/bacon sauce with potatoes, real comfort food
Or a piece of cheese, with biscuits, and more cheese :)
Eeyore, don't you put cheese on your scampi.. :hihi:
Does anyone have a easy idea on what to do with rump steak, something a bit different than just burning under the grill :blush:
Surprisingly no, I don't, but if we go out and I have scampi, I always have a piece of cheese before I go...... :P
Love sushi too - and calamari and scampi...oo I really am a fishy-tarian! :lol:
I really really think you can't beat a classic roast dinner - pref beef, yorkie puds, mustard, loads of veg, lovely gravy...oooo!
I also actually really love proper (Ie made with a real proper chicken fillet & freshly made garlic butter) chicken kiev - with spinach and saute potatoes. Heaps of fat in that meal, but soooo delicious! :eat: :chef:
hi tact
my favourite has to be a nice thick beef stew with big fluffy dumplings a couple of spoonfuls of curry powder give it a nice warm kick on a cold miserable day :eat:
Miss Understood
10-03-06, 11:51 AM
Ham and leeks in cheese sauce - Yum Yum Yum
Get some slices of good quality ham cut a leek across (rather than down) the stem. Roll it up in the ham. Stick 'em in a casserole dish.
Make a nice cheese sauce with some fresh mustard seed included. Pour over the ham 'n leeks. Sprinkle on some grated cheese and then stick in the oven for half an hour or so on 200/Gas Mark 6.
Yum, yum, and triple yum. It must be the welsh blood from generations ago in me!
Wow MU that sounds fabulous :) I'll be trying out your recipe, thanks :thumbs:
Eeyores mam
10-03-06, 02:32 PM
Miss Understood
Will be calling into Eeyores house when she makes that. Sounds fabulous
Eeyores mam :D
marieuk
10-03-06, 05:15 PM
Hi all,
Tact i have thought long and hard about this one and could only narrow it down to 3 sorry, so here we go
number 1 is marinated tiger prawn kebabs with rice, simply put some honey soy sauce ginger and garlic in a bowl add tiger prawns and leave, longer the better (but i have left for only ten mins once and still absorbed flavour) roughly chop up a load of mushrooms red, green and yellow peppers cherry tomatos and onion put on kebab skewers with the prawns, brush left over marinade on veggies and grill serve on a bed of steaming rice.
2nd one is made by Mr Muk he makes cannellloni admittedly it is from the jamie oliver cook book but it is really scrummy, you can substitute the spinich and ricotta to mince or quorn! i think its in Jamies dinner let me know if u need recipe.
3rd one i make and its a really scrummy fish pie, i use salmon haddock prawns and mussles cook in milkfor approx 10 mins, drain, mix together with a tin of chesswoods creamed garlic mushrooms transfere tp oven proof bowl top with lots of creamy mashed potatoes and lashings and lashings of grated cheese put in oven for about 25-30 mins till crisp and bubbling.
Banana that callamari sounds lovely will have to try that cheers Muk xx :thumbs:
I like all food :blush: It is quicker to say what I don't like :lol: :blush:
Yi Min, thats my plan. It will be on the book shelves next year...lol
All of the dinners sound lovely but I don't eat fish really. I was adventerous last night and had haddock..lol
marieuk
10-03-06, 06:03 PM
HiTact
Ill order a copy of the book now i really enjoy cooking, on the fish subject did you enjoy the haddock was it smoked or plain? fish/seafood is lovely once you discover it, it took me fifteen years before i ate it and now i can't get enough of it yum yum yum xxxxx oh i am hungry now, chilli for tea tonight x
It was a new steam fresh one (you microwave it for 4 mins) it was in cheese and leek sauce. It was lovely.
i don't know how to make cheese sauce, I tried once and the cheese went into a big lump :bigeyes: :blush:
dibuzz, I feed the kids first on healthy food, then Mr T and me eat later, If he's sick of my cooking he will make himself something.
mmmm your making me hungry. I forgot to take the steak out of the freezer so its a take away tonight...lol. Unless anyone wants to send me a yummy dinner :bigeyes:
sorry tact not a s******** left here i tried miss understoods cheese ham and leek recipe :eat:
it was nice wish i had seen the cheese sauce recipe first though i used a packet of colmans :blush:
i sympathise when all four of my kids were younger i had the same problem meal times were a nightmare :cry:
the only dinner they would all eat was a roast and even then i often put the wrong veg on the wrong plate which resulted in "im not eating that now "tantrums !!!
Db, send them to my house for a week. When they get home they will eat anything you cook :thumbs:
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: Tell them its take away tonight. It also disco night in the Tact household. We have a disco ball for the kids and MTV they love it..lol
Things I can cook - sausage casserole & beef casserole.
Miss Understood
10-03-06, 08:30 PM
Glad you enjoyed the ham 'n leeks Er indoors.... :) But I'm disappointed in you using a pre-made sauce. :(
The way I make a cheese sauce is this - and it's done very much by look, feel and taste rather than precision:
Put some butter (has to be Lurpak - no other for me - sorry if I'm advertising!) in a saucepan - I probably use about a three quarter of an inch thick slice from the block.
Let it melt GRADUALLY over a low to moderate heat (don't let it melt too quick and go brown - that's Very Bad). As it's melting, throw in about a teaspoonful (or slightly more or less, according to taste) of mustard seeds (you can get them on the spice shelves in the supermarket). Stir them around as the butter melts GRADUALLY.
Once the butter is melted -BUT NOT BROWNING - add about a rounded tablespoonful of plain flour. Stir it in quickly so that it's blended with the butter. DO NOT LET IT BROWN OR BOIL, if necessary, take it off the heat while you're stirring it all in.
Once the flour is amalgamated with the butter, slowly add in some milk (I'm afraid I use full fat stuff).
Start with a cupful and stir, stir, stir over a slow to moderate heat until it starts to thicken. Then, add another cupful of milk and stir, stir, stir, still over a low to moderate heat (if the heat is too high, the flour will go lumpy) until you get a constistency which is slightly thicker than runny double cream. :bigeyes: (I know what I mean, even if you don't!!!)
THEN TURN THE HEAT OFF. Then grate some cheese and stir it all in. The cheese will melt, even though the basic roux sauce is not boiling. Keep grating and tasting until it's cheesy enough for you.
Then pour over whatever and voila, you're the next Anthony Worrall Whatever.
I don't add any extra salt and pepper or anything because it's just scrummy as it is. And I make sure it never EVER boils at any point.
marieuk
10-03-06, 08:31 PM
Hi all
that cheese sauce sounds lovely thanks will have to try that one Muk xx
they sound lovely. If you can ever get the recipe's please let me know. :thumbs:
coppernob
10-03-06, 08:42 PM
We're another family where we never eat the same! One of my daughters lives on pasta and jacket spuds, my 5 year old loves salad, broccoli and carrots and is not so keen on meat,whearas I prefer my meat!! One meal we all eat is toad in The hole or pasta,bacon,cheese and salad or eggand bacon pie (homemade quiche) with homemade wedges. Tonight it was spare ribs and egg fried rice for four of us and pasta salad for the other three!! I'm drooling with some of the other meals you lot are suggesting thou!!
Mr P Hut does not deliver near me. :( But it sounds very very nice.
tortoise
10-03-06, 10:23 PM
I love risotto with chicken, zucchini, asparagus and porchini mushrooms. Cooked to Mr T's family recipe.
Heaven :D
Hulablush
16-08-06, 07:35 PM
SPAGHETTI CARBONARA PLEASE AND NOT WITH CHEESE LIKE THEY INSIST IN THIS COUNTRY!!!
YOU JUST NEED CREAM AND AN EGG AND SOME BACON.........MMMMMMMMMMM.
Oh Hula - that carbonara hits my spot! I hate it when "Italian" dishes are over-Britishised too, there's nothing like the quick and simple way they really cook! Fresh egg pasta is a MUST of course, not that dried stuff.....
I am a real foodie - I always say gluttony is my favourite deadly sin :blush: and I do cook a lot of things from scratch. A few of my favourites are:
REAL curry - made very simply with meat marintaed in spices then just add a basic sauce. You would not believe how easy cooking in an Indian restaurant is - a sploodge of cream and a sprinkle of parsley to make it look good and VOILA! 50p worth of stuff turns into £6.95 of curry! :D I make a bucketload of basic sauce at a time (well, it takes HOURS!!) and freeze it, then I only need to buy the fresh meat I fancy, stick it in the spices, cook it out and add the sauce - doesn't get much simpler. And all the breads are just flour and ghee or water - takes about 5 minutes to fling a pile of chappatis or naans together.
FISH - and seafood too. One of my faves is Alaskan black cod but it's quite hard to get. I also love maui maui, it's a real meaty fish. Both are lovely wiith just a little spiced crumb mix baked on (my own recipe containing crushed plain biscuits, parmesan, a small amount of dried chilli and a few herbs). King prawns are definitley worth buying raw rather than pink, so much easier to avoid turning them into rubber :help:
Anything Thai - in other words, add some lemongrass, creamed coconut and lime juice to whatever you want!
Oh dear, I'm slevering here, I think I'll go for a cook (and I don't mean Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall..... now why did I have to go and mention him, drool, drool!!) :D :D :D
A very hungry Smoo!!
XX
ellengrace
16-08-06, 08:09 PM
My son is back with me after 3yrs away at uni and a bit of travelling thro' the summer and of course I'm glad to have him eating good, healthy meals again. Everything fresh, made from scratch, I never buy anything processed.
The other night I dished up a lovely medley of roasted vegetables.... red, green and yellow peppers, mushrooms, shallots, stems of baby leeks, tomatoes off the vine, all of which I'd marinated with herbs and (first,cold-pressed, virgin) olive oil and a spritz of white balsamic vinegar, before roasting. Served with potatoes...not mashed but sieved and creamed. And an Aberdeen Angus steak, medium rare. This was cooked just for him, I'd already eaten.
Before he'd taken a bite: "Mum, where's the HP sauce?"
I refused to get the HP sauce (I actually went in the kitchen and hid it, there's grown-up behaviour for you!) and we had a few words and he called me a snob!! And then I heard him muttering something about flaming Gordon Ramsey!!
I could have choked him!!
Crikey, ellengrace - I'll come to dinner at yours :D :eatin: :chef:
Seriously though, my eldest is a ketchup with anything person too - drives me mad :rolleyes:
Hulablush
17-08-06, 11:57 AM
I thought my little pic might have that effect on people! :D I'm not even a mad fan of donuts but I really wanted a little avatar of my own and used a pic from the Krispy Kreme website! :D
Oh Hula - that carbonara hits my spot! I hate it when "Italian" dishes are over-Britishised too, there's nothing like the quick and simple way they really cook! Fresh egg pasta is a MUST of course, not that dried stuff.....
King prawns are definitley worth buying raw rather than pink, so much easier to avoid turning them into rubber :help:
Anything Thai - in other words, add some lemongrass, creamed coconut and lime juice to whatever you want!
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I tell you what smoo we'd have a great time going around various places stuffing our faces as I just love Thai food as well especially King Prawns..... oh my goodness...... I'm starving now...... :thumbs:
Parma ham and melon is something else as well...... :D
phantos02
17-08-06, 02:13 PM
Oooh yum... I never thought I liked corn on the cob until my friend cooked it for me a couple of months ago and now I'm converted...
I think sweetcorn is really expensive here though, I'm sure in the US and Canada it's much cheaper isn't it??
Mine love it too, but has to be red pepper. Little Master T would eat a whole cucumber everyday if I let him.
Cucumber is lovely on a hot day or if your thirsty. I bet they were eating crisps and getting dehydrated.
Hulablush
17-08-06, 02:53 PM
It was probably all the fat kids that said that whilst stuffing their faces with rubbish, good for your daughter ignoring them. :thumbs:
ellengrace
17-08-06, 05:52 PM
When my son was in nursery, and there was an outing, with all the Mums in tow, the mother of a decidedly unhealthy-looking specimen had the cheek to look at my boy's packed lunch ( sticks of cucumber, tomato, a few little new potatoes, a little container of "chuckie-egg" - you know, a boiled egg mashed up with butter ) and laugh at me, saying "Get you!! All you need to do is throw a few bags of crisps at them to shut them up!". :blink: :blink:
So tempted to say something about her child....you see kids like her's everywhere, with a grey complexion and dull hair and a sort of pinched look to their little faces, always reminds me of my mother's expression " a good feed would kill them!".......but I never answered.
My lad's had little schoolfriends stay for meals who have never seen a tomato or cucumber. One of them came into the kitchen while I was peeling potatoes and laughed "Oh! You've got potatoes just like my Nan!", and when asked to explain...me mystified... said his Mum bought all theirs chipped in bags from Iceland.
Just a thought.....WHO on earth buys those bags of ready-grated cheese?? :unsure:
I love cooking nice meals but if you asked me my favourite thing to eat I'd say a tomato sandwich! :)
receipe please!!! :D [/b]
:yes: I'm with yi win there :D
Favourite meal? Depends on my mood but I love my mum's home made lasagne :eatin: or a big bowl of homemade broth on a cold day :D
Bonkers Mad!!!
17-08-06, 09:29 PM
my nans homemade split-pea soup :yes:
Am I right in thinking that's fish noodle soup or chowder ? And Burmese? (And too, for that matter - ?) Seem to remember a friend at Uni made that a lot.
marieuk
17-08-06, 11:36 PM
I often take chopped cucumber and cherry tomato for snack in car while at work(i keep them in glove box as it is chilled and keeps them all fresh and crisp ) yum yum I could eat 2-3 cucumber a day if i let myself i think they are devine.
Sledge im with you on the brown sauce, Mr Muk and i always have words about bacon sarnies as he always puts ketchup on them and it has to be brown sauce its the law :D
Love Muk xxxxxxxxxxx
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(marieuk @ 17th August 2006 - 10:36 PM) 190303</div>
Sledge im with you on the brown sauce, Mr Muk and i always have words about bacon sarnies as he always puts ketchup on them and it has to be brown sauce its the law :D
Love Muk xxxxxxxxxxx
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Absolutely, muk, it HAS to be brown sauce on bacon sarnies :thumbs:
marieuk
17-08-06, 11:51 PM
Finally people who have taste buds that work! :D :D
Love Muk xxxxxxxxxx
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Finally people who have taste buds that work! :D :D
Love Muk xxxxxxxxxx
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:lol: :thumbs:
Nothing wrong with my taste buds..... and I say KETCHUP!! :) But more importantly, freshly ground black pepper - of course!
Or maybe KETCHUP + BLACK PEPPER = BROWN SAUCE?????????
:D
Bonkers Mad!!!
18-08-06, 12:21 AM
i've consulted the oracle and its definitely a sin to put ketchup in a bacon sarnie :yes:
Bacon + black pepper + BROWN SAUCE :thumbs:
OK OK OK.....
I am a sinner - I put ketchup on my bacon!
I am a sinner.....I am a sinner.....I am a sinner....
.........SO SMACK ME! :D :hihi:
(Well, I'm too old for the naughty step..... in my day you got a sore bum :cry: )
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(smoo22 @ 17th August 2006 - 11:40 PM) 190346</div>
OK OK OK.....
I am a sinner - I put ketchup on my bacon!
I am a sinner.....I am a sinner.....I am a sinner....
.........SO SMACK ME! :D :hihi:
(Well, I'm too old for the naughty step..... in my day you got a sore bum :cry: )
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:lol: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
No,no Smoo, you have to stand up and say - " My name is Smoo, and I put ketchup on my bacon"
Then we will all look at you and congratulate you on your honesty, and help you make the transformation to brown sauce :lol:
See, sorted :thumbs: :lol: :blink:
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
My name is Smoo.....
.....and it is four and a half days since my last ketchupped bacon sarnie.........:cry:
(**waits for sympathiser to post bacon & ketchup sarnie**)
Do tomato sauce crisps count? I could have those on a bacon sarnie quite happily :D :D
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(smoo22 @ 18th August 2006 - 12:01 AM) 190358</div>
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
Do tomato sauce crisps count? I could have those on a bacon sarnie quite happily :D :D
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:bigeyes: :sicky:
Pah! You're a hard task master sp! :) There's no gettin'round you!
Thanks for your support GEG - but I thnk we're outnumbered here! Or maybe it's a Scottish taste thing - oh, no, let's not go there - do NOT mention deep fried Mars bars! :D
Well, now I need a bacon sarnie - except I haven't got any in! (**whine**) This is all too much, I'm off to bed! :badmood:
ellengrace
18-08-06, 02:44 AM
Hilarious posting about your old bosses, GEG, especially the fact that after describing their obnoxious habits you could still think about enjoying your crisps. !!!
Bonkers Mad!!!
18-08-06, 09:46 AM
i'm down south, we have brown :yes:
Not a North/South divide folks........brown on bacon :yes:
The ketchup is reserved for fish and chips :eatin:
:blink: Mayo on bacon :bigeyes: OMG, :lol:
Now mayo on chips, now that is yummy :thumbs:
Bonkers Mad!!!
18-08-06, 10:06 AM
ketchup is for burgers :yes:
I am in the middle of the country and I have
Bacon Butties with red, brown or Branston Pickle
Chips with ketchup, sweet chilli or salad cream
Chip Shop, salt, vinigar and any of the above....
mmmm now I'm hungry.
Up here bacon butties - and it's gotta be tomato sauce :)
Chips, well personally I'm not a big fan of chips, but it's salt and vinegar and nothing else from the chippy, or salt and tomato sauce if you're eating them at home :)
So I guess we're stereotypical for the north :lol: couldn't contemplate mayo anywhere near chips, mayo is for salads and sarnies, nothing else. As for brown sauce - yuk (Mr Eeyore and Eeyores mam like it though) - me I'm a tartare sauce person :P Now tartare sauce on chips - yummy
Hulablush
18-08-06, 11:53 AM
I can see why mayo on chips might be a southern thing as it originates from Belgium and in London especially there is a big chain of belgian restaurants called Belgo's where it's all the rage.
Please correct me anyone from a big northern city if you have Belgo's there too! :bigeyes:
:lol: :hihi: @ you lot :lol:
Seriously, mayo on chips is heaven - you should try it :thumbs:
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Seriously, mayo on chips is heaven - you should try it :thumbs:
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:sicky: You've got to be kidding mayo = sandwiches and salad, nothing else :P
And nope, we don't have Belgos up here, never heard of it
LOL, you must be from that North that's South from me :lol:
Yep, it's must be the hills thing :P
phantos02
18-08-06, 02:35 PM
I can't do mayo on chips (mind you I don't do chips at all most of the time). But if you mix some curry powder into mayo it makes a lovely dip, for chips or crisps or whatever.
I prefer ketchup on me bacon butties, but HP will do too, or barbecue sauce.
I looove sweet chili sauce. Someone suggested to me the other day that you could have it on ice-cream, but I've yet to try it. Sounds quite nice though.
Hulablush
18-08-06, 03:45 PM
Coconut ice cream is the very thing!!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............. :thumbs:
Not had the sweet chilli one......
When we were in Cornwall last week we saw lavender flavoured ice cream :blink:
No, I didn't try it :rolleyes:
sassieb
18-08-06, 05:42 PM
How did i miss this thread????? :blink: I love food,, as someone said its easier to say what i DONT like lol.
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oh and for dinner tonight we have homemade steak and onion pie ( only its quorn but dont tell kids cos they wont eat it lol) new spuds ( from my garden) carrots and thick gravy..
yummy
ellengrace
18-08-06, 05:51 PM
After losing frightening amount of weight after NFH disaster this year, I had to ditch my Vegan regime (which was for health reasons, another tale ) and try to build myself up again, weight and energy levels. :eat:
So bacon butties are a renewed joy for me. :) And this thread brought on a craving that had me almost upside down in the freezer looking for bread..... and there wasn't any..... and I toyed with the idea of some bacon and pasta.... but there was the brown sauce element to the craving.....so I gave up and in the end just had some rice cakes with marmalade, which was no fun at all. <_< :D :D
Anyway, joining the debate:
Brown sauce: bacon butties, fried egg on toast, pasties.
Tomato sauce: chips, hot dogs.
Horseradish sauce: roast beef sandwiches.
Mustard: ham sandwiches.
Tahini: rice cakes, breadsticks.
Mayo: tuna salad butties.
And anything I've cooked which involved marinades or a roux-base sauce or a finely-tuned dressing, and Junior Ellengrace thinks it's a funny wind-up to ask for the HP sauce .... well, I'm not taking the bait any more! :no: :D
:) Had the chile sauce dessert in Wagamama's, gorgeous!!
Hulablush
18-08-06, 06:06 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ellengrace @ 18th August 2006 - 4:50 PM) 190715</div>
:) Had the chile sauce dessert in Wagamama's, gorgeous!!
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That's exactly where I had the coconut icecream!!! :thumbs:
Has anyone here ever actually eaten jellied eels?????? :unsure:
Oooh, I love food, all kinds of food. Just a couple of basics;
Decent Cumberland sausage, grilled or oven baked, not fried, chips that are pale gold & crispy on the outside & fluffy inside, Savoy cabbage, & cheese sauce made with cheddar & Old Amsterdam with a good pinch of mustard powder added.
Soft boiled ( very fresh ) eggs with white crusty bread that was made with fresh yeast & still has just a hint of warmth from the oven, Followed by the same bread with home made strawberry jam. That is one of my most memorable meals, we collected the eggs from the nests & even the butter was home made.
Mashed carrots & swede, roasted potatoes, roasted mutton with velvety gravy, & onion sauce. Or the same meal but with pheasant instead of mutton.
Slowly stewed rabbit with onions & carrots, mashed potatoes & spring greens
Freshly cooked cockles or mussels with buttered wholemeal bread
Green lentils & rice cooked with onions & garlic ( using lots of duck, chicken, pork or Goose dripping )
Why did I read this thread, to replicate any of these I must go shopping. Verity
hello and welcome Verity, If thats just the basics you can cook please can I move in next door. :hihi:
Mashed carrots & swede, roasted potatoes, roasted mutton with velvety gravy, & onion sauce. I am now drooling on my keyboard. :lol: I wouldn't need to go shopping to be able to make some of your meals I would need to go to a cookery class.
Bonkers Mad!!!
18-08-06, 06:42 PM
i saw somebody eating jellied eels :yes: made me heave :sicky:
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i saw somebody eating jellied eels :yes: made me heave :sicky:
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:lol: Me too :blink:
I just can't get my head around the things :blink: YUK!
Argh... jellied eels - I think I'll add that to the list of two things I DON'T like to eat! (uncooked meat and tofu, before you ask :) )
we NEED your recipe for mohingar, PLE-E-EASE :) roughly is fine, I don't do proper measurements :)
I think everything is more of an east/west divide than north/south - it's a bit of a joke about the Glasgow/Edinburgh divide being the difference between getting asked if you want "salt and vinegar" (Weegies) or "salt and sauce" (Edinbuggers).
Chips with ketchup AND mayo, salt, vinegar, brown, curry chilli - just about anything. I think chips are so bland there really is NO wrong gunk for them!
Bonkers Mad!!!
18-08-06, 07:45 PM
Chips with ketchup AND mayo, salt, vinegar, brown, curry chilli - just about anything. I think chips are so bland there really is NO wrong gunk for them![/b]
i agree :yes:
OK,
All chips are bland.
Any thick gloopy liquid stuff like sauce of any kind.
It's salt & vinegar, the Evening Times, and Kelvingrove.
That help? :hihi:
ellengrace
18-08-06, 07:58 PM
Verity, I love green lentils and rice cooked with garlic, onion, snippets of red pepper, but I use vegetable ghee instead of other fats, and a rich stock.
I love green lentil curry, red lentil soup, carrot, coriander and lentil soup, split-pea soup...all home-made.
( It's me that has been living on "student rations" by the sounds of it, while Junior has been at uni :unsure: He phoned me one night "Mum, how do you cook asparagus" and I told him how, then went back to stirring my lentil curry and started laughing...you know when it has your face in spasms, aching laughter with that touch of hysteria?!!.....) :crazy: :hihi:
ellengrace
19-08-06, 01:30 AM
:) :) :) I'm going to have to get the hang of using the smilie things in my posts, I must be sounding a bit serious! :) :) :)
My thing with lentils has been a running joke with Junior since he left for uni. His fellow-student flatmates thought his grocery bills were hilariously "£££ over the top £££" because he would buy/cook all the stuff he's used to having when at home, and I used to joke that I wished I'd brainwashed him into my Vegan diet when he was younger! :D
Bonkers Mad!!!
19-08-06, 11:50 AM
i love the smell of corn on the cob, smothered in butter. every now and then i try it cos it smells so nice but i just dont like it, it tastes wrong :blink:
Bonkers Mad!!!
19-08-06, 12:23 PM
Strange!?!? who are you calling strange??? :angry: :lol: ;)
Bonkers Mad!!!
19-08-06, 01:38 PM
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
That reminds me of visiting friends in Croatia - we had barbecued sardines whole - a huge pile in the middle of the table. As guest of honour (and being male - grr), Mr Smoo was invited to eat his fill of their eyes before anyone else - YUK!! I felt quite squeamish watching them all dive in for a long hard suck..... and I'm not really squeamish about anything, usually. For once I was glad to be female and have to wash the dishes instead of being "honoured" (Mr Smoo usually does them but he was chased from the kitchen with a flicking teatowel and yells of "NO MAN IN KITCHEN, OUT, OUT!"!) :D
Yi Win - a place near my old NFH house used to do pints of prawns too - I'll miss that!! The only seafood I don't like is overcooked stuff - all too common in Britain unfortunately. I have lived on it in Canada and South Africa as well as Croatia, I will never forget the "fish & chips" from a sea-front stall on Vancouver Island - dirt cheap and 3 major salmon steaks in it! :thumbs:
I love butternut squash too - but I need to be in a well-ventilated room for HOURS afterwards :lol: :hihi:
Corn on the cob - I agree, dripping in butter and black pepper (sometimes with fresh thyme If I've any) - HEAVEN!
GEG - had to laugh about George there - sorry you were upset, but it serves you right for giving a walking dinner a name! :hihi: Hope you enjoyed your Donald! :hihi: :thumbs:
I'm beginning to think we should hold an NFHiB foodie festival sometime :D
ellengrace
19-08-06, 09:28 PM
Fish eyes!!! :hihi: :hihi:
Had one of those "I'm not your slave" stand-offs with Junior yesterday!! :rolleyes: over his expectation that he's waited on, hand-and-foot, and won't even make himself a sandwich. :rolleyes:
"Alright, then", said Junior grimly, "I'll cook my own lunch."
His tone suggested more of a threat than a promise, and when I asked him what he was going to cook he paused for a moment and then said, sort of triumphantly, "Sea Bass!!" :P
Ahh! He thinks this is checkmate!! Thinks Mum's not going to let him cook, and possibly ruin, an expensive fish, doesn't he?? Thinks Mum's going to abandon the mountain of (his) ironing and cook his lunch!! ( and no, he wouldn't be getting sea-bass for lunch! :lol: )
"Oh! That's nice!", I said sweetly. :innocent:
And he knew he'd been outwitted! :doh: And we both knew why!! Junior's squeamishness!! .... Fish eyes!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
ellengrace
20-08-06, 10:33 AM
:) Come for tea, but you'd have to make do with trout !! I only see my pet fisherman with sea-bass 3 or 4 times a year !! :(
I think it's beady little eyes had an effect on Junior! He didn't carry out his threat to cook it himself following my little rant ("I'm not your slave " :angry: )
but the following day he went to the village and collected our mail, dropped the dry-cleaning off, did some grocery shopping for me, all before he left for the football match. :thumbs: Clearly prepared to do anything...anything..... rather than cook his own fish!! :D
Wait for me!!!!!(Sorry, I am inviting myself along here - once you're talking fish, you don't get an option!) :D :D :D