FOOD glorious FOOD (Read 134380 times)

Yossarian · November 23, 2006, 09:13:49 pm

salt beef is indeed excellent. i did a very large brisket not long ago. it spent about a week in a big bucket of my special concoction weighed down with a very large jug that rather embarrassingly now resides on my woodie...home cured bacon is also quite fun. i am really quite proud of my dry cure

Nibile · November 24, 2006, 03:11:32 pm

just got back at work after:
antipasto with ham and spinach-ricotta cheese cake;
big big portion of tripes with parmesan and tomato;
three glasses of red wine.

i think ill fake a flu and will go home, hoping to recover for the campusboard session.

fatdoc · November 24, 2006, 04:16:04 pm

christ nibile,

are you trying to train whilst totally full as so to feel way light when out on the rock!!

Paul B · November 26, 2006, 11:13:21 pm

Another vote here for sappore's deli, really nice food and the bloke who runs it seems pretty enthusiastic.
Anyone know a good fishmongers? tried Eccelsal fisheries the other day and it seemed pretty crap.

SA Chris · November 27, 2006, 07:37:52 am

I do, but probably not convenient. Nip down to Stonehaven and you can buy the stuff fresh off the boat.

fatdoc · November 28, 2006, 06:24:22 pm

paul B...

mate, trawl through all the posts on this thread and you'll find you were some 50m from the best fishmongers in sheff when at sappore!!

go out of deli, turn R... walk to woodseats pub... opposite is *boldocks* full on awesome in every way.

the turbot is utterly exceptional..

Paul B · November 28, 2006, 07:59:32 pm

trawl - good choice of word

I'm heading up there tomorrow, this time it's going to be the spicy peppers!

fatdoc · November 28, 2006, 08:56:02 pm

buy at least 6....

i prefer them slapped on some pork chops (big buggers from the butchers on abbey lane) that have been baked on a raft of red onions and basted in frensh mustard... more flavour can be added by splashing some sherry on it before going in the oven

amazingly i'm losing a bit of weight - i'd be stick thin if I hadnt started this thread!!

chappers · November 29, 2006, 11:56:18 am

does anybody have a good chutney recipie?
apple would be good, or a bit of a run of the mill one, whatever, just a good nice chutney is all i ask for!!!

chappers · November 29, 2006, 12:26:39 pm

Quote from: LucyA on November 14, 2006, 08:13:30 pm

Anyone got any recipes that make sprouts palatable?

sprout lovers listen up! i just found this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/lentilandsproutcurry_65670.shtml

Houdini · January 08, 2007, 08:23:45 am

Anyone got any tips on how to make bulgur wheat so tasty I might want to eat it? Spicy tips would be best.

Sprouts: Boil, liquidise, add cream and a few whole sprouts to give it that Hmmm... looks interesting look. Also, I had some kind of sprout auflauf/bake a while back that rocked my ass.

Nibile · January 08, 2007, 05:10:06 pm

new years eve dinner at nibiles:

aperitivo: prosecco with pomegranate seeds in
antipasto: salmon and peperoni skewer
first course: mussels soup
mid way: clams soup
other mid way: gamberoni "alla piastra"
main course: gilthead "al cartoccio"
ricotta and blackberries pie

wine: cannonau of sardegna (yes i know its red)
champagne: mumm

six people, almost ten kilos of fish.
yes yes fucking yes.

fatdoc · January 08, 2007, 09:04:40 pm

now that's impressive.. my xmas dinner was at home with friends.

I cooked 14lb of beef, rib rack........ very nice indeed.

5 adults, 3 kids; sheer unadulterated gluttony. It all got fully out of hand at the time of the cheese board (sappore deli obviously!). I ate so much cheese that I had an eight hour long nightmare instead of sleep that night. nice

Houdini · January 09, 2007, 10:12:43 am

Tsk! Fatdoc! You mean a Cheesemare.

Yossarian · January 09, 2007, 07:41:09 pm

Quote from: Houdini on January 09, 2007, 10:12:43 am

Tsk! Fatdoc! You mean a Cheesemare.

Like a Laughing Cow?

Eddies · January 09, 2007, 07:41:49 pm

I was the subject of a culinary disaster recently whist visiting a friend on his gap year in Vancouver!
I took a food parcel over to my british friend containing typical Brit foods such as baked beans, 'proper' tea, jaffa cakes and a novelty tin of spam!
unfortunately this back-fired on me one evening whist we where in a hostel in Squamish as he produced the tin of comedy meat and proceeded to whip up a tangy curry complete with copious amounts of rasins!
I laughed my way thro the meal but my poor guts failed to see the humour and kept me up most of the night sloshing about in protest!

Anyhoo, ive got a simple but tasty recipe for potatoe cakes with a twist!

Boil up and mash a few handfulls of spuds, add a tea-spoon full of butter and a teaspoon full of Marmite!
stir well and produce cakes with a handfull of the yummy mixture and fry in a little olive oil for 10 mins

fatdoc · January 10, 2007, 06:56:35 am

i'm gonna try that...

really!

fatneck · January 20, 2007, 06:23:14 pm

On the subject of Xmas dinner, we had a three bird roast ~~this~~ last year.

A pheasant inside a chicken inside a duck. Would have been nicer if my mother hadn't indulged in two types of fancy sausages (the exact recipe eludes me), which seemed to overload the senses and I ended up leaving a fair portion of meat which is unheard of (I like my meat...). Having said that, I'm seriously envious of Nibile's New Year meal.

Quote from: Nibile

aperitivo: prosecco with pomegranate seeds in
antipasto: salmon and peperoni skewer
first course: mussels soup
mid way: clams soup
other mid way: gamberoni "alla piastra"
main course: gilthead "al cartoccio"
ricotta and blackberries pie

I would pay good money for that.

Would be willing to have a TBR again, just without the sos. Anyone else partaken? What did you think?

andy_e · January 20, 2007, 06:39:51 pm

Three bird roasts do indeed sounds sexilicious. Are they easy to do? HFW's ten bird roast looked truly orgasmic.

fatneck · January 20, 2007, 09:10:09 pm

Quote from: Andi_e

Are they easy to do?

Yes. Just take a bit longer than your average bird. All inner meat de-boned for ease of carving. Props to the Bearded One for sourcing it!

Quote from: Andi_e

HFW's ten bird roast looked truly orgasmic

Now that does sound impressive!

fatdoc · January 20, 2007, 10:05:16 pm

the three bird thing has left me speechlees

chappers · January 21, 2007, 12:56:48 pm

i thought that you boys should see the yorkshire pudding we made the other night.

was well tasty filled with mash, sausages (quality 99% meat ones only in this house) and bills onion gravey.

modelled by one of the guys i live with mr billy mac.

andy_e · January 21, 2007, 03:09:07 pm

Now I know Bill's a dude!

Monolith · January 21, 2007, 03:16:20 pm

Pretty sure that qualifies for an entry on pimpmysnack.com. Get onto it fellows.

chappers · January 21, 2007, 05:06:16 pm

bill is indeed the man when it comes to cooking - his mastery of the art is near to absolution. last night he cooked some chicken tikka out of the Madhur Jaffrey curry bible which is in a word - amazing. in a min i will post some pics up of the beefwellington we made.
tonight at dinner we are going to attempt to smash our own record breaking yorkshire pudding size. the batter is made and is sitting in a warm place, with half hourly beatings with the whisk. see you on the other side.