Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 516958 times)

orienteer · « **Reply #2600 on:** 30 August, 2018, 04:34:41 pm »

Bought a couple of cakes from a recently opened patisserie, Lanka, in Goldhurst Terrace just behind Waitrose next Finchley Road tube station. The owner is a Japanese woman who trained as a patissiere in France.

Green tea tiramisu cakes - absolutely wonderful, typically Japanese in not being overloaded with sugar like most cakes here.

I shall be breaking a lot more journeys on the Metropolitan line in future.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2601 on:** 30 August, 2018, 05:51:57 pm »

[Totally OT] My Dad lived in Goldhurst Terrace from 1940-48.

ElyDave · « **Reply #2602 on:** 30 August, 2018, 09:10:54 pm »

With a surfeit of cucumbers from the veg plot this year, I'd been looking for things to do with them.

Pickeld some at the weekend, two big jars with thinly sliced spring onions, various herbs, chilli, lime and gin. Opened a jaar this evening to have with my venison sausages and roast beetroot, very nommy.

Next recipe, chilled cucumber soup.

Legs · « **Reply #2603 on:** 31 August, 2018, 09:49:30 am »

Owners of Amazon Echo: ask Alexa what her favourite pastry is...

orienteer · « **Reply #2604 on:** 31 August, 2018, 02:55:03 pm »

So we can look forward to Coca Costa offering fizzy coffee as yet another variant

hellymedic · « **Reply #2605 on:** 31 August, 2018, 07:44:07 pm »

At a hospital near you, as local hospitals host Costa outlets...

spesh · « **Reply #2606 on:** 31 August, 2018, 09:25:19 pm »

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Macron's face after trying Finnish coffee is my favorite kind of French despair

https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1035477380951957505

I dread to think how bad Finnish coffee is.

bludger · « **Reply #2607 on:** 31 August, 2018, 09:29:33 pm »

It isn't often you get to see real disgust on a politician's face. Macron's has high meme potential.

To be fair all the Finnish comments I've read suggest that it is perfectly natural to react to their coffee in that way as a visitor.

spesh · « **Reply #2608 on:** 31 August, 2018, 09:58:39 pm »

Apparently, there is palatable coffee in Finland, you just need to be more specific when ordering.

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Pro tip: ask for dark premium coffee in #Finland. Bulk that most people consume tastes just like Macron's face shows and it makes your rectum explode.

Not kidding here.

https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1035481450492174337

T42 · « **Reply #2609 on:** 01 September, 2018, 09:31:44 am »

The raw material for the "coffee" they gave us at a control last Sunday might have been scraped off the bottom of a frying pan.

Ham · « **Reply #2610 on:** 01 September, 2018, 06:57:55 pm »

N+1

(ex display @ 22% of new cost)

ElyDave · « **Reply #2611 on:** 01 September, 2018, 09:15:03 pm »

smoking?!

Ham · « **Reply #2612 on:** 01 September, 2018, 11:33:25 pm »

Indeed .. one of these http://fornetto.com/products/fornetto-razzo-18-vertical-smoker/

citoyen · « **Reply #2613 on:** 10 September, 2018, 02:57:58 pm »

Just made myself a smoothie - chucked the following in the blender: a large handful each of frozen banana slices and frozen pineapple chunks, half a can of coconut milk and the juice of one lime. Absolutely divine.

Probably the only thing that could have improved it would have been a slug of white rum... like some kind of magnificent daiquiri/piña colada hybrid.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2614 on:** 10 September, 2018, 04:49:24 pm »

That sounds lovely - now where did I put my bottle of rum?

hellymedic · « **Reply #2615 on:** 11 September, 2018, 12:48:58 am »

OOPS!

citoyen · « **Reply #2616 on:** 13 September, 2018, 05:24:21 pm »

My wife just picked a courgette from the garden. I weighed it...

4.4kg

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2617 on:** 13 September, 2018, 06:11:29 pm »

That's not a courgette, that's a marrow. Or more likely an extraterrestrial life form.

ian · « **Reply #2618 on:** 13 September, 2018, 06:19:49 pm »

Or something that'll end up in NSFW.

citoyen · « **Reply #2619 on:** 14 September, 2018, 11:36:44 am »

I don't know the difference between a marrow and a courgette, but there's definitely plenty of NSFW potential with this...

ian · « **Reply #2620 on:** 14 September, 2018, 11:51:33 am »

Hmm, 23 inches again. Let's hope those innovative Italian doctors are on call.

A marrow is what courgettes aspire to be when they grow up. Basically a mature courgette. Or a courgette is an immature marrow.

citoyen · « **Reply #2621 on:** 14 September, 2018, 12:35:10 pm »

Quote from: ian on 14 September, 2018, 11:51:33 am

A marrow is what courgettes aspire to be when they grow up. Basically a mature courgette. Or a courgette is an immature marrow.

I suppose what it comes down to in essence is that they are all varieties of squash. The internet tells me that zucchini/courgette is a "thin-skinned cultivar" of marrow. This probably means it doesn't like us talking about it behind its back in this way.

ian · « **Reply #2622 on:** 14 September, 2018, 01:18:52 pm »

They are very sensitive to criticism. But I think that's because they are immature. You can't insult a marrow, I've tried. Mostly because they're rather dull and tasteless. It can only be a matter of time before one is elected to parliament. Probably to represent some godforsaken part of Essex (correction: I've forsaken all parts of Essex – God, earlier today).

Fascinating fact: if you let a courgette turn into a marrow and then grow to the size of a person – crack it open and you'll find a simulacrum of yourself inside. Be a bit wary though, they tend to strangle you and take over your life.

citoyen · « **Reply #2623 on:** 14 September, 2018, 01:41:41 pm »

Quote from: ian on 14 September, 2018, 01:18:52 pm

It can only be a matter of time before one is elected to parliament.

How do we know this has not already happened?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2624 on:** 15 September, 2018, 06:01:37 am »

The Yorkshire Tea purchased from Safeway in Smithers, BRITISH Columbia and labelled "Orange Pekoe" is, praise be, the same stuff BRITONS may purchase from Mr Sainbury's House of Toothy Comestibles