Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 520961 times)

Feanor · « **Reply #4475 on:** 05 April, 2022, 08:16:50 pm »

I regard myself as a bit of a pizza snob, having built a wood-fired oven and making overnight Poolish or levain-based doughs which make most excellent pizzas.

But I'm going to disagree with the comments regarding the major commercial outlets.

Pizza covers a wide range of different things, and you can't compare them directly. Each has it's own time and place. I have time for Dominos, and I have time for Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut is a totally different thing: a Deep-pan pizza. It's not comparable to flat-baked pizza, and has it's own place in the ranks of dirty pizza.

Yes, I have a ranking for commercial pizza, and I think Pizza Express is a decent source of sustenance on an evening out, and on an audax. Dominos works for a short-notice arrival of a horde of hungry PSOs. Pizza hut, not been there for a long time now but as I say, a different thing which can have it's place and I would not refuse at need.

The common factor is that the tomato sauce is not so much sweet, but salty: heavily seasoned with garlic salt. This results in a 'pizza thirst' an hour or so later.

andyoxon · « **Reply #4476 on:** 08 April, 2022, 01:05:00 pm »

Popped into Lidl yesterday. Noticed empty crisp shelves, & very little cooking oil. 'parently Walkers swapping to rapeseed oil.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4477 on:** 12 April, 2022, 02:45:34 pm »

Plenty of oilseed rape flowering in the western parts of the Midlands right now. (I like it, it smells of summer! Sorry if it sets off your allergies.)

Basil · « **Reply #4478 on:** 13 April, 2022, 08:18:43 pm »

Mrs B and I have always had this joke when we're cooking. One of us will hold up a spud (should we be using rhem) and cry, "ere! This potato's got no instructions on it."
Well, OMFG, I noticed tonight that the bag of reds I'd bought actually did have instructions.
WTF has happened to this country?

Kim · « **Reply #4479 on:** 13 April, 2022, 08:24:43 pm »

Yes, but were they correct?

Basil · « **Reply #4480 on:** 13 April, 2022, 08:31:27 pm »

I've been boiling them in water for 20-25 mins, as instructed, and they still don't look very roasted.

Insert baked potato joke here

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Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4481 on:** 14 April, 2022, 08:29:33 am »

Quote from: Basil on 13 April, 2022, 08:31:27 pm

I've been boiling them in water for 20-25 mins, as instructed, and they still don't look very roasted.

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scrub potatoes and prick well

There's another joak waiting to be made in there

rafletcher · « **Reply #4482 on:** 14 April, 2022, 09:04:39 am »

Quote from: Basil on 13 April, 2022, 08:31:27 pm

I've been boiling them in water for 20-25 mins, as instructed, and they still don't look very roasted.

Insert baked potato joke here
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scrub potatoes and prick well

The only "baked" potatoes I've done that too aren't baked, they're microwaved.

rafletcher · « **Reply #4483 on:** 14 April, 2022, 11:07:39 am »

Bought the first British asparagus of the season yesterday. Looking forward to the local stuff coming in in a couple ofd weeks. And had the first Jersey's of the season last week. Amd a bonis, my wife met a friend in the local town for coffee, and before coming home bought me some Picos de Europa, Bleu d'Auvergne and Comte.

ETA and some Red Storm - which is apparently a red leicester from Snowdonia. New one on me.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #4484 on:** 14 April, 2022, 07:07:18 pm »

Turned the bottom of a Le Crueset saucepan from a horrible brown mess (gah, shitty electric hob) into a lovely smooth clean non mess.
Shame the same trick didn't work on the Dutch oven I use for baking bread but I think that's just colour from the heat.

In other good news, all being well I'll only have to use the Shit Cooker for another week (just 3 cooks)...

ian · « **Reply #4485 on:** 14 April, 2022, 07:14:26 pm »

I asked Google where I could buy candlenuts. It said 'South-East Asia' which wasn't very helpful. I was hoping for somewhere in Croydon.

andrewc · « **Reply #4486 on:** 16 April, 2022, 05:52:45 pm »

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/05/the-egg-men

A long but fascinating article about short order cooks in Las Vegas.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4487 on:** 16 April, 2022, 06:24:21 pm »

If they are the egg-men, who's the walrus?

[“Get out!” – Ed.]

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4488 on:** 25 April, 2022, 07:06:16 pm »

It may look like parmesan and it may smell like ~~old socks~~ parmesan but according to the label it’s “dried grated hard cheese”

What fresh hell is this?

hellymedic · « **Reply #4489 on:** 26 April, 2022, 12:01:28 am »

I think Parmesan is a restricted term.
We've had Mr Sainsbury's Italian Grated Hard Cheese in 80g drums on our Bolognese, for many years. Seems OK for us and not too pricy.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4490 on:** 26 April, 2022, 12:50:44 am »

It's been an age since I bought any Sock Cheese but the last time I did it was definitely parmesan. I blame ~~Thatcher~~ Brexit

lissotriton · « **Reply #4491 on:** 26 April, 2022, 01:15:42 am »

Parmesan is PDO, so has to come from a specific area of Italy. And has to be made with rennet from a calf's stomach, so there's no such thing as vegetarian Parmesan.

T42 · « **Reply #4492 on:** 26 April, 2022, 07:17:18 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 26 April, 2022, 12:50:44 am

It's been an age since I bought any Sock Cheese but the last time I did it was definitely parmesan. I blame ~~Thatcher~~ Brexit

You could probably get away with using dehydrated puke, oh Captain Mercaptan.

ian · « **Reply #4493 on:** 26 April, 2022, 09:49:24 am »

Reminds me of the olden days, there'd always be a tube of decade-old grated 'parmesan' in the cupboard that smelled vaguely of sick and despair. One of the components was probably the dried tears of an Italian family who'd been told what it was.

I had assumed it had gone the way of time now supermarkets sell actual parmesan that tastes like cheese rather than depressed grit.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #4494 on:** 26 April, 2022, 11:47:07 am »

Mr Sainsbury’s House of Toothy Comestibles does sell something described as “shaved parmesan”, which sounds irredeemably panny. I expect that when Jacob Grease Smugg claimed parmesan would be cheaper after Brexit this was the stuff he had in mind. The great ponce.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #4495 on:** 02 May, 2022, 09:06:13 pm »

I haz a new oven! \o/

hellymedic · « **Reply #4496 on:** 03 May, 2022, 01:34:26 pm »

Hope your new oven brings you joy!

I addressed my unfinished Audax business by having fish and chips at the Mariner's in New Quay, on Monday.
Great VFM! Cod, chips, peas, home-made Tartare sauce, bread & butter + TEA for 4 for £35.80 so left change from 2 x £20 as tip...

citoyen · « **Reply #4497 on:** 03 May, 2022, 01:39:26 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 03 May, 2022, 01:34:26 pm

Hope your new oven brings you ~~joy!~~ cake!

FTFY

Basil · « **Reply #4498 on:** 03 May, 2022, 01:58:27 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 03 May, 2022, 01:34:26 pm

Hope your new oven brings you joy!

I addressed my unfinished Audax business by having fish and chips at the Mariner's in New Quay, on Monday.
Great VFM! Cod, chips, peas, home-made Tartare sauce, bread & butter + TEA for 4 for £35.80 so left change from 2 x £20 as tip...

One of our regular haunts. Although we do tend to avoid the coast on Bank Holidays.
Glad you enjoyed.

hellymedic · « **Reply #4499 on:** 03 May, 2022, 03:25:35 pm »

Place was thronging!

David had a 'Milky Bar Mashup' ice cream cone and went on a boat trip in search of elusive dolphins.

I have advised many of this parish to avoid fish & chips at the Mariners!