Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 511691 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #3150 on:** 08 August, 2019, 02:13:03 pm »

Quote from: orienteer on 07 August, 2019, 05:17:16 pm

The problem I find with unhomogenised milk in plastic containers is that the cream sticks to the sides and is difficult to extract. Shaking it doesn't seem to help much.

I don't think I've ever had that but polythene and fat are not easily separated.

Our milk was in a Traditional Glass Bottle and residual fat washed easily in hot water.

ian · « **Reply #3151 on:** 08 August, 2019, 05:55:22 pm »

Unhomogenized cream in milk takes me back to the horror of school milk.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3152 on:** 08 August, 2019, 06:22:00 pm »

Quote from: ian on 08 August, 2019, 05:55:22 pm

Unhomogenized cream in milk takes me back to the horror of school milk.

I liked school milk but we've been there before.

ian · « **Reply #3153 on:** 08 August, 2019, 07:07:48 pm »

No one liked school milk. It was an agency of terror.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3154 on:** 08 August, 2019, 07:25:55 pm »

My sister (17 months younger than me) HATED it; I didn't. We've always been different...

ElyDave · « **Reply #3155 on:** 08 August, 2019, 10:18:21 pm »

I refused school milk.

Cream in my espresso is suitably decadent, but drinking milk

Kim · « **Reply #3156 on:** 09 August, 2019, 12:08:24 am »

It's what Ian Rush drinks...

rafletcher · « **Reply #3157 on:** 09 August, 2019, 10:08:02 am »

Milk so cold it doesn't taste of milk is fine, but then I'd have water. I don't think I've ever had a glass of milk to drink "straight". I used to have the "top of the milk" on cornflakes as a kid. Hated school milk because it was always warm.

T42 · « **Reply #3158 on:** 09 August, 2019, 03:23:10 pm »

32° outside, 26 inside, pleasant breeze from the fans, dogs lying on the floor as if they'd been poured there, and a kilo of excellent greengages on the table.

Ham · « **Reply #3159 on:** 09 August, 2019, 03:28:56 pm »

I always think that the name "Reine Claude" makes them taste betterer

hellymedic · « **Reply #3160 on:** 09 August, 2019, 04:12:07 pm »

David is gathering figs and blackberries.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3161 on:** 09 August, 2019, 07:39:28 pm »

When carrots & potatoes are in boiling water, they take 15 - 20 minutes and they are soft - possibly too soft.

Why do they take so much longer when they are in a boiling curry sauce?

hellymedic · « **Reply #3162 on:** 09 August, 2019, 08:37:03 pm »

Sauce is viscous and can't transfer heat like a mobile liquid.
Veg can't absorb latent heat from steam landing on its surface either.
Anyway, microwave your hard veg: quick, clean, easy...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3163 on:** 09 August, 2019, 11:40:22 pm »

Makes sense. The root veg in the curry were al dente... but none the worse for that.

nicknack · « **Reply #3164 on:** 09 August, 2019, 11:46:23 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 09 August, 2019, 04:12:07 pm

David is gathering figs and blackberries.

i did that today too.

T42 · « **Reply #3165 on:** 10 August, 2019, 08:31:06 am »

Quote from: Ham on 09 August, 2019, 03:28:56 pm

I always think that the name "Reine Claude" makes them taste betterer

Me too, but UK forum & all that. As it happens, I didn't know that Reines Claude were greengages until the missus's folks moved here.

"Greengage" begs to be followed by "jelly". Dunno if it's still the case, but when I was a nipper almost all homegrown fruits ended up that way. We had raspberries, gooseberries, and black & red currants and rhubarb, and they all met with me mum's preserving pan, apart from the ones we snaffled in the garden. If she could have made jam from broccoli we'd probably have had dark-green jars of stinking puke on the breakfast table.

andrewc · « **Reply #3166 on:** 10 August, 2019, 10:46:17 pm »

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/legendary-liverpool-restaurant-uncle-sams-16735579

Blimey! That’s probably the first place I ever ate pizza. We used to go to their place in Renshaw St after a night on the beer. I seem to remember a stuffed Polar Bear as part of the decor.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #3167 on:** 11 August, 2019, 03:08:53 pm »

Greengages take me back. At school lunches, greengages were served stewed in large steel basins to each table with a jug of custard. I loved greengages, nobody else did. I think my personal record for lunch was over 100 stones.

T42 · « **Reply #3168 on:** 11 August, 2019, 03:30:39 pm »

Must have had an interesting effect on the bowels. Probably not during school hours, though.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3169 on:** 11 August, 2019, 11:56:05 pm »

Bloody Stupid Johnson's daughters have rather edible names: Lara Lettice and Cassia Peaches...

ElyDave · « **Reply #3170 on:** 12 August, 2019, 10:17:52 am »

greengages from the market here, figs and raspberries starting to come out of the garden

T42 · « **Reply #3171 on:** 12 August, 2019, 01:23:52 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 11 August, 2019, 11:56:05 pm

Bloody Stupid Johnson's daughters have rather edible names: Lara Lettice and Cassia Peaches...

Why would Boris name his daughter after a laxative?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3172 on:** 13 August, 2019, 12:30:59 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 12 August, 2019, 01:23:52 pm

Quote from: hellymedic on 11 August, 2019, 11:56:05 pm
Bloody Stupid Johnson's daughters have rather edible names: Lara Lettice and Cassia Peaches...

Why would Boris name his daughter after a laxative?

Because she takes after her father in being full of ["We get the idea" – Ed.].

hellymedic · « **Reply #3173 on:** 13 August, 2019, 03:54:49 pm »

Cassia is cinnamon innit? Never thought of that as a poo sweet...

SteveC · « **Reply #3174 on:** 13 August, 2019, 06:45:04 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 13 August, 2019, 03:54:49 pm

Cassia is cinnamon innit?

Not quite. They are different plants, but very similar in chemical composition. Some pharmacopeias consider them to be 'the same' (e.g. the US one, but my data is ~30 years old). I think I can tell the difference, but to be honest I may be kidding myself.
If you buy cinnamon from Sharwoods it is actually cassia (is says so in very small print no the front).