A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[Basil]

Mrs. B is getting rather adventurous with celeriac in the kitchen.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Today I popped into a Korean supermarket as I was passing and got a bar of 'red bean cake'. I like red beans, so I thought I'd like it, and I did. But I hadn't expected it to be sweet!

[Cudzoziemiec]

Stilton on dark rye bread with damson powidła (something between jam and stewed fruit) on top - delicious!

[woollypigs]

Stilton on dark rye bread with damson powidła (something between jam and stewed fruit) on top - delicious!

Yup! Real rye bread + strong/flavourful cheese + jam (my favourite is blackberry) is just NOM!

[Julian]

My mum gave us some home made damson jam which coincidentally is my favourite with cheese.

[Vince]

On Sunday in the first bit of baking I have done since another boring wet Sunday afternoon in 1987 (Fruit loaf) I made raisin flapjack. Its a little darkblack and crusty on top and crumbly round the edges, but home made and most nomish.

i just need to do some more cycling to justify eating it.

Thanks to Vorsprung for the recipe suggestion.

[rogerzilla]

Cheese on toast is transformed if you add a bit of Gorgonzola to the Cheddar.

[Vince]

I've just been given a Smarties advent calendar.

A bit of catching up to do.

[Mr Larrington]

Ham: it shouldn't be green, should it?

[Vince]

"Green eggs and ham" doesn't have parentheses so the green probably applies to both types comestible.

[Mr Larrington]

Google confirms this hypothesis but the expression on the face of the Prat In The Hat suggest that it is not a Good Thing.

[hellymedic]

Our eggs go green when served with 'red' cabbage.
Trufax

[Ham]

Ham: it shouldn't be green, should it?

*checks*

I hope not.

[Basil]

Fish finger sandwich.  The perfect simple after pub snack?  Possibly, but I'm having to make do with burnt to charcoal on one side fish fingers. 
Bugger.

[hellymedic]

Festive disappointments so far:
The chocolate on McVitie's Victoria chocolate biscuits is too thin.
Sainsbury's delivered us an overripe mango yesterday which needed to be eaten that day. (#First World Problem really)
Mr Kipling's Christmas slices seem tiny but weigh 43 gams and contain 158 Calories. At least they are individually plastic wrapped to ease festive portion control.

[lisat]

I think a cheese and marmalade sandwich should hit the spot tonight.

[Ruthie]

Three day old roast goose stirred into Aldi pasta sauce and poured over fusilli, with cheddar over the top.

Absolutely disgusting, don't try it.

[ian]

I'm braving throwing the remaining turkey and ham into a hash with some potato, cabbage, and eggs. Usual works out fine. The cats will, I'm sure, help with anything that remains.

Slow cooking the turkey in a vat of white wine for eight hours was quite successful. No one died from salmonella and it was tasted pretty damn good.

[Quint]

This year my daughter said in addition to a whole peeled carrot + a whole peeled onion (halved) and two sticks of celery each cut in to 3 pieces we should add a halved  clementine (not peeled) to the ham as we boiled it (after boiling and resting tis put in the oven covered with home made marmalade.
       The halved clementine really, really made it the best ever ham we have had   

[Mr Larrington]

Here is what to do if someone suggests a Ballantine Balotelli Ballotine for Christmas dinner: shoot them, and burn the body.  It's supposed to be a deboned goose stuffed with pork and various savoury Stuffs but someone¹ seems to have made off with most of the goosey goodness, leaving a stuffing only slightly more flavoursome than Paxo.

1: Immigrunts, probably.  When they're not nicking Brenda's swans.

[SteveC]

Here is what to do if someone suggests a Ballantine Balotelli Ballotine for Christmas dinner: shoot them, and burn the body. 

+ 1
Most disappointing Christmas dinner I've had since the last time we had turkey (the latter being beautifully cooked by my B-I-L, tender and moist, but totally lacking in flavour). Fortunately the year we had the Ballotine we'd got a goose at home (the exact arrangements for Christmas Day were a little late in being organised) so we shared that with my parents a few days later.

[hellymedic]

The only reason I decided we should eat turkey on Christmas Day was so we could eat loads of Trimmings and Puddings, which are more fun.

Years of Healthy Eating have reduced our appetites for Rich Foods.

[Quint]

Strange but I've never had a tasteless turkey or for that matter dry turkey,  from free range down to bog standard Sainsgreedy, admittedly my wife is an excellent cook but my sister is a fully trained chef and has often not been quite, well, right.

[Mrs Pingu]

I was going to make tarte tatin, but I can't find the pan I must have made it in last time. The normal frying pan handle isn't ovenproof. No pudding for me, sob.

[citoyen]

My wife used the leftovers to make turkey & ham pie. It is a triumph.