Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 515115 times)

Biggsy · « **Reply #150 on:** 07 November, 2012, 12:23:51 pm »

Can I buy peppermint oil as good as Benedicks use for their Bittermints?

So I can make my own. £5 a box, or even £3 on special offer, is a bit expensive for daily consumption.

L CC · « **Reply #151 on:** 09 November, 2012, 02:45:45 pm »

Yes.
Peppermint oil is peppermint oil is peppermint oil
Making the 'cream' thick without being sweet, and getting the right grade of bitter chocolate is more of a challenge, I think.

I spent more than £25 on cake making supplies this week. The internet is dangerous.

Biggsy · « **Reply #152 on:** 09 November, 2012, 04:12:06 pm »

Peppermint oil growers don't agree it's all the same - though they would say that wouldn't they.

One was featured recently on BBC1's One Show, I think it was.

I could spend £25 a week on Benedicks!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #153 on:** 16 November, 2012, 01:22:31 pm »

I just found a packet of After Eights - the little ones wrapped up like Rolos, not the proper ones - at the back of the cupboard. I have eaten them all.

Ewan Houzami · « **Reply #154 on:** 16 November, 2012, 06:20:58 pm »

The peppermint cream in the last After Eight I had about a year ago was definately not a patch on the stuff from the time when we had proper summers and you could hear the words in pop songs. It had that bitter taste of artificial sweetener. Or they're using cheap peppermint oil. Or something.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #155 on:** 17 November, 2012, 03:25:33 pm »

I've just made a pot of lentil & lemon soup and one of black-eyed bean & oregano soup. That's my lunches sorted for the next couple of weeks.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #156 on:** 17 November, 2012, 09:05:38 pm »

Sounds tasty and satisfying. Do you use fresh oregano? I never find dried has any taste in soup, but very rarely have fresh around.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #157 on:** 17 November, 2012, 09:09:45 pm »

No, it's impossible to get fresh here. So I put in three times as much dried.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #158 on:** 17 November, 2012, 09:18:06 pm »

Ah. Thinking about it, coriander might be good in that instead.

Ewan Houzami · « **Reply #159 on:** 17 November, 2012, 11:36:55 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 17 November, 2012, 09:09:45 pm

No, it's impossible to get fresh here. So I put in three times as much dried.

Get hold of a little pot from the garden centre for pennies, and let it grow on the window sill? I've just repotted my five year old plant and given it its annual haircut.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #160 on:** 18 November, 2012, 01:58:27 pm »

Nutella cheesecake. Nom. That is all.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #161 on:** 18 November, 2012, 04:59:25 pm »

I loathe both Nutella and cheesecake. The only way Nutella cheesecake could be any worse is if it had a liver and white chocolate garnish.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #162 on:** 18 November, 2012, 06:41:30 pm »

No liver.

White chocolate may have featured, so I think it safe to say this was definitely not Kirst-friendly cake. But trust me, for those that do like nutella and cheesecake and a smidgeon of white chocolate, it's good.

Kim · « **Reply #163 on:** 18 November, 2012, 06:48:03 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2012, 04:59:25 pm

I loathe both Nutella and cheesecake. The only way Nutella cheesecake could be any worse is if it had a liver and white chocolate garnish.

Don't forget the peanut butter...

Arch · « **Reply #164 on:** 18 November, 2012, 09:35:33 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 November, 2012, 04:59:25 pm

I loathe both Nutella and cheesecake. The only way Nutella cheesecake could be any worse is if it had a liver and white chocolate garnish.

At work the other day, we found a stash of 1970's American body building magazines, and in one of them was an advert for a dietary supplement - Dessicated Liver. I did wonder if anyone ever mistakenly sprinkled it on a jam sponge when reaching without looking for the coconut....

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #165 on:** 20 November, 2012, 03:42:05 pm »

It's not the cold, it's not the wind, it's not the heavier bike, it's the Swiss diet, isn't it. That's CHeese, CHocolate and CHips.

Arch · « **Reply #166 on:** 23 November, 2012, 11:11:49 pm »

We went to IKEA earlier in the week (for a chest of drawers), and in the food bit after the tills we picked up a little sachet of snack sausages - elk and pork. MFWHTBAB was posting about them over on CC, and mistyped and nearly referred to them as elf and pork...

We went back to IKEA again today (for more chests of drawers, having assembled one, we reckon they are good value), and bought some more sausages...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #167 on:** 24 November, 2012, 03:34:09 pm »

I have made 3 dark chocolate lemon drizzle cakes, one lasagne and a big pot of dhal. The lasagne is hokkaido squash and goat cheese, and I have replaced the middle layer of lasagne sheets with blanched and separated leeks, for extra veggie goodness and fewer calories.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #168 on:** 24 November, 2012, 04:09:35 pm »

Hokkaido squash? sounds v expensive...
ETA mmmmm goat.....

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #169 on:** 24 November, 2012, 05:05:38 pm »

Came in the veg box.

L CC · « **Reply #170 on:** 29 November, 2012, 06:27:03 pm »

I have just found 4 500g bags of red lentils in the cupboard.
Daal anyone?
In all seriousness, I'd quite like some suggestions...

mcshroom · « **Reply #171 on:** 29 November, 2012, 06:37:01 pm »

Blended with a chicken stock cube and (even frozen) veg makes a nice soup.

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #172 on:** 29 November, 2012, 07:20:48 pm »

Well I'm pretty sure that Tesco sweet and sour chicken ready meal contained very little that wasn't either sugar or salt...but it was scrummy and hot

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #173 on:** 29 November, 2012, 08:55:14 pm »

Lentiil & lemon soup.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #174 on:** 30 November, 2012, 11:03:04 am »

No need to use it all at once. Keep it somewhere dry and it'll last for ages.