Zico Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 33 minutes ago, Spider said: Is cottage cheese still a thing? A sweaty residue that looks like thrush. Wimmin ate it by the skipful in the 80’s , usually atop an A4 sized Ryvita. I like all cheese apart from that and supermarket Lancashire. Though I had some goats cheese from a small farm near Bergerac a couple of years ago that nigh on dissolved my tongue. I’m convinced it was a hardened slab of goat jizz. Monsieur Grey would probably have a better idea than me though. Quote
Spider Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, Zico said: 😁😁😁😁😁 That Henry the 8th though….🤣🤣 Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 34 minutes ago, Spider said: Is cottage cheese still a thing? A sweaty residue that looks like thrush. Wimmin ate it by the skipful in the 80’s , usually atop an A4 sized Ryvita. I like all cheese apart from that and supermarket Lancashire. Though I had some goats cheese from a small farm near Bergerac a couple of years ago that nigh on dissolved my tongue. I’m convinced it was a hardened slab of goat jizz. Monsieur Grey would probably have a better idea than me though. I used to eat a tub post gym purely for the low fat protein hit, I'd often dose it with a large dollop of english mustard or Encona... It's not sommat you'd eat for pleasure. Eventually I went to the darkside and started drinking Whey Protein shakes instead, but only when the natural Stevia stuff became available... The regular stuff is absolutely rammed with artificial sweeteners. Quote
L/H White Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 Just me that spoons colslaw out the tub. Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 Spoon going tub to mouth and back? You scumbag. Quote
bolton_blondie Posted August 28, 2021 Author Posted August 28, 2021 1 hour ago, L/H White said: Just me that spoons colslaw out the tub. Love coleslaw. I do the same. Don't tell anyone though. Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) I never really enjoy pizza as much if there's no side of coleslaw. I don't eat from the tub though. As bad as swigging from the milk or orange juice directly and sticking that back in... Edited August 28, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote
Nowack Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 Not sure if it counts as scummy but I had a kipper barm this morning and it was lovely. Quote
Escobarp Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 35 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said: I never really enjoy pizza as much if there's no side of coleslaw. I don't eat from the tub though. As bad as swigging from the milk or orange juice directly and sticking that back in... I drink encona hot sauce from the bottle. Regularly have a swig. Also franks Buffalo sauce as well. Lovely Quote
bolton_blondie Posted August 28, 2021 Author Posted August 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, Escobarp said: I drink encona hot sauce from the bottle. Regularly have a swig. Also franks Buffalo sauce as well. Lovely Nandos sweet chilli jam they sell in supermarkets goes on everything these days. EVERYTHING. Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) I've cut right back on my Encona and Windward hot sauce habit... The salt content is shocking. Plus I was putting it on everything. Doing about 1.5 bottles a week. As well as chilli sauce requiring foods I was putting it on Cottage Pie, on buttered crumpets, on cheese on toast, on lasagne, in risotto... I think I was addicted. Edited August 28, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote
paulhanley Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 1. Steak pudding butty. Loads of butter on the bread. Fuck the NHS health check and healthy eating fundamentalists. 2. Fried bread. The increasingly forgotten component of the full English. Seems to have been replaced by the dire Americanism that is the hash brown. Quote
Winchester White Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 18 minutes ago, paulhanley said: 1. Steak pudding butty. Loads of butter on the bread. Fuck the NHS health check and healthy eating fundamentalists. 2. Fried bread. The increasingly forgotten component of the full English. Seems to have been replaced by the dire Americanism that is the hash brown. Fried bread is definately a treat these days. I do like a crispy hash brown but not as a replacement for the mighty fried bread. Quote
bolton_blondie Posted August 28, 2021 Author Posted August 28, 2021 Spent 4 nights in hospital and actually looked forward to the cheap white toast we got given every morning. Tastes even better after you've given birth. Quote
paulhanley Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 20 minutes ago, Winchester White said: Fried bread is definately a treat these days. I do like a crispy hash brown but not as a replacement for the mighty fried bread. Yep. Not much good for the arteries. Pure magic in among the beans, egg and bacon though. Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) Paulhanley's reet - I don't mind a hashbrown elsewhere but they have no place whatsoever on a full English... Fried bread is often not even an option anymore. When it is it's usually like shellac after being under the heat lamp drying out... I can't remember the last time I saw Welsh Rarebit either... The best full English I've ever had was in Wales, when we landed in Cardiff for the PNE playoff Final. Hospital toast is an abomination, they do it all at once and by the time it gets dished out it's stone cold... They should take bed numbers of folk who want toast then one should be toasting and another delivering hot toast 'to order'. Cold toast done the lazy way has probably seen more people off than MRSA. If I was an NHS manager this would be the first thing I would address. Edited August 28, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote
ErnestTurnip Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 Whoever came up with the shape of the Nando's chilli jam bottles will be first against the wall come the revolution. Quote
Not in Crawley Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 3 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: I've cut right back on my Encona and Windward hot sauce habit... The salt content is shocking. Plus I was putting it on everything. Doing about 1.5 bottles a week. As well as chilli sauce requiring foods I was putting it on Cottage Pie, on buttered crumpets, on cheese on toast, on lasagne, in risotto... I think I was addicted. Was that part of your gastronomic delights when you were a leading chef? I cudda been a contender...... Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Not in Crawley said: Was that part of your gastronomic delights when you were a leading chef? I cudda been a contender...... Like I mentioned to Whitt (about his trade), did you go home of a night at daft 'o clock and start poring over analytics to hoodwink folk into buying tickets for some bag o' shite like 'We will Rock You' or 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'? Michel Roux Jnr probably goes home after work and has a Ginster's Chicken and Mushroom bake heated in the microwave and stuck on a barmcake smothered in HP Sauce. After doing it all day and night it's the last thing you want to do when you get home at midnight. I couldn't have been a contender, I was being fatuous about the Michelin thing, I couldn't have been a contender as three years of it and I was burnt out and on the verge of a nervous breakdown at 24... If your girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband or partner works days you pretty much never see them. You work weekends - get stupid days off like Monday and Wednesday so invariably end up spending the day knocking about with one of the other bellends you spend about sixty hours a week with. Get pissed up together and you're passed out on the couch in front of The Simpsons when your other half gets home... You lay pearls before swine, the waste is criminal, doesn't even go to the pigs (oink ones not hello, hello, hello ones) anymore. You pretty much paint by numbers - following other's recipes. You have to make your own dinner, and can choose from about three ingredients to make it... It's utterly dogshit - it's no wonder you rarely see staff over 40 in kitchens. It's not all bad, the teamwork and camaraderie is excellent - nobheads or lazy twats last about thirty minutes. After you've cleaned down and finished, the beer or wine you have with the rest after service before heading home is like nectar. You know you've done graft - insomnia is non-existent. I don't envy anyone working in that game these days - it was bad enough twenty years ago, nowadays anyone (dining) who can do a roast dinner thinks they're Gordon fucking Ramsay. Edited August 28, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote
Dimron Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 10 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: Fried bread is often not even an option anymore. When it is it's usually like shellac after being under the heat lamp drying out... Fry a couple of eggs in olive oil then stick a slice of bread into the pan to finish off... eggy olive oil bread Brilliant Quote
Youri McAnespie Posted August 28, 2021 Posted August 28, 2021 (edited) 44 minutes ago, Dimron said: Fry a couple of eggs in olive oil then stick a slice of bread into the pan to finish off... eggy olive oil bread Brilliant My mam couldn't cook for shit, everytime she discovered a new ingredient (this was the early 80s) it'd go into everything - curry powder in cottage pie, garlic in potato 'ash... She had about ten or twelve dishes she could pull off, and sommat similar to the one you described was one - like French toast/fried bread with a runny fried egg. She took them to her grave (the various recipes/techniques, not the dishes, she got burned and buried - which I think is bonkers). She also made the best potato scallops, which we called 'specials' I ever had, chippies have never measured up, no matter how good... Edited August 28, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote
Dimron Posted August 29, 2021 Posted August 29, 2021 10 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: My mam couldn't cook for shit, everytime she discovered a new ingredient (this was the early 80s) it'd go into everything - curry powder in cottage pie, garlic in potato 'ash... She had about ten or twelve dishes she could pull off, and sommat similar to the one you described was one - like French toast/fried bread with a runny fried egg. She took them to her grave (the various recipes/techniques, not the dishes, she got burned and buried - which I think is bonkers). She also made the best potato scallops, which we called 'specials' I ever had, chippies have never measured up, no matter how good... Brings us on to "signature dishes", us middle aged blokes always have a couple of stand-bys that the family like. I think mine are Chilli Meat Balls, Squid stir fry or a Frittata all served with green salads, lots of others but I think those are the main ones I am noted for Quote
MickyD Posted August 29, 2021 Posted August 29, 2021 On 27/08/2021 at 23:42, Casino said: Like Mr Grey and his taste in men, it needs to be hard for me to want it Some things said on here really do need isolating out of context. Quote
Not in Crawley Posted August 29, 2021 Posted August 29, 2021 17 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: Like I mentioned to Whitt (about his trade), did you go home of a night at daft 'o clock and start poring over analytics to hoodwink folk into buying tickets for some bag o' shite like 'We will Rock You' or 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'? Michel Roux Jnr probably goes home after work and has a Ginster's Chicken and Mushroom bake heated in the microwave and stuck on a barmcake smothered in HP Sauce. After doing it all day and night it's the last thing you want to do when you get home at midnight. I couldn't have been a contender, I was being fatuous about the Michelin thing, I couldn't have been a contender as three years of it and I was burnt out and on the verge of a nervous breakdown at 24... If your girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband or partner works days you pretty much never see them. You work weekends - get stupid days off like Monday and Wednesday so invariably end up spending the day knocking about with one of the other bellends you spend about sixty hours a week with. Get pissed up together and you're passed out on the couch in front of The Simpsons when your other half gets home... You lay pearls before swine, the waste is criminal, doesn't even go to the pigs (oink ones not hello, hello, hello ones) anymore. You pretty much paint by numbers - following other's recipes. You have to make your own dinner, and can choose from about three ingredients to make it... It's utterly dogshit - it's no wonder you rarely see staff over 40 in kitchens. It's not all bad, the teamwork and camaraderie is excellent - nobheads or lazy twats last about thirty minutes. After you've cleaned down and finished, the beer or wine you have with the rest after service before heading home is like nectar. You know you've done graft - insomnia is non-existent. I don't envy anyone working in that game these days - it was bad enough twenty years ago, nowadays anyone (dining) who can do a roast dinner thinks they're Gordon fucking Ramsay. I'm not that bothered to be honest. Quote
Not in Crawley Posted August 29, 2021 Posted August 29, 2021 33 minutes ago, Dimron said: Brings us on to "signature dishes", us middle aged blokes always have a couple of stand-bys that the family like. I think mine are Chilli Meat Balls, Squid stir fry or a Frittata all served with green salads, lots of others but I think those are the main ones I am noted for I can do a decent haddock kedgeree for breakfast - but then its a piece of piss so nothing to crow about. Quote
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