Food

I also have a lot of fresh sage (it's taking over the garden). Maybe sage butter is the way ahead. Bacon for breakfast and fuck the cabbage. Not literally.

Some great home cooked meals here, thanks for sharing. Here is my pot luck dinner from leftovers this bank holiday weekend

pork belly c/w jus
Mac n Cheese previously known as Carbonara with freshly made Béchamel sauce

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Oh yes!

Hnnnng! Yes dude.

Also, I’m never buying gnocchi again. Fucking revelation.

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Don't eat that cabbage, Suze... that's not good cabbage.

This looks great.

Just had a wild boar ragu with tagliatelle served in a parmesan crisp bowl in a restaurant and I fucking love parmesan but as a crisp it's an abomination. I was proper looking forward to it too, having never tried before.

Fake news.

There's no way cooked cheese could be bad.

I had cacio e pepe in a pecorino bowl in Rome and it was fucking amazing.

Ha thanks, I was suppose to make panzanella this weekend but the weather has been so meh, that I went and bought pork belly to cheer myself up, still have leftovers.

There is a secret ingredient that goes in oxtail and butter bean stew. It has an aniseed / licorice flavour.

I’m on a mission to find this, then prepare this stew. People bang on about rice/peas, jerk chicken. But this is a well kept secret (usually family recipe) and much loved dish from the West Indies.

Any clues to this secret ingredient much appreciated xx

Is it not just plain anise seed? It's used in Indian and French cooking, and given both nation's culinary influences to the region, that would make sense.

Fennel

I always stick star anise in my bolognese?

:(
Otherwise it was a fantastic little place with the highlight being the menu having NO PIZZA in massive letters at the bottom

Bought some short rib at the Tramp's Buffet tonight, it's gonna be a weekend treat, looooong, slooooow smoke in the BBQ I reckon... Gonna rub it in salt, nothing more... Will report back...

I also want gnocchi now... Tramp's Buffet 'posh' kransky and mash tonight, my reflux will not thank me...

Anyone know of anywhere in East London that sells these Chicken In The Woods mushrooms?

Dunno but having seen how much they sell for fresh I'm tempted to start cultivating in my 'secret' wood for next year:
https://www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/shop/plug-spawn/chicken-of-the-woods-plug-spawn/

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ALRIGHT M9 CALM DOWN

Visiting the the mother in law is aways good. fresh from the veggie plot.

PRAWNS! GIANT PRAWNS STEW!

Emigrant*

*only as far as Kentford but look at these feckers. Decided to replicate a fondly remembered Indonesian meal of grilled giant prawns with sambal and peanut sauce. Kinda busked the whole thing approximating the sauce with smooth peanut butter, lime juice, soy and loosed with a bit of hot water. The ersatz sambal was chillis, onions, garlic, salt, pepper, sugar, lime and lemon juice, corriander. basil and bit of fish sauce. Think i boosted the heat and thickness with a few splurts of Sriracha too. Was surprisingly convincing.

Ended up chopping the cooked prawns into bite-sized chunks and making little lettuce hand-rolls with a blob of chilli and peanut sauce on each. It was flipping epic.

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Recommendations for easy places to grab an early dinner around St Pancras please... dim sum to the front of the queue!

Dim sum and duck surely?

You probably will need to queue depending on how many you are

Worth it though

Is that like Netflix and chill but sexier?