Food

It's from her new one but there was a preview of some recipes from it in the Guardian:

https://amp.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/jul/27/meera-sodha-exclusive-vegan-recipes

Yep that is the stuff. It was bought now I have to do something with it.

@tbc now that sounds good. Never made a laska but will ing to try. Thank you.

Not sure what's festive about these but they are amazing

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I definitely need to get them for the joke

don't know how this happened (yeah I do lidel special offers) but have been eating fusilli giganti - pasta game changer

they look amazing. i wish you could still get the old phileas fogg style spiced tortillas they were so much nicer than plain salted ones. they look very similar though plus the chocolate.

i think there's some illuminati law against good flavours of crisp based snacks. brannigans beef and mustard, mccoys mexican chilli, all forms of pizza flavoured crackers, pf tortillas all cancelled despite being top tier. has to be a conspiracy. has to.

Forgot about Mexican chilli McCoys. One of the best.
My dad used to get some Phileas Fogg crunchy mini garlic bread things, phenomenal

Mignons morceaux

And how the fuck did I just remember their name?

Have you been here? I went back to Florence just to revisit.

https://www.4leoni.it/

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Made a good salt & pepper chicken wings ‘fakeaway’ last night.

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Big nostalgic ‘ooooofffff’ from me. Remember eating those and having a sip of my dad’s lager while we watched Gladiators.

Banged out the beef wellington, not perfect but learnt a lot for next time

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Looks proper.

Sublime lattice work!

That looks incredible! please tell me you have a cross-section pic?

Made tortelleni brodo last night. Had chicken stock ready to use so not as much faff as otherwise. Was banging, but I think would be much better as a smaller course as intended rather than a main course.

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What are people’s go to chicken soup recipes, preferably using a whole chicken? Have an afternoon free and a poorly missus so want to make something soothing for her..

One stereotype is Evelyn Rose, although she says you have to make it the day before

https://www.thejc.com/lets-eat/recipe/traditional-chicken-soup-slbaihze

I’m sure we’ll be eating the soup for the next couple of days

Oil. For general roasting and frying, not that we fry much.
Have the good EV olive oil but the price of bog standard olive oil is nuts but cold pressed rape seed oil from the uk is a third of the price, what’s it like to cook with? Particularly roasting veg/sautéing etc?

https://www.thekitchn.com/instant-pot-chicken-soup-herbed-matzo-balls-recipe-23213308

I use it for deep frying. It's heavier than olive oil, and I think the smoke point is a bit higher, and doesn't impart unwelcome flavours.

I use Ocado boggo olive oil for general cooking and it does a perfectly good job.

Extra Virgin only comes out if I'm cooking at low temperatures.

Coconut oil for some other bits and bobs. Or butter / ghee.

Peanut or sunflower oil in our house, I keep it around for cooking in the wok.

Lard or dripping.