Food

weekend cooking tomato and basil soup
slow roast toms, onion, little celery, half carrot, salt pepper bay leaf and garlic till squishy soft and lish*
put in to big pan with mix of veggie and real chicken stock (not too much chicken stock you dont want chicken soup)
simmer for a while so flavors get going ad sugar a little finely chopped red chillie, basil stalks, add basil leaves at the end blend to consistency you like, serve with sour cream and croutons.
freeze the rest for a cold day. nom nom nom
*copyright pisti

I'm having Seafood Linguine this evening. One of my favourites.

Oi Nuno, this just the place to take a girl in Lisboa!

Restaurante La Paparrucha - Restaurantes - Lisboa
Provolone com tomate e oregão; Bife de chourizo a "La Paparrucha"; Colita a "La Parrilla"; Cuadril a las brasas; Espetadas "La paparucha"; Lomo cigano; ...

Link below.

http://www.lapaparrucha.com/site/default.aspx

Um abraço! c_c

McD's is undoubtedly the worst, ever...FACT!

You've got a PM C_C ; P

Muito Obrigado!

Love Chapito's as well!

Link
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Portugal/Distrito_de_Lisboa/Lisbon-286122/Restaurants-Lisbon-Resto_do_Chapito-BR-1.html

You've got a PM C_C ; P

just made pasata and bottled plums in spiced brandy. hopefully will be tasty.....

Soy sauce Baby Back BBQ ribs:
slab of ribs + copious dark soy sauce
Bake at 350 Farenheit (c180 C) turning 1ce in middle for 45mins, then transfer to BBQ at high heat to burn a bit, adding a bit of soy marinade from pan.
instant deliciousness- no marinade time.

Can I once again urge all East London forum members to dine at Lahore Kebab House in Shadwell.

Nihari
Lamb Chops
Karahi Gosht
Daal tarka
Okra Bindi
Sag paneer.

About a tenner each. Brilliant meal.

Can I once again urge all East London forum members to dine at Lahore Kebab House in Shadwell.

Nihari
Lamb Chops
Karahi Gosht
Daal tarka
Okra Bindi
Sag paneer.

About a tenner each. Brilliant meal.

i really must check this out, but have heard that the food is good but that the place and staff are a nightmare. how does the new branch compare?

did the poached chicken thing again on saturday.

risotto with the rest of the meat and half the stock for dinner tonight, the rest of the stock will go into a lentil soup for this week's lunches.

here's step one and two (cook and eat)

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and heres' the resulting stocky goodness.

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Good work, Dooks.

i really must check this out, but have heard that the food is good but that the place and staff are a nightmare. how does the new branch compare?

You're a total commodity in there. They want to turn tables so there's no fucking about with pleasantries. The decor is sparse at best. I fucking love it.

I had take away from the new one and didn't rate it as highly but it was half price when they opened so certainly acceptable.

i went to a proper greek wedding in crete last week. it was quite an experience. i'm not squeamish at all usually but the food and drink at this thing were pretty spectaculaly inedible. got pics of some of it... probably best avoided if you're of a sensitive disposition.

let me set the scene: our small party of six were over for a week around a friend's wedding. english groom greek bride. turns out there's a "thing" organised for pretty much evey night we're there and they all involve dancing, drinking and not getting back to the appartment before 5am.

• first night there, big meal out , lots of wine and raki (hideous homebrewed aniseed flavoured paint stripper from plastic bottles served at every available opportunity). 3am finish.

• second night, pre-wedding bed ceremony and family barbequeue, dancing, beers, wine, raki, 5am finish.

• third night there, last minute stag do, beers, clubbing, whiskey, raki, 5am finish...

so by the day of the wedding i'm feeling pretty shaky, jaded and horribly, horribly hungover. we all are.

the wedding is at 7pm in a little church cut into in the rock by the harbour. it's about 32 degrees and no wind at all. just as they're starting out the groom faints. goes down like a sack of spuds. they get him up, give him some water, take his jacket off, start again... and he goes down again. eventually get him standing into all the chanting and general wedding stuff. ten minutes in, another guest goes down, then another. it's just so hot and airless and i'm sure the fainting is contageous; you empathise and before you know it you're starting to go.

my missus starts to feel wobbly so i take her off for a sit down, then i start to go. i feel my head go all cold and my knees start feeling shaky. the ceremony went on for over an hour.

then it's over we're all loaded into a coach and driven up a terrifying winding road up to a beautiful taverna in the hills for dinner.

it was absolutely charming and a beautiful setting... but i'm afraid that by the time we got there i hadn't eaten all day, was shaky, queasy, dehydrated, starving, borderline passing out and massivley jaded and ill at ease. the absolutely pounding traditional greek music and gunshot like fireworks they kept setting off behind me weren't helping with my nerves either. i've possibly never been in more dire need of a steak and a beer in my life.

so imagine our combined joy when we're confronted with a table containing, weird green cakes, one jug of paintstripper raki and unlimited bottles of the local home-brewed wine (pic attached). there were some bottles that were almost clear but when someone on our table took up two bottles to show the difference and ask if we could have another of the clear ones he was told they were all the same and it was just pot-luck.

they all tasted like vinegar to be fair.

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the next course to be brought out was a plate of mixed offal. some liver, which is fine i guess. there was something that looked like heart with several major arteries still attached, and another that was definitely brain. i didn't get any pics of that unfortunately.

but not to worry the main course followed pretty soon afterwards. boiled bones, fat and skin! mmmm. jury's out whether it was sheep or goat. pretty sure whatever it was died of natural causes.

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then they brought out the main event. stinky horse spine meat!

sure it wasn't horse but it ceratinly had a "rich" bouquet.

by the time the speeches were underway i thought i was going to cry.

only one thing for it in situations like that. fill your face with rice then hit the paintstripper.

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Dooks, I went to a wedding in Crete last year - they brought out this rice dish afterwards that everybody local was looking forward to. I've blocked the name of it from my memory. Anyway, it looked like rice pudding, sloppy; maybe a risotto, to be kind. It was sour. I've never tried anything like it. Maybe it was made with sour cream/milk. Whatever it was, it was nasty. Everything else was tasty though, but that rice dish was positively nasty. The locals all lapped it up though.

I can't bear Raki either.

Apparently the rice is traditional. It was actually the only bit i could face. I ate plates of it.

To be fair, it actually ended up being a great night but for a while there i was teetering on the brink of tears... or ordering a plate of chips and a beer.

Ha - just looked at one of your photos, and I can see a bowl full of it - pale, creamy, sour rice niceness. I couldn't get along with it at all. Other than that, great fun. Other than Malia, obviously.

spot on. managed to avoid malia thank god. and yep, despite the very questionable food it was terrific fun. laughed more that week than i have in years.

Just ate a whole M & S quiche selection tray.. I hate myself.. It was just 9 bits of homogeneous eggy fat

Their quiche is a bit naff isn't it.

They're doing this '3 items for £5" deal which I've been whittling through recently.

Nice olives, nice antipasti, nice fish and prawns, but their quiche is exactly as you described it.

I've found the ultimate combo from the 3 for £5 deli selection to be tortilla, stuffed vines leaves and mozzarella/sunblush tomatoes. I'm not down with fish or meat though admittedly.

I was quite pissed off they stopped that 2 for £3 thing they used to do on salad pots. It's now 3 for £5. Why you'd want £5 worth of salad is anyone's guess. Bastards.

I was quite pissed off they stopped that 2 for £3 thing they used to do on salad pots. It's now 3 for £5. Why you'd want £5 worth of salad is anyone's guess. Bastards.

yes. used to get the wild rice and prawn one and the giant couscous and roasted pepper one and stick them together in bowl. really filling, tasty loveliness for £3. get in.

I have some sea bass I want to do something nice to this eve. Ideas?

eat it.

sorry.

whole fish or fillet?

she was only the fishmonger's daughter etc...