Food

Dinner - 2 whole chickens from chicken shop. One smokey extra crispy and one normal.
crinkle fries, slaw, butter lettuce & avocado salad, corn on the cob.

^Real food.

Whatevs.

Ribman at Eat St tomorrow or else.
Dirty Burger/Chicken Shop Friday.

oh fuck I really didnt need two whole chickens

dibs

im just lying on the sofa throwing leftover bits of chicken at my dog

You'll pay for what you've done.

hes loving it apart from when i throw him a spicy bit.

im just lying on the sofa throwing leftover bits of chicken at my dog

Well worth the 7.5 hours cooking time.

If you are feeling adventurous you can try this - Southern Bread and Butter pickles. I brought these to a forum BBQ and they were demolished. Easy to make too. Fans of the Pitt Cue will recognise that you can use the juice for pickle back shots.

http://smittenkitchen.com/2010/06/br...utter-pickles/

A couple of useful notes about this as it is a US based recipe and my own personal tweaks.

1. You want Ogurki cucumbers - summer is when they are in season and you can buy them from any Polish shops or large greengrocers near a Polish community
   
2. Cut down the number of mustard seeds by half - the mustard seeds are too too strong for my taste
   
3. Salt - since you are not using kosher salt you need about 2x as much in table salt. Roughly. You can always add salt later but hard to take it out so go a little light if you're unsure
   
4. Onions - you need sweet onions for this but you want some bite you can replace half the volume with some shallots instead. Again, slice thinly.
   
5. Watch the tumeric - even slightly over it ends up making the liquid too cloudy.
   
6. If you put them straight into the fridge they stay amazingly crunchy. Very different texture, but equally delicious.
   
   

Defo gonna try this however, it takes a steady hand to pipe icing sugar and I fear that, due the lengthy cooking process of the above meat and my inability to resist the beers I had in the fridge, my Star Wars cookies will have to wait until morning.

looks damn tasty!

Well worth the 7.5 hours cooking time.

For pork shoulder - it always is. Chapeau!

Eamsey, weight and cost of le pork shoulder from G.P?

Thinking of doing a Saturday nom.

MEAT AND FISH - You could get Mark from Marky Market to deliver to you tomorrow.
http://www.markymarket.com/MarkyMarket/home.html

He is awesome, it's also good to support a small "trader"

Eamsey, weight and cost of le pork shoulder from G.P?

Thinking of doing a Saturday nom.

I think if I remember correctly I was shocked how cheap it was last time I was in there at about £5 kilo.

For shoulder?

I got 1.8 kilos of belly there the other week and wasn't listening to the price - I just handed the guy a 20 and got about 10p change.

MEAT AND FISH - You could get Mark from Marky Market to deliver to you tomorrow.
http://www.markymarket.com/MarkyMarket/home.html

He is awesome, it's also good to support a small "trader"

how does he make money from that?

I think if I remember correctly I was shocked how cheap it was last time I was in there at about £5 kilo.

Thought it was £8.50/kg (but could be wrong!)

Banana bread with walnuts. Any have a recipe that they particularly like?

I use this recipe for my 'nana bread... always gets a good reception.

http://www.joyofbaking.com/healthydesserts/LowFatBananaBread.html

Banana bread with walnuts. Any have a recipe that they particularly like?
Yep. Use pecans.

http://www.lovintheoven.com/2011/09/caramelized-pecan-banana-bread.html