Food

True dat. I get them growing in my worm bin.

worm bins are great growing environments really and tomatoes are a great thing to grow or failing that a local market

^ yeah I've heard about that too!

I'm still undecided on tomatos in the UK. My granddad grows them, he's from Naples and maintains that even in the UK's hottest summers we don't get the real searing blistering heat that tomatos need to ripen properly. We both think that the best tomato sauce is made from Napolina tinned toms.

Still, UK garden tomatos are quite delicious and a million times better than those absolutely disgusting, foul 'salad tomatos' from the supermarket. No wonder raw tomatos are unpopular when they have the taste and texture of gone-off watermelon.

Every summer, I get some lovely tomatoes from the Stoke Newington Farmers' Market. Pricey but worth every penny...
Rapha tomatoes?

No no no - Baby Corn is the work of Beelzebub - it looks like squids bits and stays firm with a slippery overtone despite any amount of cooking.

When i was a teenager (i.e. a verrry long time ago) I had a dream that I met Max Cavalera out of then-quite-big-in-some-circles Brazillian thrash band Sepultura at the bus stop.

Up close he was covered in fleshy protuberances that looked exactly like baby sweetcorns that exploded with pussy gore on the slightest contact. I can remember my skin crawling and dry retching at the sight of it even in my dream. I have not been able to eat baby sweet corn since.

Egg mayonnaise sandwiches. Mmmm...

Ewww, c'mon some of us like egg mayonnaise! Or did...

Rapha tomatoes?

Hip Hop Slave Bite

Oops, my comment had nothing to do with the one above, and everything to do with the fact I was eating my lunch thinking "does a sandwich get better then this?".

worm bins are great growing environments really and tomatoes are a great thing to grow or failing that a local market

The tiererd wormary knocks out some potent juice. but we can't grow anything directly in it.
it goes on the fruit bushes

might try tomatoes this year, just been slow starting

@Arducius - Unfortunate post positioning! I blame dooks. Indeed the humble egg mayo sandwich is when well made an alltime luncheon classic. I am an advocate of cress or similar unthreatening greenery in there as gentle foil to the egg mayo's mushy unctuousness.

One thing I dislike is when egg mayo is incorporated into the cold "all day breakfast" buttie of the style found in petrol stations. Its usual purpose is to mollify a cardboardy layer of chemical tasting smoked bacon and a few clammy tranches of guaranteed-burp-regret sauage. If it is not breakfast time, what are people thinking? And if it* is *breakfast time, that is not breakfast. Give me a hot bacon buttie or nowt.

I'd have to agree with you there Olly, I find cucumber can be quite nice too, though sometimes a little too wet.

I hate it when I find myself in a position where I have to buy a sandwich like that! It comes down to a case of trying to find the one that will be the least horrible. Always avoid bacon in these situations.

I fookin love Wing Tip or whatever its called in Camberwell. They had some razor clams in tonight

so I thought bugger it, we'll have 'em in a thai curry stylee. Trez good. For info junkies I have posted the recipe up on me blog

Well in Olly, never tried razors but really want to. Never really seen them tbh

I think they're called Wing Tai. There's one just behind the Morrisons in Peckham as well.

Aye, it's summat foreign soundin like :) There's one in Brixton too, closer to home but I prefer Camberwell one.
And the Mother Store (wlthough I think these are different bods) on Purley Way

Holy water chestnuts.

just marinading a 15oz rib eye steak for lunch....
mmmmm.

I can no longer get Anglo Dal Sesame Snaps from my local sainsburys (Oliver Schick's) secret cycling energy food.

What should i shoplift for my lunch now instead?

Rapha tomatoes?

Pffft, how common. I'm well ahead in the snobbery stakes. :)

I'm loving porridge at the moment. Keeps hunger locked up until about 10am, which is an hour longer than anything else I've had for breakfast before cycling to work.

I have mine with brown sugar, cinnamon, blueberries, and sultanas. Mmm.

Porridge is my standard pre ride/race food stuff. Last weekend I made it with Mars milk and it was fucking lovely.

Swedish style, salt in the oats, cook with some sultanas, then when done Lingonberry jam in the centre and milk, and this is the very important bit, poured around the edges. then eat. food. of the gods.

milk, and this is the very important bit, poured around the edges. then eat. food. of the gods.
What's the deal with milk around the edges? My girlfriend likes hers the same way!

glad she took something away from our last encounter then .........

Today I had raisin and cinamon toast with loads of butter (just to mix things up). Tasty, but I'm starving already. Poridge is amazing. Milk round the edges is the only way. It cools it down and makes is less of a glutinous mass.... plus dissolves the brown suga - yum! I'd not be hungry now if I'd had poridge. The poor choices I make.