Food

Mike and I are going to go a pepsi chip challenge and cook them the way that Heston Blumenthal does it - to see if they are really that good.
My favourite quick steak sauce. Once the steaks are cooked, take em out to rest - pour a decent amount of mixed peppercorns into the pan and toast them until you can smell em, then a tub of creme freche, take the pan off the heat as soon as you put it in and mix it up with the peppercorns and the meat juices. Simple Peppercorn tasty sauce. done.

Ha ha there is a time and a place for grain mustard! Not in mash. Not in a dressing. Some sandwiches, and this sauce I made.

Clefty whassis pepsi chip challenge?

Heston Blumenthal (or Heston Buttfinger as Gin calls him) can suck my cheese stick. Just soak em in cold water for a bit, drain and double-fry. 8 mins the first time at a gentle heat, rest for ten mins then crank the flame and finish em off. Bonzer.

my favorite quick pork chop marinade:
sachet of ketchup
(Sachet of mustard
Sugar) optional but better!
Coke
and various seasonings
Mix the lot together.
marinade the pork chop for 20 mins
Fry/ grill and it tastes like barbeque sauce.

I'm making a pizza base at the moment, I think I'm going to turn it into a calzone and fill it with leftover moussaka mince from last night (which was awesome). Should i add cheese though? Not sure if it would work

Yes. Cheese it up!

When I was last in america my cousins made something called a 'jizzone'. It was a calzone, completely stuffed with cheese, literally sewn together, painted with butter and barbecued.

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This morning I discovered mango chutney on toast. Good stuff.

I've been kind of thinking about this for a while.
Here is the idea..... It would be pretty cool to get a group of people together for an early (!) morning cycle. Everyone chucks in say £20 and we try for a bit of a "cooperative approach".
The idea is that we mosey off to either Billingsgate (seafood) or Smithfield (meat) to get some quality produce at wholesale prices with our communal purse of great british pounds.
Then (there is a real build up here, can you feel it?) we all meat up for a fry up somewhere (the cock tav, smithfield - you can get a well earnt pint at 6am) and divvy up the bounty.... or everyone can just come back to mine for the mother of all BBQs.
It would mean you'd end up with a variety of top notch produce - better than supermarket hovel, and better than having to buy 3kg of snags/prawns for yourself. Any interest?

I just made this with some friends (I can't take all the credit) for a colleague who only ever eats lunch from E2 Spice..

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Ace!

Great cake. Love it.

Oh if anyone is in need of a decent private caterer, give my friend Tatenda a bell, very reasonable and excellent quality (she used to work at one of Ramsay's starred restaurants).

http://tatenda.co.uk/index.html

That's her Espresso Chocolate pudding btw.

Tatendas food looks amazing! That website made me hungry.

I made a wicked mushroom and white wine sauce once. Just whipped it up, out my head, pretended to know what I was doing. GF was very impressed. Treated myself to a little internal Tim Henman Fistpump.

ha! Internal henman ftw!

halloumi salad tonight i think. some nice fresh bread and a bottle of thursday plonk.

geddin.

Defo thursday plonk!

...and a pizza.

I made a wicked mushroom and white wine sauce once. Just whipped it up, out my head, pretended to know what I was doing. GF was very impressed. I treated Tim Henman to a little internal fisting.

Fixed.

You have no idea. She's obsessed with the idea.

Strangely enough, my mate's wife kept shoving stuff up his arse during sex. He hated it. He said it made him feel like a cheap pencil case.
Whenever they came round to dinner she tried to convince me and my mate to have a naked wrestle in front of the fire, in a sort of Netto version of the Olly Reed fight in Women in Love.
The idea of a woman wanking herself daft while her naked husband beat me up held *some *appeal, but not enough for me to go through with it.
They're now getting divorced.

HA!

I'm keeping the door very locked.

I've passed on your number.
You're gonna get raped.
To be fair, I quite fancy her, but I do have my limits.
The only person who puts things up my arse is me.
In the shower.
In private.

YouTube- Dusty Springfield - In private

Back to food:
Pan fried sole fillets with a lemon butter that also has clams, sage and garlic in it .... YUM

Sounds fab - sage very much a surprise ingredient, but if administered with a delicate hand, I imagine it was quite delicious.

A few sage related facts in my head:

You can deep fry sage leaves to make a crispy flavoursome garnish.

Sage is also a great antiseptic for a sore throat. The follicle-loaded texture of the leaf is also great for cleaning teeth.

Many hindu's will greet a sage plant if they see one.

what brick lane was for before it became for avoiding at all costs.

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