Food

I went for an Ed's burger at Euston earlier. It's not so much that it was inedible but more that it was akin to what you would expect from a kebab shop at 3am. Pretty much flavourless and horrible.

Only really mention it because I remember working in Soho 6 or 7 years ago and the Eds on the corner of Old Compton St being something special. Obviously as an avowed hipster burger snob I was setting myself up for dissapointment but to actually wish I had gone to BK instead is saying something.

Just... so much facepalm.

Whatevaaa.... £10 burger (without fries) hipster.

x

If you wanna see a burger hipster, come at me bros.

The chicken roll at Ritas - is still offish one of the best things in this fine city.

Burger ride 2013:

1) Tenderloin
2) Rogan
3) Poofacé
4) dj
5) Nick-Nack
6) moog
7) scoot

Bukowski > Honest Burger > Elliots > Patty & Bun > Byron > Dirty Burger

I have yet to try Honest Burger.

As a rough route how does that sound?

Oh okay then.

Clearly junk food does agree with me or else I wouldn't of bought it. Magic wand or not...

Wouldn't have. Journalism studies was it? And I wasn't referring to a magic wand. I was calling you a wand. It's a funny and hopefully not too offensive euphemism for dick. I was going for something plonker-esque.

If Charlie Brooker has only 'recently' realised that a Golden Arches burger is shit then meh... I don't need to read the little booklet in the Guardian Weekend section to tell me that

Who said Charlie Brooker, or me for that matter, only recently discovered anything? And why is 'recently' in inverted commas? What are you on about? My post which was originally in sympathy and support of yours (yes I was agreeing with you) featured a quote from a recent piece from The Weekly Wipe TV show on the horse meat scandal. I thought was well written and funny. I posted it because you mentioned guilt over your furtive gobbling of a dirty McDonalds which reminded me of the Brooker gag featuring a description of budget burgers.

You'll notice that the quote starts "I used to think...' And ends "turns out it might not have been as appetizing as that'. Knowing that cheap burgers are as disgustingly produced as extravagantly described, but not caring as long as there's no horse in them is the whole premise of the joke. You posted about feeling dirty burger shame so why so touchy about someone agreeing with you?

Figured that one out in the 1980's. However what else do you expect from a journo who couldn't even pass a Media Studies course?

You were into not liking McDs before me and I'm a hipster? Next time a bit of well written topical comedy vitriol threatens to make me laugh I'll force myself to stop and make sure the writer has a certificate from the local technical college before I allow myself a titter.

That's from a Burgrer King btw...

Once again this was both a joke (willful misunderstanding. Do you think I'm from the 1950s or something?) and another way of calling you a dick, in a hopefully relatively gentle and humorous way. Did you miss media studies the day they did polite penis euphemisms? You may now tell me you didn't do media studies.

Ok I'm done.

As a rough route how does that sound?

tomorrow? awesome im in

#getmeaburgerrightnow

Dooks you're one of my faves. Its a shames you dont post more.

Heads over to the swimming thread

Oh okay then.

Wouldn't have. Journalism studies was it? And I wasn't referring to a magic wand. I was calling you a wand. It's a funny and hopefully not too offensive euphemism for dick. I was going for something plonker-esque.

Who said Charlie Brooker, or me for that matter, only recently discovered anything? And why is 'recently' in inverted commas? What are you on about? My post which was originally in sympathy and support of yours (yes I was agreeing with you) featured a quote from a recent piece from The Weekly Wipe TV show on the horse meat scandal. I thought was well written and funny. I posted it because you mentioned guilt over your furtive gobbling of a dirty McDonalds which reminded me of the Brooker gag featuring a description of budget burgers.

You'll notice that the quote starts "I used to think...' And ends "turns out it might not have been as appetizing as that'. Knowing that cheap burgers are as disgustingly produced as extravagantly described, but not caring as long as there's no horse in them is the whole premise of the joke. You posted about feeling dirty burger shame so why so touchy about someone agreeing with you?

You were into not liking McDs before me and I'm a hipster? Next time a bit of well written topical comedy vitriol threatens to make me laugh I'll force myself to stop and make sure the writer has a certificate from the local technical college before I allow myself a titter.

Once again this was both a joke (willful misunderstanding. Do you think I'm from the 1950s or something?) and another way of calling you a dick, in a hopefully relatively gentle and humorous way. Did you miss media studies the day they did polite penis euphemisms? You may now tell me you didn't do media studies.

Ok I'm done.

And breath... Because you missed it all didn't you.

Didn't do Meedia. I was an Engineer. So 'wand' doesn't become a euphamism for me. Sorry.

After that the post is TL; DR.

BTW. Last time I did a micky was 5 years ago, don't really care what others think.

Should of put this in 'I confess' I guess. There are some picky people here, always nice to have someone start a 'repy as a grammar nasi'

Anyway, love you loads. Hope the life choice works out well.

Much love,

Mike xxx

So Mike, not in PR then?

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So Mike, not in PR then?

Nope. I do carry around a spade with me.

So I can call it a spade.

The chicken roll at Ritas - is still offish one of the best things in this fine city.

Had one last night. I almost cried with happiness.

Haha, so you're saying you're not even going to read my reply in which I explain very patiently (I thought) that I was actually agreeing with you in the first place before you reared up and bit my head off with a handbaggy sarcastic suicide threat?

You also appear to be telling me to calm down and simultaneously claiming the moral high ground? We really are having two completely different arguments aren't we? It must be very reassuring that by employing the "reply to what you think I might have said, without actually reading what I typed" tactic you're pretty much guaranteed a win every time.

I have no idea what life choice you are referring to but assuming that involves "things I do"; next time one of these things is scoffing a joyfully dirty burger (certain situations, usually involing a crippling hangover I find, do demand such a thing), I'll think of this tremendously enjoayble conversation.

Now let's get back to back to posh burgers, barbequeue and butchery shall we?

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So 7 hour lamb turned into 9 hour lamb as I slept for too long (had it in the oven overnight) but it was awesome.

It's very easy to do:

1. Make a stock with water, thyme, parsley, and an onion studded with cloves. Bring to the biol and simmer for about 20-30 mins. Then remove the herbs and onion.
   
2. Add your lamb to the stock and simmer for 20 mins.
   
3. Remove the stock (there is a lot so it's worth keeping for soups etc.) and add 5 heads of garlic, separated into individual cloves and peeled, to the bottom of your casserole dish.
   
4. Place lamb on the garlic bed and pour over a bottle of white wine.
   
5. Put the lid on, place the whole lot in the oven (140 Deg C) for 7 hours.
   
6. Turn the lamb twice during cooking (I only did this once and it was fine).
   
   

It's amazing how much juice comes out of the meat, this all mixes with the wine and garlic and then cooks down slowly. I removed the meat and reduced further after cooking and then blitzed up to make a gravy.

Never cooked lamb. This sounds like a good start though. What part of the lamb should I get?

almost anything but fillet/loin/chops. cheaper cuts work best. leg, shoulder. shank is a very accessible and worthy one for this and a good starter for someone new to lamb. no prep and not much fat. buy it. brown it in butter/oil. then do the above. if you want, just use the same pot. fry the meat off in the pot. take it out. make stock in the same pot. off you go. fall off the bone shit. if you're gonna do cloves you could also add a cinnamon stick for extra tones.

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No, you're a The internet.

My food news this evening. These:

http://www.llamasnacks.com/

Are disgusting. Was expecting something akin to fiery Wheat Crunchie (I LOVE Wheat Crunchies) but they're tiny, bland, dry and taste of nothing but sugar. Truly revolting. Bin. *Disappoint.

In other news, the bacon and chicken I got from here at the weekend:

http://www.thebutcheryltd.com/

Was fantastic. Recommended. Finished off the soup I made from the stock last night.

And finally:

Mushrooms on toast with a fried egg on top for tea. May posh it up for evening consumption with garlic and thyme* in with mushrooms. One of my favorite things ever.

Excellent dinner choice. Though I would definitely poach my egg. Nom Nom.

Who has ideas for what I can marinate my skirt steak in this evening?

Chimichurri if you have the ingredients

http://www.food.com/recipe/chimichurri-21151

Yessir. Doo eet.

Forgot to get steak out of freezer. Stayed late at work = Fish finger sandwich. I are sad.

Doing tapas type thing for friend on friday with a few tried and tested dishes. Feel I should use a proper recipe for the Romesco though. anyone good a good one or any tips?

So on the advice of this thread, I went to Silk Road in Camberwell last night. It were gooooooooood. Finishing the leftovers this morning.

Thank you forum.

Sworld is a wand... I<3 bacon double whoppers... McD, not so much...

i fucking double love whoppers. i pick out the lettuce though and put it on the side like a small salad there.

Heavy Mayo... Always!!!