Food

we should take this conversation to the food thread.

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.

I went, told my sister and she told me off for not texting her first so she could tell me what to get!

Multiple sources have recommended the middle plate chicken. What we did have was delish anyway.

If you ever come to Adelaide, this place is is the bomb:

http://thethousands.com.au/adelaide/eat-drink/tangritah-uyghur-shishkebab-restaurant

Look in the kitchen and they're all dressed up like it's somewhere in the middle of northern china in a yurt. Absolutely amazing.

I can confirm that the middle plate chicken is good. It's also huge, filled up both of us and got taken home.

And those noodles. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM burrrrrp

I like the Chinese hand-pulled noodles available in the covered market in Greenwich on Fridays. Mesmerizing to watch that guy make the noodles. I want to have a go at making those some day (as if).

Burger fans:

Epic but pricey

http://youngandfoodish.com/event/londonburgerbash-2/

http://youngandfoodish.com/london/top-10-burgers-in-london/

6/10 have eaten

maybe some more ideas for the burger ride

Went in on the breakfast bix this morning.

Idea for the burger ride. Start at dirty burger, ride to the Southampton Arms, drink there, ride to dirty burger have burger, ride to southampton arms, drink beer, then eat pulled pork bap with apple sauce, drink beer, ride to dirty burger.

Repeat until sick

can recommend the Korean on Battersea rise, nice food, friendly staff also there is vietnamese cafe comming to the Elephant doing pho and baguettes, yes!

Just had Aroogah's chilli, slaw, skillet cornbread and a coupla beers. Burp!
I disn't have the kosher chilli powders so I used a mixture of sweet paprika, smoked spanish paprika and dried chilli. Also for trolling purposes I chucked in a handful of pre-soaked black turtle beans.

Ended a wet ride with the beef, onion and melted cheese soft roll from the cart in Greenwich market, £6, absolutely beautiful

Had the devilled Pork roll with apple and quince with a bit of crackling from What the Dickens! on Friday at KX. It was so nice, the pork was almost as good as Ribman but the sauce was much better for me. Not too spicy, the apple and quince was a bit sweet but not too sweet, and the crunch of the crackling added a whole new texture. The roll was great too, that slightly chewy bread with stretch to it, and a crusty surface on the top half.

I was disappointed that they didn't have the cured bacon and scallop roll as I was really looking forward to that but this devilled pork more than made up for it. The guy I was chatting to was saying that it takes them 5 weeks to home cure the bacon and there's never a huge take up so they don't do it very often, a shame as it sounds much better than the pork.

Strong work Olly. Strong work.

Beans are always a contentious choice for chili eaters - the bean/no beans debate is too personal but in Texas the history is no beans. But thank you for not serving it with rice. :)

Cheers, loved it. Will cornbread reheat okay - maybe in a low oven?

Nice work man. I'm thinking chilli would be a good call this week.

Got leftover rissotto for lunch today. Cannae wait. Asparagus and pea with peccorino and mozzarella (just ripped up chunks of the latter stirred in at the end). Creamy comforting and fresh all at the same time. Thinking it might have been sent into the realms of amazing with the addition of a little fresh mint.

90 minutes till can head to the work kitchen microwave.

89.

Cheers, loved it. Will cornbread reheat okay - maybe in a low oven?

Low oven and wrap in some tin foil to keep the moisture in place. A few drops of water can help if it's a touch dry.

Anyone want one of these for £15? I got access to three.
New Larousse Gastronomique: Amazon.co.uk: Hamlyn: Books

Pickup from Southwark.

I have given up bacon.

As I ride 20 miles a day and come home knackered, I need a quick way to make pasta interesting. Carbonara, and other bacon related sauces are out.

Last night: grated a corgette into long thin strips, fried very quickly in garlic, mixed with linguine; nice. Tonight: chooped chargrilled red peppers, rosemary, avocado, with penne. Nice. Anyone else got any very quick, tasty veggie pasta dishes? The aim is to take no more time to cook than the 10 minutes it takes the pasta to boil. Any longer than this I panic and start shouting and dropping things.

You can make a basic tomato sauce in that time. Smash a garlic clove with the flat of a knife and finely dice half an onion. Brown them and then chuck in a few tomatoes roughly chopped with some balsamic and maybe a glass of leftover red wine and handful of herbs and boil like mad while your pasta is on the go.

I sometime roast a load of veg at the start of the week and then just whack it in with pasta when I want.

Loads of pasta is bad for you by the way and will make you feel like shit if you eat it every night. Substitute it for something filling but less processed every now and again. Tin of canellini beans or some chickpeas etc.

@william1984. You need puttanesca, commonly held to have been the choice dish of Neapolitan whores, by whom it could be quickly prepared in between, er, commissions. Decent looking recipe. No sub for the anchovies if you don't do fish...

Also, I learned something I did not know from that link (if t'internet is to be believed)

A note about the olives. Use the best you can find. Don’t use pitted black olives as properly matured olives are too soft to have their stones removed mechanically, so they will almost certainly be green olives which have been dyed with ferrous glucomate (E151, a synthetic coal tar).

Home made pesto, if you have a blender, so quick and tastes much better than jar stuff

Pasta Piselli... I use bacon but you can make it without and it's still delicious... Peas, onion, chilli, garlic, parmesan... What's not to like?

You can be eating in 15mins, start to finish... Lotsa recipes online... Better with bacon tho', even if it's just a single rasher...

Made the best minestrone ever tonight, I think the fennel was the killer ingredient... Boom! type flavours... #nom

Add grated parmesan and a raw egg yolk to cooked pasta for insta-carbonara. Lemon juice herbs pesto salt pepper etc to taste