Food

Oh France

Nanban @ market house?

Does anyone want to buy a bread maker? Top of the range Panasonic, sd-zbd2502. Makes jam as well.

Nothing wrong with it, but I just don't use it.

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Sadly I don't have the space.
My parents have one of those, and really rate it. Should make someone very happy.

I have the same model, it's awesome (when i use it)

@mashton yarp.

also: people drinking cocktails out of fucking jam jars do one as well.

Had Seared calves liver with brisket hash, Lancashire summer cabbage and madeira & shallot sauce at Joseph Benjamin's in Chester today.

Absolutely lovely, if you are ever near there then go.

Made a Dahl using my Greatgrandmothers recipe, still can't make it quite like my Dad or Grandmother, but I'm getting there. Then pork chops covered in a homemade spice mix. Banging. And there's enough Dahl left for the rest of the week's lunches for work.

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Dahl recipe?

make a pan/jug of vegtable stock
sweat down a couple of onions and lots of garlic in butter
add 2 teaspoons of hot curry powder - cook for 5 mins
add a mug of lentils - cook for 5 mins
pour in stock to cover - cover with lid and leave to simmer, until prefered consistency is reached and lentils are soft and fluffy (add more stock/water if neccesary)
season to taste (salt usually not needed due to stock)

thats it, pretty simple really, should keep in the fridge for a few days, if made thick you can spread it when cold. leftover Dahl sandwiches are a family favourite.

All my treatment has noticeably taken it's toll, and over the course of the weekend I've been forced to admit that I have almost no sense of taste left. For the moment I can still eat solid foods, but anything I swallow is beginning to feel like a mouthful of drawing pins going down.
Sooner or later I'll be on liquids only, then nil by mouth. I'll spare you the details of my delightful gastric tube.
If the radiotherapy goes to plan, the dieticians recon I can expect to be back on solid foods at the end of the year, so I'm already daydreaming about the perfect Christmas dinner.
For the moment, the culinary highlight of my weekend was a McDonalds chocolate milkshake!

Shit BS that sucks balls.

Here's hoping it all goes well and you are back enjoying food and life as soon as possible.

Rooting for you.

Pretty much what mashton said. Focus on when that MaccyD shake will be your culinary low-light.

You probably already know this, but fry the veges separately, leave them slightly under-done. add back to the pan when you've done the tomatoes, and it turns out much sweeter and tastier.
edit. Re. post about Ratatouille, havent worked out the quoting yet.

Just got back from a few days in Sardinia, and eating played a pretty big part in what we did there.

There are some weird local specialities - luckily being vegetarian meant I swerved trying cordula, which is lamb's bowels and intestines tied up into a sausage shape:

Some great dishes with fregola (toasted bits of pasta), amazing cheeses, vegetables, very good pizza, ice cream, faine' (chickpea flour pizza), €2.50 foccacias, the most amazing olive oil...why did I bother coming back?

add back to the pan when you've done the tomatoes, and it turns out much sweeter and tastier.

nice shout with the tomatoes, will try next batch!

Just trying out a new sourdough method, with a 12 hour bulk fermentation. Seems to be working out ok!

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Going to York, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay this weekend, and food recco's? Nothing fancy

Not much in Robin Hood's Bay itself apart from a chippy hidden up an alleyway and the Hotel. Chippy's not bad and the hotel is standard pub food.

In Whitby, go for anything not on the main prom/quayside road and you should be fine.

any recommendations for not too expensive meal with the old man and dear tomorrow evening near liverpool st/the city? nothing too edgy - maybe a bistro-y type affair? cheers in advance...

Stirling effort there!

Going to York, Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay this weekend, and food recco's? Nothing fancy

Also in Whitby this weekend on Saturday.

Whitby, Magpie Cafe, Get thee self there...

The Fisherman's Wife on Khyber Pass was the best food we had when we were there.

The museum is also worth a look. It charges but there's some cool stuff there. Oddly, you don't have to pay if you're just going to the cafe but you have to walk through the exhibits to get to it. The guy at the desk just tells you not to look at anything.

There are also some cool antique/second hand shops in the back streets.

Magpie was rammed at the time so we didn't get to try it, this could be better than my suggestion.