Food

I just ate a rotten cherry :(

I've just found a plum tree that must have about 200 plums on it.
They're cherry plums, and should be ripe in a week or two.
I'll be guarding that patch jealously.
Plum wine, I think, followed by plum cake and plum duff for christmas.

Sold. Did you use any particular type of brown rice?

No- just Tesco's Organic-
It takes ages- about 2ce as long as risotto rice.
Also veg stock essential.
chuck some onions in to add a bit of freshness at mid point.

love the step by step guides.

You guys are sweet, and I'll try to keep up standards...
I hope that at least what I post inspires others. I find it easier to mimic a simple receipe than try to work out the perfect consistency of a bechamel veloute whatever.
Food should be good, quite simple, and above all fun. The pictures just make it immediately understandable.
(i've started to hate image uploading, but hope I've sorted it now.)

I copied CYOA's koftas the other day, and they were good. But I went very easy on the coriander. Very.

Pls upload a pic of the zucchini flowers. Never had them.

I made pea, yellow zucchini and mint brown rice risotto today.
Tomorrow, stuffed zucchini flowers with ricotta.
Our veg patch is awesome.

36x 18, your food is awesome. (if there were no prawns- it would be ideal- but I'd probably die if i ate that)
love the step by step guides.

Do you tempura batter your zucchini flowers? I can't move for the buggers at the mo so I'm thinking of giving them a go.

tempura zucchini flowers FTW

grupetto club BBQ this weekend - Lemon and blueberry cupcakes in club colours baked by Mrs BMMF

Pls upload a pic of the zucchini flowers. Never had them.

Didn't have a Camera! they were nice tho....

Do you tempura batter your zucchini flowers? I can't move for the buggers at the mo so I'm thinking of giving them a go.

No batter on these, but they are about a thousand times better if you do- don't stuff 'em tho.

I absolutely cannot follow recipes. I find it really hard to measure anything, and so just go by guesswork and taste, it usually works out pretty good.
but sometimes catastrophically fails, like my attempt at souffles a while ago to impress the then new gf.
classic fail.

just been given a bag of morello cherries.... had some the other day cooked with kirsh syrup (plus mini chocolate bonuts and balsamic ice cream) which were incredible, so might try that with some. any ideas what to do with the rest of them?

also have a huge glut of courgettes and summer squash. still have chutney left over from last year...

Do you tempura batter your zucchini flowers? I can't move for the buggers at the mo so I'm thinking of giving them a go.

Yes! Do it! I put pics n' recipe here

Yes! Do it! I put pics n' recipe here

that looks amazing. i'm going to cook some tonight. i love idea of the the sage leaves. mmmmmmm......

Yes! Do it! I put pics n' recipe here

I LOVE tempura, thanks for this, been wanting to try doing my own for ages

Yes! Do it! I put pics n' recipe here

I'm doing that tonight! It looks truly awesome. That'll be my Tour de France snack. Thanks Olly!

tempura zucchini flowers FTW

whoah whoah whoa hang on a zuccini flower pickin' minute... you don't like courgettes. you hate them in fact. but you like their flowers. you like them battered and deep fried. i'm confused. what are you a gay scotsman?

battered and deep fried.

its not that fucking complicated, is it D?

:)

They're called courgettes FFS.

its not that fucking complicated, is it D?

:)

http://www.thisiswhyyourefat.com/

They are not called courgettes. Courgette is a french word. Are you fucking French? No? Then STFU.

Same goes for punks who refer to eggplants as aubergine. Same kind of people who say "Paree" instead of Paris. Twats.

They are called zucchinis.. .which may, on the face of it, appear to be an italian word, but it was in fact invented by an English person.

here's one to fuck with the pie vs crumblers. pake. a pie inside a cake.

^ rant fail.

:(

Sponge = fail.

right. llllllunch!

me too... tomato soup and toast.

ghetto lunch FTW.

They are not called courgettes. Courgette is a french word. Are you fucking French? No? Then STFU.

Same goes for punks who refer to eggplants as aubergine. Same kind of people who say "Paree" instead of Paris. Twats.

They are called zucchinis.. .which may, on the face of it, appear to be an italian word, but it was in fact invented by an English person.

In all probability, this occurred in the very late 19th century, probably near Milan; early varieties usually included the names of nearby cities in their names. The alternate name courgette is from the French word for the vegetable, with the same spelling, and is commonly used in France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It is a diminutive of courge, French for squash. "Zucca" is the Italian word for squash and "zucchina" is its diminutive, becoming "zucchine" in the plural. However, "zucchino", the masculine form, becoming "zucchini" in the plural, is just as commonly used and is prevalent in Tuscany. Italian dictionaries such as "lo Zingarelli 1995, Zanichelli editor", give both forms. "Zucchini" is used in Italy , and in Australia, Canada and the United States. 'Zucchini' is plural in Italian whereas in English it is singular. The first records of zucchini in the United States date to the early 1920s. It was almost certainly brought over by Italian immigrants and probably was first cultivated in the United States in California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini#History_and_etymology

Great, we can blame the immigrants and the Yanks for this one!
Wikipedia doesn't lie.

The English invented Italy.