Food

snowy owl.

that or panda ?

To make a chilli sauce, or add to food or to infuse.

Or Puffin.

Oh and have had candied chestnuts.....they are rather morish...

@RichG Paneer tikka? Some sort of spiced aubergine or roasted with tahini dressing?

Ta Caz aubergine with tahini it is...and puffin

apple and blackberry crumble with custard
I love this time of year.

Ah nice troll there al....I see what you are doing igniting the custard, cream, tiptop, whipped cream or ice cream debate....

Are you at my house? Just finished a bowl. Lovely.

My veggie mother in law was once reduced to eating puffin pizza whilst on a fishing boat transfer from The Hebrides to Iceland. It was the only catering option.

puffizza? it's the future.

Who has a nutribullet?

If so, are they worth it? Or are they part of the whole protein-avocado-chai-quinoa superfood wankery hype that you hear all these melts in the media / gyms / people who read the metro banging on about all the time (sorry massive stereotype)?

I'm contemplating investing as the prices are coming down a fair bit. I make smoothies every day with my hand / stick blender thing but don't have a proper food processor for more abrasive stuff. I don't necessarily need a full on food processor as I mostly want something for oats, seeds, nuts, hard fruits etc so that I can make energy bars / flapjacks etc, and broaden my smoothie horizons...

We have a Nutri Ninja, doesn't get used as much as we thought it would but we are in house limbo. It's very very loud and demolishes ice with ease. Never tried nuts in it, I have a little spice grinder thing that fits on the Kenwood for powdering oats if I'm adding them to a smoothie.
Kale still makes me gag, if anyone has a secret to making it palatable please share.

Kale: steam. Shake dry. Fry in oil that has been infused with chilli and garlic. Season.

Smash.

Wash and drain your kale, take the stalks off (save for another time)... Slice some onions, chilli, ginger and garlic and soften in a large pan, add the kale and a good dollop of soy sauce... Low heat, cover, cook for 10mins... Delicious...

Kale: Fry in butter.

Smash.

Whilst we're on the subject of kale... WTF is with this massaged kale I keep seeing everywhere? Are people seriously massaging their vegetables now or is this some new type of super-kale that somehow makes you even more pretentious and healthy? Please tell me it's not the former.

I suspect it might be both :(

kale? it's fucking seaweed that's somehow made it onto land. it needs to get in the sea. again.

Ha, I meant in a smoothie, raw-with-no-trivia.

Ottolenghi does a mean kale recipe too, fried in toasted sesame oil with kecap manis and crispy shallots.

Why do supermarkets always sell kale chopped up, pisses me off picking out the stalky bits.

I think I actually prefer seaweed to kale, wakame salad and loads of edamame... Mmmm

Vegetable drinks that aren't a spicy bloody Mary ≥>>>>>>>>>>>

Umami tastic

In the end i went with this
http://www.ottolenghi.co.uk/crushed-puy-lentils-with-tahini-and-cumin-shop

with roasted Aubergine as well, the tahni sauce/ dressing thing is well nice, recommended.