Food

Gonna look for these this weekend

masterchef. mediocre cooks making bad food badly to james bond in jeopardy music while three cunts pull faces in the background.

no one has the chops to be a 'head chef' at 21.

shit tv.

A honeycomb this week?

I'm in turkey so busying myself with a lead lined shelter..

switched over to supervetz when they started boning out and stuffing pigs trotters.

pretty much the same program.

Nailed it!

@giofox88
I have the hardback version of Thai Street Food, it's pretty full on in terms of authentic recipes and ingredients, OK if you're prepared to go the full hog with it. It's an interesting read though and I find myself occasionally leafing through it, I ate a Nahm a good few years ago - quite impressive.

• I have seen the paperback on sale (at around £12) at TK Maxx recently (in Milton Keynes), worth a look if you're passing by one I guess.
  

Heading to see family in Puglia, Italia at Christmas, where I can be reacquainted with these. Pure heaven, lunches can last four hours and exchanging gifts every day can last a week a tradition in these parts xx

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And they always do.

In store, although in Southhampton. They spread stock around though.

Edit: they do have some online, the Polpo book for £15 which is great and the Pitt cue one amongst others.

http://www.tkmaxx.com/living-room/polpo-cookbook/invt/64037438
http://www.tkmaxx.com/living-room/pitt-cue-co-the-cookbook/invt/64252003

You can freeze fresh galangal too, I have quite a few fresh ingredients that live in the freezer so I don't have to hit the shops for one thing. Curry leaves freeze well, lemon grass is ok, birds eye chillies ok but a bit mushy, coriander/parsley/basil ok-ish. Never as good as garden fresh but infinitely preferable to a cupboard dry alternative.

I've never had a sea urchin but will endeavour to taste soon, is that just an East Coast delicacy? I'm off to Florence for a weekend in December.

They're highly seasonal and easier to find in the south of Italy rather than north. I doubt you'll find them in Florence in December, and if you do, I wouldn't go for it.. Seafood doesn't really belong to Tuscany imho. Cured meats, Fiorentina steak, ribollita, cantucci and chianti do instead.. I'm off to Bologna, Florence and San Gimignano as well at the beginning of February, playing the tourists in my own homecountry.. It will be a culinary trip.

I will stock up some galangal when I find it (went to Angel Saintsbury last night, no galangal) and freeze it.

I've frozen parsley before.. Not going there again.

They have it online

I've had them in Japan. Quite a strong flavour to them I remember.

Bologna is my food heaven. Love that place.

Sea urchin (riccio di mare) was very cheap in the south pre-euro. My aunt lives near Taranto, going to the fish market was always a treat, everything we bought was caught that morning. In summer my aunt cooked outside. From Langoustine (scampo) to sea bass (spigola) to octopus (Pulpo) tutto gusti molto buono..

San Gimignano is stunning for food too. From truffles, wild boar, Tuscan beans, red wine, artichokes, swoon..........We did il campo style eating back in 2008 when all the farmers wives cooked for the hilltop town we stayed in Palaia. All in 12 euros each, eat 'till you drop. They only charged 6 euros for our girls.

Forgot to mention world class gelato..

Apulia (Puglia) is great for seafood, lemons, olives..

Wontons! From 'ere.... http://ladyandpups.com/2015/05/19/my-shanghais-cold-wontons-in-spicy-peanut-sauce/

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glad to see you making good use of the site..

wontons look amazing by the way

to this after 7hrs, slow and low that is the tempo
Pork butt

1/2 cup (27 grams) freshly grated Parmigiano cheese
The Parmigiano cheese in the filling may seem odd, but trust me, you won’t be able to identify it except for the MSG-equivalent profile that it bring.

wahhh? ai ya!

top effort though

Yeah not exactly authentic is it, I couldn't find pickled green Jalapeños either but found red ones?! Fuck it, in they went. The chinese chives smelled great too, I had to freeze the wontons though so haven't actually had a chance to taste. Boo

Just totally overcooked a steak. Very bad drills.