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Does the slow cooker have a metal pan, does it stop cooking and keep warm till the food is used?

It's not even a new year thing. Xmas day I had 1 glass of wine.

U mad?

I am disappoint

Mrs IP pops to Florence for work and I ask her to grab a wedge of Parmesan. "The man in the shop said it was Parmesan". Hmmmmm

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Betterererer than parmesan :)

when do those fantastic mangoes come into season that you can get at ridley road/brixton etc markets?

Might try a French rack of lambs water-bath-in-oven style sous-vide next week.

gonna make moqueca in a couple of weekends time, been promising myself to make it for ages.
Then am going to do a bit of experimenting, making some sort of vaguely healthy prawn noodle salad thing that I can make in bulk and take to work for a snack before the ride home...

prawn noodle salad

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/06/pair-vietnamese-noodles-italian-flavors-seafood-pasta-salad.html

thanks for that... will look into it

The Smart money is on the cheap, local, good cheese. In Florence that's likely a Peccorino of some kind I think. Parmesan is obviously a Parma thing and that isn't it although I'm sure it's lovely.

Buy whole (small) cheeses if you're flying. Like 1-2kg. Although parmesan is fine at any temp really keeping it in an air tight wrap is not good (that goes for any cheese if it's going travelling). A whole parmesan is 40kg and you need tools n skills to crack (not cut) it :-) A small Peccorino you can carry, keep good and cut.

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Looks great.

Fruit toast + blue cheese = winning at breakfast

Plus a nice stout (seriously).

Perhaps not every morning...

Plus a nice stout

Actually sounds good right now. Am I 16 again?

Speaking of Parmesan, does anyone want a big wedge of it? I got it as a gift but I'm vegetarian. It's only from Aldi or something, but it's from their special gift range so it is authentic Parmigiano Reggiano.

Vegetarians don't eat cheese now?

EDIT: I didn't know about parmesan and animal-rennet. I take that back.

Couldn't cope without any cheese.

I'm happy to trade the Parmesan for a vegetarian cheese or other edible vegetarian fare.

I'll take it and I can bring that rapha top with me?

You're welcome to take it but I can't pay for the Rapha top at the minute, time tough!

That's fine - you can take it and just pay me whenevs. when I move into the area I may need to borrow tools etc ;)

Sounds like a deal.

I'll be home till the football

I'm liking this food thread. Some great ideas are coming up.

http://www.famigliachiari.it/Prodotti/Parmigiano.htm

Apparently it's something equally delicious and regarded. Although I never heard of it (despite being born and raised 100km from where it seems to be produced), it seems a quite bespoke version of Parmigiano.

How does it taste? Do you want to trade a wedge of it for an equivalent one of 30month cured Parmigiano?

Also, how much did your mrs pay for it? I'm assuming around 30/40 euro/kg

Driving back to Leeds today and the R4 Food Program came on.

Nice episode about how the food and drink culture is getting on here and how the community came together after the recent floods.

Food Program

Is turtle meat of fish?