Food

also a request for the beef shin macaroni recipe!

It’s a hawksmoor thing.
https://www.ft.com/content/fbb93a62-9ac1-11e1-94d7-00144feabdc0

ft link is paywalled but this one is open

https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/meat-and-poultry/beef-shin-macaroni/

but yeah from hawksmoor at home recipe book, they only serve it on their tasting menu in the restaurant.

Breakfast ramen with bacon dashi for the last day of Christmas break

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Full english ramen?

Having the incredibly original NY thought that it's time to start eating healthier. After three months of being largely housebound with a new baby and reverting to hibernation mode, eating heavy food and drinking strong booze my body is crying out for healthy food and exercise.

Apart from anything else I appear to be about two stone overweight and am alarmed to find that I now get out of breath on the stairs. As someone with two young kids who has fairly quickly slipped from being relatively healthy to being overweight, over-drinking and back on the fags, I'd really like to halt the decline to avoid having a heart-attack by 45.

Wife is adamant that we flip from being inactive, permanently soused and eating bacon with everything to being full on gym bunny teetotal vegans overnight. My view is that this will lead to inevitable failure. Part of the problem of trying to turn around months of feast-induced lethargy at this time of year is that it's still dark and cold and the instinct to hunker down and treat yourself to comfort food is strong. I know, I know weight loss thread>>>>>>

Anyway, am trawling recipe books for relatively healthy nourishing and tasty winter food to shop for.

Looking forward to lots of soups, stews and other wintery goodies.

Exactly! and on your dieting, I would say portion control and cutting out calories with no nutritional value is the best place to start and as you say something sustainable is best. I've lost 24kg over the last year and a half, still occasionally lose the plot and eat a packet of biscuits but it's hardly ever nowadays.

Yeah we are trying to do the same, intitial goal is to eat more fish and veg, so have come up with the current rota, to start us down the path..
As you say is difficult when all you want to cook during winter is heavy stews. Think a way out of that is to introduce more grains and beans, and cut out the white foods.

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I decided to do the same after coming back from honeymoon at the start of the football season a bit overweight.

I decided to cut out two simple things I ate a lot of - bread and cheese - except after football training (or special occasions like weddings or nice restaurants). I have also given a bit more thought to what I've been eating in general and I feel a lot better for it. Even after Christmas I'm not near where I was before.

Didn't feel the need to go full-on vegan but I was vegetarian anyway so a lot of meals are vegan now. Making soups, especially with white miso paste, and things like bulgar wheat salads for lunches has helped.

Anyone ever tried chicken gizzards? I always gorge on gyūtan skewers when I eat at this one Japanese place but I see the gizzards on the menu and never know whether to take a chance on them. If they're just a little tough muscle are they a bit like heart meat?

Beans and pulses ftw. Filling yourself up for minimum calorific value is a good way to lose weight (I appreciate there’s more to it than that).

and cut out the white foods
Best avoid this thread. It's full of white food.

Got to, I’m on the way to diabetes, so cutting down/out pasta/potatoes/white bread/sugar has to be done.

So going to be making some fresh egg pasta, with a mixture of wholewheat and 00 flour, and eating all the brown breads..

One year ago I had similar feels - I am younger and sans children but had still piled on the Christmas goodness.

Lost 16kg this year through exercise and controlling my eating (volume mostly). Everyone is different but the weight loss thread does offer lots of good advice.

Fuckinell that’s impressive. Well done you.

I've had them as part of a Szechuan hotpot and didn't find them that enticing- not untasty, but as you guessed kind of tough.

can't get on with Szechuan noise. Tastes like washing up liquid and leaves you feeling like you've just stepped out of a dentist chair. blech.

I've got a table booked tonight for my birthday so I'll see how I feel when I'm sitting down. The beef tongue is naturally a little tough too but extremely tasty; I always have to stop myself over-ordering that and filling up before I can even have any fish. I notice they also have chicken skin skewers too which sound delicious.

Can anyone help me out by smoking some water for me? Or lend me the required kit?

Anyone used this?
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Halen-Mon-Oak-Smoked-Water/278633011

I’ve primed two bottles so it’ll be here tomorrow!

ive had them in yakitori places bit chewy and have that slight crunch when eating the leftover bits like hearts, i liked them

Not used that but have used liquid smoke. Advice would be to add it slowly, can be very strong

Yeah sounds sensible, only issue being I’m making marmalade so not sure how I’d do this practically...?

dont make an absolutely massive batch first?