Food

Great write up, cheers! I'd like to read about more things you built.

WTF re that graze/cut - did it buff out?

Yeah it buffed right out. The manky black scab fell off after a week, taking about a millimetre of rotten flesh with it. It didn't hurt at all at any stage, so I can only assume the lime killed any nerves in the area stone dead. THUMBS UP EMOJI!

Any tips for a Shan mix that is mild? https://www.shanfoods.com/products/recipe-mixes/

Keeping up with the tradition of our anniversary, I cooked a 5 course seafood meal for my gf and I.

• Seared scallops with sage and gorgonzola sauce, asparagus tips and pecans
  
• Sesame seeds seared tuna over peas and ginger puree, topped with caramelized orange zest
  
• Homemade red cabbage tagliolini with halibut ragout
  
• Salmon and rocket pesto tart with soy sauce crispy black kale on top, pickled red cabbage as a side
  
• Panna cotta with red berries and strawberry coulis
  
  

Notes. The tart was delicious, but sub-par with the rest. The tagliolini were supposed to come out more purple. The panna cotta was supposed to be with amaretti and caramelized figs, before realizing I actually didn't have them in the cupboard as I thought.

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Rotten-flesh seasoned pizza ftw!

Scallops with Gorgonzola?

I really can’t see it working but everything looks great.

there's no combination of fish and cheese that works. don't @ me etc.

I was a gamble and it actually works.

I generally agree with @greenhell (for once), but this time I pulled it off (it was just a tbsp of sweet gorgonzola with a tbsp of butter, so a very subtle blue cheese taste)

No square plates....then go and make a square tart!

Not sure how salmon/pesto & pastry goes with Soy and Kale shrug emoji

Pesto was made with walnuts and yogurt rather than the classic pesto with Parmesan and pine nuts. It was good, just subpar with the rest..

This cracked me up!

Best chicken broth ever tonight... I poached some chicken breasts for my OH last night, saved the stock... Bought twelve thighs today at the tramp's buffet, skin and bones into a pan and fried them hard then added peppercorns, rock salt, a head of garlic, an onion and two carrots... Fried off then added the frozen breast stock... Strained off the schmaltz and used the stock in a laksa, fucking incredible flavour...

All the thigh meat got marinaded in chilli sauce I made yesterday then fried off, cooled and marinaded in more chilli sauce... It's amazing...

I haven't made any music lately, it's just food, food, food... 🐷

I'm with u mostly on this apart from tuna melt sarni..think I've said this before. Also the other day I had fish cake and cheese thing at a Japanese restaurant was like a rice cake with fish and cheese in the middle it was great!

ooooooh yes

Does smoked salmon and cream cheese count?

PS Great job, very impressive...

yeah forgot that smoked salmon cream cheeeeeeese bagel 100%

you're all wrong.

Tuna melt is a classic...

You melt...

Bland fish with (normally) bland cheese. Not much to go wrong.

schmaltz

Talk to me. What are you doing with it?

Restaurant suggestion question....

Got 7 clients to cater for next Wednesday (total table size 11...). 4 from Japan (so no sushi) and one Muslim (can't be a 100% pork menu obvs).

Looking for somewhere in between Regents Park and Centre Point (fitzrovia ish) for around £50 a head all in.

Any thoughts?

Hakkasan? Not sure if it’s £50 a head though.