Food

Oof that's a lot of sausage

That's what she etc.

That's what they etc.

ftfy and reported for gender bias

Fair cop, sugarnips.

You massive sexualist

Has the pickle-pickle PIN number, DAT tape pedantry outrage died down yet?

Having a bit of a moment. Deep fried some strips of chicken breast in a dredge of egg/flour/salt/shawarma mix (fairly old that I pre-made but wasn't sure what to do with - black pepper/cinnamon/Aleppo pepper/coriander/cumin/little turmeric), popped them in a toasted bun lined with mayo and some crisp iceberg.

Also made some chips and triple deep fried those.

And I cooked some corn and shallow fried that (after it had cooked, I'm not a monster) in butter.

I can feel some kind of heart failure coming on but 100% worth it.

I've got quite a lot of tomatoes including lots of green tiger tomatoes and wanted to make chutney. But I'm after a low / no sugar one so mini-H can eat it as well.

This recipes uses erythritol sweetener, which I've never heard of.
https://lodough.co/blogs/recipes/low-sugar-tomato-chilly-chutney

Any thoughts? Or other good recipes?

Recommendations for a new food processor, budget about £150?

My wife is looking at this one as we have their blender, which is good, and there is cross-compatibility

https://ninjafoodprep.co.uk/?promoproduct=04&gclid=CjwKCAjw8MD7BRArEiwAGZsrBUdXTs710zS7T7P-B7-O8UcynN34r3U7sAVKbzKayuPpNJ3z3EkmIxoCu_cQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#BN800UK

Solid effort.

gastronaughts, what are your tips for freezing food? in light of a hard brexit and covid-19 what is good to have in the freezer?

Bread dough, this can be formed into balls and frozen I'm sure. Same with home made biscuit dough.

Cheddar cheese can be frozen.

Bottle of vodka.

Soups, chilli's, curries all bagged, labeled (this is key) and frozen away.

What else?

dead bodies?
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live bodies?

Hops

meera sodha

We're really enjoying "Fresh India" at the moment.

And we've also opened up the brinjal pickle for use, after a few months of maturing. And it is banging.

Moving to a different continent - Does anyone have any recommendations for a Mexican recipe book?

It's taco night tonight, and I'd like to change it up a bit. We have a rolled shoulder of pork.

We have the Mexico book from the Phaidon series and it’s great. Not a lot of pictures and we usually end up combining a couple of recipes to make a proper dish, so it takes some reading and imagining.

We also have Nopalito, which is a bit more polished but very meat heavy.

Got gifted the Vegetarian Silver Spoon and it seems to live up to its promise. Lots of good recipes both traditional and a bit more forward thinking with ingredients like tofu, we made great chickpea filled ravioli yesterday. Although it’s eggplant heavy to the point I wondered if Ottolenghi did some ghostwriting.

Carnitas will be your best option given this short notice. Loads of options on line

If you have more time and all teh chilies I can highly recommend this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tacolicious-Festive-Recipes-Snacks-Cocktails/dp/1607745623/ref=sr_1_1?crid=36JKS9EO6G7AQ&dchild=1&keywords=tacolicious&qid=1601715669&sprefix=tacoli%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1

I bought a little tamagoyaki pan today at a wonderful little Japanese supermarket I found in Brisbane... Came out really well for a first attempt (from YouTube memory, no less!), really, really tasty...

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Those pans are great get hot so quick and hold the heat!!!
good work on the egg rolls.

The pan cost me less than six bux!! So good, got some big chef's chopsticks as well as some other crazy random stuff... Asian supermarkets are the absolute best! 🙃

PS I'm in the market for a food processor, I so often make do without one but I found myself really needing one today so gonna bite the bullet and get something... Don't think I wanna spend big money, we've already got a dedicated jug blender, a juicer and a Bamix stick blender... Cuisinart Custom 14 is exactly what I'm looking for but not available over here...

Any ideas? I've found a Brabantia branded thing which is pretty cheap at full price but it's on sale as well, it's got a spice grinder attachment which I'll find very useful, I'll probably recycle/bin the blender jug... Powerful motor, looks okay, what's the catch? Anyone used or seen one before?

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those look amazing - desperately need that in me now.

I have an at least 30 year old Magimix Cuisine Systeme 4000, has only needed a new bowl and lid because the original one split after 20 years. In my experience the cheaper ones are a faff to use, hard to clean, interfaces don't mesh properly, susceptible to jamming.

After watching Christina tosi on the chef show, cream butter and sugar for ten minutes so she can make cookies. I’m also on the look out for a food processor/mixer.
Which ones should we be looking out for, preferably bomb proof and will stand the test of time?
Don’t have a budget but want something reliable without getting into silly money..