Well her angle seems to be 'comfort food', basically warming and tasty stuff without too many fancy ingredients. I'm sure she'd be impressed with the pics of your food as it seems quite 'hearty' (although it does look as if you've dished it out onto the plate from a distance of about 10 metres).
no way, all her stuff has daft ingredients.
it it was proper comfort food, she'd suggest going down the chippy. or cook a fish finger sarnie. :-P
she goes on about having a vanilla pod lying around or using the last bit of fennel.
no one lives like that, we only buy that stuff to try out a recipe. thats why we all have rotten remnants fo ginger at the bottom of our fridge or an out of date bottle white wine vinegar cluttering our cupboards, while our freezers are packed with chips and pizzas.
dont get me wrong i'd love to eat fancy food every night, but i dont have the money or the time. not so much cooking the food, but the ammount of washing up a recipe like hers accumulates.
no way, all her stuff has daft ingredients.
It it was proper comfort food, she'd suggest going down the chippy. or cook a fish finger sarnie. :-P
She goes on about having a vanilla pod lying around or using the last bit of fennel.
No one lives like that, we only buy that stuff to try out a recipe.
That's the worst thing about her show. It's always using a little bit of something that costs a fortune and keeps for about two days.
I do have a pretty full shelf of dried spice pots, but nothing fresh as you just don't use it.
I bet she doesn't do the washing up herself, either.
it it was proper comfort food, she'd suggest going down the chippy. or cook a fish finger sarnie. :-P
..I'm sure I've seen her cook fish fingers (posh ones) but then again I probably imagined it. TBH when her show's been on I haven't really paid much attention to the food she was cooking, just the dirty looks and the jiggling.
I don't mind giving proper cooking a go if it's not too complicated, and you can buy all the ingredients from, say Asda. It's when they say 'you can buy these from your local oriental supermarket' that I normally switch off. I was going to try cooking a thai curry once but you need about 15 ingredients, it's probably easier just to go to a takeaway. I think someone may have posted a thai curry on this thread but it's too long to wade through now...
I don't mind giving proper cooking a go if it's not too complicated, and you can buy all the ingredients from, say Asda. It's when they say 'you can buy these from your local oriental supermarket' that I normally switch off. I was going to try cooking a thai curry once but you need about 15 ingredients, it's probably easier just to go to a takeaway. I think someone may have posted a thai curry on this thread but it's too long to wade through now...
yeah those sorts of ingrediants are good if you live in london, but not sure you can buy ground nutmeg in a spar.
exactly ;) "not sure" you said already you don't shop :)
sure you can buy ground nutmeg at a local spar.. it's one of them "opps better nip to the shop items"
as for nigella.. money marries money .. the both of them are from "Money" families
as much as branson's adverts said he started out in a phonebox on portabello road ? sure he did.. BUT his rather rich dad was guarantor on his loans.. odd how that part wasn't mentioned
exactly ;) "not sure" you said already you don't shop :)
sure you can buy ground nutmeg at a local spar.. it's one of them "opps better nip to the shop items"
as for nigella.. money marries money .. the both of them are from "Money" families
as much as branson's adverts said he started out in a phonebox on portabello road ? sure he did.. BUT his rather rich dad was guarantor on his loans.. odd how that part wasn't mentioned
i don't shop, but my gf has to shop from a list i give her and it can be hard for her to find the stuff i ask for.
That one can backfire, the person you say it too, could just turn round and say "Yes you are". Then what do you do? You're left with the choice of walking away or giving them a slap? :D
It was a Stromboli they're so messy that the unwritten rule is that you have to be wearing about 25% of it by the time you're done eating.
It's the sarnie equivalent of quaffing :D
it does look nice.
wish we had that sort fo takeway in the uk.
where i live now (york) is shit for takeaways. actually no, the chipy's are good, and so is the chinese.
mostly though they are just those crappy turkish run joints that try to do everything and fail at all of them.
can't get a proper indian takeway for love no money, they have proper sit down places though.
i haven't had a decent chicken kebab in years.
used to be a palce when i used to live that did awesome ones, they cost a bomb and took about 2 hours to arrive. mmm, proper marinated chicken, freshly cooked, pleanty of salad, all on a naan covered with sauce.
now all i can get is some dried out pieces of chicken and the crappy watery curry sauce.
The last time I had a chicken kebab was about 2 years ago, and I made it myself :(
The closest thing to an actual kebab I've had here was a gyro, it's basically a stingy portioned donner, it tastes good but they put that tziziki sauce on it, when I asked for chilli sauce instead they looked at me like I was mental. They thought I meant slosh an actual chilli on top of it. Then when I explained "Hot Sauce" they gave me a bottle of that crappy generic stuff, you know the runny stuff with the shake cap that's just red chillis that's been blitzed together with a bit of white vinegar.
It tasted alright but it wasn't a patch on those 4000 calorie mountains of sawdust ridden meat from a proper kebab shop or a chippy, at least one thing's for sure though here you know the gyro meat has a smaller chance of containing traces of the neighbours dog :D
Oh, a proper gyros is bloody lovely. Spicy chicken (though you can get heavily spiced pork too) with salad, chips and sauce, in a pitta. There used to be a Greek guy in Southampton did them but he sold his place to some Turks.
You can get them all over the Greek islands, and many of the caf?s do the 'gyros platter', where all the ingredients are separated on a big plate, with the pitta toasted and sliced for dipping. Favourite being 'The Greek Way' overlooking the bay in Paleokastritsa, Corfu, if anyone's ever been there.
They do some nice ones in the street caf? in the west of Corfu town, but the waiter's a sneaky bast who's always trying to upsell you a bowl of salad and plate of bruschetta by asking if you want 'a little salad' or 'a little bread' with it.
It tasted alright but it wasn't a patch on those 4000 calorie mountains of sawdust ridden meat from a proper kebab shop or a chippy, at least one thing's for sure though here you know the gyro meat has a smaller chance of containing traces of the neighbours dog :D
yeah i'd like to see morgan spurlock eat a donner kabab for every meal for a month. he'd be dead by tea time. :-P
They do some nice ones in the street caf? in the west of Corfu town, but the waiter's a sneaky bast who's always trying to upsell you a bowl of salad and plate of bruschetta by asking if you want 'a little salad' or 'a little bread' with it.
Haha, not sure if that would work at the local kebab shops down here at 2 in the morning..! Although normally when they ask "do you want salad?" I'm tempted to say "just scatter some around the pavement outside, save me some time".. :p
A couple of weeks ago I bought one from one of the vans they have down here, loads of them congregate in and around the centre at night (including "Jason's doner van"). Amazingly I didn't feel too bad the next day.
...The closest thing to an actual kebab I've had here was a gyro, it's basically a stingy portioned donner, it tastes good but they put that tziziki sauce on it, when I asked for chilli sauce instead they looked at me...
Hot sauce on a gyro?!?!?! Are you mental??? :p
Go to a proper Greek festival (if your state has one) and try real gyros, them's big, them is. And tzatziki sauce is wonderful and goes excellently with lamb, when it's good, it's good.
boozey char grill pie.. quality :)
nice one itsallgood .. but no kethup or brown sauce ? -1 point :)
if you are a bit remiss with your timings it's easily done.. I use my mobile phone alarm as a timer and it rarely happens :)
I bought to steak pies of that variety yesterday. ?1 for 2 in tesco.
not impressed with their own brand oven chips .. really should stick to mc cain ones.
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no way, all her stuff has daft ingredients.
it it was proper comfort food, she'd suggest going down the chippy. or cook a fish finger sarnie. :-P
she goes on about having a vanilla pod lying around or using the last bit of fennel.
no one lives like that, we only buy that stuff to try out a recipe. thats why we all have rotten remnants fo ginger at the bottom of our fridge or an out of date bottle white wine vinegar cluttering our cupboards, while our freezers are packed with chips and pizzas.
dont get me wrong i'd love to eat fancy food every night, but i dont have the money or the time. not so much cooking the food, but the ammount of washing up a recipe like hers accumulates.
I do have a pretty full shelf of dried spice pots, but nothing fresh as you just don't use it.
I bet she doesn't do the washing up herself, either.
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..I'm sure I've seen her cook fish fingers (posh ones) but then again I probably imagined it. TBH when her show's been on I haven't really paid much attention to the food she was cooking, just the dirty looks and the jiggling.
I don't mind giving proper cooking a go if it's not too complicated, and you can buy all the ingredients from, say Asda. It's when they say 'you can buy these from your local oriental supermarket' that I normally switch off. I was going to try cooking a thai curry once but you need about 15 ingredients, it's probably easier just to go to a takeaway. I think someone may have posted a thai curry on this thread but it's too long to wade through now...
yeah those sorts of ingrediants are good if you live in london, but not sure you can buy ground nutmeg in a spar.
sure you can buy ground nutmeg at a local spar.. it's one of them "opps better nip to the shop items"
as for nigella.. money marries money .. the both of them are from "Money" families
as much as branson's adverts said he started out in a phonebox on portabello road ? sure he did.. BUT his rather rich dad was guarantor on his loans.. odd how that part wasn't mentioned
Just munched my way through this bad boy, I got extra spicy so it feels like my face is melting now :D
i don't shop, but my gf has to shop from a list i give her and it can be hard for her to find the stuff i ask for.
That's because mushies taste like mud and smell like shit, to put it bluntly they are vile.
to be fair, that samich, looks like it shat itself.
It was a Stromboli they're so messy that the unwritten rule is that you have to be wearing about 25% of it by the time you're done eating.
It's the sarnie equivalent of quaffing :D
it's a fav saying when I'm dealing with companies who mess me about..
I say , I'm not a mushroom.. stop keeping me in the dark and telling me s*** (or the polite version :)
Znor , thats popcorn or tripe or scrambled eggs ?
wonder if they do sweet tripe.... morish :lol:
want!
Corn, popped.
Want me to PM/email/fax/FB you some?
:razz:
i have a similar one.
'im not a cunt, so stop trying to **** me.'
Oh yes, so it does.
That one can backfire, the person you say it too, could just turn round and say "Yes you are". Then what do you do? You're left with the choice of walking away or giving them a slap? :D
Oh I see what you did there, very nasty indeed I would never associate fanny farts with food :lol:
it does look nice.
wish we had that sort fo takeway in the uk.
where i live now (york) is shit for takeaways. actually no, the chipy's are good, and so is the chinese.
mostly though they are just those crappy turkish run joints that try to do everything and fail at all of them.
can't get a proper indian takeway for love no money, they have proper sit down places though.
i haven't had a decent chicken kebab in years.
used to be a palce when i used to live that did awesome ones, they cost a bomb and took about 2 hours to arrive. mmm, proper marinated chicken, freshly cooked, pleanty of salad, all on a naan covered with sauce.
now all i can get is some dried out pieces of chicken and the crappy watery curry sauce.
The closest thing to an actual kebab I've had here was a gyro, it's basically a stingy portioned donner, it tastes good but they put that tziziki sauce on it, when I asked for chilli sauce instead they looked at me like I was mental. They thought I meant slosh an actual chilli on top of it. Then when I explained "Hot Sauce" they gave me a bottle of that crappy generic stuff, you know the runny stuff with the shake cap that's just red chillis that's been blitzed together with a bit of white vinegar.
It tasted alright but it wasn't a patch on those 4000 calorie mountains of sawdust ridden meat from a proper kebab shop or a chippy, at least one thing's for sure though here you know the gyro meat has a smaller chance of containing traces of the neighbours dog :D
You can get them all over the Greek islands, and many of the caf?s do the 'gyros platter', where all the ingredients are separated on a big plate, with the pitta toasted and sliced for dipping. Favourite being 'The Greek Way' overlooking the bay in Paleokastritsa, Corfu, if anyone's ever been there.
They do some nice ones in the street caf? in the west of Corfu town, but the waiter's a sneaky bast who's always trying to upsell you a bowl of salad and plate of bruschetta by asking if you want 'a little salad' or 'a little bread' with it.
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
yeah i'd like to see morgan spurlock eat a donner kabab for every meal for a month. he'd be dead by tea time. :-P
Haha, not sure if that would work at the local kebab shops down here at 2 in the morning..! Although normally when they ask "do you want salad?" I'm tempted to say "just scatter some around the pavement outside, save me some time".. :p
A couple of weeks ago I bought one from one of the vans they have down here, loads of them congregate in and around the centre at night (including "Jason's doner van"). Amazingly I didn't feel too bad the next day.
Hot sauce on a gyro?!?!?! Are you mental??? :p
Go to a proper Greek festival (if your state has one) and try real gyros, them's big, them is. And tzatziki sauce is wonderful and goes excellently with lamb, when it's good, it's good.
Food of the gods :D
nice one itsallgood .. but no kethup or brown sauce ? -1 point :)
if you are a bit remiss with your timings it's easily done.. I use my mobile phone alarm as a timer and it rarely happens :)
I bought to steak pies of that variety yesterday. ?1 for 2 in tesco.
not impressed with their own brand oven chips .. really should stick to mc cain ones.