The Foodie thread

[Fugitive]

40 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

A fairly trivial foody thing, but whilst I'm off sick from work I've tasked myself with streamlining our kitchen utensils and gadgets. Over the years, from multiple homes and house-shares, etc, we've accumulated far too many useless or cheap things and multiple tools to do the same task. 

 

For example, a modest purchase of a good microplane grater has replaced half a dozen poorer quality items in the drawer, some decent wooden spoons have replaced all the shitty plastic ones. 

 

A simple but immensely satisfying task that means I enjoy cooking more. Next, ditching the fondue kit, and other gadgets that we've been bought over the years. 

 

Can anyone recommend a good non-stick, non-toxic frying pan? I've been looking at the GreenPan ones but have never used them.

 

Oh and I made my first sourdough loaf yesterday since the little one arrived two years ago - I finally have a slither of time for this stuff. Or I need to get back to work.

Looks like it’s just been dug up by this lot…

 

 

[Redder Lurtz]

Photos of curries seldom look good but here goes. 

 

A lamb & pea keema, and an egg molee (pronounced moo lee) on the side. So much flavour it's rude. Served with plain steamed basmati, a couple of poppadoms and some kronenburg. 

 

 

[Chip Butty]

 Not home made unfortunately, though on the theme of curry - today had a buffet Indian at the Ravi Shankar restaurant, just off from Euston…. oh my word, lovely is an understatement.

£35 buffet for 2. Including 4 coffees. Worth a dabble if you have an hour or so before your train. 

 

[Elite]

8 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

 Not home made unfortunately, though on the theme of curry - today had a buffet Indian at the Ravi Shankar restaurant, just off from Euston…. oh my word, lovely is an understatement.

£35 buffet for 2. Including 4 coffees. Worth a dabble if you have an hour or so before your train. 

 

That's one hell of a load on the bottom picture. Have you been eating loads of grapefruit?

[Chip Butty]

A very light and cleansing style of rice pudding, which went really well with the Gulab Jamun. 

[TheHowieLama]

7 hours ago, Karl_b said:

Can anyone recommend a good non-stick, non-toxic frying pan?

 

You might want to take a look at carbon steel. They don't have the non stick surface per se but release just as easily when seasoned and are oven safe for broiling.

Not sure what brand would be over there - mine are Merten Storck which I think are German. Solid stuff.

[Karl_b]

4 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

You might want to take a look at carbon steel. They don't have the non stick surface per se but release just as easily when seasoned and are oven safe for broiling.

Not sure what brand would be over there - mine are Merten Storck which I think are German. Solid stuff.

 

We currently have some Salter carbon steel ones - large and small frying pans and a wok. They're pretty good, especially as we paid less than £50 for the set. They're holding up pretty well but I'm after a medium non-stick one just for the variety and for the odd thing, IE eggs, that are tricky to cook in the carbon steel. At some point I'll probably invest in some proper cast iron but hopefully these last a few more years

[TheHowieLama]

Ah, ok.

 

I have a Misen 12 non stick that is really good.

Also - on the eggs thing - this fucker is magic:

 

https://www.amazon.com/TECHEF-Tamagoyaki-PFOA-Free-Dishwasher-Induction-Ready/dp/B00N4N2EP4/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0?pd_rd_w=7Ldlk&content-id=amzn1.sym.225b4624-972d-4629-9040-f1bf9923dd95%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=225b4624-972d-4629-9040-f1bf9923dd95&pf_rd_r=C2AY4C1YG1BT9YW3PBNV&pd_rd_wg=qkNRv&pd_rd_r=7575cb63-4f33-4337-a740-9db6ffa7b4d1&pd_rd_i=B00N4N2EP4&th=1

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Made myself a pan of scouse today 

 

 

[an tha]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Made myself a pan of scouse today 

 

 

Could only have blind when was a kid!

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

[Fugitive]

58 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

That might be the first edible thing you’ve posted on here.

[RJ Fan club]

42 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

That might be the first edible thing you’ve posted on here.

Needs peas 

[Bjornebye]

Ham, egg, onion and cheese omlette

[Gruntfuttock]

Chicken Chow Mein (I didn't make the rolls)

[lifetime fan]

On 13/01/2024 at 19:49, Bjornebye said:

 

Looks like part of the Game of Thrones map 

 

On 13/01/2024 at 19:36, Karl_b said:

A fairly trivial foody thing, but whilst I'm off sick from work I've tasked myself with streamlining our kitchen utensils and gadgets. Over the years, from multiple homes and house-shares, etc, we've accumulated far too many useless or cheap things and multiple tools to do the same task. 

 

For example, a modest purchase of a good microplane grater has replaced half a dozen poorer quality items in the drawer, some decent wooden spoons have replaced all the shitty plastic ones. 

 

A simple but immensely satisfying task that means I enjoy cooking more. Next, ditching the fondue kit, and other gadgets that we've been bought over the years. 

 

Can anyone recommend a good non-stick, non-toxic frying pan? I've been looking at the GreenPan ones but have never used them.

 

Oh and I made my first sourdough loaf yesterday since the little one arrived two years ago - I finally have a slither of time for this stuff. Or I need to get back to work.

Looks like he used my oven for half of it. 

[lifetime fan]

Made a lasagna this evening. 
 

 

[Anubis]

On 14/01/2024 at 18:24, Bjornebye said:

Made myself a pan of scouse today 

 

 

 

 

“WATERY SCOUSE DETECTED! WATERY SCOUSE DETECTED! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

 

“WATERY SCOUSE DETECTED! WATERY SCOUSE DETECTED! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”

 

Shut up you biff. 

[Anubis]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

 

Shut up you biff. 

You want me to shut up? Make some proper scouse. Not some Wool wannabe version.

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Anubis said:

You want me to shut up? Make some proper scouse. Not some Wool wannabe version.

 

It was a proper Scouse you Rock ferry bandit 

[Anubis]

It’s not fucking scouse, it’s grey water.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

Tastiest grey water around. 

[Lee909]

Back doing keto as it works best with my blood sugars so trying to find some spice blends to keep things different

 

I love the jerk spice mix below but its gone from £2 to £3.50 a jar now and i think they've changed the mix as the salt contents seems far higher

 

 

I know i can make my own but for speed on work days i like to just by some. 

Anyone got any go to spice mixes, i normally add some hot sauce and cream if needed. Looking for dry mixes rather than sauce. For all meats and fish

[Rushies tash]

 

Beef curry. Started from scratch this afternoon and been cooking slowly for a couple of hours. The rosé is lovely too.