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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 15:01:32 GMT
Just generally. Favourite or disliked restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, what you have at home (not breakfast though, that has a dedicated thread!). Recipes, food triumphs and disasters. Food and drink, drink and food.
Today's dinner will be soba noodles with salmon and prawns. Our local fishmonger does beautiful high-quality stuff. As usual I'll de-shell and behead the prawns and gently fry the debris to make an intensely flavoured oil to prepare the salmon and prawn flesh. Some vintage cider is chilling nicely in the fridge.
What are your dinner plans?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 16:17:09 GMT
My dinner plans tonight are a pub meal, as I have a passion for pub food. I'm not entirely sure what it will be but a steak and ale pie is looking like a winner. Dessert will be sticky toffee pudding or cheesecake or fruit crumble and custard, or possibly all three because I have a passion for desserts as well.
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 18, 2019 16:32:25 GMT
Bit late to be eating dinner, isn't it? I had mine over 5 hours ago!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:21:13 GMT
Bit late to be eating dinner, isn't it? I had mine over 5 hours ago! Are you in China or something? (For the zero of you who care, I had Lamb Henry.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:25:51 GMT
Bit late to be eating dinner, isn't it? I had mine over 5 hours ago!
Yep!
I didn't have dinner today. I had a cooked breakfast, and soon I'll be having some rice and leftovers for tea.
My favourite restaurant is Loxleys in Stratford. I really love their sharing fishboard starter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 17:58:44 GMT
Bit late to be eating dinner, isn't it? I had mine over 5 hours ago! Are you in China or something? (For the zero of you who care, I had Lamb Henry.) Do you not find it harder to eat the animal once you've given it a name? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 18:14:44 GMT
Do you not find it harder to eat the animal once you've given it a name? Henry's a terrible name. Anything named Henry deserves to be eaten. (My phone's autocomplete begs to differ. It wanted to expand "terri..." to "terrific".) |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 19:00:08 GMT
Henry's a terrible name. Anything named Henry deserves to be eaten. 😄 Now all I want is carpaccio of Henry. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Aug 18, 2019 19:02:39 GMT
Do you not find it harder to eat the animal once you've given it a name? Henry's a terrible name. Anything named Henry deserves to be eaten. (My phone's autocomplete begs to differ. It wanted to expand "terri..." to "terrific".) Thierry Henry?? |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 19:05:43 GMT
I love cheesecake but it very specifically must be of the firm, baked variety, a little crumbly, plain, unfussy and delicious. And untroubled by stupid fruit toppings. The soft, flabby, non-baked fridge variety of cheesecake is not, repeat NOT, cheesecake. It's just bland flaccid rubbish. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2019 19:09:41 GMT
Ewww, baked cheesecake is all wrong.
Cheese is wonderful though. I love cheese.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 19:22:45 GMT
Ewww, baked cheesecake is all wrong. No, no, YOU are all wrong as that is the only proper form of cheesecake. Eat the soft gloopy silly fridge stuff of course but it's not really cheesecake. Yes cheese generally though... Oh yeah. There's a cheese thread that's sunk down the board. We got some cheeses yesterday from the excellent Cheese Pantry in Ardersier. Crackers, oatcakes, chutney, grapes... that was dinner sorted (we'd had a big lunch). |
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 18, 2019 20:27:33 GMT
I love cheesecake but it very specifically must be of the firm, baked variety, a little crumbly, plain, unfussy and delicious. And untroubled by stupid fruit toppings. The soft, flabby, non-baked fridge variety of cheesecake is not, repeat NOT, cheesecake. It's just bland flaccid rubbish. If you are lucky enough to go to New York anytime soon, make sure you head for Juniors which is next to the Lion King, it sells the best cheesecake in the world, their red velvet cheesecake is beyond gorgeous. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 18, 2019 20:48:57 GMT
Chips
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 18, 2019 20:50:35 GMT
And Monster Munch.
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Post by david on Aug 18, 2019 20:54:51 GMT
Scouse (beef stew) and trifle.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 21:27:33 GMT
Scouse (beef stew) and trifle. Is there a difference between scouse and lobscouse? |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 18, 2019 21:29:49 GMT
I love cheesecake but it very specifically must be of the firm, baked variety, a little crumbly, plain, unfussy and delicious. And untroubled by stupid fruit toppings. The soft, flabby, non-baked fridge variety of cheesecake is not, repeat NOT, cheesecake. It's just bland flaccid rubbish. If you are lucky enough to go to New York anytime soon, make sure you head for Juniors which is next to the Lion King, it sells the best cheesecake in the world, their red velvet cheesecake is beyond gorgeous. Thank you! I am hoping to get a NY trip in soon-ish as it happens. Meanwhile, where in the UK can we get the next best thing to proper NY baked cheesecake? |
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Post by david on Aug 18, 2019 21:32:51 GMT
Scouse (beef stew) and trifle. Is there a difference between scouse and lobscouse? Not really. Scouse is just the shortened name for lobscouse. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 8:35:38 GMT
Scouse (beef stew) and trifle. Trifle always at Christmas, and a very boozy one at that. Never any other time of the year though, for no real reason! And none of the silliness of ruining trifle by topping it with a load of cream before it's served. Custard is the top layer, each person should add cream to their own portion (or not bother at all, it's equally good without). |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Aug 19, 2019 8:42:43 GMT
Lobscouse, always better warmed up on the second day.
Being a solo traveller, the Weatherspoon's app has become a godsend, food not particularly memorable but quite cheap for something that isn’t a sandwich on a 2 play day, the ability to order from the table has removed that constant worry that when you got back to your table someone else was sitting there.
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Post by david on Aug 19, 2019 9:59:57 GMT
Lobscouse, always better warmed up on the second day. Being a solo traveller, the Weatherspoon's app has become a godsend, food not particularly memorable but quite cheap for something that isn’t a sandwich on a 2 play day, the ability to order from the table has removed that constant worry that when you got back to your table someone else was sitting there. Totally agree with you on both comments NeilVHughes. Wetherspoons is my go to eatery for theatre visits. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 19, 2019 10:31:52 GMT
posh afternoon tea at a London hotel. Ritz done, Claridges next. I haven't had afternoon teas at either. I like the idea of afternoon tea but while I have an very sweet tooth I too often find afternoon teas are too skewed to the sweet stuff. I want cakes and scones in a tea but usually I find I'd have liked a bit more of the savoury stuff. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 19, 2019 10:38:43 GMT
Scouse (beef stew) and trifle. Trifle always at Christmas, and a very boozy one at that. Never any other time of the year though, for no real reason! And none of the silliness of ruining trifle by topping it with a load of cream before it's served. Custard is the top layer, each person should add cream to their own portion (or not bother at all, it's equally good without). Are you talking a separate bowl of whipped cream handed round for all to spoon on as they wish? Also, more detail please, Captain Trifle. Specially made sponge or ready-made trifle sponge fingers? What booze, what fruit, and is jelly involved? |
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Aug 19, 2019 10:54:10 GMT
Subway Megamelt and coffee for a £3 breakfast if I stay somewhere overnight. Greggs if no Subway.
McDonalds £1.99 Quarter Pounder and Chips with a Metro voucher for lunch if there's one in the town centre or maybe a cheap pizza.
Reduced price sandwich and pastry or whatever's cut price from a supermarket if I pass one in the evening.
Wetherspoons unlimited coffee if I have time to kill or a free one from Waitrose with a small purchase
No classy gourmet fare for me. I spend a small fortune on theatre tickets but eat at bargain basement prices.
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