What's Cookin' ?

[JENNYJET]

yes Kevin, just like with Garlic!

 

[Ashley.S.]

I can just about stomach brussels sprouts. My requirement to eat them is to have them cooked with bacon pieces. I can also just about stomach parsnips, as long as they are roasted with honey!

 

[Kevin Farnell]

yes Kevin, just like with Garlic!

The strange thing is, I really like cabbage, bok choy, sauerkraut etc but I cannot stomach sprouts. I remember, when I was a kid, my Dad grew sprouts and we had them for Sunday lunch (we had to be home for Sunday lunch, unless we had an invite from friends parents to be elsewhere). My Sister (who was always a fan of vegetables and is now vegetarian), started with the sprouts and said 'the sprouts have lots of black bits in them'. My Mom replied 'shut up and eat them'. A minute or so later, my Mom cut into a sprout to find it full of black fly. We were then told not to eat the sprouts (not that I was likely to try anyway).
I also love garlic, but it needs to be cooked properly. If you put a piece of raw garlic in your mouth, it will burn (similar to raw strong onion). If you roast a whole bulb of garlic, it will lose it's pungency and become sweet and nutty in flavour. You can squeeze the garlic from individual cloves, like squeezing toothpaste from the tube.
I have a recipe for garlic soup, which initially sounds bad, but like the onions that are slowly sweated for French onion soup, the sharpness/pungency is lost, giving a wonderful flavour.
On top of all of that, garlic is incredibly good for you.

 

[JENNYJET]

NAH Kevin, it's evil stuff. Repellant even to non humans.

 

[Aviador]

It's all about the cooking. Cooked to within an inch of its life and sprouts taste god awful. Steamed and ever slightly crunchy and they're good. Mixed with chopped bacon and chestnuts and they taste nice.
I used to hate parsnips until I discovered honey and mustard seed glaze. Now I love them.

 

[Ray Finkle]

If you put a piece of raw garlic in your mouth, it will burn

On top of all of that, garlic is incredibly good for you.

I chop up a clove of raw garlic and have it on toast for breakfast, it's surprisingly nice. Only on non working days though, couldn't do that to my colleagues.

 

[JENNYJET]

Sir Raymond hit the spot there, it is the effect upon others. i think it should be reclassed as a controlled substance!

 

[Kevin Farnell]

i think it should be reclassed as a controlled substance!

I can just imagine all of the smuggling and under the counter sales of not just garlic, but the likes of Chicken Kyiv and garlic bread changing hands on street corners at inflated prices.

 

[JENNYJET]

Yes, BRITISH prohibition. Makes life interesting! Revive the ***Peaky Blinders ****

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Pancake Day - How do you like yours ?

For me, it's simple. Wafer thin pancakes (never those awful US doorstep versions), with sugar and lemon juice.

 

[Aviador]

Pancake Day - How do you like yours ?

For me, it's simple. Wafer thin pancakes (never those awful US doorstep versions), with sugar and lemon juice.

I'm the same. None of that dreadful US stodge they endure. Only thin British style pancakes or crèpes will do. Personally I like a squeeze of lemon with sugar sprinkled on the most, closely followed by golden syrup. I like Nutella on pancakes too but its perhaps a little overfacing after a couple. Not yesterday bu recently we tried tinned cherries with a drizzle of chocolate and cream which was nice.

I keep trying out savary pancakes but I've not found anything I enjoy yet so if anyone has any suggestions...?

 

[CM.]

Lemon and sugar goes well for me but I do also like chocolate on mine. Also agree that I’m not into those US ones. Thin ones always do it.

 

[thunderchild]

Pancake Day - How do you like yours ?

For me, it's simple. Wafer thin pancakes (never those awful US doorstep versions), with sugar and lemon juice.

With smoked ham and feta, not your typical topping I admit but the lady who owned the apartments we stayed at in Kos made some for her guests one morning and they were divine!

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Many years ago, my then girlfriend and I went to Amsterdam. One night, we ended up in a Pancake House. The one I ordered was doused in honey and brandy. It was delicious, but I was 'sozzled' by the time we left.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Tonight's meal was stuffed peppers (lamb, feta and various herbs) with tomato & basil rice (Uncle Ben's ) and g bread.

Mrs F and kids are now devouring a Ferrero Rocher cake for desert. I've not got a sweet tooth so a glass of Malbec will do

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Tonight's meal was stuffed peppers (lamb, feta and various herbs) with tomato & basil rice (Uncle Ben's ) and g bread.

Mrs F and kids are now devouring a Ferrero Rocher cake for desert. I've not got a sweet tooth so a glass of Malbec will do

A bit of cheese wouldn't go amiss with the Malbec.

 

[Ray Finkle]

A bit of cheese wouldn't go amiss with the Malbec.

Now you're talking

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Full English Breakfast?

I found this video on YouTube of an American (at least, I think they're American) attempting to make a Full English Breakfast. Oh dear, Oh dear

It's just a pile of different ingredients, fried that should never be on a Full English. Peppers?, Steak?, sliced Potatoes? Aubergine? and whatever that pink circular thing they were cutting is (looked like tinned cod roe to me, which I love but would never put it on a Full English). Where's the Bacon?, the Black Pudding? the Baked Beans? and the Fried Bread? And of course HP Sauce!

 

[Aviador]

In agreement with what's cooking but I am admiring the extra large frying pan.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

It certainly is one sizeable frying pan! I love a Full English, but don't have them that often (it seems that people from other countries think we have it for breakfast every day, but that would be too much). If I do have one, it's usually on a Saturday or Sunday, following a night of curry and beers. It would usually be ready by about 11 to 11:30am (following a lie-in, after the beers). If I have had a Full English on a Sunday, then I'm not going to want a Sunday Roast (which I also love). It's either one or the other. If I'm having a Sunday Roast, then it's usually a bacon or sausage butty for breakfast.