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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 20, 2008 16:55:15 GMT
Never used my grill since buying the cooker a few years back. Or maybe used it once.
Wherever possible I use the microwave (for cooking bacon, doing poached eggs, jacket potatoes, baked beans, sweetcorn, custard, milk for hot chocolate, whatever), sometimes I roast stuff in the oven (onions, mushrooms, pizza, home-made pies, quiches, joints, sausages), and when it is really called for (savoury pancakes, home-made curries, fried eggs) I use the hob.
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Post by Stomski on Aug 21, 2008 16:18:29 GMT
I'm going to start sounding like a food snob, but microwaved bacon and eggs are just wrong. I think it's probably faster to poach an egg in water anyway! Here's some food from a Sushi restaurant that I'm desperate to try out... Yum! (Odori Ebi  ) |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 21, 2008 17:36:52 GMT
I'm going to start sounding like a food snob, but microwaved bacon and eggs are just wrong. I think it's probably faster to poach an egg in water anyway! Well, when I bought my cooker, the shop threw in a free microwave accessories set, including plastic poached-egg containers, a corrugated plastic bacon thingy, a plate cover, plate-stacking wotsits and a plastic jacket-potato rack doobrey. Plus instructions. They all work well. Hardly worth buying the cooker.  Martin |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2008 13:54:48 GMT
I'm with Stomski as regards to cooking bacon and eggs. I think they just taste much better fried than what they do cooked in a microwave. I only the microwave for cooking those frozen ready meals - everything else goes either in the frying pan, under the grill, in the oven or in the chip pan. I know microwave cooking is more healthier my methods but it also boils most of the taste out in my opinion.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 22, 2008 15:49:14 GMT
I know microwave cooking is more healthier my methods but it also boils most of the taste out in my opinion. Healthier, easier and more energy-efficient. However, you're probably right re: taste. And there are many things I could put in a microwave which I prefer to put in an oven, e.g. lasagne to get it crisp on top, or onions - basically anything that's better a little bit burnt. Martin |
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Post by Stomski on Aug 25, 2008 15:27:20 GMT
And the texture! The texture of microwaved meat is all rubbery and yuck.
ANYWAY! I cooked a Lamb Hotpot yesterday. Never done that before and it was so easy. With regards to new food... I put turnip in it. I've never had turnip before.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 2, 2008 10:48:58 GMT
I have dug the toastie machine out of mothballs and am experimenting with exciting combinations!
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Post by chrisl on Sept 12, 2008 11:22:32 GMT
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Post by dyrl on Sept 12, 2008 12:44:24 GMT
Heh...mine will be far away from yours... but as a lover of fine restaurants, long meals and large tasty portions... In Warsaw, there are a few top notch restaurants: 1. India Curry - so named because ...surprise surprise...it serves indian cuisine. This is possibly the most expensive restaurant I've ever frequented, with a dinner for two running upwards of 100 USD, but it is well well worth it. Get a bottle of good wine while you're here because you'll pay through the nose anyways so might as well enjoy it to the fullest! 2. New Shanghai - this is my favorite Japanese/Chinese restaurant - run by a Chinese guy, his family, and a lone Japonese master of Sushi and other such things - this is the best food in the universe - seriously. I could live in this restaurant. The Tsing Tao chinese beer is wonderfully light albeit bitter, and the sake is heated and served in beautiful ornamental jugs. The portions are not only delicious but also truly truly large. The best joint I've ever had the pleasure of eating at; the one place I never tire of returning to. Prices used to be really really low for the quality (which was utterly high) - but now prices have gone up due to inflation/rising global prices etc etc etc. Still - good value for your money. You can leave 50 USD for two people and really eat your heart out. Great stuff! 3. Santorini - this is a Greek Tavern which is well hidden in an old, communist era public-housing building. The building is dilapidated, and one of the most lovely experiences I had in this regard was taking a certain donor for a dinner here. The fellow was rightly expecting me to treat him to at least a nice dinner since he treated me to 4 years of education - and the look on his face when we got out of the cab at what was basically a slum house was priceless...however - once you get past the dilapidated exterior - you go inside and actually find that the interior is a faithful recreation of a Greek tavern. Candles and an almost always packed house make it very hot and muggy inside (but in a pleasant, summer-in-Greece kind of way)... and on Thursday's there's Greek music, dancing and traditional plate breaking. The foot is exceptional, of course, and also pretty pricey. Again, expect to leave about 100 USD or more for a dinner for two. Don't buy a bottle of wine because you'll end up leaving 200 USD  Go for the wine jug instead. 4. The Hungarian - Once you've eaten at the above three joints, you'll be broke. Broke, but still hungry and wanting to continue eating like a king. That's when you go to this low-key joint. The Hungarian serves, as the name implies, Hungarian food. There really isn't that much on the menu - just the most traditional meals. But all of them are so wonderfully delicious and so under 25 USD for two people that you won't be able to resist - especially when you're broke. 5. Vok - this is a Chinese place at the Marriot right in the smack dab center of Warsaw. They have a system whereby one dish costs about 3 USD. Of course, one dish is really really reaaallly small. But even though you have to buy 15 dishes to feel well fed (well, at least I do), that still comes out to only 45 USD for two people which isn't bad at all. They have Tsing-Tao chinese beer (yay), but won't let you smoke indoors (boo). Still, it's a nice place, albeit a bit too hotel-culture like for my taste; but the food is decent, the prices (3 USD for one dish) are unbeatable, and the service is utterly horrible ("oh, have you been sitting there for 45 minutes without a waiter? Umm...hopefully he'll show up soon! Bye!") Still -recommended. And that would be just about it for the top places to go in Warsaw. Pete |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2008 15:57:46 GMT
Cafe Anduluz in Glasgow's West End is a most splendid tapas place. Friendly and quick service. Unusually for tapa restaurants, the portion sizes are both decently sized and also very filling. Very good range on the menu and decent deals so does not cost overly much. A good meal there and a couple of drinks will still leave you a few quid change from £20*.
There is a brilliant, locally famed Indian restaurant at Charing X, Glasgow. Buggered if I can recall the name right now though. Brain fart!
-Ralph
*Monday-Friday. It's a bit pricier at weekends, IIRC.
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 12, 2008 21:31:13 GMT
The Koh-i-noor?
There's a fantastic Chinese place up in Cambuslang, a well-kept secret within a dilapidated building in a rough area. I'll ask my mum what it's called when she gets in. Inside it's like a different planet- lush decor, artwork, huge tropical fish tanks with fascinating-looking residents, and an absolutely superb menu. Very friendly staff, too, but then I've yet to visit an unhappy Chinese restaurant. I don't know how they do it. Nitrous oxide in the kitchen, maybe.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 12, 2008 23:06:39 GMT
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Post by Stomski on Sept 29, 2008 21:41:01 GMT
Tonight I made an open steak sandwich. The bread was rubbed with garlic and olive oil before being toasted in a griddle pan. I then rubbed the nicely marbled and pounded bit of ribeye with olive oil, paprika, salt and red and black pepper. I griddled the steak until medium and then left to rest whilst I finished off the bread back in the griddle pan and fried off some mushrooms with garlic.
I then served with a good size portion of rocket.
It was the best open steak sandwich I have ever had.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 19:41:56 GMT
Sounds nice. I like a good meal with lots of spices on but I'm the only in the house who does and so, if I ever want such a meal I have to go out and buy the necessary stuff myself in small quantities as nobody else will touch the stuff.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 19:56:45 GMT
I had some Mongolian pork today. Very nice.
-Ralph
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Post by Gav on Oct 25, 2008 16:01:47 GMT
Got myself 2 slices of 'Buckfast Black Pudding' from the butchers there. Being Coatbridge - Buckfast City - it's not a surprise as such. I hate Buckfast as a drink - but I've been told the black pudding is lovely. Smells really nice.
Report as events warrant.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 25, 2008 22:03:50 GMT
Good grief. I had no idea such a thing existed. I anxiously await your report.
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Post by kayevcee on Oct 25, 2008 23:25:42 GMT
Six and a half hours later, I grow concerned for our Gav's health. Did consuming the Dread Sausage drive him to don a tracksuit and go piss on some railway lines? What terrible changes did the Buckfast Banger wreak upon him?
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 26, 2008 10:35:48 GMT
I too fear for his safety. Has he spontaneously doned ill-advised loose clothing of a shell-suit nature and taken to hanging round random streets corners while saying: "Oooarrrr geezzaa bucky eeee woooaarrrr"?
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Post by Gav on Oct 26, 2008 11:08:25 GMT
Fear not, Hubbers. I am fine.
Y'know what? It was actually delicious. It was just really nice black pudding with a kind of tangy aftertaste - a little sweeter than normal.
I'm getting it again. Recommended to all those who bide in the Gartsherrie area of Coatbridge - admittedly this isn't going to be many people.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 26, 2008 18:11:44 GMT
How unexpected.
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Post by Hero on Feb 17, 2009 17:33:32 GMT
What are you guys having/making for dinner/tea tonight? I'm making a turkey stew! ===KEN |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2009 17:52:43 GMT
I just had some chicken and baby leaf salad with honey and mustard dressing, which I conjured up myself.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Feb 17, 2009 18:54:50 GMT
Prawn pilauf!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 17, 2009 19:10:49 GMT
Had a cottage pie with peas and chips in Wetherspoons in Swansea for lunch with a colleague, on the way to a meeting, so now I can't be bothered and I'm just eating whatever's lying in the fridge - some Bombay mix, some salad, some cheese and a naan bread (heating up in the oven). Then a banana and some hot cross buns. Not so much a meal as a collection of food.
Edit: The naan contains sultanas! I ate the other one yesterday with a curry and never realised! I am content.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 17, 2009 21:59:30 GMT
Just had some pasta carbonara - had it at half nine as I was entertaining earlier.
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Post by karla on Feb 18, 2009 10:14:51 GMT
toast
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Post by legios on Feb 18, 2009 21:20:19 GMT
A nice slice of homemade corned beef and onion pie, with a large helping of brocolli and boiled potates, all topped off with some gravy. I followed it up with a slice of homemade mincemeat pie. (I really need to have a third attempt at that, I'm getting there apart from the fact that adjusting to having a fully working fan oven means that I am tending to overdo things and crisp the pasty too much).
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 18, 2009 21:24:08 GMT
I bought some Bird's Eye chicken burgers as they were cheap. My goodness, they were foul. The chicken did not taste like chicken. This was most unexpected indeed.
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Post by Hero on Feb 19, 2009 14:24:24 GMT
Salad with Avacado and Goats Cheese.
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