Food and drink thread

[getdownmonkeyman]

Sweet chilli pepper scotch egg.

[Futtocks]

I have some lamb neck marinating for tomorrow, in olive oil, smoked paprika, oregano and garlic. Should be good.

[tonyXIII]

On the Rant thread, Bleep mentioned eating black pudding at St.Helens and liking it. I have a question but didn't want to derail the other thread, so here it is.

Bleep didn't mention how his black pudding had been cooked. Today, it seems that the default method for this delicacy is frying slices of the long, cylindrical stuff wrapped in plastic (edit: remove the plastic before frying). However, when I was young, my mum used to buy it in a real skin, tied in 'horseshoe' shape. She would boil it for about 5 minutes and serve it for tea with lots of pepper, bread and butter and a large cup of tea. When I first came across fried black pudding, I was quite taken aback.

Does anyone else do boiled black pudding?

 

Edited February 26, 2017 by tonyXIII

[Futtocks]

1 hour ago, tonyXIII said:

On the Rant thread, Bleep mentioned eating black pudding at St.Helens and liking it. I have a question but didn't want to derail the other thread, so here it is.

Bleep didn't mention how his black pudding had been cooked. Today, it seems that the default method for this delicacy is frying slices of the long, cylindrical stuff wrapped in plastic (edit: remove the plastic before frying). However, when I was young, my mum used to buy it in a real skin, tied in 'horseshoe' shape. She would boil it for about 5 minutes and serve it for tea with lots of pepper, bread and butter and a large cup of tea. When I first came across fried black pudding, I was quite taken aback.

Does anyone else do boiled black pudding?

Sometimes I include pieces of black pudding (or its Spanish cousin, morcilla*) in a stew. I've never boiled it whole on its own, but I have heard of it being done 

*There are different types, but I prefer the one with rice in the mix. It often also contains onion and a little paprika.

[clwydianrange]

5 hours ago, tonyXIII said:

On the Rant thread, Bleep mentioned eating black pudding at St.Helens and liking it. I have a question but didn't want to derail the other thread, so here it is.

Bleep didn't mention how his black pudding had been cooked. Today, it seems that the default method for this delicacy is frying slices of the long, cylindrical stuff wrapped in plastic (edit: remove the plastic before frying). However, when I was young, my mum used to buy it in a real skin, tied in 'horseshoe' shape. She would boil it for about 5 minutes and serve it for tea with lots of pepper, bread and butter and a large cup of tea. When I first came across fried black pudding, I was quite taken aback.

Does anyone else do boiled black pudding?

 

I've always had it fried for breakfast but a bloke I worked with years back used to boil it. He was from near Bury and claimed that boiled was the traditional way of eating it.

[tonyXIII]

30 minutes ago, clwydianrange said:

I've always had it fried for breakfast but a bloke I worked with years back used to boil it. He was from near Bury and claimed that boiled was the traditional way of eating it.

I lived in North Manchester as a boy, so Bury was just up the road. Maybe it was a local thing.

Thanks to you and Futtocks for the replies.

 

[Futtocks]

Performance Kitchen - Recipes from sportspeople, including RL players. Here's an example:

 

[Robin Evans]

Donny market..... Wilkinson "donny" sausages..... best around.....by a long way.

 

[Futtocks]

A marinade, loosely based on Korean BBQ flavours, used in this case for pork shoulder.
4 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp sesame oil
½ tbsp minced fresh ginger root
2 tbsp chopped spring onions
1 dried chipotle chilli
salt
pepper

The pork was marinated overnight, then cooked in a slow cooker with shallots, garlic, tomato paste and white wine.

Turned out nice.

[Futtocks]

Shanghai-style braised pork - based loosely on this recipe: http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/04/shanghai-style-braised-pork-belly/
 
To the ingredients listed in that recipe, I added a piece of cassia bark and half a star anise.

[Futtocks]

Jay Rayner's writing is usually enjoyable, but sometimes he outdoes himself. 

[Trojan]

Since the imposition of "the diet" (I've lost a stone since Xmas)  my choices are a bit restricted, but one thing I've come to really like is mackerel fillets, fried in the one cal. spray oil.  Really tasty. I'm having them for lunch today.

[Futtocks]

1 minute ago, Trojan said:

Since the imposition of "the diet" (I've lost a stone since Xmas)  my choices are a bit restricted, but one thing I've come to really like is mackerel fillets, fried in the one cal. spray oil.  Really tasty. I'm having them for lunch today.

I once grilled mackerel over a wood fire - the flavour of the fish and the smoke was amazing! I also reserved two of the cooked fish to make a paté, which also worked really well.

[gingerjon]

Used the 'easy but impressive' section of BBC Good Food to make this yesterday.

Accurate on both counts.  Very easy and very tasty.

[Robin Evans]

I've been one to eats bacon every morning. Good bacon on good bread is probably what I would ask for as my choice of last meal on earth.

However, not so surprisingly I'm enjoying substituting bacon with kippers on occasion has been wonderful. Good smokey kippers with a poached egg.... top breaky

[Futtocks]

7 minutes ago, Robin Evans said:

I've been one to eats bacon every morning. Good bacon on good bread is probably what I would ask for as my choice of last meal on earth.

However, not so surprisingly I'm enjoying substituting bacon with kippers on occasion has been wonderful. Good smokey kippers with a poached egg.... top breaky

We had a family holiday in Northumbria years ago, and stayed at a farm B&B near Craster. Quite apart from the home-cured bacon, freshly-picked wild mushrooms and duck eggs that the farm itself provided, Craster kippers are among the best you'll find anywhere. Our breakfasts were amazing.

[Moose]

Just eaten a large portion of Mrs Moose's rhubarb crumble, it is the food of gods.?

[Futtocks]

Ostrich curry, based loosely on this recipe.

Not bad at all, and you could do it with other meat. I just spotted ostrich steaks in Lidl the other day and made an impulse buy.

[longboard]

2 hours ago, Moose said:

Just eaten a large portion of Mrs Moose's rhubarb crumble, it is the food of gods.?

Home grown?

[Bearman]

3 hours ago, Moose said:

Just eaten a large portion of Mrs Moose's rhubarb crumble, it is the food of gods.?

I was in hospital once and the food was abysmal. But, one day the pudding was rhubarb and ginger crumble. Perhaps it was because I was so hungry but I csnnot ever remember tasting anything as good.

I have a rhubarb clump in  the garden  and one of these days.......

[Futtocks]

Rhubarb and ginger is a great combination. Under crumble, that's another level of pleasure altogether.

Edited April 11, 2017 by Futtocks

[getdownmonkeyman]

Experimenting, of fashion, with my own pizza toppings. Started with Parma ham and rocket. Moved on to Milano Salami and now thinly sliced Chorizo.

It makes you realise that less is more when it comes to pizza toppings.

[Futtocks]

28 minutes ago, getdownmonkeyman said:

Experimenting, of fashion, with my own pizza toppings. Started with Parma ham and rocket. Moved on to Milano Salami and now thinly sliced Chorizo.

It makes you realise that less is more when it comes to pizza toppings.

Chorizo, when it starts crisping at the edges and dripping that tasty red red oil onto the rest of the pizza?

That's gold!

[Moose]

11 hours ago, longboard said:

Home grown?

I'm fortunate enough to live within the rhubarb triangle (Rothwell, Morley and Wakefield) so no need to grow it myself, there's plenty of farm shops in the area.

When I was a youngster rhubarb was usually called tuskie/tusky, is this a regional word or is used elsewhere?

[longboard]

48 minutes ago, Moose said:

I'm fortunate enough to live within the rhubarb triangle (Rothwell, Morley and Wakefield) so no need to grow it myself, there's plenty of farm shops in the area.

When I was a youngster rhubarb was usually called tuskie/tusky, is this a regional word or is used elsewhere?

I think it's a regional thing.

I grow my own - rhubarb that is. Nothing better than the Yorkshire climate for it. It's quite easy to force it. I came cross a shop locally selling early Dutch rhubarb a few weeks ago. Outrageous when we are so close to the triangle...