Ham omelette, with chips and sweetcorn:
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Ham omelette, with chips and sweetcorn:
Mushrooms in ale with goats cheese, garlic and rocket.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...54c8c470b9.jpg
Looks good! :)
If you wanna try it, Barry.
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Here's another from the same book I made a while ago.
It's basically an American book of recipes all with differing kinds of booze as an ingredient.
It was so interesting I have just bought the necessary to make it again.
The wife liked it a lot, too.
Jack Daniel Mac & Peas. She can't stand Jack as a drink, which makes it all the more interesting.
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A sort of bacon and mushroom carbonara, with penne pasta and vegetables:
Muesli and fresh raspberries for desert, and a 2022 Médoc to drink.
Ham, onion in a white sauce on penne with vegetables.
Another ham omelette, this time with baked beans and chips:
A sort of beef risotto (using long grain rice as I don't like arabetto - it comes out too soft and sticky), green beans, asparagus, broccoli and carrot.
Chilli con carne, with green beans, cauliflower and carrot
Chicken Korma with Sag Aloo.
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Tuesday’s Carbonara
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Wife won't stop telling me how good this is.
Asparagus, courgette and sun blushed tomato risotto.
Doubled up the Grand Padano and added peeled, de-pipped courgette. Some amazing asparagus in Sainsbury's at the moment that is really thick stalked. It's double the price of the thinner stuff and not at all tough.
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Are you vegetarian, Justin? I vaguely remember you posting a veggie dinner previously? Sounds interesting, we are trying to eat more meat free meals.
No, Alex.
We do like a lot of veg only dishes, though.
I call myself a flexatarian Alex and probably do 2 or sometimes 3 veg only days a week. I think liking spicy food and heat is very helpful in that regard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Mostly for me though it's trying to reduce processed foods and I recently started making my own sourdough, as I really dislike supermarket bread.
A couple of my favourites, a white boule and a malted wholemeal - just three ingredients flour, salt and water - or 4 with the malted flakes.
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I used to post loads of sourdough loaves on here a few years ago.
You're doing it right, Tim. That looks a bit like my Lodge cast iron thang I use as a Dutch oven.
When you make bread yourself, you seriously wonder what the hell the stuff supermarkets sell is actually made of.
Another massive super hate of mine is supermarket homogenised milk. It's simply a crime. Tastes like utter shite. Because it is. Basically ruined mass produced rubbish. The fat cells have been utterly destroyed. Crucifying the taste.
Not sure I managed to express enough hatred there. Can someone back me up, LOL?
The bread looks great, Tim! I only buy bakery bread, agree on supermarket bread. No comment on the milk, though Justin - I can't stand milk in any form, not even in tea or coffee, so I will have to take your (strong!) word for it!
Yup agree on the Supermarket milk, it's awful. Pretty much everything in a supermarket these days has been ruined - edible food like products, designed in a lab for maximum profit, as opposed to real food .
Yeah, took me awhile to get the sourdough right Justin, but having the cast iron (it's a Lodge Chinese copy) makes it easy. I knock them up now without even thinking about it. Can't do bugger all else though, just loaves of bread. But way better than plastic bread.
Real sourdough. Or real bread made with fresh yeast. The biggest hurdle is cutting it. Even with a serious knife and some oil in the mixture before you baked it.
I persistently find that the hardest part of the process.
Sounds odd, but it is true.
It's not an age thing.
It just requires energy;)
Mass production would never like that.
Ha, now that made me chuckle because nobody told me that before making sourdough. Where were you when I needed you? It's bloody hard, unless you don't mind mangled bread!
There is a remedy however, a Japanese Damascus steel bread knife . . . I'm not telling you how much it cost though!
Let's just say the money I'm saving making my own sourdough is going to take about 3 years to recoup because of the knife :sofa:
I loath sourdough bread, really dislike the taste! Nothing wrong with supermarket milk either - if you are that fussy, milk the cow yourself! :doh:
I'm not a fan of sourdough bread, to me it just tastes wrong. Seeded batch loaves for me. Anita likes sourdough, but she goes through phases. She's not bought any lately, but I'm sure it will be back soon enough.
I don't get into supermarkets much these days, though I have been doing this last month as Anita's hand has been recovering from her carpal tunnel thing, and something I've noticed is how much shelf space is being given to "free from" stuff. Gluten free, lactose free, sugar free, etc. And vegan cheese! Just when did we stop being able to tolerate normal food? There's not enough shelf space left for proper food, like tinned peas and custard powder. "Excuse me, where do you keep the evaporated milk?" "There's a small tin on aisle 6, hiding behind a tin of free range pear halves".
I think she was pulling my leg about the free range pears, because I couldn't find them. Couldn't find the evap milk either.
Oh dear, I've just sent you a loaf as a present Barry . . . I thought you'd be pleased.
I'm off to put some bacon under the grill, with some sourdough toast . . . the best toast in the world :)
There's sourdough and sourdough.
Some cultures are nuts. I went on a baking course and used a sourdough starter from San Francisco that was over 100 years old.
It was an intense taste to say the least. Pretty vile, really.
After we ate some, the tutor said it was found to contain human spit enzyme.
I kid yee not!
Home made white flour sourdough really doesn't have that much taste lest you start getting adventurous.
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I think you've forgotten what milk tastes like. There's no other sane explanation.
My wife has been making cappuccino's recently with proper milk using my Rocket espresso set up. I made her use the M&S organic milk she bought the other day and she knew the coffee was ruined by it.
What's the friggin' point of organic milk if you're going to screw it up with homogenisation? I dunno.
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I don't drink any of the brands mentioned in the video.
I think people have forgotten what real food tastes like Justin.
I've given up trying to coax people into considering there are perhaps better choices available. I got called the food police, so I rarely bother these days . . . gets to be exhausting.
I'm quite fortunate where I live, as I can walk into town and buy local produce where they can tell you where it's come from. I probably only go to a big supermarket like Tesco once every couple of months. Easy for me on my own though, that would be very difficult if I was working and had a family.
Modern milk tastes awful, I remember as a kid I used to drink glass fulls daily, I loved it. Came from a local dairy via a milkman in a bottle and it tasted delicious. We've traded quality for convenience and nobody seems to give a toss - hey ho.
When I was at primary school in the sixties, we were forced to have milk every morning, about a third of a pint, came in little glass bottles. With a cardboard straw. In the summer months it was always warm and tasted disgusting. Ruined milk for me, so I never drink it. I only ever have it in my porridge or a bit in tea.
I don't think switching to organic, non-homogenised, lactose-free, sterilised, the damage is done.
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Originally Posted by Tim
When I was in primary school (1970s) it came in those pyramid shape cardboard cartons, with a straw. They'd leave it out in the sun from when it was delivered at about 0800 to after the morning break when it was issued to us. Yes it was warm and revolting. Some kids would drink it but most wouldn't.Quote:
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I wish I could do the same Martin, it stopped around here about 8 or 9 years ago :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
If you go further into west Wales you can still get real milk. My sister in law has great milk, delivered by her milkman in bottles. I don't use it now, black tea, black coffee and I have porridge with water and salt like the Scot's. Haven't had boxed breakfast cereal and milk for breakfast for over 20 years.
I drink black tea since back when I was a student and couldn't afford luxuries like milk. 250 Happy Shopper tea bags would last me a few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim
I do drink a glass of milk per day and have breakfast cereal so that's where it goes. 2 pints a week. I think it is about £1.10 a pint though.
For a long time we had no milk delivery here but it started back up again just after covid.
I'd happily pay that for decent milk :)Quote:
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Yep, it was those little 1/3 pint sun-toasted bottles of milk at primary school that did it for me. The dirty bastards.
I must have been lucky, we got them cold.
I remember drinking those, sitting crossed legged on the floor listening to our teacher (who I fancied) reading us The Hobbit.
We have Milk&More who deliver in glass bottles.
It'd break my heart if they stopped the service.
I've always drunk masses of milk, from the pyramid cartoons at school to modern day. 11 pints a week in some way, shape or form. A lot goes in coffee and cereals, though.
I used to drink a lot, loved a Cadbury's chocolate bar and ice cold milk.
Now the chocolate is some sort of American Frankenstein shite, that tastes nothing like Cadbury's and the milk is rank, so I don't bother with either.
The enshitiffication of everything.
Same here. The milk was delivered in crates with bottles leaking and the milk lukewarm even in Winter. We were forced to drink the muck. I can still smell it and the taste was enough to make me heave. Hated milk since then. I can just about tolerate a tablespoon of fully skimmed, ice cold milk on cereals but that's it.Quote:
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Enshitification deserves an Oxford English dictionary entry.
100% with bells on JustinQuote:
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So only the most enshitified version of anti-milk will do.Quote:
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That might be a double neg, but hopefully it's understood.
I dunno.
It truly does take all sorts!:)
Got to be full fat. The milkman left me semi skim one time. I called them up and they say 'Oh well we do that if we run out of full fat.
Told them no chance, refund the money and next time don't leave me anything if you don't have any proper milk left.
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I used to love my creamy full fat milk until having an operation on my brain to remove a blood clot after a stroke after a blood clot moving from a partially restricted aorta.
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Sorry to hear of your condition Noel. Are you able to drink skimmed milk, or have you been advised to follow a low fat diet?
Good morning everyone.
My breakfast today is a cup of coffee made in a mocca pot using Arabica coffee from Cameroon. I drink it 'brown', that is with a splash of milk. I'm also enjoying a bowl of muesli with added mixed nuts and some raspberries.
The milk used for both is semi-skimmed milk from cows that are pasture fed as much as possible, and bought from my local supermarket. :ner:
:lol: I like my coffee black.
That made me laugh though Barry :)
Now that the bread and milk police have had their say, here is something I knocked up this evening:
Whole wheat penne with tuna in a tomato and basil sauce, broccoli, green beans, and sweetcorn niblets.
May not look much, but it was tasty.
I am trying to stay on a low fat diet + blood thinners. Using almond “milk” instead. Locally (Australia) made with locally grown almonds. It’s not too bad.Quote:
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