OK, What's For Lunch or Tea Today?

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Originally Posted by Marco

We had some friends round today for lunch, and this is some of the food we enjoyed...

To start, fresh tortellini filled with spinach and ricotta and a fresh sage and butter sauce:

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Accompanied with some crusty bread (and Parmesan cheese for the pasta):

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Caprese salad (sliced vine tomatoes, drizzled with vinaigrette and topped with fresh basil, and 'Burrata' Mozzarella cheese):

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Some 'dirty' potatoes (with soil still on) for making chips:

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Washed, cut and ready for frying:

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Dressed fine green beans and chopped shallots:

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Getting the BBQ ready for a T-bone steak:

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...almost done:

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And served:

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To finish, some fresh fruit salad, marinated in white wine and some sugar, to create a nice fruity, alcoholic juice:

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All enjoyed in 19C sunshine, al fresco!:cool:

Marco.

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Looks great Marco, is that a Webber I spy as well?

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Originally Posted by Marco

We had some friends round today for lunch, and this is some of the food we enjoyed...

To start, fresh tortellini filled with spinach and ricotta and a fresh sage and butter sauce:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/PCyHGZ.jpg

Accompanied with some crusty bread (and Parmesan cheese for the pasta):

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/NggAK8.jpg

Caprese salad (sliced vine tomatoes, drizzled with vinaigrette and topped with fresh basil, and 'Burrata' Mozzarella cheese):

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/qpa5sa.jpg

Some 'dirty' potatoes (with soil still on) for making chips:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/90F7sc.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/k624mD.jpg

Washed, cut and ready for frying:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/tUeyqS.jpg

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/ehFQTw.jpg

Dressed fine green beans and chopped shallots:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/SLJY5C.jpg

Getting the BBQ ready for a T-bone steak:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/Wwf1Zq.jpg

...almost done:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/B1MTMF.jpg

And served:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/VXsty5.jpg

To finish, some fresh fruit salad, marinated in white wine and some sugar, to create a nice fruity, alcoholic juice:

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/7Fp7EV.jpg

All enjoyed in 19C sunshine, al fresco!:cool:

Marco.

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This looks fab too Marco...That steak look very inviting..I remember way way back when beef on the bone was banned from sale..I was buying 6 t-bones for a fiver..from a now long retired butcher in Pelaw Gateshead ..a proper butcher..they were superb...maybe that's why I'm a loony...:drool::facepull:

He used to have aged meat on display...getting that gnarley brown look..and no-one would buy it..except a few who knew what they were buying...so he had to cook it and make pies with it..it was criminal..but the pies all sold out in the first half of the day...they were fantastic, made with the best cuts of beef...

mad coo disease:eyebrows:

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Originally Posted by Zoidburg

Looks great Marco, is that a Webber I spy as well?

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Cheers, mate. Yup, indeed it was. They're great BBQs!:)

Marco.

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Originally Posted by mad-moon

This looks fab too Marco...That steak look very inviting..I remember way way back when beef on the bone was banned from sale..I was buying 6 t-bones for a fiver..from a now long retired butcher in Pelaw Gateshead ..a proper butcher..they were superb...maybe that's why I'm a loony...:drool::facepull:

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Haha, belter.... When was it banned, though? Can't say I remember, as we've always bought it (from butchers).

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He used to have aged meat on display...getting that gnarley brown look..and no-one would buy it..except a few who knew what they were buying...so he had to cook it and make pies with it..it was criminal..but the pies all sold out in the first half of the day...they were fantastic, made with the best cuts of beef...

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Lol yeah, I know. Aged and well-hung (just like you:D) is the way to go!

The T-bones we did on the BBQ were from our local butcher, and dry-aged, which makes quite a difference to the flavour:)

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

Haha, belter.... When was it banned, though? Can't say I remember, as we've always bought it (from butchers).



Lol yeah, I know. Aged and well-hung (just like you:D) is the way to go!

The T-bones we did on the BBQ were from our local butcher, and dry-aged, which makes quite a difference to the flavour:)

Marco.

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1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs.:doh: actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol

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Originally Posted by struth

1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs.:doh: actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol

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Eating flesh has always carried risks. Variant CJD (among other things) is still about, very nasty!

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Originally Posted by struth

1997, and lasted many years.. was re the bse outbreak and mad cow disease. i couldnt make my potted hough for about 10 yrs.:doh: actually the ban was lifted a lot sooner but no one told me lol

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I remember the mad cow disease, but not my meat eating habits ever being restricted for years, and as I'm not a big breast guy [apart from THAT:eyebrows:), I'd have thought i'd have remembered. Perhaps we still managed to obtain it from our local butcher 'under the counter', dunno...:hmm:

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Marco

I remember the mad cow disease, but not my meat eating habits ever being restricted for years, and as I'm not a big breast guy [apart from THAT:eyebrows:), I'd have thought i'd have remembered. Perhaps we still managed to obtain it from our local butcher 'under the counter', dunno...:hmm:

Marco.

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i think ban was only a few yrs if memory is right, but i never heard it had been lifted and working away a lot, i must have missed the announcement. i started making hough again when i did as lots of folk loved the real deal; not the crap you got in butchers.
its too much work for me now tho. i still make the family recipe oatmeal tho...lol

Fish n chips.

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