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[Scrit]

Just to point out that I actually prefer my black pudding grilled (and that the French consider it a delicacy) .......... And that the best chips in the world are cooked in dripping (not even lard) and are to be found in Dublin. Smashing after a night on the Liffey water.

Scrit

[dom]

Tut tut Senior, you're going to have to get rich quicker.
Butlers, do not cook, they Buttle

Spot on Scrit grilled Black Pudding and dripping chips

Well no one said this had to be healthy

This is Jasons idea, probably not a bad one.
I am a very good cook (can you hear trumpets playing) I used to run bars and restaurants and on my last project the owners gave me the run of the kitchens( which weren't being refurbished)
The lads on site, sometimes up to 20, couldn't believe how well they were being fed and I found many of them, single and married alike, asking a lot of questions about cooking.
So if you need some help or advice I'll do my best.
Oh I know a bit about wine too, well actually quite a lot.
So, Cheers, Sliante, Saluti, Salut, Prost

[andy]

so how about a bacon and egg sandwich please Dom

feeling rather peckish after my curry and cider saturday night out


ps faggots and paes are my favorite

[dom]

;D

[andy]

senior said:

Tony- egg on face
Charley- hot potatoes
Scrit- black pudding fried in lard
Dom- doesn't need recipes, he gets his butler to do the cooking
Just a few

byron- chicken stew

well it started out as coq au vin but went wrong as usual

but he did grow his own vegetables

[dom]

senior said:

Dom, I wonder if you could explain why my wifes cooking always has a hint of tastlessness to it!!!!

By the way, I'm not sure I would want anyone to buttle me

Buy more salt and pepper.
Stop shopping at Tesco's
I once asked a manager if he'd be willing to do a blind tasting with their apples, pears and sirloin steak.
he refused.
It all tastes like bloody cardboard
A friend in Italy, a farmer, grows and sells beans to Tesco.
I asked him if they were the same beans he sold in Italy, his reply " don't be stupid we wouldn't eat all those chemicals"

[sawdust]

andy said:

byron- chicken stew

well it started out as coq au vin but went wrong as usual

but he did grow his own vegetables

LMAO

[tiler]

andy said:

byron- chicken stew

well it started out as coq au vin but went wrong as usual

but he did grow his own vegetables

Do i take it as Byron is a tw*t too? Oh goodie i never trust anyone who cant even spell their own name properly

[engineerone]

just like buying tomatoes in spain.

all those poly tunnels, yet when you go to the local greengrocer,
often in a lock up behind someone's house the tomatoes look nothing like the ones we get here. slightly odd shapes and stuff,
but the taste ay caramba

so are gonna have a preferred drinks list too??

glenmorangie for me

paul

[mahking51]

Hi Guys,
Nice to see where you all are!

As you will know if you have met me I take my grub very seriously!

Best , simplest and tastiest dish on planet:

Beef dripping on hot toast with salt and pepper - low cholesterol and full of vitamins!
Cheers,
Martin

[Alf]

mahking51 said:

Beef dripping on hot toast with salt and pepper - low cholesterol and full of vitamins!

Welcome, Martin.

Cheers, Alf

[paulchapman]

Hi Martin,

Good to see you found us

Cheers

Paul

[dom]

Hey Martin, great to hear from you.

Dom

[beech1948]

mahking51,

As a lad I remember my fathers favourite mid morning snack was beef dripping on toast with salt and ground pepper...just taken me back to an earlier age and more pleasant place.

and by the way Black Pudding ( take bow to Northern moors) should only be cooked in a fry pan ;D and never roasted(uck ) or grilled (southern affectation )

regards
Alan

[dantovey]

mahking51 said:

Best , simplest and tastiest dish on planet:

Beef dripping on hot toast with salt and pepper - low cholesterol and full of vitamins!
Cheers,
Martin

I've always favoured pork dripping on toast - particularly the brown jelly at the bottom of the tub!

When I were a lad that was considered a meal

[engineerone]

dripping on toast, gawd.

during my apprenticeship at luton, on cold days in the service department, generally just after servicing the dustcart, they served elevenses, and dripping on white toast, boy that was wonderful, especially with the oil and cr*p on your hands ;D

that a large mug of stewed tea wunnerful

somehow claret, bread and runny brie at the side of a racetrack was never quite the same

paul

[Alf]

I'm just old enough to remember when the canteen at St Thomas' Hospital was still selling dripping on toast (20p I seem to recall). Can you imagine the outcry if such a thing was even seen on hospital premises these days?

By 'eck, but we were happy. A cardiac time bomb waiting to go off, but happy...

Cheers, Alf

[engineerone]

isn't interesting that many of us old timers managed to get as old as we have by eating so called bad food. dripping, fatty lamb,
mutton, etc., without getting too many problems with cholestorol or even heart problems.

twas only when we got started on processed foods, other than tins, that the problems developed. pretty sure mine started when looking after my old man before he died, and finished off some of the food he liked

interesting thought, he had prostate cancer, and his diet sheet included only fatty foods, apparantly fibre would have been bad for him post radio therapy can you imagine going to hospital and being given a diet sheet which included eggs and bacon, sausages and white bread?

paul

[dom]

Goodness, what an insight into the poverty of the lumpen proletariat.
I had no idea such privations existed.
Although I do recall, whilst sitting here at Valiant Hall, that previous to 'The Family' investing in a piece of desert in Clark County USA more popularly Las Vegas, Fried Polenta dipped in dripping was very popular,
Hence the reason for my not touching the stuff anymore it was revolting.
I longed to be like the other boys at school, so would swap my salami or veal escaloppe sandwiches for cheese and pickle or ham and tomato ;D

[engineerone]

not so much lumpen proletariat, rather us proper toffs
seeing what it was that the peasants eat, and ensuring we
did not spend too much of our inheritance ;D ;D

rather like only buying a new jacket if the old one had actually lasted more than two generations,and you were not fat enough to fit it


so now we know why italians think they can cook


paul

[dom]

THINK, THINK, whadya mean think.

Have you not seen the moderators.

[Scrit]

beech1948 said:

and by the way Black Pudding ( take bow to Northern moors) should only be cooked in a fry pan ;D and never roasted(uck ) or grilled (southern affectation )

I think my grand dad would have disagreed - he always had his boiled in salt water in their skins......

dantovey said:

I've always favoured pork dripping on toast - particularly the brown jelly at the bottom of the tub!

Have you ever tried the now banned pig's brawn? Wonderful grilled on fresh buttered toast and one of those "offal delicacies" we're no longer permitted to partake of.

Recently we've partaken of a real breakfast delicacy on several occasions, the dustbin lid....... This is a white soft flat batch, about 9 inches across and filled with 8 rashers of crispy bacon, two fried eggs, three fried sausages, fried mushrooms, three fried tomatoes and four slices of fried black pudding all for the princely sum of £2.55 (from one of the buttie places in Clitheroe). So there are some advantages to being a poor northern lad, even if one of them is a heart attack!

Scrit