Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Hearty stews, cheap and easy one-pot winter warmers and the like. No poncey stuff.
Hearty stews, cheap and easy one-pot winter warmers and the like. No poncey stuff.
"Hearty unpretentious peasant food" is waaay up there on the bourgeois food one-upmanship scale, though, isn't it? About the only thing that beats it is stuff that can be described as "street food". It's when not-poncey wraps around and becomes poncey again.
In any case, good food is good food regardless of who likes it, so keep going.
"Hearty unpretentious peasant food" is waaay up there on the bourgeois food one-upmanship scale, though, isn't it? About the only thing that beats it is stuff that can be described as "street food". It's when not-poncey wraps around and becomes poncey again.
In any case, good food is good food regardless of who likes it, so keep going.
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Just remembered, fagioli all'uccelletto is a great easy veggie dinner. A tin of tomatoes and white beans stewed with garlic and sage. Pre-cook some dried beans for cheap, or use a tin for easy. Serve it with bread, and add some excitement by sticking an egg or the inevitable halloumi on top.Although I guess that's partly influenced by cooking veggie almost all the time.
Yeah, for sure, it's just that if we're going to wax lyrical about hearty peasant stews too much then we'll be on shaky ground when we subsequently direct bile at "twee" people who buy "artisan mustard" or whatever.Well yeees, but as you say yourself, you can go so far out of your way to be anti-pretentious that you end up sounding pretentious about it - so I think it's fine to have a thread about good, relatively easy/inexpensive recipes that a lot of us will enjoy sharing and trying out, regardless of what language you use. There's is surely nothing more middle-class - in the most tiresome possible way - than overanalyzing absolutely everything and getting worked up about whether this or that thing is too 'bourgeois'.
Sorry, I do kind of see what you're getting at, but if it's bad to sound poncy but also bad to sound un-poncy in case this is actually double-secret-meta-ponciness in disguise, then you start to be seriously constrained in what you can actually say at all.
Eat what you like. It's just the doublethink between this and, say, the "twee" thread that bothers me.