Dinner of the Day.
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Mr. Tea
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Really?! Insanity! Where does that leave lobster thermidor?
Mr. Tea
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I had a ready meal with most of the same ingredients. Was OK, a bit bland. Proper cooking tomorrow.
luka
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This thread died a bit after version and Corpsey stopped posting. Now it's just show off dinners. Not that I don't appreciate those it's just I liked having the full dynamic range, the contrasts, the extremes. Corpseys tesco meal deal nights. Version eating little single serve flavoured yoghurts and a satsuma like a 6 year old.
Mr. Tea
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^^^
yyaldrin
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corpsey living of maltesers three days in a row 🔥
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
i added cumin, chili peppers and hindu masala to spice it
Mr. Tea
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I gave it a squirt of lime. It helped, a bit.
Leo
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separate courses, maybe next time for the tasting menu.
IdleRich
IdleRich
There aren't many top line restaurants like that here. There is Bel Canto which is michelin starred and I looked into going there for some special occasion but it's SO expensive, think it will be over 400 euros for two of us to go there (more if we drink more than one glass of wine) which is an insane price for Lisbon... can't justify it really.
I posted above the misery and annoyance of cooking for children. Oven chips as projectiles; the you will "eat that broccoli" staring match; ketchup fucking everywhere, absolute visceral quivering disgust when asked to eat a piece of aubergine, open mouthed gurning competitions, "how did you get that on the celling". The wins - airplane manoeuvre, rounds of applause at finishing peas, another foodstuff to add to the non-embargoed list. More emotional highs and lows that a whole series of Eastenders.
We won't be seeing many vension pies from Mr Tea in a few years time, I'll say that much.
Tonight, I had a failsafe learnt from Nigel Salter a long time ago, the easiest thing to cook that still feels like proper cooking - fish pan fried in butter, fresh butter in pan when done + squeeze of lemon for a sauce. Lush. I had cod tonight but works with any fillet of white fish. You can add capers, parsley etc etc.
And Happy Birthday Leo! You obvs love this thread.
Tonight, I had a failsafe learnt from Nigel Salter a long time ago, the easiest thing to cook that still feels like proper cooking - fish pan fried in butter, fresh butter in pan when done + squeeze of lemon for a sauce. Lush. I had cod tonight but works with any fillet of white fish. You can add capers, parsley etc etc.
And Happy Birthday Leo! You obvs love this thread.
The worst is when they cry. The shame. "I could've been in the Waffen SS, I would've fitted right in"
(hasn't happened often).
Slothrop
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Italian cooks tend to see seafood and cheese as things that should never be mixed - like, you generally won't even get parmesan on seafood pasta or whatever. ISTR that there are bunch of "oh, yeah, except for that" counterexamples, though.
I had chips inna pitta for dinner. The fancy street food van we intended to go to while the laundry did had sold out by 8pm because they weren't expecting people to want food on a Friday night or something, so we went to a shonky kebab shop instead.
Mr. Tea
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During the decade my parents lived in France, a dish they always did when I went to visit was a sort of version of lobster thermidor but made with massive prawns instead, which probably worked out somewhat cheaper, must have been less fiddly to make and I expect was just as tasty, given that lobsters are really just massive prawns anyway.
It became a sort of running joke in the family because of that Stuart Lee routine where he's talking about friends of his who've moved to France and constantly bang on about "the quality of life", so he presses and presses about what this actually means and really it boils down to the availability of massive prawns.
It became a sort of running joke in the family because of that Stuart Lee routine where he's talking about friends of his who've moved to France and constantly bang on about "the quality of life", so he presses and presses about what this actually means and really it boils down to the availability of massive prawns.
IdleRich
IdleRich
What massive prawns though? Probably giant tiger prawns I'm guessing and you can get them in some of the more hipster fish mongers in London. It's not like they're native to France, they come from Thailand. Here it's fairly common to see them in supermarkets and so on, also the scarlet prawns which are almost as big.
Apparently you can get mantis shrimp (wikipedia says they can grow up to 46cm long) on some menus in Portugal but I've never seen it - although when we went out into the lagoon in Setubal to watch flamingos the guy driving (steering, sailing I don't fucking know) the boat had one in a little tupperware box just to show us which he then released into th
Apparently you can get mantis shrimp (wikipedia says they can grow up to 46cm long) on some menus in Portugal but I've never seen it - although when we went out into the lagoon in Setubal to watch flamingos the guy driving (steering, sailing I don't fucking know) the boat had one in a little tupperware box just to show us which he then released into th
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