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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Hi, hi!
As most of you know, I started work again on Monday. Well, work... during a chat with my boss today he's said something like "Right, we should be busy in a couple of weeks. In the mean time... I'd imagine you have a lot of personal stuff to sort out, haven't you?"

So here I am. Quite happy with life, if a bit bored. I finished my lunch and I'll be going home in 4h...

Do you think you can keep me entertained during that time?

I haven't watched much TV during the last 4 months, what have I missed?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:50, 268 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
My 15" black rubber cock.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:51, Reply)
No way
You're showing it on TV as well? I though it was only for me.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:53, Reply)
It's good to have you back, this place has been fucking terrible without you.
I'm massively supremely jealous of your travels, you look like you had a great time.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:58, Reply)
Oh, you sweetheart!
The travel was great. I recommend it to everybody, if they can, and I hope I can do something similar in the not too far future.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
*plots to rob a bank*

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
To be fair
Money is not the real problem to go there. It's cheaps as chips (meals for less than a pound, bed for less than 3...) the problem is time.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:01, Reply)
If only that were true, dear.
If only that were true.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
We met a lot of people
with no money, no jobs back home, no homes, no nothing, who had just decided that enough was enough, and went travelling around. You can work for a week or two on a bar (ok, it's illegal, but everybody does it) and get enough money to get to the next place, and just keep going like that.

We're amazed at how brave some people are, having into account that calculated how much money we would spend, then double it, and save it before going.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)
If you're looking for entertainment you're in the wrong place.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:52, Reply)
It's been a long time
I've clearly forgotten the reality of B3ta and got a false, better image of it on my memory. BTW, who are you?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:54, Reply)
I'm the one you were going to leave your fiance for,
but then i had to get the last train home.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Oh, now I remember!
If you hadn't bought that super saver ticket, or if you hadn't been so tight and had paid for another one, our history could have been so different...
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:56, Reply)
Aww tear! lol I'd hate that.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:57, Reply)
I would too
You see, so many things in common.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
HAHA!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
Oh no, that RACIST is back.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:53, Reply)
Hi!
How are you, dear? I've missed you loads! When am I seeing you again?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Hello there.
I'm shit. Glad you aren't.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Sorry you are
Although it's not a surprise... what's wrong now?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I think it was Hitler's birthday a while back and he forgot.
He's a bit cut up about it.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:58, Reply)
I can't believe it!
What's wrong with the world! Monty forgetting Adolf's birthday!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:00, Reply)
As if I would forget that glorious day.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
Did you have a big party?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
It was a pool party
Well, more of a shower
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:07, Reply)
A shower party?
With boys wearing tight, wet swimming wear and that? I want to see pictures!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
More pyjamas than swimming trunks, really.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Cool tatts though

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Each one unique, too.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
I prefer the word 'rally', myself.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)
Sorry, I can't make a joke of that
I don't understand the word rally on this context.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Here you go:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
I see
Not my type of party, did you have fun?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Of course he did!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Well it was mainly work
but we all managed to let off steam afterwards.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Good
Did everybody left happy?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
Well some of the local businesses objected to our 'direct marketing' methods
but on the whole it was fine.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
There is always someone around
ready to complain. Don't listen to them, Monty.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Give him his Jew
He always listens to the voice of reason
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
Well, it's not for another 3 weeks anyway...

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
You have missed 8,468 repeats of 'Friends' and little else.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:54, Reply)
Good, good
I think I watched more TV during the holidays than in my whole life. All buses, trains and planes would be showing one film after another, no end.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:57, Reply)
There was the three part series following Lily Allen opening a shop and moaning the entire time.
Because it must be so hard to run a successful business when you have a budget of millions and magnitudes of free PR and press, not to mention a TV show about the whole thing.

I still love her though.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
I saw the add
and decided it was too crap even for me to watch.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:00, Reply)
I'm still here......trying to get male B3tans to sleep with me.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:55, Reply)
Yeah, yeah, I know
But it can't just be "any" male B3tan, eh? You have to have standards...
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:58, Reply)
Not that I've heard of

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 12:59, Reply)
She leaves pie as bait in her clopper

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:00, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Pastry doesn't agree with me.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:02, Reply)
If that was the case you'd have got a gaz by now.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:01, Reply)
There's over 80,000 possibles to send a gaz of love to, you'll hit me at some point

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:04, Reply)
I don't think the pie in my clopper will keep fresh that long.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:05, Reply)
It's a Fray Bentos, they're designed to survive nuclear holocaust

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:06, Reply)
Still in the tin?
Impressive.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:07, Reply)
We're not discussing just any clopper here

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
You get a click for this one

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:07, Reply)
I almost went to Fray Bentos
in Uruguay, but it was a bit out of the way.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
It's a shitty pie in a tin, you did well there

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
I have a friend
that only eats that and fish&chips
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Is this friend from the North of England?
Just a crazy stab in the dark here.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
He's from Wales
Thin like a stick insect.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
They also have poor personal hygiene and LARP as well, no?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
LARP?
No, he's clean (but he doesn't like cleaning the house) and he does a lot of exercise.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Get him a basic cook book and tell him to stop being bent

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
while you're at it, tell him to stop being Welsh as well.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
You can tell him that
He's lived in England most of his time now, and doesn't know a word in Welsh, but he'll be offended nevertheless.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
His fiance
Is a really good coock, and, very patiently, during 4 years, is been trying to help him to learn how to eat. He now can have spinachs, sometimes, and cooked on a special way only.

He only drinks smirnof ice too :) It's very funny to go out with him, he orders one, I order a pint, and the drinks are always served wrong.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
Couldn't I start off with a small tinned meat pudding and work my way up to a family size steak and mushroom?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Nah, we're talking fatties here
You need to keep them distracted for as long as possible whilst you lead them to your dungeon of desperation
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Dungeon of desperation?
I like that. I'm going to get a sign made for the bash.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)
You're /off topics very own Pepé Le Pew

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
hahaha!
Apart from the smelly bit.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
yeah, skunks don't smell that bad in comparison!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)

jelly.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1139815
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
I don't think it works like streching piercings.
Then again, I suppose it might.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
This is not just any pie in a clopper
This is a 21-day matured welsh black beef and ale pie, lovingly nestling in a warmed oak-aged clopper. This is BGB pie-in-a-clopper
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Reading this has actually made me feel hungry.
Hungry, then repulsed by myself.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Haha!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
I'm sorry that I daydreamed about eating a beef and ale pie
from your 'delta of Venus'. It was wrong and I know that now.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
and then hungry again
and then repulsed. And then hungry. and then you got an erection that could cut glass, amIright?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
I got an erection that could cut pie.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)
Hahaha!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Oh, well played.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
You've missed Masterchef
It's awesome. Tonight 9pm BBC1
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:01, Reply)
Masterchef?
A X-factor about cooking?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:05, Reply)
All the people who moaned about dead parents have been booted off now

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:06, Reply)
So it's only
100% cooking all the time?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
Mostly, it's pretty awesome, it's more about chefing than cooking though.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
As in, workloads, catoring, food porn.... rather than putting ingredients together.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
Interesting
I'll have a look as soon as I have a tv again. In a month or so...
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:14, Reply)
iPlayer it =)

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
That's an idea
At the moment I'm just crashing at my in-law's, so I have no choice over the TV controller; and the walls on the house are too thick, so the wi-fi only works in the kitchen. But that's the place to watch Masterchef, isn't it?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
when Masterchef Australia is on again watch that
it is much better.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
I hear this a lot, but how much barbequeing can you actually watch

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
a surprising amount
seriously though, the quality of the cooking is much higher, the judges are much less annoying, some of the contestants tend to be quite fit.

The two main judges are really good chefs and they do a Masterclass every week, and between that and various other bits, I've learned an absolute shitload about how to cook better.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Where is it on?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:27, Reply)
it's on a channel called Watch
not sure when it starts again. It's on almost every day though, so requires some commitment
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
Don't get that...

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:33, Reply)
povvo

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I'd agree on two out of the three
the cooking quality isn't higher. The judges standards are lower. Although, generally I prefer masterchef the professionals to the standard program for that same reason.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
I disagree
but I'm probably thinking more towards the end of the show, when there are't many left and they are doing some pretty hardcore things.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:32, Reply)
Which is your right.
But being able to cook isn't about doing hardcore things. it's how well you do the really, really simple things, and understanding flavours (there you go, Monty, happy?). Masterchef Oz tends to have contestants that care too much about how many clever things they did. Although I don't watch it regularly to be fair.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
I think the program is a little confused, is it
a: a who is the best cook program
b: a who has the potential to be a professional chef program
c: Gonz's wet dream
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
Seriously, australian girls are well nice, they're generally good looking, have a good attitude.
They're like americans if america didn't have religion, and south africa if they didn't have appartihide.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
and they'll let you do them up the dirtbox for a couple of VBs

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
what's not to like there?
bonza
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
Ecstatic.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
ah yes, see where you are coming from
in the couple of series I've watched there have been typically one or two people who have the skills with flavour and stuff, but you are right, in that respect Professionals is better.

Bottom line is though, I've learned a load about technique from watching it, which has improved my application of my ideas, and I've found the show thoroughly entertaining.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
You two, I'm wondering, what is your favorite dish you make reguarly? Question is open to everyone else.
I'm not talking about your best dish in terms of quality, but in terms of overall ease/price/enjoyability?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
spaghetti carbonara probably
made without cream.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:37, Reply)
0o0o0o0oh, how do you do that?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
With an egg and some parmesan
it should never have cream if it's traditional
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
depends
but it should only be a very small amount of cream, if there is.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
tis easy
the proper one has no onion in it, or mushroom, so add or leave out as you want,

For 2 people

Soften some finely chopped onion and crisp some pancetta
Add a couple of cloves of sliced garlic and fry briefly
Meanwhile cook the pasta until al denté
Beat 3 eggs with 50g of grated parmesan (or mix of parmesan and gran padano) add a shitload of very finely chopped parsley and black pepper
Transfer the pasta out of the water into the pan with the onion, pancetta etc. and mix. Keep the pasta water.
Remove from the heat and mix the egg and cheese mixture into the pan. Heat from the pasta etc. should cook the eggs. If it starts to go a bit scrambled eggy chuck in a bit of pasta water so it goes glossy.
Serve in warm bowls (surprisingly important)
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
I don't think 'dente' has an accent on it.
I may be wrong though.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I wasn't sure either

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
ohhh, I'll try that one, I have some bacon that needs to be used up too, only thing I'd need to buy is the parmasaen
ASDA have started doing duck eggs and I'm so pleased, I bet that would work well, more yolk and less white.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I find the pre-grated parmesan works well, because it is really fine.
not the dried stuff though.

Duck egg would work great I reckon. Very rich though, and you would almost certainly need to stick some of the pasta water in there.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Ace.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
lose the onions and garlic
and replace 3 eggs with 6 yolks, double the parmesan, add a tiny bit of double cream and that's basically how I do it
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)
also good
more authentic as well I suspect.

I like a bit of garlic in there though.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:52, Reply)
Oh man, sounds good, really rich though, which is a good thing.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
it's meant to be
you really only eat small amounts of it and it's a hardcore main course. But most Italian pasta dishes are meant to be starters, really.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I love carbonara

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
I can't have it in restaurants any more because mine is almost always better
same with risotto
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Lately instead of getting expensive sushi, I've been making my own dishes with lobster.
It's a lot cheaper, about half the price all-in-all, and soo nice. But sometimes I just want to eat out.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)
there is something nice about eating out
but decent restaurants are few and far between around me, unless you want to pay a lot. I've had far better cheaper meals in London than down here, variety and competition make a big difference.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
I'm quite spoilt where I live and work for resturants, I pretty much have access to every quizeen I want at any level I want.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
I am quite envious
we've only just got a sushi place, and it is not cheap.

mostly it's low-quality italian or steak and fajita type places around here. Or Nandos
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:01, Reply)
My ma' was telling me about a new american resturant that has oppened up not far from me...
... I'm going there for mothers day to try it out, if they do really good Ribs, I'll be fucking made up, even more so if they do Burnt Ends.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)
oh man
we have a place here called Starz. Their ribs are fucking heavenly.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:08, Reply)
Sweet !

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)
You should join toptable
book your restaurants through it and get one meal free every 7, plus other rewards.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)
Ohh, I'll check that out.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:10, Reply)
I've discovered very nice restaurants in Manchester with it
and I'm starting with London now. You get good discounts as well.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:19, Reply)
I make a fantastically superb
chocolate cake. I don't like chocolate, so I haven't tried it, but I know it's great.

My stuffed peppers, potatoes&green and stuffed eggs go down very well too.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
All the local shops sale "Egg Colouring", yellow, blue and red. I think it's an iranian thing.
What do you stuff the peppers with?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Traditionally
with slow cooked cod and white sauce. If I'm in a rush, tinned tunna and tomatoe sauce, but this are special peppers, oven baked and peeled.

The green comes from the coriander, no colouring on my potatoes!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)
Can't stand Tuna, but the cod sounds good. How do you stuff your peppers?
I do a really nice dish where I cook some cuscus in chicken stock, toast some pine nuts and dried fruit, mix it all up, stuff it in a red pepper and put a small dollop of a sauce (tandoori paste, stir-in pasta sauce, whatever you fancy) and top with some motzerlla... then bake until the motzerlla gets crisp. s00o0o0o0o nice.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:15, Reply)
That sounds really nice
The pepers take some time:

First swallow fry thin sliced onion and peppers, when they're golden, add the codd with spices that you might like (pepper, basil...) and let it cook slowly. Prepare quite a lot of white sauce in the meantime.

When the cod is ready mix it with part of the white sauce, stuff the peppers with it. Then, prepare a plate with whisked egg and another with flower and put the peppers first on the egg, then on the flower. Then swallow fry the peppers.

Get a baking tray, put the peppers there, cover with the rest of the white sauce and cheese if you fancy, and put in the oven until golden.

Voila!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:22, Reply)
Those potatoes and green were magnificent!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I'll try to make more
for BGB's party. Are you coming?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I make Nigel Slater's simple sausages with creamy mustard pasta
a panzanella (Italian bread and tomato salad) and some rocket salad every other week, it's cheap easy and delicious.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
I hated Nigel when he did that thing with celebrities, cooking the food of their childhood and all that, he came off as really creepy.
But I love his autobiography (both book and film) and his Simple Suppers series.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
He's a fucking bender
but his recipes are excellent. His lentil dal recipe cannot be faulted.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
I've been after a lentil daal recipe
so I will find his and make it
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
Thai green curry or beef stew.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
Sounds good,
marks'n'sparks do a "Petang curry paste" that is fucking lush if you posh it up with some chilli and coriyanda, and then a bunch of coconut milk.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Oooh, this reminded me of you.

c4b

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:44, Reply)
Mmmmmm
Musky.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
All see amazing roast lunches, all meets all accompaniments
good value as the meat lasts into the week
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
I'll be honest, I find roast dinners borring, but i love roast dinner sandwiches.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
You'd like mine, I promise!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
My sort-of-chilli con carne
Doesn't cost a huge amount, and I can make 10 portions out of it.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
TGB did a chilli-con-carn about a month ago, I only had a spoon full but it was soo lush.
I want to see if there is any truth to adding dark chocolate and chicken livers.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Black treacle is what you want.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:52, Reply)
I second this
also, jack daniels
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:53, Reply)
Don't mind if I do, old boy.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
did I tell you about the Smoked Tabasco you can get?
my bro had some. not as hot as regular tabasco, but beautiful taste
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
I really want some of that, sounds great

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:08, Reply)
agreed
although I use dark chocolate and sugar to achieve exactly the same effect, mostly because I have no other use for black treacle and it's a bugger to use.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
Let me guess the recipe:
'Line a pizza box with a liberal coating of chips. Sprinkle over doner meat, garnish with pakoras and coleslaw. You can have chicken wings in there too but they aren't trasitional and don't add much to the dish so I leave them out - but it's up to you. Some people also like to add finely chopped sausage in batter. It's very adaptable to what you have left in your deep fat fryer.

I got the original recipe from Neil Buchanan but I like to think I've made it my own now'
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)
Nope
I used 3 rashers of bacon, 8 slices of fresh chorizo, 2 large carrots, a courgette, 600g of mince, 2 tins tomatoes, 1 tin sweetcorn, 2 red peppers, 2 medium onions, pack of chestnut mushrooms, then I cheated and used spice mixes, black pepper, salt, lazy chilli (or a scotch bonnet, deseeded) and lea & perrins.

I've also included Spicy Sausage in there, and while it flavoured the chilli, the meat itself wasn't very nice afterwards.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Of course you do.
*scratches chin in exaggerated manner*
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:04, Reply)
I've only started using Chilli since around christmas, as I always thought they'd be too hot and not add any flavour.
But I was so wrong, chillis are awesome, I buy the mild ones on account of spaz-guts, but I'd try different types when I can get my hands on them. SB's are too much though.

The "Very Lazy" series of ingredients, garlic and chilli ones, are fucking amazing cheats.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:05, Reply)
I generally find that hotter chillis have better flavour
just need to be careful how much you use
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:06, Reply)
You must try Aji Lima chillies, they come dried
and have the most incredible flavour. You soak them in warm water before use.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:13, Reply)
I quite like dried stuff that has been rehydrated... a couple of nights ago I soaked some posh dried mushrooms, stired it through rice with petti pois and baked.
I then stired through sweet chilli and oh me goodness, so simple, so nice.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:17, Reply)
Fuck off Gregg.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
regularly?
Thai green curry or a couple of kashmiri curry dishes that use black masala, and home made black masala rocks.

Or else proper lasagne (that's no tinned tomatos and half pork half veal) if I've got more time.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Is the kashmiri curry the one with the lychees?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
nah mate, it's just a region, not a dish. so a style, like thai is a style

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)
Ahhh, coolio.
There is a well lush thai place near me that has just expanded their menu, really nice gardens, I go there with my ma' and uncle every couple of months. One of the new things on their menu was like an edible basket filled with a curry sauce with lychees and scallops, it was soo nice.

They do something weird though, and I'm not sure if it's a thai thing, but their Tempora is what the Japanese call Katsu.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:55, Reply)
my mrs makes an incredible chicken katsu curry

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)
Panko is amazing, I don't see the point in any other form of breadcrumb now.
I don't mean I don't see the point of any other kind of batter, but for breadcrumbed stuff, Panko is the way to go.

Does she do her own sauce?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:57, Reply)
she made her own panko
and made the sauce from scratch.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:58, Reply)
niiice.
Would you be interested in writing recipies for coll3ctive?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
I suspect I would

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:00, Reply)
*gaz*

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:02, Reply)
Kashmiri curries
tend to containing fruit and almonds both of which I cannot abide in a curry.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:56, Reply)
I think they work really well, but I can see why people don't like them.
I used to get a Korma with Passwari Nun, it's barely not a desert.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:59, Reply)
only when you buy them from curry houses who are being lazy, dear chap
it's just a spice style. Grated, you'll get more fruit in curries up there becuase it's a more staple part of the diet, but it's by no means set in stone.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:02, Reply)
I've never tasted one, I have to admit.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:03, Reply)
Most people are put off
because "chicken kashmir" just seems to be a korma with fruit in it. Best cookbook I ever got (well, ignoring Larousse and Leiths since you'll call me a fucking ponce) is a decent Indian one, explaining the regions and spices and styles.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:09, Reply)
I have a good one of those too
my massive collection of Carrier's Kitchen takes some beating though.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Bible is quite extensive.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:16, Reply)
This is probably my most prized cook book, excluding ma's ones that we share.
www.amazon.co.uk/Evelyn-Complete-International-Jewish-Cookbook/dp/1861051433
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:20, Reply)
Do you add some sort of liver into your lasagnia?
I once saw someone do what looked like essenchally a fish pie, a luxoury one with scallops and prawns and lobseter, but with lasagnia instead of potato. Looked well lush.

God, I fucking love Lobster.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:51, Reply)
liver goes in meat lasagne for richness, yeah
but it's really about how long you cook the meat ragu for and how you do it.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:03, Reply)
Nah, masterchef is decent TV and requires talent and hardcore commitment from the contestants.
and to be fair, pre-dates Britain Must Be Stopped Factor by about 20 years at least.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Cool
I hate x-factor type programs. I'll try to have a look.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Has it still got the irritatingly-pompus John Terode and the frustratingly-wonky Gregg the Egg on it?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
yes and yes

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:16, Reply)
yeah, but you can mostly put up with them. Well, I can.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:16, Reply)
I fucking can't, they make me want to repeatedly jab white hot asparagus into my eyes.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
'Gregg' Wallace is a fucking disgrace to humanity.
He looks like Humpty fucking Dumpty and knows precisely sod fucking all about food other than he sells carrots to restarants and he's eaten rather too much of it over the years. I loathe him.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
Did he start greggs the "bakers"?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
No but by the looks of him
he singlehandedly provides them with 40% of their turnover.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Apple or cherry?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
'six of each and some extra whipped cream on the side, love, ta.
Deep fried lard doesn't get better than this'
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Greg only has 3 lines
"That boy can cook", "The [attribute] of the [ingredient] (repeat for list) and the" and "Luuuvly".

For that middle one, it's hard to explain, but he always does it.

$dish = 1234; // smoked kippers
$ingrients = $this->db->query('select attribute, ingredient from dishes where dish = %s', $dish);
foreach ($ingrients as $i) { echo "The ".$i['attribute']." of the ".$i['ingredient']." and the, "; }
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Did you have an epilectic fit half way through that post?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
Is that a rare kind of tree?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:22, Reply)
No idea what you're talking about old boy

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Now sneakily correct 'epileptic' and you won't look like a cunt at all.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
i thought that looked wrong, never mind
*is cunt*
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
That removes hairs from one's legs?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Fuck off Greg.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:16, Reply)
He'll start crapping on about 'flavours' in a minute, I bet you.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:17, Reply)
FUck oFf Greg.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
haha,.
Nah, that's one of the few things where some of the contestants genuinely impress me. I'm sure I could cook as well as plenty of them but no way could I cook under pressure or in a professional kitchen.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:26, Reply)
Fuck off Greg.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
The Killing on BBC4 . 'Twas brilliant.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:03, Reply)
I'll have a look
Is it scary? I don't like scary.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:05, Reply)
no it's a danish crime mystery

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:24, Reply)
"who stole my fucking pastry?!"

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:26, Reply)
You stole this exact post out of my brain!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:30, Reply)
You missed a superb 3-part BBC2 documentary series on Biblical history`
I myself missed the third one but the other two were marvellous.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:07, Reply)
Is this due to wanking yourself blind?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:08, Reply)
During last week's episode
I actually wanked myself back into the C9th BC.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Wank?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
jersey shoooooooore

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:09, Reply)
I saw a bit of this, what is wrong with them all?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:11, Reply)
more like what is wrong with you
if you had noel's 15" black rubber cock in your arse you'd loosen up a bit
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:14, Reply)
Just because you're neighbours ;)

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
I had a dream last night that I was at the shore and it was so_much_fun
le sigh
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:20, Reply)
Do you have fake teeth/boobs/tan/hair/gucci shoes?
Are you a hideous member of the human race?

No, well you won't enjoy it there.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:21, Reply)
a bit of my front tooth is fake, does that count?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Only if it is white enough to reflect enough light to blind a goat

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
:'((((((
but but but
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:46, Reply)
I don't know how
I read: "I had a dream last night ans I was all shore and it was so much fun"

I don't know if you spell the shore I want to say like that, but it sounds the same. Maybe sore?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:23, Reply)
Someone trashed the Blue Peter garden
I'm looking at you Boyce
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:10, Reply)
I have a cast-iron alibi: I was spark out on the floor in front of my parents.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:12, Reply)
Any slipper vomit involved?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:13, Reply)
Chloroform and lurpack mainly

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:15, Reply)
About two litres of what looked like vegetable soup
but with a disagreeable bile-like tang to it.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:16, Reply)
I'm really glad I've finished my minestrone soup

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)
I'm sure you will be seeing it again soon!

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:19, Reply)
Good imagery there

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:18, Reply)
Aber!
Darling! How are you? Tell me everything
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:29, Reply)
Hello, love!!
How's your live?

Everything.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:34, Reply)
you DO NOT wantb to know everything, trust me
*stares into middle distance*
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:36, Reply)
Good thank you
Much better for seeing you, obv. Where are you based now? What's marriage like? I've always wondered
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
They call them 'civil partnerships' for your lot.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Blacks?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
7/10
Quite good.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:47, Reply)
I'm working in Marble Arch
Leaving in Woking for a few weeks and then moving to Redhill.

Marriage is bless. I don't know why, if it's the holidays or what, but I feel so happy. And I look at him, and I know he loves me so much he that he wants to be with me forever and doesn't mind writing it down in front of everybody, and I just fill with joy!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I wish I could think of a way of saying how much I like this
other than "I like this"

Very happy for you indeed :-)
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:48, Reply)
Thank you
I'm really happy too, to the point of thinking I'm sickening other people. I think I'm the only one on the tube with a smile!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:11, Reply)
that's really quite sweet
and pretty much how I feel about it
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:49, Reply)
Isn't it weird?
I had heard before that it didn't really change anything, getting married, but I do feel so happy about it.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:11, Reply)
I'm not sure whether reading this fills me more with jealousy or nausea
either way, it's very sweet and you're very lucky. Welcome back Aber, how was South America?
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:50, Reply)
Sorry for the nausea
I know, I shouldn't talk about him much.

SA was great. Of course, in 10 weeks some bad things happen. The good ones were so much better that I'd forget the bad things almost straight away!
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:12, Reply)
Aww, I'm made up for you =)

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:19, Reply)
Hello!
Welcome back (again)!

I'm ridiculously jealous of your travels, ended up looking through half your albums the other night after you confirmed you went to Macchu Picchu.

I've just started watching a new series from America called 'No Ordinary Family'. It's very silly, but so far has been quite enjoyable. Plus, it's got Julie Benz in, and I have quite a thing for her.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:31, Reply)
I've heard it's not bad
So I'll have a look as soon as we get a TV.

As I told Noel, if you have the time, don't worry about the money. Travel in SA is terribly cheap, and most people do it without any savings, just enough for the plane ticket.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Currently the plane ticket would bankrupt me, but it's still a damn tempting idea to do in a year or so.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
You can buy only one way
and work your way through SA until you get money to come back.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
Translated
*Wanks at thought of goti*

*I have been stalking you through facebook and masturbating whilst wearing my mothers dirty knickers and cumming in my own mouth*

*NNnbbrbn nnrnnrbbbrrrrgggg I'm a spastic watching spastic Television*
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:35, Reply)
Considering she's been dead 15 years, I really should have got rid of them by now, shouldn't I?

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:39, Reply)
That's why they're so dirty

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:42, Reply)
I'll get rid of them, as soon as I can chisel them off the ceiling
It was a rather enthusiastic wank the other night, and I couldn't be bothered to get them down once I'd splooged them up there.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:45, Reply)
Hahahahha, I like to go through people from here's facebook photos too, especially if they're female or have fit mates.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:38, Reply)
It's not that I'm perving, it's simply the 21st century equivalent of inviting someone round to see your holiday snaps, I feel.

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:40, Reply)
I agree with you
If I didn't want people to see them, I wouldn't post them in facebook.
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)
I'm only messin =)

(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 14:18, Reply)

jealous of your travels camp
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:41, Reply)
Oh you!
*minces away*
(, Wed 30 Mar 2011, 13:43, Reply)

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