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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So why do some foods taste better when they get cooked for a second time?
Curry
Lasagne
Chilli con carne

Not had a recipe thread for a bit.

Suggest some new things.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 19:37, 128 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I made these over the weekend that came out well nice.
www.paulypops.com/kitchen/recipes/cheapncheerfull-prawn-egg-fried-rice/
www.paulypops.com/kitchen/recipes/totally-awesome-ramen-soup-with-beef/

I think baked dishes in general are nicer re-heated (as opposed to cooking for longer) because it concentrates the flavours without burning. Plus, there is a phsycological point, in that you've got a delicious home cooked meal for no effort the second time 'round.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 19:47, Reply)
Have you tried gnocchi yet? I recall mentioning it a while ago and you said you'd never tried it.
Try it in a cheese and leek sauce with diced chicken (thigh meat has more flavour).
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 19:52, Reply)
Yup ! I think I tried it that day or the day after and now it's a semi-regular.
I especially like it baked or fried so it goes crispy. Over the weekend I saw someone make Gnocchi using Parmesan, Masciponi and flour, which got my interest up.

I know it's not 'like mama back in little Italy makes', but Tesco do a sundried tom stuffed one that for a few quid is delicious.

Thanks for pointing that one out though, it's great.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 19:59, Reply)
I bought a bottle of HP sauce with Guinness in it ages ago
Based solely on your recommendation.

I didn't like it.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:05, Reply)
Same with Guinness marmite. Not good.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:07, Reply)
Aw man, I love the stuff, they've stopped making it now but they still had it in Morrisons, so I now have 6 bottles.
I struggle to eat a fry-up/fish'n'chips without it now.

I don't know why, but for me it ticks all the boxes.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:10, Reply)
Not that I have that every week, but when I do, I like the stuff.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:13, Reply)
You should try and make your own.
HP sauce with Gonzinness.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:13, Reply)
* boke *
He'd probably fry it.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:15, Reply)
Maybe "Taste No.5" with ketchup and HP Sauce?
Could possibly work.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:33, Reply)
Fried? Fucking hell Gonz.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:08, Reply)
Yeah' man, not like deep fried, just sauted in some garlic, chilli and a drop of olive-oil.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:11, Reply)
I'm struggling tonight. I want something REALLY hot.
Six types of chilli, plus flakes, powered chilli, half a bottle of Tabasco, loads of naga sauce. NOTHING. I think the heat has broken my taste buds.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:20, Reply)
You mean you've added all that stuff and you're getting no heat out of it?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:51, Reply)
I have added loads. Twice. Still very little heat. Flavour is ok.
Birds eye, ghost, scotch bonnet, home grown chilli, plus flakes, hot sauce, naga sauce, Tabasco, hot powder.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:56, Reply)
What's the dish ?
I'm a proper poof when it comes to capsicorn, much more than jalapeno and i'm in trouble.

But opening up to 'medium' heat curries has totally opened up a whole market for me, most of them aren't even that hot.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:05, Reply)
Lime & chilli chicken.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:07, Reply)
Wankers.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:40, Reply)
Yeah thanks for your advice about my chilli crisis.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:46, Reply)
Like you'd take my advice on anything.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:48, Reply)
If you had genuine suggestions about this I would consider them.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 20:50, Reply)
I don't do much with chillies beyond using them in chilli.
I prefer Italian.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:10, Reply)
Well that doesn't help me. Thanks. For nothing.
xx
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:13, Reply)
np m8

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:17, Reply)
Don't do skater boi chat.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:18, Reply)
NO PROBLEM MATE
Jesus fuck, that's text chat, not sk8 chat.

What a fucking ignorant prick.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:20, Reply)
I'm bored.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:23, Reply)
I'm Battered. Hi!

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:28, Reply)
New thread?
Juicer?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:28, Reply)
We need a new thread about AlfonsoBonzo69 deleting his Twitter account for being outed as a child raping deviant.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:35, Reply)
We need a new thread about how fucked your pension pot's going to be once your ex-wife gets her mitts on it.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:37, Reply)
Is it true you've not been around much recently because Nakers bought a Paul Smith suit
And all you've got are a knock-off cufflinks?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:37, Reply)
No.
And they are not knock offs. They were bought in the Paul Smith shop which used to be in York.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:41, Reply)
Yeah yeah. Tell it to your hamster.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:43, Reply)
She's the size of a lion in your Borrower eyes.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:45, Reply)
Says someone even shorter than all 5'5'' of Gonz.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:48, Reply)
Haha!
Nah, taller than that innit.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:49, Reply)
I'm not surprised Paul Smith pulled the shop in York
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2365732/Lorry-driver-captures-decline-factories-shops-1970s-Leeds-Motorway-City.html

not if the surrounding areas are anything to go by.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:50, Reply)
That was the 70s you nobber.
Leeds is really cool these days.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:51, Reply)
When you do your washing
Is it true you get fined if you don't hang it out over the street on a clothes line that goes across the road between the houses.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:53, Reply)
They can't hang their clothes out. People steal them if you do.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:55, Reply)
Is that why Dozer suggested you might be a Borrower
Because the bigger boy have been giving him grief over his choice of shirt and he has decided he doesn't like them?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:57, Reply)
Or keep anything else outside for that matter, not unless they want it smashed up or torched by feral kids.
/ex-resident of south Leeds
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:07, Reply)
Alright woodside.
Did you see this earlier?


b3ta.com/questions/bodyhorror/post2016717
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:14, Reply)
Yeah, it's yet another narcissistic Ringo tantrum.
Best not to feed the fire, I think.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:16, Reply)
What's washing?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:56, Reply)
And in any case, your lot never go into the districts where those photos were taken.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:56, Reply)
'my lot?'
Coming from a bisexual tranny, I'm wondering what you mean here.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:04, Reply)
hobbits?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:12, Reply)
Economic tourists.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:19, Reply)
I have a house to pay for.
There are precious few jobs in the city I live in which will pay enough to do so.

I have no beef with council estates; I grew up in a council house and I'm working class. Working class hasn't meant 'working with your hands' for decades, that whole hands/ head dichotomy is long dead.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:22, Reply)
*holds head in hands*

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:26, Reply)
*pours pint over it*

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:28, Reply)
*is bitter*
?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:28, Reply)
fuck of are you working class.
you fucking nouveau riche marketing cunt in your poncy cloths.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:27, Reply)
I'm not going to argue it with you. Not that I have to, anyway.
I suppose dropping out and having a purple mohican at nearly forty marks you out as a rebel rather than pathetic.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:30, Reply)
saying you're not going to argue
and then arguing is a little silly, no?

I make no claims about my self, other than that I've not dropped out of anything I'm aware of. I wouldn't claim to be a rebel, I wouldn't claim to be anything particularly, I leave that to posers like you.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:33, Reply)
Well yes, because deliberately making yourself look like a tit with a purple mohican isn't posing or adopting a striking visual identity, no sirree Bob.
EDITATION:

And by 'not arguing it', I meant 'argue' in its proper sense, i.e. a discussion of the meaning of working class.

So no, I'm not arguing it with you.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:36, Reply)
I like purple, I like mohicans, when I look in the mirror it makes me happy.
If you could be happy without the constant whining need to seek validation in the eyes of others I might respect you a bit.

Now tell me how you don't need anyone else's respect, least of all mine. Then tell your self that, repeat it often enough and you might start to believe it.

Actually, thinking about it, it's pretty obviously daddy issues, which is understandable under the circumstances, so I should feel pity really rather than irritation, but seriously, find a good counselor you'll feel better for it and the nice funny guy that is fighting you get out from behind the insecure twat might make more of an appearance.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:43, Reply)
I like nice shirts, I like accessorising.
What's the problem with that?

I think you have some issues with what you perceive to be 'mainstream behaviour'.

I wish we could have a pint, get a bit tipsy, then reenact the Reed/ Bates Women in Love scene. I'd be Reed of course.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:46, Reply)
I think you have some issues with your perception of me
rather than reality, but hey, wotcha gonna do?

yeah, a pint would be good, but, as I said to swipe the other day, no I will not fuck you.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:54, Reply)
I'm a top, not a bottom, so you fucking me would never be on the menu.
Sozzles old bean xx

And oh yer, there are perception problemos on both sides here, which is more or less the point I was making.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:56, Reply)
possibly, but you seem to actively go out of your way to appear a vain tedious cunt
you can hardly object when people see you as one.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:58, Reply)
Everyone has a persona on here old boy, you know that.
And everyone has varying degrees of distance between their persona and who they are.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:59, Reply)
I'm too mental to maintain one for any length of time.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:01, Reply)
Good old 'Lithium Wilf'.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:05, Reply)
yeah, that wasn't a meme of my making.
not worth arguing with though.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:14, Reply)
There's no shame in receiving treatment for a psychiatric condition xx

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:14, Reply)
there wasn't when I did, no.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:21, Reply)
alright Freefair
I've spent my entire working life around folk who could reasonably be called working-class. You are not working-class.

You tit.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:29, Reply)
alright Citizen Smith
I grew up with kids whose dads worked on the oil rigs. Very coarse men- coarse in manners, views and education. They also got paid extremely well and bought their council houses, had two car families and probably voted Labour; I never asked, I was just a kid.

That's working class. Or is it? Because you know, home ownership and two car households etc are pretty middle class, aren't they? Long term unemployment and council housing is what? Lower middle? Upper working? Help me out here, you're the John Berger around here, chronicling the decline and passing of the peasant way of life, please elucidate.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:34, Reply)
There's no shame in being middle-class.
On the other hand, claiming to be something you really aren't, without even being aware of why you aren't it, is laughable.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:49, Reply)
You're not stupid Woodsie, not in the slightest
So you should be totes on-message about how traditional definitions of class have shifted considerably over the last thirty-odd years. There's more to class than occupation or income bracket or schooling or reading habits.

You know this, you must do.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:52, Reply)
so how does one decide these days?
I'm genuinely a bit lost one where I fall. I think lower middle, but could very well be wrong.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:59, Reply)
Ask Wooderz, he's the expert.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:00, Reply)
I was asking you, as you seem to have opinions.
but feel free not to risk expressing a sincere opinion
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:02, Reply)
Down a hole whilst cycling, hopefully

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:04, Reply)
clickin dis

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:06, Reply)
you handle rejection badly ginge.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:09, Reply)
I LoL'd at my own wit

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:12, Reply)
gosh, you are easily amused.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:13, Reply)
Well, one lol is better than none, eh chubbo?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:13, Reply)
Says the guy who "clicked 'dis"

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:15, Reply)
It takes a lot for me to even crack a smile.
I click only rarely. Nothing on here has genuinely made me physically lol in a long long time.

Awright babydoll?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:17, Reply)
Try a mirror?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:19, Reply)
Nah, I'm not good with mirrors.
I get entranced and stay there for hours.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:21, Reply)
Yes, it's a state of mind.
My previous point still stands though.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:01, Reply)
Indeed it is a state of mind.
But I ent going to beaker about it here.

You ever in Leeds city centre?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:04, Reply)
Only to catch trains.
I live in Cleckheaton and work in Halifax, so it's a long way out of my way, usually the wrong way.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:07, Reply)
Cleck and Halifax are way out of my way.
I only frequent Leeds and York, sozzles.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:08, Reply)
There's a cracking boozer on the platform at Dewsbury station, 15 minutes past Leeds.
Added bonus: you don't even have to see any of Dewsbury itself.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:19, Reply)
How easy is it to ticket dodge?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:20, Reply)
Depends how crowded it is.
Inspectors generally start checking tickets at the back and work their way forwards, so if it's really rammed you might be able to get away with it if you're in the front coach.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:24, Reply)
I was born in halifax
My uncle and cousin are still there. Don't go much since my grandma died, but I always like going, it reminds me of being little. Some stunning scenery there.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:13, Reply)
You're not wrong there.
Plus where I work is quite high up, so you get some fantastic views across the valley and over the moorlands.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:17, Reply)
I like savile park when the crocuses come out too
It's such a shame so much of the town centre is run down, such pretty buildings
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:18, Reply)
Do you think Battered ever uses that phrase? Or does he say 'when I was very young'?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:18, Reply)
says the man an inch shorter than him.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:20, Reply)
ACTUALLY
Tangers reckons I'm taller than Battso. But not by much.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:22, Reply)
nope, you've both posted your heights and you're shorted.
tangl;es is a fucking beanpole, so you're both way down from him.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:23, Reply)
Until the day that Battered and I stand back to back and someone checks, I'll go with the viewpoint of someone who has actually met the both of us.
I mean, that seems like the most sensible course of action.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:25, Reply)
What, and the hamster wriggles from your butt to his?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:26, Reply)
why the massive denial? you a short man, possibly the shortest here.
all this 'average height' bullshit is like a guy with a small dick trying to fool himself...
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:29, Reply)
why all the h8ing?
Why do you feel the need to paint me as the shortest man here? Which is Gonz, by all accounts.

Maybe if I grew a mohican I would look a bit taller, eh?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:30, Reply)
you couldn't carry it off.
'night.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:32, Reply)
Work want me to go to Halifax.
I have yet to find a decent hotel.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:23, Reply)
Good luck there.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:24, Reply)
I found some sort of castle type thing
But I'd need to book all of the rooms, which would put me over the allowed expense for the night.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:26, Reply)
Speaking of castles, I saw the perfect period property in York for my next house.
I know it's not a castle, but it's close enough for me:

www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/26532968
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:29, Reply)
Makes sense.
York has absolutely no history whatsoever of flooding.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:31, Reply)
I thought precisely the same thing.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:32, Reply)
Have a look round Elland and/or Brighouse.
They're just down the road and nearer the motorway, so they should have a bit more choice.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:30, Reply)
Motorway?
God, I'm not driving.

If work can't get me there in a plane or on a train I'm not going.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:32, Reply)
In which case, how about Hebden Bridge.
It's a nice little town 10-15 minutes from Halifax by train, you might even pass through it on the way there.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:39, Reply)
Thanks.
I shall investigate.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:40, Reply)
Pensions are not the only fruit.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:39, Reply)
Sounds serious.
Twitter deletion is as good as a guilty plea isn't it?
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:37, Reply)
Oh yes definitely particularly in this case.
DEVIANT.

Case closed.



.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:40, Reply)
I think you mean
#caseclosed
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:45, Reply)
Considered the pub, but nah.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:36, Reply)
I fuckin' hate cyclists.
evenin all.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 21:57, Reply)
I'm not bored now
Episode two of Run is on.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:05, Reply)
That was great yesterday, got that on record.
I can't find my recording of last night's Skins though.... this season looks a lot more adult.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:21, Reply)
Episode 2 is also shaping up to be dead good.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:36, Reply)
Breaking Bad is good.
Season 4 is compelling stuff.
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:39, Reply)
Got Netflix ? If so try Orange is the new Black.

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 22:29, Reply)
Wtf
seattle.craigslist.org/oly/mis/3938773660.html
(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:18, Reply)
When were you in Seattle?

(, Tue 16 Jul 2013, 23:20, Reply)

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