What you having for your Tea/Dinner, tonight. ?

[Silver estate]

My tea

 

[securespark]

Made myself some shortcrust pasties tonight.

Half fat to flour with some grated cheese chucked in.

Then the filling was EBIGO stuff. Chestnut mushrooms that were a bit shrivelled, a half packet of chestnuts, some cavalo nero and half an onion.

Everything was finely chopped and cooked on a high heat in a wok with some butter and a couple of splashes of Worcester sauce.

Then I added some onion gravy because, gravy.

 

[Gomev]

No thanks I’m sitting having my early dinner of roast lamb in Torwood garden centre restaurant in Larbert ??View attachment 31060
So I guess it’s a late lunch tonight of oatcakes and a bit of mousetrap ?

That plate looks very small !

 

[Archev]

That plate looks very small !

Aye I have to say I sent it back

But I emptied it first ?

 

[OriginalBigAl]

My tea
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Of the five items on your plate, all are available here in France, but they are just not the same.
Very jealous.

 

[securespark]

When our kids were younger, we went to France quite a few times. My sister had a place in Brittany and we went to see a friend of Mrs S in Paris and again when he moved to the Loire valley.

I am a huge cheese fan and Brittany (well, France in general) is bursting with incredible cheeses. It's a big milk-producing area and the milks, creams, butters and cheeses are all fantastique!

Brittany has great apples too, so excellent Tartes Tatin, ciders and lambig.

Buckwheat crepes and shortbread are amazing too.

In the Loire valley, we went to a farmers' show where we had the most amazing fries, made with just cropped potatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil. Such a clean, fresh taste!

I remember in Paris ordering a salad and explaining that I was veggie, so could I have the cheese and ham salad, but without the ham? When the waitress brought the food, it was a huge dish so completely covered in grated Emmental that I could not see the salad. She told me that the chef felt sorry for me, so gave me extra cheese in place of the ham!

As I said, I don't eat meat, but if I did, I would keep away from Andouillettes: a food that is a very acquired taste!

 

[Archev]

When our kids were younger, we went to France quite a few times. My sister had a place in Brittany and we went to see a friend of Mrs S in Paris and again when he moved to the Loire valley.

I am a huge cheese fan and Brittany (well, France in general) is bursting with incredible cheeses. It's a big milk-producing area and the milks, creams, butters and cheeses are all fantastique!

Brittany has great apples too, so excellent Tartes Tatin, ciders and lambig.

Buckwheat crepes and shortbread are amazing too.

In the Loire valley, we went to a farmers' show where we had the most amazing fries, made with just cropped potatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil. Such a clean, fresh taste!

I remember in Paris ordering a salad and explaining that I was veggie, so could I have the cheese and ham salad, but without the ham? When the waitress brought the food, it was a huge dish so completely covered in grated Emmental that I could not see the salad. She told me that the chef felt sorry for me, so gave me extra cheese in place of the ham!

As I said, I don't eat meat, but if I did, I would keep away from Andouillettes: a food that is a very acquired taste!

It’s OK I’d be quite delighted with all you described there. I’m really hungry now ??

 

[OriginalBigAl]

When our kids were younger, we went to France quite a few times. My sister had a place in Brittany and we went to see a friend of Mrs S in Paris and again when he moved to the Loire valley.

I am a huge cheese fan and Brittany (well, France in general) is bursting with incredible cheeses. It's a big milk-producing area and the milks, creams, butters and cheeses are all fantastique!

Brittany has great apples too, so excellent Tartes Tatin, ciders and lambig.

Buckwheat crepes and shortbread are amazing too.

In the Loire valley, we went to a farmers' show where we had the most amazing fries, made with just cropped potatoes and freshly pressed rapeseed oil. Such a clean, fresh taste!

I remember in Paris ordering a salad and explaining that I was veggie, so could I have the cheese and ham salad, but without the ham? When the waitress brought the food, it was a huge dish so completely covered in grated Emmental that I could not see the salad. She told me that the chef felt sorry for me, so gave me extra cheese in place of the ham!

As I said, I don't eat meat, but if I did, I would keep away from Andouillettes: a food that is a very acquired taste!

There is of course great food here, but a fried Chadwicks Bury black pudding, Middle cut bacon , and some HP baked beans with a fried piece of Warburtons toasty deserves royal recognition. Plonk on a couple of eggs from our chickens , perfect. Unfortunately its just the eggs for me.
Before moving here we went to the Alps on a walking / camping holiday, after a Monday's walk , we set off for an evenings meal in the local town. Only one restaurant open ( Monday ) even then the fast food places observed the rest day. This eatery was relatively expensive but the ingredients list was extensive , starving we sat down to an expected feast but soon realised with the arrival of the first course that it was nouvelle cuisine and broccoli meant one very small floret along with all the other miniscule but complete ingredients. All in all 5-6 fork fulls finished off all 3 courses.
After much poorer , we went back to campsite and emptied the rucksacks searching for any fruit pastilles , apples , manky sandwiches etc, then cried ourselves to sleep. Lesson learnt, never happened again!!!!
Once ordered the celebrated Andouillettes, the waiter said "Anglais" I said "Oui " he said " No". never got them.

 

[Silver estate]

Of the five items on your plate, all are available here in France, but they are just not the same.
Very jealous.

Aldi baked beans , eggs and bacon , Tescos bread and has to be Bury black pudding
Plus mug of coffee or builders tea

 

[Ian Key]

Aldi baked beans , eggs and bacon , Tescos bread and has to be Bury black pudding
Plus mug of coffee or builders tea

Got to be crispy bacon with fried eggs, fried bread, fried tomatoes, and a couple of sausages. Mushrooms and black pudding are optional extras although I'm not keen on hash browns as they are American interlopers and it's supposed to be a full English.

To be washed down with a mug of builders and a couple of statins ?

 

[securespark]

Bacon has to be the thing I miss most, being veggie.

I know you're all yelling at me: "Well, why be veggie, then?"

Tesco used to sell Morningstar bacon from the States, but it disappeared. Something to do with GM modified ingredients.

Others are quite good at replicating the sensation.

Basically, it's salty and crispy with a whiff of fake pig flavour!

Macsween do a decent veggie black pudding.

And my fave sausages have to be Quorn.

Mind you, a breakfast, meaty or veggie, is not free of UPFs, if you're trying to stay away from them...

I try to avoid them, but you need some excitement in your life from time to time!

 

[HazardLights]

Just my starter before the exquisite tuna steak. Marinated prawn, octopus carpaccio, fish pate, and marinated anchovies. This was followed by tuna steak in sesame and flax seed with julienne vegetables. Courtesy of La Boheme, Cavtat. No, the superyacht in the marina is not mine.

 

[Archev]

Free range moorland haggis with a grand wee neep and tatties for dinner tonight with the added delight of leftover haggis sandwiches for a picnic lunch somewhere tomorrow.

 

[salty]

Free range moorland haggis with a grand wee neep and tatties for dinner tonight with the added delight of leftover haggis sandwiches for a picnic lunch somewhere tomorrow.

I'll just have the neeps and tatties, please.

 

[Archev]

I'll just have the neeps and tatties, please.

Good - more of that fantastic Simon Howie spicy haggis for me

 

[salty]

Good - more of that fantastic Simon Howie spicy haggis for me

Sounds offal to me.

 

[Gomev]

Sounds offal to me.

I really enjoyed eating haggis when I worked up in Edinburgh, especially the free range stuff, but I like faggots of the eating variety too.

You wouldn't really know it was offal when you eat it.

 

[salty]

You wouldn't really know it was offal when you eat it.

That's true. A lot of folk, including me. Won't each something because they know what's in it. Same with Black Pudding, love it, but when I found out, what it actually is, I thought ugh! But to be fair I still eat it, with a Full English.

 

[Archev]

Sounds offal to me.

Yep - sublime

I really enjoyed eating haggis when I worked up in Edinburgh, especially the free range stuff, but I like faggots of the eating variety too.

You wouldn't really know it was offal when you eat it.

it was magnificent But I noticed there was just a bit of bread left a so I loaded up the bread machine and timed it to produce overnight.
Woke to a wonderful heady smell of a bakery this morning from a fine loaf made from wholemeal flour mixed with some Spelt grain flour. The Spelt I use to make my Daughters favourite spiced spelt fruit loaf.
So my wholegrain haggis picnic sarnies will be properly spelt

 

[Archev]

That's true. A lot of folk, including me. Won't each something because they know what's in it. Same with Black Pudding, love it, but when I found out, what it actually is, I thought ugh! But to be fair I still eat it, with a Full English.

Now that IS bloody offal - but I like it. Have you tried the black pudding from the centre of the BP universe ? - Stornoway