Fooooooooooooood

[Leftbank]

Toad in the Hole. Quintessential home cooked fare.

How do you do this and what sausages do you use? Sorry to derail the fred guise.

No bother. Use any good sausage, at least 75% meat. I'm quite partial to a pork and leek. You need a really hot oven and a good amount of high smoke point fat, like lard. Cook sausages for about 15 minutes, then turn so uncooked side upright, quickly pour in batter and leave untouched for 25 minutes.

[Martin]

Toad in the Hole. Quintessential home cooked fare.

How do you do this and what sausages do you use? Sorry to derail the fred guise.

No bother. Use any good sausage, at least 75% meat. I'm quite partial to a pork and leek. You need a really hot oven and a good amount of high smoke point fat, like lard. Cook sausages for about 15 minutes, then turn so uncooked side upright, quickly pour in batter and leave untouched for 25 minutes.

Nice one. I use Lincolnshire or Cumberland do you just use normal pork ones?

And do you add anything to the batter like chicken stock or other seasonings?

[Leftbank]

Either of those work too. I do sometimes add mustard or roasted onion wedges to the batter, but I do like to keep it simple. Flour, egg, milk, salt, pepper

[mikey]

Mmmmmnn toad inth'ole with mash potatoes, peas and gravy. Proper northern food!

This is a great book for fans of food from up north:

From Eccles Cake to Hawkshead Wig: A Celebration of Northern Food

[Martin]

Did wings again at the weekend, everyone loved them. I have mastered fried chicken now.

500ml of whole milk, two tablespoons of lemon juice, mix and leave to sit for 10 minutes or so, remove the ends of the wings that are just bone and cut at the joint so you have the bit that looks like a small leg and the other bit and soak the chicken wings in this for a couple of hours in the fridge in a bowl, covered.

Seasoning mix - plain white flour, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, ground black pepper, paprika. Overestimate how much you will need btw.

Get a baking tray and sprinkle seasoning mix on the tray so that when you let the chicken rest it doesn't stick to the tray, then take chicken out and coat in the seasoning & put on this baking tray, cover it and leave in the fridge for another hour or so so that the coating turns into a kind of paste. You have to do this or it will just fall off when you fry.

Oil in a pan and then fry on either side.

Pisses on KFC tbh try it guise.

[marcus leong]

Did wings again at the weekend, everyone loved them. I have mastered fried chicken now.

500ml of whole milk, two tablespoons of lemon juice, mix and leave to sit for 10 minutes or so, remove the ends of the wings that are just bone and cut at the joint so you have the bit that looks like a small leg and the other bit and soak the chicken wings in this for a couple of hours in the fridge in a bowl, covered.

Seasoning mix - plain white flour, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, ground black pepper, paprika. Overestimate how much you will need btw.

Get a baking tray and sprinkle seasoning mix on the tray so that when you let the chicken rest it doesn't stick to the tray, then take chicken out and coat in the seasoning & put on this baking tray, cover it and leave in the fridge for another hour or so so that the coating turns into a kind of paste. You have to do this or it will just fall off when you fry.

Oil in a pan and then fry on either side.

Pisses on KFC tbh try it guise.

Not deep fried?

[Martin]

You can deep fry in a pan. Generous amount of oil.

[Martin]

Anyone know a decent site to buy spices online? Looking for some pimenton.

[mikey]

I usually buy mine from Spain and bring it back, but I have bought from Amazon in the past:

La Chinata Pimenton

[Short Back and Sides]

Yes Michael. That paprika is awesome I put it in my bolognese sauce

[Martin]

I usually buy mine from Spain and bring it back, but I have bought from Amazon in the past:

La Chinata Pimenton

Cheers mate. Gonna do that stew I posted with chorizo in it, looks very good.

Would you say that's a decent price?

[mikey]

I usually buy mine from Spain and bring it back, but I have bought from Amazon in the past:

La Chinata Pimenton

Cheers mate. Gonna do that stew I posted with chorizo in it, looks very good.

Would you say that's a decent price?

Yeah, i would say that's a fair price. I have only ever bought it once, from a deli in Anstruther, Fife, and it was about 5-6 quid.

Does the recipe call for pimenton? Only, usually, when I cook with a decent chorizo i don't use any. The pimenton in the chorizo flavours the dish.

[Martin]

Yes mate, this is it - https://youtube.com/watch?v=i8p5UtV4GqY

Looks good imo. I can kind of tell what it will taste like as I like chorizo anyway (eat it on its own lel) so if pimenton flavours it like that I reckon I'll like this a lot.

[Leftbank]

I think smoked paprika would do the job

[Leftbank]

Made my own cheats donner kebab last night, and it was bloody lovely.

Mix minced lamb, oregano, cumin and ground coriander. Smush it between two sheets of parchment paper till it's about 5mm thick. Grill as hot as you can (I use my George Foreman grill, almost designed for it). I served with cabbage, tomato, red onion, chilli sauce and garlic mayo in a wholewheat pitta, and also threw in some spinach, rocket and watercress.

Weirdly in Manchester they often serve their doners in naan breads, not pita

[Martin]

I think smoked paprika would do the job

That's what it is innit.

[Giants14]

Favourite biscuit?

Also is a Twix a biscuit or a chocolate bar?

[Dante]

I ate some food last night, it was nice.

[Leftbank]

Favourite biscuit?

Also is a Twix a biscuit or a chocolate bar?

Bourbon cream

Chocolate bar, following the rule of eisudem generis.

[Giants14]

It is a biscuit for me......I couldn't imagine going into a newsagents and choosing a Twix over a Boost lol

[Martin]

Nandos in the week as it was my birthday and I had a load of vouchers. I had half a chicken, the churrasco chicken thigh burger, coleslaw, peri peri chips and grilled halloumi. Was pretty good but wouldn't pay for it as it is overpriced imo. The chicken and the burger were both extra hot but there is not much heat to them. The burger was good but not for £7 and I expected a bit more from the seasonings considering how hyped Nandos is.

Halloumi was amazing though I'm buying some of this in future.

7/10 would eat again but would not pay money for.

[Martin]

I think smoked paprika would do the job

It did btw, really good recipe and smoked paprika is going on a lot of my cooking now. 5* seasoning.

[Short Back and Sides]

I think smoked paprika would do the job

It did btw, really good recipe and smoked paprika is going on a lot of my cooking now. 5* seasoning.

Remember the shit I got for mentioning I put smoked paprika in bolognese?

[Martin]

That wasn't because smoked paprika is shit, it was because bolognese shouldn't have smoked paprika in.

It's like putting beer in a curry. Or chilli powder in custard.

[t.d.]

Lol.