The Cooking, Drink and Food Forum
... but really, really do. Right now I am eating rice with a sauce I made. The main ingredients are butter, roast wattleseed powder*, and nutmeg. Tuna and corn are thrown in, too. These flavours work brilliantly together. It should be more of...
I posted this in Chat when Threnody said she loved biryani, so here it is again, just in case anyone's interested: OK, first things first, ingredients: Biryani masala from your local Indian store. Probably comes in a box, with a brand of...
So today, I decided to make a baked potato. A large well scrubbed russet potato, slow baked at 350F for 3 hours. It was divine with grated mature cheddar and butter. The inside was fluffy and soft, the skin was crispy and tasty. The sucker was...
It was 250 years ago today that the lease was signed on a disused brewery in Dublin. Long live the black stuff, one of the greatest drinks ever created. And creator of some excellent adverts as well. Like this one
A scottish brewery have claimed to come up with the world's strongest beer which should be treated like a spirit. The beer, called Tactical Nuclear Penguin, is apparently 32% proof. Anyone want one? The band of twelve drummers is looking...
Yes, it's Shrove Tuesday aka Pancake Day. The simple recipes are the best. And what are your favourite toppings? I mean Lemon Juice and Sugar are great, but Southern Comfort adds a great kick to the batter if you cook it straight away.
Despite the fact I like it, a friend pointed out that Chicken Omelette is really just chicken wrapped in chicken and as such it is something that sounds just so very wrong. Are there any other dishes like this, where you wrap one part of a...
Ben And Jerry's Ice cream is going to have to drop the "all-natural" part os its description, because .... well.... it isn't. Looks like Corn syrup and partially hydrogenated soya bean oil really don't fit the bill of what is supposed to be an...
Our local shop does lots of filled doughnuts. Everyone eats the jam-filled, apple-filled or custard-filled doughnuts. But no-one will even look at the chocolate-filled doughnuts. Would anyone here eat them, or is it just a sugar overload?
After a great night with lots of takeout pizza, there are sometimes a few slices leftover in the morning. What do you do with them?
This is important, after all it's about coffee. So, how do you drink it?
Tea, of course, being the refined refresher of choice for ladies and gentlemen of all descriptions. But how do you prefer it? Why should coffee get its own way, and there are so many more flavours anyway?
PETA's latest advertisement campaign involves a bikin wearing Pamela Anderson being marked up into the various cuts of meat that can be carved from a carcass. Now, it looks as though PETA are obviously not butchers because they missed plenty of...
A nutritional expert has just lost two stone of weight on a diet of cream cakes, snacks, sugars and biscuits. His diet also dropped his cholesterol by 20% and another fat group by 39%. How did he do it, well by dropping his calorie intake from...
I really fancy an Apple and Blackberry flavour Ice Cream about now. No idea why? Anyone know where I can find one?
I honestly did not think there was such a thing as too much coffee until Starbucks decided to roll out it's new Trenta size of coffee. It contains as much as a bottle of wine in one cup at 31 fluid oz. Seriously, do you really need a coffee cup...
I don't know why it is but brand name foods usually taste just that little bit better than the shop's own equivalent and so if I can, I always prefer to get the brand name products. Kellogg's Cornflakes always taste better than the other brands,...
Summer is coming and with it warm, weather, blue skies and the chance to eat outdoors on the lawn. Would you stick with sandwiches and fruit squash. How about a few savoury dishes and maybe a bottle of lemonade. For the refined perhaps a...
A law has been introduced banning the sale any food product that contains added vitamins. It was introduced in 2004 and Kelloggs had to remove several breakfast cereals and Vegemite was banned, but only now has the law been applied to Marmite. ...
That most cultured of Rock Bands AC/DC have released several types of own wine named after several of their songs in collabaration with a major Australian Wine producer. Anyone for a glass of You Shook Me All Night Long muscat. More here....
Dominos are now considering how to build a franchise on the moon for when it becomes settled by pioneering astronauts. Is it April already?? Don't believe me? Here you go. What on earth could you order, the Margharita with asteroids and...
Someone, just gave me a packet of Kendal Mint Cake and I had forgotten just how gorgeous this stuff tastes. Is this a pecularly British food or are the equivalents abroad?
There is a large online campaign developing due to the change in recipe of one of Britain's favourites HP Sauce. The owners have changed the recipe slightly and reduced the salt content. Just a simple little change, but it appears to have had a...
If the POTUS says it's horrible, its horrible. It doesn't matter that Julia Gillard thinks its ok. And the US Customs are trying to prevent the spread of this vile stuff. Only the convicts complained and Kevin Rudd was allowed to take it into the...
A charity competition in Edinburgh to eat the hottest dish that a curry house could make has ended up with two of the contestants going to hospital as their bodies were not able to take the heat. Ok, they ramped up the heat by using hottest...
Thank you Thorntons, thank you. A 4 metre square chocolate bar. Now where is my invite?
You read that correctly, in America, pizza is classified as a vegetable because it has a smear of tomato paste across the top of it. It counts as one of your five-a-day according to Congress who have turned down a challenge to the existing rule...
Its strange but when younger, on those occasions where I had to drink wine, it was invariably white, couldn't stand red, it just seemed to taste dry and wrong. Nowadays, I seem to have almost grown into the taste of red wine and will enjoy it on...
Heinz have dusted off one of their better ideas. Being able to personalise a Can of Tomato Soup with a "Get Well Soon" Message and have it sent to someone ill. Admittedtly, it costs £1.99 and takes 3 days to deliver, by which time the...
It's Pancake Day, more formally known as Shrove Tuesday, or even Jif Lemon Day in the UK because of clever advertising. Regardless, it's THE day for eating pancakes on and not just normal pancakes, but all varieties of pancake topping as well. So...
Finally, a science report that I can fully endorse and I'll ignore any naysayers who might claim otherwise. Science has shown that eating small but regular amounts of chocolate can keep you slim. Yay for science :madsci: And easter is just...
It exists. This holy mecca of foods has been created. Seriously, is there any way it could get any better?
Random food question. Do you serve the bolognese on top of the spaghetti, or do you make a hole in the middle of the spaghetti for it?
So, two guys at work are retiring. As a member of the local union, I took upon myself to get them retirement presents. After checking with their closer work mates, I confirmed that Scotch might be a good choice. Today I bought one bottle of 10yo...
Turns out my fiancee has a fierce hankering for cabbage. Ok....I know how to make corned beef and cabbage and cole slaw. What else can be done to make this faux-lettuce into a delicious something?
Let's see who wins out in the breakfast bread battle royal.
I'm not talking about the cost of a Manhattan at the W hotel lobby bar($17! You bastards!), I'm talking about things that I buy at the store that are stupidly overpriced for what they are. Things like Red Bull. It's a tiny can and there really...
I put a bowl with unpopped kernels in a plastic bowl in my microwave. I saw flames, quickly opened the door. Flames died right down, no smoke, bowl didn't scorch.
They're full of Omega-3 fatty acids and they're also pretty high in protein and, at least I assume, pretty cheap. But the thought of eating them is a little scary -- I've never actually tried a can of them, but my impression is that they're...
Yeah so I realized I don't think I've ever had real salsa verde, or for that matter tomatillos in any form. Hopefully I can find some around here. So, if I do, how do I make a good salsa verde? Hopefully something simple, with a good kick -- I'm not...
Okay look: I was raised by vegetarians. I hung onto that for a long time even after leaving the nest, until I actually sat down and thought critically and realized that, wait, I really like food, so I'm not about to swear off most of it for some...
Okay so I keep sriracha around and it's nice as a condiment but it's a little too sweet for a lot of times I want hot sauce. I'm looking for something else, maybe around the same heat level as sriracha, or a little less spicy, with a pepper flavor...
Not Unitedstatesian, I mean in terms of foodstuffs native to the Americas that have been adopted most widely by other cultures. I'm guessing it's the chili pepper. Chilis are used a fair amount in Europe (think of pimentón in Spanish cooking, or...
Never would I advocate underage drinking, but it has been known to happen. Recently I walked past the liquor aisle in my supermarket and once again that reminded my that there are alcoholic drinks that few self-respecting adults would ever buy...
If you see a dessert or other dish advertised as containing "nuts", which kind to you expect? I want to see if this confirms a certain suspicion, but of course I don't want to taint this highly scientific poll just yet.
I buy different types of bread or bread rolls from time to time, but all in all I have clear preferences. Most of the time I will buy something that is not too far from this one. In fact I bought exactly that today. It's a rye-heavy sourdough...
Sometimes we have really odd combinations of food on the dinner table, because I hate throwing out food so I serve up the last little bits even if it doesn't match whatever else we're having. For example, last night we had spaghetti and meatballs...
I haven't had them in ages, because they aren't usually available in these parts and I'm too lazy to make my own (as if I could get masa harina anyway). But they had some in the store the other day, so I got them. Now, I must be sure to use them...
I love food and cooking, so when I read recipes here I often respond with "wow, that sounds great, I'm going to make it soon!" Then reality sets in, and, um... I don't actually follow through. But I have made at least two recipes from here ......
I collect cookbooks, great and terrible. The terrible ones are usually sociologically interesting, and sometimes when my middle-American-1960s roots get the better of me, I even secretly like some of the heavily processed, high-fat glop that passed...
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