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Food & Drink
Edibles and drinkables, recipes, recommendations and other culinary miscellanea.
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07.30.03ThirstyWould anybody like a drink? Tea, coffee, water...? Water would be great, thanks. Anyone else? A drink? Tea? Just some water please. Oh go on then, coffee for me. Right then, so that's just one coffee. ...and water, please, for me. Right. Ok. [time passes] Here you go, one coffee. Now, let's look at the agenda....Am I invisible?
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04.21.03ApfelkuchenIngredients: 4oz caster sugar 5 oz self-raising flour 4oz butter (melted) 1 egg, beaten 1 lb cooking apples, cored peeled and sliced 2 oz sultanas 1 oz chopped walnuts 2oz demerara sugar 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon How to make it: Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180C). Grease and line a cake tin. Mix the batter ingredients and put half in the bottom of the tin. Mix the filling ingredients and spread over the batter. Cover with remaining batter. Bake for an hour or so. Turn out and serve hot with cream. Tooooooo nice.
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04.21.03AmbrosiaIngredients: Greek yoghurt Runny honey dry muesli splosh of apple juice chopped nuts (preferably walnuts) How to make it: Mix the yoghurt with the honey until it's sweet enough for you. Mix the muesli with the apple juice and the nuts. Alternate layers of yoghurt mixture and nut mixture into glasses.
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04.21.03Cheese and Lentil loafIngredients: 6oz red lentils 330ml water 4oz grated cheese 1 onion fresh parsley cayenne pepper lemon juice 1 egg splosh single cream salt & pepper knob of butter How to do it: Preheat oven to gas mark 5 (190C). Cook lentils in water until soft - 20 mins or so. DON'T LET THEM BURN BECAUSE THEY WILL STICK TO THE PAN AND BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GET OFF! Add onion, lemon, cheese and parsley. Whip up egg and cream and pour into lentil mixture. Add seasoning. Grease a loaf tin with plenty of butter and press the mixture in. Bake for 45-60 minutes until the top is brown. Let stand for 10 minutes before turning out. ...
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04.21.03Cheese and Apple on ToastIngredients: 1 apple - cox's orange pippin or similar Handful of mature cheddar cheese 2 slices bread (preferably brown, preferably wholemeal or malted) How to do it: Couldn't be simpler. Toast the bread. Grate the apple onto the bread and then sprinkle with the cheese. Toast under the grill for a minute or so, until bubbling.
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04.21.03Fabulously Simple Fish PieIngredients: Lots of cod or any white fish big knob of butter flour milk some hardboiled eggs 1 onion, chopped parsley potatoes grated cheese How to do it: Grill or boil the fish and boil the potatoes. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180Cish) Make a white sauce with the butter, flour and milk. Add the onion. Chop the hardboiled eggs into the sauce and add the flaked or chunked fish. Mix together in an ovenproof dish. Mash the potatoes with lots of butter and a splash of milk, seasoning well. Cover the fish sauce mixture and then sprinkle with cheese and ground black pepper. Stick it in the oven and bake until ...
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03.14.03DaquaWeekends start well with fiery Salata Daqua and chili dressing at Mandola in Notting Hill.And although this will mean very little to anyone, the first 7-11 in London, where they did coke and fanta flavour slurpees which Jane and I used to get on the way to go skating at Queen's on Saturdays, and which turned into a b2b in recent years, has now been shut completely and is a showroom for a bunch of luxury flats which are being built on the adjacent block. Because London needs another luxury apartment development. Pretty soon, we'll all be living in the ...
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03.05.03Pre-taste?What's the name for the sensation when the back of your lower jaw prickles with taste and saliva, after you walk past someone eating vinegary chips from a bag? Or when you bring a salt and vinegar or pickled onion flavour crisp close to your mouth, but before it actually touches your tongue?I'm currently siding with "anticipatory gush", though it sounds awfully rude out of context.
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02.16.03Seared Lamb with Dijon Cream SauceIngredients: 4 medium-sized lean lamb fillets 1 onion big knob unsalted butter olive oil fresh rosemary garlic puree (or 1 clove garlic) 1 punnet of single cream (300ml?) Dijon Mustard Splash of white wine 1 tart apple Chicken stock salt & pepper to tasteMethod: Heat butter and a splash of olive oil in a shallow pan on a high heat until bubbling.Throw in onions and garlic and saute until golden brown.Throw in lamb fillets and rosemary and sear until done (5-8 minutes).Meanwhile, prepare 200ml chicken stock, and throw into a pan on a high heat. Add 2 teaspoons of dijon mustard (to taste), a splash of white whine (or other alcohol - cointreau?) ...
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02.06.03Quick CarbonaraIngredients: some bacon some parmegianno some pesto some cream some more cheese some croutons some eggs lots of pepper Method:Cut bacon into strips and fry with pesto and pepper. Add cream. Boil pasta. Drain. Crack eggs into pasta on low heat, then add bacon/cream and cheese. Mix feverishly until combined. Serve with parmesan and croutons and pepper.
