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Food & Drink
Edibles and drinkables, recipes, recommendations and other culinary miscellanea.
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02.06.03Packet Noodles, Student-styleCooking without a stove. Brilliant. Boil kettle. Place noodles in one solid block in a noodle bowl (preferably unwashed and fished out from under the bed), being careful not to rip the packaging. Save the packaging. Add soup mix to top of noodles. Add 1-2 tsp red hot chilli flakes to top of noodles. Pour boiling water over noodles. Put packaging on top of noodles, covering the rim of the bowl. secure with chopsticks. Wait two-three minutes. Remove packaging and stir with chopsticks. Add chilli sauce to taste. Consume cross-legged on the bed, at three AM, with friends, weeping at the strength of the chilli, but thankful that you can't taste ...
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02.06.03Meg’s Toucan Lasagne(no, it doesn't contain toucan. I think that would be illegal in this country. It's called that because the basic ingredients are two cans of things, and it's pretty colourful.)This is a recipe I came up with while working as a cook at a Youth Hostel in Scotland during the summer of 1993, refined during further summer seasons there in 94 and 96, and all the intervening years as a poor student. It's filling and tasty and quick, and astonishingly easy to make. Ingredients: 2 onions 2 courgettes 2 carrots 1 small punnet of baby corn (thai style) 3 peppers (pimientos) 1 can kidney beans (drained) 1 ...
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02.06.03Simple SconesIngredients8oz self-raising flour2oz butterpinch of salt2-4 tbsp milk (fine if slightly sour)sultanas OR cheese and mustard and a pinch of cayenne pepper OR apple chunks and a healthy dash of cinnamonMethod:-- Rub butter and flour and salt together between fingertips until the mixture resembles fine crumbs (chuck in sultanas or cheese/mustard or custard (eek!) if desired at this point).-- Add milk a splosh at a time and fold in using your hands until the mixture holds together and becomes like dough - better to be slightly on the sticky side than too dry.-- Knead lightly on a floured board, and ...
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02.06.03Watermelon CocktailGet a medium-sized watermelon. Scoop inside out of watermelon. Mush up contents in blender (seperate seeds if you can be arsed, but they won't kill anyone). Add 1/3 bottle vodka (350ml?) and 1/3 bottle lime cordial. Add 6 heaped spoonfuls of sugar, the juice of a squeezed lemon or two and lots of crushed ice. Pour back into hollow watermelon and serve.Fruity!
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02.06.03Family Pancake RecipeSticky, traditional and yum! Ingredients 1 cup plain flour1 egg (beaten)1 cup milk1 pinch of salt NB: This is scalable - each batch makes approx 10 crepes.Method:Mix all ingredients in a bowl till smooth. leave to stand for an hour in mixing bowl, covered with a teatowel.Then make thin crepes in a hot frying pan with a tiny bit of oil (don't forget to toss them!)Serve hot with fresh lemon juice/orange juice and sugar.
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02.06.03Meg’s Feeling FruityIngredients 1 Jamaica Ginger loaf cake (bought) 2 large mangoes (ours were called Alan Titchmarsh or Tim Tompkins or something. Most odd.) 1 punnet of half-fat cream. How to do it Chop mango into smallish pieces. Save juice. Chop or crumble up cake into bowls. Microwave cake for 25 seconds until sticky. Cover with chopped mango & juice. Spoon on cream. Consume in an orgiastic frenzy of face-licking glee.
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02.05.03Dinner: First Flat FoodDate: 26.03.01 Guest: None (yet) Menu: Chicken, pasta, caesar salad, wine, strawberries, cream Chef: Dave Conversation: The world's worst flavour combinations (raisin and caper, or oyster sorbet?) Pesto Tagliatelle with Lime and Garlic Chicken Tell flatmates you'll cook them dinner. Instantly regret decision due to the overwhelming performance anxiety of "The First Meal" situation. Rack brain. Go to supermarket and buy: 1 lime 1 bulb of garlic 3 chicken breasts 1 packet of fresh tagliatelle 1 tub of double cream 1 jar of pesto chilli powder (or paprika) olive oil parsley (optional) Arrive home, consume beer, smoke cigarette. Then, start dinner. Chop chicken into bite-sized pieces and place in bowl. ...
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02.05.03Dinner: StodgeDate: 30.03.01 Guest: David (Meg's brother) Menu: Fresh Tagliatelle alla carbonara, soave Chef: Meg Conversation: Unlikely encounters with camels, Daisy Duke, camel toes, men, funerals, food, house-hunting Tagliatelle alla Carbonara some bacon some parmegianno some pesto some cream some more cheese some croutons some eggs lots of pepper Cut bacon into strips and fry with pesto and pepper. Add cream. Boil pasta. Crack eggs into pasta on low heat, then add bacon/cream and cheese. Mix feverishly until combined. Serve with parmesan and croutons and pepper.Stodgy and super-filling, but much appreciated, especially when your guest hasn't eaten since 7 in the morning because he was at a wake all day and wasn't clear on the ...
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02.05.03Dinner: Cultural ConfusionDate: 08.04.01 Guest: Sarah J Menu: West African Chicken Curry, Charoseth, Chardonnay, Martini, Amé, Bread, Rice, Cream Chef: Meg Conversation: Drowning dingoes, curtains, white sauce, lurve, wattle trees, deejays, work Proof: Here West African Chicken Curry 4 Chicken breasts 2 onions 2 cans chopped tomatoes 1 punnet Thai baby corn 1/2 jar crunchy peanut butterHandful of Cashew nuts Coriander, Cumin, Nutmeg, Cloves, Cinnamon, Chili Sauce, Salt, Pepper, Flat-leaf parsleyFry onions in olive oil with spices (until it smells good). Cube chicken and sear in onion mixture. Add tomatoes. Add chopped corn. Add 1 tbsp peanut butter. Put lid on and simmer for 20 mins. Just before serving, add the rest of the ...
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02.05.03Dinner: Last SupperDate: 12.04.01 Guests: Mo, Katie, Catherine, Iain C, David C Menu: Olives, bread, tossed salad, garlic and lemon greek chicken (Chicken à la Mègue), spinach and feta pie, Frozen Genius (homemade Italian icecream), fresh berries Chefs: Meg and Dave Conversation: PE teachers, spooge, "all electronic music is gay", <jeff stryker>"yeah, shoot that load"</jeff stryker> vs *ba-doooooooow*, in-depth discussions on the incestuocity of the bloggers, relationships, pulling, "and then I got my cock out", Swindon, photography, beans, Connie, morons, Spanish sex vocabulary, Meg's spangly trousers, "For evah-evah? For-evah-evah-evah?", detox, age ... and a cracking game of Articulate that went on for hours (and which Meg ...
