Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:39 am  

Standee wrote:

Glad someone is continuing the thread along it's intended lines, am sure a GM foods thread would be very interesting for those that have an opinion on it, but to me a "Food" thread should be about food, not an ethical debate (or should I say an opportunity to knock big business, again, under the facade of and ethical debate).

WIZEB, am interested to know a couple of things:

Where was the Smoked Haddock from?
Dyed or un Dyed?
How did you cook it?, I usually just poach it in milk, butter and black pepper and then have crusty bread to soak up the "sauce", I've tried poaching in water but it didn't taste as good (may well have been the quality of the fish though), have also been told to try poaching it in cider but I just can't quite see how that would work.

Dyed and from Asda (audible howls of derision)
Yup, poached with hardly a bubble for ten minutes in milk, nub of butter, black pepper and a couple of bay leaves.
Removed fish and added cornflour to residue liquid in an attempt to make a white sauces thing.
Made a complete cock of it so had to bin it, open a cheese sauce sachet and had that as an accompaniment.
Not bad.

Off on a tangent but currently lied horizontally on a hotel bed in Donny.
Had a night out at the dog track in Stainforth last evening.
I want to officially state that the pie and peas Fayre on offer was par excellence.
Cordon Bleu, pfffttt, who needs it.?

*Just been informed by the young lady by my side that I was rather flatulent during the course of the night.
Who says romance is dead?

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:39 am  

Standee wrote:

Glad someone is continuing the thread along it's intended lines, am sure a GM foods thread would be very interesting for those that have an opinion on it, but to me a "Food" thread should be about food, not an ethical debate (or should I say an opportunity to knock big business, again, under the facade of and ethical debate).

In my (not very) humble opinion, a food thread should encompass all things related to food, especially how that food is developed, produced, distributed and marketed.

Being critical of GM is not "knocking big business", the likes of Monsanto have outgrown the term "big business". They have managed to fit both the US government and WTO in their pockets and that's not good for any consumers.

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:46 am  

cod'ead wrote:

In my (not very) humble opinion, a food thread should encompass all things related to food, especially how that food is developed, produced, distributed and marketed.

Being critical of GM is not "knocking big business", the likes of Monsanto have outgrown the term "big business". They have managed to fit both the US government and WTO in their pockets and that's not good for any consumers.

no, that's politics and business, to me anyway.

but hey ho, the Sin Bin will do as it always does

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:27 am  

Standee wrote:

no, that's politics and business, to me anyway.

but hey ho, the Sin Bin will do as it always does

Joanna Blythman has recently been quoted in an article in Dally's favourite rag, on the subject of scampi. A number of companies are now marketing "Scampi Bites", a product that can legally have as little as 7% scampi in it, although a consumer would need to read the small print to discover that fact. Most of the rest o the protein is made up of other white fish, including pangasius. I refuse to carry pangasius because it is intensively farmed in the Mekong and is subject to high levels of antbiotics and other chemicals in its production. You may not see pangasius on a supermarket shelf but you'd certainly find Basa or Cobbler - both alternative names for pangasius.

Even wholetail scampi is not necessarily the whole tail of a Dublin Bay prawn or langoustine. it can legally be minced up pieces. glued back together. If you want true wholetail, you'd need to buy "Single wholetail scampi".

Would you suggest that information was put in a "politics" or "big business" thread?

Why not stop trying to police something you have no control over, or ask to become a mod and then you can stamp your size tens all over the place.

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 2:26 pm  

Standee wrote:

no, that's politics and business, to me anyway.

but hey ho, the Sin Bin will do as it always does

A discussion of GM is just as valid in the food thread as, say, a discussion on free range eggs, organic veg, E numbers, additives, fat, salt, sugar etc etc.

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:32 pm  

Standee wrote:

no, that's politics and business, to me anyway.

To you, to those that make the decisions it is the right place, now stop whinging.

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:58 pm  

El Barbudo wrote: A discussion of GM is just as valid in the food thread as, say, a discussion on free range eggs, organic veg, E numbers, additives, fat, salt, sugar etc etc. And in other food (or possibly big business or politics) news: The wells are running dry In the US, farmers are overpumping in the Western Great Plains, including in several leading grain-producing states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Irrigated agriculture has thrived in these states, but the water is drawn from the Ogallala aquifer, a huge underground water body that stretches from Nebraska southwards to the Texas Panhandle. "It is, unfortunately, a fossil aquifer, one that does not recharge. Once it is depleted, the wells go dry and farmers either go back to dryland farming or abandon farming altogether, depending on local conditions," says Brown. Scary

El Barbudo wrote: A discussion of GM is just as valid in the food thread as, say, a discussion on free range eggs, organic veg, E numbers, additives, fat, salt, sugar etc etc. And in other food (or possibly big business or politics) news: The wells are running dry In the US, farmers are overpumping in the Western Great Plains, including in several leading grain-producing states such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Irrigated agriculture has thrived in these states, but the water is drawn from the Ogallala aquifer, a huge underground water body that stretches from Nebraska southwards to the Texas Panhandle. "It is, unfortunately, a fossil aquifer, one that does not recharge. Once it is depleted, the wells go dry and farmers either go back to dryland farming or abandon farming altogether, depending on local conditions," says Brown. Scary

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:14 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Even wholetail scampi is not necessarily the whole tail of a Dublin Bay prawn or langoustine. it can legally be minced up pieces. glued back together. If you want true wholetail, you'd need to buy "Single wholetail scampi".

I thought they had put a stop to that and wholetail had to be just one complete bit of scampi but there could be more than one bit of finished scampi made from one prawn, and the reformed stuff had to be labelled as such?

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:21 pm  

Just had the first barbeque of the seasin. Made a pleasant change. Chicken breasts in herb mrinade, lamb steaks in red wine, quarter pounder with cheese and bacon and herby venison and pork sausages with pasta, garlic and tomato salad, mixed salad and saute potatoes. Washed down with Polish beer.

Re: Food Thread : Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:25 pm  

Just had the first barbeque of the seasin. Made a pleasant change. Chicken breasts in herb mrinade, lamb steaks in red wine, quarter pounder with cheese and bacon and herby venison and pork sausages with pasta, garlic and tomato salad, mixed salad and saute potatoes. Washed down with Polish beer.