Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:44 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

Chuck them in stir-fry's, lumps of chicken, sweetcorn, a little mustard, maybe some dried chilli seeds and sultanas (the big fat ones), salted peanuts or cashews go nice too - and then on a bed of simple boiled long grain rice.

Ey up lad, we don't often see you round these parts. Must come from livin' wi' three lasses

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:48 pm  

McLaren_Field wrote:

My geordie wife and all of her relations thought I was completely fruitcake the first time I asked for cheese with christmas cake, I can't imagine eating a piece of christmas cake without a slice of wensleydale.

The wife's sister married a man of Kent - his reaction was somewhere between hilarity and horror. Still not won him around to the idea.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:48 pm  

vbfg wrote: I have a question. Sultanas, raisins and currants. Can we just drop the pretence and name them all the same thing? No http://britishfood.about.com/od/glossar ... dfruit.htm

vbfg wrote: I have a question. Sultanas, raisins and currants. Can we just drop the pretence and name them all the same thing? No http://britishfood.about.com/od/glossar ... dfruit.htm

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:14 pm  

Thank you for your input. I feel chastened and am unlikely to confuse the different types of dried grape ever again.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:55 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

The wife's sister married a man of Kent - his reaction was somewhere between hilarity and horror. Still not won him around to the idea.

Ah, civilisation hasn't quite reached the East of the Medway then.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:03 pm  

Big Graeme wrote: No http://britishfood.about.com/od/glossar ... dfruit.htm Well, I've learned something from that ... raisins are actually from white grapes, even though the raisins are dark. I never knew that. vbfg wrote: Thank you for your input. I feel chastened and am unlikely to confuse the different types of dried grape ever again. I believe you are/were a hiking/walking/outdoorsy sorta guy? A pocketful of sultanas, raisins with a few nuts added is dead handy when you're out on the fells. Better than the broken mintcake or the ageing Mars bar that always turn up in my rucksack pocket, anyway.

Big Graeme wrote: No http://britishfood.about.com/od/glossar ... dfruit.htm Well, I've learned something from that ... raisins are actually from white grapes, even though the raisins are dark. I never knew that. vbfg wrote: Thank you for your input. I feel chastened and am unlikely to confuse the different types of dried grape ever again. I believe you are/were a hiking/walking/outdoorsy sorta guy? A pocketful of sultanas, raisins with a few nuts added is dead handy when you're out on the fells. Better than the broken mintcake or the ageing Mars bar that always turn up in my rucksack pocket, anyway.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:43 pm  

Raisins are tough rather than particularly chewy and should only ever be eaten on the verge of death.

Sultanas burst in your mouth, taste vile and should never be eaten.

I have never tried a currant.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:22 pm  

RooRoo wrote:

Raisins are tough rather than particularly chewy and should only ever be eaten on the verge of death.

Sultanas burst in your mouth, taste vile and should never be eaten.

I have never tried a currant.

Very good natural laxative as I found to my cost when I ate a load when I was a nipper that I found in the kitchen cupboard

Nowadays I eat them in moderation.

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:46 pm  

hopps wrote:

Very good natural laxative as I found to my cost when I ate a load when I was a nipper that I found in the kitchen cupboard

Nowadays I eat them in moderation.

I eat mine in teacakes.

Our deli/baker has just changed hands and we've finally got a proper baker again, he even knows what I mean when I ask for breadcakes. His teacakes are amazing, they're about the size of a flat cap and he brings them out of the oven at 09.15, so they're still hot enough to butter & eat without toasting. What's more, he only charges 30p too

Re: Food thread ... another serving ... : Tue Nov 15, 2011 6:34 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Ey up lad, we don't often see you round these parts. Must come from livin' wi' three lasses

My stir fry's are the standard fall-back when I walk in the door and ask all three of them "Whats for my tea then?", invariably the answer is a silence so the wok comes out and five minutes later I'm sat with a huge plate of grub and they're all staring wondering where the hell I got that from.