A lot of shallots.

[Pieface]

I love debating. This is ace.

 

[pootle]

No it isn't...

 

[Pieface]

You may have a point there.....

 

[Orang Utan]

Weirdo

 

[Pieface]

Abuse is not tolerated in the chambers!

 

[gaijingirl]

Yes it is!!

 

[Pieface]

You have been discredited, councillor GG. Go and get pregnant will you?

 

[Orang Utan]

<throws onion>

 

[Pieface]

<releases the hounds>

 

[omlette]

how do you pronounce shallot? with the emphasis on the first or the second syllable? I've always pronounced it one way, then heard a woman at the greengrocers pronouncing it t'other way the other day and had a horrid moment of self-doubt...

 

[Orang Utan]

Shallot rhymes with that's yer lot

 

[omlette]

I pronounce it sh'LOT, is that sort of what yer mean?

 

[Orang Utan]

That's correct

 

[Pieface]

Shallot rhymes with that's yer lot

this is clearly arse.

 

[Orang Utan]

this is clearly arse.

How do you pronounce it?

 

[omlette]

That's correct

so I can point and laugh at the lady who said SHALLot ?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Yeah, fuckbuckets call them SHALLuts. Down with that sort of thing.

If you can't think of anything, pie, then I'll have them. I'll swap you for a fig. That went out of date on saturday.

 

[Luther Blissett]

I get suckered in by these tubs of veg for a quid that the grocer does and always end up with too many of one thing for not much money.

This week I seem to have bought a kilogram of shallots.

What can I do with such shallot of shallots?!

Any recipes or ideas?? I'm thinking mebbes chutney...or a pie

I'd be tempted to plant some of them now, to reap at least 4 times the amount for next July/August.

 

[Orang Utan]

so I can point and laugh at the lady who said SHALLot ?

If you wish - I take my cue from the Tennyson poem - if it was SHALLot, it wouldn't scan.

 

[Pieface]

How do you pronounce it?

certainly not "Shatts Yer Lot"

Weirdo

 

[Pieface]

I'd be tempted to plant some of them now, to reap at least 4 times the amount for next July/August.

I think I may do that with the sprouting ones

 

[Orang Utan]

Cockanancy

 

[Pieface]

What is "cockanancy"?

 

[Orang Utan]

You

 

[Pieface]

oh.

I quite like that word.

 

[Orang Utan]

Jackanapes
and
Donkeyhorner
are good too

 

[CA9I]

Shallots? Easy peasy. Use them instead of red onions in (thai)green curry. Though you might want to cut back on the chillies a little bit if you're not used to it.

But the easiest is slice 6-8 of 'em, stir-fry 'em in a red hot wok or balti then throw in a collander of some(washed) spinach, a liitle garlic, a pinch of salt, and a 'little'(half a teaspoon) of soy sauce with the same of oyster sauce.

Lovely stuff. I have it with 'Red-cooked beef with yellow turnip and rice.