Best meal you've ever cooked?
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With of course. Blueberry and Guiness custard no less.pembrokestephen said:
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few weeks ago filet steak, new potatoes and a blue cheese sauce.... am trying to get into the habit of buying meat from butchers, veg from greengrocers etc....as a consequence made the mistake or not of underestimating the price of filet steak.... Still having spent a fortune..forced myself to cook it to perfection...the sauce was amazing, was well chuffed with myself....
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*phew*fractionMan said:
for a moment there...
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tarannau said:Jesus mate, I'm surprised your tastebuds still work after that onslaught. Subtle doesn't enter your cooking vocabulary much does it?
I'm sure the meal tasted, erm quite salty and strongly flavorsome though. Fuck knows what flavour tho.
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Calm down dear, I'm actually a very good cook. Very, very good actually.
But sometimes you wanna make something cheap, quick, stodgy and grim, with low calories. It actually tasted fucking great, I bet you'd have liked it.
It wasn't primula per se, it was Ikea's cheese and prawn spread, which simply lead to cheesy mash.
Bunch of food snobs with your sun blush tomatoes and your goats cheese and your delusions of grandeur!
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selamlar said:
'xactly!
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I'm not sure what my actual best would be, I cook properly most evenings, and they're all pretty good. Made some lemon and tabasco prawns once, with brown lentils in goose fat on the side. That was pretty fucking special, I recall.
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Badgers said:Used to be a chef so have cooked a LOT of meals over the years. I think that my favourite is Chicken Enchiladas....... They seem to bring me (and others) the most pleasure!
Really want to cook the Heston Blumenthal steak though
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sojourner said:You have Smash in your cupboards.
Enough said!
I actually quite like smash, liking cheap food stuffs doesn't mean you're a bad cook. It means that sometimes, ready made stuff is good in a rush.
We all have crap foodstuffs that we like, Smash happens to be one of mine. Especially smoky bacon smash, that's the shit. Tastes like Frazzles
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bikergrrl said:Chicken Fajitas and nice juicy steaks always go down well too.
Did you know that Fajitas refers to the cut of meat - specifically skirt of beef?
Perhaps it's my age, but Smash is the epitome of shite foodChrisFilter said:I actually quite like smash, liking cheap food stuffs doesn't mean you're a bad cook. It means that sometimes, ready made stuff is good in a rush.
We all have crap foodstuffs that we like, Smash happens to be one of mine. Especially smoky bacon smash, that's the shit. Tastes like Frazzles
Oven chips no problem, but Smash? No no no. I did have it once, it tasted of salty lumps.
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See, I'd never go anywhere near oven chips.. cardboard tubes.. bleurgh. All a matter of taste I guess. Maybe Smash's improved?
You're a grimbo Filter. And nobody can deny it.
I can agree that a bit of trash food is occasionally a good change in pace. I like cheap chinese noodles and even Pot noodles myself, but you can't gp combining too much crapness in one sitting. Bacon smash with prawn primula?
Bleeeurgh. That's worse than my Vesta curry noodles with cheese strings and space dust topping special.
Cooking ability aside I get the feeling, Mr Filter, that you may throw a few things too many in the average meal. And I pretty much guarantee that you must throw a testicle-shrinking amount of salt in each of your meals. The mention of the ingredients in your feast alone made my mouth dry up in sympathy.
I can agree that a bit of trash food is occasionally a good change in pace. I like cheap chinese noodles and even Pot noodles myself, but you can't gp combining too much crapness in one sitting. Bacon smash with prawn primula?
Bleeeurgh. That's worse than my Vesta curry noodles with cheese strings and space dust topping special.
Cooking ability aside I get the feeling, Mr Filter, that you may throw a few things too many in the average meal. And I pretty much guarantee that you must throw a testicle-shrinking amount of salt in each of your meals. The mention of the ingredients in your feast alone made my mouth dry up in sympathy.
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sojourner said:
it's fucking rank - my old flat mate used to be addicted to it so i tried it once when i was pissed. even being drunk out me brain and starving hungry, i couldn't eat more than one mouthful
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DRINK? said:and he never did it with chips...the man knows sh*t
he's a knobber - Like his 'discovery' that Marie Piper make good chips and beer in the batter helps. We know mate.
Of course his chips take 2 hours...
and his beef is corn-fed - they eat grass you cunt!
I don't think I could come up with one all-time best meal, but I can think of a few where I was especially chuffed at the time:
-chicken fajitas (one of the first 'extravagant' things I made at uni and blew most of my weekly food budget on chillis and sour cream and tortillas)
-lebanese chicken (one of the first meaty things I made after the boyfriend stopped being a veggie, and had bought loads of new herbs like fennel seed especially which tasted amazing)
-a veggie feast of tomato tart, puy lentil salad, new potatoes and wild mushrooms and pear and walnut salad (panicked about what to cook for veggie guests and the result just tasted really good!)
-tomato and mozzarella salad (one of those times when buying REALLY good ingredients pays off)
-chicken fajitas (one of the first 'extravagant' things I made at uni and blew most of my weekly food budget on chillis and sour cream and tortillas)
-lebanese chicken (one of the first meaty things I made after the boyfriend stopped being a veggie, and had bought loads of new herbs like fennel seed especially which tasted amazing)
-a veggie feast of tomato tart, puy lentil salad, new potatoes and wild mushrooms and pear and walnut salad (panicked about what to cook for veggie guests and the result just tasted really good!)
-tomato and mozzarella salad (one of those times when buying REALLY good ingredients pays off)
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Brilliant pastiche of Blumenthal here:
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'In my quest for the best roast chicken, it soon became clear that Britain had nothing to offer and I headed to Christian Chotard's farm near Viriat to seek out the legendary Bresse. Christian leaves nothing to chance. All his chickens have heart-rate monitors and only those that are fit enough to maintain a steady pulse of 62 while running on a treadmill at 11.3 kph for half an hour are selected for the table.'
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'In my quest for the best roast chicken, it soon became clear that Britain had nothing to offer and I headed to Christian Chotard's farm near Viriat to seek out the legendary Bresse. Christian leaves nothing to chance. All his chickens have heart-rate monitors and only those that are fit enough to maintain a steady pulse of 62 while running on a treadmill at 11.3 kph for half an hour are selected for the table.'
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Structaural said:
what is the thing about corn fed chicken anyway...I thought that was what chicken ate...or in battery farms are they fed sawdust and sh*t....if you asked someone what a chicken ate the answer would always be corn...can't see the big deal....hey ho
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sorry derailing.
My best meal is a toss up between Steak and chips with goatscheese or my Fish Pie...
My best meal is a toss up between Steak and chips with goatscheese or my Fish Pie...
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DRINK? said:
I'm talking about bovines not poultry
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tarannau said:You're a grimbo Filter. And nobody can deny it.
I can agree that a bit of trash food is occasionally a good change in pace. I like cheap chinese noodles and even Pot noodles myself, but you can't gp combining too much crapness in one sitting. Bacon smash with prawn primula?
Bleeeurgh. That's worse than my Vesta curry noodles with cheese strings and space dust topping special.
No it's not, not in any way!
tarannau said:
How do you know what I cook for an average meal?
I rarely use packaged foods and never add salt. The saltiness comes from the accompanying hot pepper sauce.
ChrisFilter said:
Mate, just going on your 'best meal' recipe you can't possibly need to add salt by itself. You've thrown pretty much the kitchen sink and enough salt in the form of Bisto, baked beans, worcester sauce, onion gravy (prebought I assume), Quorn, Smash and Primula to take out most of your daily allowance in one sitting.
I am making assumptions, but I'm slightly guessing that you're a restless soul in the kitchen.
And besides, if you think I'm an ivory tower 'sun blush' tomatoes type of guy then you'll be sadly mistaken. I've got a plaque in the town centre commemorating my services to the local fried chicken industry for a start.
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tarannau said:Mate, just going on your 'best meal' recipe you can't possibly need to add salt by itself. You've thrown pretty much the kitchen sink and enough salt in the form of Bisto, baked beans, worcester sauce, onion gravy (prebought I assume), Quorn, Smash and Primula to take out most of your daily allowance in one sitting.
I am making assumptions, but I'm slightly guessing that you're a restless soul in the kitchen.
And besides, if you think I'm an ivory tower 'sun blush' tomatoes type of guy then you'll be sadly mistaken. I've got a plaque in the town centre commemorating my services to the local fried chicken industry for a start.
The best meal post was a joke though, of course it's not my best meal!
I can 'over ingredient' sometimes, and am often experimental, but if I was cooking for guests it would be proper.
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DRINK? said:
Corn is maize, not what we English often refer to as corn... I have no idea whether it has any effect on the chicken as it does on bovines (which structural mentioned, their stomachs are set up for grasses, not maize) but it's definitely not their traditional diet here. cornfed chickens tend to have yellower flesh and more flavour than other indoor raised chickens. Ideally you want to buy organic though.
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sojourner said:There's too many to choose from, in all honesty. I don't do modesty, I'm a damn fine cook, and just couldn't choose one
I'm with sojourner on this one - I don't often cook the same thing twice because I can cook most things really well and I like to try new recipes.
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