Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy returns to Radio 4

[dessiato]

. What do you think of Dirk Gently? No-one seems to like them except me.

Haven't read any for a long time but enjoyed them.

 

[Santino]

Did anyone ever make meatballs based on the description Richard reads on a menu in the first Dirk Gently book?

 

[alsoknownas]

Did anyone ever make meatballs based on the description Richard reads on a menu in the first Dirk Gently book?

Remind me. I have an affection for literary recipes. Here's James Bond's own recipe for scrambled eggs (serves 4 'individualists') :

12 fresh eggs

Salt and pepper

5-6 oz. of fresh butter

Break the eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well. In a small copper (or heavy bottomed saucepan) melt four oz. of the butter. When melted, pour in the eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continuously with a small egg whisk.

While the eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove the pan from heat, add rest of butter and continue whisking for half a minute, adding the while finely chopped chives or fines herbes. Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittinger) and low music.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Whisking the eggs in the pan?

 

[alsoknownas]

Whisking the eggs in the pan?

He's killed around 400 people, he can probably whisk his eggs in the pan if he wants.

Actually it is quite chef-ey to use a whisk in a pan, but it's more of a thorough stir than a proper whisk.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Is the book it's based on any good?

Read it, enjoyed it

 

[Don Troooomp]

Odd as it is, and clearly proves great minds do think alike, I downloaded the radio version last week.

 

[Winot]

I have an affection for literary recipes.

Have you read ‘A debt to pleasure’ the first John Lanchester novel? You should

 

[discobastard]

Did anyone ever make meatballs based on the description Richard reads on a menu in the first Dirk Gently book?

Nope, but I’ve followed Arthur Dent’s description of how to make tea properly in the first Hitch Hiker book for a good 35 years (milk over back of the spoon so as not to scald the milk - don’t even know if it’s true).

 

[Badgers]

August 1982