What new foods have you tried recently?

[Callie]

Nairn's ginger biscuits. They're basically oatcakes with some ginger and sugar, relatively low in sugar and fat, and gluten free. I think they may be the perfect biscuit.

Can you dunk them satisfactorily into a brew?!

 

[rubbershoes]

Can you dunk them satisfactorily into a brew?!

Why would they want to ruin them?

 

[RubyToogood]

Can you dunk them satisfactorily into a brew?!

Yes, they dunk well without disintegrating prematurely.

 

[Orang Utan]

Today I discovered that a high end sweet bakery has opened up very locally to me and I’ve already spent over £20 on their products. This may well be the ruin of me.

GET BAKED - Home of the World-famous Bertha - 24 layers of perfection

GET BAKED is home to the World famous Bertha, as well as heaps of other utterly tasty creations.

shop.get-baked.co.uk

I bought a cinnamon roll cookie, a salted chocolate cookie, a slice of Baked Cherry & Custard Crumble and a huge piece of chocolate cake named ‘Bruce!’
I have only eaten the cinnamon roll cookie and it’s the tastiest cookie I’ve ever had.
Watch this space - will probs scoff the lot by the end of the day

Scoffed the rest. Fuck me the Bruce chocolate cake is a delicious monster. The best cake I’ve ever eaten. Only one slice cost £15 but it would serve a family of six comfortably as it’s so rich and dense (and massive). Called Bruce after Bruce Bogtrotter off of Matilda. There’s no way anyone could eat a whole one:

 

[Mr.Bishie]

That looks well lush! I love death by chocolate cake!

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

The mojito and margarita are firm faves

Thursday night in.

 

[Epona]

Fuck, if I ever have 15 to spend on cake I'll know I'm out of the shit

(tbf we do get doughnuts for free, if I never see another it will be too soon)

 

[ouirdeaux]

I had wondered how you coped with unending doughnuts. I tend to get bored by repetition when it comes to food, so I could imagine running the gamut of emotions, as I munch my way through all the different varieties, from 'hey, doughnuts!' to 'doughnuts are nice, aren't they?', then 'ah, yet another doughnut', until finally I am reduced to a sobbing lump in a corner, begging for anything, just not a doughnut. For months afterwards, even the sight of an innocuous bagel might bring on PTSD.

 

[Epona]

I had wondered how you coped with unending doughnuts. I tend to get bored by repetition when it comes to food, so I could imagine running the gamut of emotions, as I munch my way through all the different varieties, from 'hey, doughnuts!' to 'doughnuts are nice, aren't they?', then 'ah, yet another doughnut', until finally I am reduced to a sobbing lump in a corner, begging for anything, just not a doughnut. For months afterwards, even the sight of an innocuous bagel might bring on PTSD.

I do not cope well with unending doughnuts tbh, especially when OH brings big boxes of them home and they do attract mice when just left somewhere. I also worked doing doughnuts for a while (Sainsbury's bakery counter when I was 17, evening job while I was doing my A Levels) and I got fucking sick of them then - for me 2 weeks of getting powdered sugar and raspberry jam encrusted on your arms up to the elbow due to cleaning out the display shelves was enough to put me off for a long time, so the doughnut fatigue when 35 years later my OH got a job making doughnuts set in very quickly.
He is banned from bringing doughnuts home unless I am attending some event where several boxes of fresh doughnuts would be appreciated.
I never want to eat another one in my life.

 

[Epona]

I really liked it when he worked in a big and quite upmarket London market doing refuse collection - the amount of free fruit and veg (and sometimes other stuff that was nearing its best before date) that was being thrown out but still absolutely fine, it was wonderful. We ate mostly for free (with the occasional addition of other ingredients). I'd far rather have that (but the work itself was quite physically demanding and he has a physical disability, it was too much to do long-term. Icing doughnuts and putting them in boxes is far less physically demanding).

 

[RedRedRose]

Chinese pizza, among the usual (cheese, tomato etc etc) you have sliced sausage and red kidney beans. Tasted quite good, although its difficult to get good dairy products here, so they seemed to have used a cream cheese base. You have lots of foreigners offering almost authentic Italian style pizza, but this is definitely different.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fuck, if I ever have 15 to spend on cake I'll know I'm out of the shit

(tbf we do get doughnuts for free, if I never see another it will be too soon)

I didn’t really have £15 but I spent it anyway

 

[Epona]

I didn’t really have £15 but I spent it anyway

Honestly if you ever plan to come to London and would like free doughnuts, just let me know and I'll try to sort that for you - I think that massive slice of chocolate cake you got looked way better than a box of doughnuts that would cost about the same, but I am so sick of sweet things at this point, and I never had that much of a sweet tooth in the first place! I can cope with a few squares of dark chocolate and that is about it.

 

[The39thStep]

Some things from Aldi over here in Portugal in case you haven't had them in the UK

Cashew nut juice drink - sounds great, tastes like cheap sweet sugar rush kids drink.

Aloe Vera pulp ( natural) from the fantastically named Bio Gut range - tasteless but supposedly good for digestion etc . No good for hangovers

Sweet potato sticks - ok to munch on

Coconut kaffir drink- good

 

[RubyToogood]

Robinson's mint and lime cordial which a friend brought me. It's delicious.

 

[moonsi til]

Ooh I will look out for that RubyToogood

 

[ash]

I have yet to find a decent veggie mince. They're all awful but in completely different ways.

I find lentils do the job

 

[quimcunx]

Thoight id try domething new from the takeaway as ive gone off their Malaysian satay chicken. Prawn in yellow bean sauce. Nope. Weird sweet taste.

 

[danski]

Don’t know how it compares to other jalapeño houmous but it’s fantastic.
Bought as their plain one was great, too

 

[Fez909]

In Porto, just tried the local speciality sandwich



Phwoar!

 

[Epona]

Looks like it would be very messy to eat!
I like all the stuff in/on it though - all the meat and dairy!

 

[iona]

Red pudding. Think there's a couple of different versions but the one I had was just like a cheap crap sausage. Black and white puddings are much better.

Also sow thistle which isn't as good as dandelion.

 

[iona]

Honeycomb yorkie bar. More moreish than crack.

 

[newme]

Birra Moretti, it was both more expensive and smaller than the usual cans. Tastes like, beer. No defining characteristics at all.

 

[The39thStep]

Looks like it would be very messy to eat!
I like all the stuff in/on it though - all the meat and dairy!

Knife and fork job . You can get them all over Portugal now.

 

[newme]

Knife and fork job . You can get them all over Portugal now.

I was in Portugal for a week and every day one bakery had a massive queue, what the hell were they after? ANy idea lol

 

[polly]

Birra Moretti, it was both more expensive and smaller than the usual cans. Tastes like, beer. No defining characteristics at all.

Totally agree. It's all about the nice picture on the label, I reckon.

 

[newme]

Totally agree. It's all about the nice picture on the label, I reckon.

I just wanted more about a 6 pack and nowhere does them. Plus thought new one why not. All packaging like you said.

 

[MrCurry]

Biscoff spread. Omg.

I’ve got a jar of this in the fridge going bad, because I honestly don’t know what to do with it. I opened it, spread some on a digestive biscuit (as I’d seen someone on instagram doing) and was underwhelmed by the flavour. It was just like eating biscuit on biscuit.

I should probably Google it, but I’m awaiting getting some inspiration of something worth using the stuff with, before it goes off.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’ve got a jar of this in the fridge going bad, because I honestly don’t know what to do with it. I opened it, spread some on a digestive biscuit (as I’d seen someone on instagram doing) and was underwhelmed by the flavour. It was just like eating biscuit on biscuit.

I should probably Google it, but I’m awaiting getting some inspiration of something worth using the stuff with, before it goes off.

Er, it’s a spread - you spread it on toast/bread. Did you not consider this?