What new foods have you tried recently?

[Epona]

Or mix a spoonful into vanilla ice-cream, or use it to make a milkshake (or dairy-free equivalent if you don't do cow juice)

 

[MrCurry]

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

I certainly did, and rejected the idea as too gross to even try. Or are you saying it actually works?

 

[MrCurry]

Or mix a spoonful into vanilla ice-cream, or use it to make a milkshake (or dairy-free equivalent if you don't do cow juice)

Thanks - milkshakes are foreign to me, I’m not sure I’ve even had one in my lifetime, but vanilla ice cream softened until it’s mixable, then blended with some biscoff and chilled down afterwards sounds like an idea with some real potential

 

[Epona]

Oh the other thing you can do with it if you like baking cakes is make a sponge cake using 2 sandwich tins - coffee flavoured cake would work particularly well - then sandwich it together with biscoff spread in the middle, and make biscoff buttercream to go on top.

Just like you might do a chocolate one with nutella in/on it

 

[MrCurry]

Oh the other thing you can do with it if you like baking cakes is make a sponge cake using 2 sandwich tins - coffee flavoured cake would work particularly well - then sandwich it together with biscoff spread in the middle, and make biscoff buttercream to go on top.

Just like you might do a chocolate one with nutella in/on it

Love that idea!

 

[newme]

Nothing and it is mildly annoying me, theres plenty of choice I have loads of stuff I could make but especially anything I want to try making my hands are basically ruining it for new dumplings etc, unless there is one with human blood as an ingredient.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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.

It always looks incredibly sugary to me when I've seen it in the shops. Muck like nutella

 

[Orang Utan]

I certainly did, and rejected the idea as too gross to even try. Or are you saying it actually works?

Of course - that’s what it’s for ffs

 

[Epona]

I wouldn't say that's what it is for necessarily - I suspect Krispy Kreme uses far more worldwide than the entire retail market (it is supplied in large lidded buckets for the catering sector, not little jars ofc ) - they use it to make their Lotus Biscoff doughnuts - I'm a bit sick of doughnuts tbh as we get them free, but the Lotus is the best of all their filled/iced doughnuts.

 

[Orang Utan]

You find it in the supermarket with all the jam and peanut butter. It’s a SPREAD. Cos you SPREAD it on your toast.

 

[Epona]

It's a catering ingredient for baking and cake making that has recently been made available in little jars for retail

 

[polly]

It's for eating from the jar with a spoon or your fingers.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a catering ingredient for baking and cake making that has recently been made available in little jars for retail

To spread on your toast

 

[The39thStep]

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

Sorry I didn't see this. I don't know tbh and impossible to give an informed answer. Regions do specialities and areas do specialities, there are some places where bakeries /cafes do old fashioned bread or cakes that people like or it might just be the baking times for the bread. Alentejo bread for example is a very popular niche market as is broa corn bread .

 

[newme]

Sorry I didn't see this. I don't know tbh and impossible to give an informed answer. Regions do specialities and areas do specialities, there are some places where bakeries /cafes do old fashioned bread or cakes that people like or it might just be the baking times for the bread. Alentejo bread for example is a very popular niche market as is broa corn bread .

Flew to faro and it was roughly south of there on the coast. Wildfires surrounded the city at one point 5 years ago when we were there?. I guessed the custard things?

 

[The39thStep]

Flew to faro and it was roughly south of there on the coast. Wildfires surrounded the city at one point 5 years ago when we were there?. I guessed the custard things?

Pastel De Nata's. Could be . They do like a cake .
Faro is on the coast so it would have to be either East or West . East has lots of salt extraction, some islands although they are sandbanks and a large area nature reserve , west is the Centre which has the most developed tourism and further West which is more rocky . Its all good but its best inland imo.

 

[Epona]

I love a good Pastel de Nata. My mum also has always been fond of a custard tart so sometimes when I am due to spend a day with them I pick some up from our local Portuguese run cafe/deli

 

[Serge Forward]

There's this new cake shop/bakery/cafe recently opened up round the corner. The people are from Moldova so their food reflects that. I'm not big on cakes but Mrs Forward assures me they're fantastic. I asked about their savoury baked stuff and they mentioned their cabbage rolls among other things with cheese. So I thought, that sounds a bit boring but I had one anyway.

The cheese bakes were very nice but I have to say, the cabbage roll was one of the tastiest things I've eaten in ages. Who woulda thunk it? Moldovan cabbage rolls are now one of my top foods.

The people who run the shop are really nice as well. Here's their face book page if you're ever passing through Leicester and want to check it out: https://m.facebook.com/LeicesterCakesTorturiPrajituri

 

[dessiato]

Homemade vanilla ice cream with dulce de leche ice-cream in a waffle cone. I'm going to become fat again.

 

[dessiato]

Making vegan ice cream. Not sure about the colour, hope the taste is ok. I’ll update tomorrow.

 

[dessiato]

Making vegan ice cream. Not sure about the colour, hope the taste is ok. I’ll update tomorrow.

It's awful. I'll not make that recipe again.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fresh medjool dates - bought them without realising they were fresh rather than dried. They're a bit odd - can't quite place the texture. They're a pale yellow inside which is also unexpected.

 

[miss direct]

I daresay that all fruit is better fresh than dried.

I've recently bought prepared tempeh from Lidl. It's not very exciting but it's ok as a protein based snack.

 

[dessiato]

Fresh medjool dates - bought them without realising they were fresh rather than dried. They're a bit odd - can't quite place the texture. They're a pale yellow inside which is also unexpected.

When I lived in Sudan there were date trees all over. You could buy them from people prepared to go up the tree for them. They tasted awful, but were popular with the locals. I was told that they could be fermented but only for up to three days because after that they produced alcohol.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

When I lived in Sudan there were date trees all over. You could buy them from people prepared to go up the tree for them. They tasted awful, but were popular with the locals. I was told that they could be fermented but only for up to three days because after that they produced alcohol.

Yes, while they don't taste awful they just don't taste of much. The best way I can describe them is that the flesh is like a watery past its best plum. I'll finish them as waste not want not, but won't buy them again.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

When I lived in Sudan there were date trees all over. You could buy them from people prepared to go up the tree for them. They tasted awful, but were popular with the locals. I was told that they could be fermented but only for up to three days because after that they produced alcohol.

I've got a Tunisian spirit made from dates I got in duty free on the way home from holiday. It's just about passable, but I wouldn't rush to buy it again.

 

[what]

I recently had fish mint not disgusting but too bitter and not enough mint flavour

 

[Callie]

I recently had fish mint not disgusting but too bitter and not enough mint flavour

Where are you?

 

[what]

Where are you?

London. Why?

 

[Callie]

London. Why?

Fish mint sounded super exotic and unusual! Was it a garnish? part of a dish? Random nibble in a garden centre??