What new foods have you tried recently?
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farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Stottie is best for that butty.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
bagna caoda. I knew what it was but I'd never tried it. It's frighteningly delicious, as long as you like anchovy. (which makes sense because it's nothing more than a warm, melted-together sauce of olive oil + butter + garlic + anchovies.) You dip various sorts of boiled or raw veg into the sauce like a fondue. It's bloody great - the sauce on its own is somehow "too much", too salty, too fatty, too pungently anchovy, right on the border of being Not Nice At All ... and then you dip in the other thing* and try not to drip sauce on yourself, and then eaten together they're terrific.
* it works even if the 'other thing' is a bitter or uninteresting raw vegetable. in fact the bitterer the veg, the more interesting the bite when you've dredged it though the sauce. I tried it with radicchio + endive and other bitter things, which I usually hate, and the combination of them with the sauce gave me surprise enjoyment. (To be fair there were also bits of bread and some plain boiled spud to dip as well - just right. )
so if you want to up your 5 a day and never got on with bitter vegetables, here's the solution - just dredge them heavily in a fatty salty sauce.
(it also wins pop culture points for appearing in an episode of Babylon 5 where Garibaldi had to smuggle his ingredients onto the ship...)
* it works even if the 'other thing' is a bitter or uninteresting raw vegetable. in fact the bitterer the veg, the more interesting the bite when you've dredged it though the sauce. I tried it with radicchio + endive and other bitter things, which I usually hate, and the combination of them with the sauce gave me surprise enjoyment. (To be fair there were also bits of bread and some plain boiled spud to dip as well - just right. )
so if you want to up your 5 a day and never got on with bitter vegetables, here's the solution - just dredge them heavily in a fatty salty sauce.
(it also wins pop culture points for appearing in an episode of Babylon 5 where Garibaldi had to smuggle his ingredients onto the ship...)
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've never eaten a garibaldi. They look subtly wrong
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Don't bother, they're horrible.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Haven't tried but WANT:
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
AND AND AND
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Remoulade 
on a fish finger sarnie. OMG.
on a fish finger sarnie. OMG.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
And lo, in the last days of capitalism, it came to pass: I finally found my Platonic ideal of a crisp: a limited edition so luckily I won't be able to feed myself on these until I balloon and explode:
OMFG they are everything, everything that's delicious and savoury and taste of real food not just salt and they're thick and crinkly and just perfect in every way.
OMFG they are everything, everything that's delicious and savoury and taste of real food not just salt and they're thick and crinkly and just perfect in every way.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
does it actually taste of beef?
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
I've just looked up the recipe for this. It sounds worth trying, especially as I'm a great fan of brown anchovies.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
They really do - and of real mustard, as well - but they're not so acrid/strong they burn the inside of your mouth off and make your spit glands cry like the McCoy monstrosities do. Gonna go and bulkbuy some I think. And then spend next few months trying desperately not to scoff them in handfuls.
dessiato - do it do it do it - AFAIK it is not complicated at all, but the key is that you MUST NOT overheat the oil/butter, you literally want to MELT the anchovies and garlic, not cook them. There should be no sizzling at all, ever. Some books even recommend doing the whole thing over a single candle or tealight as even a tiny tiny gas ring might get too hot.
friendofdorothy
Solidarity against neoliberalism!
We when to Musselburgh near Edinburgh last week. As a birthday gift to my other half I put all my usual objections to pork aside for the duration (ill treatment of intelligent animals, etc, don't get me started)
So I tried everything for breakfast - including slicing sausage, black pudding, white pudding and potato scones.
Plus haggis of course but we eat that often anyway. Also tried mutton pies. all yum.
So I tried everything for breakfast - including slicing sausage, black pudding, white pudding and potato scones.
Plus haggis of course but we eat that often anyway. Also tried mutton pies. all yum.
Virtual Blue
ready
Reese's Spread.
It tasted like cheap American chocolate (Americans can't make decent chocolate for shit) and was just a sugary mess.
It tasted like cheap American chocolate (Americans can't make decent chocolate for shit) and was just a sugary mess.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I just ate my first ever oyster. It was more foul than I ever imagined. Well - at least I can now say I don't like them and will never have to eat a pile of snot with a bit of grit in it ever again.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
^ I love sushi and sashimi and am ok with roes, but I'm right with you on this one. blergh.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
I can be a bit funny about all seafood. Sushi/sashimi is good when it's good but would never be my first choice. Fish in general is fine but I only tend to eat it when I'm given it - I never cook it, rarely choose it in a restaurant and anything with those fine hairy bones can fuck off (kippers excepted).
I take a pretty indifferent stance on shellfish. Clams are very nice, cockles only a sicko would eat and mussels are OK but a lot of effort to go to for very little reward.
So I thought my reaction to oysters would be along those lines but no. I am surprised as just how revolting I found them. I should say that these were rock oysters and had been coated in flour and shallow fried. The smell as they cooked was really quite nice - fresh and salty - but I knew something was wrong when I tried to pick one up. There was a sickening wobble to this lump of fried seagunk. The taste was as the smell - fresh and salty and rather pleasant - but fuck me the texture when I bit into that fucker. It was how I imagine a fried cyst would be. Sort of a membrane on the outside but an explosion of thick slime that coated my tongue and teeth in the most horrible way. And then I found the grit.....
I was forced to eat cake to get over it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Are you supposed to bite into them? I just neck them, like a shot, get all that sea vibe then let it slip down your throat. I thought I would hate them too, but I never chewed on them. but I've only had them fresh and raw, not fried.
How are you with prawns, crabs and lobsters?
How are you with prawns, crabs and lobsters?
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
When they are cooked yes. And I literally cannot see the point of any food that you just swallow.
Prawns are good, lobster is delicious but try as I might, I've not eaten any crab yet that has pushed my buttons.
ETA thinking about it....I may give a raw oyster straight down the neck a try as the flavour was quite pleasant. I don't think I will be very impressed but you never know....
Fez909
toilet expert
I had Nutella gnocchi.
I was undecided whether I wanted it or not (it didn't sound that appealing to me, tbh), but I had this thread in the back of my mind and went for it.
Wow! They were absolutely amazing
First there was a crispy crust like they'd been coated in something then deep fried. Kind of floury, chewy and dry in the middle layer (the mantle?), which was neither nice nor unpleasant, but then the gooey, hot Nutella core comes oozing out and it all mushes up in your mouth for a taste explosion.
11/10, would eat again A+++++++++++++++
I was undecided whether I wanted it or not (it didn't sound that appealing to me, tbh), but I had this thread in the back of my mind and went for it.
Wow! They were absolutely amazing
First there was a crispy crust like they'd been coated in something then deep fried. Kind of floury, chewy and dry in the middle layer (the mantle?), which was neither nice nor unpleasant, but then the gooey, hot Nutella core comes oozing out and it all mushes up in your mouth for a taste explosion.
11/10, would eat again A+++++++++++++++
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
And Polyglycerol polyricinoleate (artificial cocoa butter)
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate - Wikipedia
Yum...!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
BUT BUT BUT is that a main meal or a dessert? DOES NOT COMPUTEI had Nutella gnocchi.
I was undecided whether I wanted it or not (it didn't sound that appealing to me, tbh), but I had this thread in the back of my mind and went for it.
Wow! They were absolutely amazing
First there was a crispy crust like they'd been coated in something then deep fried. Kind of floury, chewy and dry in the middle layer (the mantle?), which was neither nice nor unpleasant, but then the gooey, hot Nutella core comes oozing out and it all mushes up in your mouth for a taste explosion.
11/10, would eat again A+++++++++++++++
Fez909
toilet expert
It was a "bar snack"
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I'm going to get some of these today.
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