What new foods have you tried recently?

[Fez909]

Yorkshire pudding wrap

A Yorkshire pudding flatbread, wrapped around braised beer, with red cabbage and horseradish. Very nice, and surprisingly filling!

Looked a bit like this:

 

[trabuquera]

A "Yorkshire pudding flatbread"? In other words, a pancake?
The sprinkling of rocket makes it, I'm sure, but that is a Findus Beef Crispy Pancake by another (more gastro) name.
I'm not mocking you, btw - I'd eat that in a heartbeat. It's just the poncy reinvention of the wheel / pudding / pancake that amuses me!

 

[Fez909]

A "Yorkshire pudding flatbread"? In other words, a pancake?
The sprinkling of rocket makes it, I'm sure, but that is a Findus Beef Crispy Pancake by another (more gastro) name.
I'm not mocking you, btw - I'd eat that in a heartbeat. It's just the poncy reinvention of the wheel / pudding / pancake that amuses me!

Nope, not a pancake.

Pancakes are fried, Yorkshire pudding is baked.

Same ingredients, however. But cheesy mash is not a jacket potato, despite the ingredients being the same (fuck beans).

 

[trabuquera]

Aha, now I see why you're not catching on. Yorkshire pudding is baked - IN FAT. Preferably dripping. So much fat that it produces delicious brown bits like frying does. Also, the mix doesn't just have the same ingredients, but in exactly the same proportions ( yorkie batter is pancake batter.) So any Yorkshire pudding is in fact a giant, oversized, oven-fried pancake. Fact

 

[Fez909]

Aha, now I see why you're not catching on. Yorkshire pudding is baked - IN FAT. Preferably dripping. So much fat that it produces delicious brown bits like frying does. Also, the mix doesn't just have the same ingredients, but in exactly the same proportions ( yorkie batter is pancake batter.) So any Yorkshire pudding is in fact a giant, oversized, oven-fried pancake. Fact

Absolute bollocks ...I'm guessing you're a Southerner

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Absolute bollocks ...I'm guessing you're a Southerner

They're absolutely correct I'm afraid. And I'm very disappointed that Yorkieland has fallen victim to the poncey food 'movement'.

 

[Fez909]

They're absolutely correct I'm afraid. And I'm very disappointed that Yorkieland has fallen victim to the poncey food 'movement'.

Correct about what?! That they're made with the same ingredients? No shit! That they're the same thing? That's so wrong I can't even believe you're arguing this

1 x potato
1 x knob of butter
1 x handful of grated cheese

Method 1
1. Wrap spud in foil
2. Put in oven for 1 hour
3. Slice open and mash some butter in
4. Cover with cheese

Method 2
1. Chop spud into a few pieces
2. Boil
3. Mash butter in
4. Mash cheese in

Is the produce of method 1 the same as method 2? No! Even though the ingredients are exactly the same!

This also applies to pancakes/Yorkies

 

[chandlerp]

Hang on, what's a potato got to do with pancakes and yorkshire puddings?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Correct about what?!

The pudding is fried - only in the oven rather than on the hob. I thought that much is obvious.

Don't know why you're bringing spuds into it.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hang on, what's a potato got to do with pancakes and yorkshire puddings?

Wor Fez909 has been on the pop.

 

[Fez909]

The pudding is fried - only in the oven rather than on the hob. I thought that much is obvious.

Don't know why you're bringing spuds into it.

If it's in the oven, it's not frying. It's baking...or more likely roasting.

I'm "bringing spuds into it" to show having the same ingredient does not mean they're the same food!

 

[farmerbarleymow]

If it's in the oven, it's not frying. It's baking...or more likely roasting.

I'm "bringing spuds into it" to show having the same ingredient does not mean they're the same food!

*sigh*

The same ingredients, cooked in the same fat, only with a different form of heating. The actual mixture is still frying in the oil whether it's in the hob or in the oven.

 

[Fez909]

*sigh*

The same ingredients, cooked in the same fat, only with a different form of heating. The actual mixture is still frying in the oil whether it's in the hob or in the oven.

You fry your pancakes in meat juices?

Your pancakes look like this?



Exactly the same...except slightly different in a number of subtle, yet important, ways.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You fry your pancakes in meat juices?

Your pancakes look like this?

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Exactly the same...except slightly different in a number of subtle, yet important, ways.

There's no law against it. Plenty of sweet things were once more savoury in the past.

I think they must have laced that abomination you has earlier with whale tranquilliser as that would explain your delusional behaviour.

 

[nogojones]

Tried doing a nut roast for the first time. Pretty easy and I might mess about with the spicing going forward. Roast dinners are back on the menu.

I might make some oven baked pancakes to go with it next time

 

[nogojones]

Pickled walnuts. I didn't expect them to be the whole nut, shell and all, or so soft - I thought they'd be crunchy pickled nut meat. But they're great for livening up salads, where there are other crunchy things to disguise the disturbing texture.

I love them with stilton

 

[wtfftw]

Tried doing a nut roast for the first time. Pretty easy and I might mess about with the spicing going forward. Roast dinners are back on the menu.

I might make some oven baked pancakes to go with it next time

Watch that you don't coat potatoes in fat and cook them with that. Chips have no place with a roast.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Carling Black Label 'n' low-calorie Ribena. I'm on Dementia Duty, and my second brother has been doing the shopping. It's the only booze around.
Fish and chips for tea.

 

[equationgirl]

I tried Chinese cabbage in my lunchtime chicken noodle soup this week and it was nice enough. Would probably have it again.

 

[Spymaster]

*sigh*

The same ingredients, cooked in the same fat, only with a different form of heating. The actual mixture is still frying in the oil whether it's in the hob or in the oven.

Horse cocks.

Yorkshire puddings are baked/roasted in the oven. So what if they're based in fat.

By your reckoning, roast potatoes are fried.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Hardly new, but I've been working hard on a simnel cake that I bought, ahem, for my mum. I've never sampled, baked or bought one before, so as she is 93 it's another daughterly failing that I put right in the nick of time.
It's just a good fruit cake with a layer of marzipan inside, covered with more marzipan, and then 11 marzipan balls on top, symbolising the 11 loyal disciples. Devoted daughters traditionally made them for their mothers at Easter.
Turns out most of our visitors today don't like marzipan, so I have had to perform extra troughing action in order to prevent excess cake embarrassment.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Bought some rainbow chard - never had that before, but it looks pretty. Need to find a use for it.

Bit late I guess, but I cut the colourful stems of and in small bits and chop the leaves seperately. Steam the leaves, fry the stems with garlic, then add the leaves and bit of Soy sauce. Bit more complex then say kale, but very nice.

 

[dessiato]

Not new in that I regularly eat them, but today I have avocados straight from the tree. The flavour, the density, so different to shop bought.

 

[The39thStep]

Nespra or loquat , there loads here and I have a tree in the garden. Refreshing fruit with a mild mango/ pear taste.
Had the first caracoles (snails) of the year at a friends house cooked in garlic, oregano and lemon peel, brill with bread and beer.

 

[wiskey]

Last night I had some Indian alphonso mango, it was very nice and smooth and less sinew-y. I think I've only had West Indian mangoes before.

 

[wiskey]

Oh yes, and courtesy of JTG antipodean travels I've had the opportunity to try cheesy veggimite...... URGH!!!

We accidentally left it in the holiday cottage, I hope people don't leave bad reviews because of it

 

[gentlegreen]

A definite thumbs-down for this Fairtrade product.
It's almost as if they had a load of vanilla and capsicum to get rid of, so they added it to what would have been perfectly acceptable ginger beer. I don't recall ever trying Dr. Pepper, so don't know if it's the capsicum that makes it taste like artist's oil paint (?)
I think half the problem is I couldn't work out exactly what it tasted like

 

[May Kasahara]

Those Mikado chocolate biscuit straws. I wish I hadn't, they're bloody delicious.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Bit late I guess, but I cut the colourful stems of and in small bits and chop the leaves seperately. Steam the leaves, fry the stems with garlic, then add the leaves and bit of Soy sauce. Bit more complex then say kale, but very nice.

It was OK, but nothing special in my view. worth trying though.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Kombucha: now I'm hooked.