Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Enchiladas - kinda like fajitas, but you (thankfully) eat them with a knife and fork. Very nice, but doubt I would cook them myself.
What new foods have you tried recently?
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kittyP
Pluviophile
I have only had crickets once before (fried with garlic and chilli and tossed in a salad) but they were lush as fuck!
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Do they crunch?I have only had crickets once before (fried with garlic and chilli and tossed in a salad) but they were lush as fuck!
kittyP
Pluviophile
I had a crab meat, chilli and spaghetti dish at an Italian restaurant the other week and it was mind blowing
kittyP
Pluviophile
Not in an insectish way.
I liken it to, if you have ever had Chinese crispy duck, the really crispy bits from the outer edges, it's like that.
No, you absolutely cannot detect bits of the insect (wings, head etc) and I think that is the important bit.
It was just a little crispy and chewy but light in texture.
Basically IMHO you would have no idea what you were eating if you were not told.
It would just seem like normal bits of bacon or chicken skin or whatever...
kittyP
Pluviophile
I think it was the idea of legs that was putting me off ... but your description is reassuring
I had crickets and locusts (which are a lot bigger) and I could not detect any legs or any other insect like bits
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I had crickets and locusts (which are a lot bigger) and I could not detect any legs or any other insect like bits
If any legs were left on the insect you could always use them as handy free floss.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Kombucha: now I'm hooked.
I've been making this myself recently. It's really easy. Just make a big thing of tea and drop a starter in. Got mine from ebay for a few quid.
Only thing is the dam thing grows and grows. I'm worried mine is plotting a takeover.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
I've thought about it; but I'm hesitant to make home brew that involves the use of bacterial hockey pucks. For the moment, I'll let GT Dave do my brewing...
Also, there are microbreweries around here that have kombucha on tap - but it doesn't have the bite of the Synergy stuff.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's pretty easy and you can certainly get bit. You don't get raspberry chia flavour though. 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is it alcoholic tea or something?
Fez909
toilet expert
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've just googled it. The health claims look spurious but if it tastes nice....
Yogurty tea though...
Yogurty tea though...
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Are you sure it wasn't pulps gallego? Which is octopus tentacles in slices on boiled potato. Sometimes a little tomato is served with it. It's seasoned with oil and pimento ahumado. (I can't remember what it is in English! I'm becoming foreign!) It's bloody delicious.
Callie
Pivoting
It was a special on at a place in Hastings, I didn't see a name for the dish. Pretty sure the potatoes were more roasted/sauteed. The octopus tentacles were sliced and there was some kind of spicing on it... It had a sort of bacony flavour? Smoked paprika? May well have been the spice.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Sounds like pulpo gallego. Oddly, when I have it here in Andalucia it's better than in Galicia. Never had it in the UK.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Wild garlic shoots. I'd eaten them before but this was first time to have a bagful to play with and cook. My new favourite vegetable! Barely needs cooking (any more than wilting it and you'll kill off the flavour), no wastage, loads more interesting than spinach. Grand in an omelette / frittata / tortilla / eggy thing, even better with some other fried-in-olive-oil veg and stirred into pasta, and best of all: I ate the last 1/3d of the bag stirred into the sauce of a supermarket curry meal and it was fantastic.
Find and eat these if you can!
Find and eat these if you can!
Brown rice. Always something I put off trying cos it's always put forward as a worthy shitty yakky kind of rice. However, having cooked it for my fella's lad, I decided to take the plunge and not only was I pleasantly surprised, I'm actually a convert. It really does taste nicer than white rice 
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
There's a dude at the local market that takes a plain, fresh goat cheese and wraps it in the leaves of that. After a few days it imparts a lovely, mild garlicky flavour to it.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
It does take a long time to cook though. Although brown basmati isn't so bad.Brown rice. Always something I put off trying cos it's always put forward as a worthy shitty yakky kind of rice. However, having cooked it for my fella's lad, I decided to take the plunge and not only was I pleasantly surprised, I'm actually a convert. It really does taste nicer than white rice
Yeh, I ended up simmering it with a lid on for about 20 mins in all. Fucking lush though.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Depends how fluffy you like it. My rice cooker takes around 2 hours to do brown, but it's converted its share of people with light, fluffy brown rice.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's certainly got its place. I really like it with things like Dahl, although for rich dishes with lots of meat then white has the edge for me. Also 20 mins? Its normally closer to 40 for the stuff I've got.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I love brown rice, especially with veggie chilli for that true hippy taste.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Proper win
I was a victim of my own success with that one. Made it for my other half who doesn't eat beef and she loved it. And asked I cook it when her friends came round. It is rather nice, but I do like one with meat in sometimes. Luckily it freezes really well and the advantage of making huge batches is that you can use loads of different types of bean.
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