What new foods have you tried recently?

[farmerbarleymow]

Yeh, I ended up simmering it with a lid on for about 20 mins in all. Fucking lush though.

I cheat and buy the microwave pouches. You can get the wholegrain brown rice ones for 60p in the main Sainsbury's branches - useful stock cupboard stuff when you want something quick. The wholegrain brown has more fibre than the brown basmati by the way, so I always buy the former to give me innards a good brillo-ing.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is it alcoholic tea or something?

Fermented tea. Has a very low alcoholic content.

Good for the gut flora.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've just googled it. The health claims look spurious but if it tastes nice....
Yogurty tea though...

Not anything like yogurt.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Fermented tea. Has a very low alcoholic content.

Good for the gut flora.

I'm tempted to make a batch of alcoholic stuff just to see what it's like. It's not like the starting ingredients cost much...

 

[Orang Utan]

Fermented tea. Has a very low alcoholic content.

Good for the gut flora.

internet says that is bollocks - snake oil crap

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Tastes nice though and is quite refreshing in the morning.

 

[dessiato]

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!
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I love that stuff! My FIL had it in his garden and went to great lengths to get rid of it. Shame.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

internet says that is bollocks - snake oil crap

There are all sorts of claims made about kombucha having healing properties etc. I don't buy any of that.

But I didn't think there was a lot of dispute that fermented foods are good for gut flora.

Is fermented food a recipe for good gut health? - BBC News

 

[RubyToogood]

Yeh, I ended up simmering it with a lid on for about 20 mins in all. Fucking lush though.

At 20 mins I think it must have been either basmati or quick cook. The hardcore hippy stuff is about 40 mins as UAOS says.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The hardcore hippy stuff is about 40 mins as UAOS says.

People who cook that rice, given it's healthy, should get a fuel rebate - we'll save the country money in the long run.

 

[trabuquera]

I love that stuff! My FIL had it in his garden and went to great lengths to get rid of it. Shame.

NOOOOooooooOOOooooh!
I want to plant some in my garden now...

 

[polly]

NOOOOooooooOOOooooh!
I want to plant some in my garden now...

It's a total weed! I love to eat it but you're better off finding a wild patch somewhere you don't have to worry about controlling it /ruralprivilegeunchecked

 

[Libertad]

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!
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Makes great pesto too.

 

[chandlerp]

the red and black wild rice from Waitrose is very nice but does take around half an hour to cook

 

[sojourner]

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.

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.

At 20 mins I think it must have been either basmati or quick cook. The hardcore hippy stuff is about 40 mins as UAOS says.

I checked the packet. It's the easy cook stuff from the Co op. Just to reassure you all

 

[rubbershoes]

Had some ox cheek recently.

Many hours in the slow cooker and then finished off on the barbecue

It was delicious

 

[tim]

I'm tempted to make a batch of alcoholic stuff just to see what it's like. It's not like the starting ingredients cost much...

Tea wine, a very 1950's sort of thing. There was a period when the search for sophistication on a budget led the British to home ferment half the contents of the pantry.

Winemaking Recipe for Tea Wine, How To Make Tea Wine: Wine Making Guides

 

[Chz]

Had some ox cheek recently.

Many hours in the slow cooker and then finished off on the barbecue

It was delicious

Shhh! It's the last cheap cut of meat left! I remember when those bastard celebrity chefs started on about how great skirt is and the price went up 50%...

 

[sojourner]

Shhh! It's the last cheap cut of meat left! I remember when those bastard celebrity chefs started on about how great skirt is and the price went up 50%...

See also belly pork. We used to have that roasted for Sunday dinners sometimes cos it was cheap. Last time I checked, price had gone through the roof. Fucking 'peasant food' cunts.

 

[bimble]

White asparagus. Tastes exactly like the green one but bigger. Bit of a disappointment .

 

[rubbershoes]

Shhh! It's the last cheap cut of meat left! I remember when those bastard celebrity chefs started on about how great skirt is and the price went up 50%...

Brisket is still cheap. I got a big bit for £6 this week

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Tea wine, a very 1950's sort of thing. There was a period when the search for sophistication on a budget led the British to home ferment half the contents of the pantry.

Winemaking Recipe for Tea Wine, How To Make Tea Wine: Wine Making Guides

Slightly different, but still intresting. I'm talking about making Kombucha from it first, before then Fermenting with wine yeast.

 

[trabuquera]

Quail eggs. Just like ordinary eggs only tinier, the flavour's identical (or if anything, a bit weaker). Can't see what the fuss or the luxury pricing is about.

Charcoal biscuits (posh ones for humans to eat with cheese, not the ones made to make dogs fart less). Weirdly compelling - they don't taste all that special when you're chewing them but somehow I had to have another and another and another. They're not made with butter, either, so it's not just a concealed longing for MORE AND MORE PASTRY. I have form for liking charcoal in food, so now I'm worrying that it's addictive and/or that I've got pica (that freak medical condition which makes people crave mud, clay, brick dust, crushed lightbulb, other very "new foods" etc.)

 

[Orang Utan]

Quail eggs. Just like ordinary eggs only tinier, the flavour's identical (or if anything, a bit weaker). Can't see what the fuss or the luxury pricing is about.

Charcoal biscuits (posh ones for humans to eat with cheese, not the ones made to make dogs fart less). Weirdly compelling - they don't taste all that special when you're chewing them but somehow I had to have another and another and another. They're not made with butter, either, so it's not just a concealed longing for MORE AND MORE PASTRY. I have form for liking charcoal in food, so now I'm worrying that it's addictive and/or that I've got pica (that freak medical condition which makes people crave mud, clay, brick dust, crushed lightbulb, other very "new foods" etc.)

Shh, don't give the hipsters ideas!

 

[Spymaster]

White asparagus. Tastes exactly like the green one but bigger. Bit of a disappointment .

They also look like dog's penises.

 

[bimble]

Are dogs penises white ? Thought they were pink. Those white asparagus are made white by being kept in the dark so they look like the penises of some sort of blind burrowing creature.

 

[Orang Utan]

Are dogs penises white ? Thought they were pink. Those white asparagus are made white by being kept in the dark so they look like the penises of some sort of blind burrowing creature.

They always look white to Spymaster because he has an iron grip

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They always look white to Spymaster because he has an iron grip

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Charcoal biscuits (posh ones for humans to eat with cheese, not the ones made to make dogs fart less). Weirdly compelling - they don't taste all that special when you're chewing them but somehow I had to have another and another and another

I've got some of them in - nice, in a bland sort of way.

 

[crossthebreeze]

A starbucks cappuccino freddo. Absolutely disgusting tbh.