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What's for tea tonight? (#8)

I was having a major Can't Be Arsed session last night so ended up not cooking my curry.

Have decided I'd better crack on with it tonight, stuff is underway.
 
We’re having chilli and rice and a baguette I bought yesterday which is hopefully still fresh enough.

I’d bought the bread and butter in Surrey then had a 2 hour drive home. At one point I was working out if I could pull over and butter the bread with my hands. :D I didn’t.
If it's not too late, you can sprinkle the baguette with water and warm it in the oven. Should reanimate it.
 
I have eaten cheap convenience shop Swedish meatballs, and been disappointed.

I have eaten Pret's Swedish meatball thing, and been disappointed.

I have eaten something called Swedish meatballs on the Harwich-Hoek van Holland ferry, and been disappointed.

I now face Sainsbury's rather dearer Swedish meatballs, along with some potato salad. Why do I do this? Is it the triumph of hope over experience? What do I expect from Swedish meatballs? It's not as though I've ever been to Sweden, or even IKEA.
 
A massive and delicious mezze feast that arrived in a box and just needed warming up. I might burst :thumbs:
Pickle plate
Laffa bread
Labneh, confit garlic, za’atar
Hummus, chilli oil, chickpeas
Mushroom skewers
Halloumi, black seed honey
Braised cabbage, Baharat cauliflower cream, pomegranate sauce
Potato latkes, toum
Chocolate Truffles
 
Hehe yeah, sorry if I’m spelling it wrong! What is it, beanaise? I’m clueless..!

Oh no, your spelling is fine!

It is a scene from Blackadder Goes Forth - in case you are unfamiliar with it, that particular scene is about cooking in the trenches in WWI where Baldrick serves up a meal and General Melchett (pictured) questions the flavour of the bearnaise sauce (the upshot being that it is made from some unsavoury substitute ingredients) :D
 
Oh no, your spelling is fine!

It is a scene from Blackadder Goes Forth - in case you are unfamiliar with it, that particular scene is about cooking in the trenches in WWI where Baldrick serves up a meal and General Melchett (pictured) questions the flavour of the bearnaise sauce (the upshot being that it is made from some unsavoury substitute ingredients) :D
Ah yeah.. I don’t know blackadder well. Have seen some of it.

Would be good to be able to make my own bea sauce, it’s such a great flavour, but doesn’t it have weird and wonderful stuff in it - tarragon and something else hard to obtain? Maybe I should take baldrick’s lead and find some substitutes!
 
Ah yeah.. I don’t know blackadder well. Have seen some of it.

Would be good to be able to make my own bea sauce, it’s such a great flavour, but doesn’t it have weird and wonderful stuff in it - tarragon and something else hard to obtain? Maybe I should take baldrick’s lead and find some substitutes!

Tarragon and chervil I think - can't say how difficult either are for you to get or suggest where to get them because iirc you are not in the UK - chervil is sort of like a mild and slightly more aniseedy flavour version of parsley - I find the latter a bit of a bastard to get hold of myself because not every supermarket does it.

Do not use any substitutes suggested in Blackadder :D
 
Tarragon and chervil I think - can't say how difficult either are for you to get or suggest where to get them because iirc you are not in the UK - chervil is sort of like a mild and slightly more aniseedy flavour version of parsley - I find the latter a bit of a bastard to get hold of myself because not every supermarket does it.

Do not use any substitutes suggested in Blackadder :D

Grow my own is probably the best and cheapest route (tarragon & chervil, not “substitutes”)!
 
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