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Waynster

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quote:
Originally posted by Cherry In Hove:
I pretty much only drink wine and gin these days. (Well, and coffee of course, but that's like saying that I breathe oxygen and is just necessary to survive a day).

I've always thought I like the odd cheeky G&T, but I think the last time I had one was in Hamburg 10 years ago. However I had some rather fantastic flavored gins one night that Octavia (who never ceases to astound me with her crafting talents) had concocted - I'm hoping that one day soon the children will be introduced to their mother's talent, and then exploited 8 hours a night to produce vast quantities of this elixir in the garden shed.

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Eight hours? I would give it about eight minutes of them working in a distillery before it descended into a three way rolling fist fight followed by an explosion.
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Banana
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quote:
Originally posted by Waynster:
quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
I can definitely recommend the Bols Cheesecake, even though it sounds a bit like something you boys might find in your pants after a long run.

And thus my quest for my first Bols Cheesecake ended before it even started......
Hey I had a mouthful of slightly sweaty cheese sandwich when I read it. Least it wasn't salty I guess [Eek!]

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Waynster:
However I had some rather fantastic flavored gins one night that Octavia...had concocted

Hah! This has inspired me to bottle up some blackberry gin and sloe gin this autumn.
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Ringo

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I've been thinking of doing the same. Blackberries and sloes are all looking pretty ripe at the moment.
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Octavia
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Googling 'gin infusions' is also a source of good ideas. Got my eye on an apple-and-cinnamon combo at the moment that sounds v Christmassy. I came across a Clementine one too.
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Banana
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Do you basically just get a bottle of gin, jam a load of fruit in it and wait a while? I tried to make elderflower vodka once and it all went very badly wrong.

Started pretty with the little flowers floating in the clear liquid loveliness that is vodka. And then over the space of a few weeks I watched the flowers and the vodka both turn a delightful shade of mouldy brown. I'm not sure that should have happened. I opened it and sniffed, cos you have to sniff things in life to see just how bad they really are, and it smelt like a cat had weed on a flower bush and jammed the whole sorry mess in a vodka bottle. My cat was clever, but not that clever.

So I'm always jealous of successful alcohol infusers, share your wisdom please

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Octavia
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I've never done anything with elderflowers, at least partly because I had to do a load of corporate stuff when pregnant and the only fucking soft drink that was ever served at 'do's was elderflower cordial. I got sick to death of it. But for berry gin:
get a large glass jar
fill half full of berries (wash them first, or tbh frozen ones are as good)
shovel in a couple of tablespoons of sugar
top up with gin

Turn it every week or so for a few weeks, then decant into a nice clear glass bottle so you can see how pretty it is.

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Banana
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quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
I've never done anything with elderflowers, at least partly because I had to do a load of corporate stuff when pregnant and the only fucking soft drink that was ever served at 'do's was elderflower cordial. I got sick to death of it. But for berry gin:
get a large glass jar
fill half full of berries (wash them first, or tbh frozen ones are as good)
shovel in a couple of tablespoons of sugar
top up with gin

Turn it every week or so for a few weeks, then decant into a nice clear glass bottle so you can see how pretty it is.

I know what I'm doing this weekend now! Cheers

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Ringo

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Last time I made sloe gin I made up some sugar syrup rather than adding raw sugar. Not sure it made much of a difference either way.
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Cherry In Hove
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Kanye is going to be absolutely disgusted when he comes back to here, sees all the new replies and expects to be able to wank himself into a coma from all the dinner descriptions he is about to gorge on. Then he'll see it is people discussing infusing alcohol and his erection will drop faster than a child's shorts at Michael Jackson's house.

(I appreciate that metaphor might not be the most up to date one that could be used, but you know, some of the other posts I've been reading on here seemed quite stuck in the past as well)>

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Samuelnorton
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Simple things round here this evening.

Boerewors ready for the griddle pan, beer chilling nicely in the fridge. All while watching the abject silliness that is Top of the Lake: China Girl.

[ 31.08.2017, 16:24: Message edited by: Samuelnorton ]

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Octavia
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I've got a black pudding and I need some ideas about what to do with it.
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Cherry In Hove
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quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
I've got a black pudding and I need some ideas about what to do with it.

Two things that I regularly use black pudding for:

1) Break it up and push it under the skin on the breast of a whole chicken and then roast it. It's great.

2) This Nigel Slater Sausage, Black pudding and parsnip dish. (Although, it's a bit early for nice parsnips, so you might have to wait a few months really and then your black pudding will be off).

I've also made scotch eggs with black pudding instead of sausage meat and they are good but a bit of a faff.

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herbs

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Dainty black pudding as an accompaniment to scallops was all the rage on Masterchef a few years ago. Along with a cheffy smear of cauliflower puree. But, again, bit/lot of a faff.
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Fry the black pudding lightly, and crumble it into a salad. Add some chopped bacon or lardons.

Result: a tasty meal that can be passed off as healthy.

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Fucking hell, fried pigs blood is giving me a proper full-on nomboner.

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Pub tonight. Could be another burger on the cards.
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Friday night is sushi night.

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Octavia
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Lacking a chicken, and having fed Thorn vegetables two nights in a row (thus ruling out salad) I'm going to fry the black pudding with onions, garlic, chilli and tomatoes then bake it for a pasta sauce.
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Waynster

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quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
Lacking a chicken, and having fed Thorn vegetables two nights in a row (thus ruling out salad) I'm going to fry the black pudding with onions, garlic, chilli and tomatoes then bake it for a pasta sauce.

:inserts standard Homer Simpson drooling gif:

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Octavia
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quote:
Originally posted by Waynster:
quote:
Originally posted by Octavia:
Lacking a chicken, and having fed Thorn vegetables two nights in a row (thus ruling out salad) I'm going to fry the black pudding with onions, garlic, chilli and tomatoes then bake it for a pasta sauce.

:inserts standard Homer Simpson drooling gif:
Happy to report this was really good. Left the seeds out of the (big) chilli, and added a spoonful of red wine vinegar for sweetness. Short pasta, not spaghetti. Repeatable.
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I had pork and beef ragu from the freezer on sourdough toast with a garnish of white truffle mayonnaise. It was very tasty.

Totally meat and dairy fest, sorry Benway.

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quote:
Originally posted by H1ppychick:
white truffle mayonnaise

Pretty posh Friday night grub there. Don't think I've ever eaten truffles.
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Octavia
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Goddam DP.

[ 02.09.2017, 03:16: Message edited by: Octavia ]

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Octavia
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Always jiggles my finger on the Add Reply button.
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Samuelnorton
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We stumbled across Truffle Hunter while at the Good Food Show a few years back. Excellent black truffle mayonnaise, if spending a shilling short of a tenner on stuff in a small jar is your thing.

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Cherry In Hove
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quote:
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We stumbled across Truffle Hunter while at the Good Food Show a few years back. Excellent black truffle mayonnaise, if spending a shilling short of a tenner on stuff in a small jar is your thing.

You want to be spending a good amount on anything containing truffle as that increases the chance that it actually contains truffle rather than truffle oil which is very regularly used and is pretty repulsive.
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quote:
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You want to be spending a good amount on anything containing truffle as that increases the chance that it actually contains truffle rather than truffle oil which is very regularly used and is pretty repulsive.

Yep. Just looked at ingredients. 2% truffle, no mention of truffle oil. Truffle flavour though, whatever that means.

I actually made my own truffle mayonnaise some years back, but it was around 10% truffle. It might have been too much for some people.

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I never really 'got' truffle till I went on holiday to Croatia last year, to a region famed for its black truffles, and I realised how nice proper truffle can be. The mayonnaise that I had was white truffle from Harvey Nicks and was a present from a holiday-mate after we returned. I do have jars of minced truffle that I brought back from holiday with me and I've also purchased some Truffle Hunter oil.

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H1ppy, where in Croatia did you go? Went there on my honeymoon - lovely place

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We were in Istria, near Pula. We drank a lot of wine.

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We were in Istria, near Pula. We drank a lot of wine.

That's the one area of coastal Croatia we didn't get to see. We got the train into Zagreb, then a flight to Dubrovnic, then hired a car and drove through the country back up to Zagreb stopping in Split, Zadar, Rijeka and back across to Zagreb. We also went into Bosnia to Mostar, and a couple of other places along the way. Lovely country

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Someone has written up on one of the whiteboards around here "Excuses don't get results". A demonstrably untrue statement - I can think of many occasions where excuses have got me the exact result I was after.
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Octavia
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It makes no sense logically. 'Results' doesn't imply good or desirable results. Everything 'gets results'. Cause and effect. When the children strip down to their pants immediately after school and run through the house screaming 'Me Tarzan King Of Jungle' as I'm on the phone it gets results. In fact they would probably prefer it if it didn't get results.

Thorn should change the whiteboard to this effect.

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