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#26 2011-11-20 06:41:47
- Liam Mac
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Re: What's Cooking?
that's a real mans drink Harpo.
I used to do a good beef stew with guinness. Adds a real depth of flavour. Also adding some good strong coffee (espresso is best) to a beef stew will push all the flavours up a few levels.
Weirdly enough in Thai cooking there is a long tradition of adding soft drinks to food. Sprite, Coca-Cola and Red Bull are all added to thai curries for sweetness and extra punch.
#27 2011-11-20 06:46:45
- 12BarBlues
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#28 2011-11-20 07:01:51
- Liam Mac
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It's an old old american idea I think, adding coffee. Cowboy style. They also added it to baked beans (not sure about how nice that would be).
Speaking of american food. Andy mentioned Fried Chicken... I love fried chicken with waffles and gravy. Can't beat that Soul Food.
Pulled pork with a BBQ sauce is another American favourite.
#29 2011-11-20 07:11:32
- steve mcqueen fan
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I'm into making American "comfort food". See "Diners, Driveins And Dives. Everyone loves my chile.
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#34 2011-11-20 08:46:32
- Liam Mac
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Sounds like we're on the same page here Heikki. I imagine coffee would sit very well with mutton. What herbs and spices do you recommend?
Soften makes sense to me. A good descriptive word.
#35 2011-11-20 08:51:30
- Staceyboy
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^ I'm liking the sound of that guinness and reindeer stew right now. How about all over to Heikki's for Christmas? I'll bring some homemade mince pies. And a bottle or two! 
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#36 2011-11-20 09:56:47
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I recall Leicester getting dissed on this forum some time ago, but none of you lot can compete with our Indian restaurants (although we also have our share of bog standard ones). The best mhogo in the country.
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#37 2011-11-20 10:02:30
- Andy_B
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Leicester's main problem is it's perhaps a bit dull - although no more than the other Midlands cities. There's plenty if you're prepared to go and look for it.
#38 2011-11-20 10:34:22
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The whole country can be dull if (like me) you're not into binge drinking and shopping malls, likewise most parts of the country have their good points. Leicester is definitely a bit dull, and not particularly scenic, it also has its good points and I'm not tempted to move anywhere else in the UK. Judged from the perspective of the city centre, Leicester's very unappealing.
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#39 2011-11-20 11:34:47
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Growing up, I could imagine nowhere more pinched and cramped than Derby. Nothing much has happened to help me revise that opinion, although I do now appreciate some of its buildings. Someone once called it 'the boil on the arse-end of England'. Sadler Gate, though, has its charms, if you close your eyes to its wanky, trendy shops. At night, though, it's the street where you're most likely to get a whack in the face.
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#40 2011-11-20 12:33:01
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"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".
#42 2011-11-20 12:43:45
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"McQueen's message was signaled through subtraction... in a tweed or herringbone jacket and a ribbed swearer he had an electric austerity".
#43 2011-11-20 13:02:43
- Harpo
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Ahh yes, Thanksgiving. Hope you, and all our American Talk Ivy brothers have a good one.
Do you know, I've always thought it was an amazing coincidence that the Pilgrim Fathers should leave from Plymouth, and where they landed in America was called Plymouth too! I mean, what were the chances of that?
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#44 2011-11-20 13:34:35
- 12BarBlues
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"To be honest I do like FNB...I always feel one of the thunderbirds when I say it."
#45 2011-11-20 13:44:20
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#46 2011-11-21 02:04:51
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Delicious post bike ride feed, roasted blue pumpkin, with habanero jelly glazed chicken and chorizo.
With the Mrs being Mexican, most food involves chillies, which I am more than happy to devour, though she does most of the latin food. I can make a mean ceviché and most folk love my sunday roast.
Went to Derby once, didn't go back. Know some very nice people from their though.
#47 2011-11-21 02:14:00
- Hard Bop Hank
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Re: What's Cooking?
after visiting my brother in Hong Kong, I think there's barely an animal I haven't eaten...
I didn't try dog, though, not that it was offered...
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#48 2011-11-21 02:26:12
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I've read that German cooking is almost as bad as English cooking. Can that be possible? Thank God we bought a steamer for vegetables and discovered how the French prepare and serve theirs. It was once said that when William 1 invaded England in 1066 he left his chef behind in Normandy.
#49 2011-11-21 02:41:06
- Hard Bop Hank
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well, I suppose there's German cooking and German cooking...
lots of regional variation in Germany, sometimes from village to village, but walk about 50 miles in the Rhineland and you're gonna get something completely different than before... Food in Hamburg and and food in Munich is probably as closely related as food from Mexico and from Japan...
I don't like most of it, but I like a lot of what my father's cooking, but his style is very much influenced by French cooking, as he learnt a lot from his aunt who had married a Frenchman in the 50s...
my mother's cooking is at least solid, but it's not typical German either... her parents lived in Rumania, the Carpatian mountains and near the Black Sea, before they were driven away by the Russians, so their cooking is influenced by Balkan, Russia and Turkish food....
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