IdleRich

IdleRich
Most dishes chilli for us too - but I thought that a stew doesn't usually have those, well not a British one anyway. Sure they wouldn't harm though. I just worry sometimes that everything I cook has onions, garlic and chilli and am I just making everything taste the same? I like those tastes of course but I don't want to get too repetitive.
 

Leo

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leftover homemade tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwich. as kids, we'd have tomato soup in the winter after we'd finish shoveling snow from the driveway and sidewalk, it's still weird for me to eat it on just a normal day. it still maintains that "reward for solving snow" connection.
 

luka

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I ate noodles again but then I got hungry and ate some cheese on toast with spring onion on one and fresh chilli on the other
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Me and my dad left out the dried fruit. We hated dried fruit in savoury food and we pretty much double the spices.

New You, New Stew.

Dried apricots are a vital part of a lamb tagine - guess you wouldn't be interested in the lamb but I'm sure you could do a similar dish bashed on butternut squash or something.

However I'm 100% with you when it comes to raisins and sultanas in savoury food. Just no. Not ever. Vile.
 

Mr. Tea

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Last night was pasta, nothing too exciting.

This evening we had something I invented years ago, in my student days: jalfrezi cottage pie. Really nice, great to eat on a cold day in front of the fire.
 

Leo

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Last night was pasta, nothing too exciting.

This evening we had something I invented years ago, in my student days: jalfrezi cottage pie. Really nice, great to eat on a cold day in front of the fire.

description, please. photos optional.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I think that's right, certainly shepherd's pie is with lamb. Is there a pork version called Swineherd's pie or something?
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Also I'm eating some Portuguese ckes... Leo do you know what they might be called, they are tasty dough bites with a softer centre flavoured with honey and nuts and perhaps orange (I think).
 

Leo

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Also I'm eating some Portuguese ckes... Leo do you know what they might be called, they are tasty dough bites with a softer centre flavoured with honey and nuts and perhaps orange (I think).

hmm, not familiar with those. fwiw, the Portuguese neighborhood where I grew up in the states has some slightly different foods compared to what we found in Lisbon. the vast majority of people in my old neighborhood have family roots in the Azores, not the mainland.

also, we used the term Shepard's pie to cover any sort of meat, which obviously is incorrect.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Ok turns out they are called broa castelar - apparently they are made out of sweet potato and are mainly a Christmas thing which explains why we just saw em appear today. If you do an image search you will find them.
Yeah love the custard things... especially with a bit of cinnamon.
 

Mr. Tea

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I think that's right, certainly shepherd's pie is with lamb. Is there a pork version called Swineherd's pie or something?

Tempted to say that a pie containing pork is technically called a pork pie, but of course that's a different kind of pie altogether.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Actually been inspired to look up some recipes for a pork version - disappointingly it doesn't seem to have a proper name but I think we're gonna have a crack at putting our own spin on it. Probably with apple and celeriac in the topping, maybe potatoes and cheese too, I dunno. Think it could work with a really tender fall apart long time cooked on the low and slow pork on the bottom.
 

Mr. Tea

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Anyone else occasionally enjoy a fry-up for dinner? We had sausages (pork and venison separately) again, along with bacon, all from a proper butcher's, with egg, toast and a nice big parasol mushroom I picked today. Delicious.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Georgian restaurant this evening. Lovely food but pissed off that they have made the inexplicable decision to only offer kinkhali in the afternoons, I don't get it at all. Actually the whole service was pretty ropey. The place has changed for the worse since we went there a few times last year although luckily the food is still maintaining quality.
 
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