The Recipe Thread (EADD Version)

[TheSpade]

Well I do it all the time. They take an hour or something in the oven and I'm always too hungry to wait that long so bosh in micro for 10 mins with a few holes poked in it.

 

[Shambles]

Microwaved spuds are just steamed spuds. Still nice though and I do cook 'em sometimes .

But I actually do cook a lot of pasta and rice and stuff mostly. But I do resort to Rustler's and other such shite when too pissed or apathetic to care. It really is hard to cook for one when you barely care about the one being fed.

But I'm better than I used to be. I buy the odd fresh veggie and avoid the real nasty gunk... sometimes. Sometimes other stuff takes precedent over food though

 

[TheSpade]

I love eating nice food so much that it forces me to cook every night. I can't stand to eat junk / shit food. It also pissed me off if there's not an abundance of veg in the meal as I it.

I don't actually enjoy cooking that much just the eating of the food.

 

[Urbain]

I love eating nice food so much that it forces me to cook every night. I can't stand to eat junk / shit food. It also pissed me off if there's not an abundance of veg in the meal as I it.

I don't actually enjoy cooking that much just the eating of the food.

Bollocks Spadey - You're a regular Delia Smith and you LOVE IT!

 

[TheSpade]

Nah I really don't, it pisses me off a lot of the time but it's worth the end result.

 

[Shambles]

I actually enjoy it a lot (cooking) and have done since I was a kid. But I don't have a cooker.

And don't tell me to buy one please - my financial status is below anything you can possibly imagine .

 

[TheSpade]

What's your signature dish then?

 

[Shambles]

Curries and associated side-dishes probably - I make a mean samosa .*

And pasta. And stews. One pot stuff really .

I also used to bake a lot of cakes and breads. And make sweets and assorted confectionary .

Damn! There goes my tough-guy image .

* my best friend as a 4-year old was Indian and I used to go to his house and "help" his mother cook.

 

[Urbain]

I love eating nice food so much that it forces me to cook every night. I can't stand to eat junk / shit food. It also pissed me off if there's not an abundance of veg in the meal as I it.

I don't actually enjoy cooking that much just the eating of the food.

Bollocks Spadey - You're a regular Delia Smith and you LOVE IT!

Nah I really don't, it pisses me off a lot of the time but it's worth the end result.

What's your signature dish then?

Signature dish? Enough said!





PS. I kid, I kid.

 

[TheSpade]

Curries and associated side-dishes probably - I make a mean samosa .*

And pasta. And stews. One pot stuff really .

I also used to bake a lot of cakes and breads. And make sweets and assorted confectionary .

Damn! There goes my tough-guy image .

* my best friend as a 4-year old was Indian and I used to go to his house and "help" his mother cook.

I'm always making curries, Dahls and Sags are my two favourites but I regularly just chuck any meat / veg and spices I have into a pot and make a tasty spicy curry.

Stews and casseroles are always good for winter.

I think tomorrow I will make homemade humus / humous.

 

[Shambles]

^ I make a pretty mean humus too .

 

[TheSpade]

I've never tried though I love Tescos Jalapeno and Red Pepper stuff. It's easy as piss to make it seems. Tomorrow.

 

[Shambles]

Dead easy . Go heavyish on the garlic would be my suggestion. If you like garlic, of course.

Are you using tahini?

 

[TheSpade]

I love garlic, I put several cloves in everything I make.

I saw some recipes said to use it and others said optional. I don't have any so not sure if I will.

What do you reccomend?

 

[Shambles]

I would .

I can't stand the stuff on it's own, but a bit of a dollup really gives an extra dimension to a humus and it is truly traditional too .

And the best olive oil you can lay hands on, of course .

 

[TheSpade]

I'll just be using the standard tesco stuff in my mothers cupboard.

I wish I'd learnt to cook and appreciate decent food at an early age.

 

[Shambles]

I did. I just wish I could make better use of it .

Not that I'm actually very good at cooking - I just enjoy it and love good food .

 

[TheSpade]

I wonder if Tahini can be aquired from the local Tescos it lacks choice especially in the spice department.

In Asia / OZ this summer ate out every night for a month and every single meal bar 2 or 3 was unbeleivable. Don't know if we just got lucky but so much delicious food. Mmmmm. The contrast with Europe is unreal because in a month I didn't once eat anything delicious or noteworthy.

I wish I could go back and re-sample some of that food. YUM!

 

[Shambles]

Sounds delish - am envious :D.

Tahini isn't a spice, it's sesame paste - peanut butter made from sesame seeds. Tesco's is bound to sell it - very trendy ingredient these days, dontcha know? Just ask one of the acme-bescabbed mongs where to find it .

 

[TheSpade]

Oh I see.

I'll look out for it then.

The great thing about Asian food, even the simplest stuff from the local greasy spoon equivelent or the street stalls is out of this world delicious where as in Europe even when we went to semi-nice restuarants the food was lamentable.

Had one nice meal in a month, chicken kebabs in Mostar. The owner instantly recommended the chicken kebabs when we went in and talked at length about how good they were and how he made them for a good couple of mins, we looked at the menu decided we wanted something else but he was insistant that we'ld love the kebabs. Turned out he was running the restaurant was also enticing in customers, waitering, serving at the bar and cooking the food. :D

Talk about multi tasking.