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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Sakkarin » Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:26 pm

KeenCook2 wrote:I thought it was a gherkin on top

Heaven only knows what it's on top of!

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby mistakened » Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:31 pm

Did anyone see Fanny and her recipe for Baltic Eggs. A shelled HB egg, the topped lopped off, then a curled anchovy put on top. Fortunately the programme was in Black & white

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby scullion » Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:09 pm

Stokey Sue wrote:I don’t see what’s grim about that - it’s just a version of coleslaw, served in a hollowed out cabbage


agree. i wouldn't say it was grim, either.
slaw is slaw - and you can eat the bowl!

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby miss mouse » Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:46 pm

Sakkarin wrote:Dear me, that video is dreadful, not so much an omelette as a frying pan full of stuff, and various other bowls full of stuff. Texas Celery Massacre. And Mary, the oven is the hot one, the fridge the cold one.

"Spoon with a sawn off end!" What was that, a DIY accident?

Potato "salad" with potato "omelette". Hmm. And why tinned potatoes when there's all those leftover proper potatoes? They're disgusting! And she didn't wash the celery before she brutalised it. Yuk.

What is scariest is that it is 1973, not 1943.


I don't think we were shown the finished product, was it going to be a Spanish omelette/tortilla Espanole?

That celery was chopped very chunkily I think and not stringed. Oh yes, the good old English salad; half or quarter of a boiled egg, a bitter lettuce leaf or two and a quarter of green tomato and if The Fates really hated you that day a mega-chunk of cucumber. Hooray, the Good Old Days.
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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Pepper Pig » Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:50 pm

We got beetroot In vinegar as well. Were we posh?

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby miss mouse » Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:57 pm

Pepper Pig wrote:We got beetroot In vinegar as well. Were we posh?



No idea. I really don't like vinegar and that is all the beetroot we got as well.

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby scullion » Sat Oct 24, 2020 9:14 pm

Pepper Pig wrote:We got beetroot In vinegar as well. Were we posh?

no. i think you were posher if it wasn't pickled.

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby WWordsworth » Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:51 pm

We never had radishes with a salad.
Was I a deprived child?

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Earthmaiden » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:30 pm

Clearly :lol:. When we first moved to the country I was given my own patch to grow radishes. I was thrilled when they came up and we enjoyed them all that season. I don't remember having them before or after that.

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun Oct 25, 2020 9:52 pm

We had them mainly from my patch of radishes and nasturtiums

But not usually in a salad - just nibbled as a side to cheese and crackers

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby jeral » Sun Oct 25, 2020 11:47 pm

Radishes was one of the first things I ever grew. As a kid there was a narrowish edging to the paved area (done of necessity so three lines of washing could be hung out). They did grow, yay, though hardly "star grower" size. (Also, carrots in a bucket, for the long tap root.)

Radishes we normally chomped, dipping in a little mound of salt. I still eat them that way. Acidulated thin slivers on salads? Be my guest ;)

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby miss mouse » Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:06 am

I buy radishes from time to time lured by promises of 'the peppery taste', they taste of nothing to me, just a lot of dull chewing.

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Earthmaiden » Mon Oct 26, 2020 12:31 am

Supermarket radishes tend to be very bland these days. Except for one bunch where they were so hot I found them unpleasant.

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby Stokey Sue » Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:16 am

Early in summer there were big bunches of “breakfast” radishes around - the long two-tone ones. Yum

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Re: Rubbish Recipes

Postby jeral » Mon Oct 26, 2020 2:28 am

Miss Mouse, you seem to have lost your zest a bit so I hope you're OK.

I decided to take a '70s retro turn yesterday, blaming this thread lol. Being: pineapple chunks, cheddar, red grapes, and I opened a can of artichoke hearts, instead of obligatory bitter lettuce, so added a cube or two of feta.

Couldn't figure out a dressing as I didn't want mayo, so settled on a simple mustard vinaigrette for the artichokes hearts. Really enjoyed it, with a thick slice of bread grilled as if crostini, i.e. lightly EVOO'd, and sea salted (no place for garlic). If I'd had any, radishes would have been on the plate.

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