Foodies In The News
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- Pepper Pig
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Bengali cooking
Postings about food subjects in the news which have caught your attention.
First of all we have:
This lady is making Twitter today. Lovely evocative writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... hnaz-ahsan
https://www.1dish4theroad.com/2019/11/s ... dlach.html
First of all we have:
Bengali cooking
This lady is making Twitter today. Lovely evocative writing.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... hnaz-ahsan
https://www.1dish4theroad.com/2019/11/s ... dlach.html
- herbidacious
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I read that a while back. Interesting story.
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Yes I adore figs.
I think it does indeed date back to the fig roll. I couldn't pass a plate of fig rolls if you paid me.
It's rather enchanting the way figs lend themselves to savoury and sweet.
I should plant a fig tree in the garden one of these days.
I think it does indeed date back to the fig roll. I couldn't pass a plate of fig rolls if you paid me.
It's rather enchanting the way figs lend themselves to savoury and sweet.
I should plant a fig tree in the garden one of these days.
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I absolutely adore dried figs but am always disappointed by fresh ones. I sometimes wonder if, like several other fruits, you need to eat them freshly picked whilst sitting in the Mediterranean sun or similar for them to be really enjoyable.
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you need to eat them freshly picked whilst sitting in the Mediterranean sun or similar for them to be really enjoyable.
They can be quite nice freshly picked whilst sitting in the Hertfordshire sun, especially with some Parma or jamon ibérico
Last year, the squirrels got the lot
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Wot Badger said........or try them thinly sliced with a blue cheese pref. gorgonzola
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Will do, though not freshly picked. I've never seen them ripen on a tree in the UK (although my main experience of them was in a cold garden the Norfolk coast!)
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My daughter in France had a fig tree in the garden at their previous house which was very productive. They were fed up of eating them, and a considerable number fell off; the dog ate them, with predictable results!
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When I was small dried figs from Izmir in Turkey were a Christmas treat and I love them
I find I can get good fresh figs in England, the black Spanish or Turkish ones are usually the best but don’t bother before the first weekend in August unless you see some that look particularly good, nothing is more seasonal than a fig
I find I can get good fresh figs in England, the black Spanish or Turkish ones are usually the best but don’t bother before the first weekend in August unless you see some that look particularly good, nothing is more seasonal than a fig
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i have friends who have a very productive fig tree - the ripe fruit is a magnet for wasps - the friends don't like figs. we also have a relative in dorset whose previous house had a spectacular specimen of a fig tree in the garden - and also didn't eat the (ripe) figs. i used to gorge myself! (thankfully they don't have that much effect on me).
they definitely ripen in the south west.
they definitely ripen in the south west.
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I have a 19-year-old fig tree in a very large pot and a much smaller one in another pot. I have never had more than about 5 figs per year from the big one, and a couple form the small one, but not had any at all for the last few years, nor will next year. I am considering getting rid of the big one, but it was bought around the time we got married so it has some sentimental value. I may give it one last chance: I am sure it needs its roots pruning, but don't know how to do it, and it certainly needs all the weeds - orange hawkweed, primarily (which I like. I wonder if I could pot some up.) and a tiny oak sapling (!!) I noticed the other day removing.
To be really good, they have to be ripe, straight off the tree. They just aren't the same bought from a shop.
I stayed somewhere in Kent a few years go which had a huge fig tree 'espaliered' against a wall. This was the first time I had figs straight off a tree. It was a revelation.
We bought some off a chap who picked them straight off his tree for us in Perugia the year before last, but they weren't a patch on the ones I have had off my tree or in Kent. Maybe they weren't ready, or just a less tasty variety.
To be really good, they have to be ripe, straight off the tree. They just aren't the same bought from a shop.
I stayed somewhere in Kent a few years go which had a huge fig tree 'espaliered' against a wall. This was the first time I had figs straight off a tree. It was a revelation.
We bought some off a chap who picked them straight off his tree for us in Perugia the year before last, but they weren't a patch on the ones I have had off my tree or in Kent. Maybe they weren't ready, or just a less tasty variety.
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A fiend had a fig tree, the roots got into the foundations of her house, a bit of a nightmare....
I have fond memories of an old greek lady on Corfu picking and giving us a handful of figs from her tree at the edge of a beach, heaven, it took away the very salty taste of the sea we had been swimming in.
When we went to Corsica some time back, at the end of our stay in the self catering place in Bastia, the owner gave us a complimentary pack of all things Corsican. In it was a jar of fig jam, it went brilliantly with cheese.
Figs also go well with Serrano ham.....
I have fond memories of an old greek lady on Corfu picking and giving us a handful of figs from her tree at the edge of a beach, heaven, it took away the very salty taste of the sea we had been swimming in.
When we went to Corsica some time back, at the end of our stay in the self catering place in Bastia, the owner gave us a complimentary pack of all things Corsican. In it was a jar of fig jam, it went brilliantly with cheese.
Figs also go well with Serrano ham.....
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BB and other Yorkshire folk. Jay Rayner is back reviewing restaurants today and this looks great if you're anywhere near Shipley.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/j ... ant-review
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/j ... ant-review
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I read that, good review
Grace Dent is younger than I am and doesn't remember the Clarence pre-Steptoes when it was the last pub in the area to have sawdust on the floor to actually mop up the blood and spit, rather than for reasons of quaintness. . It was a pub of fights
I spent quite a lot of time in the garden of Steptoes in the later 80s, I wonder if Grace was ever there?
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That looks bloomin gorgeous PP.
Strangely, I don’t think I’ve ever been to Shipley, we will have to rectify that. Lunch out there would be lovely.
BB
Strangely, I don’t think I’ve ever been to Shipley, we will have to rectify that. Lunch out there would be lovely.
BB
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