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[Earthmaiden Profile]

Oooh, that does look good!

[RockyBVI Profile]

boozy coffeeish

I rarely eat a pudding, but booze and coffee, yes please.

A pal and I recently went for dinner as the men were at Welford Road.
We developed a taste for espresso martinis.

Oh my goodness. Thanks for the reminder. I love an espresso martini!

[liketocook Profile]

Jay Rayner at The Wigmore. Oh my!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... ie-in-town

Oh my indeed

[KeenCook2 Profile]

Yes, absolutely, PP, LTC! Definitely worth braving the West End for, once I've had my booster ...

There are some lovely Nigel Slater recipes in the supplement as well - we're doing a version of the fig and goat's cheese toastie for lunch. We'll probably melt the cheese in the oven - I'm sure it'll be a good sub for a grill.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... an-burgers

[liketocook Profile]

Yes some good ones this weekend, I've been busy book marking

[KeenCook2 Profile]

the goat's cheese and fig toastie was terrific - pic on one of the othetr threads

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Rachel Roddy’s pasta al forno.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... mozzarella

[liketocook Profile]

Rachel Roddy’s pasta al forno.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... mozzarella

And my it look's good. As does Thomasina Meir's soup https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... n-croutons

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Nigel’s Roast Chicken pilau.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... cken-pilau

[mistakened Profile]

Nigel’s Roast Chicken pilau.

I make something similar, except I do not use chickpeas.

Moira

[Stokey Sue Profile]

That's not really what I'd call a pilau, I'd have though it quite important to cook the rice with the onions and some of the fat or oil so the flavours mingle

And I'm not sure about the chickpeas either

This is the basic method I'd expect for a pilau whether or not adding additional ingredients at the end
https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/pilau-rice/

[Kacey Profile]

Mine is similar to yours Sue, years and years ago we had the best pilau rice ever at the Milan in Birmingham. They still make it the same way - cloves, cinnamon stick, green cardamoms, bay leaves and cumin seeds, all fried in butter, oil or ghee, then a cup of well rinsed and drained rice and 2 cups of cold water, to the boil, 10 mins with the lid on, 2 mins after to rest. Sometime I do onions with it, and sometimes I fry them separately and stir them through at the end. We eat a lot of rice in this house. Topped myself up with a 20kg sack of Tilda Basmati recently. I love the smell every time you open the bag.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Felicity makes Korean Fried Chicken. Yum.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/o ... ken-recipe

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Salt Bae again.

https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/res ... 59539.html

(A sensible review).

[Stokey Sue Profile]

The maximal, clumsily hacked Nusr-Et special salad had the cloying quality of something finished with chopped Starmix

Nice
Think I'd rather go almost next door to Hawksmoor, where a burger costs £17.50 not £100 and £65 gets you a very decent bottle of wine, not house plonk (that's £31, and not actually plonk)

[KeenCook2 Profile]

I've always wondered about pizza boxes!!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... the-expert

[liketocook Profile]

We can recycle ours as long as there's no bit sticking to them, they're flattened and turned inside out. Presumably so it's clear they're not contaminated. We're encouraged to tear off any claggy bits and pop them in the food waste bin, ditto used napkins, kitchen roll and any other paper that's got food waste on it.

[liketocook Profile]

Salt Bae again.

https://www.standard.co.uk/reveller/res ... 59539.html

(A sensible review).

Going by the hint in her column today I suspect Grace Dent may joining Jimi in reviewing it less than favourably!

[miss mouse Profile]

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Going by the hint in her column today I suspect Grace Dent may joining Jimi in reviewing it less than favourably![/quote]

Is she going to review it as well? I think Jay Rayner said his editor would not foot the bill. Please post a link whoever spots it. Thanks for all the fun reviews everyone.

[Pampy Profile]

My local council has told us not to recycle pizza boxes at all, even if there's nothing sticking to them.
I think a big problem with recycling is that each council decides on what it will/will not recycle, so even if something is made to be be recycled, a council may not deal with it and then the whole load could be rejected. I sometimes get mail that's in recyclable plastic - but our council won't take it so it has to go in the landfill bin.