Thread: Dinner

^^ Looks similar to what the wife cooked me...but a smaller portion...


Are you still single?

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Nice bit of burnt shoe leather tonight

That was the nicest steak I've ever had?

The trick is to not tendorize but pulverise!

£2 for a 21 day matured 230 gram steak.


That garlic buttered mash was to die for.

But the piest de resistance was the pepper gravy!!!

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I've only known Chequers to be at 1 location mate on Soi 4.

yep just along from Jools

^^ Yep, and Chequers was derived as an alternative to Jools.

^ Yep, shame those times are gone. Jools didn't last long after Matt took it on, just died a slow death but he wasn't really a bar owner, he was more a kinda morose customer prone to getting seriously pissed. I remember him coming back in one night after a plaza trip and he walked straight into the glass door breaking it and earning a trip to Bumrungrad as he thought the door was open, blood everywhere

Why is the mash so dry? Genuine question, are you using butter when you mash them and milk when you whip them?

I was as busy as a bee yesterday, but to cut a long story short I made salmon fishcakes.

And livened them up with a fried bantam's egg topping.



Money...

If nothing else is specifically planned, I usually look in the fridge and see what really has to be used up soon. Today it was the turn of some mushrooms and cream. Keeping it simple, gnocchi in a mushroom cream sauce it is.

Make up the gnocchi, potato baked and peeled to get rid of as much moisture as possible then mashed, mixed with flour and a couple of egg yolks to make a dough.





Roll out the dough with your hands, and then cut into 1" approx pieces.





Gathered the stuff for the mushroom cream sauce.



Fried up some onion and garlic in butter until soft, then added the sliced mushrooms.



Once the mushrooms were cooked, added a good slug of dry sherry, and simmered until nearly evaporated.



Then added some vegetable stock, cream, and dried thyme.



Gnocchi, boiled in salted water, just about to break to the surface (cooked).



Sauce mix reducing nicely, added some freshly grated parmesan.



Cooked gnocchi put into the sauce, simmered for another minute or so.



Rich, filling, and very tasty.

Righteous. Didn’t know it was so easy to make gnocchi.

Excellent as always PAG! Too bad that so many of the other Brits on here have terrible diets and do not learn from you.

Originally Posted by misskit

Righteous. Didn’t know it was so easy to make gnocchi.

Most Italian food is very simple to make.

Originally Posted by misskit

Righteous. Didn’t know it was so easy to make gnocchi.

Looks great PAG but baking spuds is a palaver i'd microwave them.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Excellent as always PAG! Too bad that so many of the other Brits on here have terrible diets and do not learn from you.

I couldn't agree more Snubs... there's been some right ropey stuff served up by some of them.


Great as always PAG... you can expect the marriage offers to come rolling in.

Originally Posted by Mendip

I've just completed a very enjoyable three day business trip to Bangkok and thought I'd share a few of the culinary highlights. They were a mixture of Lunch and Dinner to be honest, but what difference does it make in the city that never sleeps?

Fish and chips in Fitzgeralds on Soi 4 (used to be Hanrahans) on Day 2. I was really hoping for a gammon, egg ad chips with a slice of pineapple but they no longer have it on the menu.

Imagine being the manager of this faux Irish bar in Bangkok, watching this 'businessman' waltz in wearing an onlyfans wifebeater and Jesus sandals, stroll up to the bar totally oblivious to your Kilkenny on draught and beef and Guinness pie... and order a pint of fukkin Leo and pangasius and chips

Originally Posted by PAG

gnocchi

Have you never thought of starting a restaurant PAG, especially in Phuket.

I think you've missed your vocation there.

^^ Ha! You are showing your ignorance.

The Kilkenny was 'mei mee'.

There was no Beef and Guinness Pie on the menu (much to my disappointment).

And my OnlyFans T-SHIRT was in the wash.

So you aren't denying wearing the "proper Jesus Slippers"?

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Have you never thought of starting a restaurant PAG, especially in Phuket.

I think you've missed your vocation there.

Ya know RD, when it's a hobby it's fun. However as soon as you make your hobby a job, it's no fun anymore.

Nice Dinner PAG.

^ As I've said many many times, they are fashion sandals.

Absolutely no-one on Soi 4 commented at all.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ As I've said many many times, they are fashion sandals.

Absolutely no-one on Soi 4 commented at all.

In that area, cargo shorts, Chang beer shirts and bare feet are fashion acceptable.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ As I've said many many times, they are fashion sandals.

Absolutely no-one on Soi 4 commented at all.

I bet you blended right in

FFS Mendy fvck them abominations off and give them to some beggar.

Get yourself some proper footwear ffs, you've gone native

^ Wind yer neck in and buy a jar of Vaseline. There'll be no shirkers on my ship.

Originally Posted by Mendip

But anyway, I'm gonna blow the Dinner thread out the water tonight... I've been busy all day.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Av it son

With hindsight I may have exaggerated a little bit last night... I mixed the grape with the grain last night and I think it must have been the Ya Dong talking.

But anyway, for our Easter meal a couple of weeks ago I had to saw off the end of a leg of lamb to fit it in the old convection oven, and yesterday I remembered about the offcut in the freezer and made up a lamb broth/stew?

Sadly a colony of weevil-like insects had got into my store of pearl barley or else this really would have been a meal to remember.



So what exactly is the difference between a stew and a broth? Or even a soup?



Who cares... the money shot!



And I really pushed the boat out with a proper bottle of red wine from 7Eleven... although this was my downfall after the Ya Dong.

Originally Posted by Mendip

So what exactly is the difference between a stew and a broth? Or even a soup?

That seems to be an issue on TD as some here pick apart my soups. But said individual also cooks his steak to shoe level done-ness.



Soup looks good to me Mendy.

^ Who ever could that be?