Thread: Dinner

The lack of yorkshire pudding has been troubling me in my initial score.
I'm therefore regrettably forced to deduct half a point for this oversight.
Still an excellent score of 9.25/10.

I would also knock off 0.25 for using mint jelly instead of proper mint sauce.

In fact, as punishment, I might have to pop round and confiscate the next roast lamb dinner Mendip makes.

A hard audience.

1) I used Dillinger's wit to carve the meat. Next time I'll use something sharper!
2) You can't just change your scores willy nilly. Yorkshire pudding has no place with lamb and I'm sticking with 9.75.
3) The 16% say that mint jelly is better than mint sauce. I have no idea what that means but take it up with OhOh. I'm staying with 9.75.

Anyway, just to show what is possible from an Isaan pond...



Completely unsloppy.

Originally Posted by Mendip

The interesting thing about this leg of lamb (to me at least) was that it came from a Thai animal and was my first experience of local lamb. The wife has found a goat/sheep farm in Korat that occasionally slaughters an few animals and sells off the produce. This leg of lamb cost 400 Baht, about a third of the cost of the imported Aussie and NZ lamb we usually get at Makro. It was shorter and slimmer than the Antipodean legs to be fair,

So it's a third of the price of Aussie lamb and a third of the size too?


Does look good though I must say, especially the roast spuds and carrots.

I'd have to knock at least a point off though for presentation.
It looks like it's been served up by an angry dinner lady/prison warden/a Parkinsons sufferer/some raving Isarn alcoholic with delirium tremens.
Look at the way those peas have been slaped on there and the gravy spatter on the edge of the plates that a little wipe could have taken care of.

Your best effort yet though bud.
It won't let me green you for some reason

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

It won't let me green you for some reason

Yeah, I wonder why that is...

Originally Posted by Bogon

I seem to be the only one to notice you didn't use a knife to carve the meat. Either you used your dentures or some other blunt instrument.

Looks like Mendys missus let Anna take a good chunk out of it first, to get him back for the fish

Originally Posted by Mendip

used Dillinger's wit to carve the meat. Next time I'll use something sharper!

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

It looks like it's been served up by an angry dinner lady/prison warden/a Parkinsons sufferer/some raving Isarn alcoholic with delirium tremens.

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Mendys missus let Anna take a good chunk out of it

^ You can laugh Joe, but we know that the bedding will need laundering soon.

Then things will calm down a bit.

Fish and chips look good. Shame you didn’t have mushy peas. And a slice of lemon. And dollops of Mayo.

Oh, and stumpy the tuna was fantastic. Grill use equals a 10/10.

Chicken Jalfreza, hit the spot!

A respectable 7/10

Ate some steak for dinner tonight. Cubed Sirloin for daughter, Black Angus Ribeye fair me and son wanted Grade A5 Japanese waygu. Wifey chose prawns & sides.

Very, very nice Willy, I'm outta greens.

Originally Posted by Topper

Very, very nice Willy, I'm outta greens.

Same DW. Looks outstanding and Green owed

I concur, very nice and a solid 10/10.

KW sowed the seed for tonights dinner.

12 Oz steak..
Before..

After..

A solid 10/10

Originally Posted by Joe 90

After..

A solid 10/10

You've held that piece above the pan while you were cooking it, haven't you?

American Cowboy style.
Thought I'd give it a go, medium rare.
Was a decent Sirloin and only cost £4 reduced from £6.99
Achieved a mild dose of the meat sweats, or is it food poisoning...

^^ You'll get worms from that

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

^^ You'll get worms from that

Doesn't seem to bother the Yanks on here..

Everyone needs a Big Ham inside them now and again

I'm surprised your missus hasn't banned you from drinking that Peroni

Btw, that Dinner looks ok but what is it?

Meatballs Al forno or big spaghetti hoops in laymans

Originally Posted by Joe 90

KW sowed the seed for tonights dinner.

12 Oz steak..
Before..

After..

A solid 10/10

Hey Chitty. Why is it that all the steaks you cook wrinkle up like a hunk of bacon? The before pictures looks pretty normal. The cooked state looks odd and appears to have zero seasonings.

I give you a 3/10. Zero for the steak and 3 for the salad. Would have been a 5 on the salad but you added the alien cucumber stinky things...

Stick with the slow cooker.