Thread: Dinner

I can't name everything on that plate AO, but it does all look very nice!


Tonight I wanted to use up the two last pla duuk fillets. The daughter didn't want batter, so no problem... simple it was, as I was brought up.

As a kid in rural Somerset during the 70s, money was tight and we didn't have fish fried in batter. A fish van passed through the village once a week and my mum would buy some cod or haddock, for our weekly fish. There was maybe one fishmonger serving 20 odd rural villages so the fish van was the only answer. A few butchers also offered fish, but not many.

We couldn't afford batter as a kid, so my mum coated the fillets in flour and shallow fried them, as I repeated all these years later for the daughter twith my pla duuk fillets.



I sometimes wonder at the misunderstandings between American/Australian barbecue threads on his forum and UK food. It's not only the climate as to why we Brits don't barbecue food... money was very tight in the UK during the 70s and I doubt I even tasted proper steak until my late teens. We occasionally had a mixed grill as a kid, but it was padded out with sausages, liver and kidneys (which I still love)... as we just couldn't afford steaks. There is a very big difference between our diets, post war.

Anyway, shallow fried pla duuk an' chips...



I am in the unique position of having spent the last few months in both NE Scotland and NE Thailand, and so can make a direct comparison between the two.

I'd go NE Thailand, and shallow fried catfish it was tonight.



Nice!



And why you should never eat with your elbows on the table... in Isaan.

It's just so fukkin hot... admittedly not an issue in Peterhead!

Top stuff Mendo.

Originally Posted by Mendip

As a kid in rural Somerset during the 70s, money was tight and we didn't have fish fried in batter. A fish van passed through the village once a week and my mum would buy some cod or haddock, for our weekly fish. There was maybe one fishmonger serving 20 odd rural villages so the fish van was the only answer. A few butchers also offered fish, but not many.

We couldn't afford batter as a kid, so my mum coated the fillets in flour and shallow fried them, as I repeated all these years later for the daughter twith my pla duuk fillets.



I sometimes wonder at the misunderstandings between American/Australian barbecue threads on his forum and UK food. It's not only the climate as to why we Brits don't barbecue food... money was very tight in the UK during the 70s and I doubt I even tasted proper steak until my late teens. We occasionally had a mixed grill as a kid, but it was padded out with sausages, liver and kidneys (which I still love)... as we just couldn't afford steaks. There is a very big difference between our diets, post war.

Very good points, Mendy.

If you don't mind going in for the long haul with your books then Austerity Britain 1945-1951 by David Kynaston sheds more light on the post-war shortages that affected the UK and generation after generation.

It's a bit of a slog ala Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, but it does at least allow me to partly understand the fractured relationship between my mum and food...

Originally Posted by Mendip

I doubt I even tasted proper steak until my late teens.

Same same

I reckon beef like that would be cut up for gullash, stew or cooked up for cold cuts.

And face it. Steaks sucks compared to gullash

Redded

The whole fecking pig.

Originally Posted by helge

And face it. Steaks sucks compared to gullash

Absolutely.

Gotta be the most overrated food in the world by yanks and aussies.

Boring.

Goulash, on the other hand, is absolutely packed with flavour- as is any decent stew.

We Danes know our food.

Re steak, I was wondering if it's because the meat is so bad in the US that they have to burn it and cover it with seasoning to give it some flavour and neutralise all the additives they pump it with?

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I was wondering if it's because the meat is so bad in the US that they have to burn it and cover it with seasoning to give it some flavour and neutralise all the additives they pump it with?

You really are a clueless moron, but I know that you are attempting to have a troll, so I will not bite, being that it is the weekend, and you are well into your three-day bender at this point.

Originally Posted by bsnub

You really are a clueless moron, but I know that you are attempting to have a troll, so I will not bite, being that it is the weekend, and you are well into your three-day bender at this point.

I knew you would be the first one...but I did expect a better bite!

I am on a serious troll at the moment though. I just can't stop it.



Off out now and getting RIGHT ON IT!

See you later, general!

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Off out now and getting RIGHT ON IT!

Not even noon where you are and deep in the cups.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

I knew you would be the first one...but I did expect a better bite!

I am on a serious troll at the moment though. I just can't stop it.



Off out now and getting RIGHT ON IT!

See you later, general!

I will be the second one to bite. Have you seen what them Danish eat? Fried picked herring for example. It's actually the 6th most complained about food

On ignore and still remembered.

Flattered

Looks alright. Did you order any garlic naan?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Looks alright. Did you order any garlic naan?

Yeah we shared a couple.

Wow - you actually ate some veg.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Not bad for £8 a plate..

Why didn't you save yourself the stomach trauma and just toss £8 in the trash Joe. That all looks like more piles of various liquidy slop.

All that could have been tossed in a blender and frapped to make a slurry and sucked up through a straw.

I bet the Naan was good.

Originally Posted by Stumpy

That all looks like more piles of various liquidy slop.

It does look awful.

That looks like what the nurse removed from my leg laceration during cleaning.

Has anyone had any experience with these... ?



My last offshore trip was a difficult one and I've been hitting the peas hard in the evenings since I came home a week ago, but yesterday realised with shock that I was down to my last bag of Talley's.

Makro had no Talley's in stock today, so I picked up a couple of emergency bags of Wattie's peas instead, to tide me over. I didn't want to get more incase they're no good.

They're new to me although I've tried Wattie's baked beans before and they were OK.

I may do a blind pea test tomorrow but not sure if the dinner thread is the correct place for something as niche as that?

Originally Posted by Mendip

Has anyone had any experience with these... ?

My advice in this matter would be to use your Thai pointing finger to have made a whole in the bag in situ in the freezer in Makro and to have wrangled one or two free and popped them in your mouth for a test before committing your hard earned.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Has anyone had any experience with these... ?



My last offshore trip was a difficult one and I've been hitting the peas hard in the evenings since I came home a week ago, but yesterday realised with shock that I was down to my last bag of Talley's.

Makro had no Talley's in stock today, so I picked up a couple of emergency bags of Wattie's peas instead, to tide me over. I didn't want to get more incase they're no good.

They're new to me although I've tried Wattie's baked beans before and they were OK.

I may do a blind pea test tomorrow but not sure if the dinner thread is the correct place for something as niche as that?

Don't over think it. You will be fine with the watties. I've also been hitting the piss hard. Stay away from.anything aro brand though. Is my advice

Originally Posted by malmomike77

My advice in this matter would be to use your Thai pointing finger to have made a whole in the bag in situ in the freezer in Makro and to have wrangled one or two free and popped them in your mouth for a test before committing your hard earned.

But not the same comparison. Needs lashings of lurpac