Thread: Dinner

I'll have a pint and two Eezzzz

Blimey, my Pad Thai costs £2 from Grab and as a bonus there is no pint of Singha.

Roasted bone marrow starter followed by a pile of beef ribs, vegetables and truffle mash.

^ One of the best on this thread.

^^ That looks absolutely superb.

Shame the pictures are so small.

^^^Proper posh nosh, Willy


Dinner today was a mysterious but healthy and tasty prawn in turmeric and chilli dish rustled up by an Indian lady from Fiji. I said I would do BBQ but she insisted on bringing dinner.

I protested half-heartedly before getting stuck in.

Butcher birds made another welcome comeback and put on a show after their long absence

I chipped in with the nosh by supplying dessert in the form of a sliced orange from my orchard (not really!)

Time to dial up the ambience with some licking flames and some hot licks on the guitar. It was too hot for the fire earlier, being a 31c afternoon

She then insisted on giving me a sensual foot massage using some hand cream for which I was most grateful

Flashes of lightning and peels of thunder were accompanied by gentle rain which brought out the forest aroma and awakened in Miss Fiji her natural animalistic instincts, and we celebrated our overflowing cup with proper dessert this time in the form of apple pie and cookies and cream flavour ice cream.

^ Fiji is under Chinky control loops

Respecto, tumeric will help with any inflamation!

Originally Posted by Looper

I chipped in with the nosh by supplying dessert in the form of a sliced orange

Originally Posted by Looper

peels of thunder

I don't think you're supposed to eat the peel.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I don't think you're supposed to eat the peel.

That is a curiously apposite humorous cross reference, Cyz since she actually did eat the orange peel, which I have never seen anyone do before.

She insisted that I also eat one. It was kind of bitter and marmaladey, but not that unpleasant, since the skins are quite thin, since they are actually mandarins.

^ You can put a peel in your whiskey..

Very old fashioned of you.

Take one BBQ egg and one beef shin bone cut.



Also known as Thor’s Hammer


Add a dry rub and place onto of some vegetables and red wine. place into smoker for about two hours.



Remove, wrap in foil, return to smoker


Remove from smoker and shred the beef. Next time I might try to let it cool a bit more. Dog got the bone. And a few scraps.





Now make a ragu.



Assemble into a lasagna and cook for 40 mins.



Serve with salad and garlic bread.

Looks delicious.

Greegs has opened a pub, Armo!

I'll tell you what that instant mash from Seven is bloody delicious.

My first time grilling on it was a half a salmon (The BBQing, Grillin, Smoking Mega Thread).

It's a great grill, holds temps real steady. In fact, it was raining half of yesterday (a small drizzle rain, nothing like in your neck of the woods) and that didnt matter to the grill.

^ do you find it a bit small, I think it's only 18" diameter?

^^^^^^^Quite a heroic effort for a Lasagne. I thought going to that much effort over meat would only be for eating it of the grill.


I was working at my rentals today and pinged Lilliputian Lao Lady and she said to come over when I finished. So I slinked in out of the torrential rain and watched her knocking up dinner after I had fixed up her laptop so it had picture and sound coming out of her TV. She had been in the middle of her YouTube Jane Fonda workout when I arrived but using her tiny laptop screen which was not so good as the TV.

She used to own a restaurant in Canbera she tells me so I thought I might pick up some tips.

The prawns were fried in garlic with oyster sauce and honey soy. The fried rice was pre-prepared and just needed nuking.

Even so slapping this prawn feast together in about 10 minutes is my kind of cooking.

I will defo have a crack at this some night.

Then we curled up on the sofa with a box of Ferrero Rocher to watch orange monkeys getting up to orange monkey business on the all-new big screen YouTube for digestiv

Originally Posted by Topper

^ do you find it a bit small, I think it's only 18" diameter?

Yeah, not huge but big enough for some fish and some slow cooked beef shin. So far, so good. I also have three Qs so not limited by size on one of them, yet.

Is that a VHS?

Outstanding page of food!

£6.50 amazing value and taste..