Just because you can doesn't mean you have to nor makes it right

[BrianW]

The purpose of curry, sold in fish and chip shops, is to cover up the taste of bang-average (or worse) chips. I have often indulged for that very reason, not least at a former workplace, where the nearest chippy's chips were always undercooked and indifferent. If you cook proper chips, there is no need for it at all. But curry often makes poor chips quite tolerable, if you are hungry.

 

[feelymcfeel]

Making The Hobbit 3 movies long.

 

[aguero93:20]

Making The Hobbit 3 movies long.

After squeezing the 6 bigger books into 3 movies and leaving out shitloads.

 

[feelymcfeel]

After squeezing the 6 bigger books into 3 movies and leaving out shitloads.

It was a travesty. Could have done 1 really long film, or easily 2 x 2.5hr films.

7.5 hours of movie though? Fuck that noise. Can read the thing quicker.

 

[KS55]

Most dishes have a sauce on them. A good read ( sort of ) if you're interested is a book titled Le repertoire de la Cuisine by Escoffier. It's basically a recipe book but with no weights and measures, you'll be surprised just how many sauces the basic Salmon or Sole for eg. can be accompanied with.

Rhubarb sauce is great on trout. Beats those damn nuts every time.

 

[KS55]

Doesn’t make it right

Headline: 40 million Mexicans ruin chilli every week.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Rhubarb sauce is great on trout. Beats those damn nuts every time.

Is that a sexual thing with the missus?

 

[KS55]

The purpose of curry, sold in fish and chip shops, is to cover up the taste of bang-average (or worse) chips. I have often indulged for that very reason, not least at a former workplace, where the nearest chippy's chips were always undercooked and indifferent. If you cook proper chips, there is no need for it at all. But curry often makes poor chips quite tolerable, if you are hungry.

On average, chippy chips are awful: under-cooked, soggy, flavourless. These days, you need a mortgage to afford them.

 

[fanatic1]

Curry really originated in India at the time of the Raj. The purpose was to mask the flavour of meat or fish, slightly past sell by date, owing to the high temperatures and poor refrigeration techniques

 

[remember arthur mann]

The purpose of curry, sold in fish and chip shops, is to cover up the taste of bang-average (or worse) chips. I have often indulged for that very reason, not least at a former workplace, where the nearest chippy's chips were always undercooked and indifferent. If you cook proper chips, there is no need for it at all. But curry often makes poor chips quite tolerable, if you are hungry.

Same for rancid meat.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

I shudder every November, when all the "celebrity" chefs have a new book out.

FFS, how many ways are there to make Shepherd's Pie? Jamie fucking Oliver has been giving the same "advice" since the new Millennia

 

[lefty goldblatt]

i'd rather the chef kept his "special sauce" to himself thank you very much

Unless Michael Winner was reviewing a restaurant.

He must have died of a "special" kind of overdose.

 

[bluebc]

An acquaintance has tomato sauce on donner kebabs , nothing against a bit of chilli sauce or garlic mayo but ffs ketchup is just wrong

 

[KS55]

FFS, how many ways are there to make Shepherd's Pie?

First, capture a shepherd….

 

[stonerblue]

I put a spoon of branston in me gravy..

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I put a spoon of branston in me gravy..

Racist.

 

[stonerblue]

Racist.

Cheers

 

[jimharri]

Has mumsnet hacked this forum?


;-)

 

[give it to gordon]

It annoys me that my missus always adds salt to the water when boiling spuds

If I want salt I'll add it when the spuds are on my plate

 

[Bill Walker]

It annoys me that my missus always adds salt to the water when boiling spuds

If I want salt I'll add it when the spuds are on my plate

Well tell her to stop it.
Salt is unhealthy