33 minutes ago, petedk said:

It's ages since I've had a good dumpling.

Eat some Figs, they'll clear you out.

40 minutes ago, petedk said:

Where did you get the suet from? i can't seem to find it here?

 

It's ages since I've had a good dumpling.

I make my own... There is a shop in the local shopping mall that sells scraps of beef offcuts for about 80 baht a kilo just to get rid of it. It contains about 60% fat and i usually buy 2 kilos. I then put it all into a big pot and boil it up to render out the fat, I cool it in the fridge and all the fat floats to the top and goes hard.

 

I then pull the fat off the top and put it in a bowl in the fridge, and then return the beef to the hob for another boiling and repeat this usually three times and by the time i am done i get around 700 to 800 grams of fat.

 

I then add flour to 50% of the fat weight and rub the two together and I now have about a kilo of suet which I keep in a sealed bag in the fridge for weeks without problems.

 

Of course traditional suet uses the hard fat from around the kidneys, but hey... I can't tell the difference once combined with the flour and herbs, I use mostly sage and thyme in my dumplings and I have also had them plain but just as delicious.

 

Try going to Makro and asking the butcher for some beef fat scraps, he might just give you a bag for cheap. The beef pieces left over after rendering i like to coat with breadcrumbs and fry them off adding a handful of chopped spring onions and sweet chili sauce with a few extra chili flakes.... utterly delicious beer snack.

 

 

11 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Was that after each bite you took, or when you went to the loo afterwards.

The whining came from the other customers, then you know it's an English breakfast.

POST 52

 

I have not seen this film and, for the most part, critics found it too violent.
So I don't know under what circumstances to attribute this reply.

post 59, bonjour

 

Why, it is only in New Zealand that sheep are raised. ?????
Definitely, this forum is a mine of cultural knowledge.
Thank you

Last night I had my favorite...Beans on toast! (Brooks beans and local bakery bread).

 

6 minutes ago, Amusements said:

Last night I had my favorite...Beans on toast! (Brooks beans and local bakery bread).

 

Sometimes simple comfort food is best. 

2 hours ago, owl sees all said:

I don't cook anything. That's what women are for.

I think you need to refer back to the sex ed classes, that's what they are really for, and if it takes me a bit of the old 'cooking magic' to get access to the 'sex magic', then I am all for it.  

As i have mentioned we used to live in the UK ,me the wife and our son , the wife makes the best baked potatoes i have ever tasted ,love them with cheese or Tuna almost anything ,i think she learnt how to cook them from a Jamie Oliver cookbook and then added her own whatever ,but honestly they are superb.

21 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

I think you need to refer back to the sex ed classes, that's what they are really for, and if it takes me a bit of the old 'cooking magic' to get access to the 'sex magic', then I am all for it.  

At school we had woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing. The girls had needlework, social science and some home economics stuff. Different playgrounds. Footy and Hi-Jimmy-knacker were our playground games. Sex; I wasn't remotely interested.

 

Mrs Patel, taught me about sex, and how to pleasure a lady (and sometimes more than one at once), some years later.

 

I loved my shed. Remember Jack Hargreaves? The wife, of those times, said I made her kitchen untidy.

 

I had 5 sisters and was blessed with 5 daughters. They cooked; I ate.

2 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

As i have mentioned we used to live in the UK ,me the wife and our son , the wife makes the best baked potatoes i have ever tasted ,love them with cheese or Tuna almost anything ,i think she learnt how to cook them from a Jamie Oliver cookbook and then added her own whatever ,but honestly they are superb.

The spuds sound delish but what was the last farang food you cooked ?

1 minute ago, Don Mega said:

The spuds sound delish but what was the last farang food you cooked ?

as i said earlier shepards pie .

actually thats a lie ,i just had an egg sandwich ,sorry  

1 minute ago, bert bloggs said:

as i said earlier shepards pie .

Ahh nice, love shepards pie... Might give that a go next weekend !!

6 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

as i said earlier shepards pie .

yea, but the shepherds around here don't taste too good.  #hannibalfoodrocks

2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

yea, but the shepherds around here don't taste too good.  #hanniblefoodrocks

Hahahahahahah, dont mind me some Lung and loin bourguinonne.

 

https://www.ranker.com/list/hannibal-food/chris-bellamy

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Who mentioned comfort food?

 

 

Last week Macaroni Cheese, tomorrow Apple Crumble....

35 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Ahh nice, love shepards pie... Might give that a go next weekend !!

Can't do shepherds pie , its the lack of sheep up here but cottage pie I think is quite near . Mince meat ,fry , tip the oil out , mix with thick gravy add mushrooms ( wife goes out every morning picking them right now ). topping , mash pots. mixed with milk,egg yolk butter and cheese .

Damn ! going to have cottage pie tonight now ! Oh when I first met my TW she called it Caustic pie , my way is sooo much better.

9 minutes ago, toofarnorth said:

Can't do shepherds pie , its the lack of sheep up here but cottage pie I think is quite near . Mince meat ,fry , tip the oil out , mix with thick gravy add mushrooms ( wife goes out every morning picking them right now ). topping , mash pots. mixed with milk,egg yolk butter and cheese .

Damn ! going to have cottage pie tonight now ! Oh when I first met my TW she called it Caustic pie , my way is sooo much better.

I buy the lamb shoulders from Makro and grind them up.

 

Cottage pie is also a winner and I make that too !!

Made hot dogs just now. Glazed onions, pickles, sausage and self baked bun. Mustard & ketchup. Simple & good.

3 hours ago, sirocco said:

post 59, bonjour

 

Why, it is only in New Zealand that sheep are raised. ?????
Definitely, this forum is a mine of cultural knowledge.
Thank you

Lots of sheep are raised in Australia too. However, the fleeces get Bathurst burrs and bindi eyes in them, which is why some Kiwis who come to Australia are a burden on our hospital system. 

Nothing of interest to anyone here unless you are a vegan.
However, I do make a delicious tahini or hummus, given the time.

Made Bubble & Squeak for breakfast this morning,from left over

vegetables from yesterday's dinner ,always cook more vegetables

just for this reason, with black pudding and an egg, HP sauce ,and

a pot of Yorkshire tea, sets you up for the day.

regards worgeordie

16 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Made Bubble & Squeak for breakfast this morning,from left over

vegetables from yesterday's dinner ,always cook more vegetables

just for this reason, with black pudding and an egg, HP sauce ,and

a pot of Yorkshire tea, sets you up for the day.

regards worgeordie

Yep it makes sure you are regular.

500g Black Angus Steak, rare.

A boiled egg lol

1 minute ago, Inepto Cracy said:

500g Black Angus Steak, rare.

Nice, will be throwing some 1kg tomahawk's on the BBQ soon.

5 hours ago, Brewster67 said:

This isn't a pssing contest,

Why are you continuing pssing then? Nope they would not say that.

 

And, if they would. I started this discussion with the post regarding freezing food and re-heating it.

5 hours ago, dddave said:

I disagree.  Stews, soups and casseroles are often improved by a few days storage or freezing and being reheated.  Especially true for tomato sauces for pasta. 

A real italian pasta sauce is supposed to be put in a bucket and then in a bigger form with ice for cooling down after it is made. That´s because it´s better to re-heat cold pasta suace that is freshly made. Freezing it and re-heating is a totally different ball game that gives a negative result instead.

18 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Nice, will be throwing some 1kg tomahawk's on the BBQ soon.

In South Africa we cook our steaks over an open wood fire with high flames, called a Braai or Braai Vleis. Vleis being meat in Afrikaans. BBQ however is a potato chip flavour.

Now shout out loud when you have a braai with South Africans, wys jou vleis...  show us your meat.

Then bring the beers, or rum and coke or brandy and coke, come and join in.