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    #32
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Thanks DB, I might save the effort of making them for a special occasion so! They seem straightforward enough, just relatively time consuming.


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    #33
    dipdip
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    Merkin wrote: »
    I'd like to try and make a lemon tart. Does anyone have a nice recipe that they use that they would care to share?

    This is for a lemon tart filling. It is absolutely exquisite, it's my friend's recipe. Preheat oven to 325-350 F.

    1 crack-free sweet short crust pastry base (I used the Hairy Biker's version, or you can buy one)
    3 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
    Juice of 3 lemons and 1 orange
    Zest of 2 lemons
    1/4 pint double cream
    5 1/2 ounces caster sugar

    Whisk all ingredients together. When frothy pour into the tart shell, then place in the oven and fill with the remaining mixture to the brim.

    Bake until just set, the timing of this will depend on your oven (with parchment paper on the top if going brown). Note how long it takes the first time and then you'll know after that!

    I serve it cold with a dusting of icing sugar and a splodge of whipped cream.


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    #34
    Faith
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    Oh my, it's just one of THOSE days here where all sorts of sh*t is hitting the fan!

    I was planning on making my own pasta tonight, but I don't have a pasta roller. Am I an absolute fool? Is it more work than it's worth to do it by hand? It would be my first time making it.


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    #35
    dipdip
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    Faith wrote: »
    I was planning on making my own pasta tonight, but I don't have a pasta roller. Am I an absolute fool? Is it more work than it's worth to do it by hand? It would be my first time making it.

    This is a question that I have often wanted the answer to! I always wondered, could I make ravioli and roll it super-thin with the rolling pin...? Curious to hear what the pasta aficionados will say.


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    #36
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,748 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Mrs Billy had a bit of an accident at the weekend which has her fairly zonked. I put my flight back by a day & did the dinners for most of the week on Monday morning.
    Hopefully she'll only have to make the school lunches & microwave the porridge for brekky now.
    They might be sick of various stews by the time I get home but they'll survive. :)


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    #37
    oscarBravo
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    Faith wrote: »
    I was planning on making my own pasta tonight, but I don't have a pasta roller. Am I an absolute fool? Is it more work than it's worth to do it by hand? It would be my first time making it.
    It's definitely doable, but it's a fair bit of work. I find it fairly labour-intensive (albeit enjoyable) to make it with the wee machine, so it would probably be more work than it's worth for me personally.

    But do let us know how you get on. :)


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    #38
    Faith
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    I figured it required an emotional investment I couldn't give tonight (although maybe all the kneading would have helped!) so I just bought fresh pasta instead. I'll definitely try it soon and report back though :).


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    #39
    the beer revolu
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    Faith wrote: »
    Oh my, it's just one of THOSE days here where all sorts of sh*t is hitting the fan!

    I was planning on making my own pasta tonight, but I don't have a pasta roller. Am I an absolute fool? Is it more work than it's worth to do it by hand? It would be my first time making it.

    I was recently helping out a friend in their restaurant and they (I) were using won ton wrappers to make ravioli. Thinner than pasta (a good thing, in my book) and easy to work with. I'm gonna be doing it myself at home sometime.
    The ravioli dish is extremely popular in the restaurant. You can get much more filling in than you might think as you can stretch the top wrapper to cover the filling.

    You can buy them in any Asian shop (usually frozen, I think)


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    #40
    Faith
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    Which Asian shops do you rate in Cork, beer? I only ever venture as far as Mr Bells in the English Market.


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    #41
    the beer revolu
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    Faith wrote: »
    Which Asian shops do you rate in Cork, beer? I only ever venture as far as Mr Bells in the English Market.

    I like Jia Jia on Cornmarket St for Chinese stuff and I tend to use Aysha's on Shandon St or the newish one on Cogburg St for Indian and Mediterranean stuff.

    Ther'es a good Chinese shop out Blackpool way too.


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    #42
    homemadecider
    Registered Users Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭homemadecider


    Mr Simpson wrote: »
    Made coconut flour pancakes, needs some tweaking, but they're not bad

    Oh god, I tried this one and it was disastrous. Straight into the bin.

    We picked 60kg of apples off the mother's trees and are making lots of lots of cider with them. Yum, cider! Homemade cider you might say!


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    #43
    The Hill Billy
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    Just a little tip from the Billy household for Hallowe'en - I usually dole out a few Garibaldi biscuits with the usual stuff to the kids who call. But I tell them that the raisins are dead flies.

    Freaky-neighborhood-Dad-voice: Go on, have a Dead Fly biscuit. The spiders that live in your tummy will love them. Mu-ha-haaaaaa!!!!!!

    I've not had any claims for mental distress. Yet.


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    #44
    mike65
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    Floyd on Food - BBC2 every afternoon. See it! :)


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    #45
    confusticated
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    Merkin, the lemon tart by Chong in the cooking club is gorgeous - takes a bit of work cos you've to leave the pastry overnight but it's really really good.

    Considering cake for dinner. My housemate made chocolate cinnamon cake and it's right in front of me, and the curry ingredients are alllllll the way over there in the fridge...


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    #46
    Minder
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    Anyone watching Valentine Warner in Scandinavia? I just watch the (recorded) episode where he went to Faviken. Amazing place as far north as Trondheim. Magnus Nilsson uses local ingredients including game and wild fruit and vegetables, combined with traditional preserving methods to produce a very unique experience. One of my bucket list restaurants.


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    #47
    oscarBravo
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    Minder wrote: »
    Anyone watching Valentine Warner in Scandinavia?
    With a Danish girlfriend, how could I not? :) It's been quite fascinating.


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    #48
    Alun
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    What channel is it on? I don't really like him that much but I have an interest in Sweden generally, and food as well, so might be interesting.


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    #49
    Minder
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    Good Food channel. It was on every day for a few weeks. I'm working my way through the old recordings, so not sure if its still showing. Bound to be back again and again...


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    #50
    Alun
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    OK, can't get that one, that's probably why I hadn't heard about it.


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    #51
    Patrick Linhart
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    What do u think bout sugar ?


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    #52
    Mrs Fox
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    Minder wrote: »
    Anyone watching Valentine Warner in Scandinavia?

    Managed to catch a few. I've always taken to the fella (he sometimes reminds me of my husband when he gets all dorky).
    Some amazing produce there. Love that small prawn crab and seaweed pasta episode.


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    #53
    Lovely Bloke
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    Patrick Linhart wrote: »
    What do u think bout sugar ?

    it's amazing


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    #54
    dararyder
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭dararyder


    Hi all,

    Just wondering if anyone has any idea where i might get chestnut puree or even tinned chestnuts in Dublin City?

    Would like to give this a go - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1129656/chestnut-and-amaretto-roulade.

    Any help appreciated, cheers.


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    #55
    MissFlitworth
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    dararyder wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Just wondering if anyone has any idea where i might get chestnut puree or even tinned chestnuts in Dublin City?

    Would like to give this a go - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1129656/chestnut-and-amaretto-roulade.

    Any help appreciated, cheers.

    Not sure if chestnut spread is the same thing as chestnut puree but have seen this stuff in Fallon & Byrne, Chez Max grocery on Baggot Street and the Donnybrook Fair in Donnybrook

    AlgerianCoffeeStores.ChestnutTube-500x500.JPG

    And only just realised that yer man in it is a chestnut and not an orangutan!


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    #56
    dararyder
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭dararyder


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    And only just realised that yer man in it is a chestnut and not an orangutan!

    Haha ace. Thanks for that. Much appreciated, i'll drop by at the weekend.

    Cheers


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    #57
    the beer revolu
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    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    Not sure if chestnut spread is the same thing as chestnut puree but have seen this stuff in Fallon & Byrne, Chez Max grocery on Baggot Street and the Donnybrook Fair in Donnybrook

    That paste will be very, very sweet.
    Not the same as puréed chestnuts.
    I'd imagine you can get tins of puréed chestnuts in any of the places above.


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    #58
    Mrs Fox
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    Superquinn often have vacuum packed chestnuts


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    #59
    Michellenman
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    They sell them whole in a jar there too :)


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    #60
    homemadecider
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    I got a tin of pureed chestnuts in Superquinn last Xmas.


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    #61
    Mrs Fox
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    I was recently helping out a friend in their restaurant and they (I) were using won ton wrappers to make ravioli. Thinner than pasta (a good thing, in my book) and easy to work with. I'm gonna be doing it myself at home sometime.
    The ravioli dish is extremely popular in the restaurant. You can get much more filling in than you might think as you can stretch the top wrapper to cover the filling.


    I'd love to make ravioli with my own filling but I've never attempted fresh pasta, so I was thinking what if I use fresh lasagna sheets.
    Would this work?


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