The General Chat Thread

MissFlitworth

@Ivy I almost always do pulled pork in the oven, I find it more tasty that way (you get burnt crispy bits and caramelised fat around the outside - what's not to love?)

IvyTheTerrible

MissFlitworth wrote: »

@Ivy I almost always do pulled pork in the oven, I find it more tasty that way (you get burnt crispy bits and caramelised fat around the outside - what's not to love?)

Ooh I like the sound of that!
I hadn't tried it before because I'd heard so much about slow cookers and I really don't have the space in my kitchen for another gadget!

Markcheese

Pork shoulder , the only way to go for pulled pork , never tried it in slow cooker but can see the logic (no crackling though )

GalwayGuy2

Just a quick question.

If I'm increasing the tomato sauce for pasta by three (as in three cans of tomatoes) do I increase every other ingredient by 3? Eg: Three teaspoons of paprika?

The Hill Billy

@GG2 - I would just do all x 3.

GalwayGuy2

@GG2 - I would just do all x 3.

Thank you

Also, I'll be making the bread myself. I was wondering is there an easy way to make garlic bread that doesn't require a mortar and pestle, or a blender?

Yes, I am making a feast :P

MissFlitworth

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

Also, I'll be making the bread myself. I was wondering is there an easy way to make garlic bread that doesn't require a mortar and pestle, or a blender?

A knife and a garlic crusher normally does it for me. Or just a knife and some patience to finely mince garlic. Nigel Slater's cheesey garlic bread makes you friends

GalwayGuy2

Actually, I was thinking about making the bread from scratch myself. I love the taste of fresh baked bread, and I think the garlic will be scrumptious with the flavour.

Loire

Anybody here into juicing? Mrs Loire wants to buy one so we can make juices from fruit and veg.

the beer revolu

Loire wrote: »

Anybody here into juicing? Mrs Loire wants to buy one so we can make juices from fruit and veg.

I'm sure some people will disagree but you might just find it another gadget that gets used for a few months and then ends up taking up valuable space in a cupboard and gets uses for a week or two ever few years.

Juice is also a very convenient way of consuming a lot of sugar without most of the fibre from fruit and veg - so not necessarily a health plus.

Maybe a good idea if the juice is to replace sugary, unhealthy drinks already in your diet but otherwise I'd say just eat more whole fruit and veg.

Animord

Loire wrote: »

Anybody here into juicing? Mrs Loire wants to buy one so we can make juices from fruit and veg.

Yep, but like all kitchen gadgets I go through phases of using it. Mine is a Phillips, I will have a look at the model number when I get home. I paid in the region of €65/75 for it about six years ago.

My friend bought one that was much more expensive than mine and hates it as it is much harder to keep clean - the mesh bit clogs apparently. I can also find out which one that is so you can avoid it.

Animord

the beer revolu wrote: »

Juice is also a very convenient way of consuming a lot of sugar without most of the fibre from fruit and veg - so not necessarily a health plus.

totally agree with this - it is very easy to really drink massive amount of what is essentially just sugar. But if you stick to juicing green veg then not so much.

Loire

the beer revolu wrote: »

Juice is also a very convenient way of consuming a lot of sugar without most of the fibre from fruit and veg - so not necessarily a health plus.

Maybe a good idea if the juice is to replace sugary, unhealthy drinks already in your diet but otherwise I'd say just eat more whole fruit and veg.

That's kinda what I'm thinking too to be honest. I'll try and talk her round

Loire

Animord wrote: »

Yep, but like all kitchen gadgets I go through phases of using it.

I'm starting to collect a few of them myself! Maybe in a few decades from now they'll be collectors' items and will pay for themselves :P

Merkin

the beer revolu wrote: »

I'm sure some people will disagree but you might just find it another gadget that gets used for a few months and then ends up taking up valuable space in a cupboard and gets uses for a week or two ever few years.

Juice is also a very convenient way of consuming a lot of sugar without most of the fibre from fruit and veg - so not necessarily a health plus.

Maybe a good idea if the juice is to replace sugary, unhealthy drinks already in your diet but otherwise I'd say just eat more whole fruit and veg.

100% agree with this. I had one years ago and while I enjoyed the novelty of it last time for all of six months, I did find it a. an annoyance to keep clean and b. a little counter intuitive that a big glass of juice/smoothie consists of a lot more calories than you would normally consume in any drink.

People get really excited and think, yay, I'm being super healthy here but if you actually examine what goes into a typical drink then it's often sugar overload. I think if you have a good balanced diet, and you certainly seem to Loire, then you don't really need to juice to up your fruit and veg intake. Far more enjoyable (and healthy!) to eat all that lovely fresh produce than juice the bejaysus out it and be left with a surplus of pulp (which would have been a good fibre source anyway!)

MissFlitworth

Was in a friend's place a couple of weeks back and she opened the pulp drawer, or whatever the bucket that all the fibre from your fruit & veg goes into is called, and realised that she'd made juice a couple of months previously, cleaned out the jug but forgotten about the pulp. We learned what evil looked like that day and it is viscous & black

GalwayGuy2

@GG2 - I would just do all x 3.

Does that go for the garlic as well?

9 cloves of garlic seems a tad much.

Loire

I can't wait to go home and show Mrs. Loire these posts.....gonna start by saying...." Great news honey, come over here and I'll show you how I have just saved us 250 quid"!!!

The Hill Billy

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

Does that go for the garlic as well?

9 cloves of garlic seems a tad much.

I love garlic, so it wouldn't faze me. But it is all down to personal taste. So just pop in whatever you'd be happy with.

GalwayGuy2

I can't wait to go home and show Mrs. Loire these posts.....gonna start by saying...." Great news honey, come over here and I'll show you how I have just saved us 250 quid"!!!

Do tell.

Thanks Hill Billy.

Anybody have a link to this porridge bread I keep hearing about?

The Hill Billy

€250 saved by not having to buy an expensive juicer.

Loire - It'll go on a new outfit or similar instead. Trust me, you will not see that cash again.

Animord

Or you could borrow mine and say "look honey - a lovely juicer" and when she gets bored in a months time you can quietly return it to me - she will be none the wiser...:P

Moody_mona

Any thoughts on buying/storing chicken fillets (not looking for food safety advice, I know it's not allowed) I'm just after throwing out in date chicken fillets because of the toxic smell of eggs when I opened them, and I'm sick of wasting money. Bought them on Sunday; do I have to buy just as I want to use them?

leahyl

Moody_mona wrote: »

Any thoughts on buying/storing chicken fillets (not looking for food safety advice, I know it's not allowed) I'm just after throwing out in date chicken fillets because of the toxic smell of eggs when I opened them, and I'm sick of wasting money. Bought them on Sunday; do I have to buy just as I want to use them?

Why not freeze them? Although they shouldn't be gone off that fast if you only bought them on Sunday...

oscarBravo

Loire wrote: »

Anybody here into juicing? Mrs Loire wants to buy one so we can make juices from fruit and veg.

We got a slow juicer a few months back, and we generally drink veggie (and sometimes fruit/veg) juice four or five days a week. I find the slow juicer is easier to clean and makes nicer juice than a centrifugal juicer (as well as being an order of magnitude quieter).

They're normally scarily expensive, but this is a relatively cheap knock-off model from Amazon that's still happily chewing through whatever we throw at it - and I do mean chewing, it literally goes "nom nom nom" when you put anything crunchy into it.

For reasons best known to Her Indoors, we have a splash of extra virgin rapeseed oil and a teaspoon of chia seeds in each glass of juice.

Moody_mona

leahyl wrote: »

Why not freeze them? Although they shouldn't be gone off that fast if you only bought them on Sunday...

I'd normally freeze meat from the weekend alright, but I figured if I was cooking them today they'd only be in the freezer Sunday night and out again to defrost on Monday night. I'm just raging that I've wasted my dinner!!

B0jangles

Seems weird for chicken to go bad so quickly - It might be worth checking your fridge's settings? I had something like that happen and it turned out "someone" had turned the fridge down from like, level 4 to 2 in a heatwave "because it's making my lettuce go soggy".

Lost a lot of good chicken that day, I can tell you .

Moody_mona

Ooo you could definitely be on to something there! Stupid question alert, do those numbers refer to temperature?

B0jangles

Moody_mona wrote: »

Ooo you could definitely be on to something there! Stupid question alert, do those numbers refer to temperature?

Only so far as higher = colder in my fridge, so 1 is barely cool and 6 is icicles hanging by the wall time!

Moody_mona

That's great, thanks for that!