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General Chat Thread II

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,979 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,603 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Rub it on with kitchen paper. Very thin layer.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    My Lodge gets “crusty” around the sides. Cooking surface is fine, couple of years now, daily use. I use a chain mail scrubber. An essential in my view.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    A new shop, for me anyway, “Søstrene Grene”, George’s Street, opposite Arcade. Thought it was a junk shop, nick nacks etc but no, bit of a treasure trove inside. Worth a visit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,603 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    They have some very nice salt licorice, too 😋



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,514 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    they used to have one in the blanchardstown shopping centre too, not sure why it closed.



  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,839 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    It's a Danish chain, like a more upmarket Tiger. I love to visit when I'm in Denmark a couple of times a year. I got some Irish Cream tea in December which was rather nice.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Sardine pate.

    I added harissa paste. Next time, I'll increase the sun dried tomatoes and might omit the mayonaisse.

    I use these pita breads.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭sporina


    saw Black Garlic Ketchup in ALDI recently - anyone tried it?



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'm doing the internet thing where they say "No, but…" - so, no, but I've tried black garlic many times before, it's really nice although it's lost most of its garlicky flavour due to the fermentation process it goes through, it tastes almost like pure liquorice but milder. I'd say it'd get lost in the acidity of the ketchup.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Space Dog




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    My better half got me the best birthday present ever - a reservation in Dede 😃 I cannae WAIT!!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,212 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Oh lovely! I've been, it's definitely an experience you won't forget! If you're in baltimore longer the pub next door does an amazing lamb birria taco!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I feel like I may never want to eat again afterwards and should probably fast from about now in preparation, but good to know! We're in Baltimore for two nights.



  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,839 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Ha, I got my other half the same thing for her birthday…

    WAITAMINUTE



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    What's with all the bots spamming the ancient Aldi slow cooker thread???



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,603 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Mrs Beer was using galangal yesterday. While it has a kinda delicate and difficult to describe aroma and flavour, it has a very pervasive lingering smell after cooking with it, overpowering fried shallots and garlic. Luckily it's also a very pleasant smell 😊

    She was making lemper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemper

    Post edited by the beer revolu on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,603 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    We're celebrating Chinese New Year a little late this year. (Wednesday was CNY). Going to visit (Chinese) family up the country and going for dinner tonight, then feasting at home on Sunday. We've prepared my usual CNY fare : Lo Mai Gai, crispy duck pancakes, sticky hot sweet black pork hock, char sui pork, bean curd skin and cucumber salad and Mrs Beer's lemper. I'll take pics on Sunday.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_mai_gai

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemper



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Threatening to do for years, yes, years 😀. Made it about 20 years ago if memory serves me.

    ( I know you can make it in a blender but I used a whisk)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    It’s mayonnaise.

    Jam/ chutney funnel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    I'm going on a knife skills course this weekend, which was part of my Christmas present from my OH. The only annoying thing is that I can't bring my favourite knife with me, because he's bringing it to the knife sharpening course that I bought him as part of his Christmas present, which is completely coincidentally happening on the same day 😆



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Also, I think I'm going to cancel my BBC Good Food sub and go with NYT Cooking instead. I don't really rate GF and the app is buggy as fook, whereas NYTC seems to be full of great recipes.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,979 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Cancel away. You still get great recipes on BBCs food site for free.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/food

    The only decent thing on the Good Food app is their Yorkshire Pudding recipe. Luckily I’ve kept a copy of it. 😉



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,514 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    my wife's favourite subscription is to mob; i have certainly enjoyed the benefits of it!

    where is that knife skills course on? and the knife sharpening one?



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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If DH tells you she'll have to kill you. She'll have sharp knives at hand. And she'll know how to use them. 😁



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,319 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    It's funny you say that, I am being marketed the NYT Cooking quite hard at the moment, on social media.

    Are the recipes in US measurments, though, or can they be converted on the site? That would be a deal breaker for me.

    As far as BBC Good Food goes… Unless it's a BBC recipe from a chef I recognise, I agree the standard seems to have fallen in recent years, there's some dubious on there, from contributors I don't know.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,453 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    They cant be converted on the site but easily done. Its only cups and ounces really. They have some great recipes on there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Just pulled the plug on Good Food. It was only €29 a year but pretty much all the content is available for free anyway, and as I said, the app itself is glitchy AF.

    My sister has an NYT Cooking sub and raves about it. She's screen-shotted a few recipes to me and they've all been excellent. But yeah, a measurement converter would be nice!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,453 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Telegraph is also excellent at 3 quid a month.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,644 ✭✭✭Did you smash it


    bin or boil or something else?



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 61,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Part of a soup base, I have to say I'm one who steams it and eats it with the rest of the veg/dinner



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    I'm one who would return it to the Earth and focus on more exciting things!



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,713 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'd peel it and stick it with the rest to cook. It's yummy.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,077 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Our daughter, years ago, took great exception, when she was young, to the stalk on broccoli. Fair enough, but we kept it like above, chopped it into discs and put it in stirfrys. Didn’t even notice it. Result.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,026 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I have tried to get over my hatred of broccoli and cauliflower caused by my mother serving frozen, microwaved to mush mini florets of each as a kid. Actually sweetcorn is an issue from that too, texture is the problem there.

    It's not working. I've managed to reintroduce some fish, something else she ruined with the cheapest breaded products ever, baked to a crisp; but those veg are just gone for me.

    That said, my severe issues with her cooking lead to a "well, cook your own food!" moment as a teenager, and an ability to ask for whatever ingredients I wanted; plus she shopped at Superquinn so the options were pretty good. Think that served me well in the end.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,979 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,212 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    I'm exactly the same. Can manage stir fried tenderstem broccoli now but cauliflower....if it's not small and in a curry or in piccalilli I don't eat it 😅



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,514 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    My wife cooks tenderstem broccoli with oil, lemon and salt and it's lovely. Can be done in an air fryer.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,212 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Regional thread is pretty dead, does anyone here have recommendations for great places in Belfast? Looking at lunch in XO but that's as far as we've gotten so far.



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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,514 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i had a very nice steak in millar's beside the waterfront a few months ago. made nice by them having accidentally served me a more expensive steak than i ordered.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Do you mean a takeout lunch - soup/sambo type thing or a sitdown meal?

    Sawers shop on Fountain Street is the best shop in the city - does absolute monster gourmet sandwiches. And as a bonus it's a fantastic food shop.

    For sitdown meals, depends on what you want. I've heard great things from the Mourne Seafood Bar but it's not my thing so I've never been. Coco on Linenhall St is always solid, as is Cafe Parisien (and has lovely views over City Hall too). The waterfront's Millar's is a good place too. Ox is your high end fancy sh1te that I wouldn't be bothered with. You'll pay dearly for your pigeon breast and single piece of broccoli there. My favourite restaurant in the city centre is Ginger on Great Victoria St but I'm not sure if that opens for lunch. Waterman House on Hill St gets good reports also and it's beside my favourite bar in the city - the Harp Bar.

    Good luck - it's a great city.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,780 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Been watching Gary Eats lately. Decent bloke and a little older than your typical YouTuber.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,212 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Thanks both of you.

    We are every much into the high end fancy sh1te so always try one place on a trip 😁

    But other suggestions are always welcome cause you can't eat like that everyday. I'll look them up



  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 3,319 Mod ✭✭✭✭Black Sheep


    MrDeanes in Belfast just got a bib gourmand, so certainly worth a look, if you can make a booking work.

    Waterman House looks good, more conventional Italian style cooking. I have a booking there later this month.

    Ragin' Ramen is excellent and a quirky take on ramen (The spice bag offering is memorable).

    The Mourne Seafood Bar is a classic, as recommended above. You have to go there, if you haven't been, but be aware it's somewhat resting on its laurels these days. Go in and get a bunch of small plates, and try to limit the amount of them that are fried dishes, for best results.

    OX is consistently a good one star option. I tried the Muddler's Club and was less impressed. Also has a star, but when we went in the dining room had a bit of a cloud of greasy steam / smoke from the kitchen hanging around. Entirely possible it was a problem with extractor fans that one night, but it put us off on a bad foot. Compared to OX, the menu is a little less cohesive, I wouldn't bother. Also tried Eipic, before it closed, which was Deane's one star. That was a cracking restaurant and more old-school in approach than OX. But you've got to be pretty consistent at getting bums in seats to survive in Belfast…

    Last suggestion:- Flout for pizza, if you can stand the queues. Easily the best large NY style pizzas in Ireland, bar none.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,462 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Sorry, didn't want to reveal both my and the OH's whereabouts to the internet at large, you never know who might be lurking!

    The knife skills course was at Dublin Cookery School in Blackrock. I enjoyed it, although I think they'd be better served offering different "Complete Beginners" and "Confident Cooks" versions as there was a very wide spread of skills across the group - I'm pretty sure one or two people had never even held a knife, like.

    Knife sharpening was with www.hewn.ie. Eamonn is based in Ennistymon but does workshops in Dublin every few months. Mr. DH really enjoyed it, said it was well worthwhile. I'm still waiting on him to sharpen my knife, though…

    (👀 👀)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,212 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,514 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    cheers - i've become the knife sharpener for my family (mainly due to owning tools rather than any innate skill). might be a way of sending a subtle hint.



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