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  • #5672
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I got fresh tomatillos yesterday. In Dublin and not Guadalajara. A new day has dawned and it smells like salsa verde. They're priced like the 'currently a novelty vegetable for people who take photos of their dinner on falcon enamel with hessian somewhere in the background*' items they are and I'd imagine a person from Mexico might take a nasty tumble with the fright when they saw the €14.95/kg price tag but if everyone could just keep buying them I shall soon be able to have salsa I don't have to keep in a safe at night.

    <3 Fallon & Byrne. *gropes their virtual knee*





    *ie me
    I think I'd take a tumble at the 14.95/kg price tag!


  • #5673
    Violet Sun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭Violet Sun


    Faith wrote: »
    It's possible that you're overworking the dough. Pastry needs the lightest touch, and working it too much develops the gluten and makes it really tough.

    Is it tough, or thick but still light and delicate?

    Not tough, but definitely thick


  • #5674
    fiddlechic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭fiddlechic


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I got fresh tomatillos yesterday. In Dublin and not Guadalajara. A new day has dawned and it smells like salsa verde. They're priced like the 'currently a novelty vegetable for people who take photos of their dinner on falcon enamel with hessian somewhere in the background*' items they are and I'd imagine a person from Mexico might take a nasty tumble with the fright when they saw the €14.95/kg price tag but if everyone could just keep buying them I shall soon be able to have salsa I don't have to keep in a safe at night.

    <3 Fallon & Byrne. *gropes their virtual knee*





    *ie me

    Not only did I purchase the tomatillos, which made an amazing salsa, I have now, on a weekly basis purchased their French tomatoes, ananas tomatoes, and eat them on some F&B sourdough with a dribble of their phenomenally expensive olive oil and smoe maldron sea salt.

    They're so good, I feel better about not being able to go on holidays for a couple of months until the finances improve. I know knocking the tomato addiction on the head could solve the problem quicker, but I need the comfort!


  • #5675
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    fiddlechic wrote: »
    , I have now, on a weekly basis purchased their French tomatoes, ananas tomatoes, and eat them on some F&B sourdough with a dribble of their phenomenally expensive olive oil and smoe maldron sea salt.

    Oh god, oh god, oh god. Their sourdough is wonderful, I'm going to have to rip your idea off this weekend.

    I too often find myself doing such things as bemoaning how broke I am whilst choosing whether to spread Smooth or Crunchy speculoos spread on my morning toast (€3.95/jar). Ah well.


  • #5676
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    I've been clean eating the last 3 weeks (12lbs down woohoo) but am off to Galway tomorrow so there will be lots of yummy pics going up :)


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  • #5677
    dee_mc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,212 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    My favourite new gadget :)https://www.siliconezoneusa.com/shop/citrus-lemon-squeezer/
    I use lemon juice to dress my lunchtime salad at work, and it drives me mental to have to run to the bathroom to wash my hands after squeezing the lemon wedge, so I was delighted to spot this yoke in the €2 shop the other day! Mildly disappointed that it's already 'a thing' because I had been thinking last week that I might have invented the idea myself, ah well!


  • #5678
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    After two weeks of utterly unnecessary over-indulgence on holidays, I must reign myself in this week and henceforth. The Aldi vegetable aisle had best prepare itself!

    I have also decided to master quinoa. Had an amazing quinoa, prawn and vegetable meal in a restaurant in Galway a few months ago, hoping to create something similar at home. Any tips?


  • #5679
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Quinoa - now there's a thing...

    If it was pronounced Kwin-OH-ah, I'd probably be more inclined to eat it. But the generally-used pronunciation of Keen-WAH sounds pretentious to me & turns me off.

    And so ends my random Tuesday morning musing while sipping on my cuppa at my desk before all hell breaks loose... :)


  • #5680
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Cook it in stock.

    Treat it like rice and you be grand


  • #5681
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Don't get me wrong - I like it. I had a salad made with it last week. It is just the pronunciation that puts me off having it more.


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  • #5682
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Quinoa - now there's a thing...

    If it was pronounced Kwin-OH-ah, I'd probably be more inclined to eat it. But the generally-used pronunciation of Keen-WAH sounds pretentious to me & turns me off.

    And so ends my random Tuesday morning musing while sipping on my cuppa at my desk before all hell breaks loose... :)

    Didn't know that. Pretentious is right......


  • #5683
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    Cook it in stock.

    Treat it like rice and you be grand

    You wouldn't normally cook rice in stock though.


  • #5684
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    BaZmO* wrote: »
    You wouldn't normally cook rice in stock though.
    Yes I would, for certain dishes. Sometimes I take a rice based salad to work, and if I'm doing that I'll cook it in stock for a bit of extra flavour.


  • #5685
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I love the pronunciation of quinoa. I think it's a lovely sounding word.


  • #5686
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Quinoa - now there's a thing...

    If it was pronounced Kwin-OH-ah, I'd probably be more inclined to eat it. But the generally-used pronunciation of Keen-WAH sounds pretentious to me & turns me off.

    And so ends my random Tuesday morning musing while sipping on my cuppa at my desk before all hell breaks loose... :)


    You're like Mr Fox and paella. Would it eat if it's 'pah-yell-ah' but turns his nose up on 'pah-yay-ah' :D

    As per Baldy, treat it like rice but I would normally use 1:1 ratio of quinoa-water/stock, unless if I'm making sushi with it I'd increased a bit more liquid.
    Good to have a batch of plain cooked quinoa stored in the fridge - it keeps for a 3-4 days. You can add to salad, make fried-rice like, kedgree, etc.


  • #5687
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    I have my Keen Wah salad in with me today actually :)


  • #5688
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Keeeeeeeeeeeen-wah & broccolli in with me today! I do believe it is the forum's current lunch meme.

    Pretty sure when I first went searching out quinoa I was approaching the nice people at the counter in Holland & Barrett asking where their qwin-oh-ah was. Good days, good days.


  • #5689
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    The first time a bought it I followed the instructions on the pack and used 5 parts liquid to one part quinoa. It was a mushy mess.


  • #5690
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,041 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    I'd eat it more if it was less expensive.


  • #5691
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    I'd eat it more if it was less expensive.

    hipster tax isn't it


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  • #5692
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Bobblehead Panda wrote: »
    The first time a bought it I followed the instructions on the pack and used 5 parts liquid to one part quinoa. It was a mushy mess.

    I did that too, and after an hour it was still a disgusting gloopy mess :pac:


  • #5693
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Time for a pronunciation meet up.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #5694
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    The keenwahs in one corner and the kwinoahs in the other.


  • #5695
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Can I just ask, how do you guys feel about the pronounciation of jalapeño?


  • #5696
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Can I just ask, how do you guys feel about the pronounciation of jalapeño?

    Halla-pee-no?


  • #5697
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Can I just ask, how do you guys feel about the pronounciation of jalapeño?

    Hallah-paynyo


  • #5698
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Halla-pee-nyo


  • #5699
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Halla-pee-nyo

    See, that's a little pet peeve of mine - why pronounce the first half of the word in Spanish, and then give up half way through and pronounce the rest in English? And then return to Spanish just before the end? :confused:

    Doesn't put me off the chilis, though, it just occasionally makes me rant at my husband :D


  • #5700
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Jallapeeno


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  • #5701
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Shenshen wrote: »
    See, that's a little pet peeve of mine - why pronounce the first half of the word in Spanish, and then give up half way through and pronounce the rest in English? And then return to Spanish just before the end? :confused:

    I'm a halla-pee-nyo as well. Don't have enough Spanish to know I'm mispronouncing bits of it. I'm just glad a kind soul told me they aren't jallah-pee-nos before I could embarrass myself too much.


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