The Cooking Thread

[Mark Bolam]

The more you think about it the more mental it becomes.

[Mark Bolam]

But cows are killing the planet.

[peds]

Well, yeah... they are... among many other things. South American asparagus in our shops in January shouldn't be a thing of course, but you can't just wave the global beef industry problem away because of it. 

[roboted]

Comfort Stuff....mmmm

Chicken, carrot and parsnip soup.

With ginger, paprika, dill and tarragon.

A blend that works surprisingly well.

Plus brioche bruschetta 

 

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 13:15 by roboted
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[sime42]

That's a proper winter warmer that is.

[sime42]

2 hours ago, Peasgood said:

Peru, that's where the asparagus in Sainsburys this morning was from.

 

Supermarkets have a lot to answer for.

[Mark Bolam]

3 hours ago, peds said:

Well, yeah... they are... among many other things. South American asparagus in our shops in January shouldn't be a thing of course, but you can't just wave the global beef industry problem away because of it. 

I don’t think it’s as big a factor as we’re led to believe.

 

There were 50 million buffalo in America in 1800, as opposed to 40 million cows today.

 

Why weren’t the ice caps melting then?

[peds]

Ehh, it doesn't matter what you think, and it doesn't matter what we are "led to believe". It's cold, hard, data. 

 

The ice caps weren't melting in 1800 because we, and our industrial revolution, had not yet released enough greenhouse gasses to reach 1.5°c of average temperature increase above pre-industrialised levels. The graphs are out there, easy to find, and depressingly easy to understand. 

 

Look, this isn't the time or the place to argue about it, so I'm not going to.

 

I had egg and tofu fried rice in the thermos flask for 10am tea break today, and a couple of Christmas cake slices for 1230 break. Didn't thaw out all day, -2°C out by us, but after my Mother's Christmas cake, I was still climbing in a T-shirt in the afternoon to top the final three spruce. No photos. Sorry.

[Mark Bolam]

We aren’t going to argue at any point.

The cow thing isn’t great, but there are much worse things.

And beef is great!

 

We got Christmas cake yesterday from a customer, just like my Mam makes.

I’d guess about 2000kcal per slice.

Bloody lovely.

[peds]

The secret to a good Christmas cake is for it to be as little actual cake as possible. The cake batter should just be mortar for the brandy-soaked fruit contained within.

 

Someone asked my mother why her fruit (the someone, not my mother) kept sinking to the bottom of the cake when she baked it. Because you aren't putting enough fruit in it you dozy ****************ing wally, my mother told her, only just managing to keep the second part of the sentence inside her head. 

 

But yeah, it's a great stand-by lunch to grab quickly if there's no time to prepare much else, and it pretty much never goes off.