I learnt on the weekend that you can't make triple-cooked chips with Spanish potatoes

[Monty91]

because the starch content is too high. Or too low. One or the other. I wasn't hugely interested in the conversation tbh. Nor I doubt is anyone in this post :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There really is no need.

Where did you get Spanish potatoes?

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Normally.

[Monty91]

[Monty91]

that it starts to get a bit tiresome.

[Berni]

Salt, a dollop of something piquant and unctuous and you're away. Leave well enough alone.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Their Porterhouse was little short of magnificent, though. A fine piece of meat.

Perhaps this fellow is simply better at steak than at chips. There's no shame in it, we all have limitations.

Marve, for example, loves to go on about the technical aspects of aircraft departures from regional airports despite the fact that he has only limited knowledge of the matter. :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

However, I would say that - in context - the big, floppy chip shop chip with heart-stopping quantities of salt and soaked in pickled onion vinegar is the equal or any twice-cooked effort.

[Berni]

Remember what dear old Willie Yeats had to say:

'I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it.
And wore it in the world's eyes as though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it.
For there's more enterprise in walking naked."

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Both varieties are fine ways to treat the spud.

I'm starving now :-(

http://www.hartvannederland.nl/wp-content/uploads/hvnl/patat%20speciaal(1)-468x350.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm going to have a drink now.

[Berni]

I may well have misquoted it. I daren't look. That's how it is in my mind, anyway.

[One Wilf Copping]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

No sign on Andy the fishmonger yet. Tension mounts.

[Monty91]

it.

Then again, I'm not a :food****:

https://twitter.com/FOOD_****

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I believe we're still at war with them. Or will be soon. Or something.

[Berni]

chips. That or I've got a wasting disease.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm going to make you eat lard.

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The joy of healthy eating and plenty of exercise. No alcohol, no red meat and no fat.

We feel good, even if the fainting is a little embarrassing on occasion.

[Monty91]

Eustace Horsemeat �@FOOD_**** 2 Mar
After reading @MarinaOLoughlin's review of Quality Chop House just now I've ejaculated so hard it's de-clarifed the consommé I was making

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

Fair play to you, I dont judge.

[Berni]

Plus, of course, you have to bear in mind that I'm the tiniest smidgeon less tall than you.

[Berni]

Not that there's anything wrong with it, I understand.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

you're golden.

[Classic Jorge]

you'll never be more than a bit of rough to him and he'll make you pretend to be his valet if you're invited to a wedding.

Save yourself, c

[Classic Jorge]

Dont go badmouthing sugar now, especially as I'm mid-way through a jubbly

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

with an apple in his mouth and a rubber fist in his bottom. :goodtimez:

[Free SL]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

What the hell's it made of?

[Berni]

[Berni]

G eats it. Being northern, she'd prefer 'gravy'(ie Bisto) :-(

Personally, I prefer mushy peas.

[Monty91]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Make sure you bring your game. Is that what I mean?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You food****.

[Free SL]

If I started worrying about what was in the food I eat I would be as skinny as Peter Crouch, instead of looking like a fat Mickey Quinn

[Berni]

Sorry, been listening to the chaplain in Porterhouse Blue too much.

[Snin]

[Monty91]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

2 tbs Olive Oil
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tsp. ginger powder (or 1 inch fresh ginger)
2 tbs. plain flour
2 tsp. curry powder
1/2 tsp. salt, adjust to taste
1/2 -1 tsp. chilli powder (more=hotter)
1 tsp. paprika



or bisto do it in granules or you can buy it in squeezy tubes..its veg curry powder n onion n thickener

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

[Berni]

*Medical note: this is not true.

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

With essence of Delia

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

Two bloody stone heavier now. Really must do something about that.

[Berni]

By the way, did you watch that Rich Hall thing on Texas the other night? Very good, it was.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Halibut. I guess that means a beurre blanc is in order.

[Berni]

I love Halibut. Are there any chips?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

Tell you who do a lovely Halibut with spinach and beurre blanc. Rendezvouz in Westerham. Haven't been there for a couple of years, though. Got absolutely hammered last time I was there.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I might give you crushed potatoes. Just to see the look on your face.

[Berni]

'Crushed' potatoes, my aching glans!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have an exact degree of crushage in mind.

[Berni]