What's for Lunch/Brunch?
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]The one I used comes in a tub, not a wrapped block as below. I guess it's a 'cream cheese' - but then there's that, no wait - that's 'cottage cheese'. It's not my usual form of cheese, but I picked it up in the shop at reduced price and have to say it was a good alternative to mayo etc to 'cream up' a baked potato. Interesting [to me at least ] point here was how, in the above food combination, the more bland flavours of the cheese and potato were able to [swamp is too strong a word, but lets say] overtake the intense salty/umami flavour of the bacon [3 slices rolled and baked]. I would have expected it to be exactly the opposit. Still a good alternative lunch to a 'pot noodle'!
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Generally I'm a strong cheese fan Menolly, but I'm beginning to appreciate [what my wife has known for a long time] that the subtle flavor's of soft cheeses can be used to great effect if you will but try them out.
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Were it not for your lo-carb perseverations...
Maybe not every week, but I would definitely cure some lox more often. You like my lox, it is a good approximation to NY deli belly lox, nu?
Way less expensive than going to Goldbergs!
Maybe not every week, but I would definitely cure some lox more often. You like my lox, it is a good approximation to NY deli belly lox, nu?
Way less expensive than going to Goldbergs!
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If I say so myself, it was. Potatoes beautifully crispy, gravy rich and savoury. Could have started the fillet 10 mins later, and my yorkies didn't quite rise as they should have, but I'm bloody stuffed.
All of this actually came about because the GF has never had pears in red wine, which I found shocking, as it was a staple of my childhood. So since we had pears, I promised to recreate my grandmother's recipe...
To be honest, I think the pears could have done with a bit less sugar...will reduce the quantity to half a cup next time. And maybe a Shiraz instead of the 3 year old Cabernet that was all I had on hand.
Otherwise, a most satisfying dinner. Excuse me while I waddle off to take a shower.
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All of this actually came about because the GF has never had pears in red wine, which I found shocking, as it was a staple of my childhood. So since we had pears, I promised to recreate my grandmother's recipe...
To be honest, I think the pears could have done with a bit less sugar...will reduce the quantity to half a cup next time. And maybe a Shiraz instead of the 3 year old Cabernet that was all I had on hand.
Otherwise, a most satisfying dinner. Excuse me while I waddle off to take a shower.
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Synchronicity or what Av. For the last week or so I've been intending to hunt down a 'pears in red wine' recipie to have a go at. By mistake I opened a bottle of 'mulled wine' [wine with loads of cinnamon and spices in it] and as neither E. [my wife] nor I like it as a drink I was about to pour it away when all of a sudden I remembered you could do pears in red wine as a dessert. Would this wine be ok for the dessert Av or is it going to kill it?
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Very funny Lorin.
Assuming it's a dry wine. If it's sweet, it might be too much, unless you leave the sugar out too maybe.
Since you were going to pour it out anyway, worst it'll cost you is a few pears.
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It'd probably be fine. You just wouldn't have to add the cinnamon and vanilla to the wine.nice guy peter wrote:Would this wine be ok for the dessert Av or is it going to kill it?
Assuming it's a dry wine. If it's sweet, it might be too much, unless you leave the sugar out too maybe.
Since you were going to pour it out anyway, worst it'll cost you is a few pears.
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Nah Av - this crap has the cinnamon and stuff in situ already! As I was posting I thought 'Peter ya cheap b*****d; whats the point of making a dessert with a wine you already know you don't like. Do the decent thing and spring for a decent Shiraz as Av suggests.'
[The only problem will be getting it into the recipie without sucumbing to the temptation to drink it first and bugger the dessert ]
[The only problem will be getting it into the recipie without sucumbing to the temptation to drink it first and bugger the dessert ]
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Ohhh Yes ! I'm getting to like this 'pears in wine' already.Avatar wrote:Well, you only need about 2 cups of wine, so you can drink the other half of the bottle.
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Talking of wine cellars - I stayed at a lodge in a small mountain village in Nepal. it was owned by a British couple who had inherited a house and wine-cellar full of wine from an elderly relative they hardly knew. They called in a wine merchant to have a look at the thousand or so bottles they had been left and he randomly picked one out to inspect. "Yes - this is interesting," he said, "probably about £2,000. And this one," he said going to it's neighbour, "about £5000". Hence the reason the people were to be found in a beautiful lodge under the Fishtail Mountain in Nepal.
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