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Ooooh, they do that Guinness Black Lager in Tesco's. Imma get me some of that for the weekend.
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'tis the season to stuff yourself stupid, so with a nod to the what's your tipple thread....what are you currently eating? for me, it's home made dalek shortbread
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thought id start a thread seeing as its across several at the moment and has been discussed numerous times before 3 golden rules for me - 1) you've got to use good quality ingredients and cooked properly, everything can go in or out depending on the quality, i love black pudding for example but you can go to a cafe and get a wedge from bargain basements cooked in a way that makes it dry and horrible 2) same as an english sunday dinner, its all about contrasting textures between the numerous, you need some soft bits in there you need crispy bits in there, some wet some dry, refer to point 1 its also about how certain ingredients are cooked to achieve different textures but then also how its plated up to achieve that 3) no chips 1 + 2 is usually why i find places abroad struggle to replicate a good english breakfast
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Lost my Mumsnet password. New Year and a fair few of us are trying to shift the post Christmas weight or the weight gained during lockdown. I certainly am. Thought I would start a thread to give advice, progress and a bit of cheerleading. I appreciate there will inevitably be people who will lecture and say x diet is wrong and you need to do this instead, thats cool you are awesome and I will definitely do that. Personally I am looking at the least to lose 4-5 stone and I am broadly doing it via the diet that I have always done, and works for me and that is Slimming World. It allows me to eat food for weightloss and feel full at the end of a meal. Previously I lost 6 stone on this diet so I am comfortable with it. Today my first post Christmas weigh in was a 9lb loss. My plan is to get out for some form of exercise as that the area where I have failed since March.
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Always been a fan of Boosts. And Whole Nut has to be in there as the classic favourite.
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You can tell its the off-season, with chat about fizzy pop! Anyway, i'm drinking far too much of it recently. Perhaps because i've tried to lay off the beer, i'm now substituting it with cans of soda. Its all the zero sugar stuff, but I appreciate their ingredients bring other health questions. With the recent warm weather, i'm guzzling 3 or 4 cans of pop a day. Plus i've got large beakers of squash made up chilling in the fridge as well. They all have to be ice cold before I can drink them. There is very little in the refreshment stakes to beat an ice old Sprite on a hot summer day. Must have about 30 cans in the fridge - Coke zero, Sprite zero. 7up free, Irn Bru, Vimto, plus supermarket own cream soda, dandelion and burdock and bitter shandy - all sugar free as well. Anyone else partake in the carbonated beverages a little too much? I think @tonyh29 has a Pespi Max habit?
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What's everyone's favourite crisps/ snacks...
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As i saw the "Tea Thread", i thought we deserved a coffee one. Right now i am in to Turkish Coffee. Bought myself a Turkish coffee pot like this: got myself some Memet Efendi Coffee Got some Cardamom Pods (one pod per pot). 2 spoons of coffee in the pot. Add sugar to suit. Add cardamom pod. stir well. gently bring to just below boil and you get the nice froth on top. do not touch the coffee once on the heat. i have it black, or sometimes a tiny dash of milk, looks like this when its about ready: the really nice thing about it, is that if done right, even black, it isnt bitter at all, lovely way to do coffee imo.
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Pagoda Park, that takes me back. The Powerhouse (became the Ritzy I think) then Wobble and the one by the Market open until 6am, Tin Tins?
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I've done some searching and I can't seem to find a thread about brewing (apologies if there is one but it didn't come up in my searching). I've always liked beer but I got in to brewing my own beer about 3 years ago now, mainly for fun at first but then I progressed to trying to make the best beer possible. I started with kit beers and I've done probably 15+ of those, with mostly very positive results. I've recently taken the plunge to all grain brewing and I'm loving it! The cost of the set up for all grain is a more but the quality is higher, whereas you can get the set up for kit brewing for around £50, and still produce very good beers. I've done some great kits, including the youngs kits (American amber ale, american Pale Ale were both good), the woodfordes kits are good (made by muntons I believe) and I've done Wherry, admirals reserve, and they are all two can kits so have all liquid malt extracts and produce pretty good results. I've recently got a grainfather to to start all grain brewing and it's brilliant, the quality is brilliant, brewery quality to be honest and perhaps better. Does anyone else brew, or have you done homebrew in the past or are thinking about doing it? Anybody done anything other than beer?
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I’m late to the party but have one coming tomorrow. I was waiting for a deal on a Ninja that never came, and also read some negative comments on them which put me off paying the premium for the name. I ended up going with the very popular Tower T17088 9L Dual Basket Vortx for a bargain £94 delivered. I’m not much of a cook, but wanted to help out a bit more now the wife is working full time as we try stave off the cost of living crisis. I thought the novelty factor might be fun, a bit like barbecuing doesn’t really feel like cooking. So, anybody got any good recommendations of meals that work very well from an air fryer?
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Right, now I've moved into a new place, I've discovered some unnerving urge to try cooking. The only thing I've ever managed to cook previously was a tray of cornflake (ahem) cakes. So, I ask the lovely people of VT:- - What's your signature dish? - How easy is it? - What's in it? - How do you cook it? Nice one, Trimmy
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Have just popped into a local pub for lunch and finished an absolutely delicious burger. However, it was instantly ruined for me by being ridiculously tall making it difficult and messy to eat and resulting in toppings and burger sliding out onto the plate. I've always felt a burger should be wider than it is tall and this seems to be a common issue nowadays and got me wondering what else ruins a burger for people? Apart from this I also not fond of the brioche bun trend as feel a burger should be savoury and not sweet.
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Here I was sitting there in the office the other day when an Ice Cream Van started chiming outside playing 'Match of the day'. Guess it is getting to that time of year again? But it also got me thinking. Ice cream Vans are not what they used to be anymore and neither are the lollies we find today. Yes the supermarkets seen to much of the demise of Vans etc. back in the early nineties but even today the products are relatively crap! Even the logos now too are not all that with Wall's having a Heart as there logo, I much prefer the one when I was a kid where the Wall's logo was in front of a sunshine. My fav lolly has to be the Twister but I would love for Wall's to bring back Lemon Callippo's! Which leads me to the question.. What is everyone's favourite current Ice Cream / Lolly and also what lolly do you remember from your childhood that are now maybe discontinued that you would love to see manufactured again to buy?
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I'm sure this has been discussed before on here, but given I was having the discussion in another thread (a couple in fact) I thought I'd start a dedicated one to save those going off topic (couldn't find a similar thread, apologies if it exists). So I've always been sympathetic to Vegetarianism even though I've never been one myself, and never thought I could because I eat (ate) a lot of meat. But recently I've been cutting down my meat consumption, both consciously and unconsciously, whilst simultaneously feeling stronger and stronger about becoming a vegetarian. I have a couple of good friends, one vegan friend especially, who are vegetarian so I've probably been influenced by them. Plus I've been researching more and more into it (see the documentaries thread). So I'm basically at the position where I think vegetarianism is right but I just haven't made that cut off. I only eat meat with my evening meal these days and even then it's only 3 or 4 times a week, so it shouldn't be a massive deal. I'm close, I might do a 1 month trial of it and see how I get on, but I thought a discussion would enlighten me. So VT... convince me (either way).
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What's the best chippy you know anywhere? Why is it the best? When I lived in London, I think I tried them all lol, from the super-posh "boutique chippies" (no thanks) to takeaways that cooked several different cuisines in the same two fryers (nothing like cod that tastes like an eggroll!). I tended to like the very down-to-earth fish and chip shops, often run by Greek families, it seemed. I wasn't a chippy to me if it didn't offer chip butties and fried saveloys -- the bedrock of a nutritious diet, obviously. Never really had patience for mushy peas. I liked one chippy on Essex Road in Islington that seems to have closed. Just very clean and unpretentious but probably very unfashionable. Even a few years ago, it seemed harder to find shops like this.
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And the effect it had on you? Sure there will be some excellent tales of woe and also a few mental challenges made in the minds of have a go eaters.
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Its National Ice Cream Day here in the States. Anyone else on here a big fan? Ya'lls favorite? Me personally I could eat it every day, especially some Mint Chocolate Chip.
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Lads, I'm over for the weekend this weekend... Need a good recommendation for a good curry/balti house that is both cheap and tasty and preferably wont leave me stuck to the jacks with a hot ring for the weekend... Stuck this in the general chat thread but it got swamped with other meaningless stuff! Appreciate the help.... Heard about Adil's Balti house but not too sure so if you locals could pass on your local knowledge, i would be most obliged.... Ta
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Firstly, apologies if there is an existing one but I couldn't see one... Anyway, I love a cup of tea! How do we all take it? Sugar? Sweeteners? Milky? Black? What brand? Big cup or small cup? Choice of accompanying biscuit? I go for 2 sweeteners (or 1 sugar, depending on availability), with just enough milk for the tea to turn a nutty looking colour. Bag of choice is a Cornish Smugglers Brew (in-laws live in Newquay and once I tried some I rarely drink anything else) with an occasional custard cream. Heaven. Id say I probably get through 8 cups a day if Im working, and 10-15 if Im on a day off.
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Happy Easter
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We've talked about biscuits before but they really do deserve their own thread being the food of the gods that they are. So to start the debate, a question. Is the chocolate on the top or the bottom of a McVities Chocolate Digestive?
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So what is the minimum acceptance number of Pigs in Blankets and other musings. I'll kick off with I don't want any cranberry sauce near my dinner.
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As the year is approaching its end, it's time to reflect and vote for your favourite side to have with gravy this year. You have one week to vote.
