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The " Honey I'm home and I'm bloody starving , what's for dinner " Thread.

Very rare. Chips. Boiled mushrooms. Petits pois. Onion Rings.

I love steak with or without sauces. Bearnaise is my absolute fave, but I also like Diane, Bordelaise, or even a simple Marchand Du Vin butter. Not a huge fan of Pepper sauce for Steaks. It is sort of okayish but not something I would go out of my way to order if other alternatives were available.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Very rare. Chips. Boiled mushrooms. Petits pois. Onion Rings.

I love steak with or without sauces. Bearnaise is my absolute fave, but I also like Diane, Bordelaise, or even a simple Marchand Du Vin butter. Not a huge fan of Pepper sauce for Steaks. It is sort of okayish but not something I would go out of my way to order if other alternatives were available.
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Btw,good luck with the giving up fags Paddy. Just think, all these foods will taste even more delish now you have ya buds back :)
 
Today I feel at one with myself as a cigarette-free zone. All very zen.

Of course, the stupidest little thing turns me into a RAVING FUCKING LUNATIC.

This thread is making me particularly hungry today so I have been looking through my cookbook shelves. The below are my favourites, or most used, anybody got these, or good recommendations for additions to my collection?

Julia Child - Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volumes I and II (I love these books and use them a lot. Prepare to be a right chubster if you eat too many of these recipes)
Larouse Gastronomique (An essential and bloody good to just flick through for inspiration at times)
Carluccio's Introduction to Italian Cookery
Rick Stein on Seafood
Thomas Keller - French Laundry Cookbook
Heston - Fat Duck Cookbook (these two are brilliant to look at but the recipes are fucking impossible)
1,000 Indian recipes
 
I got 2 Hairy Bikers cookbooks for my birthday. Mini Langers was looking through it and has challenged me to make a Lancashire Sausage Hot Pot. Which I'll do in a few weeks time.

If you would have told me that 12 months ago I'd have laughed at you.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Today I feel at one with myself as a cigarette-free zone. All very zen.

Of course, the stupidest little thing turns me into a RAVING FUCKING LUNATIC.

This thread is making me particularly hungry today so I have been looking through my cookbook shelves. The below are my favourites, or most used, anybody got these, or good recommendations for additions to my collection?

Julia Child - Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volumes I and II (I love these books and use them a lot. Prepare to be a right chubster if you eat too many of these recipes)
Larouse Gastronomique (An essential and bloody good to just flick through for inspiration at times)
Carluccio's Introduction to Italian Cookery
Rick Stein on Seafood
Thomas Keller - French Laundry Cookbook
Heston - Fat Duck Cookbook (these two are brilliant to look at but the recipes are fucking impossible)
1,000 Indian recipes
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Can't believe you have Julia Child MTAOFC Vol 1 &2 ! Love these books, and the lady :)
 
Cookery is just fantastic fun if you approach it right. I love being in the kitchen and trying new recipes. And yet I was a hopeless cook until about a dozen years ago. Just completely started again and learned everything in a better way and I am so glad I invested the time in doing so.
 
Langers said:
I got 2 Hairy Bikers cookbooks for my birthday. Mini Langers was looking through it and has challenged me to make a Lancashire Sausage Hot Pot. Which I'll do in a few weeks time.

If you would have told me that 12 months ago I'd have laughed at you.
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Good on ya. Cooking is fun,satisfying/rewarding, especially when you see people enjoying what you have made :)
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Talking things Beef Fillet, you could actually make a creamy gorgonzola sauce and pour it over a fillet steak in theory. Might be a little too robust for fillet, so I would probably choose a more flavoursome steak, maybe a ribeye.
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No No No!! it's so perfect with fillet steak, and i add a few chopped beetroot leaves, my god that's good.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
Cookery is just fantastic fun if you approach it right. I love being in the kitchen and trying new recipes. And yet I was a hopeless cook until about a dozen years ago. Just completely started again and learned everything in a better way and I am so glad I invested the time in doing so.
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Pittpenguinbabe said:
Good on ya. Cooking is fun,satisfying/rewarding, especially when you see people enjoying what you have made :)
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It really really is and I never cooked anything adventurous whatsoever until the ex wife left (I probably only ever cooked once a month as it was) - but I've made a few things I'm mega proud of. The lamb koftas were the best thing I've ever cooked and I'm learning new things all the time. Don't know why I never got into it before.
 
Cooking is brilliant therapy, just never ever open a restaurant with you as the chef.

It took me almost a year after i closed mine here, to get passed cooking the basics.
I'm alright now, and very happy in the kitchen, but i would never open a restaurant again, unless it was profitable without fucking customers who once read one page of a cookbook!
(ok i have calmed down now, and it was Greeks who suddenly knew how to cook French, chinese, spanish and Italian food better than me.....when the dumb fuckers made the shittiest stuffed tomatoes ( aGreek staple) that I ever ate in my life.

Ok i am now relaxed and have poured a cypro, sorry about that.
 
pavlosmacwolf said:
Cooking is brilliant therapy, just never ever open a restaurant with you as the chef.

It took me almost a year after i closed mine here, to get passed cooking the basics.
I'm alright now, and very happy in the kitchen, but i would never open a restaurant again, unless it was profitable without fucking customers who once read one page of a cookbook!
(ok i have calmed down now, and it was Greeks who suddenly knew how to cook French, chinese, spanish and Italian food better than me.....when the dumb fuckers made the shittiest stuffed tomatoes ( aGreek staple) that I ever ate in my life.

Ok i am now relaxed and have poured a cypro, sorry about that.
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I could never be a chef in a restaurant. For one im not good enough, and two its far too stressful I would imagine.
 
I knew I'd get those reactions to my steak!!

For the record I like mine cooked like PPBs. Rare to medium rare. Pink in the middle but not bloody.

The gravy is mainly for the chips really. The addition of a bit of oxo sprinkled over really peps it up. If you've not tried it you haven't lived.
 
Chips and gravy is fine. No problem with that.

But crumbling an OXO cube onto a steak is like sacrilege!
 
I don't eat steak.
In fact, I don't eat red meat.

Dons tin hat...
 
Pittpenguinbabe said:
I could never be a chef in a restaurant. For one im not good enough, and two its far too stressful I would imagine.
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Stressful doesn't scratch the surface. the hours are abysmal, when everyone else is out on the lamb , you're in the kitchen. When it's time to go out and have some fun, everyone but the other resturaunt owners is pissed and in bed shagging something.

But the worst is the ridiculously dumb comments you have to listen to from customers. For Example: A good friend here, who had been eating free chinese food in my house for two years, and raving about it , even in Athens , and was part of the gang who convinced me to open the resturaunt.

I cooked for his name day, for 36 people, out of a converted caravan at a cheapy hotel , a four course chinese meal , and did it with a collar bone dislocated two hours before starting the cooking in a motorbike crash ( I love morphine or whatever it was) thus, 1 (one) handed I cooked the lot. he was over the moon.

I month after i opened the resturaunt he comes with 8 people, Mostly fit women, (he's 63 now and had no chance then, but...) and is giving plenty to the waitress about how the chinese meal he has ordered for all, is wrong in so many ways.
The waitress, who was brilliant, was almost in tears, so i went out to the table to see what the problem was, and we discussed it in front of his invited guests at the table .

I heard the comments (all bollocks to impress the ladies) said ok and went back into the resturaunt. I returned five minutes later with a portion of spare ribs, a beer and the wock.

When he finally asked me why I had brought these things i explained , the beer and the ribs were for me, and the wock was for him.

"WHy?" (dumb question)

"because i'm not so sure you would recognise a wock, but all the other ingredients to make your extra special super dooper chinese food, are in the kitchen, and i will sit out here with my scabby ribs and beer and wait with baited breath to experience your superiority as a chef, and explained how i was looking forward to the experience and learning something new "

He never left the table and i even though he is still a good friend (the wine man) i will not serve him chinese food in my house. When i do a chinese meal for friends he gets Greek, until i get chinese from his hands.

Being a chef is great, having customers is usually a fucking nightmare. Friends are the worst!!!!
 
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