Food Porn

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

That is possibly the best explanation of yorkshire pudding making I have ever seen!

I have to say that your dinner did not seem to match your avatar though, I can't imagine that guy sitting down to a nice roast with all the trimmings and then having a snooze on the sofa.

Thanks, tell it like you see it my friend.

S.W. England huh ? I'm originally form Cornwall, Bude to be precise. I love my roast dinners, and have at least 2 a week, but I don't do the whole snooze on the sofa bit afterwards, I'd go for a ride my Triumph and clear the cobwebs


a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

I'm pretty sure he is refering to a cupcake/muffin pan when he says 'fairy cake tray'.


Speak English Cody!!

Damn my lack of ejookayshun, like my masters (teachers) at school always said ..................... Must try harder

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

....but get the feeling we are talking about an oven fried funnel cake? Itll be crispy on the outside, and creamy in the middle?

The tray you cook it in....can you post a picture so I get an idea what you're using?

OK I had to google that LOL, They should be crispy on the outside but not to thick, just kind of a puffy soft inside.

your ex girlfriend sounds like a girl that knows how to cook

Yeah I've been really fortunate with my girlfriends, all of them were excellent cooks, the ex wife, now that's a whole different story. The current Mrs C is a whizz in the kitchen as well, we compliment each other's styles of cooking, although we can get quite competitive, which only serves to improve us and gives me a good excuse to buy steak for my black eyes.

OK the mystery dish looks like this....................NO that isn't dirt ................. it's flavour


Now go and try it out and post the results, I'm dying to see them

Cody *Checks watch* after 5pm

a reply to: cody599

ok...muffin tins. I have some of those.

do they tend to stick?

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

Muffin over here has a whole different connotation

If the oil is nice and hot they shouldn't get the chance to stick bro, very occasionally I'm in a bit of a rush and don't give the oil enough time, still tasty but they can stick then.

But ordinarily they just lift out like little angels and fly onto your plate awaiting your pleasure.

Cody

a reply to: cody599

nom om om om om

Cody you are a genius! muffin tins.

a reply to: cody599

I'm not that far south!

I did live in a tiny villiage near bude called Milton Damerel for a few years though.

originally posted by: zazzafrazz
a reply to: cody599

nom om om om om

Cody you are a genius! muffin tins.

If eggs, flour and milk make me a genius, some of guys and gals on this thread are veritable deVinci's and Michael Angelo's.

I just watched with awe as my granny cooked, and she always encouraged me to muck in, thanks granny I love cooking nearly as much as I love making avatars here on ATS LOL, I guess the passion shines through occasionally.

@ nonspecific : Beautiful part of the country my friend, and pasties to die for

Cody

so last night i made some of these:

www.theironyou.com...

and was "wow'd" by them. The pleasantly crispy texture isn't something you get in low carb eating very often. and like any new thing I find, i do it to death....

...so i am making them again tonight, but with onion, lump crab, and a touch of jalapeno tabasco.

If any of you are low carb eaters....you have to try this. Even if you aren't. They are a nice way to make a tasty veggie dish.

ETA: the website is called "The Iron You"....but i am reading the url as "Their On You". LOL

a reply to: cody599

Pastie! Haven't had one for years, now I have me a hankering for one

a reply to: zazzafrazz

Those look pretty damn good BFFT

ETA: the website is called "The Iron You"....but i am reading the url as "Their On You". LOL

Conspiracy theorist ? ............................................ Much LMAO

Cody

originally posted by: zazzafrazz
a reply to: cody599

Pastie! Haven't had one for years, now I have me a hankering for one

zazza

The best thing about pasty IMHO is frying up what's left over the next day for breakfast. That'll set you up for the whole day, and send you out into the world feeling invincible.

I make my own generally speaking, but my butcher does a bloody good one as well, failing that in a moment of madness and pasty craving, we have a shop all over the UK called Greggs, for a mass produced product it aint bad, just needs a tad more white pepper.

Cody

a reply to: cody599

Pasty = empanada.....i had to look it up.

My favorite empanada was in Piedras Negras. a small family owned shop that sold me a buffalo chicken empanada with gouda cheese. And they deep fried it instead of baking it.

originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
And they deep fried it instead of baking it.

Baking an empanada should be prohibido.

originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: cody599

Pasty = empanada.....i had to look it up.

My favorite empanada was in Piedras Negras. a small family owned shop that sold me a buffalo chicken empanada with gouda cheese. And they deep fried it instead of baking it.

Sort of, but with a lot less spice bro

The overriding spice in a pasty is white pepper, traditionally when there were tin mines in Cornwall the miners would take a pasty to eat during their shift. One end was savoury ( cheep beef, potato, suede and whatever was needing to be eaten up) and the other end was a sweet desert, typically like an apple pie or such like.

The crimp on a real pasty should be on the side as this gave the miner a crust to hold without contaminating the rest of the pasty. I put the crimp on top generally as it's more aesthetic, pleasing to the eye and all that. My granny would turn in her grave if she saw that

Here's one I made after all the talk got me in the mood for one, they freeze reaIly well. I never have a side dish with a pasty, it just seems wrong, except occasionally a salad.





Cody

that looks a lot like a regular beef empanada, or maybe a bierock. We used to make bierocks from time to time, but we use a roll bread instead of a shortcrust.

regular beef empanadas typically are ground beef, some cheese, and seasonings. It has become fashionable to include olives.

around here the "one handed meal" is burritos. And you can buy them out of a cooler sitting in a car trunk if you know where to go. Health laws are lax here in the sticks.

originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
that looks a lot like a regular beef empanada, or maybe a bierock. We used to make bierocks from time to time, but we use a roll bread instead of a shortcrust.

regular beef empanadas typically are ground beef, some cheese, and seasonings. It has become fashionable to include olives.

around here the "one handed meal" is burritos. And you can buy them out of a cooler sitting in a car trunk if you know where to go. Health laws are lax here in the sticks.

With all due respect bigfatfurrytexan a pasty is a pasty.

It may look like something else but it is not. It is a pasty.

Myself and other English members a few but if you start on the pastys then it will lead to trouble.

I jest you not, a few years ago they tried to tax them and there was a revolution.

I am not saying that your comparison is not tasty or even that they are even good, some of the ones sold these days are terrible.

It's a cultural thing and if not carefull it could escalate

a reply to: nonspecific

Well said sir

I doff my hat to you



BFFT and our cousins across the pond probably don't understand the complexities of our culture, but it ours to be be patient and educate them.

I thought the pasty was an easy route in, alas nay. How the hell do introduce the concept of the Cornish V Devonish cream tea ?

OK OK OK that's pretty advanced stuff agreed, maybe the Yorkshire pudding to the pasty was a leap of faith.

But I trust him.

The Boston tea party, to the Texan pasty party ?

Who knows where this will go LOL

Cody

a reply to: cody599

we will throw our pasty empanadas into the Rio Grande and declare "Yeehaw!!!!"

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

BFFT we may need to apologise to Augustus for this but I couldn't resist



Cody

originally posted by: cody599
BFFT we may need to apologise to Augustus for this but I couldn't resist.

No worries. The famous anecdote revolving around the Boston Tea Party was the local Masonic lodge was unable to hold a meeting due to 'Lodge closed on account of few members present'.

a reply to: cody599

i don't know....but that picture is funny