Food/Cooking thread

[Dubai]

Obviously this will relate to any food discussions, tips on cooking, favourite recipes, new restaurant recommendations- all BBQ stuff as that season is coming up

We will exclude fry up discussions to allow that thread to continue as its epic.

Seven questions for people to reply to as a starter- going to post the missus' answers as an example

Favourite restaurant- Umu
Favourite chain restaurant- Wagamamas
Favourite cuisine- Thai
Favourite friday night takeaway- Indian
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Nandos
Guilty Pleasure- Tinned hotdogs (these are banned in our house)
Death row order- Roast Chicken Dinner cooked by herself

[Dubai]

Obviously some of them overlap and can be same answers but you get the idea

[buzzharvey22]

Favourite restaurant- Landmark (chinese in newcastle)
Favourite chain restaurant- TGI fridays
Favourite cuisine- Chinese
Favourite friday night takeaway- Chinese
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Nandos
Guilty Pleasure- Double cheeseburger with fried onions, tomato ketchup and french mustard from a burger van, oooooof
Death row order- Chicken and sweetcorn soup, Duck pancakes, Salt and pepper chicken wings, Crispsy beef in cantonese sauce with special fried rice

[DaveShoelace]

Favourite restaurant- Viraaj (local Indian)
Favourite chain restaurant- Wagamamas (suprised I went with this but struggling to find a better chain - hate Nandos etc)
Favourite cuisine- Indian
Favourite friday night takeaway- Donner meat and chips covered in chilli sauce
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Meatball sub
Guilty Pleasure- I have, on several occassions, eaten an entire block of marzipan meant for cooking with, and would do it again
Death row order- cheese burger and a milkshake from this place called Yankees in Sheffield

[Woodsey]

Favourite restaurant- Petit Paris, Nottingham. I prefer simply cooked good food made from good ingredients, not poncy restaurants serving weird and wonderful stuff, cooked 8 ways with 5 things shoved up their arse and a foam topping 

Favourite chain restaurant- Pizza express maybe, need to think about that more.

Favourite cuisine- You will get a different answer depending on my mood on the day, but any of Indian, Thai or Chinese.

Favourite friday night takeaway- Pizza

Favourite lunchtime fast food- Supermarket sandwiches and cheese and onion walkers crisps

Guilty Pleasure- Marks and Spencer Roast Chicken dinner inside a giant Yorkshire Pudding

Death row order- Sirloin steak with pepper sauce, chips and mushrooms.

[EvilPie]

Favourite restaurant- Anoki. Indian in Nottingham. Subject to change at a moment's notice.

Favourite chain restaurant- Las Iguanas

Favourite cuisine- Indian.

Favourite friday night takeaway- Domino's pizza.

Favourite lunchtime fast food- Ginsters all day breakfast sandwich, ginsters ploughmans roll & mini cheddars.

Guilty Pleasure- Doner kebab meat pizza.

Death row order- Mixed balti cooked slightly hotter towards jalfrezi strength, pilau rice, paratha.

[Marky147]

Favourite restaurant- Sushi Samba

Favourite chain restaurant- Wagamamas

Favourite cuisine- Indian

Favourite friday night takeaway- Domdoms

Favourite lunchtime fast food- Cornish Pasty

Guilty Pleasure- Mini Eggs

Death row order- Roast Pork with all the trimmings cooked by the old dear

[bobAlike]

Favourite restaurant- Lemonia, Primrose Hill
Favourite chain restaurant- Not overly keen on chains but will go with Pizza Express
Favourite cuisine- Greek like momma bobAlike used to make
Favourite friday night takeaway- Indian
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Toatsed hearty Itallian BMT from Subway
Guilty Pleasure- Dirty burgers from any burger van
Death row order- Fillet steak cooked rare on 2 freshly baked crusty cobs with a dash of French mustard

[leethefish]

Favourite restaurant- El Ranch o .....Alberferia Portugal
Favourite chain restaurant-frankie & bennys
Favourite cuisine- chinese
Favourite friday night takeaway- chinese
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Ronald MacDonald's
Guilty Pleasure- burgers
Death row order- Mrs fish's Xmas dinner

[Cf]

Favourite restaurant- Corner Cafe (this changes frequently)
Favourite chain restaurant- Nandos
Favourite cuisine- Indian
Favourite friday night takeaway- Not a fan of takeaway
Favourite lunchtime fast food- McDonalds
Guilty Pleasure- McDonalds
Death row order- Curry

[MPOWER]

This is our houses dinner on a summer evening and is amazing.

Pork shoulder steak cut in to stir fry strips ( Very cheap meat ) Or Shoulder lamb boned and sliced into stir fry strips. About a Kilo for 4

Put the meat in a roasting try.

So mix the following

1 Heaped table spoon Dried Oragano
Level Table spoon Dried marjoram
1tsp Black pepper
1 Heaped teaspoon Salt
1 Heaped teaspoon onion powder

Mix then sprinkle over meat in the roasting tray. Grate a couple of garlic cloves and mix with your hand in the tray.
Drizzle with olive oil Roast in a hot oven until WELL done .

Serve in a warm plate with a Greek salad oven chips in a bowl and a bowl of Tzatiki all help yourself stuff

Also good on wraps with red Onion and thin sliced Tomato and home made Tzatziki.

Enjoy

Regards

M
      

[Cf]

Tonight I am cooking a tomato and red pepper soup.

I attach a picture, although there's not much to see... it's a soup! But I think it's a nice colour

Click to see full-size image.

Picture makes it look a bit more orange rather than red. And yes, my current flat has electric hobs. Can't wait to get back to having gas!

[MPOWER]

Favourite restaurant- Iberico Nottingham
Favourite chain-chino Latio
Favourite cuisine- Spanish/Greek/Japanese
Favourite friday night takeaway- Thai Seafood Curry Thai seafood rice
Favourite lunchtime fast food- Sushi
Guilty Pleasure- My own Stuffed Vine Leaves
Death row order-King Crab ( Merus Section) Oysters

Regards

M

[corkeye]

simple chicken satay (serves 4)

2 Tablespoons of sesame oil

4 chicken breasts cut into thin strips

1 tin coconut milk

1 carton coconut cream

2 cloves garlic

chilli powder or pepper/chilli sauce to taste depending how hot you like it.

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

3-4 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter


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mix all ingredients in a bowl except chicken/oil.

Heat up a saucepan to 3/4 max heat, and warm sesame oil til just before smoking then fry off the chicken until cooked.

Pour satay sauce over the chicken, turn heat down to a low, and leave to bubble away with chicken for approx 10 minutes.

Serve either with rice (hopefully i dont need to teach you how to boil rice?!) or even have a go at a simple naan recipe (or, scandalous as it may be, buy a ready made naan)

[Cf]

simple chicken satay (serves 4)

2 Tablespoons of sesame oil

4 chicken breasts cut into thin strips

1 tin coconut milk

1 carton coconut cream

2 cloves garlic

chilli powder or pepper/chilli sauce to taste depending how hot you like it.

2 tablespoons of soy sauce

3-4 tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter


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mix all ingredients in a bowl except chicken/oil.

Heat up a saucepan to 3/4 max heat, and warm sesame oil til just before smoking then fry off the chicken until cooked.

Pour satay sauce over the chicken, turn heat down to a low, and leave to bubble away with chicken for approx 10 minutes.

Serve either with rice (hopefully i dont need to teach you how to boil rice?!) or even have a go at a simple naan recipe (or, scandalous as it may be, buy a ready made naan)

Not a fan of boiling rice!