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Cut the Cheese! [moved from Home Cooking]
my favourite cheese is a blue cheese rom the pyrennese called zelu koloria. I also really really like beaufort, beenliegh blue, wigmore and fleur de marquis.
When I used to work in a cheese shop I found he hardest cheese to cut was a bright orange one that looks like volcano rock on the outside called Mimolette.
cheese pairing
tell me about cheeses you've had that have gone particularly well with another food, condiment or drink.
mine for now is wigmore (soft english sheeps cheese) with discovery apples.
how do I become a better cook?
I can cook a few dishes quite well at the moment, nothing fancy. I am good at making creamy dishes; pasta with creamy sauce and prawns, steak with a creamy cider sauce, etc. and I make an alright thai green curry. But I am very competitive and I hate not being the best cook I know. I am quite good at following recipes but get a bit stuck for ideas when it comes to trying to come up with recipes myself.
please provide me with some tips to becoming a better cook.
food blog
does anyone else here keep a foodie kind of blog or know of any really good ones worth reading?
venison sausages
I found a recipe for venison sausages and mash with blackberry sauce on bbc.co.uk/food/recipes so I might try that I think.
Relaxed Dining...Plus Dancing...
la tacas is a chain tapas restaurant. the food is tasty and they sometimes have salsa dancing there? also there is a place on charing cross road that is called bar brazil or bar salsa or something that looks good for this also.
venison sausages
has anyone got any decent recipe suggestions involving venison sausages?
the big london recommendation thread.
okay well my first recommendation would be for crystal kebab shop on holloway road. it is widely regarded as the best kebab shop in all of london. The staff are friendly, the chicken shish are delicious and cooked over a charcoal grill and the hellumi kebab is the best I've ever had.
I thought this would be a good thread for all sorts of recommendations for london.
the big london recommendation thread.
Please list all restaurants/pubs/take-aways/cafes/kebab houses/etc that you would recommend in London.
Good red wine to go with a cheeseboard?
thank you so much for all the suggestios guys, I posted this on yahoo answers too and someone strongly recommended a cotes de bourg or blaye from 2000 or 2005 so I think I will probably go for one of those. Although I did get a free bottle of red today (los vilos cabernet sauvignon 2005 from chile).
Good red wine to go with a cheeseboard?
5 to twenty pounds.
which is 10 to 40 dollars.
fussy eaters
shall I let you know what we had in the end?
starter - scallops fried in soy and ginger butter.
aspargus with a melted butter dip
hot smoked salmon and mango salad
main - thai green chicken curry with rice
thai green tofu curry with rice
desert - mago sorbet with a fruit salad of mango, papaya, lychees and raspberries.
Good red wine to go with a cheeseboard?
I am giving my boyfriends parents a cheeseboard for christmas, it will consist of a mild herby soft sheeps cheese (fleur de marquis), a salty goats cheese (selles sur cher), a gruyere (comte), a sweet hard sheep (berkswell) and maybe a washed rind too (either epoisses or camembert calvados). Can anyone think of a good red wine that would go with this as a whole cheeseboard?
fussy eaters
Thankyou, yeah I think I will go for the cous cous thing adn then have some toher meaty stuff sperate to go with it for the rest of us.
fussy eaters
I am helping my boyfriend to make a dinner for 8 people on friday. 6 of us will eat anything. however I have one friend who won't eat dairy, meat, or shellfish and my boyfriend won't eat mushrooms or aubergine. What can I cook?
PIZZA
thankyou, for dinner yesterday I had a mascarpone and smoked trout pizza and then a tomato one with chicken fried in garlic and red wine and then parmesan on top with sliced tomatoes. Both were delicious.
PIZZA
I am going to make two pizzas tonight. ONe with smoked salmon and mascrapone and the other one I want to put chickn on. What would go well with chicken and how long do I put in the oven for wihtout drying it out if I am frying it first?
meals on a budget
aaaaah, I lost all my money last night. looks like another week fo toast.
meals on a budget
thankyuo, I just remembered that bbc.co.uk has this funstion too so am looking now.
meals on a budget
my boyfriend an I are both on a really tight budget this week, my gran is going to lend me £80 and give me some eggs from her chickens and tomatoes from her garden and then I am going to do a cheap shop at the supermarket. Please post some recipes/ideas for tasty (pork-free) meals on a budget.
reindeer
thankyou. I will check them out.
My best friend is going to Sweden for a week soon, I wonder if it will be ok for her to bring some back into the country for me?
Edam Cheese
as far as I am aware cheese isn't kept unrefrigerated for months or years at all. I worked in a cheese shop for a short while and we would store cheese to mature them and they were all kept in large fridges downstairs at 9 degrees.
reindeer
does anyone know anywhere in Londond where I can get reindeer milk cheese or reindeer meat?
cheese.
I am trying to plan my Christmas cheeseboard at the moment.
I am thinking of comte, manchego, caprini fresci, zulu koloria, morbier, fleur de marquis, camembert calvados and epoisses with quince "cheese" and walnuts.
I remembered another delicious sheep cheese, wigmore. so good when it is ripe, especially with cox apples.
