perfect limey food

[Bob Swenson]

How about bread and butter pudding with jersey cream.
Bob

 

[ROb McGilp]

ive had pie and mash once and ive also had jellied eels once

both one after the other............ well i was hungry

leytonstone isnt far from my most frequented toolshop, toucan tools in leyton (curiously they sell festool gear)

so next time im up ill go to leytonstone as well for pie and mash

What about the ubiquitous "pigs trotters"?
As to pies, we have a caravan based just outside where the Navy (US and Australian) ships come in at Wooloomooloo called "Harry's Cafe de Wheels". They serve a pie floater (pie in pea soup or mashed green peas.) Elton John always goes there whenever he's in Australia.
http://www.eatability.com.au/au/sydney/harrys_cafe_de_wheels.htm

Regards,

Rob

 

[dirtydeeds]

bob, bread and butter pudding, phenomenal

with jersey cream..........................  out of this world

 

[dirtydeeds]

i havent had pigs trotters BUT ive had a german/austrian equivilent, (i think it was the ankles rather than trotters) washed down with soused herring

it was like sweet and sour but better because they are served on separate dishes

fills you up like no tomorrow

 

[dirtydeeds]

lagunaboo

i apologise for my "posh accent" i meant pie an' mash

 

[dirtydeeds]

robmcglip

do you mean mushy peas

with the navy around, that is probably EXACTLY why its called a floater

 

[ROb McGilp]

Yep, that's the one.

 

[dirtydeeds]

i think joyraft has gagged (at the thaught of english food) and died

he probably thaught maccy dees was REAL food  ;D

 

[joraft]

i think joyraft has gagged (at the thaught of english food) and died

he probably thaught maccy dees was REAL food  ;D

I may have grown up in America, but unfortunately it was on a diet of mostly English food. I just never could acquire a taste for food that must either be boiled in oil or soaked in it. The English (including my own mother) just don't know anything about preparing food (no offense intended).

And by the way, over here we call it "Mickey D's" 

John

 

[Michael Kellough]

black pudding ( a sausage made with blood and cubes of solid fat ) fried north of surrey

This might be good if you haven't eaten in two weeks.

I'll bring up Concord again. My parent's ancestors (Scots-Irish) settled in the colony of North Carolina. They grew up eating a modernized version of a traditional foodstuff called Livermush. My wife thinks it's as disgusting as it sounds (and there is no getting around the smell of liver) but when cut thin and fried crisp it is very good with scrambled eggs.

I brought it up here because I assumed it was from the old country but according to Wiki it is from another old country. Old "old Europe" as the infamous guy said.

 

[semenza]

black pudding ( a sausage made with blood and cubes of solid fat ) fried north of surrey

This might be good if you haven't eaten in two weeks.

Hi,

          Make it three.

                Sorry dd this thread does NOT make me hungry.  Well a couple things sound good- mostly not the really English items.

                      Speaking of fried stuff are the mars bars really Mars bars or is this some sort of slang term.  Here in the US  a variety of not normally fried things have been showing up at fairs and carnivals etc.  Candy bars, pizza, a big meatball with spaghetti inside, and so on.  I have done deep fried Twinkies myself and they are VERY good. Especially with some raspberry jam for dipping. Just dunkem' in pancake batter and then into the fryer.

Seth

 

[Bob Swenson]

Underused,
As a sometime chef I thank you for that fantastic web site.
Bob

 

[The Dude]

Finally got to this thread.  As I do some early morning book work and listen to Neil, I can't help but think about my Grandma's Chocolate Crackers while reading this.

4 Parts Confectioners Sugar
1 Part Hershey's Coco

add milk to a desired viscosity while stirring..."frosting like"...a couple tablespoons is all it takes.

Spread that on a Saltine and dunk in milk.

Now that is some good eatin'

Like Chris, I too am an "anything fried" at the fair guy!  The Twinkies in particular.  There is something about eating hot fried food in 100 degree weather.  Uggghhhh, but I will keep going back.

t

 

[dirtydeeds]

semenza, it wasnt meant to make you hungry  ;D

i posted to see how you would all react to foods outside your usual understanding

im at the opposite end of the scale

i will eat any food that is put in front of me, i NEVER say no to something new or unusal, i want to find out for myself

there are only 3 or 4 things i wouldnt knowingly order again, but seeing as i didnt understand the language the menu was written in, id end up trying them again

there is only one food i would decline, if i new in advance, is a french sausage, i think its called andouliette

food i wouldnt order for myself amounts to about 4 things

 

[Michael Kellough]

im at the opposite end of the scale

i will eat any food that is put in front of me,

DD, I read about a physician who is on a quest to develop personal compatibility with all the bacteria possible by traveling the world and sampling the local standing ground water.  :

 

[mhch]

there is only one food i would decline, if i new in advance, is a french sausage, i think its called andouliette

Andouillette. I won't tell you what it is made from.

Most of the time the cooking is no good, that's probably what you experimented.
They must be cooked slowly and for a long time, preferably grilled on a wood fire
and not burnt to enrich the taste. There is even a well known French club
called the AAAAA or 5A which can be searched for on the Internet (Need
to speak French I guess). It somehow stands for  Amicale (Friendly) Association of Authentic
Andouillette Amateurs (those who like it).

I once took an American friend visiting me to a restaurant I selected mostly at random,
and we had the best andouillettes I ever tasted. 
I can guarantee you my friend liked it a lot, although he was not initially keen to taste it.
I still wish to go to the same place again, which unfortunately is really far from where I now live.

 

[mhch]

BTW, that reminds me of "A toad in a hole" dish I once had in Norfolk, UK.
DD, you may enjoy explaining what it is to the foreigners.

PS: my wife was born in Lancashire ...

 

[dirtydeeds]

micheal, could i possibly take a rain check on the groundwater tasting in those areas where the water is contaminated  :-X

mhch

if my memory serves me right "it looked" like it was made of stomach or colon lining, (or possibly lung) i had it at a restauant somewhere near the ille du fume, appolgise for the spelling of the place and terrible knowledge of french geopgraphy

what its made of doesnt worry me, haggis is based on lung (i think)

toad in the hole is sausages baked in a batter that is made in the same way as yorkshire pud (ie it rises massivly much the same as a souffle)

so in reality it is quite difficult to cook it right, if its wrong the batter is thick and stogy and tastes of flower

 

[mhch]

Your memory is good about it. In reality,  the exact filling depends on which part of France you are in,
pork or veal, stomach or guts.

This dish seems to have something magic and mythic around it, and there are quite a bit of dedicated websites,
most in French of course.

 

[Michael Kellough]

This dish seems to have something magic and mythic around it

If it tastes good it must be magic