Title: Food, glorious food!
Clare - April 4, 2008 05:29 PM (GMT)
Well, since the veggie contingent raised the idea of a thread concerned with culinary matters, here's one!
It's Friday, so no meat for me today. :wah:
So, on tonight's menu we have salmon (fried), with pasta (fusilli on this occasion), and hollandaise sauce (a sachet thereof!).
:food:
Adesto - April 4, 2008 07:22 PM (GMT)
I made quiche!! :D
If that's how you spell it! Mine didn't look as nicely turned out either! :unsure:
Lark Ascending - April 4, 2008 08:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Adesto @ Apr 4 2008, 08:22 PM) |
I made quiche!! :D
If that's how you spell it! Mine didn't look as nicely turned out either! :unsure: |
That is a very nice Quiche Adesto !
We had plain old 'addock and chips, with broccoli..
and for afters, Organic black cherry yogurt.
raven - April 4, 2008 09:28 PM (GMT)
hurray! a food thread!!!! :)
we'll be having salmon as well. We like ours lightly grilled with a nice salsa topping...delish! maybe a caesar salad to go along...and rice almondine. Bon apetit everyone! :food:
Mornac - April 4, 2008 10:44 PM (GMT)
Poisson ą la Findus!
raven - April 5, 2008 02:36 AM (GMT)
wow, Mornac....is that fancy french for "fish sticks"???!!! LOL! (Not that I don't love a good fish stick! hahahaha :) )
Adesto - April 5, 2008 08:58 AM (GMT)
Any sushi fans here?
I don't eat fish, but I make a veggie alternative- with cucumber sticks, japanese raddish, and red pepper as filling with various Japanese sauces or pastes for taste.
Just as nice as fish!
And far more Nemo-friendly too
:lol:
Nulli Secundus - April 5, 2008 02:06 PM (GMT)
Hmmmm fooooooood!
Pilgrimage of Grace - April 5, 2008 03:31 PM (GMT)
:wah: All I got last night was a sandwich.
And as there were sandwiches left over from the Bishop's conference, and as the family are AWOL, all I will get for the next week is sandwiches!!! :wah: :wah:
Clare - April 5, 2008 03:41 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Pilgrimage of Grace @ Apr 5 2008, 04:31 PM) |
:wah: All I got last night was a sandwich.
And as there were sandwiches left over from the Bishop's conference, and as the family are AWOL, all I will get for the next week is sandwiches!!! :wah: :wah: |
:(
Aw. You could always bung a ready meal in the oven! Full of artificial rubbish, of course, but delicious!
:food:
Admin - April 5, 2008 03:52 PM (GMT)
We just had a poxy Margherita pizza! :clare:
Tonight, however, is Chinese... :D
Clare - April 5, 2008 06:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Admin @ Apr 5 2008, 04:52 PM) |
| Tonight, however, is Chinese... :D |
Indian, here! :food:
Adesto - April 5, 2008 10:44 PM (GMT)
Love Indian! Hate Chinese though (Sorry Admin!)
I just made cheat's banoffi pie. It's also fairly low-calorie...at least lower than shop-bought banoffi pie with cream!
It goes like this:
1 sachet Dream topping (dried)
1 sachet Options Tempting Toffee drink powder
6 Hob Nobs (or digestives)
150 ml milk
Bit of butter- maybe 50g
3 bananas
Crush up the biscuits and melt the butter. Stir the butter up with the crumbs to make the base. Press the crumbs down into either 4 individual serving dishes or one large one. Slice the bananas and place in single layer on top of base.
Put the milk in a large bowl and add the Dream and Options. Using an electric whisk, mix for three or four minutes or until mixture is very thick. Add to base and chill for a couple of hours. I tend to melt some chocolate on top or add some more banana slices on the top.
V)
Lark Ascending - April 6, 2008 01:19 PM (GMT)
For Sunday its roast turkey, sweet potato and mixed veg.
Afters, Apple Strudel with vanilla ice cream .
:food: :food:
Clare - April 6, 2008 01:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lark Ascending @ Apr 6 2008, 02:19 PM) |
For Sunday its roast turkey, sweet potato and mixed veg.
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I thought you were veggie, Lark!
It's roast chicken here tonight! A favourite.
Lark Ascending - April 6, 2008 02:05 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Clare @ Apr 6 2008, 02:52 PM) |
| QUOTE (Lark Ascending @ Apr 6 2008, 02:19 PM) | For Sunday its roast turkey, sweet potato and mixed veg.
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I thought you were veggie, Lark!
It's roast chicken here tonight! A favourite.
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I am not a strict veggie Clare, at least not like I used to be, I could never eat beef, lamb, or pork.
I have very recently started eating turkey and chicken and I enjoy it.
I love cooking big meals at the weekends as we eat quite sparsely during the week.
Adesto - April 6, 2008 05:09 PM (GMT)
Yum, apple strudel! I'm coming round yours for tea, Lark! :lol:
Lark Ascending - April 6, 2008 05:11 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Adesto @ Apr 6 2008, 06:09 PM) |
| Yum, apple strudel! I'm coming round yours for tea, Lark! :lol: |
Too late Adesto, we've scoffed the lot !
But you can have a cup of coffee.
:tc:
:P
Adesto - April 6, 2008 09:54 PM (GMT)
Thanks for the coffee, Lark! :lol:
Lark Ascending - April 7, 2008 04:51 PM (GMT)
Fish again, and corn on the cob with lashings of butter and black pepper !
:food:
Clare - April 7, 2008 04:56 PM (GMT)
Chicken casserole! Using left-overs from yesterday.
:food:
Adesto - April 7, 2008 09:46 PM (GMT)
Mashed potato, peas and Quorn sausages. Grapes for desert!
I did, however, have a very nice croissant with apricot jam in a little Portugese bar this lunchtime. Come to think of it, a croissant is hardly Portugese, is it? :unsure:
Edit: To clarify: the bar is run by people from Portugal. I don't just pop over to the continent whenever I fancy a croissant for lunch!
Lark Ascending - April 8, 2008 03:57 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Adesto @ Apr 7 2008, 10:46 PM) |
Mashed potato, peas and Quorn sausages. Grapes for desert!
I did, however, have a very nice croissant with apricot jam in a little Portugese bar this lunchtime. Come to think of it, a croissant is hardly Portugese, is it? :unsure:
Edit: To clarify: the bar is run by people from Portugal. I don't just pop over to the continent whenever I fancy a croissant for lunch! |
Adesto,
What is Quorn made from ? :unsure:
I'm cooking Omelette and vegetable bake, then today on special offer from Tesco , tangerine cheescake,
:food:
Admin - April 8, 2008 04:18 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lark Ascending @ Apr 8 2008, 04:57 PM) |
| QUOTE (Adesto @ Apr 7 2008, 10:46 PM) | Mashed potato, peas and Quorn sausages. Grapes for desert!
I did, however, have a very nice croissant with apricot jam in a little Portugese bar this lunchtime. Come to think of it, a croissant is hardly Portugese, is it? :unsure:
Edit: To clarify: the bar is run by people from Portugal. I don't just pop over to the continent whenever I fancy a croissant for lunch! |
Adesto,
What is Quorn made from ? :unsure:
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It's a weird thing that Quorn stuff:
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Quorn is made from the soil mold Fusarium venenatum strain PTA-2684 (previously misidentified as the parasitic mold Fusarium graminearum). The fungus is grown in continually oxygenated water in large, sterile fermentation tanks. During the growth phase glucose is added as a food for the fungus, as are various vitamins and minerals (to improve the food value of the resulting product). The resulting mycoprotein is then extracted and heat-treated to remove excess levels of RNA. Previous attempts at producing such fermented protein foodstuffs were thwarted by excessive levels of DNA or RNA; without the heat treatment, purine, found in nucleic acids, is metabolised producing uric acid, which can lead to gout.[10]
The product is then dried and mixed with chicken egg albumen, which acts as a binder. It is then textured, giving it some of the grained character of meat, and pressed either into a mince (resembling ground beef), forms resembling chicken breasts, meatballs, turkey roasts, or into chunks (resembling diced chicken breast). In these forms Quorn has a varying color and a mild flavour resembling the imitated meat product, and is suitable for use as a replacement for meat in many dishes, such as stews and casseroles. The final Quorn product is high in vegetable protein and dietary fibre and is low in saturated fat and salt. The amount of dietary iron it contains is lower than that of most meats.
Contrary to some suggestions, Quorn is not genetically modified: the fungus used is still genetically unmodified from the state in which it was discovered. The different tastes and forms of Quorn are results of industrial processing of the raw fungus. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuornGimme proper food anyday! :D
Tonight's dinner is:
Jam sandwiches, using penicillin bread...
Lark Ascending - April 8, 2008 04:27 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Admin @ Apr 8 2008, 05:18 PM) |
| QUOTE (Lark Ascending @ Apr 8 2008, 04:57 PM) | | QUOTE (Adesto @ Apr 7 2008, 10:46 PM) | Mashed potato, peas and Quorn sausages. Grapes for desert!
I did, however, have a very nice croissant with apricot jam in a little Portugese bar this lunchtime. Come to think of it, a croissant is hardly Portugese, is it? :unsure:
Edit: To clarify: the bar is run by people from Portugal. I don't just pop over to the continent whenever I fancy a croissant for lunch! |
Adesto,
What is Quorn made from ? :unsure:
|
It's a weird thing that Quorn stuff:
| QUOTE | Quorn is made from the soil mold Fusarium venenatum strain PTA-2684 (previously misidentified as the parasitic mold Fusarium graminearum). The fungus is grown in continually oxygenated water in large, sterile fermentation tanks. During the growth phase glucose is added as a food for the fungus, as are various vitamins and minerals (to improve the food value of the resulting product). The resulting mycoprotein is then extracted and heat-treated to remove excess levels of RNA. Previous attempts at producing such fermented protein foodstuffs were thwarted by excessive levels of DNA or RNA; without the heat treatment, purine, found in nucleic acids, is metabolised producing uric acid, which can lead to gout.[10]
The product is then dried and mixed with chicken egg albumen, which acts as a binder. It is then textured, giving it some of the grained character of meat, and pressed either into a mince (resembling ground beef), forms resembling chicken breasts, meatballs, turkey roasts, or into chunks (resembling diced chicken breast). In these forms Quorn has a varying color and a mild flavour resembling the imitated meat product, and is suitable for use as a replacement for meat in many dishes, such as stews and casseroles. The final Quorn product is high in vegetable protein and dietary fibre and is low in saturated fat and salt. The amount of dietary iron it contains is lower than that of most meats.
Contrary to some suggestions, Quorn is not genetically modified: the fungus used is still genetically unmodified from the state in which it was discovered. The different tastes and forms of Quorn are results of industrial processing of the raw fungus. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuornGimme proper food anyday! :D Tonight's dinner is: Jam sandwiches, using penicillin bread... |
Thanks Patrick, Yikes , worse than I thought, I've always been a bit suspicious of Quorn ! :blink:
You can count me in for some Jam Butties please. :P
:D
Clare - April 8, 2008 04:36 PM (GMT)
Admin - April 8, 2008 04:48 PM (GMT)
OooooOOoooOOoohhhH!!! Pie!!!
I love Steak & Ale! :food:
Adesto - April 8, 2008 07:44 PM (GMT)
Yeah, Quorn isn't the most natural substance around :bl: Still, it's quite cheap and bulks out a meal for a large family.
Tea tonight was pasta with a chunky med veg sauce (homemade) and a bit of Easter egg :D
Those resolutions about never touching chocolate again didn't last long :wh:
Lark Ascending - April 9, 2008 04:22 PM (GMT)
Time to feed the workers again ! ;)
Now it's Baked potato cauliflower and cheese and veg with a few nut cutlets , nice and quick tonight.
That will do 'em :yes:
:food:
Clare - April 9, 2008 08:19 PM (GMT)
Clare - April 10, 2008 04:42 PM (GMT)
I'd better get cracking on tonight's chicken korma... :food: :wine:
Adesto - April 10, 2008 04:54 PM (GMT)
I think we're having soup and crusty bread.
We went back the Portugese place today and had profiteroles!
Good thing I did half an hour's jog today :bl:
Clare - April 10, 2008 07:25 PM (GMT)
Cakes are a necessity. It's only right that they're not VATable!
| QUOTE |
Teacake set to cost taxman £3.5m
Chocolate teacakes were wrongly classed as a biscuit for two decades
The UK Treasury is facing a £3.5m bill, because of VAT wrongly imposed on a Marks and Spencer teacake, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
Customers paid VAT for 20 years before the authorities accepted the product was a cake, which does not command VAT.
The UK argued that paying back the total sum would "unjustly enrich" M&S as customers had paid the money.
The ECJ ruled that, in principle, VAT had to be repaid in full, but left the final decision to the British courts.
That decision will be taken by the House of Lords and HM Revenue and Customs said it was too early to make a comment.
"This is a very complex judgment on which it would be premature to make any comment until the House of Lords has handed down its judgment," Revenue and Customs said in a statement.
Marks and Spencer welcomed the ruling.
"We are pleased with the outcome which endorses our position.
"We're optimistic that the House of Lords will now find in our favour and hope that this will conclude the matter and draw a line under this protracted litigation," a spokeswoman said.
Cake or biscuit
UK tax officials acknowledged that chocolate teacakes had been wrongly classed as biscuits in 1994, prompting M&S to launch a legal battle to have the wrongly-paid VAT returned.
How VAT works on cakes and biscuits
Under UK tax rules, most traditional bakery products such as bread, cakes, flapjacks and Jaffa Cakes are free of VAT, but the tax is payable on cereal bars, shortbread and partly-coated or wholly-coated biscuits.
The complexity of the legal battle surrounds the difference made by the tax authorities between companies classed until 2005 as repayment and payment traders.
While M&S was classed as a payment trader which owed VAT to the government at the end of a financial quarter, it argues that the main supermarkets, which were owed VAT by the authorities, were treated differently on the issue of chocolate teacakes.
It complains that HM Revenue and Customs handed supermarkets back the VAT wrongly paid by customers on chocolate teacakes, while refusing to do the same for Marks and Spencer.
Unjust enrichment
Customs officials point to a ruling by the VAT and Duties Tribunal which said that M&S would not have made much more profit on the teacakes if VAT had been removed.
In the tribunal's opinion, compensation of more than 10% (£350,000) would have amounted to unjust enrichment of the company.
But the European Court of Justice says the principle of "fiscal neutrality" means that tax authorities cannot make a distinction between different companies.
It says it is up to the House of Lords to decide whether such a distinction was made.
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Apoc. III, 1-6 - April 11, 2008 05:34 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Clare @ Apr 10 2008, 04:42 PM) |
| I'd better get cracking on tonight's chicken korma... :food: :wine: |
Would that be " Instant (chicken) Korma " ? :rofl:
just one question..... when's Instant Korma gonna get to you ?
Clare - April 11, 2008 08:37 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Apoc. III, 1-6 @ Apr 11 2008, 06:34 AM) |
| just one question..... when's Instant Korma gonna get to you ? |
This instant, I guess!
Clare - April 11, 2008 04:02 PM (GMT)
Fish and chips tonight, from chippie! Haddock, specifically.
Lark Ascending - April 11, 2008 04:19 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Clare @ Apr 11 2008, 05:02 PM) |
| Fish and chips tonight, from chippie! Haddock, specifically. |
Ah, my favourite fish !
I have made Haddock Kedgeree .
:food:
Adesto - April 11, 2008 08:04 PM (GMT)
Rather yummy med veg n' pasta bake, courtesy of Mum.
Plus some nice looking berries and yogurt which I've just remembered I haven't eaten yet...
Clare - April 12, 2008 05:16 PM (GMT)
Patricia - April 14, 2008 12:24 PM (GMT)
All right all you Quorn haters, get a load of this. (Actually, you don't have to use Quorn, this pasta dish can be eaten "plain" or you can dress it up with chicken, smoked salmon, or QUORN! mince (mmmm, delicious...)
Basic dish
Pasta
Creme Fraiche
Pesto (red or green - use red if adding mince or Quorn mince)
Pine nuts
Onion
Parmesan cheese (grated)
Cook pasta; add chopped onion, pesto, creme fraiche, parmesan, and pine nuts. This is delicious on its own, and very filling, but if you want you can add fried chicken pieces/smoked salmon/cooked mince.
Delicious, and very easy to make - takes about 15 minutes from start to finish.
Note to carnivores - do try the Q Mince - I agree that the Q pieces and sausages are awful, but the mince is good, and much healthier for you! Are you listening at the back there, Clare?
