Baked Beans

[Crackle]

Is it windy in here?

 

[PBancroft]

Makes sense to me - I also add a good dollop of tomato sauce. For me it vastly improves the flavour. Occasionally I add a couple of pinches of pepper - not to everyone's taste I admit.

If I'm having baked beans then a good shake of Worcesesesestershire sauce goes in, with a decent pinch of mixed herbs and ground black pepper.

Bloody marvelous.

 

[User482]

Actually that would be rather nice. A dash of balsamic for the sourness, some maple syrup for sweetness, pancetta to provide the meaty substance and the fat. Bake it in a ceramic dish and werve it on toasted sourdough with some rocket on the side and a glass of prosecco.

Middle class perfection!

You are Jeffrey Archer AICMFP.

 

[Svendo]

I don't mind Low salt/sugar beans, I can easily add salt back if I want and I don't miss the sugar. I usually add a lot of chilli and mustard though.

Low Fat food is a waste of time, usually means added water, emulsifiers and sugar. An exception is apparently mayonnaise, one of Jimmy Whatsisname -Jamie Oliver's mate- programmes tested full fat mayonnaise vs. light mayonnaise (the middle one, not the fat free one) and nearly everyone couldn't tell the difference.

 

[Bayerd]

Is it windy in here?

I'm not sure, it smells like it is, but I can't get my kite off the ground....

 

[srw]

You are Jeffrey Archer AICMFP.

Jeffrey Archer would serve Heinz on Hovis with a glass of Krug. I may be Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson, but I realise I forgot the drizzle of extra virgin olive oil on the toasted sourdough.

I have to admit that I'm very tempted to cook up a batch to see if I can perfect the recipe.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is that the same as or different from a cassoulet?


Which, after all, is probably the ur-baked-bean-recipe

Cassoulet? Isn't that Heinz baked beans with diced SPAM added?

 

[roadrash]

my auntie marge has been ill for ages i cant believe she,s not better!!!!!

 

[Fab Foodie]

my auntie marge has been ill for ages i cant believe she,s not better!!!!!

TAXIIIIIIIIII

 

[User482]

Jeffrey Archer would serve Heinz on Hovis with a glass of Krug. I may be Jamie Oliver or Nigella Lawson, but I realise I forgot the drizzle of extra virgin olive oil on the toasted sourdough.

I have to admit that I'm very tempted to cook up a batch to see if I can perfect the recipe.

Beans on toast and a glass of champagne sounds pretty good to me. Shame about the company!

 

[guitarpete247]

Going back to ketchup (tomato not mushroom) anyone else remember Marlon's sandwiches ?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Going back to ketchup (tomato not mushroom) anyone else remember Marlon's sandwiches ?

Inch thick, action packed?

One of my favourite memories of being a kid and working with my Dad during the school hols, Thermos coffee, Kit-Kat and The Daily Mirror, Pilger and The Perishers. Happy daze.

 

[Hover Fly]

When I worked at Dairycrest in the late '90s, operating the milk processing equipment, we used to make three or four well - known brands of butter. These included Country Life, Sainsbury's Best, Sainsbury's English Butter and Marks & Spencer's. We would send cream from the process room down to the buttermakers, and they would churn it into butter in one massive churn, adding a little salt. This butter (from one single churn, remember) would then be sent off to four different packing lines, each packing butter into different foil or paper wrappings. The wrappings were literally the only difference between the "different" products. I've never bought anything but the cheapest possible butter ever since, and I have no doubt at all that much the same process goes on in the factories where baked beans are made and canned. Or virtually any other food product.

After an Aldi manager who was my lodger taught me how to crack the codes printed on packets and tins, we spent many happy hours comparing items from different supermarkets to see which had come from the same vats. 75% more for the same biscuits between two well known shops.

 

[User169]

If you're going slutty, it's got to be sofficini.

 

[Paladin - York]

All these points were discussed at "the camp fire scene" in "Blazing Saddles"?