British food?

[Kies]

I watched this today, adding a bit of spice to British food:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/b0394f74

The Scottish Sikh guy is epic

 

[gavroche]

[QUOTE 2616519, member: 259"]The boring gits just tend to eat garlic and shag all the time. [/quote]
In which order?

 

[gavroche]

That is what I love about British food, its so diverse.

If that is so, why is it that most people eat the same things all the time? It may be diverse on TV and cookery programs but certainly not on daily people's plate .

 

[Leodis]

Easy as pie! Cornish pasty wins top prize in FRENCH food competition

Who says our food is bland and boring...

 

[gavroche]

Easy as pie! Cornish pasty wins top prize in FRENCH food competition

Who says our food is bland and boring...

There is always an exception to the rule.

 

[Piemaster]

Must taste better than it looks, right?

Poutine. Ok, but not something I'd want all the time. Dunno if it was specific to Montreal but Smoked Meat
Poutine, also available in Aberdeen 'cheese, chips and gravy'

 

[MossCommuter]

As well as raisins, strawberries and a banana ...

I just thought I'd try it, and I liked it so I carried on doing it.

I draw the line at garlic in porridge, though, but I do add garlic, as well as chillis, ginger and curry powder to baked beans!

I chucked a chili pepper in a mango and pineapple smoothie one morning because I just thought I'd try it.

It tasted absolutely disgusting.

 

[Milo]

I'm growing chillies on the windowsill got loads of the things. Been drying them for use all year round. Very easy to grow and fairly attractive.

 

[ColinJ]

I chucked a chili pepper in a mango and pineapple smoothie one morning because I just thought I'd try it.

It tasted absolutely disgusting.

I'm not sure that would fancy that, either!

Somebody bought me a bar of chilli-chocolate once though, and it was surprisingly nice.

I'm growing chillies on the windowsill got loads of the things. Been drying them for use all year round. Very easy to grow and fairly attractive.

I might have a go at that.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Dismissing British cuisine as "bland and predictable" is a statement that is bland and predictable in itself.

Remember it was the British that invented the concept of marrying cake with custard, and for that we should be thanked as culinary saviours.

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but you overstate it just a trifle I think,.

 

[MossCommuter]

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but you overstate it just a trifle I think,.

Hhhhmmm...

...trifle

 

[Milo]

I'm not sure that would fancy that, either!

Somebody bought me a bar of chilli-chocolate once though, and it was surprisingly nice.

I might have a go at that.

Picked up some kit for a quid at a tat shop in town. ignored all the crap it came with and just plopped the seeds in a pot with my own compost. Has to be indoors though. Or greenhouse if lucky.

 

[MossCommuter]

Picked up some kit for a quid at a tat shop in town. ignored all the crap it came with and just plopped the seeds in a pot with my own compost. Has to be indoors though. Or greenhouse if lucky.

Don't forget to pollinate them. In my first harvest i got about four chilis per plant but in year two a work mate said I should start to touch each flower in turn with a cotton bud every couple of days; that increased the crop many times over.

 

[Milo]

I wondered why they took so long to get going. Now I know.

 

[Milo]

On my third and largest looking crop off one plant. I suspect I could get better yields with a bigger pot but I already have more than I need and I just like the way they look.