Watch and learn, Stevens...

[srw]

You know you can buy all that stuff in a shop?

Except for the wild garlic. I've never seen that in a shop, and once picked deteriorates alarmingly quickly - which is probably why.

 

[stephec]

But I have got proper poncey salt!

Is it free range fair trade organic?

 

[StuAff]

Nice.


Really Nice.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Is this vegan food?

 

[slowmotion]

But I have got proper poncey salt!

Can somebody help me with salt? Sea salt, Pink Himalayan salt, Kosher salt, the salt they mine by the millions of tons from a big hole in Cheshire......it all tastes the same doesn't it?

Err, salty.

 

[theclaud]

Is this vegan food?

Apart from the farking great lump of cheese in it.

 

[theclaud]

Can somebody help me with salt? Sea salt, Pink Himalayan salt, Kosher salt, the salt they mine by the millions of tons from a big hole in Cheshire......it all tastes the same doesn't it?

Err, salty.

Yebbut Maldon assure us that their salt has a pronounced 'salty' taste. No really.

 

[rich p]

I can only dream of being able to afford pine nuts in home-made pesto. The thrifty amongst us use bashed up walnuts instead. I'm sure Paddy Stevens would concur if he weren't blowing all his conveyancing fees in Courchevel 1666.

 

[theclaud]

I can only dream of being able to afford pine nuts in home-made pesto. The thrifty amongst us use bashed up walnuts instead. I'm sure Paddy Stevens would concur if he weren't blowing all his conveyancing fees in Courchevel 1666.

Ha! Luckily my pine nuts were free on this occasion. I have walnut butter in the cupboard, though.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I can only dream of being able to afford pine nuts in home-made pesto. The thrifty amongst us use bashed up walnuts instead. I'm sure Paddy Stevens would concur if he weren't blowing all his conveyancing fees in Courchevel 1666.

He'd no doubt find his own source of saltiness

 

[rich p]

Ha! Luckily my pine nuts were free on this occasion. I have walnut butter in the cupboard, though.

Nicked from Tescos?

 

[theclaud]

Nicked from Tescos?

I don't go in Tesco's, even to nick stuff. No - a jolly on public money, left over from Christmas.

 

[Ganymede]

This looks amazing. I love wild garlic.

I want to know what @SatNavSaysStraightOn puts in her garlic pesto - she mentioned this the other day but I'm sure she said she was non-dairy. Sat Nav?

 

[slowmotion]

Yebbut Maldon assure us that their salt has a pronounced 'salty' taste. No really.

I have a terrible confession to make.....I just found a box of Maldon Sea Salt Flakes at the back of the cupboard and crushed some with fingers onto my steak.


"It is this location along with our unique hand-drawn methods that gives our salt its distinctive taste and texture."

Well posh, me.

 

[theclaud]

I have a terrible confession to make.....I just found a box of Maldon Sea Salt Flakes at the back of the cupboard and crushed some with fingers onto my steak.


"It is this location along with our unique hand-drawn methods that gives our salt its distinctive taste and texture."

Well posh, me.

I never doubted it. Anyway, although claims about the distinctive flavour of poncey salts are greatly exaggerated, texture is a horse of a different colour. Maldon has a delightful texture, and one might happily spend some time just admiring the little pyramids - the question is, what is it worth to you?