What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[thebish]

Quorn chicken barely tastes different when cooked in with a load of sauce and seasoning to be honest.

Oh right. Well that makes it all the worthwhile then.

Is that your own pastry, Bish? Or frozen / pre-mixed malarky? Looks fantastic.

bit of both... the pastry base is mine - the puff-pastry lid is shop-bought (though it was me that brushed it with egg!)..

and - BB is 100% right (GG is wrong!)

[Bruce Rioja]

Quorn chicken barely tastes different when cooked in with a load of sauce and seasoning to be honest.

Oh right. Well that makes it all the worthwhile then.

Is that your own pastry, Bish? Or frozen / pre-mixed malarky? Looks fantastic.

bit of both... the pastry base is mine - the puff-pastry lid is shop-bought (though it was me that brushed it with egg!)..

and - BB is 100% right (GG is wrong!)

Maybe, but isn't the idea that it actually tastes like chicken without the addition of "a load of sauce and seasoning"?

I seem to remember you putting up a similar defence of Quorn sausages.

Wouldn't the brand owner be better off positioning these products as mushroom such and such rather than claiming them to taste like meat products (which, it would appear, they don't)?

PS. Did you get a 'sliced open and oozing filling' shot? ;0

[thebish]

Quorn chicken barely tastes different when cooked in with a load of sauce and seasoning to be honest.

Oh right. Well that makes it all the worthwhile then.

Is that your own pastry, Bish? Or frozen / pre-mixed malarky? Looks fantastic.

bit of both... the pastry base is mine - the puff-pastry lid is shop-bought (though it was me that brushed it with egg!)..

and - BB is 100% right (GG is wrong!)

Maybe, but isn't the idea that it actually tastes like chicken without the addition of "a load of sauce and seasoning"?

no - I don't think so...

[Bruce Rioja]

no - I don't think so...

OK, sorry, but you'll have to excuse my ignorance here. Do they call it Quorn Chicken, or Quorn summat else?

[Wandering Willy]

Quorn is stealing perfectly good jobs from chickens.

[Bruce Rioja]

Am going to have to force the issue with my sinuses. I've got lamb and I've got a jar of Goan Vindaloo. Never had Vindaloo before. Can't be that hot, can it?

[thebish]

no - I don't think so...

OK, sorry, but you'll have to excuse my ignorance here. Do they call it Quorn Chicken, or Quorn summat else?

they call it quorn chicken, bruce...

I suspect the chicken-like quality is not the taste but the TEXTURE. they don't try to reproduce a chicken taste - but give you something that is good at adopting the flavours around it so that you can create a dish that has the textures that a chicken dish would...

quorn mince is much the same.

there are quorn products that attempt "flavour" - like the "bacon" - but they don't really come close.

[Gooner Girl]

Got leek and potato soup on the hob cooking!

[Bruce Rioja]

Got leek and potato soup on the hob cooking!

Yum. Are you baking your own bread too?

[Gooner Girl]

Got leek and potato soup on the hob cooking!

Yum. Are you baking your own bread too?

Was very nice! But didn't get round to baking bread too, though, mmmmm, that would go rather nicely with it!

[Bruce Rioja]

Got leek and potato soup on the hob cooking!

Yum. Are you baking your own bread too?

Was very nice! But didn't get round to baking bread too, though, mmmmm, that would go rather nicely with it!

"Was"? Have you scoffed all t'lot?

Leeks, like chives, are massively under-sung for when you want the taste of onion without a load of, well, onion.

You've made me hungry now

[Little Green Man]

Just discovered that Leffe Brune goes remarkably well with Malted Milk biscuits.

[Gooner Girl]

Got leek and potato soup on the hob cooking!

Yum. Are you baking your own bread too?

Was very nice! But didn't get round to baking bread too, though, mmmmm, that would go rather nicely with it!

"Was"? Have you scoffed all t'lot?

Leeks, like chives, are massively under-sung for when you want the taste of onion without a load of, well, onion.

You've made me hungry now

Me and Mr GG had some each and there's some left, might try it on the twins tomorrow, see if they like it!

I don't like onions - nor leeks on their own, but I do like leek and potato soup and was ridiculously simple to make. Can't believe I have never made soup before, it's kinda like making purée for the twins except you add more water!

[Bruce Rioja]

Just discovered that Leffe Brune goes remarkably well with Malted Milk biscuits.

Ooooh. I've got some Florival and some Bush brunes here, along with some Grimbergen Tripel blonde. Malted milk, you say?!

PS: I also have some Maredsous brune which I made the mistake of putting in the fridge (I know )

[Little Green Man]

Just discovered that Leffe Brune goes remarkably well with Malted Milk biscuits.

Ooooh. I've got some Florival and some Bush brunes here, along with some Grimbergen Tripel blonde. Malted milk, you say?!

PS: I also have some Maredsous brune which I made the mistake of putting in the fridge (I know )

Was just about to recommend that you don't chill the brune too much. I normally prefer the bog standard Leffe but this biscuit revelation has expanded my horizons...

Anyway, it's a Budvar and Jaffa Cake next (although it's not strictly a biscuit, as HMRC were forced to concede).

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyway, it's a Budvar and Jaffa Cake next (although it's not strictly a biscuit, as HMRC were forced to concede).

Ah - worm can opened. Didn't they have to go 50/50 by dint of the smashing orangey bit and the chocolate topping?

I'm determined to find a drink that perfectly accompanies the peanut butter and chocolate cupcake

[Worthy4England]

Just discovered that Leffe Brune goes remarkably well with Malted Milk biscuits.

Ooooh. I've got some Florival and some Bush brunes here, along with some Grimbergen Tripel blonde. Malted milk, you say?!

PS: I also have some Maredsous brune which I made the mistake of putting in the fridge (I know )

Was just about to recommend that you don't chill the brune too much. I normally prefer the bog standard Leffe but this biscuit revelation has expanded my horizons...

Anyway, it's a Budvar and Jaffa Cake next (although it's not strictly a biscuit, as HMRC were forced to concede).

Somehow or other, I can't see the local gaff, stocking Malted Milk biscuits any time soon.

[Little Green Man]

Somehow or other, I can't see the local gaff, stocking Malted Milk biscuits any time soon.

Not even behind the bar via a display card that tentalisingly reveals the voluptuous curves of some comely Malted Milkmaid after each individually wrapped biscuit is torn off for the discerning Leffe Brune drinker?

P'raps not.

[Gooner Girl]

A friend has just messaged me a recipe for Creme Egg cheesecake, he says its delicious and it sounds heavenly, so high on the success of my leek and potato soup (which even the twins ate without turning their noses up!) i am gonna give it a bash...

[BWFC_Insane]

A friend has just messaged me a recipe for Creme Egg cheesecake, he says its delicious and it sounds heavenly, so high on the success of my leek and potato soup (which even the twins ate without turning their noses up!) i am gonna give it a bash...

I have a sweet tooth, but even to me that sounds absolutely disgusting......