What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Bruce Rioja]

Just made Mr GG and i a hot drink. Normally we have tea. I decided to ring the changes tonight and have a hot blackcurrant - which i absently mindedly added a good splosh of milk to after finishing making Mr GG's tea. Nice....

Hot Ribena or hot blackcurrant tea? I'm sure both will positively benefit from a good splosh of milk.

Hot ribena (well, apple and blacurrant squash from the co-op)

Hmmmm. That might not benefit from milk.

Hot Vimto's the future anyway

[TANGODANCER]

Hot Vimto's the future anyway

Natasha's favourite tipple if I remember correctly?

[Lord Kangana]

Word to the wise Bruce, if you were on foreign shores and the locals took you to the Irish Bar and then Le Olde Anglaise Chippery, you'd be a bit miffed wouldn't you?

Go with the Sam's Chop house or something. Show them eyties* we can rustle up some decent nosebag now and then.


*sweeping racial slur intended for purposes of mild ironic humour.

[Lord Kangana]

And for gods sake get some real ale down their necks. The only way we'll stop that pish Peroni from being imported is if the market collapses over there because they've all stopped drinking it. Do your bit as an Englishman.

[William the White]

One for future reference is Cocotoo's under the railway arches on Whitworth Street West. Had a couple of Christmas do's there and remembered Pavarotti dined there a couple of times when he was in the City. Sistine Chapel effect ceilings and all that, but the food was always decent and the prices must have been okay for us to go there.

A new one on me that, Tango. Cheers.

Food very, very ordinary... place a lot of fun... wine list ok... pinot grigio (for once!) decent... why is it so hard to get a decent bottle of pinot grigio?

[Lord Kangana]

Buy Pinot Gris instead. We import lots of cheap shit from Italy, as people's price expectations are low. We tend not to from France because they're not.

[William the White]

Buy Pinot Gris instead. We import lots of cheap shit from Italy, as people's price expectations are low. We tend not to from France because they're not.

The tip is welcomed, believe me - but why, when once, and not so long ago, Italian pinot grigio tasted like really enjoyable wine does it no longer? It seems to me that 5 or 6 years ago it was a really nice summer wine on its own, and with bass or bream or fresh salads...

And now as flat and boring as - i dunno - norfolk ?

Oh - what's good about pinot gris?

[Hoboh]

Pinot gris (also known as pinot grigio) is a white wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. Thought to be a mutant clone of the Pinot noir grape, it normally has a grayish-blue fruit, accounting for its name (gris meaning "grey" in French) but the grape can have a brownish pink to black and even white appearance. The word pinot, which comes from the word meaning "pine cone" in French, could have been given to it because the grapes grow in small pine cone-shaped clusters. The wines produced from this grape also vary in colour from a deep golden yellow to copper and even a light shade of pink, and it is one of the more popular grapes for orange wine. The clone of Pinot gris grown in Italy is known as Pinot grigio. Many pioneers are included in the discovery of this rare blend such as the Taub Family or the owners of Santa Margarita, today the number 1 imported pinot gris is Cavit

[Lord Kangana]

The French make their wines, particularly, though not exclusively, their whites differently to the Italians (this is arule of thumb, btw, not a catch-all). They tend to have more body. French Pinot Gris is from Alsace, which is one of the world's great white wine producing regions. They'll cost more (you'll be lucky to get change from a tenner, cheapest at about 8 quid), they'll generally be better, what with The Germans being a mere stone's throw away, some of that efficiency and consistency has rubbed off, without losing the joie de vivre.

Alternatively, try Picpoul de Pinet. I think Tescos knock it out at £7.99 - if you can get anything produced by Ormarine, it'll be good. This may provide you with a leaner wine but still with flavour, similar perhaps to your Pinot Grigio of memory.

[Lord Kangana]

Or go to Italy

[William the White]

The French make their wines, particularly, though not exclusively, their whites differently to the Italians (this is arule of thumb, btw, not a catch-all). They tend to have more body. French Pinot Gris is from Alsace, which is one of the world's great white wine producing regions. They'll cost more (you'll be lucky to get change from a tenner, cheapest at about 8 quid), they'll generally be better, what with The Germans being a mere stone's throw away, some of that efficiency and consistency has rubbed off, without losing the joie de vivre.

Alternatively, try Picpoul de Pinet. I think Tescos knock it out at £7.99 - if you can get anything produced by Ormarine, it'll be good. This may provide you with a leaner wine but still with flavour, similar perhaps to your Pinot Grigio of memory.

Respect... Will experiment...

But ain't paying a tenner for wine on a Tuesday night... I wish... However - with some bream on a saturday...

[Bruce Rioja]

Word to the wise Bruce, if you were on foreign shores and the locals took you to the Irish Bar and then Le Olde Anglaise Chippery, you'd be a bit miffed wouldn't you?

Go with the Sam's Chop house or something. Show them eyties* we can rustle up some decent nosebag now and then.


*sweeping racial slur intended for purposes of mild ironic humour.

Oh, I agree. Usually when entertaining Johnny Foreigner I take them to the Shoulder of Mutton where their order is usually cod, chips and peas washed down with Timmy Taylor's Landlord (on my recco, of course )

[Bruce Rioja]

Just made Mr GG and i a hot drink. Normally we have tea. I decided to ring the changes tonight and have a hot blackcurrant - which i absently mindedly added a good splosh of milk to after finishing making Mr GG's tea. Nice....

And just to make you feel a little better about your hot beverage numptiness, Mrs Girl, I did once, in a bleary-eyed state, make a cup of coffee with gravy granules.

[Leyther_Matt]

Just made Mr GG and i a hot drink. Normally we have tea. I decided to ring the changes tonight and have a hot blackcurrant - which i absently mindedly added a good splosh of milk to after finishing making Mr GG's tea. Nice....

And just to make you feel a little better about your hot beverage numptiness, Mrs Girl, I did once, in a bleary-eyed state, make a cup of coffee with gravy granules.

If you are making a black coffee then at least you were relatively close to a nice cup of Bovril?

[thebish]

I remember a Duke of Edinburgh expedition many years ago up and over Stickle Tarn.. we pitched camp in the dark by the Tarn and tried to make a brew using a little bluey and torchlight... we successfully boiled water from the tarn (these were the days before bottled water was invented!) and successfully slopped in some teabags - and then added the milk powder - only to discover that it was the dried potato powder. tea-flavoured mash it was then...

in the morning we woke to the realisation that we had pitched our tents either side of a dead and decomposing sheep.

ahh - those were the days...

[Little Green Man]

in the morning we woke to the realisation that we had pitched our tents either side of a dead and decomposing sheep.

You were lucky you weren't savaged.

[Wandering Willy]

in the morning we woke to the realisation that we had pitched our tents either side of a dead and decomposing sheep.

You were lucky you weren't savaged.

And lucky not to wake up sharing a pair of wellies with a yokel.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Chilli heatwave Doritos and Coke.........bleurgh...........feel a bit sick now.

[BWFC_Insane]

Michael Caines Abode in Manc last night for dinner.

Calamari and spinach tortellini with squid ink sauce and chorizo
Slow cooked feather blade of beef with truffle purée and jus with bourginised (cooked in red wine i think that meang) shallots, mushrooms and pancetta.
Passionfruit souffle.

Damn good it was too!

[Bruce Rioja]

Michael Caines Abode in Manc last night for dinner.

Calamari and spinach tortellini with squid ink sauce and chorizo
Slow cooked feather blade of beef with truffle purée and jus with bourginised (cooked in red wine i think that meang) shallots, mushrooms and pancetta.
Passionfruit souffle.

Damn good it was too!

My God, that sounds delicious

Dare I ask how much?