What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Wandering Willy]

I never liked Jam Roly Poly at school, because school's was shit. The first time I ever had nice one was a fecking revelation!

Jam roly-poly, however bad, was always welcome at school dinners as a change from the fxcking awful wishy-washy rice-pudding, semolina and tapioca.

Rice pudding,skin aside, was acceptable.

The other two, however, are not food.

[Bruce Rioja]

Jam roly-poly's like blow jobs. The worst you've ever had was still pretty damn good

[Prufrock]

What if you're Jam Roly-Poly had more teeth in it that you hoping :ifyouknowwhatImean: ?

[Burnden Paddock]

Mrs BP made a cherry bakewell cheesecake yesterday. I can normally take or leave most desserts. Oh. My. Word. Bloody lovely it was, even the leftovers today.

[Bruce Rioja]

First time for everything so had cucumber and courgette soup tonight. What made me think it might taste of very much, I don't know?

[thebish]

First time for everything so had cucumber and courgette soup tonight. What made me think it might taste of very much, I don't know?

ahhh - green-coloured water soup!

(might be more of an option for a summer cold soup?)

[TANGODANCER]

First time for everything so had cucumber and courgette soup tonight. What made me think it might taste of very much, I don't know?

ahhh - green-coloured water soup!

(might be more of an option for a summer cold soup?)

Now you've made me think of Gazpacho Andalus. Tomato-based soup served with chopped raw onion, chopped tomatoes, chopped greens and croutons, served ice-cold. Deeeelicious. Roll on summer.

[RealLifeHobbit]

Making an aubergine and tomato bake tonight with wilted spinach and sautéed garlic mushrooms... Finacée's dad is coming round for dinner!

[thebish]

Making an aubergine and tomato bake tonight with wilted spinach and sautéed garlic mushrooms... Finacée's dad is coming round for dinner!

and you want to persuade him you're gay?

[RealLifeHobbit]

Making an aubergine and tomato bake tonight with wilted spinach and sautéed garlic mushrooms... Finacée's dad is coming round for dinner!

and you want to persuade him you're gay?

But of course...

[thebish]

Making an aubergine and tomato bake tonight with wilted spinach and sautéed garlic mushrooms... Finacée's dad is coming round for dinner!

and you want to persuade him you're gay?

But of course...

good plan!! My daughter is perfectly safe with him!!!

[RealLifeHobbit]

Making an aubergine and tomato bake tonight with wilted spinach and sautéed garlic mushrooms... Finacée's dad is coming round for dinner!

and you want to persuade him you're gay?

But of course...

good plan!! My daughter is perfectly safe with him!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

ahhh - green-coloured water soup!

Indeed - and clearly over-watered with too much watered-down water! Great call on serving it up cowd int' summer though!

See, the Dutch aren't especially renowned for their cuisine, however, tonight they've well and truly settled once and for all the old fruit-has-no-place-on-a-savoury-dish debate.

My dinner turns up - a perfectly cooked salmon fillet atop squid ink pasta with asparagus and a saffron sauce. Superb. Then, unexpectedly, the waiter brings me three bowls bowls of sides. In one is a mixed green salad, lovely. In another there's potatoes dauphinoise - not something I'd have expected but, fair does. However, in the third - get this - stewed rhubarb!

I braved it - I put a spoonful on my plate and tried it. I don't think I've ever tasted anything quite so utterly incongruous!

That said, on it's own it was very nice and, of course, as is the natural order I ate it AFTER I'd had my dinner. The waiter re-appeared to take away my pots, and asked "Dezshert menu, Shir?", to which I of course replied "No thanks, I've just had one".

Don't you just love a bemused look?

[Prufrock]

Is Rhubarb fruit? Like proper fruit, not like tomato. If so I'm converted from my previous 'no place other than sauce' position. That duck I had at woman's do had some weird rhubarb thing, but was AM-A-ZING.

[CrazyHorse]

Rhubarb isn't fruit. It's the Devil's own vomit.

[The Axman]

Rhubarb isn't fruit. It's the Devil's own vomit.

No. wrong. The devil's own vomit is couscous. Rhubarb is the stick he stirs it with before basting your private parts in the flames of hell.

[CrazyHorse]

Rhubarb is the stick he stirs it with before basting your private parts in the flames of hell.

Does he do that for free? Only I normally pay a woman in Soho £200 an hour for that service....

[The Axman]

Rhubarb is the stick he stirs it with before basting your private parts in the flames of hell.

Does he do that for free? Only I normally pay a woman in Soho £200 an hour for that service....

Yep. for free. Crispy on the outside, medium rare on the inside: divilled pork sausage with tossed sweetmeats.

[Gooner Girl]

Rhubarb crumble. Mmmmmm (Mr GG won't eat it though, says it looks like muscles...)

[BWFC_Insane]

Rhubarb is fantastic. Sharp, tangy, acidic, everything you could possibly want.

Though not with salmon....