What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[thebish]

Not clever enough to correctly use an apostrophe though eh

"correctly to use" surely?

Surely one must always start a new sentence or paragraph with a capital letter?

Not if the start of the start of the sentence is a quote that started with a lowercase letter... (FACT!)

[Worthy4England]

I hope Starbucks burns down just as you're ordering your skinnyfatcappafrappalappamochachinobolloxitsjustwaterwithabittertasteandsomefrothymilk for a tenner.

Nothing personal though.

Let's be clear. That muck you've just described isn't coffee. I'm talking Nescafé Original; maybe Gold Blend at a push. These Starbucks and Neros and whathaveyou are just places where the tea drinkers go for a break when they're out shopping for new cushion covers and throws on a Saturday afternoon with their life partners.

No - and you know it. Starbucks and Nero's are frequented by poncey coffee swilling bottom fanciers.

You are obviously deluded and confusing what you do on a Saturday afternoon with that of some other (tea drinking) person, who on a Saturday afternoon is generally "with beer" - which could be described as a life partner - and their supported football team.

[Worthy4England]

Tea in Britain
Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores.
Curiously, it was the London coffee houses that were responsible for introducing tea to England.
By 1750 tea had become the favoured drink of Britain's lower classes.
Tea is for chavs. Innit.

This is so obvious, it's laughable.

We go and do the "let's have an Empire" jaunt, and who caves in first? Obviously the soft ars*d coffee drinkers. Of course coffee came first.

"Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Take this shit instead - you'll be able to sell it to all the soft arses staying at home, while your brave lads are trying to conquer somewhere that does the well 'ard tea"

[CrazyHorse]

Tea in Britain
Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores.
Curiously, it was the London coffee houses that were responsible for introducing tea to England.
By 1750 tea had become the favoured drink of Britain's lower classes.
Tea is for chavs. Innit.

This is so obvious, it's laughable.

We go and do the "let's have an Empire" jaunt, and who caves in first? Obviously the soft ars*d coffee drinkers. Of course coffee came first.

"Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Take this shit instead - you'll be able to sell it to all the soft arses staying at home, while your brave lads are trying to conquer somewhere that does the well 'ard tea"

Typical tea boy. A post littered with references to arses, comparing who came first and being well hard. I'm sure there's a subliminal reference to "taking it" in there too but my hard & straight & cool coffee fresh mind isn't equipped to understanding it.

Anyway, it's gone six so I've opened a cider. Not bitter. Never bitter, no. Bitter is for steers and queers.

[Worthy4England]

Tea in Britain
Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores.
Curiously, it was the London coffee houses that were responsible for introducing tea to England.
By 1750 tea had become the favoured drink of Britain's lower classes.
Tea is for chavs. Innit.

This is so obvious, it's laughable.

We go and do the "let's have an Empire" jaunt, and who caves in first? Obviously the soft ars*d coffee drinkers. Of course coffee came first.

"Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Take this shit instead - you'll be able to sell it to all the soft arses staying at home, while your brave lads are trying to conquer somewhere that does the well 'ard tea"

Typical tea boy. A post littered with references to arses, comparing who came first and being well hard. I'm sure there's a subliminal reference to "taking it" in there too but my hard & straight & cool coffee fresh mind isn't equipped to understanding it.

Anyway, it's gone six so I've opened a cider. Not bitter. Never bitter, no. Bitter is for steers and queers.

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't Gaymers...

[CrazyHorse]

Nah, it's a Strongbow. I'll have a couple before starting on the Lambrini and then onto the Woo-Woos before going dancing in town.

[Bruce Rioja]

Nah, it's a Strongbow. I'll have a couple before starting on the Lambrini and then onto the Woo-Woos before going dancing in town.

Yes, at The Church Inn, no doubt, Homo.

[Worthy4England]

Nah, it's a Strongbow. I'll have a couple before starting on the Lambrini and then onto the Woo-Woos before going dancing in town.

Woo Woo's are an interesting colour...

[Prufrock]

Tea in Britain
Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores.
Curiously, it was the London coffee houses that were responsible for introducing tea to England.
By 1750 tea had become the favoured drink of Britain's lower classes.
Tea is for chavs. Innit.

This is so obvious, it's laughable.

We go and do the "let's have an Empire" jaunt, and who caves in first? Obviously the soft ars*d coffee drinkers. Of course coffee came first.

"Don't hit me! Don't hit me! Take this shit instead - you'll be able to sell it to all the soft arses staying at home, while your brave lads are trying to conquer somewhere that does the well 'ard tea"

Typical tea boy. A post littered with references to arses, comparing who came first and being well hard. I'm sure there's a subliminal reference to "taking it" in there too but my hard & straight & cool coffee fresh mind isn't equipped to understanding it.

Anyway, it's gone six so I've opened a cider. Not bitter. Never bitter, no. Bitter is for steers and queers.

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't Gaymers...

Wonderful!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Not tonight, but tomorrow, I'll be opening the bottle of Sancerre that's been on the rack for about a year, and, on the advice of the good Lord, I shall be cooking sea bass and having a crack at making a saffron sauce. Now then, saffron. Might I be correct in thinking that by weight this stuff must be more expensive than gold? £3.50 for a smidge! A similar amount to an average days belly-button fluff harvest.

[thebish]

Not tonight, but tomorrow, I'll be opening the bottle of Sancerre that's been on the rack for about a year, and, on the advice of the good Lord, I shall be cooking sea bass and having a crack at making a saffron sauce. Now then, saffron. Might I be correct in thinking that by weight this stuff must be more expensive than gold? £3.50 for a smidge! A similar amount to an average days belly-button fluff harvest.

do they call you mellow yellow?

[William the White]

Not tonight, but tomorrow, I'll be opening the bottle of Sancerre that's been on the rack for about a year, and, on the advice of the good Lord, I shall be cooking sea bass and having a crack at making a saffron sauce. Now then, saffron. Might I be correct in thinking that by weight this stuff must be more expensive than gold? £3.50 for a smidge! A similar amount to an average days belly-button fluff harvest.

Buy it at House of Rajah, bottom of Derby Street - saffron is never cheap but about one third-one quarter of the supermarket price... You have to ask for it at the till, too expensive to risk shoplifting... I buy it regularly for a Bristol friend and post... They sell in three sizes, all bigger than a Tesco rip off...

Most European saffron comes from Spain but it is middle East in origin (azafran - arabic for yellow) - I have a friend who has family in Turkey and brings back very cheap (in our terms) saffron from there - so if you know anyone going on holiday to turkey, tunisia, morocco etc...

Saffron is brilliant with fish... I use it in monkfish paella...

[Lord Kangana]

Yes, I believe good saffron is more expensive by weight than gold.

I stand to make a right cock of myself here, but without googling I believe the best Saffron is Iranian.
(I actually just googled that, and I was right, but too scared to post without knowing!).

Coincidentally, the best seafood in the world is British (really!)

And IMVHO the best wine in the world is French.

Therefore, Bruce, you have a cracking evening in store.

(Tip, if you're making a saffron cream sauce, chop an onion, some fennel, and all the offcuts off the fish/fishbones - fishmonger can help. Fry off, deglaze with some wine, get half your saffron in now. Reduce, not too much, add cream, reduce, throw remainder of saffron in when 3/4 reduced, then finally whisk a nob of butter in and a small squeeze of lemon juice. Pour over your fish. Its fcuking ace, btw.)

[Bruce Rioja]

Might I just point out to all and sundry that when the good Lord is offering up free culinary advice - listen up and listen up good. That was fantastic. Next time I need a little less lemon (I had two in the bowl and thought feck it) and a little more saffron (now that the Billster has told us where we can buy it 'cheaper').
This Sancerre - oh my word; so this is why it costs more.
Cheers fella.

[CAPSLOCK]

Curry

Home made

Chicken

Washed down

[Lord Kangana]

Many thanks Bruce.

Though I haven't sent you my bill yet....

I'm presently enjoying a bottle of Macon Lugny with a small cheeseboard watching QI. Its times like these that I really wish there was a Waitrose or Booths in Bolton.

[Bruce Rioja]

There comes a time of realisation when eating a poussin that there's only so much of it that one can be reasonably expected to tackle with a knife and fork. It's at that moment that one suitably realises 'feck it - I'm not in a restaurant' and accordingly sets about its remains, lifting it with one's hands, and devouring as if it were an edible miniture rugby ball.
I've just done that, and, having also eaten the new potatoes, sprouts and cabbage that accompanied it found myself with a plate of gravy, bits of flesh from said poussin and herb butter from off of the new potaoes.
Wholemeal bread smeared with Denmark's finest dairy offering acts like a sea bird in an oil spill at this point.
Yum, and indeed, yum!
There was some cream in the fridge, leftover from yesterday's saffron sauce; poured over a Mr Kipling's mince pie - absolutely lovely.

[BWFC_Insane]

Roast beef with roast potatoes peas, carrots and a lovely red wine gravy.

No mince pies and cream though .

[General Mannerheim]

Nandos takeaway, 3 large cobras, and lashings of black ops!

[Lord Kangana]

lovely drop of Riesling. Made by the naked grape. Only £5.99. Unfortunately, can't get it in Bolton. Sorry. Still, for the rest of you, keep your eyes open.