What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Bruce Rioja]

Bought one of these in Atlanta airport. Should've bought two though so that I can sup one and save one. Idiot!!!!

[Gooner Girl]

Just eaten 2 (small) chocolate puddings... Won't help me get back into my bikini this summer but they were too yummy and i'm making the most of the eating for 3 excuse whilst i can...

[Lofthouse Lower]

Mr and Mrs Jacamo?

[Gooner Girl]

Yup! Am a porker like my son at the moment.

Supposed to have my first athletics match back in a few weeks time. Think i'd better drop the triple jump and take up hammer like all the other fatties!

[TANGODANCER]

Wife's on the low cal stuff so she says she's bought me a treat for tonight. Now I'm not saying it will be LK quality, but it's described as:

Spicy chilli steak and rice. Tender steak and red kidney beans cooked in a deeply flavoured chilli sauce enriched with dark chocolate. Served with long grain white and red Camargue rice and soured cream. Courtesy of Chateau Asda.

I'll let you know.

[Bruce Rioja]

I'll let you know.

Please do. I've had a do at a couple of these ready meals in the past and on both occasions, after a couple of mouthfulls, I've ended up tipping them into the bin and making a sandwich instead

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, and fish, chips and curry sauce from Chae's. Dee-lish!

[jaffka]

Oh, and fish, chips and curry sauce from Chae's. Dee-lish!

that is sounding pretty good actually, but then again I am starvin

[Bruce Rioja]

Oh, and fish, chips and curry sauce from Chae's. Dee-lish!

that is sounding pretty good actually, but then again I am starvin

A kind of problem that I've discovered is that I've moved to within easy walking distance of a cracking chippy, a cracking boozer and a cracking Indian restaurant. What a punishment!

[TANGODANCER]

I'll let you know.

Please do. I've had a do at a couple of these ready meals in the past and on both occasions, after a couple of mouthfulls, I've ended up tipping them into the bin and making a sandwich instead

Well, it was reasonable, taken just as a boxed Chilli-con-carne and I had chips with it.Tasted better than it looked when cooked but I wouldn't offer it up as matching the box hype. Rates the "nowt special" diploma unfortunately. I'll recommend Asda's liver and onions though.

[Bruce Rioja]

I'll recommend Asda's liver and onions though.

Ah, not to me you won't, my friend. I just can't eat offal at all. Any of it.

[TANGODANCER]

I'll recommend Asda's liver and onions though.

Ah, not to me you won't, my friend. I just can't eat offal at all. Any of it.

Ah, right, well, the wife would agree with you. Marks and Spencer's steak pie then?

[thebish]

snigger...

[William the White]

I'll recommend Asda's liver and onions though.

Ah, not to me you won't, my friend. I just can't eat offal at all. Any of it.

I thought so too, until eating it fresh, whipped out of the sheep and into the pan, in Sudan...

Where I had liver, delicious, for breakfast, with lentils or Egyptian beans - and, sometimes, raw, but 'cooked' in fresh lime juice, chilli and salt...

spleen (very rich), heart (extraordianry), both cooked in sesame oil with garlic and chilli...

intestines, chopped small, served in a stew with a tomato and garlic sauce and onions and potatoes...

All above I liked...

but I could never quite face brains or tongue...

[Bruce Rioja]

What I always find, Will, is that whenever I'm sat at a table with offal eating friends they insist on me trying some of whatever it is that they're eating on the grounds that I'm bound to like it by dint of never having had whatever bit of intestine it is cooked in whichever way it's been done. But still I find a pervading taste to most of it (think liver and kidney), and all of it in textures I can't swallow. The whole lot of it just makes me retch.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

What I always find, Will, is that whenever I'm sat at a table with offal eating friends they insist on me trying some of whatever it is that they're eating on the grounds that I'm bound to like it by dint of never having had whatever bit of intestine it is cooked in whichever way it's been done. But still I find a pervading taste to most of it (think liver and kidney), and all of it in textures I can't swallow. The whole lot of it just makes me retch.

I'm with you on this one Bruce. I can just about manage steak and kidney - just. Apart from that I reckon it's all dog food - even if has been braised gently in ewe's milk.

[TANGODANCER]

What I always find, Will, is that whenever I'm sat at a table with offal eating friends they insist on me trying some of whatever it is that they're eating on the grounds that I'm bound to like it by dint of never having had whatever bit of intestine it is cooked in whichever way it's been done. But still I find a pervading taste to most of it (think liver and kidney), and all of it in textures I can't swallow. The whole lot of it just makes me retch.

Can go with that. Liver's about the only one I could stomach of the things Will lists. Was a time when tongue and things like brawn, potted meat etc, were common fare and we all had them. Rabbit was also a common dish. Think I'd rather go hungry now than eat most, or any, of them.

[William the White]

What I always find, Will, is that whenever I'm sat at a table with offal eating friends they insist on me trying some of whatever it is that they're eating on the grounds that I'm bound to like it by dint of never having had whatever bit of intestine it is cooked in whichever way it's been done. But still I find a pervading taste to most of it (think liver and kidney), and all of it in textures I can't swallow. The whole lot of it just makes me retch.

Can go with that. Liver's about the only one I could stomach of the things Will lists. Was a time when tongue and things like brawn, potted meat etc, were common fare and we all had them. Rabbit was also a common dish. Think I'd rather go hungry now than eat most, or any, of them.

Brawn unspeakable. Rabbit excellent.

Liver I'd had before - the others were new to me and the thought of them was less than appetising... but the taste wasn't when it came to it... In a desert... with some good hard drinking (bad in the eyes of god) muslims knocking back the date arak... who could possibly resist a little fried sheep's spleen with cumin, coriander, salt, pepper and lime juice?

Not I.

[TANGODANCER]

When in doubt, pour a tin of vegetable soup over a plate of chips. Can't go wrong.

[William the White]

To report on two outstanding eating and drinking experiences in Amsterdam - last saturday i and friends went to the 'Five Flies' restaurant on Spuistraat - http://www.thefiveflies.com/en/Home" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - which was as magnificent as almost all the reviews had promised... The food unbelievably good. We had a 'surprise' menu -we told them what we wanted to eat generically - fish, meat, seafood, whatever, they brought out four dishes, we paired it with the wines we fancied from an over-the-top but reasonably list... Two including me went for fish/veggie... So amuse bouche in a shot glass went crunchy, then sweet, then sour... first course seared tuna served cold with foam and carrot puree... second, grey mullet, also great flavoursome stuff on side... third cod with celeriac puree and orange sauce (v light) which was explosive and pistacchio ice cream and other things for dessert...

And on Sunday... this... http://www.bridgesrestaurant.nl/index.html.." onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. We chose the options where they served us three courses and paired the wines for us as well... All fish - it's a speciality restaurant - apart from the dessert... which, I'm pleased to tell LK was served with his recommended Frantignan... and was a winner (Previous courses with a Galician white and Pouilly Fuisse - also perfect)...

We have been doing this for years by saving a tenner a week each and putting it in premium bonds and spending pretty much every penny over four days... My wife administers the fund... We got back to find we've won £25 to start next year...