What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Salford Trotter]

Tried Worsley Old Hall last night, though it was excellent.

Opened with a sharing meat platter, which we didn't get through because there was just too much of it. You could probably work your way through it and abandon the main.

Had black pud, sausages, beef, mini pork pie, ham and an awsome black pud and sausage terrine and boar and chorizo meatballs which we were just too full to even attempt.

Wonderful steak and kidney pud for main, which neither of us managed more than the middle of.

Pretty reasonable range of ales and washed it down with a decent Sancerre les colinettes.

No room for pud.

I've been meaning to try this place out and you've made my mind up to give it go this weekend...I've booked at the new Alberts too

[Armchair Wanderer]

ive no idea what i want for dinbags today (lunch) trying to lay off the bread during the week, and avoid pastry too. so butties and pies are out as are pie butties but apart from some shit salad, what else is there??

The short answer is ryvita!

The long answer is I'm doing a similar thing at the moment due to having a bread addiction. Wholemeal pittas are good to put healthy stuff into, if you mix it up it doesn't seem so healthy. I'm probably a bit of an oddball but I put fresh green beans in those little packets from the supermarket inside wholemeal pittas for a healthy dinbag. If you want to spread stuff on something like bread/toast it's gotta be dark rye ryvita (the seedy ones are nice too if you're throwing your money around) or unsalted ricecakes for me.

[General Mannerheim]

ive no idea what i want for dinbags today (lunch) trying to lay off the bread during the week, and avoid pastry too. so butties and pies are out as are pie butties but apart from some shit salad, what else is there??

The short answer is ryvita!

The long answer is I'm doing a similar thing at the moment due to having a bread addiction. Wholemeal pittas are good to put healthy stuff into, if you mix it up it doesn't seem so healthy. I'm probably a bit of an oddball but I put fresh green beans in those little packets from the supermarket inside wholemeal pittas for a healthy dinbag. If you want to spread stuff on something like bread/toast it's gotta be dark rye ryvita (the seedy ones are nice too if you're throwing your money around) or unsalted ricecakes for me.

yeah dont mind a ryvita, and like you say they come a few more interesting flavours now.

can also use it as a subsitute for bread with soup or i like them little baked beans snap pots. Trouble is when i start leathering them with peanut butter! hmmm

[Bruce Rioja]

ive no idea what i want for dinbags today (lunch) trying to lay off the bread during the week, and avoid pastry too. so butties and pies are out as are pie butties but apart from some shit salad, what else is there??

The short answer is ryvita!

The long answer is I'm doing a similar thing at the moment due to having a bread addiction. Wholemeal pittas are good to put healthy stuff into, if you mix it up it doesn't seem so healthy. I'm probably a bit of an oddball but I put fresh green beans in those little packets from the supermarket inside wholemeal pittas for a healthy dinbag. If you want to spread stuff on something like bread/toast it's gotta be dark rye ryvita (the seedy ones are nice too if you're throwing your money around) or unsalted ricecakes for me.

yeah dont mind a ryvita, and like you say they come a few more interesting flavours now.

can also use it as a subsitute for bread with soup or i like them little baked beans snap pots. Trouble is when i start leathering them with peanut butter! hmmm

It's a waste of time me eating Ryvita as I butter the honeycombed - quite heavily

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Ryvita is just corrugated cardboard that has been toasted isn't it? Why would you volunteer to eat that?

[Armchair Wanderer]

Ryvita is just corrugated cardboard that has been toasted isn't it? Why would you volunteer to eat that?

The original ones are exactly like that, the dark rye ones, however, are much more edible and are the same price. I don't understand why the original ones are so bad and just by using differently coloured rye they are so much better. Also, the ones with seeds on look just like original ones but they too are sprinkled with fairy dust. If you'd only ever tried the original ones you'd think they were terrible, because they are.

[thebish]

ive no idea what i want for dinbags today (lunch) trying to lay off the bread during the week, and avoid pastry too. so butties and pies are out as are pie butties

[bobo the clown]

So ... Oxtail stew & dumplings with jacket tayters anyone ?

[Bruce Rioja]

Dunno, but it'll taste of fecking Vimto

[bobo the clown]

Dunno, but it'll taste of fecking Vimto

taste-buds shot Brucie ?

[Bruce Rioja]

Dunno, but it'll taste of fecking Vimto

taste-buds shot Brucie ?

Spillage disaster, Bobo.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Ryvita is just corrugated cardboard that has been toasted isn't it? Why would you volunteer to eat that?

The original ones are exactly like that, the dark rye ones, however, are much more edible and are the same price. I don't understand why the original ones are so bad and just by using differently coloured rye they are so much better. Also, the ones with seeds on look just like original ones but they too are sprinkled with fairy dust. If you'd only ever tried the original ones you'd think they were terrible, because they are.

That's some serious ryvita knowledge! Where are you on Findus crispy pancakes?

[Bruce Rioja]

Do they still make Findus Crispy Pancakes? I've not had them since I lived at home!

[boltonboris]

They do.. With feck all in 'em

[Bruce Rioja]

They do.. With feck all in 'em

Oh, well they can feck off then.

[Armchair Wanderer]

It's not even proper pastry!

[Burnden Paddock]

Set myself a mammoth task for the weekend for Mrs BP's birthday. I've decided to cook the following.

Starter - Tandoori cod with cucumber and yoghurt.

Main - Masala roast whole chicken

Accompaniments - Home made chapattis, tomato & onion relish, fresh coriander chutney, hot chilli pickle and cucumber raita

Dessert - Lemon & Lime sorbet

Never set myself the task of preparing so many different dishes for one meal before.

[Bruce Rioja]

Wow. Seriously impressed that you're even attempting any one of those courses, BP. All the best, Fella. Let us know how it goes, won't you? That looks like my idea of a pretty much perfect meal.

[Burnden Paddock]

I'm wondering whether I've thought this through properly tbh.

Tbf the starter and chicken can be prepped in the morning and left in the marinade. I've done the cod a good few times now. The wife says that it's the favourite thing that she's ever eaten. I'll have plenty of time to sort everything else. It's the chapatti's and sorbet that worry me. Particularly as I can't find the flour needed in bags of less than 5kg. Think i'll have to ask one of the Indian lads at work.

[Bruce Rioja]

Chapatti's are a piece of piss. That shop facing the Tramways used to do a small bag of chapatti flour. Raja's Penny Profit probably does as well.