The **Now Eating** Thread

[randomshenans]

Benny, What oats do you use?

 

[pinkowl]

We used to have amaizing chinese take out really close to us as well as a great fish and chips place with a short drive distance at Christchurch but Southampton is really lacking in take aways. It seems that anything will do here... That chinese place I really miss, it definitely had better than homemade food and it was 2 mins walk from us

 

[FrenchTart]

I hate it when decent places close down :/

There should totally be an OcUK La Cuisine/food snobs meet sometime (maybe to be fair that should be in the evening, preceded by a visit to McDonalds in the daytime for the riff-raff ).

 

[pinkowl]

Dont you think it would just be everyone moaning how the food is rubbish and could have made better yourself? nah but it would be great, I never get to talk about cooking outside LaCuisine as my partner would happily live like cainer (minus the occasional salad he has) and all my friends dont really do cooking I think they are too young to be excited about slow cookers and bread recipes.

 

[FrenchTart]

Yeah. I find it quite worrying that my friends are getting to the age where they actually find my prattling about cooking/kitchen stuff interesting Surely we're not that old

Most of my ex-gfs have been the same as your partner about food. I don't mind too much as I enjoy cooking and getting to choose what food we ate. I might struggle with a proper foodie girlfriend - too many potential conflicts

 

[Glaucus]

I hate it when decent places close down :/

There should totally be an OcUK La Cuisine/food snobs meet sometime (maybe to be fair that should be in the evening, preceded by a visit to McDonalds in the daytime for the riff-raff ).

Next year we should do drillstock, meatopia or Upton cheyne chilli festival.

 

[pinkowl]

I find it bit tiring sometimes as hes quite picky as well as quite keen on pizza and frozen stuff and I always have to cook. It would be nice to have someone cook for me for once. He has cooked me 3 times so far in 3 years and with my instructions/help it was okay though for someone who never had cooked just wish he would be brave enough to cook more often

 

[MisChief]

Somebody suggested a 'La Cuisine meet' at the last Christmas GD meet. Think it might have been freefaller. I think it's a good idea! My first cuisine suggestion would be Korean

 

[robfosters]

Somebody suggested a 'La Cuisine meet' at the last Christmas GD meet. Think it might have been freefaller. I think it's a good idea! My first cuisine suggestion would be Korean

Me and Cainer will catch up with you outside Papa Johns.

 

[cainer]

Me and Cainer will catch up with you outside Papa Johns.

wanna meat up a bit earlyer so we can nip round McDonalds on route to PJ's ?

 

[cainer]

home made Pizza again, new recipe this time

Spoiler

 

[Rich_L]

Quite interesting veggie meal tonight - if you equate meat consumption with peen size look away now!

Spaghetti squash with faux-pesto (basil, sunflower seeds, olive oil, garlic, lemon, bit of mild cheddar and a tbsp. of miso paste!) with sautéed kale and tofu cubes - worked out pretty great, the former especially so!

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Spaghetti squash I still find hard to believe is actually a real thing, it's just plain weird how you can bake it, scrape it and end up with....squashetti?

 

[arc@css]

^^ Thats looks yum.

I'll have to give that a try.

 

[Freefaller]

Somebody suggested a 'La Cuisine meet' at the last Christmas GD meet. Think it might have been freefaller. I think it's a good idea! My first cuisine suggestion would be Korean

I LOVE Korean food - then again, there's pretty much no food I don't eat I love food!

I hate it when decent places close down :/

There should totally be an OcUK La Cuisine/food snobs meet sometime (maybe to be fair that should be in the evening, preceded by a visit to McDonalds in the daytime for the riff-raff ).

Yes definitely, caveat being if it's fast food, or cheap it's not allowed

 

[FrenchTart]

Somebody suggested a 'La Cuisine meet' at the last Christmas GD meet. Think it might have been freefaller. I think it's a good idea! My first cuisine suggestion would be Korean

Yeah. Freefaller is always copying me - being faux-French, joining the forum years before me. Er... Hm.. Not sure where I'm going with this one

Korean sounds like a plan. I've not had Korean in months actually. Perhaps I'll pop to the local place at lunch time.

Yes definitely, caveat being if it's fast food, or cheap it's not allowed

That's why I suggested the two-stage approach... Seriously agree that meeting up for "Maccy Dees" isn't my idea of a fun time though

Quite interesting veggie meal tonight - if you equate meat consumption with peen size look away now!

Spaghetti squash with faux-pesto (basil, sunflower seeds, olive oil, lemon, bit of mild cheddar and a tbsp. of miso paste!) with sautéed kale and tofu cubes - worked out pretty great, the former especially so!

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Spaghetti squash I still find hard to believe is actually a real thing, it's just plain weird how you can bake it, scrape it and end up with....squashetti?

That's pretty awesome though I prefer my kale closer to raw The spaghetti squash thing is rather odd. How is the texture/etc?

 

[Rich_L]

Tastes like mildly nutty/squash flavoured noodles. Texture is a little more bite than pasta but good in its own way. Not something I've bought in a while but we get a box of seasonal fruit and veggies delivered every week so its a bit like Ready Steady Cook some days

Best thing is a cupful is 42 calories vs 221 for pasta if you're counting - it works with most pasta dishes, marinara is the usual but thought it might work with pesto (or my pesto analog anyway!) and worked out better than I hoped!

 

[randomshenans]

If I could be there, I would as long as it's decent food haha not cainer making his homemade pizzas!

 

[FrenchTart]

Tastes like mildly nutty/squash flavoured noodles. Texture is a little more bite than pasta but good in its own way. Not something I've bought in a while but we get a box of seasonal fruit and veggies delivered every week so its a bit like Ready Steady Cook some days

Best thing is a cupful is 42 calories vs 221 for pasta if you're counting - it works with most pasta dishes, marinara is the usual but thought it might work with pesto (or my pesto analog anyway!) and worked out better than I hoped!

Sounds interesting. If it's a nice alternative to regular pasta I'll try to get round to trying it though I don't really eat pasta often enough that it doesn't feel like a "treat" meal when I do have it.

If I could be there, I would as long as it's decent food haha not cainer making his homemade pizzas!

You have to bring the champagne

 

[Glaucus]

Where do you get spaghetti squash from, never seen it in the flesh.

 

[Tyrone1Wils]

I've never found it here in the UK before, there must be places that sell it.