Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've only ever seen/eaten watermelon as ... watermelon. With a teaspoon, or just using hands. Never heard of anybody doing anything else with one.

I'd never buy a watermelon. Melon's OK, as a slice, .... but there's too much "watery nothing" to get through a whole one.

In London you can buy buy the slice at 'ethnic' grocers. And much better melons.

I get through a melon, its just what I mainly eat for a few days ( note no application of eat a rainbow or five aday one thing only counts twice rule!)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I forgot to mention sweet/sour chicken (balls, or hong kong style) .... nice with pineapple included.

I never know hat all the styles mean. Is Hong Kong style battered? Some only have one menu entry and do not specify.

PasturesNew

I am mulling over whipping up a sweet/sour chicken now ..... if I get chicken dippers, I can make a microwave s/s sauce steam some rice in the nuker. Cost to buy at the takeaway would be a staggering £7.50. Dippers are up to £2 (depending which brand I pick" ... rice is pennies... and then I'd need to buy a small tin of pineapple if I've not got any in already (£0.32) .... I'll resist the urge to add in some grated carrot as it's about 1/4 of a carrot's worth and it'd be a pain in the butt to just buy one small carrot to start with.

So, if I get round to it ... it'll be 1/3rd of the price and I get to try out this nuked sauce recipe.

tomterm8

The single nicest pizza I've ever had is a 'full house' which is a pizza with a small amount of every topping.

LIR: do you mean wet room carpet?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I never know hat all the styles mean. Is Hong Kong style battered? Some only have one menu entry and do not specify.

Yes, balls are: cubed chicken, into batter, fried. Shoved in a bag with a separate pot of sauce (sometimes a ridiculously small pot making you feel ripped off).

Hong Kong is strands of chicken, battered/fried, then mixed in with s/s sauce and onions/peppers/carrot bits/pineapple (or combinations of that). But I always find that you can't find the chicken inside the batter (too small) - and the batter's soggy.... so I tend to go for balls.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

LIR: do you mean wet room carpet?

West, it faces west.

There is going o be a wet room in there, but we're not such fools to try wooden floor in there.

Limestone small squares.....almost cobbles.

PasturesNew

I've a few nuke recipes. I actually bought cornstarch about 4-5 months ago in anticipation of trying out some s/s nuke recipes. I've 5 choices:

1] Cornstarch, vinegar, paprika, sugar, ketchup, pineapple - got all that stuff
2] Apricot/peach preserves, cider vinegar, ketchup, dry mustard - never bought 3 of those things, got ketchup.
3] Cornstarch, water, soy sauce, ketchup, sugar, apple cider vinegar - never have soy sauce in, never bought apple cider vinegar
4] Ketchup, vinegar, muscvado sugar, cloves - only got the first two
5] Cornflour, dark brown sugar, pineapple juice, cider vinegar, soy sauce - not got that sugar, nor cider vinegar nor soy

So [1] is the one to try as it's all stuff I've got, buy, use, have had before.... so even if the sauce doesn't work out I'm not stuck with things without another use.

lostinrates

Student sweet sour I used....ketchup, vinegar, sugar,soy. You could add pineapple. Not sure of proportions I.d gues two ketchup tone everything else, but to taste.

tomterm8

I like limestone.

Cider apple vinegar is the kind of thing that lurks in the back of the cupboard for years once bought...

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Cider apple vinegar is the kind of thing that lurks in the back of the cupboard for years once bought...

It's that thinking that makes me really evaluate what I am buying and if it'll end up as a lurker. As much as I like the sound of things like cider apple vinegar, realistically I've never tasted it and have probably never eaten anything that contains it. Therefore, if I buy some, what are the odds of me managing to find enough ways to use it that it won't become a lurker.

So, instead, I buy chips and regular vinegar - know what I'm getting.