The daily hankerings thread

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I did this yesterday afternoon - http://www.learnbutchery.co.uk/

Came home with a 2.5kg 40 day aged piece of cote de boeuf.

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@Stepper, you should, Malaysia is great for street hawker stalls, as you definitely get more bang for your buck. The only problem is finding/getting to these street/roadside stalls is hard as not many of them are accessible via public transport. Refined (restaurant) dining still isn't up to scratch if I'm honest, there's only a small handful out there are worth going to. To be honest I wouldn't really go to KL for that, save that for Tokyo (as another Asian city) if you want something along those lines. If you ever do make it to that side of the world I highly recommend hoping over to Singapore for more great eats.

@Dev^S, food thread so I put up my holiday photos of food... admittedly I did take more photos of food in total than I did of your run of the mill holiday snaps.

@Xerox, Fujifilm X100 and my iPhone 3GS. Find it a lot more discreet than bringing out a giant DSLR.

@Eek, that looks AMAZING. Think I'll look into doing one of those classes myself !

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I think I'm going to do the pork one next

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That's what she said

[Inertiaman]

Awesome awesome meatage. Ensure that the cote gets consumed with goose fat fries and bernaise otherwise ManCard will be rescinded.

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Originally Posted by Inertiaman

Awesome awesome meatage. Ensure that the cote gets consumed with goose fat fries and bernaise otherwise ManCard will be rescinded.

On it.

Also, they set a challenge. If you could hold that piece of beef - it was 40kg in your arms fully out stretched for 15 seconds they would give you an epic t-tone (1kg). I lasted 7 seconds

Best get to the gym before you go

[stepper]

Where's Dave when you need him...

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Homemade courgette, cheese and rice filo pie seasoned with fresh parsley and dill from the garden...



Accompanied with homemade pork "balls".

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Spent the weekend up north.

Manchester...

Vnam cafe down Oldham Road/Street, was worth the risk...

Pho


Summer rolls


Yuzu Japanese restaurant

Gyoza


Choya plum wine


Tempura Udon


Sashimi


Sashimi don


Softshell crab


Korean restaurant, forgot the name, but it was hugely disappointing. Wanted to go to Koreana, but that was closed on Sunday, D'oh!

Octopus


Bibimbap


Bulgogi


Krispy Kremes




and in Lincoln...

Lincolnshire haslet (pork meatloaf essentially)


Mushroom and whisky pate


Game pie




Summer fruits pudding

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Last Sunday we made a roast lamb dinner...

Pre-roasting...


Roasted


Pre-gravy


We only cheated with the yorkshire pudding, everything else, including the mint sauce was home made.

Sunday just gone we decided to make some dumplings







Pan fried...


Boiled...

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The Fat Duck


A "comprehensive wine list"




Nitro Poached Aperitifs - Campari Soda




Red Cabbage Gazpacho (Pommery Grain Mustard Ice Cream)






Jelly of Quail, Crayfish Cream (Chicken Liver Parfait, Oak Moss and Truffle Toast)


Snail Porridge (Iberico Bellota Ham, Shaved Fennel)




Scallop with Coral Roe


Roast Foie Gras (Barberry, Braised Kombu and Crab Biscuit)






Mad Hatter's Tea Party (Mock Turtle Soup, Pocket Watch and Toast Sandwich)




"Sound of The Sea"


Salmon Poached in a Liquorice Gel (Artichokes, Vanilla Mayonnaise and Golden Trout Roe)




Lamb with Cucumber (Onion and Dill Fluid Gel)


Hot & Iced Tea


Jelly and Ice Cream Cornet


Macerated Strawberries (Olive Oil Biscuit, Chamoile and Coriander)




The "BFG" (Black Forest Gateau)




Whisk(e)y Gums




"Like A Kid In A Sweet Shop"


The Queen Of Hearts


Coconut Baccy (Coconut Infused with an Aroma of Black Cavendish Tobacco)


Aerated Chocolate (Mandarin Jelly)

[Bilb]

Sheesh, that's more art-work than food. Whilst it looks fab, and I'm sure tastes fantastic. I'd be starving when I left, and head for the nearest burger joint!

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The food was excellent, but the plating was just on a whole next level. To our surprise, after 14 courses (that took 5 hours... started at 12:30pm) we were all full. Didn't need to eat for the rest of the day !

Hot & Iced Tea was the biggest mindfuck of all, left side of the liquid was cold, right side was hot when drinking...

[[n00b]Zippy]

Originally Posted by Bilb

head for the nearest burger joint!

You wouldn't have any money left after going to the Fat Duck!

[Bilb]

Originally Posted by [n00b]Zippy

You wouldn't have any money left after going to the Fat Duck!

QFT !


£180 PLUS 12.5% service charge.

Money > sense.

Seriously, I'm not going to go all Kahuna "I only eat mash taters when I feel hungry" ... but £405 for two people. Whilst I appreciate good food, and Fat Duck is a "gotta try it" type of restaurant. That's some peoples monthly salary for one meal.

[The Scientist]

Toasted cheese breakfast muffins with butter and marmite

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New hype restaurant in London, Dabbous, just got it's first Michelin star. I'm pretty confident it'll be in San Pellegrino's top 50 next year. Harder to get a reservation here than Noma and The Fat Duck... 6 months for the earliest lunch time sitting and 11 months for an evening one. Went for the 7 course taster menu.




Hispi cabbage with sunflower


Celeriac with muscat grapes, lovage & hazelnuts


Coddled free range hen egg with woodland mushrooms & smoked butter


Braised halibut with costal herbs


Barbecued Iberico pork, savory acorn praline, turnip tops & apple vinegar


Fresh milk curds infused with fig leaves: fig & pistachio


Chocolate soaked brioche, barley malt ice cream, azuki beans & pecans


Money shot. I have to say the azuki beans was an interesting twist that worked very well.

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Recent trip to Noma, the world's best restaurant. I will say straight off the bat, it wasn't as good as The Fat Duck, while I appreciate that the two are doing two different things, I felt The Fat Duck had a lot more variation in their dishes and their "dessert menu" was a lot more satisfying.

However, I do appreciate the philosophy of Noma, to use local ingredients some of which they go out and forage at 6am in the morning, so everything on the menu is as fresh as can be. They also try not to let anything go to waste and utilise everything. It was an awesome experience and I'm very glad I made the effort to go. The kitchen tour at the end was a nice treat, they have 3 kitchens (and an outside grill), one of which doubles up as a staff canteen and an "experimental kitchen", whereby 2 chefs supervised by Rene try and create 3-4 new dishes a month. Not all get put on the menu and in some instances all are rejected. Had the pleasure of briefly meeting Rene afterwards who is an incredibly humble man from speaking to him - heck he even greeted us when we walked in and took our jackets off us.

20 course taster menu, the first half were 10 "quick fire" starter courses, just one after the other brought out by the chefs who prepared them. The second half were 10 main courses where I had the "juice pairing menu", included desserts and fortunately a Birthday cake especially made for the missus.


Noma IPA, brewed in Northern Copenhagen, joked with the waitress asking if it's Carlsberg, but she assured us it wasn't. Very very light, almost comparable to Tsing Tao.


Malt flatbread and juniper


Moss and cep


Crispy pork skin and black currant




Blue mussel and celery (bottom part was edible)


Potato and duck liver






Cheese cookie, rocket and stems






Live (and still jumping) shrimp and butter


Dried carrot and sorrel


Frozen cod liver and caramelized milk




Pickled and smoked quails egg


Radish, soil (maize) and grass




Æbleskiver


Sorrel leaf and cricket paste




Leek and cod roe


In house baked sourdough bread with unchurned butter spread and pork fat


Fresh milk curd and blueberry preserves


Brown crab, egg yolk and herbs


Dried scallops and beech nuts with biodynamic grains and watercress


Beets and plums




Oyster from Limfjorden with gooseberry and buttermilk


Cauliflower and pine with cream and horseradish


Pike perch and cabbages with verbena and dill




Wild duck and pear with kale and beech leaves


Gammel Dansk (chef described it as a Jägermeister dessert)


Potatoes and plums




Caramel yeast




The Birthday cake


Beetroot and liquorice sweets


Walnuts and berries

and a few snaps from the kitchen tour... didn't go snap happy as I felt a little sheepish taking them in the first place




Kitchen 1 with a "hot" and "cold" side


Kitchen 2 where most of the interns work on the preparation of the ingredients used


Kitchen 3 (Staff canteen/experimental kitchen)


Outside grill

While in København, we did sample a couple of other local traditional Danish food...

Aamanns for their Danish smørrebrøds!





and probably the most expensive McDonalds meal I've ever had to date...


Big N' Tasty, which was actually very tasty.

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Now to lower the standards...I tried salt and pepper chips for the first time ever last night and oh my god they're good.

Gonna try and make some today.

[stepper]

Ate reindeer today.. It's really really tasty. Like venison but with more flavour

[Goody]

a. Youre getting fatter while your gf/wf remains as hot. Sort it out fatty.
b.what is it with Asian people and taking pics of food. I mean really.

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Ha, plenty of caucasian patrons during our Noma and The Fat Duck sitting with their Cartier watches and pearl necklaces snapping away

[Bilb]

Originally Posted by blurr

pearl necklaces

Is it bad that I sniggered?!

[Ashen]

Originally Posted by stepper

Ate reindeer today.. It's really really tasty. Like venison but with more flavour

I hope you killed it with your bare hands and ripped the flesh from its still warm corpse...otherwise your a Rudolph killing cunt

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Dead hippie (double patty burger), chilli cheese fries and hot wings from Meat Market...





Lobster from Burger and Lobster...



Chirashi bowl from Atari-ya...

[Nomad]

bibs or gtfo? an eclectic range of food as always blurr, fk knows what a lot of them are. do you and the mrs ever repeat visit the same location within a month? 'shall we just get pizza again?'

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Ha, funnily enough we often do that with our favourite Kebab place back in Gainsborough.

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Highlights from my Taiwan trip so far...

Xiao long bao from the original Din Tai Fung...



Fried chicken from Hot Star Fried Chicken



Mister Donut



Best custard buns I've ever had courtesy of Dian Shui Lou



"NY Pastrami sandwich"



My lady's mother made us homemade pork buns, best pork buns I've had to date.



Oyster omelette and pigs kidney soup from NingXia night market



Taro balls with pork floss and pickled yolk inside, also from NingXia night market



Delights from Tainan... Calpico ice lolly



Pigs blood cake with peanut sauce

[Nomad]

you can recreate that last one by dropping your lolly on the floor. doesn't taiwan have a beach, get her bikini'd up

[Inertiaman]

That ice lolly looks like an anus.