weird food

[bazil]

i do some weird things with food......i cook up some baked beans...then chuck meuslie thru it......its delish


i make fish porridge.....with tinned oily fish like sardines an mackerel(or herring) you would be so very surprised(ketchup is nice thru it too)


does anyone else do anything odd with food??

[Millymollymandy]

Not like that. You ARE wierd!!

[Stonehead]

i do some weird things with food......i cook up some baked beans...then chuck meuslie thru it......its delish


i make fish porridge.....with tinned oily fish like sardines an mackerel(or herring) you would be so very surprised(ketchup is nice thru it too)


does anyone else do anything odd with food??

Mackerel porridge is great!

You could try jelly pizza - make a cheesecake base (crushed digestives, butter etc) in a springform tin, then add a thin layer of sliced bananas covered with a contrasting flavoured jelly; allow to set; then a thin layer of sliced strawberries covered with contrasting flavoured jelly. Allow to set. Top with swirls of cream and M&Ms or Smarties.

[The Chili Monster]

Stonehead wrote:

You could try jelly pizza - make a cheesecake base (crushed digestives, butter etc) in a springform tin, then add a thin layer of sliced bananas covered with a contrasting flavoured jelly; allow to set; then a thin layer of sliced strawberries covered with contrasting flavoured jelly. Allow to set. Top with swirls of cream and M&Ms or Smarties

I've just put on five stones thinking about it ... but what a lovely alternative to a birthday cake in the summer! 8)

[greenbean]

Bazil, your beans and porridge recipes sound absolutely dreadful, what made you even think up such a weird combination? lack of cupboard ingredients? it must be. In answer to your question about weird meals, my sweet old grandad had salt and pepper sandwiches, I think the war rationing stayed wih him a wee while, bless him.

[Martin]

most people nowadays would think one of my favourites as really weird - bread and dripping! - fresh bread, dripping, and a smidgeon of salt.........yum!

[Stonehead]

I've just remembered a few more (almost all sandwiches) that I haven't had for years:

Banana and sardine sandwich
Sardines and salsa sandwich
Peanut butter and sardines with hot pepper sauce (sort of satay in bread!)
Bacon, cheese and jam sandwich (do the bacon and cheese on one slice, grill till the cheese melts; put the jam on the other slice and then put the jam slice on top of the bacon and cheese slice)
Parma ham, fig jam and fresh rocket sandwich
Cream cheese and blueberry sandwich (needs to be a sweet, airy bread)
Green meadow - slice a warmed Mars Bar onto a slice of bread, top with slice of Granny Smith apple and then add anothr slice of bread.

Non-sandwich ones
Eggs and oysters - Fry a small onion (diced) and half a red pepper (diced) in some butter. Remove the onion and red pepper, then add 12-20 fresh oysters to the butter and fry rapidly over a medium heat for about two minutes. Return the onion and pepper to the pan. Beat 3-4 large eggs and pour in with the oyster mix - cook as for an omelette.

Pie floater - take a large bowl and three-quarters fill with pea soup (made with yellow split peas), then float a hot steak pie in the soup and then add a good splodge of tomato sauce.

Scrambled eggs and calves brains (illegal these days, you scrambled the eggs and brains together, then had them on toast with lots of pepper)

Mawl - take one pig's stomach, stuff with equal amounts of diced potato, diced onion and diced sausage, season with lots of pepper. Bake for a couple of hours in a hot oven until the stomach is crispy and brown.

Lime pie - a pie crust made with rolled oats, coconut, flour, sugar and butter; then filled with condensed milk, lime juice, egg yolk and lemon rind. Bake, then serve cold.

Pig burger - grilled chicken, grilled gammon (or bacon if you have no gammon), lettuce and tomato in a large bun. The critical bit is to put a thick layer of good quality herb mayonnaise on the bottom slice of the bun, and a thick layer of guacamole on the top slice of the bun. The order is: bun, mayo, chicken, lettuce, tomato, gammon, guacamole, bun. (Pig burger because it's a meal for a real pig!)

[Camile]

My favorite breakfast is some toasted baguette, buttered and camembert.

Everything is dipped in a cup of coffee .. wonderfull !

Or you can do the same but with Pate instead of the butter ! yummie !

[Millymollymandy]

Oh no, not pate dipped in coffee! Buerk!

[bazil]

Bazil, your beans and porridge recipes sound absolutely dreadful, what made you even think up such a weird combination? lack of cupboard ingredients? it must be. In answer to your question about weird meals, my sweet old grandad had salt and pepper sandwiches, I think the war rationing stayed wih him a wee while, bless him.

try it .....you may be surprised......it was borne out of needing a quick hit of protein and carbs.....make slightly thick porrisge and chuck oily fish thru it...it savoury so can be salted and peppered

for beans or soup muslie is good as is porridge oats or oatmeal....if you think about it these are grains which traditionally appeared in soups and things(the nuts and rasins in muslie really add something different)

i like making a lentil dhal with lentil soup curry powder and muslie its pretty yummy and cheap if your onna budget....oh yeh...and wholesome

[Stonehead]

make slightly thick porrisge and chuck oily fish thru it...it savoury so can be salted and peppered

It's funny how few people realise porridge was originally a savoury dish - you can make it with boiled kale (kale brose), nettles (nettle brose), ale (meal an thrammel), turnips (neep brose), peas (pease) and red cabbage (tartan purry) among others.

You can also whisk a couple of egg whites into the porridge water before adding the water to the porridge. When the porridge is thick, stir in shredded spinash and a good pinch of pepper. Then top with a little cheese.

A more exotic one is to marinate strips of chicken and/or fish in soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil and sugar. Bring a pot of oatmeal porridge to the boil, then stir in the chicken and/or fish. Turn down the heat and simmer until the meat is cooked. Garnish with slices of red chilli and serve with sambal oelek. (I got this one from an Indonesian soldier.)

You can also ferment basic porridge for a week, when it becomes sowans.

I love oats!

[bazil]

cool stonehead......i thought i had invented fish porridge.....i did come up with the idea without checking first tho.....so its a bit like inventing i spose...