Salad cream ??? Marmite ??? What's your foodie weird things

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Rockburner wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:11 am Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!
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Jody wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 2:41 pm I add tinned pineapple chunks to my Chilli in the slow cooker. About 30 mins before serving.

Everyone says it sounds rubbish. But it all gets eaten !?
Chocolate grated into chili, lush :)
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Wossname wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2024 9:56 pm I can’t cope with mixing main course and pudding on the same plate eg gammon/pineapple, pork/apple sauce, turkey/cranberry.
On a similar theme, people who visit the buffet and put both their dinner and dessert on the same plate. Without meaning to stereotype, it's mainly overweight Americans who do this, I suppose to avoid the exertions of heaving their obese bodies off the chair once again.
Eat the dessert first, then go back for the main course. Why would anyone fill up on taters instead of puddin'?
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^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
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Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:23 pm ^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
Before or after the Old El Paso shaker mix goes in? ;)
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Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:23 pm ^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
Do they?
My experience of authentic Mexican food wasn't great, it was a bland mess of beans with a tiny bit of meat.
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gremlin wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:31 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:23 pm ^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
Before or after the Old El Paso shaker mix goes in? ;)
Pah, worked in the industry to know how to make up a chilli mix from scratch
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Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:28 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:23 pm ^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
Do they?
My experience of authentic Mexican food wasn't great, it was a bland mess of beans with a tiny bit of meat.
They can/do use cocoa mass - so bitter dark pre chocolate
Also in Mole Poblano
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I like fruit in curry, a bit of peach or pineapple, maybe some raisins. Lush.
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Bigjawa wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:01 pm I like fruit in curry, a bit of peach or pineapple, maybe some raisins. Lush.
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Bigjawa wrote: Sun Aug 11, 2024 8:01 pm I like fruit in curry, a bit of peach or pineapple, maybe some raisins. Lush.
I think the Kashmiris (and poss Gujaratis) do the fruity curry thing. (IIRC Vesta chicken curry had raisins in).

As an aside, the owner of a place we used to use in Bradford always laughed merrily at the popularity of the 'chicken Madras'. 'Ho ho ho! They're all vegetarians in Madras!'.
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Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:08 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:28 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 5:23 pm ^ I always put chocolate or cocoa into chilli. The Mexicans do
Do they?
My experience of authentic Mexican food wasn't great, it was a bland mess of beans with a tiny bit of meat.
They can/do use cocoa mass - so bitter dark pre chocolate
Also in Mole Poblano
Chocolate isn't sweet after all. Chocolate bars are, but Cocoa itself is bitter isn't it? Well its actually a lot of things...

Somewhere at the back of the cupboard I've got the Green & Black's Chocolate cookbook, there's a whole section on savoury Chocolate recipes.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 7:41 am
Mr Moofo wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 7:08 pm
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:28 pm

Do they?
My experience of authentic Mexican food wasn't great, it was a bland mess of beans with a tiny bit of meat.
They can/do use cocoa mass - so bitter dark pre chocolate
Also in Mole Poblano
Chocolate isn't sweet after all. Chocolate bars are, but Cocoa itself is bitter isn't it? Well its actually a lot of things...

Somewhere at the back of the cupboard I've got the Green & Black's Chocolate cookbook, there's a whole section on savoury Chocolate recipes.
The missus likes the Lindt 90% and Chococo 100% stuff. It's not chocolate as we know it and anyone that's tried eating cooking chocolate expecting it to be like Cadburies is in for a shock. :shock:
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If you're cooking I find this stuff great.

AFAIK though 'traditional' cooking chocolate has a different ratio of carb/fat/protein to 100% cocoa eating chocolate.

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