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endabob1

11/10/2006, 8:52 AM

what is tha ti havent seen it?

http://www.buysafrica.com/acatalog/Sauces_and_Spices.html

Scroll down there's the full range, the original is great for cooking with and the extra hot is a belter for toasted cheese sarnies

BohsPartisan

11/10/2006, 9:27 AM

http://www.buysafrica.com/acatalog/Sauces_and_Spices.html

Scroll down there's the full range, the original is great for cooking with and the extra hot is a belter for toasted cheese sarnies

Sounds good, maybe you can buy it in some of the African shops here. I have a nice recipe for a spicy chutney, if I can find it I'll post it here. I always have some jars of it in the cupbord.

Drumcondra Red

11/10/2006, 4:43 PM

Dont make me put u over my knee!

Oh YEAH!!!! Wouldn't mind a bit of that!!! :p :D ;)

Dr.Nightdub

11/10/2006, 10:37 PM

Pesto sauce is mankind's greatest culinary invention. OK, it wouldn't really be the same if someone hadn't invented pasta as well, but you get my drift...

Magicme

12/10/2006, 8:05 AM

Pesto sauce is mankind's greatest culinary invention. OK, it wouldn't really be the same if someone hadn't invented pasta as well, but you get my drift...

Its also lovely mixed through some mashed potato. Then put some cheese on top and into the oven. Yum or take a breast of chicken & cut it open and put pesto into the chicken and close again and roast....am told its great...did it for my sons communion (only used turkey actually) and it went down a storm.

We had the nicest pizza in the world last nite for my sons birthday tea....ordered in from Pizza D'or....anyone who has ever sampled it will know why i say its the nicest!

On the Jamie Oliver book, Dylan went to bed half an hour early last nite to listen to his new Killers CD and read his new bible. This morning he was briming with ideas of what he is gonna cook. I have to buy him a pasta machine for christmas now!

BohsPartisan

12/10/2006, 8:09 AM

Home made Pasta is the best. My machine broke :-( It wasn't great, I'm gonna have to look for a new one. Home made Spaghetti with Pesto...mmmm

Drumcondra Red

12/10/2006, 9:35 AM

Magicme the nicest pizza is from independent pizza!!!

Magicme

12/10/2006, 9:40 AM

No you are wrong. Pizza D'or is the best. I love their hot sauce.

Drumcondra Red

12/10/2006, 12:02 PM

No you are wrong. Pizza D'or is the best. I love their hot sauce.

I'm never wrong when it comes to pizza!!!

BohsPartisan

12/10/2006, 2:23 PM

You're both wrong. My homemade Pizza is the best.

tetsujin1979

12/10/2006, 4:31 PM

Pesto sauce is mankind's greatest culinary invention. OK, it wouldn't really be the same if someone hadn't invented pasta as well, but you get my drift...

Add some pesto to pasta, with fried sausage cut into strips, some diced tomatoes, and top with cheese. Bake for about 15-20 minutes. Lovely altogether!

Peadar

13/10/2006, 8:18 AM

Pesto in chicken breast sounds delish!
I normally only have it with pasta.
We could bring out a foot.ie cook book before Christmas if we got cracking on it now. :D

Magicme

13/10/2006, 8:25 AM

You're both wrong. My homemade Pizza is the best.

No mine is the best!! Well ok its not but its pretty good! Dylan makes a good pizza too....I taught him all he knows!

He is planning on cooking a 3 course meal for his grandparents on Sunday for their anniversary. Actually 5 course....he's starting with crudites and cream cheese dip as nibbles, followed by spinnach & ricotto ravioli for the starter, a pinenut & basil risotto with some kinda chicken (hasnt decided which to do yet) as the main and choc brownies with homemade ice cream as pud & tea/coffee! Everything will be home made by his loving hands!

I picked up a boots catalogue yesterday and they have a pasta machine for bout �25 I wonder would it be good enough for him to start with?

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 8:48 AM

Can I book him for my next anniversary? OK its nearly a year away but it sounds like he'll be popular.

liam88

13/10/2006, 9:11 AM

Both my parents are great cooks (including loads of yummy Burmese food!) and so is my girlfriend..........but now I'm at university -catered halls so continental breakfast (can't really go wrong) and dinner which is about the good end of average.

Lunch is either sandwhich, pot noodle, soup, or breakfast in a can.

Anyone want to come do me some proper food?? Its been 3 weeks!!!

Peadar

13/10/2006, 9:13 AM

Anyone want to come do me some proper food?? Its been 3 weeks!!!

Learn to cook, you lazy sod! :p

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 9:23 AM

I remember, back in my UCD days, a few times towards the end of the week I'd have fck all left to eat in the cupbord and not much money so I'd often have things like a tin of sweetcorn with mayonaise mixed through it.

Peadar

13/10/2006, 9:51 AM

I often had a Knorr stock cube and some pasta.
Not bad considering how cheap it was.

Remember one Saturday, getting a big potato, a carrot and a small turnip from an old dear on Moore St. for a few pence. Boiled them together and mashed them up with butter.

Magicme

13/10/2006, 9:56 AM

Can I book him for my next anniversary? OK its nearly a year away but it sounds like he'll be popular.

Ha...he has been told by a guy who is a chef on a Saudi Prince's yacht who used to work in the Sydney Opera house and Clarance and trained in one of Ramsey's kitchens that when he gets fed up with his job of cooking for the Prince bout twice a year and earning double most peoples wages a year and opens a restaurant that Dylan has a job with him! He said any kid who can cook spaghetti bolognaise since he was 6 can have a job in his kitchen.

I rem in College sometimes eating porridge for my dinner. Boy did I love Thursdays tho when my Dad would b stayin in Dublin for business & take me out for a proper feed! Also when lived on Parnell st did the old going over to Moore Street as they were closing and getting a big carrier bag full of spuds, carrots, broccolli, onions and anything else they would throw in for about �2 and it lasting for bout 3 days! Thems was the days!

Peadar

13/10/2006, 10:03 AM

Also when lived on Parnell st did the old going over to Moore Street as they were closing and getting a big carrier bag full of spuds, carrots, broccolli, onions and anything else they would throw in for about �2 and it lasting for bout 3 days! Thems was the days!

Staturday evenings were the best for that.
The amount of stuff you'd get for a few pence was unreal.
Also used to get mince from the butchers on Thomas St. for half nothing. It always helped if you went in with a sad face, a handful of change and asked, "how much mince can I get for 63p?" :(

They'd lash a scoop of mince in a bag and wouldn't even bother to weigh it. The Dubs were great for looking after you like that.

noby

13/10/2006, 10:04 AM

I picked up a boots catalogue yesterday and they have a pasta machine for bout �25 I wonder would it be good enough for him to start with?

I think I paid about that in a Kitchen place in Cork. Once it's pretty sturdy looking it'll be as good as you need. Nothing beats fresh pasta. You only boil it for 3-4 minutes, and a nice and simple tomato sauce goes well with it. It's amazing how far you'll stretch a couple of eggs and a cup of flour.

Peadar

13/10/2006, 10:06 AM

Can you make all different types of pasta or does it just come out in a sheet and you have to cut it?

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 10:34 AM

They usually come with a cutter for Spaghetti and Tagliatelli or Linguine.

Magicme

13/10/2006, 10:36 AM

I think it does sheets then gives u cutters to do the other shapes...not sure will have a proper look.

Yeah Moore street was great, I rarely went on a saturday evening tho coz was either at home or had enough food in apartment...but when I did it was great. Didnt need the mince tho coz was a veggie b4 went to college!

Do u remember Elizabeth's bakery?? I used to love when we had been out partying late, going over there at about 5 in morning & they would have turnovers freshly baked....we would buy 2 of them and head back to the apartment where they would b cut into doorsteps and spread with butter and strawberry jam. They would be still warm and it would melt into a gooey mess. God it was great. Still crave their bread!

noby

13/10/2006, 10:40 AM

The one I got came with two cutter sizes: tagliatelli or linguine. Of course you can just roll into sheets and use it for lasagne or ravioli. It came with a book with all the other available attachments, but I'm happy enough with those couple.

noby

13/10/2006, 10:45 AM

I worked a summer in a local bakery. I started after all the bread was baked (slicing/packing/cleaning). We used to sell day old bread/bread rolls etc. for �1 a sack (25Kg flour sacks) "for greyhounds".

That was the same summer I nearly overdosed on hundreds and thousands.

Magicme

13/10/2006, 11:00 AM

Peadar

13/10/2006, 11:13 AM

Of course you can just roll into sheets and use it for lasagne or ravioli.

Nice one. It's the ravioli I'm interested in more than anything.
Used to get the "fresh" stuff in Morisson's in England and loved it.

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 11:15 AM

Peadar

13/10/2006, 11:31 AM

Is this (http://cgi.ebay.ie/BRAND-NEW-Italian-Style-Pasta-Maker-BOXED_W0QQitemZ320035851622QQihZ011QQcategoryZ2068 0QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) the type of thing we're talking about?
I can get Raviloi trays here (http://cgi.ebay.ie/RAVIOLI-MOULDED-METAL-TRAY-SIZE-36_W0QQitemZ4468000920QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20680QQss PageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) too. :)

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 11:34 AM

yeah thats the kind

Dricky

13/10/2006, 11:35 AM

I'm never wrong when it comes to pizza!!!

Home mad are so easy to do and very tasty, bit of goats cheese Spinach mushrooms and sweet peppers and tomatoes garlic mmmmmm frikken hungry now. once you get the dough right (not hard) you'll never by a frozen or take away pizza again. can always freeze the dough as well dead handy

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 11:43 AM

Hmmm... Sounds good. Think I know whats for dinner tomorrow night.

Dodge

13/10/2006, 11:43 AM

Home mad are so easy to do and very tasty, bit of goats cheese Spinach mushrooms and sweet peppers and tomatoes garlic mmmmmm frikken hungry now. once you get the dough right (not hard) you'll never by a frozen or take away pizza again. can always freeze the dough as well dead handy

Not as handy as dialling the phone though...

Magicme

13/10/2006, 11:45 AM

But tastier unless ur local pizza place is Pizza D'or in Monaghan!

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 11:47 AM

Not as handy as dialling the phone though...

Take away Pizzas are way overpriced though (Dough?).

Dricky

13/10/2006, 11:49 AM

They usually come with a cutter for Spaghetti and Tagliatelli or Linguine.

Your all spot on with the pasta, you can't beat fresh pasta. mix it with anything.

if anyone likes their pesto with a little red wine I've a simple dish that impresses the recipients looks a lot classier than the work thats needed to be put in.

Cook up red onions. mushroom and 2 breast of chicken, throw in about 3 tablespoons of red pesto, and 1/4 glass of red wine and 1/4 glass of water, let it simmer and reduce for about 25 mins. add halved red seedless grapes. Serve on fresh cooked tagatelli

noby

13/10/2006, 11:51 AM

Peadar,
I can't remember the brand name, but it's exactly like the link, alright.
You could get the ravioli tray, or just put dollops of filling on one sheet of pasta, egg around each dollop, another sheet on top, press around each one to seal, then cut it with a knife, or with one of those fancy pastry cutters to get the zigzag look.

You would manage without the pasta maker if you make up the dough and roll it out pretty thinly.
300g Strong Flour
3 large eggs
pinch of salt
Knead. Rest Knead & roll.

Magicme

13/10/2006, 11:51 AM

Just stolen ur recipe for my son....he's looking for a nice italian chicken receipe for the grandparents!

Dricky

13/10/2006, 11:53 AM

Not as handy as dialling the phone though...

True but at least it only going to be your own hair in it if home made.. could of gone down a awful road but won't....

Take 20mins start to finish, great to have before a game of sports get a good bit of energy. and you can throw anything on a pizza.

we have a pizza day in work once a month and they get dominos oh christ they are awful.

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 11:55 AM

Anyone know where to get the Tipo 00 flour that is reccomended for making pasta? I usually just sive it over and over until its really fine.

Also anyone have the book Silverspoon? I got it a few months ago, its great. Its the most bought cookbook by Italian housevives for the last 50 years so you know its gotta be good. It was only translated into English last year for the first time.

Magicme

13/10/2006, 11:59 AM

Funny Dylan & I were trying to figure out where to get that flour yesterday and he said he was just gonna have to sieve it extra!

Must look out for that book Partisan. Since he was bout 7 Dylan has wanted to move to Italy and become a chef. Strange since he was sensitive to wheat up until the last yr or so and could only eat coellaic pasta and pizzas and if you have ever had them u know they aint great.

noby

13/10/2006, 12:04 PM

I just use Strong flour. Readily available.

Magicme, that's the basic recipe. Use good fresh eggs, free range if possible. If it's a little dry sprinkle with a couple of drops of water. Like pizza bases etc., after kneading leave to rest for an hour or so (in clingfilm in the fridge will do nicely).

You can also freeze it. Cut portion sizes of tagliatelli, toss in a little flour, lay on a tea towel and freeze. I also batch and freeze pizza bases. Handy things to have in the freezer. Rolling/cutting pasta is great fun for kids (of all ages).

Dricky

13/10/2006, 12:09 PM

I just use Strong flour. Readily available.

. I also batch and freeze pizza bases. Handy things to have in the freezer. Rolling/cutting pasta is great fun for kids (of all ages).

As is the pizza base, you just can't help giving it a toss into the air like you'd see on tv and in real pizzerias

Peadar

13/10/2006, 12:54 PM

This is turning out to be a cracking thread!

Right, so I don't need any fancy pasta machine, just roll it very thinly.
I'm sure I could improvise on the Ravioli thing.
Absolutely love Spinach & Ricotta Ravioli! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/spinachandricottarav_67278.shtml)

Dricky

13/10/2006, 1:12 PM

Just stolen ur recipe for my son....he's looking for a nice italian chicken receipe for the grandparents!

No bother obviously seasoning is to ones taste and the chicken is in cubes.

Peadar

13/10/2006, 2:22 PM

Can anyone tell me why ice cream is measured in litres but yogurt is measured in grams?

BohsPartisan

13/10/2006, 2:25 PM

Because Yoghurt is classified as being similar to cheese in composition and Ice Cream is frozen cream which is in the milk category.

Dricky

13/10/2006, 2:38 PM

Meant to say that if you are in the English Market down home in Cork there is a stall there that sell very good fresh pasta, his sauces are very good as well. Think he's still there anyway.