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I made a vegetable curry for my family about six months ago :(

does chocolate popcorn count?

I made steak for myself, yesterday.

Lipsie : Er...did you pop the corn yourself?
Sul : what did you have with the steak?

I had philedelphia with cracked pepper. It was yum. I couldnt be arsed to cook chips.

Yum! We need to get you to eat a vegetable or two, Sul*. (Hops not included.)

*Yes, Mum

I eat plenty of veg. Salad most nights, in fact, its just that I dont prepare it :)

Yeah, my Mom cooks most nights, too. Spoilt rotten we are!

Good lord, no. Not my mum. Christ on a bike. If ever my Dad's out of the house on the piss or whatever, either I'll cook or we get take-away. Never let my mum cook, that's the rule.

Hahahahaha! So she's a shit cook, then? What kinds of things does she make?

Past bake - burnt pasta bake.
When I was little - cold ham, crips, fried egg and beans.
Burnt baked potatoes
Undercooked boiled potatoes
Tomatoes - you've known me how many years mother? I hate tomatoes.
I could go on but her culinary adventures aren't all that creative, they're just frequently bad.

Hahahaha! Oh dear, Sul-eh. Sometimes I wish my Mom was a bad cook - then I wouldn't love food so much. Or maybe not - it's not like we have home-made Pizza. My niece was telling me on Sunday that her (much detested) mother-in-law gives them a slice of pizza for dinner and puts the rest away in little bags in the freezer. ONE SLICE!!! So it takes them three days to eat one pizza. Holy socks, if it takes me thirty minutes on my own it's a lot. OINK.

poor sul

steve make me steak and chips tonight

No, not poor Sul. My Dad's an awesome cook. It was only when I was at school when I was subjected to my Mother's awfulness as a chef and to be quite honest I don't really remember those days anyway. I've a terrible memory. I think it has paved a way for me to be able to enjoy some of the rougher of fast food and that's got to be a good thing right?

yes i used an air poping machine so no butter or salt was used in the popping process
i then made chocolate fudge and puored it over the popcorn.

Tonight we actually stuffed a real marrow! It was brilliant. Scooped out a big groove to make two marrow boats. Then we cooked up some rice in a pan and in the other pan cooked up a load of onion and garlic and ginger and mushrooms and then mixed it together with the rice and then added chunks of haloumi and cherry tomatoes, filled the marrow boats with the mixture and baked it in the oven. Well nice. We've still got one marrow boat left actually, but none of you buggers are having it.

Sorry, that made me sound a bit stingy.

like a bee

su: i love the sound of your air poping machine. what's the highest height it can create a pontiff at? does it use raw air or do you have to wait for a cardinal to fly past?

Hm.knight's move thinking?

I made pizza last night. My oven has a 'pizza' setting.
Is this normal?

OH YES!

My oven doesn't have a pizza setting. What does this pizza setting do? I wish to learn more about the pizza setting.

the pizza's setting on top till it's cool enough to eat

*THUD* Salty!

It only turns the top heating element on, which you put your pizza underneath.
The fan is on, too. Apparently, this helps.
I must confess that my pizza was cooked superbly.

So it's like an oven and a grill at once! My oven has one of those. i never realised what it was for. it doesn't say "pizza" on it. I haven't made a pizza in years so I probably haven't missed out on having it.

Hi Luce!

our oven has a 220 degrees setting, it makes fine pizza

my pizzas are round so i can't tell how many degrees they are at

:)

Do you think it would be possible to make a hollow spherical pizza?

And if so, would you put the cheese, tomato etc. on the inside or the outside?
(I would refer to these ingredients as "the topping" but that may confuse the issue).

Discuss [20 marks]

Hang on - they exist - you can get them in Italy.
They are like rolled-up pizzas.

Oh, and Doc: It's not the grill - if it was, I'd have said 'grill'.

Grim... are you thinking of Calzone? those are like Pizza Pasties. I'm talking about a Pizza Football.

RE: The pizza football.

I think it's possible. If I was to make one I'd make it in two halves (I've gone through a paragraph before realising this could be a *boom boom*. Sorry, it really was unintended.) The toppings would be a pain and the base would have to be very sturdy though, obviously. Cooking the base somewhat first and maybe over some tinfoil over the mould should get it quite sturdy then left to set a bit before the wet stuff goes on. I'd imagine you'd have to stodge up the tomato puree a bit, some starchy substance perhaps left to settle, hopefully that would be enough to hold a fair bit of grated cheese. Then oven cook while still in the mould, leave both sides to settle and attempt a melted cheese join.

Further cooking might be a bastard with the hollow internal though. A rolling sort of oven might help. Or a reflective balloon you can pop like how you make papier mache masks.

is the pizza setting fan grill?

best way to home cook pizza is also to score a teracotta tile cooking on those makes aweserom pizza

Or perhaps a base cooked over an edible rice-paper made 3d jigsaw, then skewered and, with the same stodgy puree, cooked on a spit.

We're talking Pizza footballs now Su! I demand you stop interupting my thought/post process!

i think the toppings should go on the inside

not just for ease of non-messy handling (and heading)

but also then you could go all jules verne 20,000 leagues under the crust kinda typa thing as you burrow your world-destroying way into it

"So now all we have to do, kids, is scoop Fred and Ginger out and pour the water away, and we have the base mould for our spherical pizza!"


EDIT: hmph -- dam antileeching
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personally i'm rather fond of a nice turkish pide myself

i thought pide was where everyone dressed up in carnival costumes and danced in the streets and had sex with likeminded people of the same gender.

I thought that was homo sex with a bunch of lions

dyson-pizza-sphere - captures 100% of the flavor during cooking

Last night I made:

A sauce consisting of onions, courgettes, a can of tomatoes, tomato puree, a can of chickpeas and some fresh basil and I slopped it all on a bed of Ebly durham wheat. I thought it was quite tasty considering it was an experitment of "what do we have left in the cupboard?".

Dr Lucid, your marrow boats sound rather delicious.

Friday night is stir fry night in the Alfie/Emma household.

Needs more meat!

Emma that sounds Yummy!

more meat!

also, if last night was "what do we have left in the cupboard?", then tonight's stir fry night could be a little on the sparse side, nutrition-wise.

Thanks Syl

Saltation and Sul, you will never convince me I need more meat ;)

Well we have another courgette and some peppers and some noodles and onions and sauce and half a cauliflower. I meant I hadn't really got a recipe prepared with specific ingredients.

hmm. did you know "courgette" is french for "reshaped meat"?

which reminds me, my courgette filter needs updating

From Wikipedia SIMBT: "Courgette comes from the French name of the vegetable, with the same spelling. It is a diminutive of courge, meaning squash".

So ette means meat then?

Uh uh. ette means "small" so it's a small squash. I think Salty needs a lie-down.

sul is correct: ette means meat. it comes from an african dialect (exterminate! exterminate!) in gondwanaland where people have a habit of prefixing words with "m". e.g., "mboko", "mmmmm", and, of course, "mette"

thieving english colonialistas (a french word meaning "spaniards got there first (fucking spanish)) nicked the word. but to get a large quantity of the word back home in their tiny wooden ships, they used tiny wooden presses to make the word smaller.

hence: courgette.

that is the

DOGS BOLLOX!

salty lies and syl displays errors ?!

Just a few things that are confusing me...

When Gondwanaland existed, humans didn't - so no-one would have been prefixing anything with anything.

Courge means Marrow

-ette means female.

pedant

I did have a picture of the dogs bollocks up there, but thought it was a bit crude. Even for you lot.

COURAGE means MARROW! This was why we attempted the marrow-stuffing. The best bits were the haloumi and the cherry tomatoes. Even though I might be saying it because they were the only bits I bought and Anna bought the marrow and the rice and the garlic and the onion and the ginger. In fact she grew the garlics. However it was not as COURAGEOUS as the stuffed aubergine. We filled it with mozarella (and other things I cannot remember) and baked it. That was amazing.

Also, isn't there a children's book where they make a pizza football?

There is a place in Brighton that makes wrap-over pizzas. Like, you get a pizza. You fold it over in half so it looks a bit like a pastie. And then, I think they deep-fry them. They call them "pizzafritta" and they're like a big greasy bready ball of cheese and tomato and olives and the like. They're totally intense and they go everywhere. Not entirely my cup of tea but I've tried one once.

One thing I quite want to make, or actually just get someone to make, is a meatza. It's like a pizza but you cook up a big round base of burger-meat beforehand for a bit and then put the topping on it and cook it a bit more. So the dough is replaced by meat.

They have a thing in Middlesborough called a "parmo" which is a big bit of chicken hammered flat and covered with a cheese and tomato topping.

Wow, so many posts. I am Saltation!

Oh god, gave it away there. Sugar.

£%$"£$%^$£%$"

oops this isn't emma

how about a nice slice of meat cake?

Were you pretending to be emma, Salty?

that makes you secretly alfie!

Don't be silly. I'm already Doctor Lucid, Syl, Beef "Jerky", Gill, Deux Ex Machina and Grim...,

I really don't have the time to be emma as well...

good point!

so who IS this mysterious so-called "alfie"....?

mmmm, haloumi

I had haloumi for breakfast at Ruby's Diner yesterday. Some pics on Flickr of the cool stuff they have on the walls.