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  • BBMmk2
    Late Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 20908

    #16
    amateur51, Tescos got it on offer, so I believe, for a £1, or ASDAs. I dont think Sainsburys stock it?
    Don’t cry for me
    I go where music was born

    J S Bach 1685-1750

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    • amateur51

      #17
      Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
      amateur51, Tescos got it on offer, so I believe, for a £1, or ASDAs. I dont think Sainsburys stock it?
      Many thanks, BBM - there's a new Tesco opening soon near here, I shall make it my first purchase

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #18
        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        Many thanks, BBM - there's a new Tesco opening soon near here, I shall make it my first purchase
        No problems!!
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • JFLL
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 780

          #19
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          This can be a hearty snack with two pieces of thick toast, or an interesting second course (between soup and main course) if you just have a single piece of toast. I had it at a London musical venue and have made it several times since. Really, it's a toasted sandwich, but you don't need a sandwich toaster.

          1 or 2 slices of toast (my favourite currently is wholemeal spelt from my local bakery)
          2 medium or one large mushroom - fresh tasty ones
          cheese, distinctive tasting - stilton very good, but I've also used Brie

          Slice the mushrooms into pickaxes and fry lightly in butter. When just about ready, toast the bread (you can rub the hot toast with garlic at this point if you want). While toast is still hot, cover one piece with a layer of cheese so that it begins to fuse with the hot toast. Pile on the piping hot mushrooms and clap the second piece of toast on top to melt the cheese some more. Serve with salad leaves.

          If you serve it 'open', scatter fresh herbs (chives or parsley) over the mushrooms.
          We do a very similar thing, ff, using Irish potato farls (known usually chez nous by a less polite name) from Sainsbury's instead of toast, and leaving it open. Stilton or Roquefort is best, we find.

          Serve with Good Red Wine.
          Makes all the difference, doesn't it?

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          • BBMmk2
            Late Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 20908

            #20
            Talkking of which, MrsBBM uses the George Forman Grill for a toasted sarnie! Very good ones it makes as well!!
            Don’t cry for me
            I go where music was born

            J S Bach 1685-1750

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            • amateur51

              #21
              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
              a saint-sardos : now that looks interesting...



              These Boards are so educational - until ten minutes ago I knew nothing about the War of Saint-Sardos. We lost; a precursor of the Hundred-Years' (Years' ? Year's ? Years? ) War...

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Saint-Sardos
              A dull thud at the letterbox and lo! A 144-page catalogue from my favourite wine merchant.

              The accompanying letter advises: "We are delighted, for the second time this year, to the able to reduce the prices of a substantial number of wines. In January we dropped the prices of over 300 wines, and due to to an increasingly favourable Euro exchange rate and a slightly lower than expected duty increase earlier this year, we are able to incorporate over 100 more price reductions into this List, with prices held for all other wines"

              This comes from The Wine Society which has been a co-operative venture since 1874 and I recommend it. For further details about its mutuality please see ..

              Putting our members before profit, we buy on quality and taste alone so you can enjoy wine at the fairest prices - For you and the people who make it.


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              • Pianorak
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3128

                #22
                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                . . . my favourite wine merchant. . .
                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                That nice Mr Dunkin'-Smiff will be making a further deposit this Thursday so it'll be another week of "X on toast" so that I can get this set - bargain!
                Long live that nice Mr Dunkin'-Smiff!
                My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12936

                  #23
                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  A dull thud at the letterbox and lo! A 144-page catalogue from my favourite wine merchant.
                  / ... / The Wine Society which has been a co-operative venture since 1874 and I recommend it.
                  ... very much recommended. In response to said catalogue have just put in (another... ) substantial () order.

                  One of the (many) good things abt the Wine Society is that it covers everything from real good cheapos - a very drinkable Portuguese red (Real Lavrador Tinto Alentejo 2011, Adega Co-op Redondo) at £4-95 per bottle to the more extreme experiences (ch Lafite Rothschild 2004, pauillac) - ahem - £850 per bottle...

                  And they winkle out interesting rarities you won't find in supermarkets or local offfies - and they are remarkably reliable...

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26572

                    #24
                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... very much recommended. In response to said catalogue have just put in (another... ) substantial () order.

                    One of the (many) good things abt the Wine Society is that it covers everything from real good cheapos - a very drinkable Portuguese red (Real Lavrador Tinto Alentejo 2011, Adega Co-op Redondo) at £4-95 per bottle to the more extreme experiences (ch Lafite Rothschild 2004, pauillac) - ahem - £850 per bottle...

                    And they winkle out interesting rarities you won't find in supermarkets or local offfies - and they are remarkably reliable...

                    Another member here, though it's a while since I put in an order...

                    As you say, interesting and very reliable. I only once ever had to send back a case, of their house claret I think - just didn't like it at all.

                    Other than that, never a missed beat - I remember an amazing Ribera del Duero special reserve for very little money, absolutely delicious.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30455

                      #25
                      Originally posted by JFLL View Post
                      We do a very similar thing, ff, using Irish potato farls (known usually chez nous by a less polite name) from Sainsbury's instead of toast, and leaving it open. Stilton or Roquefort is best, we find.
                      The Rocquefort would be a step up, with which the Saint-Sardos would definitely be indiqué.

                      This dish could probably be further sophisticated with some sort of fancy mushroom. But a woody portobello will do the job.
                      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26572

                        #26
                        Originally posted by french frank View Post
                        woody portobello
                        Thanks ff! You've just found a name for the main character in the short story I've been planning about a down-at-heel jazz drummer
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • amateur51

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                          Thanks ff! You've just found a name for the main character in the short story I've been planning about a down-at-heel jazz drummer
                          An arsonist who was given the chance to give up his awful ways but didn't might be called Woody Blazes, I s'pose

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                          • french frank
                            Administrator/Moderator
                            • Feb 2007
                            • 30455

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Thanks ff! You've just found a name for the main character in the short story I've been planning about a down-at-heel jazz drummer


                            Get off this thread, Caliban . You are ... light!
                            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                            • vinteuil
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12936

                              #29
                              Originally posted by french frank View Post
                              The Rocquefort would be a step up, with which the Saint-Sardos would definitely be indiqué.

                              .
                              ... hmmm. Not sure. I think with a roquefort I wd be tempted to go with a good oloroso or amontillado sherry. Or, of course, a sauternes...

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                              • amateur51

                                #30
                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                ... hmmm. Not sure. I think with a roquefort I wd be tempted to go with a good oloroso or amontillado sherry. Or, of course, a sauternes...
                                Now we're stepping outside the realms of snackery as it is understood in this household - this seems to be more of a ... repast

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