What are you cooking now?

[greenilex]

I have just polished off a plate of sunflower seed bread, Camembert and delicious sauerkraut from Lidl. Instant and totally scrummy.

[teamsaint]

Pigs trotters are delicious, but I'm not sure about setting them in jelly.

And when you can handle that well-known anglo-asian invention known as the 'legendary chicken phall', then you'll have my respect.

Do they do a Chicken Phall in Vesta packs?

[Beef Oven!]

Do they do a Chicken Phall in Vesta packs?

WTF!!!?

[teamsaint]

WTF!!!?

Spanish supermarkets have row after row of this stuff.

cant say I have tried it though.

just a diversion on the way to the gin aisle.

[Beef Oven!]

Spanish supermarkets have row after row of this stuff.

cant say I have tried it though.

just a diversion on the way to the gin aisle.

Yours.

[Barbirollians]

Roasted marinaded cod on a roasted bed of tomatoes and potatoes with chermoula ( a Middle Eastern lemon coriander, garlic, spices and olive oil herb paste )

[greenilex]

The bread and cheese aforementioned were from the Coop, needless to say. Only the tin was Lidl.

[french frank]

The bread and cheese aforementioned were from the Coop

As I have said several times before, I'm quite a fan of the Coop's cheeses, especially the 'top range', esp. French. They just need a little nurturing once you get them home.

I shall have some raw broadies à la Vinteuil for lunch. Not sure whether they will be a starter for something else (as yet undecided) or the accompanying veg. They're the last ones I shall buy, though - I wish I'd waited until my own were ready but at least the shop ones are still young and green.

[vinteuil]

... I thought you might like this poster I just spotted – do you think they fry them live? -

http://www.eventiesagre.it/images/upload/image/2014/sagre/agosto/toscana/sagra_del_cunigliolo_fritto.jpg

[french frank]

... I thought you might like this poster I just spotted – do you think they fry them live? -

http://www.eventiesagre.it/images/up...olo_fritto.jpg

http://sbarellababyanimals.com/2014/05/29/mail-bombing-10-sagra-del-cunigliolo-fritto-a-la-serra-san-miniato-pi/

[french frank]

Probably a massacre:

http://www.tuscanypass.com/events_tuscany/25786_fried-rabbit-festival-in-san-miniato-pisa.html

[Beef Oven!]

Bacon and eggs with sourdough toast, in preparation for the Rameau Bal.

[amateur51]

Bacon and eggs with sourdough toast, in preparation for the Rameau Bal.

Sourdough toast is princely as is sourdough fried in olive oil ... but please don't tell the diabetes nurse

[Beef Oven!]

Today's lunch is favourite cucina povera, of mine. Accompanied by Berio's Sinfonia, then Bill Evans' 'Explorations'.

Two tablespoons of olive oil heated in a pan.

Add 3 anchovies (jar or tinned)
1 crushed garlic segment.
A pinch of dried red pepper (fresh is better of course).

The anchovies will disintegrate, and surprisingly, this sauce does not taste like fish!

100g of Manfredine pasta (I use Morrisons 'signature range' £1.60 for 500g). I would only use fresh pasta for making ravioli and similar, much prefer dried pasta.

The 'corrugated' nature manfredine means the sauce really clings to the pasta, delicious!

Serve with grated parmesan cheese (but hopefully not as heavy handed as me!).

Tomorrow I think I will make another cucina povera dish, 'bagna cauda', but I will not be making the polenta myself!

[gurnemanz]

Today's lunch is favourite cucina povera, of mine. Accompanied by Berio's Sinfonia, then Bill Evans' 'Explorations'.

Sounds great (if sailing dangerously close to Pseuds Corner)