What are you cooking now?

[french frank]

No the caramelised onions in pissaladiere arise simply from long cooking not the use of sugar - well in my recipe anyway - perhaps very well cooked onions would be a better description.

What about the bread base? Do you caramelise your onions first?

The pizza was only baked for about 10-12 minutes.

[Barbirollians]

What about the bread base? Do you caramelise your onions first?

The pizza was only baked for about 10-12 minutes.

Yes the onions are cooked slowly first and then spread onto the bread base .

[greenilex]

Enjoyed the onion and tapenade thingy, made with little square sandwich breads from the Co-op and red onion and a posh tapenade from a jar and a smear of tomato paste. Delicious, and practically instant food.

[french frank]

Enjoyed the onion and tapenade thingy, made with little square sandwich breads from the Co-op and red onion and a posh tapenade from a jar and a smear of tomato paste. Delicious, and practically instant food.

I made my own tapenade because the Coop could only offer Tupperware as their nearest equivalent.

But making your own is so quick (even with a pestle and mortar) that's it's really worth doing without the pizza. About 5 minutes.

@barby

[Beef Oven!]

Fresh, chilled Brazilian figs flesh, on hot buttered wholemeal toast.

[MrGongGong]

Fresh, chilled Brazilian figs flesh, on hot buttered wholemeal toast.

The "peoples army" marching on it's stomach?

[Beef Oven!]

The "peoples army" marching on it's stomach?

Merely elevenses MsGG. A real man can't march on incontestably foreign muck like figs on toast. I of course had porridge earlier today.

[Nick Armstrong]

incontestably foreign muck like figs on toast

.... and yet you seemed so proud of it only moments earlier!

MsGG

... something we should know? Should we be calling you MsNoGongs, MrGG ?

[Beef Oven!]

.... and yet you seemed so proud of it only moments earlier!

My guard was down.

... something we should know? Should we be calling you MsNoGongs, MrGG ?

Apparently he's saying nowt!

[MrGongGong]

[HighlandDougie]

Two of the apricot trees I've planted here in the sunny south have finally produced sufficient fruit to make 4 decent sized pots of jam. 1.6kg of fruit, 1kg of jam sugar, some lemon juice, a few kernels from the apricot stones (a wee hint of cyanide to pep the taste up) et voila - slightly runny apricot jam à la Française. Appropriate activity for Bastille day, as was cleaning up the mess on the hob afterwards.

[vinteuil]

Appropriate activity for Bastille day, as was cleaning up the mess on the hob afterwards.

... bravo mon petit caporal!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Napoleon

[richardfinegold]

We had a cooking lesson today in Paris on croissants, followed by eating the results hot out of the oven. There go my new Coronary Arteries...

[teamsaint]

baked sweet potato with cannallini beans, spinach and Pesto.

Yum.
Hopefully.

Some Bach Inventions to go with.

[MrGongGong]

We had a cooking lesson today in Paris on croissants,

Isn't that what they have in Aberdeen?

What happens when you sit ON croissants