What are you eating and drinking tonight?

Puskas · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:21 pm

Just got back from Whisky Live 2009.

Marvellous. I now have a new bottle of Compass Box Optimism and a 15 year old single malt from Scapa, Orkney.

And a glass of Ardbeg I've just poured for myself.

Food will be something I find from a delivery-type menu. And I'm going to try not to think about what time I have to get up tomorrow to make the 8.05 train from Euston I'm booked on to get to the match.

Pah. But whisky - that's the future.

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:33 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:

Worthy4England wrote:

Hmmm never contemplated liver as a breakfast food :-)

But hell, why not?

never contemplated liver as food! eeew.

Exactly, or indeed any other gizzard!

By way of breakfast, I'd say:

Grilled, thick sliced bacon.
Free range eggs (fried, poached, boiled or scrambled)
Grilled pork sausages
Tinned tomatoes
Potato Cake (Grilled, sliced through and buttered)
Grilled closed cup mushrooms
Two rounds of toast and a mug of Earl Grey.

The weekend starts here! :wink:

Prufrock · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:30 pm

Sunny Parisien afternoon, chilled Chardonnay, and a Bolton win, life is fecking brilliant.

Edited to get rid of my brilliant Freudian slip for associating Bolton, with bottle. I'm a case study

TANGODANCER · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:31 pm

I have just partaken of the wife's finest: Grilled lamb chops with mint sauce, mixed runner and butter beans,( my choice) boiled, then fried, potato chunks and the good lady's ( who is incidentally, the finest gravy-maker since Mrs Beeton) gravy. I washed it all down with a glass of cold,sparkling..........tap water. (Bless me forum for I have sinned) :oops:

There is beer, wine and spirits in the house, just felt an instinctive desire for agua fria. :wink:

William the White · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:38 pm

Puskas wrote:

Just got back from Whisky Live 2009.

Marvellous. I now have a new bottle of Compass Box Optimism and a 15 year old single malt from Scapa, Orkney.

And a glass of Ardbeg I've just poured for myself.

Food will be something I find from a delivery-type menu. And I'm going to try not to think about what time I have to get up tomorrow to make the 8.05 train from Euston I'm booked on to get to the match.

Pah. But whisky - that's the future.

I look at that and I contemplate whisky-death 2009... With jealousy, obviously...

Enlighten. please - what is compass box optimism???

Puskas · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:23 pm

William the White wrote:

Puskas wrote:

Just got back from Whisky Live 2009.

Marvellous. I now have a new bottle of Compass Box Optimism and a 15 year old single malt from Scapa, Orkney.

And a glass of Ardbeg I've just poured for myself.

Food will be something I find from a delivery-type menu. And I'm going to try not to think about what time I have to get up tomorrow to make the 8.05 train from Euston I'm booked on to get to the match.

Pah. But whisky - that's the future.

I look at that and I contemplate whisky-death 2009... With jealousy, obviously...

Enlighten. please - what is compass box optimism???

Compass box area small batch whisky maker.
http://www.compassboxwhisky.com/home.html
For more details.
Optimism is one they did specially for whisky live 2009. I think 170 bottles were produced. I have number 70.
Very pleasant.
And I'm already looking forward to whisky live 2010....

William the White · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:45 pm

Puskas wrote:

William the White wrote:

Puskas wrote:

Just got back from Whisky Live 2009.

Marvellous. I now have a new bottle of Compass Box Optimism and a 15 year old single malt from Scapa, Orkney.

And a glass of Ardbeg I've just poured for myself.

Food will be something I find from a delivery-type menu. And I'm going to try not to think about what time I have to get up tomorrow to make the 8.05 train from Euston I'm booked on to get to the match.

Pah. But whisky - that's the future.

I look at that and I contemplate whisky-death 2009... With jealousy, obviously...

Enlighten. please - what is compass box optimism???

Compass box area small batch whisky maker.
http://www.compassboxwhisky.com/home.html
For more details.
Optimism is one they did specially for whisky live 2009. I think 170 bottles were produced. I have number 70.
Very pleasant.
And I'm already looking forward to whisky live 2010....

WTF is Orangerie about?

heresy, no???

Puskas · **Posted:** Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:50 pm

William the White wrote:

Puskas wrote:

William the White wrote:

Puskas wrote:

Just got back from Whisky Live 2009.

Marvellous. I now have a new bottle of Compass Box Optimism and a 15 year old single malt from Scapa, Orkney.

And a glass of Ardbeg I've just poured for myself.

Food will be something I find from a delivery-type menu. And I'm going to try not to think about what time I have to get up tomorrow to make the 8.05 train from Euston I'm booked on to get to the match.

Pah. But whisky - that's the future.

I look at that and I contemplate whisky-death 2009... With jealousy, obviously...

Enlighten. please - what is compass box optimism???

Compass box area small batch whisky maker.
http://www.compassboxwhisky.com/home.html
For more details.
Optimism is one they did specially for whisky live 2009. I think 170 bottles were produced. I have number 70.
Very pleasant.
And I'm already looking forward to whisky live 2010....

WTF is Orangerie about?

heresy, no???

You should be able to experiment a bit, surely?

Orangerie is interesting. I had a sample. Wouldn't get a bottle, myself, mind.

But a bitter, orange liqueur. OK with chocolate. If you like that sort of thing.

They're inventive at Compass Box. Although not everything they do works, IMHO....

ratbert · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:37 am

We went to the Town Bar in Ramsbottom on Saturday night. Lancashire food in a tapas style. Brilliant!

General Mannerheim · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:02 am

ratbert wrote:

We went to the Town Bar in Ramsbottom on Saturday night. Lancashire food in a tapas style. Brilliant!

Alarming number of boarded up pubs in Rammy these days! you could do the mile and still drive at the moment.

Lord Kangana · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:12 am

officer_dibble wrote:

Supermarket ready meal curry

Bear with me

Bradfords finest curry house, Mumtaz, have started supplying reasonably priced curries to the co-op. Gave them a whirl tonight, impressed.

Anyone seen them on the right side of the peninnes?

Mumtaz is overpriced sh*te!

superjohnmcginlay · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:13 am

I had some beers. Food? pah. Think I may have had a pie at some point.

Worthy4England · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:17 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:

General Mannerheim wrote:

Worthy4England wrote:

Hmmm never contemplated liver as a breakfast food :-)

But hell, why not?

never contemplated liver as food! eeew.

Exactly, or indeed any other gizzard!

By way of breakfast, I'd say:

Grilled, thick sliced bacon.
Free range eggs (fried, poached, boiled or scrambled)
Grilled pork sausages
Tinned tomatoes
Potato Cake (Grilled, sliced through and buttered)
Grilled closed cup mushrooms
Two rounds of toast and a mug of Earl Grey.

The weekend starts here! :wink:

I can't believe I inadvertantly missed the tinned toms off my list. I shall hang my head in shame. :oops:

Little Green Man · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:47 am

William the White wrote:

WTF is Orangerie about?

heresy, no???

How very dare you. A close friend of mine did all the packaging design for that one.

William the White · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:04 pm

ratbert wrote:

We went to the Town Bar in Ramsbottom on Saturday night. Lancashire food in a tapas style. Brilliant!

Difficult to compute that one, but sounds intriguing... please elucidate... half a pasty? one mushy pea?

Verbal · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:09 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:

ratbert wrote:

We went to the Town Bar in Ramsbottom on Saturday night. Lancashire food in a tapas style. Brilliant!

Alarming number of boarded up pubs in Rammy these days! you could do the mile and still drive at the moment.

Same in Farnworth, absolutely desolate.

superjohnmcginlay · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:15 pm

jimbo wrote:

William the White wrote:

Feckin good start... two malts I've never tried, and one - linkwood - i've never heard of... Hey, going on the birthday list...

OK - to throw out a challenge - you have a fine steak (or deeply tomato dish if veggie) - for me, medium rare, hint of garlic - patina of fried onions, two or three well crisped potatoes, mangetouts, and, for surprise, brussels sprouts...

What's the perfect red wine?

For me - Hermitage...

Go!

Steak cooked medium rare, drizzled with olive oil and rosemary, with a nice salad. Heaven.

My favourite dish though is lobbing in some prawns, garlic, olive oil, basil, onion and cherry tomatoes into a pan and tossing it with some spaghetti! Perfect and cheap!

As for wine? How about Lambrini?

You mean burnt? Its got to be as rare as poss without giving you food poisoning. Honestly.

ratbert · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:17 pm

William the White wrote:

ratbert wrote:

We went to the Town Bar in Ramsbottom on Saturday night. Lancashire food in a tapas style. Brilliant!

Difficult to compute that one, but sounds intriguing... please elucidate... half a pasty? one mushy pea?

Didn't quite phrase that properly... but potted shrimps, Lancs cheese rarebit, etc... locally sourced and grown food. Didn't notice any boarded up pubs though, the place seemed busy.

boltonboris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:39 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:

jimbo wrote:

William the White wrote:

Feckin good start... two malts I've never tried, and one - linkwood - i've never heard of... Hey, going on the birthday list...

OK - to throw out a challenge - you have a fine steak (or deeply tomato dish if veggie) - for me, medium rare, hint of garlic - patina of fried onions, two or three well crisped potatoes, mangetouts, and, for surprise, brussels sprouts...

What's the perfect red wine?

For me - Hermitage...

Go!

Steak cooked medium rare, drizzled with olive oil and rosemary, with a nice salad. Heaven.

My favourite dish though is lobbing in some prawns, garlic, olive oil, basil, onion and cherry tomatoes into a pan and tossing it with some spaghetti! Perfect and cheap!

As for wine? How about Lambrini?

You mean burnt? Its got to be as rare as poss without giving you food poisoning. Honestly.

Aye, I have mine blue

General Mannerheim · **Posted:** Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:57 pm

quick question - what the hell is sauteeing? ie, how do i saute some leeks?

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