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Post by everso on Feb 6, 2010 19:05:29 GMT
I can't believe what I did this evening. We just ate dinner, and for a change I decided to do a crumble dessert instead of the usual to Mr. E. "There's ice cream in the freezer or a yogurt in the fridge - help yourself". It was a blueberry and apple crumble, and for the topping I did a breadcrumb, butter, brown sugar and mixed spice concoction, which we've had before and like very much. We'd both just taken a last mouthful and Mr. E. turned to me and said "What did you put in the crumble? It's made my mouth feel a bit hot" Oh my god, I thought I'd put mixed spice in it. Instead I'd put cayenne pepper!  And there's still enough left over for tomorrow's dessert as well.  |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 6, 2010 21:07:02 GMT
Cayenne is a lovely thing, on potato salad, for example. It's just milled dried chillies, you know. Nothing to do with pepper. But on crumble?! I blame the Edradour.  Talking of blueberries. Never saw them at all until I came back to Britain some years ago. Had some the other day. Tasteless, they were. Trouble is, they look a bit like bilberries, which are delicious, but can't be got nowadays for love nor money. Except in Sweden -- they have all kinds of lovely berries you never see here. So where do you get tasty blueberries, Ev? Waitrose? That would be a long drive for me. |
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Post by housesparrow on Feb 7, 2010 8:14:20 GMT
Years ago I made a casserole and added washing up liquid instead of salt - both were in containers size of similar size and colour. I had invited a boyfriend round for a meal in the house where I had a bedsit; the shared essentials were bought by someone else.
I poured out most of the liquid and started again. It didn't taste odd, and I never told him.
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Post by everso on Feb 7, 2010 9:02:32 GMT
Cayenne is a lovely thing, on potato salad, for example. It's just milled dried chillies, you know. Nothing to do with pepper. But on crumble?! I blame the Edradour. Talking of blueberries. Never saw them at all until I came back to Britain some years ago. Had some the other day. Tasteless, they were. Trouble is, they look a bit like bilberries, which are delicious, but can't be got nowadays for love nor money. Except in Sweden -- they have all kinds of lovely berries you never see here. So where do you get tasty blueberries, Ev? Waitrose? That would be a long drive for me. We have a lovely farm shop a short drive away that grows and freezes their fruits for the wintertime. The other day I bought gooseberries and blueberries. Blueberries don't have as much taste as, say blackberries, and I think they are nicest ate raw. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 9:56:25 GMT
Blueberries don't have as much taste as, say blackberries, and I think they are nicest ate raw. I ate them raw, Ev, like you'd eat grapes. Tasteless. Probably freshly flown in from Tahiti, or perhaps Antarctica. As it happens, I only bought them because there was a deal on at Morrisons: a punnet of red grapes plus a punnet of blueberries for £3. The grapes were very nice. Next time I'll consult a haruspex before I buy. Our nearest farm shop is temporarily closed. I think the organising lady is ill. But they don't sell berries in any case. |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 7, 2010 10:17:57 GMT
At school you added custard at the end of the line of food that you could pick up (there must be a better way of saying this; I feel like Henry James, sitting and waiting for the word to come, only the word isn't coming), when everything else was on your tray, and I was always scared - for 5 years nearly, or pouring it over my main course.
Well, one day I did, and for a time was known as the boy who put custard on his dinner.
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Post by jean on Feb 7, 2010 11:41:21 GMT
Cayenne is a lovely thing... We're too set in our ways! Who says chilli should be confined to savoury dishes?  Your nearest Welsh mountain! |
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Post by everso on Feb 7, 2010 11:47:14 GMT
Cayenne is a lovely thing... We're too set in our ways! Who says chilli should be confined to savoury dishes? Your nearest Welsh mountain! When I make a chilli con carne I always put a teaspoon of cocoa powder in with the spices. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 12:17:02 GMT
We're too set in our ways! Who says chilli should be confined to savoury dishes? I do. I'm addicted to chilli, and I've tried it with chocolate, but I don't like that combination. Each to her own. I can see one without getting out of my chair. Is the blueberry native to Britain? The bilberry is, but I've never seen one in the wild. Nor in the shops for years and years. |
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Post by jean on Feb 7, 2010 12:24:41 GMT
You'll have to get out of your chair and get a bit closer - the mountains are covered in bilberries.
Not just in Wales, either. We used to pick them in Ireland when I was a child. My mother called them frockens.
Last year when I was in Somerset I saw jam made from local whortleberries, and I thought it was some exciting new fruit I'd never tasted, but it turned out to be another name for bilberries.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 12:55:25 GMT
You'll have to get out of your chair and get a bit closer - the mountains are covered in bilberries. That's the best news I've had since somebody told me about this messageboard.  I'll be up there in the course of the week, or at least when they're in season. Thank you. But not blueberries. No great loss there, IMO. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 13:01:51 GMT
I'll be up there in the course of the week, or at least when they're in season. Thank you. This from Google . . . " Plant: March, April
Harvest: July, August
The bilberry is the king of small and tasty fruits - a tiny explosion of intense flavour compared to its blander, plumper relative, the blueberry." I guess I know enough now. Bilberries here I come. |
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Post by philippa on Feb 7, 2010 13:14:43 GMT
i've picked bilberries around here, so they're bound to be where you are, Weyland.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 14:07:01 GMT
i've picked bilberries around here, so they're bound to be where you are, Weyland. I can hardly wait. Thank you. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 14:17:14 GMT
This thread surely demonstrates just how wonderful a messageboard can be: someone in Essex accidently flavours a dessert with chilli, and the hills of Wales end up bereft of bilberries. Magic.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 15:04:20 GMT
Weyland, i too am addicted to chilli.  |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2010 15:24:24 GMT
Weyland, i too am addicted to chilli. I gather it's quite common, Costal. When Chilli Depletion strikes, I MUST have a good dose of capsaicin within the hour. That's why I always keep some pre-prepared vindaloo, Madras, or chilli con carne in the freezer for emergencies. And it's essential that the dose is enough to fulfil the message of that old Mexican chilli proverb fully: Pay on Entry, Pay on Exit.Yesterday I had a homemade pepperoni pizza, with added fresh sliced jalapenos topped with Dutch sambalkaas. And I feel a LOT better this afternoon. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 15:57:59 GMT
awww yes... jalapenos on pizza... very very ARW YOMMMMMM definetely pay on exit with those wee fellas thou. ber-loimey!!! |
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Post by artistlily on Feb 7, 2010 22:45:55 GMT
Be careful not to get any teeny bits of chilli onto your privates. A whole new world of pain....................................  |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 8, 2010 10:15:49 GMT
Be careful not to get any teeny bits of chilli onto your privates. A whole new world of pain.................................... I know. Even just hands that have been handling chillies. Wash them. Some people wear rubber gloves (*) -- indeed some recipes recommend just that. And eyes. * I mean while handling chillies, silly. |
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I'll be up there in the course of the week, or at least when they're in season. Thank you.
