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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 12:09:17 GMT
...some purple coloured fizzy drink was spilt on our cream sofa, and much furious rubbing with damp cloths ensued... Never mind the sofa, what about their stomachs?Sorry I missed the semolina last night - I love semolina - it was all about biscuits when I was there. Their stomachs contain hydrochloric acid (according to certain sources on this board) so I guess that would overcome the fizzy purple drink. My sofa is another matter.
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 12:15:13 GMT
Re semolina and ground rice. Apart from the colour, the flavours are different too.
Although once you've put in a nice dollop of jam and mixed it all round and made it look like baby food, you can't really tell the difference.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 12:16:51 GMT
Well blow me down and pick me up! O me of little faith.
I just went along to the "local" shop -- out here in the Welsh sticks, 4 miles away attached to a garage -- to get the Observer and some beer, and noticed a little cellophane packet with yellow contents on the flour shelf. "Probably maize flour", I thought, but I couldn't read the tiny label print because I'd left me glasses in the WeyMobile.
Asked at the counter: semolina! So I'll be attempting the Czech recipe this afternoon, probably with Pražský guláš.
I guess there must be some sticks dish requiring semolina. I just hope it's not semolina pudding, of which I have terrible, terrible memories. Though not as bad as tapioca. (School dinners, as if I need to say.)
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 12:19:12 GMT
Weyland, how untidy of you! There are now TWO threads on this fascinating subject! Not accidental. The other one is history. We shall await the results of your semolina dumplings with baited breath, Weyland.
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Post by jean on Oct 31, 2010 12:21:22 GMT
I just hope it's not semolina pudding... I love semolina pudding! I bought little pots of it in France this summer. A sort of variation on creme caramel.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 12:33:39 GMT
I just hope it's not semolina pudding... I love semolina pudding! I bought little pots of it in France this summer. A sort of variation on creme caramel.That's as maybe, but what St Charles RC Primary served up was nothing at all whatsoever in any way at all at all anything like crème caramel. Or any other kind of food. More like thin denatured putty topped with a blob of reddish mud. Please don't ask me about the tapioca. Or the mince. Talking of France, the semolina I just acquired is a French product, packed in Wiltshire.
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 12:35:38 GMT
School mince, school custard, school anything. Absolute disgrace that people employed to cook food actually couldn't. Same goes for hospitals.
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Post by jean on Oct 31, 2010 12:44:08 GMT
Something is stirring in my memory...doesn't someone make them with stale bread? Isn't that whate the fabled lightness comes from?
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 12:53:50 GMT
Something is stirring in my memory...doesn't someone make them with stale bread? Isn't that whate the fabled lightness comes from? Yes, indeed. That's at least part of the trick. Apparently in Austria stale bread is widely available, ready-packed, in supermarkets. I have some here, though it's wholemeal. It'll just have to do.
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Post by jean on Oct 31, 2010 12:53:51 GMT
So you're of the turkey twizzler school of thought, then?
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Post by Patrick on Oct 31, 2010 15:25:30 GMT
<waiting for posts moved from Rob's Chat Room> We have the power! (It took proboards long enough! )
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 15:34:48 GMT
Something is stirring in my memory...doesn't someone make them with stale bread? Isn't that whate the fabled lightness comes from? Yes, indeed. That's at least part of the trick. Apparently in Austria stale bread is widely available, ready-packed, in supermarkets. I have some here, though it's wholemeal. It'll just have to do. I always keep the ends of bread that are no good for sandwiches in the freezer, ready for making into breadcrumbs or a nice bread pudding (I have a wonderful recipe, care of Delia)
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 15:37:08 GMT
Jean, it infuriates me that people who should be cooking nutricious meals for our children and sick people actually produce the most unbelievable crap imaginable.
I detest most processed food (but not all).
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 15:42:07 GMT
I always keep the ends of bread that are no good for sandwiches in the freezer, ready for making into breadcrumbs or a nice bread pudding Forget Wonder Woman. Forget Essex Girl. We have . . . I give you . . . put your hands together for . . . CHELMSFORD WOMAN!
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 15:44:30 GMT
<waiting for posts moved from Rob's Chat Room> We have the power! (It took proboards long enough! ) Thank you very much, Patrick. The service here is beyond reproach. Thanks again.
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 15:46:29 GMT
I always keep the ends of bread that are no good for sandwiches in the freezer, ready for making into breadcrumbs or a nice bread pudding Forget Wonder Woman. Forget Essex Girl. We have . . . I give you . . . put your hands together for . . . CHELMSFORD WOMAN!
Chelmsford women are very frugal.
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Post by Patrick on Oct 31, 2010 15:46:36 GMT
School mince, school custard, school anything. Absolute disgrace that people employed to cook food actually couldn't. Same goes for hospitals. I suppose it was just down to the vagaries of "mass production"? At my Primary school the dinners were brought in large tin cases from a local secondary school by taxi. Warmed up a bit in the kitchen at school. It was pretty dire of course, but some would say it was a time of the last vestiges of healthy school dinners - Liver and Onion etc - However badly cooked. Never much in the way of salads mind.
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Post by everso on Oct 31, 2010 15:57:42 GMT
School mince, school custard, school anything. Absolute disgrace that people employed to cook food actually couldn't. Same goes for hospitals. I suppose it was just down to the vagaries of "mass production"? At my Primary school the dinners were brought in large tin cases from a local secondary school by taxi. Warmed up a bit in the kitchen at school. It was pretty dire of course, but some would say it was a time of the last vestiges of healthy school dinners - Liver and Onion etc - However badly cooked. Never much in the way of salads mind. You can make a good meal with the most basic of ingredients. Minced beef (or lamb or whatever) can make an excellent meal, but you have to add enough vegetables, stock and seasoning. Plus it needs cooking until it's tender and preferably has no gristle. Boiled minced beef and water is bloody awful and that's was it used to taste like at my school. I've told this story before, but I'll repeat it (because I'm over 50 and, as such, am entitled to bang on about things). When my mother was in hospital she refused to eat their food and I used to take in a casserole in a vacuum flask every day. One day I took in beef casserole (just made with carrots, onions, celeryl, seasoning and stock and cooked very slowly to make sure it was tender). Coincidentally they were serving beef casserole in the hospital, which nobody could eat because it was tough as old boots. That brought it home to me. They are employing people to cook meals, but these people do not know how to cook properly. They'd used the same ingredients as me, but nobody could eat their casserole because it hadn't been cooked slowly and/or long enough. Idiots.
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Post by Weyland on Oct 31, 2010 16:08:00 GMT
Forget Wonder Woman. Forget Essex Girl. We have . . . I give you . . . put your hands together for . . . CHELMSFORD WOMAN!
Chelmsford women are very frugal. I'm sure. And yet not abstemious. Such as when a secret admirer is buying her a g&t. I know these things.
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Post by jean on Oct 31, 2010 16:19:32 GMT
Jean, it infuriates me that people who should be cooking nutricious meals for our children and sick people actually produce the most unbelievable crap imaginable. I shouldn't have suggested that the only alternative to bad cooking from scratch was the over-processed stuff. Strange that since the dumplings acquired their own thread, they have not made a single contribution! There's gratitude for you.
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