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There's also a place called Wokingham, but nobody actually lives there. It's just a giant re-education centre for gammons.
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Weighing in on roast dinners. As I am English and my wife Irish there has been much debate on this. Mash AND roast is a must in Ireland, as is Turkey AND ham. I’m not sold on either. They go very big on stuffing. Lots of bread based stuffing is essential - home made, not Paxo. Yorkshire puddings are a British invention and generally shunned , although I have won my wife round to them with my homemade ones. I personally loathe cauliflower so we make Broccoli cheese with a proper bechamel and it’s a thing of beauty
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Sep 7, 2023 08:37
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How does your wife feel about a roast dinner in summer?
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TACD posted:How does your wife feel about a roast dinner in summer? We tend to have a moratorium on them from April to October , but the weather was so poo poo in July I think I ended up doing a couple
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Sep 7, 2023 09:01
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smellmycheese posted:Yorkshire puddings are a British invention and generally shunned , although I have won my wife round to them with my homemade ones. The first person to publish a recipe for Yorkshire puddings was an English woman who eloped with an Irish man, so you're in good company.
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Scientastic posted:The first person to publish a recipe for Yorkshire puddings was an English woman who eloped with an Irish man, so you're in good company. I’ll need sources on this so I can annoy my wife with them
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escapegoat posted:God Tier I have gone my entire life firmly believing that red cabbage was invented by sinister pub-roast innovators to conceal how little actual food is on the plate, because surely no human being could actually want a giant heap of soggy mulch that stains everything beetroot in their roast so you have very much shaken me to my core.
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Sep 7, 2023 09:17
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smellmycheese posted:Mash AND roast is a must in Ireland, as is Turkey AND ham. Turkey and Ham not a thing in the UK? And Yorkshire Puddings aren't shunned really, they never really took off. No taste at all from them.
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Sep 7, 2023 09:18
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happyhippy posted:Turkey and Ham not a thing in the UK? Fenian lies
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Bobstar posted:There's also a place called Wokingham, but nobody actually lives there. It's just a giant re-education centre for gammons. 
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Sep 7, 2023 09:41
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smellmycheese posted:as is Turkey AND ham. What, for every roast dinner? No roast beef or chicken? Turkey+ham I'd more think of for a particularly large Christmas dinner (or Thanksgiving ;p)
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Sep 7, 2023 09:41
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happyhippy posted:Turkey and Ham not a thing in the UK? Ham certainly but (at home not a carvery) a roast is normally one meat. Turkey is definitely more Christmas specific.
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Sep 7, 2023 09:42
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happyhippy posted:Turkey and Ham not a thing in the UK? This is just how life works. Every so often, you talk to an English person about something normal and you end up learning something Earth-shatteringly mad. "Oh we don't do Ham and Turkey at the same time for dinners. Why yes, sometimes we had to go into schools on Saturday, why do you ask? Yes if someone is upset about something we describe it as 'Throwing a Paddy." Don't you do that too? It'll never stop being surprising. happyhippy posted:
I only had those plate sized Yorkshire puds once or twice but they are a pretty cool thing.
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Sep 7, 2023 09:50
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feedmegin posted:What, for every roast dinner? No roast beef or chicken? Turkey+ham I'd more think of for a particularly large Christmas dinner (or Thanksgiving ;p) No you can have other meats. But if you’re having turkey you have to have ham with it. Edit : I mean this may sound trivial but there were major debates about this with my mother in law when my wife moved over to England for a while. She was horrified she wouldn’t get ham with her Xmas dinner. And let’s not get started on serving a prawn cocktail starter rather than vegetable soup smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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The Question IRL posted:It'll never stop being surprising. Yeah, its weird. Next we'll find out they don't have whiskey days.
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We have a thing we do sometimes which we call a “cheat roast” where you fancy one but can’t be arsed with all the mess a proper roast makes. It consists of Stuffed chicken breasts from the butcher ( chx breast with stuffing inside and wrapped in bacon), aunt Bessie spuds , Bisto, and one green veg. Cheap and nasty - like snorting speed rather than decent cocaine, but hits the spot.
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 number 1 (24)quote:Britons least likely to say work is important to them, world study finds Not surprising when racking up £25,000 of uni debt and working full time gets you a room in a house share with 7 other graduates.
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Sep 7, 2023 10:08
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starter to a roast dinner is a slightly smaller roast dinner inside a plate sized yorkie pud, allowing for a swimming pools worth of gravy to be applied
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DesperateDan posted:starter to a roast dinner is a slightly smaller roast dinner inside a plate sized yorkie pud, allowing for a swimming pools worth of gravy to be applied My personal religious belief is that while a full roast dinner is a stately affair which includes all the trimmings, 'seconds' are their own separate meal with different rules, a carnivalesque act of anarchy where all decorum goes out the window and you just heap on meat, potatoes, Yorkshire and gravy like some sort of carb goblin.
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Cauliflower cheese is AMAZING if done right. Gooey, extremely loving cheesy, with a hard, brunt top. There should be a certain springiness to the upper layer of cheese too which becomes a sort of boiling cream as you go down. Though the main point is lots of strong, mature cheese, and not too much cream. Like mostly cheese with cream just to ease things along a bit. I’ve been meaning to try it with bechamel actually. Sweet potatoes on a roast is weird but I do absolutely love the things so okay. Red cabbage is good if done right (if it’s tangy and pickled) but is defo a pub thing. Mash has always been a thing, as well as roasties, in my family. Not too smooth but not lumpy. Goldilocks poo poo. Carrots: awful steamed or boiled, good roasted. Likewise parsnips but turn awful into ‘decent’ and ‘good’ into ‘amazing’. Brocolli: pretty much always good. One of only two green things that belong on a roast, but also absolutely essential. Sprouts: divine however you cook them but roasted in halves they go the gently caress off. Easy to gently caress gently caress up this way but if you can get it juuuust right my lord. Only good thing about winter. Peas/runner beans/cabbage/swede/turnip: awful poo poo for people who DO NOT deserve any respect. PEA EATERS ESPECIALLY. Don’t get me wrong I like all these things other than swede and turnip in other circumstances but if I see them on my roast plate I’m going to conspicuously not eat them. Turkey? Ham??? Neither of these meats are roast suitable. The roast meats are: beef, lamb, pork, and chicken. Ham is served over here in pubs and it just looks so wrong… look at it, shimmering at you with its pink wetness. No, ham, you go back with the egg and chips and between bread where you belong. Or if you must be included on the day, you can become a hock and be eaten before anything else. Turkey’s like chicken but not as nice and I don’t know why we eat it. Mint is the best sauce. Don’t let anyone tell you jelly is an acceptable substitute or it only goes with lamb. It goes with everything. I think that’s about it for my Roast Opinions. As you can tell I’m quite passionate about my roasts.
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Surprised there is not more prison break chat. Classic move to hang underneath a lorry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2FqMsB-fh0
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Ok as we’re dug into this subject I’m gonna ask the Goonmind. I am a good cook, if I say so myself , I enjoy cooking, I can make lovely food of all types. But I cannot get PORK loving CRACKLING to work. I’ve tried everything - you name it. Blazing hot oven, salting, oiling, boiling water, drying, pan frying , every loving technique and it STILL DOESNT WORK.
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Behead those who insult runner beans and or cauliflower cheese 
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Jippa posted:Surprised there is not more prison break chat. Classic move to hang underneath a lorry.  Also - he’s absolutely a proper spy and is probably tucked up inside the embassy by now. James Bond poo poo and fair play to him.
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smellmycheese posted:Ok as we’re dug into this subject I’m gonna ask the Goonmind. I am a good cook, if I say so myself , I enjoy cooking, I can make lovely food of all types. But I cannot get PORK loving CRACKLING to work. I’ve tried everything - you name it. Blazing hot oven, salting, oiling, boiling water, drying, pan frying , every loving technique and it STILL DOESNT WORK. Same, except for this: https://rasamalaysia.com/chinese-roast-pork/ which is loving heavenly (e: and seems to include every technique at once btw). Hit and miss using the technique on other cuts, and I skip the garlic for a roast. Cauliflower cheese should be mostly an excuse to make a shitload of thick mustard and mature cheddar sauce and lightly season it with small lumps of soft cauliflower. Good with beef and pork, god tier with a big roast ham/gammon.
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Scientastic posted:The first person to publish a recipe for Yorkshire puddings was an English woman who eloped with an Irish man, so you're in good company. there's a folk music version of an ed sheeran hit in here somewhere
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Jakabite posted:Turkey? Ham??? Neither of these meats are roast suitable. The roast meats are: beef, lamb, pork, and chicken. Ham is served over here in pubs and it just looks so wrong… look at it, shimmering at you with its pink wetness. No, ham, you go back with the egg and chips and between bread where you belong. Or if you must be included on the day, you can become a hock and be eaten before anything else. Its the stuffing that is the key on making Turkey and Ham.
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happyhippy posted:Its the stuffing that is the key on making Turkey and Ham. I think one thing we can all agree on is that stuffing is the best bit of any roast Roast tier list: Stuffing Roast Pots done properly York Pud Meat cooked well and not grey poo poo Proper gravy Broccoli cheese Roasted veg Other veg done well and not boiled to poo poo - ie stir fry some green beans in garlic and butter smellmycheese fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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I’ve never had a good home made stuffing, to the point Paxo is my fave. Always too drat wet and there’s often SOME crunch but not enough by miles. If anyone has a good recipe please let me know.
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Use panko as the base.
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Guavanaut posted:Use panko as the base. Noice
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Jakabite posted:I’ve never had a good home made stuffing, to the point Paxo is my fave. Always too drat wet and there’s often SOME crunch but not enough by miles. If anyone has a good recipe please let me know. At Christmas time my wife makes gluten free stuffing (boo) but she spices it up with roast chestnuts and apricots. That's some good.
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A good turkey that doesn't end up getting dried out in the oven is a gorgeous roast that stands apart from chicken and gives you a little bit of everything at once (you get your moist white meat as the main, your crispy skin and dark meat as extra treats, and then when everything inevitably dries up in the fridge overnight you just dump it all into a creamy sauce and make a drat good pie the next day) But the lows of a badly cooked turkey are in hell, and the UK has been collectively traumatised by too many Christmasses at your nan's house after she'd roasted it overnight at 200 degrees / too many Christmas parties eating thick slices of reheated lawn-turf, so I get why it's looked down upon.
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ProTip for roast pork - blitz up some fresh apple and mix that into your paxo.
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what's the big flap about this escaped prisoner whose crime was planting fake bombs? kids in rough parts here do that for recreation :/
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He's a spy. It's the leaking military secrets to another state that they're mostly mad at, not the corned beef tins with telephone wires he left about.
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