this is a food/tv comment combined

is anyone else watching Sport Releif Bake Off

how big are those sausage rolls???!?!?!??!

Made a fantastic cassoulet for Sunday dinner, laden with protein, calories and fat. The belly pork was so tender, it rippled with sweet tasty fat, even my two picky nieces purred with pleasure as they devoured each mouthful. The duck legs were coated in a crispy layer of skin hiding gorgeous chunks of duck flesh. I had chopped up some chorizo sausage to give it a bit more depth of flavour, used homemade chicken stock from the carcass of the saturday lunch chicken. Thinking of finishing it off for a late breakfast or may wait till lunch with a small green salad.
Interesting study on tasting fat.
[urlhttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/wuso-rft011212.php[/url

Hmmmmmmm ...

Here is a breakfast that a fishing buddy found served at a cafe in Great Yarmouth. It's known as "The Kid's Breakfast" because it weighs the same as a small child - around 10lbs. It costs £15 (bargain) and if you can eat it all within 60 minutes, you get it for free.



I see the Coke isn't diet

It would probably take me the best part of a week and I'd seriously need a colonic lavage afterwards

If it weren't that I don't like black pudding and there's a bit too much toast I'd probably manage it if I was hungry! Titan would do it - he managed 15 platefuls of curry once in an all you could eat buffet.

I don't know how anyone could even get through a quarter of that. I couldn't even manage a quarter of a quarter of that.

I assume that's the place that was in the 'papers a month or too back - when a bloke finally managed to complete it. Took him quite a long time as I recall. Not like my 5 minutes at Fatty Arbuckles (with 2 pints thrown in)!

I assume that was timed from when your food finally arrived in front of you. Fatty Arbuckle's always operated a "seven minute rule".

You walk through the door and they sit you at a table, drop the menus in front of you and disappear for seven minutes. They then reappear and take your order. Seven minutes later, your drinks arrive, seven minutes after that your food arrives. Seven minutes after the last plate is dropped onto the table, they hover at your shoulder, just waiting for you to place your knife & fork together on your plate, so that they can whisk it away. Seven minutes later, your bill arrives and seven minutes after that they start nudging into your chair, just to let you know that your 49 minutes of fame is at an end

Been doing the rounds on Facebook has that pic. A breakfast so ridiculous even Adam Richman of Man vs Food fame has wanted nothing to do with it!

Those sausages look so cheap and nasty.

It's a caff, what did you expect?

One comment on my mate's wall was: "no wonder the Scots have the worst heart disease rates"

No eith the dumba[is[/is struggles with geography or he knows some jocks who would willingly travel 400 miles for a brekkie

We brought a traditional cassoulet dish in Carcassonne last summer. I've got duck confit all ready, but it seems to have taken an age to find some haricot beans, so I'm making my first attempt tomorrow.

not cheap & nasty

We used to bring tins of duck confit and cassoulet back from France. About a year ago finished the last can from several years before!

I take it you don't usually eat in traditional British caffs then? About the best you could expect would be the option of not-very-good cumberland sausage

They're not bad, but they're not cheap either. And I tried making my own duck confit for the first time last year - and did so again this last autumn, so I'll be able to use that too, which will make it feel a bit more of an achievement.

ive just had corned beef hash for the first time in over 2 years. had to take omeprozol and 2 500/30 co codamol tablets before hand to control the pain i knew was coming. they havent worked. i am in so much pain.
i wont be having it again for a long while.

I like to follow this blog
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and have eaten in many of the cafes featured. My real hate is when they deep fry the sausages and they become greasy and mulchy

Hope you're feeling better today.



Yuk!

If I go into any cafe and they don't offer real bubble, I feel cheated before I've even ordered

Cod'ead is Piers Dacre: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... iners.html

Cod'ead is Piers Dacre: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... iners.html

Ellie Hambling, from HeartCare Cardiac Support Group, said: 'It would absolutely ruin your heart. It’s a no-goer I’m afraid.'

Informed and reasonable feedback from a health group...

I must go down to the petrol station to get the ingredients for my tea: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... drive.html

I must go down to the petrol station to get the ingredients for my tea: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... drive.html