Reply With QuoteYou get a better class of faggot in Waitrose, I find.
Faggots are delicious meaty balls that I love to have in my mouth and there's nothing queer about that...Originally Posted by JP Chestnut
You get a better class of faggot in Waitrose, I find.
When it comes to pork, I have a bit of a soft spot for some trashy sausage.
Funny, I always thought that. The nearest one to me is Retford, where the Rampton Mental Institution is.
Do you indeed?
Had much luck?
So clever my foot fell off.
Makes 12 faggots
50g butter
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped thyme leaves
12 sage leaves, finely chopped
1 teaspoon ground mace
2 teaspoons black pepper
500g minced pork belly
100g minced bacon
4 lamb's kidneys, rinsed, skinned,
cored and finely but roughly chopped
150g pork or lamb's liver, finely but roughly chopped
1 level tablespoon flaked sea salt
(½ tablespoon if using fine salt)
100g coarse white breadcrumbs,
made from stale bread
100ml whole milk
200g beef caul
For the gravy:
2 large onions, finely sliced
1 tablespoon soft dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons malt vinegar
1½ level tablespoons plain flour
500ml good dark beef stock, or a can of consommé mixed with water
flaked sea salt and black pepper
To serve:
good mash
cooked frozen peas
English mustard
Melt 30g of the butter in a frying pan and in it sweat the onion with the thyme, sage and spices over a medium–low heat for about 15 minutes, or until very soft. Add the mixture to the meats and salt in a big bowl, and mix all together well, then add the breadcrumbs and milk. Get your hands in there and squish the mixture through them until it is really well combined. Take a little of the raw mixture and fry it to see how it tastes; correct the seasoning accordingly.
Tenderly open up the caul and hold it up to the light to see where any holes might be (to avoid when assembling the faggots), then spread it out on the work surface. Take an open fistful of the mixture and place it on the caul so that you can cut a sheet around it to the size of two-thirds of a piece of A5 paper. Fold the caul over the top of the meats as if you were wrapping up treasured possessions in a handkerchief. All the corners should overlap and the meats be tightly surrounded. Turn the faggot over. Repeat until all are done.
Heat some more butter in a frying pan over a medium–high heat and put the faggots in, fold-side down. Briskly fry until brown, taking care not to burn them. Turn over and gently fry on the other side. They should not open, but if they do, place a plate over the top of the batch to secure the folds. Repeat until all are good and brown. Transfer them to a board.
In the same frying pan, fry the onions in the leftover faggot fat over a medium–low heat for 30 minutes or so until richly coloured. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 160C fan/180°C/Gas 4. Add the brown sugar and malt vinegar to the frying pan and cook until the vinegar has evaporated completely. Then sprinkle in the flour and cook gently, stirring, for a further minute or so. The flour must not burn. Start adding the beef stock or canned consommé, bit by bit, stirring constantly. Taste for seasoning, remembering that the faggots are highly seasoned.
Place the faggots in a good-sized, shallow casserole and cover with the gravy, then the lid. Bake gently for 1½ hours. For the last 20 minutes, remove the lid. What else could you serve it with but some good mash and some frozen peas? Oh! And, of course, some pokey English mustard.
Enjoy!
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
I'm quite sure you guys don't know your fannys from your faggots
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
I love the green pot noodles... with extra soy sauce. I am shamed :(
Haggis with sausages and fried eggs yesterday
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Cadburys CDM
Have you tried that new Cadbury's chocolate bar with jelly beans and popping candy in it?
(It shouldn't work, but it really does!)
So clever my foot fell off.
I was looking at that the other day but resisted. Next time I won't!
Fortunately I have patented a new technology that allows me to remove all the calories from any kind of junk food and turn them into butterflies and moonbeams.
If you drop me a pm I'll send you the details for a small consideration - maybe a few million or so. Or a large bar of jelly bean chocolate.
So clever my foot fell off.
It would have to be "Cotiche con bietola, broccoli e cicoria" i.e. "Chicory, chard and broccoli pig skins". A phenomenal meal for when outside is freezing, truly cholesterol-packed and a strong inducer of red wine assumption.
You can still find it in a few low-level eateries in Italy, totally banned from modern cuisine because unhealthy, too basic and very long to cook. I love it and every so often manage to eat it in Tuscany.
I gave some to my 5 yo nephew after trying some myself... wish I had thought to film his reaction ;)
I quite like a pot noodle Bombay bad boy every now and then.
I don't think the concept isn't disgusting but the fact they come out of the packet a bright red is slightly off putting (not enough to stop me craving and consuming them...)
Black pudding and Marmite
There's been an explosion of street food joints in Glasgow, think burgers, pulled pork, BBQ goodies etc etc, if you are a fan of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network you get the idea. Some bad, some good. Was fortunate enough to try some poutine a few weeks back at the awesome Smoak food as an accompaniment to a Dirty Harry hotdog (involves brioche bun, pulled pork, lovely crispy bacon bit topping) and it was very very good. Chips and gravy plus extra squeaky cheese curds, which really work. Great unhealthy comfort food, and not deep fried lest anyone tries some Glaswegian stereotyping...;)
Wee photo of Poutine a la Smoak...
Last edited by MattMM; 27th March 2014 at 15:55.
A friend of mine pours a large tin of baked beans into an oven dish, covers them with a generous layer of nacho chips and then smothers the lot in grated cheese before putting into the oven for 10 - 15 minutes. He says it's wonderful but I haven't got the courage to try it yet.
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
Vegetarian nachos?
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
So you should be. Extra soy sauce........pah! A good dollop of Pataks Vindaloo paste is perfect in the green pot.....
F.T.F.A.
I think I have both - thanks for the gourmet suggestion ;)
Oh thanks a bunch - just stuffed my face with doner & chips... Disgusting & delicious.
This isn't disgusting, but it is unusual. I may have said this before, but as far as I'm concerned, Rose's lime marmalade on morning coffee biscuits is delicious.
Peanut M&M's , disgusting , especially the big bags
For me it's bangers 'n mash, with beans.
I read an item some time ago about the last meals ordered by death row prisoners, and it made me think...
I am very much a fine food lover, but in that position I am quite sure I'd go back to basics and ask for bangers mash and beans.
Yummy.
Last edited by Jim W; 30th March 2014 at 13:31.
Glad this thread is still going, was just thinking about it the other day but can't now remember what disgusting food I was craving/eating at the time.
I had an ox cheek pie on Wednesday & I really fancy another one!
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Jim.
I don't get the opportunity to get a proper Teesside parmo as I'm too busy but my Mrs was over that way today and she kindly picked one up for me. The size of a steering wheel and with proper chippy chips! Unreal and a great hangover tea! I foresee the parmo plug tomorrow and I'll have to corkscrew a turd out.
Sausage meat, baked beans and chopped tomatoes (on toast) with HP Sauce.
Staple mid morning food from the fire station days.
Mmmmmm.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
For me it's a Pukka Steak & Kidney Pie with chips which have been fried in good old fashioned dripping and a pot of mushy peas. Completely wrong, but sooooooo good.
Or Pasty and Baked Beans.....beware though, this is like rocket fuel when it comes to farting.
I love these and the Jalapeño ones 🙈I don't think the concept isn't disgusting but the fact they come out of the packet a bright red is slightly off putting (not enough to stop me craving and consuming them...)
What is that?
I don't get the opportunity to get a proper Teesside parmo as I'm too busy but my Mrs was over that way today and she kindly picked one up for me. The size of a steering wheel and with proper chippy chips! Unreal and a great hangover tea! I foresee the parmo plug tomorrow and I'll have to corkscrew a turd out.
^^^
It's a parmo mate- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmo
Oh how i miss my parmos since moving back south. Needs to be the 'hot shot' variety though, pepperoni and jalapeños
Oh yes, I do like a hot shot! I've got a busy day tomorrow though and don't want any erm interruptions;)
Branson's baked beans straight from the tin at room temp of course.
If you are feeling really hungry, some strips of mature cheddar cheese used for dipping.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Slice of fresh crusty bread cut about 1.5"(38mm to the youngers)thick, with a hole about 2" diameter in the centre (pastry cutter) dipped into a beaten egg mix with salt and pepper (a la French toast) with a small splash of truffle oil mixed in, cooked in a small frying pan until approaching golden then a nice egg carefully broken into the hole in the bread, cooked flipped and served with some baked beans. Mega and ultra-YUM!
Last edited by KavKav; 11th December 2016 at 22:46.
Never heard of a parmo before. 2600 calories according to the Wiki page. Heart-attack-tastic!
Try this...
But it's delicious, not disgusting.Francesinha (meaning Little Frenchie or simply Frenchie in Portuguese) is a Portuguese sandwich originally from Porto, made with bread, wet-cured ham, linguiça, fresh sausage like chipolata, steak or roast meat and covered with melted cheese and a hot thick tomato and beer sauce served with french fries.
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My treat is a whole Extra Tasty chicken from a supermarket with Tiger bread and some salt. And I'll happily eat till I'm stuffed.
living near Spain there's no shortage of seemingly icky food but actually quite scrummy:
Flamenquin - rolled up pork with cured ham, cheese (and sometimes a fried pepper) stuffing... then deep dried in breadcrumbs
Then theres Callos, a nice stew with black pudding, chorizo, pork meat and mainly tripe...
And octopus is generally available in tins but is much nicer fresh of course:
But i'm quite partial to eating a whole packet of 6 mini porkpies with cheese and pickle filling....
Francesinhas are absolutely fabulous - it's a minor miracle that they come from Portugal and not somewhere oop north.
Average calories needed by a average sized man is about 2200 (PER DAY).
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I only ate half! The other half will be put in a sandwich tonight 😂
I've never tried a deep fried Mars Bar, but a new Fish & Chip restaurant has opened up near me and it's the first time I've seen it on the menu. Definitely going to try one.
I'm going to look out for Parmo too, somewhere close must do them.
Chris, I've tried them your way and they are rubbish. You must travel to Teesside for one, it's the only way!
Just read that on a Reddit thread, disgruntled NE students can't find a decent one here.
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