Bread, cheese, bread, cheese, bread
Douse in sarsons
Microwave until nuclear
As a child - salted wholegrain crackers and milk. Often the entire packet.
My wee went cloudy. Salt?!?
Puttenesca, loads of garlic, whole wee tin of anchovies, chilli flakes, tomato and black olives
Yes excellent stuff and freezes well.
I make a huge load at a time and will eat it cold the next day, re heated pasta is not the best
Surely you just reheat the sauce and cook fresh pasta?
I eat the cold spag with the sauce all through it
I eat the cold spag with the sauce all through it
Hmm not sure about that though I do like left over chicken curry from the takeaway cold for breakfast. It doesn't happen often these days though.
Buttered crumpets, fried smoked streaky bacon, scrambled eggs, tomato sauce.
Rice with Futaba Furikake (rice seasoning) for very lazy person.
Completely basic pasta, but, too much of it. Like, way too much of it. Everything you can do with pasta is improved by having two portions, it instantly becomes a warm hug of a meal.
Agree and probably the most basic of pasta dishes is spaghetti aglio olio (spaghetti with garlic and oil). Just gently warm some thinly sliced garlic in good olive oil, stir in cooked spaghetti and a little grind of black pepper. That's it.
Oh and a thick slice of some really nice soft bread (sourdough is my choice) for mopping out the bowl.
Poached eggs, and carbonara both take a bit of care and practice to get just right so although simple I'm not sure I would count them as basic
Not really.
Other than breaking the eggs poaching is basically an excercise in "leave them the **** alone"
And Carbonara* is an exercise in stir in the eggs and leave them the **** alone.
*Real carbonara, none of the cream bullshit.
Some great suggestions here and I'm chuckling at IHN's one man crusade against the poached egg.
But....and I maybe in a minority of one here, I don't like baked beans. There. I've said it.
I maybe in a minority of one here, I don't like baked beans. There. I've said it.
A minority of two.
I like canned spaghetti, I could eat it till it came out of my ears. I like beans, a veggie chili would be a go-to when eating out. So I should love baked beans because "it's the same thing" but.. I don't know, there's something 'off' about them that I can't quite put my finger on.
I only like beans straight out the tin, can't eat them warmed up
Much the same as smoked peppered mackerel, hate the oily stuff if warmed up
Other than breaking the eggs poaching is basically an excercise in "leave them the **** alone"
And Carbonara* is an exercise in stir in the eggs and leave them the **** alone.
Well no, because poached eggs are rubbish unless they're perfectly fresh and cooked for the perfect amount of time. And for carbonara you need to crack the sauce with some pasta water and get the temperature right to make to custard smooth. If you're less fussy than me then it of course matters less.
Other than breaking the eggs poaching is basically an excercise in "leave them the **** alone"
And Carbonara* is an exercise in stir in the eggs and leave them the **** alone.
Well no, because poached eggs are rubbish unless they're perfectly fresh and cooked for the perfect amount of time. And for carbonara you need to crack the sauce with some pasta water and get the temperature right to make to custard smooth. If you're less fussy than me then it of course matters less.
Ha, i'm fussy about both but they're not hard.
A minority of two.
My brother in law physically gips at the very sight of beans. He’s not even remotely snowflakey either, but he just has that violent a reaction to them.
Anyway…
Ha, i'm fussy about both but they're not hard.
Did you manage both perfectly the first time you tried?
Ha, i'm fussy about both but they're not hard.
I didn't say they were hard, I said they need some care and practice.
You mean "I can't make a decent poached egg".
Oh, I missed this one. No, I mean no-one can make a decent poached egg, cos they're all a bit shit
they're fried
Nah, they're both good, as are omelettes and scrambled.
Need to try this marmite pasta! And sausage roll as a topping is genius.
Just to weigh in on the great egg debate and IHN’s flagrant poachism, I just had scrambled eggs and bacon for lunch. Nothing else required (apart from brown sauce). It was lush! 😃
Well I'm about to embark on a strangely satisfying basic rib-eye steak with pommes dauphinois.
@IHN you used to beautiful, man. What happened to you?
Nothing happened to me, it's you lot who've been taken in by Big Egg and their insidious pro-poach agenda.
There are three forms of acceptable egg
1) Fried
2) Boiled (hard or soft, depending on application)
3) Chopped up in a cup
All else is bullshit.
All eggs are equal.
Poached eggs are more equal.
3) Chopped up in a cup
I have no words.
3) Chopped up in a cup
Only acceptable if you’re 4 years old and it’s a Bob the Builder cup, surely?
It would appear that your state of arrested development when it comes to eggs explains your resistance to proper grown-up poached ones. The more mature connoisseurs egg of choice
- cheesey pasta
- tomato pasta
- soup
- lentil stew
The more mature connoisseurs poncey knobber who likes watery crap eggs egg of choice
FTFY
And an actual connoisseur would know the proper use of the possessive apostrophe.
Don't be surprised if you wake up one morning with a decapitated quiche on your pillow.....
To be honest, the widespread acceptance of quiche in the late 80s was where it all started to go wrong
Having a go at quiche now? How can anything not be improved by the addition of cheese and bacon?!
That’s the ramblings of a madman!
That’s the ramblings of a madman!
Clearly an egg-separatist.
Eggstremist. I was going to say egg seperatist too but then I thought, ah meringue?
Fair point. Meringue is no yoke.
@IHN you used to beautiful, man. What happened to you?
Nothing happened to me, it's you lot who've been taken in by Big Egg and their insidious pro-poach agenda.
There are three forms of acceptable egg
3) Chopped up in a cup
All else is bullshit.
I hope you de-shell them first, you're not supposed to eat that bit.
Meringue is no yoke yolk
And you can yourself an egg lover
(FWIW, I forgot about meringues, I'm more than happy to confirm that they are a thoroughly acceptable form of egg)
Meringue is no yoke yolk
"Twas a pun on joke (obviously) hence the spelling. I suppose I shouldn't have.
Just checking in to see where @IHN stands on egg mayonnaise? I was just going to make some to have on a butty with some nice ham, but I don’t want to incur the wrath of the eggmeister general
Just checking in to see where @IHN stands on egg mayonnaise? I was just going to make some to have on a butty with some nice ham, but I don’t want to incur the wrath of the eggmeister general
Absolutely lovely, based, as it is, on boiled eggs. I make mine with a bit of salad cream in the mix.
Absolutely lovely, based, as it is, on boiled eggs. I make mine with a bit of salad cream in the mix.
Erm, you make mayonnaise with raw egg yolks.
I think you and I both know that Binners is getting his mayonnaise from a jar, not making it from scratch.
And no, I've nothing against mayonnaise as I've nothing against 'things made using eggs'(*), just certain ways of preparing an egg as a thing to eat in and of itself.
(* I'll even grant that quiche can, sometimes, be okay)
