quality food...

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:03 pm

thanks guys. will check this joint out

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:07 pm

gnat wrote:anyone got any standouts? i did maple glazed turkey, stuffed loin of pork and baked ham last year.. would it be wrong to go with the tried and true?..

I'm with fents. I cry the years that my mum says "I'm not doing a turkey this time". It is my favourite and also one of the only times of the year I get to eat it.

ham doesn't excite me, but traditions like scrambled eggs with leftover turkey made on boxing day do!

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:21 pm

Sad to say it but i've never tried pumpkin.

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:28 pm

Xmas ham is the fucking business.

Fuck I love good ham... even better cold. Not overly smoked, but t-a-s-t-y!

My old man usually finds an awesome leg of ham... that, along with turkey and veg's and then the pudding... so not a hot summer meal, but it's very nice all the same.

I'm going to be supplying the beers this year. Going to pick out an amazing beer menu for me and the old man to work our way through... wit->wheat->lager->pils->ales->dark ales->stouts->dessert beers.

same o · Post by **same o** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:59 pm

L-J wrote:Sad to say it but i've never tried pumpkin.

english and vegtables...

Post by **huge** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:06 pm

L-J wrote:Sad to say it but i've never tried pumpkin.

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:08 pm

LJ dont worry - pumpkin is vile, its like a potato with liver disorder.
You are not missing out.

Post by **huge** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:09 pm

you're a potato!

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:23 pm

Ey I love potatos, GIVE THAT PERSON A HUG!

But I agree, pumpkin isn't nice to my taste buds. .. On the topic of potatoes and pumpkins, what about mashed potato with pumpkin, and or, sweet potatoes?

Post by **huge** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:37 pm

omg pumpkin is so fucking good. roast pumpkin fucking win.

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:42 pm

NakedAge wrote:Ey I love potatos, GIVE THAT PERSON A HUG!

But I agree, pumpkin isn't nice to my taste buds. .. On the topic of potatoes and pumpkins, what about mashed potato with pumpkin, and or, sweet potatoes?

I'm a big fan of mashed potato and sweet potato. Which reminds me I should give my new potato ricer a spin.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:36 am

pumpkin is the best chuck out the rest!

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:15 am

lol are you fucking serious you've never tried punkers? fa1L imo

best vegie ever. roasted mashed punkers on fresh white bread with butter and heaps of salt and pepps is best ever

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:28 am

awwww shucks its like a philistine camp in here on spaz out vege rations for life

PUMPKIN FAIL if you want orange vegetable eat sweet young carrots raw or steamed om nom nom

cauliflower and beans (when they are crunchy and squeak against your teeth :shudder: :gag:) are however DISGUSTING

there are so many good vegetables around and you lot choose to chastise LJ for not eating pumpkins, sheesh.

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:30 am

lol beans are my second fave

get a turnip in ya nic

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:38 am

sit on a parsnip and rotate in a cabbage patch gnat!

gnat · Post by **gnat** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:54 am

hahaha! now there's a filthy vegetable- parsnip is hideous- tastes like perfume :gag:

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:48 am

All vegetables rock!

Parsnip & Pumpkin FTW super styles.

lightly roasted pumpkin/parsnip salad is a BIG winner.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:51 am

parsnip and sweet potato are grot imo.
spud and punks always best.
could live off quite easily.

L-J · Post by **L-J** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:22 am

Yah i dunno. Its just never fell onto my plate. Love honey roast parsnips, carrots and peas with a roast. Bit of mint sauce and some mustard chucked on depending on the animal.

Might give it a pop this Christmas.

Any good recipes which have pumpkin in?

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:52 am

^^ Yes!

Cut Thin long slivers of Pumpkin (Butternut) and Parsnip
Lay out on grease proof paper on oven tray
drizzle with olive oli and sprinkle with paprika
wack in oven for about 20 minutes (or until soft & roasty)
pull out off oven and lay pumpkin & parsnip on bed of baby spinach in a fan style (pumpkin, parsnip, punmkin, parsni) all the way around the salad bowl
then get some Persian fetta and crumble that all over the top
last bit is to lightly roast or toast some pine nuts and chuck them in too.

No need for dressing - the oil and fetta covers that.

V nice indeed

Post by **fooishbar** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:07 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:parsnip and sweet potato are grot imo.
spud and punks always best.
could live off quite easily.

yes!

same o · Post by **same o** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:10 am

Feigan wrote:All vegetables rock!

i actually cant really think of a vegie i dont like..

i absolutley love Broccoli.

bit of garlic, cashews butter and some of that pink murry river salt.

mmmmmmmmmm

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:15 am

Wow, you guys have to come round to my place for one of Mum's super bitter salads. I don't know wtf she puts in it but it's mad painful to eat. You can smell the chlorophyll as you're chewing lol

Post by **breaksRbest** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 12:49 pm

sAme'0 wrote:
Feigan wrote:All vegetables rock!

i actually cant really think of a vegie i dont like..

i absolutley love Broccoli.

bit of garlic, cashews butter and some of that pink murry river salt.

mmmmmmmmmm

You're doing it wrong.

It's Brocollini and Pine Nut Butter with roasted Pine Nuts

It's made from WIN!

stovequeen · Post by **stovequeen** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:03 pm

I just had vegetarian pumpkin curry + seaweed salad from Wood Spoon Kitchen

same o · Post by **same o** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:47 pm

breaksRbest wrote:
sAme'0 wrote:
Feigan wrote:All vegetables rock!

i actually cant really think of a vegie i dont like..

i absolutley love Broccoli.

bit of garlic, cashews butter and some of that pink murry river salt.

mmmmmmmmmm
You're doing it wrong.

It's Brocollini and Pine Nut Butter with roasted Pine Nuts

It's made from WIN!

lol they are both good.

brocollini is pretty much the same tho flavour wise.

pine nut butter is a winner tho.

i am much more partial to cashews tho, like dem more.

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:57 pm

Post by **huge** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:30 pm

i have been known to eat a kilo of cashews in one sitting :$

in other news.

too much stuff to chose from on thaila thai menu

NakedAge · Post by **NakedAge** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:32 pm

what ever vegectables they put in pasties, I like those.

But not those crap quality pasties that taste like newspaper.

Post by **huge** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:21 pm

One man's 3-year experiment in eating organic food - all the time

"This isn't a way of eating I could recommend to anybody else because it's so far off the beaten food grid"

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:29 pm

Interesting read, we try to eat organic and free range etc as much as possible.

Whilst people might argue the benefit to humans, I'd reckon it's much kinder to the animals and environment to start with.

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:33 pm

In his latest book, "Raising Baby Green: The Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby Care" (Jossey-Bass), he advocates a "strategic" approach, urging parents to insist on organic versions of a few main foods, like milk, potatoes, apples and baby food.

Thats about my take on it. Potatoes, milk, grains, heavily sprayed fruit and veg... meat where we can. but its gettign really exxy for the meat...

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:36 pm

huge wrote:One man's 3-year experiment in eating organic food - all the time

"This isn't a way of eating I could recommend to anybody else because it's so far off the beaten food grid"

Inneresting story. I find it quite funny that the 'research' in one case showed that there were no nutritional benefits from eating organic. What about the lack of pesticides and hormones and antibiotics...isn't that the main difference b/w conventional and organic? It's like saying the difference between a Ford and a Rolls is that the Ford can drive. They both can, wtf was the point of that? The selling point is the lack of chemicals imo

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:39 pm

Health benefits and nutrional benefits aren't exactly the same thing I'd reckon.

Lack of chemicals is more than likely a health benefit, but not specifically nutritionally related as they're not a nutrient.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:43 pm

Are people actually buying organic for the health benefits or the nutrient benefits? I buy organic cause it's been grown naturally, not because I think it's got more nutrients than a carrot sprayed with pesto's.

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:56 pm

went to gingerboy last night !!

MAD

Post by **huge** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:00 pm

mixtress wrote:sprayed with pesto's.

mmmm pesto

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:03 pm

mixtress wrote:Are people actually buying organic for the health benefits or the nutrient benefits? I buy organic cause it's been grown naturally, not because I think it's got more nutrients than a carrot sprayed with pesto's.

mainly the pesticide thing as i dont know the specific nutrient increase for each type of food

however, the taste thing is another, and with meat, the ethical aspects

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:30 pm

FoundationStepper wrote:mainly the pesticide thing as i dont know the specific nutrient increase for each type of food

however, the taste thing is another, and with meat, the ethical aspects

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:10 pm

I've wondered about this. Is the taste attributed to organic vegies (ie: sans pesto's) in general, or is it that the organic growers tend to use the age-old tradition of alternating fields and thus allowing the soil to regain it's nutrient content before replanting. If you can imagine the soil a conventional farmer would use, they'd be riddled with pesticides from last years crops (and not to mention low on nutrient) and this is the base for the next seasons crops. No wonder they taste like cardboard.

Even if conventional farmers didn't use pesticides, I reckon the vegies would still be lacking. How can we expect soil to provide the nutrient to the food if the soil is barren?

FoundationStepper · Post by **FoundationStepper** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:21 pm

organics dont require closed system sensitive crop rotations, co planting and the like, just the absence of chemical inputs.

its biodynamic where the traditional methods come to the fore, but i suspect there is a big variation in the local ecosystems in organic farms

Post by **system** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:47 pm

witty_pseudonym wrote:parsnip and sweet potato are grot imo.
spud and punks always best.
could live off quite easily.

potato, potato.

all root vegies are grate mate.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:47 pm

FoundationStepper wrote:its biodynamic where the traditional methods come to the fore, but i suspect there is a big variation in the local ecosystems in organic farms

inneresting FS, will read up on biodynamics

Post by **huge** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 3:59 pm

anyone need any chery or black russian tomato seedlings?

we have just sprouted about 1 billion of them in our garden.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:07 pm

oooh i'll take one of each!

just planted a standard and a roma, but would love a couple of other varieties.

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:09 pm

^ I love tomatoes

I am also a big fan of the grape mini tomato - very nice

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:10 pm

i just planted a tonne of basil too. summer bruschetta straight from the garden ftw!

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:15 pm

Hells yes huge. Tis the season...

Post by **huge** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:54 pm

well if ya want some you gotta come and grab from our joint! evenings and mebbe sunday might be ok. gimme pm or sommat.

word.