FOOD GLOROUS FOOD

[christine]

:ohi babs hope all is well?when i called to m/c last week,i was in droylsden there is like a shop nxt to t.s.b bank got 2 pestles and 3 lots of ribs ,gonna make some pea soup later froze da ribs,and i came back with loads of hollands pies xxxxxxxchris

[tony38337]

Babs?

You can get ham down here and if you go for ham on the bone (which we tend to do) then you can get some fairly decent stuff, but it's never the same. Picture if you will being seven or eight years old on a nice autumn Wednesday afternoon, you finish school at 4.00 and decide to spend your bus fare on sweets and work up a right big apetite looking for mischief on your way home. When you arrive yer Mam is walking down the street with a shopping bag and tells you she's been to Newton Heath market, YOU KNOW she had to pass Redmans where they used to display all that luxury grub in the window, things like chees rounds and butter barrels, sacks of sultanas and jelly chrystals and bacon........ ooooh the bacon! then there was glace cherries and tins of exotic things like Heinz soup and Goblin meat puddings and...... Where was I? Oh yes I say "Mam whats for tea I'm starving" and she says "It'l be a while but I've got some nice boiled ham, I'll do you a butty to tide you over". You see? thats the kind of thing I mean and of course in those days there was no additives, no nitrates to give it a longer shelf life, and no injecting water into it so that they sold less ham for the same weight. Y'see? There's nowt like good old Manchester fare.

Tony T.

[BABS]

Hi Tony

You can still get goblin meat pies now.

You are right Manchester has a lot of good food history when you come to think of it.

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[christine]

I USE TO LOVE THEM ,TILL I FOUND OUT WHAT WENT IN UM EEERK XXXXXCHRIS

[marjorie]

Hiya Babs, I have nearly gone demented looking for where you said you had some duck, i said to linda i must have seen it , anyway Babs sorry if you dont even like duck,its doing my head in ,now i dont know if i had my right glasses on i can see anything if i have got the wrong glasses on , Help! that sounds Irish doesnt it ,no offence Tommy just a saying. I will keep looking to see if i can see it. PS you didnt say if you liked HOLLANDS steak and kidney puddings , i love them. marjorie

[christine]

HALLO ALL REMEMBER EHEN ME MAM USED TO GIVE US RABBIT STEW,,OH MY GOD THE THOUGHT OF ITXXXXCHRIS

[BABS]

hiya Marjorie

Sorry about doin your head in looking for me saying I like Duck.

I went off all hollands pies for the last 43yrs,they are deadly
when you share one with anybody you end up marrying them,
they should carry a govenment health warning ;D

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[marjorie]

Hiya Babs , its me again , i bet you are fed up about me and the duck but if i had the wrong glasses on i might have caught the back end of black when you were talking about black pudding that must have been where steak and kidney pudding come from, ami confusing you?i am starting to confuse myself, so i wont mention duck until i see it again.PS if i wasnt starting to get used to you all i would say you are all starting to lower the tone of this site, i am very innocent i dont always understand the in u endos of what you mean, cant spell in u endos but i tried.cheerio for now marjorie.

[marjorie]

Hiya christine, did you get any steak and kidney puddings to take home with you? you have got me at it now when i go to Ashton tomorrow with my sister i am going to go in Gabbotts and get the biggest pestal i can find and some ribs and a b****y big cabbage and with a bit of luck we will have pea soup for our supper. When my mam said she was making it everyone used to get there dead early on saturday morning waiting for it by the time i got there there would only be a bit left no matter how much she made,BUT i did em one i took a flask and asked my mam to put mine in a flask i always got plenty then because mams being mams she used to fill the flask up for me then she got accused of showing favouritism
but i just told my mam to to ignore them. got to go surposed to be hoovering giving it a d**n good doing TARA for now .marjorie.

[christine]

hi marjarie,yes i got loads of pies and puddings, i done my pestle other day and done pea soup i can never get it like me mam doese itxxxxxchrisxx

[Alan]

Hi Chris,

My wife made ribs and cabbage last night for tea, I forgot to tell you earlier. Yummy, Yummy.

And his mama cried.

Rob

[tony38337]

Hi Chris,

If you have a Makro near by, they sell Hollands pies, we were in Fareham branch the other day and stocked up with them, you will find them in the freezer section.

Tony T

[christine]

thanks tony ill check if we have a mackro ,its a dear do when we go m/c xxxxxchris

[marie fernandes]

Hi Chris, When I make ribs and cabbage I soak the ribs for few hours in cold water to get rid of most of the salt. When I put them into the pan of boiling water at the same time as the cabbage., with the lid covering the pan. I add plently of pepper while cooking and only put salt in after tasting. When I do a pestle I soak in cold water overnight score the skin and peel off the skin before cooking. I bet you all have your own way of cooking dont you.
Marie.

[tony38337]

Hi Tom,

Makro is a wholesale outlet which is fairly national in the U.K. they sell everything from food to T.V.'s but you need a card to get in and to get a card you have to provide your business details and V.A.T. cert. It's pretty worth while but you need to be careful prices can be tricky but it's often availability that makes it worth while. In mainland Europe the trade name is Metro and we have used our card in France and Holland, incidently their prices are better than ours.

Tony T.

[tony38337]

Voici une petite recette de la France. Donné par un ami!!!!! Sacre piggin bleu! there I go again. COMPOSURE!

Now then here is a little recipe that was given by a friend. If you like seafood, in particular shellfish then this is the one for you. Coquille St. Jaques. Big queen scallops in a cream sauce, for all the cholesterol sufferers the cream can be substituted with Creme Frais and the garlic is pro heart anyway. We had this last night and it was superb if anyone wants the recipe give me a shout. Incidently we got the scallops from Bury market and they really were crackers, really big and they freeze well.

Tony T.

[Lisa]

Hi Tommy, That's why I hate to eat out because of the hygiene in kitchens. Most of them dont wash their hands after using the loo - I've seen them. Its the reason why I prefer to have friends over for lunch or dinner, plus I really enjoy cooking as well. There's nothing nicer than having a group of friends enjoying your cooking, watching the wine flow and hearing the laughter. ;D

[BABS]

Hi Tony

You sound like you are a great cook,and you really like your food dont you.

I must say I am not a lover of scallops.I carnt stand oysters ,or prawns either ,do you like them.
my mum loves all sea food ,she eats mussles and c*ckles by the ton.
she like oysters,prawns as well.

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[marie fernandes]

Hi Tony, have e-mailed you for recipe for the c*ckles in sauce receipe. Hope you can forward it.
Looking at your pic you look a bit like that fellow who has the talk/phone in programme. But I cant remember his name, but I think he is a Northerner. Short sandy hair with spectacles. Any names from you lot??
Marie

[Lisa]

Hi Everyone, Does anyone remember SCALLOPS but not the seafood scallops? My mum used to do sliced potato dipped in batter and fried - she called them scallops and they were delicious. I used to make them for my daughter but havent done them for myself for ages. Anyone remember them or was it just my family that names them scallops?

[BABS]

Hi LISA

IS IT SAFE FOR ME TO COME ON,OR IS IT STILL GET A BABS DAY ;D


I STILL MAKE THOSE SORT OF SCOLLOPS WITH BATTER NOW AND AGAIN FOR A TREAT,I LOVE THEM.
I THINK THE ONE TONY WAS TALKING ABOUT SCALLOPS,ARE SEA FOOD.


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[Lisa]

Tommy, I dont understand, you'll have to explain it to me. Does the batter for the scallops come in a package? Or does the whole lot come in a package?

[BABS]

TOMMY

WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT,HAVE YOU BEEN AT THE COOKING SHERRY

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[BABS]

HI TOMMY

I MEANT WHAT ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU CAN GET THEM AT STORE AND BUILD ON THEM

YOU HAVE BEEN AT THE COOKING SHERRY HAVENT YOU?

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[clancy]

Babs i mean when you cook them you can add broccoli onions more cheese cauliflower and anything that takes your fancy tommy oxoxo

[BABS]

TOMMY

I DONT THINK WHAT LISA AND MYSELF WERE TALKING ABOUT IS THE SAME AS YOU ARE.

YOU DEEP FRY THESE,THIN POTATO SLICES DIPPED IN BATTER AND FRIED.

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[clancy]

yes Babs the same thing we buy them in a package not as good as our mam made but the same idea ( sidekicks by lipton ) lol tommy xoo

[clancy]

hi girls sorry i f....d. up ( whoops i did it again) the scalloped pommes de terre we have are done in the oven une sauce au cheddar relevee de bacon as yours is done with a batter and deep fry sorry will i ever be forgiven tommy xoxox

[marie fernandes]

Local chippy in Heywood, nr Bury where I live sells the potato scallops of old, in the chippy with the pies, fish, chips,very long sausages, musy peas etc. This chippy got an award a couple of years ago for the best chips in the area. But I still like his scallops. Still waiting for the recipe from Tony for the shellfish kind.
Bye for now
Marie.

[marie fernandes]

Hi there Tony, thanks for the e-mail the scallop dish turned out tre bon. We halved the ingredients for just two of us, but when our daughter and family get back next Friday from their holiday home in France we are going the whole hog, and put double the ingredients in. My husband is making a lamb curry on the Thursday and keeping it in the fridge for them so that they will have a meal to come home to. He does the rice about half an hour before and he does it in the microwave. For years we did it on top of the stove and then drained it off but he has it cooked to a fine art in the micowave. It always comes out perfect.

marie