London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I live in Stoke newington and the turkish shops are ace for cheap fruit and veg and great quality too, then suppliment weeks shop with some decent meat and save £££ against supermarket prices. Boxes of vine tomatoes were 2.99 a box in summer and lemons are now 8 for a £1 and changes all the time, its old news but shop (euro) seasonal and save

When I've fallen on hard times I've really enjoyed just roasting some vegetables with whatever herbs/spices I might have and eating a big plate of them, no meat, with maybe some bread to mop up the juices.

i was about to go to bed, am now contemplating opening the packet of liver and cooking it

far too late for such shenanigans

Good call - everything rendered soft and toothsome by slow heat and wholesome ingredients, potatoes crumpling into soup in your mouth, the bite of turnip and the guilty pleasure of a whole garlic clove simmered to the point that you can eat it, sod the breath!
See this time as an opportunity, not a hurdle.

My mum, not short of cash still gets a ham hock for free off her butcher for a base for a tasty soup.

You'll get a better price for your liver from the butchers, mate. SAme with lovely, lovely kidneys! Have a word with your butcher and see if they stock lung and heart - a secret combination that goes brilliantly with artichoke and a dash of wine. They might even give you the lung for free!

@Simpson79: Orly?
*raises eyebrows*

luci

i know that liver can be bought for next to nothing from a decent butcher (unless its calves liver from my ludicrous "saw you coming" organic butcher in kew)

still less than a pound for enough flesh to feed 2 hungry people was not bad from the supermarket

And remember mussels are in season again. You can get a pint of mussels very cheaply (in the North, dunno about Londinium!) and they can be made sublime on a shoestring!





I know it sounds a bit odd, but trust me, it's a brilliant mix.

Here's a recipe:
http://italianfood.about.com/od/lamb.../r/blr1671.htm

What next? Tomatoes?!

Good lad - canny buying! you'll not starve.

And my neighbour sometimes gets free crack of her dealer.

Toms, as you well know, are too versatile to miss out. I always go canned when I'm skint though, I go canned when I'm flush too! Tinned toms are an ace stockpile - so glad to find the in the back of the cupboard when times are lean. I'm going through a *slightly* flush period at the mo and tins are being laid by for the next drought, believe me.

I was merely being fruitée... ;]

Result

I've heard rumours about you been bit fruity, mate!

She always says it was a 'Ham Hock' maybe the free pint of milk from the milk man shoul be looked into...

Don't worry about the milk, fella.

It's his yoghurt you want to watch.

Stringy as fuck...

pro-biotic, innit

Sorry, ladies...

I wont be buying Christmas presents this year. I am making everyone their gifts in hospital OT classes.

Lucky lucky people.

Tastes of freshly churned buttermilk... I'm reliably informed...

With bits...

...they're called 'pubes', mate.

missmouse is churning butter milk?

Sumo and I spend less than £20 on food fortnightly. This is because we're too lazy to cook real food and are happy to live on peanut butter on toast and lmnh leftovers, with the occasional stir fry or pasta bake, but I'm subscribing to this thread in the hope of maybe one day being bothered enough to cook something nice that's also cheap. Although this will only happen if all the other housemates don't invade the kitchen all evening, use up all the cutlery then leave all their dirty pots and pans strewn everywhere. (not likely, so will probably continue to be an anti-social recluse, only venturing down after 10pm)

I am enjoying Luci's refusal to spell 'fruity' any other way than how it damn well bloody should me; none of this fancy continental rubbish. Real bacon and eggs approach to spelling, that.

MRSA? the gift that keeps giving..

Thanks, I've got that already. Resilient fuck.

something like that ;)

v impressive!

Wickerwork for everyone!
It's a top way to get out of Christmas shopping, Alex.
I heard that when they start privatising these health facilities they'll have you all stitching Gucci wallets and making t-shirts for Primark! I'll post my measurements!
x

What to buy for 'The man who has it all'?

Work as a chef. Have a box of cereal in a cupboard and some milk in my fridge and that's it for the week. Even on my day off there's enough food left over from the day at work not to need to buy anything. Apart from Liquorice Allsorts. Gotta have me some Liquorice Allsorts. And beer...

:)

Or 'Primani' as the girls call it.

Frutée...

ftfy

Le Target in the colonies....

When I was a chef I was so broke (after spending all my wages on raves) that the only thing I had in my cupboard was plain flour left there by the landlord and some old spices and herbs on a dusty pine rack from ca. 1978.
I'd eat my dinners at work, but as for night snacks I'd master the art of making all sort of dumplings and soups made of butter and mixed herbs. This is why my belly is mashed up now. This and drugs.

Get you.

You'd be burned at the stake up here.

flour pancakes fill a hole too, but not recommended for too long.

It was all about flour - dumplings, pancakes, tortillas... with paprika and cumin. And soups made on a slice of salami with veg smuggled out of my workplace..

But seriously, I spent 1.5 hrs burnishing a pot in pottery yesterday (ie rubbing it with the back of a spoon) to get it perfectly smooth. Might have to pay some child/slave/fellow patient to finish these sodding gifts off.

Lori's put a blog up of some of the stuff we eat, it's a bit old now (coupla years) but there are some great recipes there... She's gone to bed now (I can't find the fucking link) but I'll post it up tomorrow...

i guess bribing them with food to finish the job won't work!

Euph?

I outta try 'em out. For that youthful look of yours.

exactly!