sunday squishing together plutonium hemispheres, ooo, pretty lights

hopkinb

Veronese68 wrote:

Spinner should be drinking something beginning with F, can't think of anything other than fragolina a strawberry dessert wine.

Frangelico. Hazelnut liqueur.
Finlandia vodka.
I'm out of F drinks.

hopkinb

Ballysmate wrote:

Had a cracking day yesterday. Selling sticks at 8 quid a pop...

Sticks of what? Rock? Dynamite? Thai stick weed? Or just sticks of wood. If sticks of wood, why were they 8 quid? Did they have pictures of TLW's au pair's norks on them? If so, put me down for a couple.

hopkinb

Ballysmate wrote:

Had a cracking day yesterday. Selling sticks at 8 quid a pop...

See, my boomerang is fashioned from finest yellow plastic, and has 3 arms. It ain't no 8 quid stick.

sungod

Matthewfalle wrote:

It's racing in your garage looking at a computer screen by yourself

i see, zwift is like w​anking in the garage

sungod

swigging an inoffensive merlot cab sauv, tragedy has struck, just finished the last of the spanish choc biccies

on the plus side mrs s says i need to arrange some hols

nom nom nom...

hopkinb

sungod wrote:

swigging an inoffensive merlot cab sauv, tragedy has struck, just finished the last of the spanish choc biccies

on the plus side mrs s says i need to arrange some hols

nom nom nom...

Are those biccies available at the Hiper Dino?

Ooh, I've not drunk a Bordeaux blend for at least a couple of years. I do have some 2005 claret sleeping somewhere, in fact, last time I had one was trying one out of a case to see how it was getting along. It was sullen, so I have left them for another couple of years.
What are you sipping SG?
Mrs H3(2) and I are off to Marrakech on 9th Oct. Honeymoon. She keeps making noises about a fortnight in Mexico next summer, and it does seem a thousand quid or so cheaper for the 4 of us to go to Mexico instead of Corfu or Crete...

Matthewfalle

2012 Broglia Gavi and skate wings for dinner for us.

May have a Pastis during Montalbano later.

Matthewfalle

sungod wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

It's racing in your garage looking at a computer screen by yourself

i see, zwift is like w​anking in the garage

Yes - exactly.

But less rewarding.

hopkinb

Matthewfalle wrote:

2012 Broglia Gavi and skate wings for dinner for us.

May have a Pastis during Montalbano later.

Skate wings eh?! That sounds v posh, never had them you know. How do you go about cooking a skate wing? Poach it? Fry it? No booze for me still, so jealous of a nice crisp gavi.

sungod

hopkinb wrote:

Are those biccies available at the Hiper Dino?

Ooh, I've not drunk a Bordeaux blend for at least a couple of years. I do have some 2005 claret sleeping somewhere, in fact, last time I had one was trying one out of a case to see how it was getting along. It was sullen, so I have left them for another couple of years.
What are you sipping SG?
Mrs H3(2) and I are off to Marrakech on 9th Oct. Honeymoon. She keeps making noises about a fortnight in Mexico next summer, and it does seem a thousand quid or so cheaper for the 4 of us to go to Mexico instead of Corfu or Crete...

yep, got mine from the dino, but also many other stores, best eaten direct from the deep freeze

this one's just sa plonk in a winebox, avoids the compulsion to finish a bottle when all you really want is a glass

i do need to figure out how we're going to drink all the port, i went through a vintage phase about 15-20 years ago, trouble is it needs planning in advance, using a filter is no substitute for settling time

the 1990 bubbly is long gone though, sigh, that was a wonderful year for billecart-salmon

fry skate wings in black butter

hopkinb

sungod wrote:

i do need to figure out how we're going to drink all the port, i went through a vintage phase about 15-20 years ago, trouble is it needs planning in advance, using a filter is no substitute for settling time

the 1990 bubbly is long gone though, sigh, that was a wonderful year for billecart-salmon

fry skate wings in black butter

Bottom bracket port tasting? I had 85 Dows at Christmas this year. Stood it up for a week. Carefully decanted on Xmas morning. Served with that unpasteurised stilton. Stichelton I think. The port was ethereal, too delicate for the cheese.

I had a smallish stash of 96 champagne from some of the grander houses from the days when I had disposable income. Sadly the champagne went the same way as the disposable income...

pinno

Garry H wrote:

Torrential rain over here. Just emptied the attic.

How's over there?

Emptied the attic in anticipation of work or 'cos everything in there has gone mouldy?

Well. Started a bit grey. Then got greyer. Then the heavens opened. Then the rain was slightly less heavy then it turned to the smurry stuff. Then it actually stopped for 5 minutes, Then it poured bucket and has been oscillating between heavy and smurry.
If Noah turned up with tales of forty days and night's rain, I would laugh like a drain. Pun intended.

Matthewfalle

hopkinb wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

2012 Broglia Gavi and skate wings for dinner for us.

May have a Pastis during Montalbano later.

Skate wings eh?! That sounds v posh, never had them you know. How do you go about cooking a skate wing? Poach it? Fry it? No booze for me still, so jealous of a nice crisp gavi.

Oven key wit hi garlic butter, al dented broccoli, sweet potatoes and carrots.

Home made apple crumble and cream to finish.

Very tasty but not very filling to tell the truth.

pinno

Flying Dutchman (Cocktail)?

hopkinb

Matthewfalle wrote:

Home made apple crumble and cream to finish.

Oh yes. A pudding for the ages.

pinno

TBH, MF struck me as a Spotted Dick man.

Matthewfalle

hopkinb wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

Home made apple crumble and cream to finish.

Oh yes. A pudding for the ages.

Rhubarb crumble is my weak spot in my weak spot, which is puddings per se.

Imagine NFNATN bearing oodles of crumble....

Matthewfalle

Pinno wrote:

TBH, MF struck me as a Spotted Dick man.

Nothing a wire brush and paraffin won't sort out.

pinno

As far as traditional puddings go, home made rice pudding is difficult to beat.#
Oh and proper Sherry Trifle.

hopkinb

Matthewfalle wrote:

Rhubarb crumble is my weak spot in my weak spot, which is puddings per se.

I respect rhubarb, and I'll eat it in a delicious buttery crumble, drowning in cream or custard, and its acidity will slice through the richness of the pud, but I can't help thinking it's trying to kill me though.

hopkinb

Pinno wrote:

As far as traditional puddings go, home made rice pudding is difficult to beat.#
Oh and proper Sherry Trifle.

Yep. Both great. For me though, the queen of puddings is one of those lemon puddings that's spongy on top, and lemon curdy underneath. With cream. Or a burnt custard. Or some nice cheese.

pinno

Cook your Rhubarb in orange juice, then the acidity will be balanced. I like to add apple to my Rhubarb Crumble.

pinno

hopkinb wrote:

Pinno wrote:

As far as traditional puddings go, home made rice pudding is difficult to beat.#
Oh and proper Sherry Trifle.

Yep. Both great. For me though, the queen of puddings is one of those lemon puddings that's spongy on top, and lemon curdy underneath. With cream. Or a burnt custard. Or some nice cheese.

Queen of Puddings can be too sweet and ornate, I prefer a classic English Summer Pudding.

pinno

What are you lot watching?!

Matthewfalle

Leverson going to Iran

Matthewfalle

Back onto puddings, a traditional Black Forest Gateaux with double cream..

Rocking.

Wheelspinner

Matthewfalle wrote:

Back onto puddings, a traditional Black Forest Gateaux with double cream..

Rocking.

Best party trick... a very posh 21st birthday, one of the cakes was a giant Black Forest, which had been made hollowed out, sponge cut in rings and stacked... round an inflated balloon. Lashings of cream and chocolate shavings and cherries.

Birthday Boy (bit of a ponce which made the trick much better) sinks pointy knife into said cake with about 100 of his closest friends in black tie or evening frocks all standing around.

Result!

Wheelspinner

hopkinb wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

Spinner should be drinking something beginning with F, can't think of anything other than fragolina a strawberry dessert wine.

Frangelico. Hazelnut liqueur.
Finlandia vodka.
I'm out of F drinks.

Pinno wrote:

Flying Dutchman

The obvious (if nauseating) choice would have been a Fosters. Yuk.

veronese68

Wheelspinner wrote:

The obvious (if nauseating) choice would have been a Fosters. Yuk.

No, just no.

Puddings. Blackberry and apple crumble is always a winner with me. Apples from the folks' garden and blackberries picked from the edge of the playing fields over the road. Unfortunately the playing fields have been done u pand they've cut back most of the brambles. There's a few along the railway path not far from H³'s place though.

Stevo_666

We had rhubarb crumble with cream today.

Gravity tomorrow