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Post by auntieannie on Jan 17, 2010 15:56:29 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2010 17:01:02 GMT
"hairy bikers"??! ;D
Wow -- that does look good, Annie! I love that they combined a classic way of cooking chicken -- cream and mushrooms -- with traditional ways with pork -- cider & sage -- to turn the dish into something spectacular. And the inclusion of cheddar and apples is divinely inspired!
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Post by lagatta on Jan 17, 2010 17:47:54 GMT
bixa, The Hairy Bikers is a BBC cooking show along the lines of "Two Fat Ladies", featuring unlikely chefs. www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/hairybikers_index.shtml There is a lot of good stuff on the BBC food site. Somerset is as famous as Normandy for apples and apple cider (as well as perry, the wonderful, hard-to-find drink made from pears - poiré in French). |
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 18, 2010 18:32:12 GMT
Cheddar originally comes from Somerset as well, so it kind of made sense to add all these together. It wasn't light, but not unhealthy either.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 21:11:44 GMT
Such a shame that they always want to make us eat white meat.
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Post by auntieannie on Jan 19, 2010 17:58:46 GMT
Actually, I had not had chicken in a long long time before that meal. Now that you say that, K!
I believe these two cooks/presenters are bowing to editor's demands, when it comes to the kind of food they cook.
Guess it would be perfect cooked with pork
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Post by lagatta on Jan 19, 2010 19:57:14 GMT
It could certainly work with pork, though why not dark chicken meat. Kerouac, I don't like white meat either. In my area there are "ethnic" butchers with very good quality chicken legs, as the breasts have gone to meet their final destiny in a posher or at least blander neighbourhood.
I think Warsaw Pact era Poles referred to pig's trotters as "patriots" as so many other parts of the pig defected to the West. Remember there were often tinned Polish hams. No longer see those.
These cooking shows are all very contrived. At least the "boys" aren't wearing fancy clothes as they cook (though no hairnets with their long hair). Unlike Nigella in her beautiful cachmere pullovers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 19, 2010 21:21:19 GMT
My chicken part of choice will always be the thigh, and I'm sure they'd take well to the Somerset treatment. I saw that the boys did a show from Oaxaca. It must have been around Xmastime, I think in '08. Contrived? Very. Authentic?  (although the musicians are playing a real song from this state) Spanish speakers be warned: you will go into overdrive cringe mode at the pronunciations. If he said "cummul" one more time for "comal", I thought I'd go through the monitor. Note the lovely Porfirato-era bandstand! The 2nd half of pt.2 shows off Oaxaca nicely. Part one: Part two: |
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(although the musicians are playing a real song from this state)