I like them when they’re in the can
I like them in the frying pan
I like them when they’re in a pot
I like them cold, I like them hot
I like their fins, I like their spine
I like them swimming in some brine
I like their weight, I like their price
I like their colour – that’s pretty nice
I like their look upon my plate
I like deens, ‘cos they taste great.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
What I like - by James Griffiths, age 24.5
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Lord Taylor does Cooking - Roasted Garlic and Tomato soup
This one's all about garlic, I mean seriously. I ain't mincing my words here, and before you ask we're not doing mince tonight, only garlic. It's one of my favourite recipes, mainly because it's really cheap and simple - there's plenty of opportunities during the cooking of this dish to sit down and y'know, have a beer or something.
Ok let's begin. Here's what you need:
Olive oil
1 whole clove of garlic
8 big tomatos
1 bay leaf
1 vegetable stock cube
1 can of beans - cannellini is cool, so is haricot. You decide!
Bread
Salt and pepper
Serves about 4 (I think)
And this is what you do:
1. Once you've returned from the shops whack the oven on to 180 degrees and crack open one of those beers you've just bought. Have a sit down. In your own time, roughly cut up the clove of garlic into smallish chunks and sit them on an oven tray with a nice bit of olive oil dribbled on them. Cool we're doing well. Roast them for 15 minutes.
2. Cut the tomatos up roughly some time in that 15 minute period. Chuck the tomatos in with the garlic on the dot of 15, and mix it all up. The baking tray has to have sides, because the tomatos are gonna create some liquid. Put the tray (or should I say tin?) back in the oven for another 15. Don't burn it man, that ain't cool.
3. Do another beer and enjoy those nice smells coming from your oven.
4. Get the kettle boiled cos it's time to make some stock up. Make quite a lot of stock, the more the merrier I say. Chuck the tomato-garlic gunk you've just taken out the oven into a pan on the hob and bring to the boil and simmer for half an hour. Whack a bay leaf in too.
5. Go on, you've earned yourself another lager. Relax son.
6. After 15 minutes of simmering, put the beans in. Give the beans a rinse after you've taken them out of the tin. Can you smell the garlic?
7. In an ideal world the soup should be blended at this point. If you haven't got a blender then not to worry. If you have, bring it back to the boil. Season with salt and pepper.
8. Gather the boyz (and maybe a girl or two) around the table, grub's up. Get them to call off any prearranged evening liaisons with the laydeez they might have, we're getting seriously garlicky - better make it a lads night in. Serve with bread, maybe some of that french junk or some of that brown-like-poo Dutch crap. Whatever.
So that's it, wasn't so hard was it? Beat that Lord Round!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Lord Klump- Shakin' that Shit up... a bit.
Its LORD KLUMP here, from another jurisDICKtion, AKA the U fuckin K. Hijackin lord round’s rubbish blog.
How To Cook A Curry that’ll have you gaspin’
RECIPE
1) Slam a jar of PATAK’S TIKKA MASSALA SAUCE into your trolley. And also some chicken.
2) In Tescos.
3) Get back and unPak your shopping.
4) Get a pan out and get ready to slam that shit into that pan.
5) Throw the sauce into that aforementioned pan.
6) Cook some chicken in that oven for a bit.
7) Slam the temperature on that hob up to the max and whack that chicken in there - masterchef style.
8) Leave it for about 10 minutes.
9) Eat it. Congratulations, you’re The new curry master
10) Get ready to punish that toilet: its great on the way in, not so great on the way out.
LORD KLUMP 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
John Law's Carrot and Cut-You-Up Soup
Even when you're on trial for crimes against humanity, you gotta eat / sabotage Lord Round's Crappy Curry Blog.
This is John Law (coming to you from my cell at Scheveningen, the Hague), and my take on a traditional partisan soup. Ingredients vary, depending on what my main man Charles Taylor is able to smuggle past the guards.
Serves 2 (big portions mind)
Ingredients:
1 onion
1 full bulb mini garlic (or about 3-4 cloves of normal)
2 chillies (small, real spicy ones, or equivalent)
2 small potatoes
3 medium-sized carrot
Small can o' chick peas
2 chicken stock cubes
1 litre of water
Plenty o' thyme
If you like it, poach an egg in it
Don't forget seasoning. I'm not joking, and use good olive oil to get the shit going. You know.
Method:
- Get the BRB to chop your onion, carrots, and the Irish carb (potatoes). Make sure he doesn't chop 'em too small, otherwise you'll have nothing to chew on, and this is no fag soup. Meanwhile, slice the garlic and the bad-ass chillies. Heat up the oil in the saucepan. And don't hold back on the oil. If this concerns you and you have health problems, try another recipe: 'John Law's Carrot'.
- Throw in the onions — watching out for splash-back — and let 'em soften for a couple of minutes. Add the garlic and chillies, and cook for a further couple o' mins. Put in the chopped carrots and potatoes. Mix that shit up, getting everything nice and glossy and moist (yeh you read right), but don't let it get too hot yet. Unless you want it burnt like a cunt.
- Presumably you already had the kettle on. If you're knackered from all that cutting up, have a cup of tea. Use the rest of the scolding hot water — 1 litre — to pour onto the unassuming stock. Stir it up, and put it [in] with the rest. Do your thyme, and shake things up with a bit of S'n'P- more P than S. Add the chick peas too, why the fuck not?
- Turn the heat up to max, and broil the shit out of it. To make things quicker, here's how to thicken it a bit: Get yourself a heaped tablespoon of flour, and mix it with a bit of water, until you have a gloopy, sticky, resilient viscosity to your white mixture. Not too thick mind. Then mix it in with the shit. Simmer until you're into it.
- If you like it, poach an egg in it. It is recommended not to actually poach an egg in it, rather to poach an egg on the hob next to your JLCACYUS. If you're not familiar with standard vortex and white wine vinegar method, nor with the cling film method, fuck it.
- Serve with crusty bread or your ex-lover's head.
Oh Yeah! Fuck the Man!
