What are you eating right now?

[Alfador]

roast beef mashed potatos and a salad...good ol' homemade cookin'

[BadEnoughDude]

School right now is a pain. I have baking/pastry, which I'm not enjoying much at all. I like meat, not bread.

Well, hang in there. I'm sure you'll be able to make some amazing things once you're done. I hope I'll learn how to cook properly one day, too. (But it'll be most likely not in a school, though)

Question: How do you feel about fish?

It's delicious. Why?

[logical123]

School right now is a pain. I have baking/pastry, which I'm not enjoying much at all. I like meat, not bread.

Well, hang in there. I'm sure you'll be able to make some amazing things once you're done. I hope I'll learn how to cook properly one day, too. (But it'll be most likely not in a school, though)

Question: How do you feel about fish?

It's delicious. Why?

Jumping in here, but fish = win. All types too. Even raw.

[otaku]

just had a stack of pancakes milk eggs and ham. yum!

[Izret101]

Fries covered in cheese and bacon, steak, baked potato.

[Sirgin]

It's delicious. Why?

Well you said what you thought about bread and meat, so I was wondering how you felt about fish. That's all.

[James]

Today I ate at the well renowned Harry Ramsden's in Cardiff. It's a famous fish restaurant, supposedly great quality. I ordered the scampi for £8.95. I got a small plate with a handful of scampi and a handful of undercooked chips. There was almost more tartare sauce in the ramekin than there was food to put it on. So at £9 for a crap meal, you would hope the service would at least make up for it.  The waitresses had clearly gone for a break while they were serving us. They were all wearing stupid lurid pink clothes and stupid pink foil wigs. There was one waiter dressed in drag with balloons under his shirt and make-up on. There were six of us, three had desserts. The whole thing took about one hour, forty five minutes. They got our drinks orders wrong three times.

Needless to say, there was no tip.

[BadEnoughDude]

Today I ate at the well renowned Harry Ramsden's in Cardiff. It's a famous fish restaurant, supposedly great quality. I ordered the scampi for £8.95. I got a small plate with a handful of scampi and a handful of undercooked chips. There was almost more tartare sauce in the ramekin than there was food to put it on. So at £9 for a crap meal, you would hope the service would at least make up for it.  The waitresses had clearly gone for a break while they were serving us. They were all wearing stupid lurid pink clothes and stupid pink foil wigs. There was one waiter dressed in drag with balloons under his shirt and make-up on. There were six of us, three had desserts. The whole thing took about one hour, forty five minutes. They got our drinks orders wrong three times.

Needless to say, there was no tip.

Sounds like the reputation was unearned.

[Hydrobond]

I'm in the process of making a lamb roast.  The 4lb boneless piece of lamb is sitting in some cabernet sauvignon with rosemary and garlic.  It will go into the oven tomorrow when I get home from work.  I can't wait for it.

But, holy crap lamb is expensive....
Total cost for the lamb, seasoning and wine was about $55.

(Celebrating a perfect math score on the GRE, entrance exam for graduate school.  I'm an engineer, so the math score is the only important one.)

[Sirgin]

But, holy crap lamb is expensive....
Total cost for the lamb, seasoning and wine was about $55.

But it's so delicious.

Post us a photo of the result tommorow, it'd be cool.

[Hydrobond]

But, holy crap lamb is expensive....
Total cost for the lamb, seasoning and wine was about $55.

But it's so delicious.

Post us a photo of the result tommorow, it'd be cool.

We'll see how it turns out first.  It should be good, but its the first time I've dealt with lamb. 

[James]

Today I ate at the well renowned Harry Ramsden's in Cardiff. It's a famous fish restaurant, supposedly great quality. I ordered the scampi for £8.95. I got a small plate with a handful of scampi and a handful of undercooked chips. There was almost more tartare sauce in the ramekin than there was food to put it on. So at £9 for a crap meal, you would hope the service would at least make up for it.  The waitresses had clearly gone for a break while they were serving us. They were all wearing stupid lurid pink clothes and stupid pink foil wigs. There was one waiter dressed in drag with balloons under his shirt and make-up on. There were six of us, three had desserts. The whole thing took about one hour, forty five minutes. They got our drinks orders wrong three times.

Needless to say, there was no tip.

Sounds like the reputation was unearned.

Harry Ramsden's is a chain of restaurants going back quite a while. Most of them used to be fairly good but I haven't been to one for a long time.

Another point I forgot - My sister had lemon meringue pie for dessert. It was hot on the edges and frozen in the middle. I think that's appalling. They obviously bunged it in the microwave for a while. Not what you would expect for the price at all.



Hydrobond - that lamb sounds great. A good quality lamb is possibly my favourite meat. But we usually have roast chicken on Sundays because it's so cheap. It gets boring after a while. I like roast pork but it's not healthy at all. We almost never have lamb, maybe for the price. I don't really know how expensive it is here.

[logical123]

Well tonight, we aren't having anything. Like, for real.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

But, holy crap lamb is expensive....
Total cost for the lamb, seasoning and wine was about $55.

But it's so delicious.

Post us a photo of the result tommorow, it'd be cool.

We'll see how it turns out first.  It should be good, but its the first time I've dealt with lamb. 

Lamb is tough to do right. One reason I usually can't stand the stuff. Best I've had was in Greece.

[Hydrobond]

^I've been told that I'm making a mistake by marinating it overnight in the red wine and herb mixture, but that is what the recipe said to do.  Lamb has some very delicate flavors and it is entirely possible that I'm overpowering them with the mixture its sitting in right now.  That being said, its not like what its in will produce a bad flavor.  It's pretty standard for a red meat.  I remain confident that this will be turn out well.

I haven't cooked lamb for over a year and a half, and this is the first time I've tried any type of seasoning besides a touch of pepper.

Tangent:  Anyone ever have Tur-Duck-Hen?  My family had it last Thanksgiving and it was amazing.  Its a hen stuffed inside of a duck stuffed inside of a turkey, and ours had a cajun stuffing along with it.  It was excellent.