Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Maggi Young]

Sorry Maggi. We're not doing you any favours here, are we?!

Well, Martin, my first reaction was NO, you're not but then I thought, YES, I have prunes... so, duck and prunes it is! Yippee!

[Maggi Young]

So, if you could all arrange to behave yourselves and not get into any bother around my lunchtime tomorrow, I would be most grateful 
My lunchtime is likely to be around 12.30pm by the way... just for your information.  I'll leave you all to make the time zone corrections for wherever you are in the world!!

[Anthony Darby]

Wot's duck got to do with pancakes Maggi?

Quite a lot when we're talking crispy duck from our favourite Chinese takeaway... DELICIOUS and served with plum sauce 
I was, however, widening the discussion to the subject of savoury dishes with sweet accompaniments... you know, curry and sweet chutney, for instance...... ''s'truth, is that thunder I hear? Nah, my tummy is rumbling 

Now you're talking Maggi. I lurve aromayic crispy duck. Oh, and duck a l'orange; lamb with red currant jelly; paté with Cumberland sauce; lemon chicken and also turkey with cranberry sauce........but pancakes with bacon and blueberries. Can't think which of the two accompaniments are being wasted the most? Mind you, I have this urge to try it. I will also add prunes to the duck, and I have cooked it with blueberries too and we have mango chutney with poppadoms and pakora as well as with curry. One of my favourite curries is Chicken Nepal which is very like Pasinda and has lychees in it. No restaurant cooks it like the India Gate in Dunblane. Beats that British invention Chicken Tikka Masala hands down.

[Maggi Young]

Mind you, I have this urge to try it.   

That's the spirit!

[Anthony Darby]

I've modified my post in light of recent posts. Anyone see that load of crap (well two loads, actually) on Jamie Oliver's programme tonight, and for goodness sake, what was Freddy Kruger doing on it?

[Maggi Young]

Didn't see the programmes, Anthony... find Jamie Oliver's manner somewhat irritating 

[Lesley Cox]

Give him rasps and toblerone and he'll probably elope with you!

Are you aware out there of the fine custom ( I believe from Yorkshire) of enjoying cheese with  rich fruit cake? Very tasty... I favour Wensleydale or Cheshire cheese  myself for this delicacy 

Do I dare take that risk? Although, with my rasps and choc and his bulbs, sounds like a match made in heaven to me. But I suspect you're safe Maggi. I won't be at the Market again before going to Lincoln but I do pass my best soft fruit vendor on the way up, so maybe....? 

[Lesley Cox]

My father, whose parents were Aberdonian, ate cheese with fruit cake and also with apricot jam on his scones or toast.

[Anthony Darby]

Good old Yorkshire tradition eating a slice of Wensleydale on Christmas cake. Yum Yum!

[Paddy Tobin]

These favourite food combinations:

Duck with cherry sauce served on celeriac and potato mash.

Cheese, particularly a blue cheese, with quince or damson cheese (actually a very well set jam)

Paddy

[tonyg]

My mum used to like sausage and marmalade on her toast.

[Martin Baxendale]

These favourite food combinations:
Duck with cherry sauce served on celeriac and potato mash.
Paddy

Celeriac and potato mash is one of my specialities - a great way to vary the basic mashed spuds recipe. Another variation I try often is to fry some chopped onions or leeks in olive oil and/or butter  and mix them into the mashed spuds (often along with celeriac) chucking in a bit of crushed garlic also livens up the mash mix. Using spuds and swede also works well. And I often don't bother to mash the spuds/celeriac/swedes - it's fashionable to just 'crush' them - ie just mash them up a bit with a fork - or (truth be told) lumpy mash. What the hell, if it's fashionable and saves work, I'm all for it! Oh, and always, always lots and lots of fresh ground black pepper mixed in. Now I'm hungry. Midnight snack!!! One o'clock in the morning snack!!!

[Martin Baxendale]

My mum used to like sausage and marmalade on her toast.

Just noticed this post, Tony. Sausage on toast?! And marmalade? Now there's a bizarre midnight snack worth experimenting with when  I have the munchies.

[annew]

We are all Toblerone lovers, and it is a Christmas tradition to try and find a way of disguising dad's compulsory 'toe bone' so he can't guess what it is from the shape. A favourite of ours is Toblerone melted with cream and served in little cups with fresh fruit to dip in to it. Well - it is good for you (most of it)!

[Paddy Tobin]

In Tuscany they serve a very mature and hard sheeps cheese with marmalade.

Interesting.

Paddy