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[Divine plywood 1,239]

@Longhaul What did you have in mind? Do you have any favorite 'go to' -recipes?

[Longhaul 6,932]

4 minutes ago, Cypherhoof said:

I tend to find there are two paths - one of deciding what you are going to cook, then visiting multiple shops to find the ingredients, and the other visiting a convenient shop to see what ingredients are available, and then deciding what you could cook from those

 

Just now, Divine plywood said:

What did you have in mind? Do you have any favorite 'go to' -recipes?

Saturdays are my 'no cook' days, so I'm figuring out where to go, most likely getting takeout on the way home from grocery shopping.

[CypherHoof 26,483]

Just now, Longhaul said:

 

Saturdays are my 'no cook' days, so I'm figuring out where to go, most likely getting takeout on the way home from grocery shopping.

Depends on how "non cook" you want it to be I guess - when I can't be bothered to actually make something, but don't want takeout, I usually get ready-to-cook ovenables from the chilled asle - say chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread, which DO require cooking, but the entire effort is "remove from outer packaging, place in oven, wait"

[Longhaul 6,932]

1 minute ago, Cypherhoof said:

Depends on how "non cook" you want it to be I guess - when I can't be bothered to actually make something, but don't want takeout, I usually get ready-to-cook ovenables from the chilled asle - say chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread, which DO require cooking, but the entire effort is "remove from outer packaging, place in oven, wait"

I do a big meal on Sundays, so this is my 'let someone else do it, I'm saving my energy and staying out of the kitchen' day. 

(It's a working title.)

There's some options on the way home, just figuring out which one to stop at is the issue.

[Divine plywood 1,239]

1 minute ago, Cypherhoof said:

chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread

Darn, now I got hungry again!  Time for late night snack

[Longhaul 6,932]

*neatens things up in the downtime*

[CypherHoof 26,483]

45 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*neatens things up in the downtime*

"If they don't wake up, just dust around them"

[Divine plywood 1,239]

Good evening y'all, it's once again time to try bump this thread

Hopefully you had a wonderful Halloween! Though I absolutely despise said holiday, there's one good thing of it: pumpkin beer! Importers make sure that markets and liquor stores are packet of it for the rest of the years

[CypherHoof 26,483]

21 hours ago, Divine plywood said:

Good evening y'all, it's once again time to try bump this thread

Hopefully you had a wonderful Halloween! Though I absolutely despise said holiday, there's one good thing of it: pumpkin beer! Importers make sure that markets and liquor stores are packet of it for the rest of the years

Does seem to have gone quiet in the absence of @Longhaul ...

Not a great fan of pumpkin anything, I am afraid (we didn't even get them in this country until recently, using turnips instead for halloween lanterns) - besides, AJ would tell you cider is the ultimate alcoholic drink (although I do like a good single malt)

[Longhaul 6,932]

*returns and dusts a bit*

[CypherHoof 26,483]

34 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*returns and dusts a bit*

Longhaul!

*hugs the other gray pony - or should that be grey?

We have missed you; how goes the story writing?

[Longhaul 6,932]

42 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Longhaul!

*hugs the other gray pony - or should that be grey?

We have missed you; how goes the story writing?

*Hugs*

The writing is done.  I'm fresh out of inspiration.  How have you been?

[CypherHoof 26,483]

4 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*Hugs*

The writing is done.  I'm fresh out of inspiration.  How have you been?

Oh, mostly just marking time as xmas gets closer - going to spend it with my special somepony this year.

[Flutterstep 47,104]

Not a fan of beer, but I do love beer battered onion rings

[Longhaul 6,932]

42 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Oh, mostly just marking time as xmas gets closer - going to spend it with my special somepony this year.

That sounds very nice. *slides a cider over*  I'll have a pretty low-key holiday myself, just me and my special somepony.

1 minute ago, Flutterstep said:

Not a fan of beer, but I do love beer battered onion rings

*heats up the deep fryer*

[Flutterstep 47,104]

8 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*heats up the deep fryer*

Yay! Thank you @Longhaul 

[CypherHoof 26,483]

 

2 hours ago, Flutterstep said:

Not a fan of beer, but I do love beer battered onion rings

There are also the aberdeen angus beef pies with ale in the gravy to consider

[Longhaul 6,932]

3 hours ago, Flutterstep said:

Yay! Thank you @Longhaul 

You're very welcome! *slides a basket of fresh beer-battered onion rings to @Flutterstep

1 hour ago, CypherHoof said:

 

There are also the aberdeen angus beef pies with ale in the gravy to consider

And consider them I shall.  

[Flutterstep 47,104]

1 hour ago, CypherHoof said:

There are also the aberdeen angus beef pies with ale in the gravy to consider 

I’ll be sure to try them someday 

 

11 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

You're very welcome! *slides a basket of fresh beer-battered onion rings to @Flutterstep

*noms delicious onion rings*

[CypherHoof 26,483]

Just now, Flutterstep said:

*noms delicious onion rings*

Got me craving onion rings now. I wonder where I can buy them ready-cooked (as I don't have a deep fat frier at home)

[Flutterstep 47,104]

1 minute ago, CypherHoof said:

Got me craving onion rings now. I wonder where I can buy them ready-cooked (as I don't have a deep fat frier at home)

They sell them in most supermarkets, through they’re never as nice as ones cooked in restaurants - especially TGI Friday’s beer battered onion rings smothered in Jack Daniel’s sauce. 

[CypherHoof 26,483]

14 minutes ago, Flutterstep said:

They sell them in most supermarkets, through they’re never as nice as ones cooked in restaurants - especially TGI Friday’s beer battered onion rings smothered in Jack Daniel’s sauce. 

They sell them ready to cook in most supermarkets (at least here; I am not speaking for other countries) but not precooked (which is probably a good thing; most supermarkets have their hot food in cabinets, and they can be there for hours; onion rings need to be freshly cooked or they go soggy)

plenty of pubs sell them as a side though, and I suspect some fast food places too. I may go hunt some down

[Longhaul 6,932]

52 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

They sell them ready to cook in most supermarkets (at least here; I am not speaking for other countries) but not precooked (which is probably a good thing; most supermarkets have their hot food in cabinets, and they can be there for hours; onion rings need to be freshly cooked or they go soggy)

plenty of pubs sell them as a side though, and I suspect some fast food places too. I may go hunt some down

I've had the frozen ones from the supermarket and they're not too bad.  Some brands are better than others; it's all a matter of personal taste.

 

[CypherHoof 26,483]

24 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

I've had the frozen ones from the supermarket and they're not too bad.  Some brands are better than others; it's all a matter of personal taste.

They are nice if deep fried from frozen. Oven baked, they tend not to be so nice.

[Flutterstep 47,104]

4 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

They are nice if deep fried from frozen. Oven baked, they tend not to be so nice.

I’ve only tried the oven ones and they’re so bland. Nothing beats deep fried but I don’t have a frier, so I just have them whenever I go to a pub or restaurant.

One restaurant was a con though. I asked for onion rings and they gave me them without the batter. They were onion rings but...not onion rings.