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Post by slowcoach on Apr 6, 2020 5:34:03 GMT 2
Whilst eating a bowl of pasta and contemplating the subjective nature of the term Al Dente I arrived at my last piece of pasta, an elbow or tiburón.
I picked it gently from the bowl and dropped it back in to watch it bounce back up by perhaps an inch, it was then dispatched.
To me it was lovely, dry, firm, and it seems distinctly rubbery. 
Does your pasta bounce?
This does not apply to fresh pastas, in my experience they are never that firm. |
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Post by OnlyMark on Apr 6, 2020 7:52:28 GMT 2
No, mine doesn't.
For the simple reason I don't like or eat pasta if I can avoid it.
Why?
Because it's often been too rubbery - or plain slippery and like eating slightly hardened snot.
Yes, I am fully aware there is some excellent and different pastas out there, yes I know I'm missing out and yes, Mrs M, who has a great liking for pasta and will continually try and persuade me and yes, she half-jokingly has always said she wouldn't have married me had she known and yes, I know I'm missing out on a vast group of foods thus restricting my enjoyment and yes, I've heard all the arguments like ooooh you should try .... it's the best ever - but no, I will it eat it and have done when there is little or no alternative like when served it at someone's house or eating from food stocks crossing the Congo, but if I have a choice......
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Post by slowcoach on Apr 6, 2020 8:28:50 GMT 2
Aaah, a noodles man!
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 6, 2020 9:00:14 GMT 2
yes, I do like my pasta "al dente", so beautifully described, originally by Italians . You cannot imagine my horror at what i've seen served as pasta. Some limp mix of dough that has been boiled to death before being added to vegetables and baked for another 30 minutes !!!!!
That I would not eat.
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Post by OnlyMark on Apr 6, 2020 9:57:32 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 6, 2020 10:36:46 GMT 2
Most British people had their first experience of pasta as spaghetti in tomato sauce out of a Heinz can. I suspect Mark did and it has put him off for life. If you get beyond that there is spaghetti bolognese, a dish as cooked by the British but unknown in Bologna. Neither of these would bounce but instead slide off the plate and onto your lap, necessitating a change of clothes.
Next topic: Do mushy peas bounce?
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Post by OnlyMark on Apr 6, 2020 11:13:17 GMT 2
I was fortunate that in our household when growing up, tinned food was rare. Tinned fruit was about as far as it went, so spaghetti hoops and alphabetispaghetti(sp) were never on my plate.
I do remember once a fortnight or so my father would get my mother to make for him spaghetti bolognese but we would have something different, can't remember what, but my mother was brought up in a household without pasta and so were we. My father had it because of his time in Africa and his mother would have it made by the cook for the family every so often - but her husband, my grandfather, was English through and through and wasn't brought up to eat pasta either. My grandmother was half Greek, half French so was used to foreign food of sorts.
Obviously, mushy peas don't bounce.
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Post by Baz Faz on Apr 6, 2020 13:18:56 GMT 2
Sausage rolls don't bounce either. I speak from experience.
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Post by slowcoach on Apr 6, 2020 14:49:42 GMT 2
yes, I do like my pasta "al dente", so beautifully described, originally by Italians . You cannot imagine my horror at what i've seen served as pasta. Some limp mix of dough that has been boiled to death before being added to vegetables and baked for another 30 minutes !!!!! That I would not eat.
My first taste of pasta was macaroni pudding.
Here are some cooking instructions (Beeton):
Time – 3/4 hour to simmer the macaroni; 1/2 hour to bake the pudding. (A good match for AA's above)
Start as you mean to go on.
ETA:
First rice would have been rice pudding and first durum wheat product semolina.
All puddings not a savoury dish in sight.
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Post by slowcoach on May 3, 2020 7:52:23 GMT 2
I have been altering the ingredients to my bread to conform with what is available, and that means a lot less wholemeal flour, less wheat bran, no strong white flour and much more general purpose wheat flour.
This results in a bread that is paler, less intense in taste, much lighter, less doughy (plastic) , more resilient (elastic) and guess what?
Boiiiiiiiiing!
ETA: It's a good job I don't make chess sets.
Rooks anybody?
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Post by Netsuke on May 30, 2020 9:19:46 GMT 2
Only if it’s stuck on a footy! |
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Post by slowcoach on May 31, 2020 4:06:53 GMT 2
You play keepie-uppie with dinner? Now that is really playing with one's food.
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 3, 2020 1:34:59 GMT 2
You play keepie-uppie with dinner? Now that is really playing with one's food. "Keepie-uppie"? I had to look that one up, haven't heard it before. Our footballs aren't round. Our footies are oval. What you call football, we call soccer. |
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 8, 2020 3:18:48 GMT 2
Next topic: Do mushy peas bounce? Mushy peas are an abomination to the Lord, the Heavenly Angel-Cooks and my taste buds! It looks like green diahorrea. |
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Post by OnlyMark on Oct 8, 2020 8:35:46 GMT 2
We may have to agree to disagree on this topic.
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Post by slowcoach on Oct 8, 2020 12:46:19 GMT 2
Next topic: Do mushy peas bounce? Mushy peas are an abomination to the Lord, the Heavenly Angel-Cooks and my taste buds! It looks like green diahorrea.I'll have to take your word for that. |
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Post by Baz Faz on Oct 8, 2020 12:51:36 GMT 2
Next topic: Do mushy peas bounce? Mushy peas are an abomination to the Lord, the Heavenly Angel-Cooks and my taste buds! It looks like green diahorrea. On a cross Channel ferry someone sat down with a bowl of porridge. A Frenchman at a neighbouring table said, "It looks as if it has been eaten already." |
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Post by Netsuke on Oct 10, 2020 0:33:08 GMT 2
Mushy peas are an abomination to the Lord, the Heavenly Angel-Cooks and my taste buds! It looks like green diahorrea. On a cross Channel ferry someone sat down with a bowl of porridge. A Frenchman at a neighbouring table said, "It looks as if it has been eaten already." Your Frenchman was absolutely correct Baz. Even my mother couldn't make me eat porridge! And she tried, believe me, but none of her threats could ever induce me to eat that glutenous muck! Yewk, just thinking about it is enough to bring on a technicolour yawn. |
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 10, 2020 7:10:10 GMT 2
i was surprised by mooshy pees in scotland... a tasty, though green, concoction which was similar to hummus... just made with another legume rather than ceci beans...
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Post by sophie on Oct 10, 2020 16:48:30 GMT 2
I must be an oddity as I really enjoy oatmeal. We have steel cut oats almost every morning, with chia and hemp seed, and loaded with whatever fresh fruit is around. So today’s fruit will be blueberries, apples, Bartlett pear and the last two strawberries I plucked from our garden yesterday.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 10, 2020 17:25:16 GMT 2
I like all sorts of mushy things as long as they are tasty. The problem is that most people who prepare mushy items seem to want to make them as tasteless as possible.
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 10, 2020 17:54:28 GMT 2
K2 may have the answer. And my porridge ain’t mushy. It has various textures to it.
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Post by mockchoc on Nov 28, 2020 3:22:53 GMT 2
I only read quarter of this and I'm giggling. You are so much fun you people! I'll go read it more.
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