Anna N

Likely victims of FOS syndrome.

Wow! Who knew? That's why I keep coming back to this forum every day. I have some Weck jars but I've only ever used them for storage. Thanks.

What did you think of these? Would you make them again? Did you have any success reheating them and if so how? So many questions because I did look at that recipe and I could not get my head around brioche as a pizza crust. Perhaps I might've felt less prejudicial had he found a name other than pizza for them.

Best tested in practice rather than theory I would think. Take a slice of bacon and some sesame oil and try it. Doesn't sound like a good idea to me but you might like the result.

Happy to give a nod to Diana Henry for the concept but the execution and the ingredients are mine and mine alone.

For most of us, as you quickly demonstrated, this would not be a true catastrophe. But I can see how for some people who depend on the service there might be no simple fallback plan. It's not as if anybody is likely to starve but if you are challenged mentally or physically it would take an effort to recover. I hope you get to the bottom of it.

I knew I risked offending the Italians, the Ethiopians and most of the Middle East when I put together my lunch.

Comforting rather than exciting.

You must have been up to your usual nonsense of doing good deeds right, left and centre and now you're being appropriately punished for such behaviour.

It fell out of favour with me very quickly once I got over my enchantment with the charts and drawings. I have elsewhere confessed to being a loose woman as far as books are concerned and I am easily tempted by new offerings. None of her recipes called out to me the way, for instance, that those of Ottolenghi do. But I'm fickle and tomorrow it could easily be someone else.

Recognse the background?

I can totally empathize. One of the few good things about eating alone is that I can take as long as I need to eat whatever I choose. In company, family or otherwise, I leave the table hungry. This. (Duncan Campbell Scott:. The Forsaken).

Hmmm. Have fun but aren't you creating an anaerobic atmosphere risking the possibility of botulism toxins?

It is almost midnight. I am sitting here alone with a hunk of cheese, a paring knife and my icy bottle of akvavit out of the freezer. Don't even ask what kind of day I had.

Sous-vide sirloin cap (picanha) with oven roasted mushrooms. Mushrooms roasted with garlic and thyme. Roasted garlic smeared on steak and both mushrooms and steak finished with a pat of butter. Life is good until you realize there is no more in the freezer!

@ninagluck Quite amazing. Thank you for sharing although there isn't a hope in hell that I would ever attempt it,

Hellman's? Hellman's? You are being dragged to the Darkside obviously.

The last sirloin cap in my freezer (picanha). 55°C x 2 hours.

Yes I was completely taken aback by the idea of using russets for potato salad anyway but that's just a personal hangup of mine I'm guessing. I did try the recipe yesterday with some white potatoes (waxy type) and it works remarkably well. I didn't post at the time because I was not impressed with my photograph but here it is: The potatoes were perfectly cooked as were the eggs.

Based on an Ottolenghi recipe from Jerusalem. No butternut squash in the house and the two red onions I had saved for just this purpose had already gone to the great compost heap in the sky. Sweet potato and white onions had to stand in. My tahini sauce missed the mark both in taste and consistency. But his recipes are such that even with all these substitutions and missteps I still ended up with a very interesting breakfast.

Only practical if you live near a border crossing.

So how did those 2 cm cubes work out?

I can't be the only one dying to know about the crispy porcini shell.

I noticed recently when I try to do this I immediately get a warning that the items cannot be shipped to me. Saves me going through the whole show. But the other thing to keep in mind that the words "free-trade" mean very little. I have been dinged for customs duties!

More data to add to our notebooks. Thank you.