Gravity Aided
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Catfish-some people love them, I hear. That just wouldn't be me. Although I am more of a seafood eater myself. Shame I live more than 800 miles from an ocean anymore...
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Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
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- Bedford
I just found a 48 disc set of Art Explosion CDs that I'd forgotten about. No good to me now because I don't have a Mac any more! Cost me a fortune too.
Gravity Aided
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Same aunt, as mentioned above, made a variety of Christmas cookies at Christmastide. Including Lebkuchen, from previously mentioned uncles' family recipe.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh, I *love* catfish. So do the cats.
It's sold here as basa. It's a lovely, delicate white fish that's really versatile. I'll either do it in a parcel with butter, tarragon and capers, or roll it in bacon / cured ham or poach it in coconut milk and add to thai dishes.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Any chance of the recipe?
To add to my collection.
I have well over a hundred different Lebkuchen recipes, dating back to the 1890s. Though my go-to recipe is a Bavarian one from the 1930s.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Sounds like the things I bought from Lidl a couple of years ago. They were very nice!
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh yes, Lidl's Lebkuchen is very good. I'm rather partial to the jam-filled ones covered in dark chocolate...
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
I get fish from Regal Fish (they will be delivering again in a couple of weeks). I was going to try Basa this time to see what its like. Its actually Pangasius, which I know as a tropical fish, so I was curious to know whether it lives in the sea as well.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's an estuary species native to Vietnam, I do believe. Used to be sold here as river cobbler before being rebranded.
I "discovered" it after watching a BBC documentary on food fraud about 10 years ago, where they caught chippies passing it off as cod and making a pretty penny as it's considerably cheaper. So I was kinda curious and had to try it. Have been buying it ever since as it's just really lovely fish. Sort of like a cross between plaice and hake in terms of flavour and texture.
I "discovered" it after watching a BBC documentary on food fraud about 10 years ago, where they caught chippies passing it off as cod and making a pretty penny as it's considerably cheaper. So I was kinda curious and had to try it. Have been buying it ever since as it's just really lovely fish. Sort of like a cross between plaice and hake in terms of flavour and texture.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Must sort my bookshelves out tomorrow! Apart from the clip art discs I've found five booke on fly tying and several on fuchsias! lol
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
Well that's made my mind up, I'm certainly going to get some on this next order. (I wondered what river cobbler was!). It does sound like the same fish we keep in aquariums but obviously much bigger.
Kempstonian
Has the memory of a goldfish
- Location
- Bedford
This thread's getting far too interesting. Not nearly mundane enough!
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Any foodstuff that gets past both the Chief Quality Control Officer and the Assistant Chief Quality Control Officer (aka Poppy and Lexi) generally gets a thumbs up here.
That is, if they don't have my fingers during the sampling sessions...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Well, time to make myself a 
That's pretty mundane.
That's pretty mundane.
Jenkins
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- Felixstowe
The past few pages of this thread have been worse than being at work - my boss talks about nothing other than fishing and food and insists on showing everybody pictures of the fish he's caught and the meals he's cooked. Nobody else in the office cares!
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