What would happen if I used malt instead of white vinegar...

[Havoc6]

Do you ever add any sugar with the salt... once went to cookery class run by a Taiwanese lady who always advocated equal amounts of salt and sugar in her tomato recipes to balance the acidity.

Yep , sugar in sauces especially tomato based ones smooths the taste out. Another good use is curries you can use sugar or fruit. But as with all food it's all about individual tastes. I was once told food is about as personal as it gets , no matter what you give someone to eat , one person will enjoy it more than another.

 

[vernon]

I reckon if you make the veganised version of the Indian Potato Pie, use olive oil instead of butter, to go with your chilli sauce you'll hit a culinary bullseye with your friends be they meat eaters, vegetarians or vegans.

Pie recipe here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1039649/indian-potato-pie

I've just spotted another potential pie to make that could also go with the chilli sauce

Bombay potato and spinach pie.

It would need veganising to meet everyone's tastes. I think I'll test pilot it in the next week or so.

 

[vernon]

By the way. The veganised Indian Potato Pie does work. I've served to:

• My hippy friends in Darlington where even the meat eaters were prepared to eschew good quality pork pies for another gob full of vegetables and another pie is eagerly awaited.
• Fellow members of Slimming World where I received several proposals of marriage and several requests for the recipe from the asian members
• Colleagues who can't wait for the next one to be made.
• Myself who had to excercise restraint.

That's 40+ satisfied pie eaters.

I reckon that chillies will be purchased this week. I've got the tomatoes and white vinegar in stock already.
Now for a 'Rum and Ting' before I make a beef, black eyed pea and yam stew
I'm feeling right ethnic.

 

[vernon]

Last Friday's pie and some appreciative pie munchers.

You'll not have any problems making the pie as long as you have an eight inch cake tin with a removable base. The crust is ready made filo pastry. I add coarse ground pepper and an extra chopped chilli to the filling.

 

[TheDoctor]

[QUOTE 2495957, member: 259"]You can use if you get stung by a bee. Or a wasp. If you didn't have any you'd have to get someone to pee on you. Or something...[/quote]

Bicarb for bees, winegar for wasps.
And as regards the whole wine / vinegar thing? Vin aigre is sour wine. Expose alcohol to air for long enough and the ethanol will oxidise to acetic acid. Yet another food word we've acquired from French, and the French probably got it from Latin...

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2498262, member: 1314"]Hey - is it possible to get hold of vegan friendly fila pastry? Or a decent alternative? All the pastry I saw had butter content.[/quote]


The jus roll filo pastry is vegan. I think all of the Jus Roll ready made pastry is vegan friendly.

Here's the official confirmation.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2498552, member: 1314"]Cool. I bought the spinach today. By sheer coincidence my OH had made sag for our dinner tonight![/quote]

I could well find myself at a good Asian supermarket tomorrow on my way home from school with the intention of purchasing some tasty chillies. I'm having a pie free week but I'm about to crack open a newly purchased bottle of O.V.D rum to compensate.

 

[vernon]

Blended for Scots

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2498629, member: 1314"]I don't so spirits anymore. Can't handle them, and I would drink them by the pint, anyway.[/quote]


Self control Crockers, self control....

Just having an n+1 snifter before heading off to bed.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I now have a bottle of London Pride beside me. It says

'Brewed beside the Thames'

Smelling it, I reckon it's actually brewed USING the Thames!!

It tastes quite nice though.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2498871, member: 259"]Oi - the Beer Thread is thataway ----->[/quote]


[tell-tale mode] Look what he posted in the beer thread! [/tell-tale mode]

I've been drinking 10 year old Talisker Whisky instead tonig... this morning...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Tell that to Vern too then!

 

[longers]

Pie recipe here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1039649/indian-potato-pie

This was part of sunday nights tea and went down very well thankyou very much.

Is the pie ride ever likely to happen? Or will it run again if I've missed it?

 

[Boris Bajic]

Use whatever comes to hand. Not Balsamic maybe, or one of those glorious fruit vinegars because they're expensive and do bring a little taste with them...

I wonder what it was like when cave men (and women) were cooking Diplodocus steak without a recipe. We only find out what things are like by cooking them. Don't be afraid. Use the 'wrong' vinegar.

I make a spinach and cheese pie from the Balkans called Zeljanica but had no spinach... So it was cabbage, cress and all sorts of other non-spinach things. Sacrilege but delicious, although I've never had the guts to re-create it that way.

Don't use scales, don't use the 'correct' ingredients and add more of stuff you like more.

There are two great evils in this world and one of them is people sticking religiously to recipes without knowing what the problem might be if they didn't.

I think the other great evil is dog poo, but it might be drug-related.

Carry on.