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    May 06

    Eating Crayfish - It's your call

    Just received a forwarded chain email from a dear friend. I knew her because of my sister (well..her best friend). Anyway the email --[click here for more]
    June 28

    Posh Food

    I just came across to this lady's article in Observer Food Monthly. Quite interesting and true. How posh is your nosh?, by Mary Killen. Just as with clothing, houses and cars, now there is food. She listed the Posh food and the opposite one.  Well the list did help me to know what to serve especially if I'm having some posh guest cominng. Honestly I do enjoy them both…and its very much. Then I have this issue in determining to get my figure back (..there is a reason).. Anyway here’s the list goes:

     

    The opposite ones 

    Anything on an oval plate

    Anything where the cook seems to have tried too hard or with too many ingredients or stacking

    Any dish made easy to 'feed' from rather than eat from, ie without cutlery while watching television

    Anything not in season

    Anything microwaved

    Quartered tomatoes, particularly serrated and particularly not in salad

    Onion rings

    All potatoes in non-recognisable shapes such as croquette, oven chips and above all Smash

    Minted lamb

    The word 'cereal'. It should be 'cornflakes' whether they are or not

    Farmed fish (particularly salmon)

    All fish not in recognisable fish shapes (however, posh children eat fish fingers every day)

    Trout with almonds

    Lemon wedges (the word) not the actual lemon quarter

    Crisps

    Sprigs of parsley as a garnish (either use a lot of flat-leafed parsley in the dish itself or none at all). Ditto paper hats on rack of lamb or radishes in the shape of flowers

    Salad cream

    The word 'meal'

    Cheesecake and other mucked-about food such as apple strudel

    Home-made cappuccino with non-dairy aerosol 'cream'

    Sweetcorn off the cob

    White pepper unless with cockles

    Philadelphia with breadsticks

    Meat stuffed and tied up with string

    Thick marmalade, particularly if not home-made

    Lobster thermidor

    Fresh meat bought for curry (leftover meat should always be used)

    The word 'nibbles'

     

    Posh food

    Very grand food is not only food that is difficult to come by (home-grown vegetables or fruit and hand-bagged game ) but also anything difficult to cook and that would make a non-U person shudder, eg sweetbreads or oxtail, such as:

    All fruits and vegetables in season, ideally home-grown

    Cold pea soup/nettle soup/gazpacho

    Game in season, particularly grouse at beginning of season

    Partridge is the top game bird/ptarmigan/ortolan

    Your own free-range chickens

    Venison

    Sweetbreads

    Pig's trotters

    Brains

    Oxtail

    Hare (German recipe)

    Properly mature mutton

    Fry-ups (because honest)

    Gulls' eggs with celery salt

    Oysters

    Any fish with head on which has been gutted by person cooking it

    Wild salmon (telltale colour is grey rather than farmed-salmon pink)

    Whitebait

    Potted shrimps

    Crab

    Lobster with fresh mayonnaise

    Sea bass

    Halibut

    Turnips, swedes, parsnips

    Sweetcorn on the cob

    Beetroot

    Riced potato

    Baked pears

    Home-made custard

    Baked bananas

    Eton Mess (meringue, double cream, raspberries or strawberries)

    Bread-and-butter pudding

    Rice pudding

    Junket

    Black chocolate

    Local cheddar

    Oatcakes

    Sage-and-anchovy canapés

    Tinned food. Most tinned food is common but some exceptions include: rice pudding, pineapple chunks, corned-beef hash

    Home-made mayonnaise

    Mustard made from Colman's powder, never ready-mixed