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Offline Darwins Selection

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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3375 on: March 17, 2009, 02:10:59 PM »
Prolly some lamb in there somewhere too.

Don't jump to conclusions, this is Nick.


If he ordered from Tesco on line it will have 144 lamps in it.

Might even be 144 lampreys, anyone got a recipe for eel pie?

Eel Pie
 

ingredients
300 g (12 oz) puff pastry
1 kg (2 lb) eels
3 tbls (25 g) 1 oz flour
450 ml (3/4 pint) fish stock made from the eels heads and tails
egg to glaze
1 onion or shallot
2 tbsp (25 g) 1 oz butter
salt and pepper
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 teaspoon lemon juice
pinch of nutmeg



1. Wash and skin the eels and remove the heads and tails.

2. Let them soak a while in salt water, then make the fish stock with the heads and tails.

3. Cut the eels into pieces about 5 cm (2 in) long and put them in the bottom of a pie dish with the chopped onion and parsley.

4. Season with pepper, salt and nutmeg. Add a quarter of the stock to the pie dish.

5. Roll out the pastry, make a good thick lid with a small hole in it and glaze with beaten egg.

6. Cook for 15 minutes at 220°C, 425°F, mark 7, until the pastry begins to puff up and brown, then at 180°C, 350°F, mark 4 for 45 minutes.

7. Cover the pastry with foil just before the pie has finished cooking.

8. Make a sauce by melting the butter and adding the flour and the remaining eel stock, stir until thick, add the lemon juice and pour into the pie before serving hot.

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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3376 on: March 17, 2009, 02:11:10 PM »
Yes.

First catch some eels
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3377 on: March 17, 2009, 02:13:41 PM »
That's easy ~ just go fishing for Trout and the bastard eels are forever on your hook  cussing:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3378 on: March 17, 2009, 02:14:43 PM »
You could make a pie!
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3379 on: March 17, 2009, 02:16:13 PM »
I hate eels with a passion  cussing:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3380 on: March 17, 2009, 02:16:52 PM »
 sick2: sick2: sick2: sick2: sick2: sick2:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3381 on: March 17, 2009, 02:18:28 PM »
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3382 on: March 17, 2009, 02:22:03 PM »
Much worser....

I would be sick before I ate that rather than after like with fish  noooo:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3383 on: March 17, 2009, 02:22:46 PM »
Are they fish? I think not

Though Wikipedia thinks differently, like
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3384 on: March 17, 2009, 02:40:30 PM »
I hate eels with a passion  cussing:

Fresh conger eel. cloud9:
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3385 on: March 17, 2009, 02:43:58 PM »
As opposed to stale, one assumes
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3386 on: March 17, 2009, 02:55:42 PM »
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3387 on: March 17, 2009, 02:57:07 PM »
That looks like a VP party  scared2:

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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3388 on: March 17, 2009, 03:01:58 PM »
That looks like a VP party  scared2:

Is that what "Visible Party Line" means?
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Re: Dinner tonight
« Reply #3389 on: March 17, 2009, 03:02:45 PM »
LL does not suit fruity hats  noooo:
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