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I love any English food Snoopysue not just Yorkshire, love Lancashire hot pot , Irish stew but don't like Haggis

Annie

Annie wrote:I love any English food Snoopysue not just Yorkshire, love Lancashire hot pot , Irish stew but don't like Haggis

Annie

You sound the opposite of me - I've never been very keen on stew's (although the spuds on the top of my mum's hot pot were delicious), but the only time I've tastes haggis I enjoyed it!

Annie wrote:

mikleed wrote:When are you lot going to eat pure English Fayre ?....Roast lamb, New Potatoes, Peas and Mint sauce, instead of those foreign cosmetics you add to a pure English dish................Oh and don't forget the Rice Pudding !....for afters not on your dinner.
Mike.

Mike Me, Me boring old me I only eat pure English Fayre never eat foreign food , I'm a fussy eater my family say.

Annie

Don't agree with him Annie

I am actually a very very versatile cook
I am a dab hand with the can opener and me gob
only tonite I have issued instructions at wolvie.....which I hate doing as those that know me
know I hate any bossiness....

he has followed instructions and opened a can of Asda...ugh.....chickens in white wine sauce and put on some rice
he makes perfect rice he learnt it from his chinese friend whilst living in Hulme manchester....he sort of sticks his finger in it!

So that is my tea

I love lots of different food ...........meal sounded nice SRD bit pricey............have you won the lottery?

Pete......Answer to your post....Birmingham !.....Snoopysue India during the Raj........Good on ya Annie..... most people today are Food Snobs like `Wine snobs
Mike

mikleed wrote:Pete......Answer to your post....Birmingham !.....Snoopysue India during the Raj........Good on ya Annie..... most people today are Food Snobs like `Wine snobs
Mike

I am a wine snob

never never ask me round and give me cheap wine!
I would rather bring me own!!

Jan...........Never drink the stuff unless it's made and bottled and kept in a cellar by someone in the Black Country .That's what I mean how can you tell cheap from expensive, especially if there is no label on ?

mikleed wrote:Jan...........Never drink the stuff unless it's made and bottled and kept in a cellar by someone in the Black Country .That's what I mean how can you tell cheap from expensive, especially if there is no label on ?

You just can....Mike I am a seasoned op in this dept!
You give me some cheap plonk
and then give me about 10 quid a bottle plonk and I will taste the difference

you and I need to go out one evening and I will educate you!

Northern Lass wrote:

mikleed wrote:Jan...........Never drink the stuff unless it's made and bottled and kept in a cellar by someone in the Black Country .That's what I mean how can you tell cheap from expensive, especially if there is no label on ?

You just can....Mike I am a seasoned op in this dept!
You give me some cheap plonk
and then give me about 10 quid a bottle plonk and I will taste the difference

you and I need to go out one evening and I will educate you!

I'm with you NL - can soon tell the difference without labels. Don't like the stuff you could put on yer chips.

You'll have to ask Annie, Sue, but for me, I only have to see the name Yorkshire and I buy it.

Linell.

mikleed wrote:Jan...........Never drink the stuff unless it's made and bottled and kept in a cellar by someone in the Black Country .That's what I mean how can you tell cheap from expensive, especially if there is no label on ?

i tell you the difference between a good wine and a bad wine and a wine expert told me this


if a bottle of wine cost £200 and you dont like it its a bad wine
if a bottle of wine cost £5 and you do like it its a good wine

that all the difference you need to know between good and bad wines

That is not what was asked

Mike wants to know if you took the label off could one tell the difference between a cheap
wine and an expensive one and I reckon I could

it is stating the obvious that if you like it whatever the price it is a good wine

Northern Lass wrote:That is not what was asked

Mike wants to know if you took the label off could one tell the difference between a cheap
wine and an expensive one and I reckon I could

it is stating the obvious that if you like it whatever the price it is a good wine

it dosent work like that i got a bottle of red for my 40 it cost £ 40 was suppose to be a good wine (expensive) well it wasnt
and the same week the wine importer my sister worked for was clearing out some rooms where a load of sample were kept, i got 3 bootle of a sample co-op cabernet sauvignon, one of the best wines ive ever tasted, you can get an expensive wine doesnt say its going to be any better than a cheaper version of the same wine.

for instance it might be say that you got joe blog in france producing wine for a mass market and next door same grapes, same soil, producing a limited bottle of wine for a selected market hence 20 times the price of jo blogs wine might not be any different, why did the aussie blow the french and german wine makers away in the 80s because the produce a better wine cheaper and more consistant than there european competitor and this was done because they were using a more modern method for production.

The 1976 'Judgement of Paris' is one painful period in history which went a long way to stop snobbery about French wines. This episode brought together eleven distinguished wine tasters (nine of whom were French) to blind taste the best French white Burgundies and red Bordeaux wines against up-and-coming Californian Chardonnays and Cabernet Sauvignon wines. It was set up by Steven Spurrier (then a wine merchant in Paris) who wanted to draw attention to California as a new and interesting wine-growing region. Nobody could have predicted the outcome. The tasters unanimously favoured the Californian wines above the French, and propelled this new world region and some of the wineries into stardom.

from here

http://www.oxfordwine.co.uk/features/su ... bbery.html

Northern Lass wrote:I love lots of different food ...........meal sounded nice SRD bit pricey............have you won the lottery?

And there's you wittering on about expensive wine. Around here you can get cheaper meals, but there's no flavour in the meat, the veg have been cooked for a month and the gravy comes out of a packet. Somewhat more seriously I do understand what you mean about a well made wine (not necessarily an expensive one, but rarely a cheap one), although one may not like it on first sampling when one goes back to the less well made one it seems rather thin, lacking in structure or lacking in complexity.

wittering! ....I don't think anyone that knows me would accuse me of that....
and live!

No I am with you SRD good wine good food good company
now where do I get the good food and company bit

I think we should have a wine testing evening in the summer months!

OOOOOOOh Jan I bet you could !......When ?
Regards.
Mike.