Mushroom foraging.

[johnny2007]

A mixture of flour and water: yummy


When someone tells me that "pasta is healthy!", I ask for an example.

Typically (if it has any flavour at all), it isn't, because it has cured meats, cream, cheese and suchlike in an on it.

(I don't mind a chicken and pancetta pasta dish myself, but I'm not convinced that the double cream and extra mature cheddar that I mix in - not to mention the garlic bread side - is the food of champions)

Pasta is carbohydrates.
You add condiments to it for a balanced diet.
Same as bread, rice, etc.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Pasta is carbohydrates.
You add condiments to it for a balanced diet.
Same as bread, rice, etc.

As is potato.

Which can be boiled, mashed, roasted, fried, dauphinoise etc. all of them with a distinctive taste and flavour with no addition.

Same cannot be said about pasta. Tastes like PlASTic on its own.

I'm up for pasta dishes, but it's the sauces and additions that make it tasty and appetising

 

[motorbiking]

no addition?

You are aware you can fry pasta, to create crisp like snacks.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

no addition?

You are aware you can fry pasta, to create crisp like snacks.

Snacks.

Exactly.

My point stands

 

[johnny2007]

Some people find meat tasteless.
I suppose it's all about what you're used to eat.
I couldn't live without pasta or meat for more than 3 days.

 

[Brigadier]

Some people find meat tasteless.
I suppose it's all about what you're used to eat.
I couldn't live without pasta or meat for more than 3 days.

You can get a chicken for less than a fiver, and it will have no flavour.
You can buy a more expensive organically - raised chicken that will definitely have flavour.


Not all meat is the same.

 

[johnny2007]

You can get a chicken for less than a fiver, and it will have no flavour.
You can buy a more expensive organically - raised chicken that will definitely have flavour.


Not all meat is the same.

Not all pasta is the same.

 

[motorbiking]

For trolls they seem to be very faddy eaters.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

For trolls they seem to be very faddy eaters.

Or aware of taste and flavour.

Anybody want to say that flour and water is very tasty on its own ?

Nobody is saying they don't like it, with sauces and additions

 

[motorbiking]

Says the person who thinks Dauphinoise potato has

a distinctive taste and flavour with no addition.

I’m assuming you are happy to ignore the cream, garlic and herbs.

 

[noseall]

As is potato.

Which can be boiled, mashed, roasted, fried, dauphinoise etc. all of them with a distinctive taste and flavour with no addition.

Same cannot be said about pasta. Tastes like PlASTic on its own.

I'm up for pasta dishes, but it's the sauces and additions that make it tasty and appetising

I could eat a bowl of spaghetti with a knob of butter on its own. I could manage a baked spud with same. Rice is ok as long as it's nicely cooked.

Pasta is class.

 

[Mottie]

I saw a few more in the forest while out on a shoot today. One lot were growing in the hollow of a dead tree.

The others, I think they may have had too dry a texture!

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[Mottie]

I could eat a bowl of spaghetti with a knob of butter on its own. I could manage a baked spud with same. Rice is ok as long as it's nicely cooked.

Pasta is class.

You want to try gluten free pasta - that’ll change your mind.
Seriously though, I prefer linguine to thin spaghetti but one thing I insist on when I buy my linguine is one that’s been pulled through a bronze die to roughen up the surface. It’ll take on more flavour of whatever you add to it. The difference is definitely noticeable. Oh, and I always finish off the last two minutes of my pasta in whatever I’m having it with - just try dumping it in your bolognese sauce for the last couple of minutes to take on the full flavour of the sauce.

But enough of that in this mushroom thread, this is what I came back to this thread for - I’m going to have to have my wits about me the next time I go foraging.

Forager's alarm after police visit over mushroom picking claims

Louise Gather says police came to her home after she was accused of picking fungi.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[motorbiking]

More plod misguided nonsense. Nobody should be subject to “restorative justice” when they have not admitted an offence.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

More plod misguided nonsense. Nobody should be subject to “restorative justice” when they have not admitted an offence.

Eh?