Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, I've tried both Norwegian and Danish curried pickled herring, and it's actually very nice! Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Ridings <dlr@dlridings.se> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, 11 October, 2006 12:49:45 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Vastly OT: Kippered Herring We have more or less the same seafood ingredients, but we lack the cultural enrichment and thus our basic spice for seafood is 1) salt, 2) white peppar and 3) Dill. Hopefully this will improve. (Though I don't want to replace dill, just want some variety). Coriander is what I miss the most. A corriander/chili chutney goes down nicely. Daniel G Hopkinson wrote: > Hi Daniel, no I don't mean smoked fish is exotic. It's just the > quintessential UK dish in the media, and I thought would be fun to > start a food thread. We're pretty heavily into seafood over this way. Some > 80% of our 20 million live on the coast. The only issue > is that often our best produce goes overseas as domestic prices are much > lower. This month, I've had fresh prawns (shrimp to our USA > LUG folk), grilled barramundi, wonderful fresh mud crab, lobster > (crayfish) and today some seafood Laksa, Vietnamese style, lots of > prawns, fish, scallops, coriander, spices, chilli, rice vermicelli, mint, > chilli, chilli paste, sprouts, clear stock, did I mention > chilli? > There's a Nordic chef on one of the lifestyle channels that I'd love to > have cater for a dinner party. Actually I don't recall any > recipes that appealed, but... Nigella in the UK, similarly for her lush > goodies. > Hey I'm starting to think that food might be fun as a contest theme. > Cheers > Hoppy heading for the kitchen > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com