The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #166092   Message #3991547
Posted By: Steve Shaw
09-May-19 - 01:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: who owns an air fryer?
Subject: RE: BS: who owns an air fryer?
Fried eggs, chips and baked beans constitute manna from heaven. The baked beans may be replaced by black pudding and bacon. A hash brown (or, better, a rosti) and mushrooms are optional. Possibly a pork sausage. The grilled half-tomato oft included is not my idea of fun. I'll use large tomatoes, or tinned plum tomatoes, to make a sauce or soup. My idea of tomatoes as a side dish is to use the best quality cherry tomatoes you can get. Put them into a small baking tray with seasoning, extra virgin olive oil and a handful of torn basil leaves (if you have dried basil, throw it away, though you could use dried oregano). Coat the tomatoes then put into a hot oven for no more than four minutes. They keep their shape but they soften and release all their flavour. Superb with a steak or a home-made burger (which I make with minced steak and nothing else whatsoever: no egg, no seasoning, no mustard and definitely no onion; two and a half minutes per side in a very hot frying pan then a crucial ten minutes' resting).