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Subject: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: punkfolkrocker Date: 25 May 18 - 03:03 PM It's an early summer bank holiday... Maximum bloke size cod dinner is debatably more or less healthy than large donna kebab and chips... Right then, pause the Gastro foodie threads for a weekend... Here we be talking about best bank holiday take aways... But even in our nothing special town, it's getting harder to find an affordable take away for 2 for less than £20 quid...!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Ross Campbell Date: 25 May 18 - 03:21 PM Arnside Chippy (Morecambe Bay, near Carnforth) still £6 per person per haddock & chips (smaller portions available). There's always a queue, but you very quickly reach the front, everything really fresh. Excellent! http://www.arnsidechipshop.co.uk/ Ross |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Jon Freeman Date: 25 May 18 - 03:57 PM it's getting harder to find an affordable take away for 2 for less than £20 quid...!!! For £20 for two of us, I’d perhaps have a couple of veg birianis from an Indian takeaway in N Walsham that we enjoy. That would include a delivery charge to our village about 7 miles away and a give couple of quid change. The village chip shop (about 1 mile from me) is very good and would be cheaper. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Senoufou Date: 25 May 18 - 03:59 PM Lenwade fish and chips, Norfolk. Only Thursdays and some lunchtimes. Cod & chips £6 each. With HP sauce. And a huge mug of lovely tea. Wells-Next-The-Sea, two fish and chip shops almost next to each other. But too far for us to travel. Husband doing Ramadan, Iftar at 9pm, so can't indulge until it's over (2 more weeks) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 25 May 18 - 04:24 PM Well Cleethorpes fish and chips used to make the gig in that Irish theme pub on the front - viable The money was shit - but it was the food of the Gods. Since coming down south, I have succumbed to the magic of pea fritters. Divine decadence! There used to be a voucher in Fylde festival programme for half price chips. Scotland was haddock country. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: robomatic Date: 25 May 18 - 04:59 PM Went out for fish and chips on Tuesday- 70 miles. South of Anchorage to Portage. Got there in time to drive through the 2.5 mile railroad/ auto tunnel hewn through the rock to the year-round port of Whittier. Found the Swiftwater café and had their "half-and-half' breaded halibut and shrimps on thin chips. Ate on their patio which while netted allowed some hungry ravens to perch nearby, waiting for loose chips. Beautiful clarity of the air and a myriad of boats in port. Washed it all down with an Arnold Palmer. Fresh and tasty. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 25 May 18 - 05:16 PM Bridge Fisheries, Sutton in Craven. Huge cod and chips for about a fiver. Fried in beef dripping so no good for vegetarians! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Backwoodsman Date: 25 May 18 - 05:20 PM Halibut Cheeks In Smiles Fish & Seafood Café, Prince Rupert, BC. Delicious! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Jon Freeman Date: 25 May 18 - 05:21 PM The village chip shop (about 1 mile from me) is very good and would be cheaper. I've just looked up their prices for cod and chips. Small of each £5.60, large £7.10. A more likely choice for us from there would be veg burger and small chips @ £2.90. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Steve Shaw Date: 25 May 18 - 07:23 PM Takeaway my arse. Go to your fishmonger and buy two bloody big hunks of cod loin. Or haddock, pollack or hake. Tell the bugger to pinbone 'em. It's what you pay yer money for. Ten quid max and you are getting FISH. Don't get tail-ends. Those bits are good but best for fish pies. Get some salad spuds, Charlotte type of thing. Cut them into chips. £1.50. Parboil in salty water for ten minutes. Meanwhile, turn your oven up to full whack. Drain the spuds thoroughly. Get a baking tray and put several tablespoons of groundnut oil in it. Tip your drained chips into it and toss with the oil. Put into fierce oven. At this point you need to consider your peas. Birdseye frozen, very very good. At the last minute you can think about mushing them up with a fork and a bit of garlic, butter and mint, optional. Or you can buy a bag of frozen Morrisons mushy and boil them (in a lot less water than the bag says, and don't forget the salt) for about 20 minutes. They are the real mushy deal, believe me. 25p for two people. Up to you. When you reckon your chips have ten minutes to go, decant them into another tray. Your original chip tray is now required for your fish. Turn the oven down to 200C. Place your fish hunks skin side down on the vacated chip tray. Baste with a mixture of lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper, a hint of squashed garlic and a few fresh thyme leaves. Put in oven along with chips. After eight minutes, check for doneness. Your chips and peas should be at the ready if you're any good. Eight minutes may be not quite enough but overcooked fish is a very very very bad thing. Part the fish gently with a fork to make sure it doesn't look too raw still inside, but don't be over-cautious. There you go. Fish, chips and mushy peas done your way. Get it right and you'll never lust for batter again. Well not quite anyway... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Donuel Date: 25 May 18 - 07:43 PM O don't know, an airy beer batter is grand |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: GUEST Date: 25 May 18 - 09:21 PM Around here, many seafood markets do fish & chips for $7.75 and other cooked takeout meals on Fridays. Others do them whenever the store is open. Here's mine. Scroll down to the bottom of the linked page to see the menu and prices of cooked meals. http://captainscatchseafoodri.com/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: punkfolkrocker Date: 25 May 18 - 10:55 PM Our chippy round the corner... 1 large chips 1 large cod 1 small chips 1 small cod 1 curry sauce 1 mushy peas = total £19.50 If I survive long enough, we should eventually qualify for special OAP discount.... For comparison... 2 large pizzas home delivered from a typical big name brand franchise would be minimum 20 quid... I prefer a good tasty doner kebab with all the salad and sauces - that's my favourite 1 Large doner and 1 large chips just over 8 quid from the nearest kebab takeaway on the main road... If we resort to eating more than one takeaway per week then we should know something is going awry in our lives... One difficult stressful week, some old busy body down the road commented snidely on the number of pizza boxes in our recycle bin.. That's a laugh considering he is a chain smoking Ukip supporter... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Backwoodsman Date: 25 May 18 - 11:12 PM At the chippy we use (only occasionally - Mrs Backwoodsperson is watching her weight, and I'm watching my blood-glucose and cholesterol).... 2 large cod (and I do mean very large!) - cooked fresh while-u-wait 1 large chips (we share and still end up throwing some away) 2 cartons of mushy peas Total £14-60 Can't fault it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Jos Date: 26 May 18 - 03:40 AM If you are following Steve Shaw's advice and making it yourself, his suggestions of different kinds of fish might well include coley - it's related to cod but when raw has a slightly grey tinge, presumably the reason people usually buy it for their cats. Lucky cats. It is often the cheapest fish available and tastes really good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Senoufou Date: 26 May 18 - 03:52 AM Aren't those silly little chips they serve in McDonald's ghastly? They're like needles, rock hard and almost burnt. 'French fries' - pfft! I like chips the size of piano keys, soft inside so they absorb a bit of vinegar. And the fat they fry in at the chip shops doesn't taste right to me. I suppose they're using some sort of cheap industrial oil. We've noticed a rather good new idea in takeaway places. In the two big shopping malls in Norwich (top floor, Food Hall) there are 'Noodles Bars', I think they're Chinese or Malaysian. They serve a cardboard box of plain noodles, and one chooses two or three sauces from heated tins to add to it. We like those, as it seems healthy food, husband can choose evil spicy horror sauce and there are many vegetable-based sauces which are milder. Very reasonably-priced too. We also go to Spuds U Like (I love the name) but I'm ashamed to admit I get FOUR butter portions with my spud. The queues at the Spuds counter are quite short (same for the Noodles Bars) but the queues at McDonalds and Pizza Hut are enormous. Says it all doesn't it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Bonzo3legs Date: 26 May 18 - 04:19 AM We have in Addiscombe an Albanian who will grill an enormous piece of haddock for an extra £1, superb without hideous batter!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 May 18 - 04:28 AM I forgot to mention the crucial step of roughing up the parboiled chips, like you do for roast spuds. Makes the final product sublimely crispy on the outside. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 May 18 - 04:50 AM Badly-cooked batter, oily and slimy inside, is a real killer, and many chippies do chips that become hard and inedible as soon as they start to cool down a bit. If you find a good chippy that consistently avoids these schoolboy errors, stick with it and spread the word! And bring back beef dripping! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Backwoodsman Date: 26 May 18 - 05:09 AM "And bring back beef dripping! 'Our' chippy has never given up on it! No nasty, smelly oil there to ruin the taste of good food. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Big Al Whittle Date: 26 May 18 - 05:23 AM Well theres nowt like a nice pea fritter. crispy dogshit brown batter covering exorcist green mushy peas. full of chemicals, but still very nice for them as likes that sort of thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Backwoodsman Date: 26 May 18 - 05:29 AM Used to get pea fritters in Southampton, where I spent a lot of time between '70 and the early '90s. Molto delicioso! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Steve Shaw Date: 26 May 18 - 05:39 AM There used to be a chippy near us that did mushy pea fritters. A thing of great beauty indeed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 26 May 18 - 07:46 AM Hard to find anything but beef dripping in this neck of the woods, Steve. Some are still far better than others and if they are badly done you taste the grease for hours after :-( Luckily, the bridge chippy I mentioned is our nearest and always good:-) Wonder why they are all called fisheries near here? As a Lancastrian it hurts me to say that on average, the ones here are better than on t'other side o'th'ills. The can't do pies as puddings here though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 30 May 18 - 06:47 AM There used to be a Harry Ramsden's down at Newhaven harbour near Edinburgh: had a sit-in restaurant and a take-away (aka cairry-oot!). My husband managed to persuade the take-away to do us lovely portions of halibut, less than half the price in the restaurant. Next time, the guy at the counter says, " We don't do halibut to take away", to which hubby says "You did last week": that strategy worked for a while. Otherwise, fish and chips in Scotland generally means haddock rather than cod, and regional variants on what you have with it. In Edinburgh the default is "salt 'n' sauce", the sauce being like a rather runny HP. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 30 May 18 - 07:53 AM First time I stayed in Scotland was at Port William in Dumfries and Galloway. The chippy there did 'fish suppers' but over the 3 times I went I didn't tell them why I always ordered the component fish and chips (and possibly peas, I can't remember) individually rather than as a 'supper'. On the last night - the Friday - I let them know it was because the fish supper was more expensive than its component parts! They looked puzzled for a few seconds but I noticed that the fish supper had gone down a few pence when I passed on the Saturday morning :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Senoufou Date: 30 May 18 - 09:20 AM Oh Tattie, I used to work in Bruntsfield Primary School (Edinburgh), and across the street was a chippie. I always had a 'white pudd'n supper' every lunchtime from there. "(Salt n' sauce hain?") and I still weighed only 8st!!! In Glasgow (near Byres Road) I rented a bedsit round the corner from a chippie. (deliberate?) and their fish suppers were gorgeous. As you say, always haddock, not cod. That's where the little stray ginger cat always mugged the drunks who tottered past, carrying their opened fish suppers. I've told this story before on here. He purred and rubbed against their legs, then when they bent down to stroke him ("The wee soul...", he snatched the fish out of the newspaper and ran off. Brilliant! I watched him from the window of my bedsit, and giggled at the terrible language the drunks bellowed after him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: David Carter (UK) Date: 30 May 18 - 02:12 PM If you have a freezer and a bit of time, anyone can be a pound shop Heston Blumenthal with chips. Parboil them, just bring the water to boiling, turn the heat off and leave for about 10 minutes. Dry them. Put them in the freezer in a container for a couple of hours. Thaw them. Dry them. Heat your oil but not too much, 130 degrees, or just heat it with the burner on low. Fry for about 10 minutes. Drain them on a paper towel. Put them in the freezer for another couple of hours. Thaw them. Dry them. Heat the oil to about 180 degrees or with the burner on medium high. Fry them for about 10 minutes. Drain them and eat them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 31 May 18 - 10:20 AM That wisnae Sam the Skull, Senofou? Oh, yer wee ginger cat, no' the occasional dug-swallyin' yin! Know Bruntsfield well, but not sure if your chippie is still there: very good wet fish shop for anyone doing David C's Heston Blumenthal stuff, but sounds like it takes 24 hours total to make one batch of chips! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 03 Jun 18 - 03:25 AM Found a chippy near us that fries in vegetable oil rather than beef dripping and it is very good. Also does vegetarian curry sauce. Will certainly be visiting there again even if we are not entertaining veggie visitors. The owner was telling me he blanches his chips before frying. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: olddude Date: 05 Jun 18 - 01:04 AM Never had it with curry is it good ? Just your average fish and chips that I like a lot |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: David Carter (UK) Date: 05 Jun 18 - 02:37 AM No it isn't in my view, some will disagree. But when they say curry sauce, its some horrible powdered mix, not some identifiable Indian recipe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Senoufou Date: 05 Jun 18 - 03:21 AM Hahahaha Tattie! Sam the Skull! "Ah've got claws on ma paws like a crocodile's jaws..." Love that song. No, I called the mugging cat 'Ginger' (I never was very imaginative with cats' names) and took him in to live with me in my bedsit (Belmont Street, Byres Road area) Curry sauce - ha, don't ever be tempted to try my husband's 'curry sauce' which he batch cooks every three days. It's made with Scotch bonnets and would take your head off. He puts huge amounts of peanut butter in it too. Yuk! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Tattie Bogle Date: 06 Jun 18 - 11:36 AM Oo-er! Tomato ketchup's hot enough for me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Jun 18 - 12:46 PM Aye, as David says, don't expect anything like real curry but I do quite like it. Sort of spicy/sweet gravy. Often with raisins in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: David Carter (UK) Date: 06 Jun 18 - 02:50 PM But I like the idea of Scotch Bonnet based sauce, which I have used a bit because I have Levi Roots' cookbook. Wouldn't it to be great to sneak into a chip shop, and lace their curry sauce with Scotch Bonnet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Senoufou Date: 06 Jun 18 - 03:19 PM My word David Carter! People would pass out from heart attacks! The cats and I evacuate the kitchen when Mr Senoufou is cooking. The orange steam makes us all choke. He puts three or four of the wretched things into the sauce and it's absolutely lethal. He even adds a tablespoonful of salt. Very very bad for his health... He's now trying to grow the blessed things in our greenhouse. He has eight pots of seeds, and so far only one has germinated (good!). I'm tempted to douse them in Weedol while he's at work, heh heh! Anyone dared to try the California Reaper chillies? They apparently have actually killed people. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Big cod, big chips, curry sauce... From: Steve Shaw Date: 06 Jun 18 - 06:31 PM Spice Tailor fiery Goan curry is a thing of beauty. As is their tikka masala recipe if you follow the Waitrose version. |
