Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Oh great, I'll make sure to pop in next time I'm in the area  It looks like a bubble & squeak pie, which makes it a bloody great pie in my book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Bubble and Squeak Pie? I'm going to make that at the weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Oh you absolute gent. I'm going to be all over this recipe. Â Taking a slightly related route onto Jewish food (via knishes). You don't really hear much about Jewish cuisine over here, I'd imagine you might get a bit more over in NY? I went to a Jewish engagement party a few years ago they served a lot of traditional Jewish snacks- they were bloody lovely. A lot of things similar to falafel I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 I knew a good amount about Jewish food, long before I moved. Cynthia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food is waaaay slanted toward sephardic food (but then, that's her background), although there are lots of nice ashkenazi recipes too, and that's what most people know as Jewish food. Â There are mountains of jewish places here - I think that's the reason that sandwiches in general kick the arse off of the shite back home. My favorite treat is to order in some (non-kosher) stuff from Sarge's and fill my belly - last time, I had their combination tongue/corned beef/brisket sanger, "souper" chicken soup (with matzo balls and kreplach), and a deli wellington, which is a mix of potato, onion, and corned beef (the yank kind) - all topped off with a celery soda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Ah cheers for that, might have to see what I can get around here. Although one thing troubled me there- Celery Soda?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAFKAC Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I've never seen it done... but apparently people have been known to put a wagon wheel on top of a Scotch pie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 I was watching Mad Men the other day, and a character was asked if they wanted ice cream or a slice of cheddar on top of their fruit pie. That's fucked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 They eat it in Wigan. It's dead nice. Â Preston too. You can get pretty good ones at Deepdale. Â Butter Pies, seem to be a staple up here. You can tell a shit chippy as to how poor their butter pies are by all accounts. Â I'm still searching, in vain for a chippy up here that does Battered Sausage in 'bubbly' batter as opposed to the hard as nails crispy shite. That's if they do them at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SiMania Posted July 12, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 12, 2012 Ah, thanks for the thought, but no need to bother yourself with that - very kind of you though. Â I'm in holborn every few weeks with work, I could open my own pie stall when I'm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 13, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 Ah, thanks for the thought, but no need to bother yourself with that - very kind of you though. Â I'm in holborn every few weeks with work, I could open my own pie stall when I'm down. Â There's a cracking pie show around there, actually - I don't remember the name something like the square pie? Â Carbomb (and other Londoners), ever make it to Manze's in Chapel Market? Pies aren't that good, peas and eels are better. They're in Peckham and somewhere like Tower or London Bridge, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 13, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 I knew a good amount about Jewish food, long before I moved. Cynthia Roden's The Book of Jewish Food is waaaay slanted toward sephardic food (but then, that's her background), although there are lots of nice ashkenazi recipes too, and that's what most people know as Jewish food. There are mountains of jewish places here - I think that's the reason that sandwiches in general kick the arse off of the shite back home. My favorite treat is to order in some (non-kosher) stuff from Sarge's and fill my belly - last time, I had their combination tongue/corned beef/brisket sanger, "souper" chicken soup (with matzo balls and kreplach), and a deli wellington, which is a mix of potato, onion, and corned beef (the yank kind) - all topped off with a celery soda.  Now wait a second - there's plenty of great Jewish food over here, it's just a bit different from NYJ food is all. You can get awesome salt beef (is that corned beef in NY?) at Madison's, Selfridges, and until last year, you could get the best stuff at The Nosh Bar on Great Windmill St. Hit Golders Green or Stamford Hill, and you can easily get the best latkas, pickles, rollmops, lox and what-have-you.  What dishes are specifically Sephardic, though? Most London Jews are Ashkenazi, I think.  Ah, thanks for the thought, but no need to bother yourself with that - very kind of you though.  I'm in holborn every few weeks with work, I could open my own pie stall when I'm down.  You should, I'd be a customer, I reckon. But you'd have to sell rowies too. And stovies, just so I could find out what they are. (I'm guessing pies are bridies.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 13, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 Ah, thanks for the thought, but no need to bother yourself with that - very kind of you though. Â I'm in holborn every few weeks with work, I could open my own pie stall when I'm down. Â There's a cracking pie show around there, actually - I don't remember the name something like the square pie? Â Carbomb (and other Londoners), ever make it to Manze's in Chapel Market? Pies aren't that good, peas and eels are better. They're in Peckham and somewhere like Tower or London Bridge, too. Â I find for Cockney food, it really is better to hit the East End or south-east. There's a place in near Shoreditch/Brick Lane which I've only ever been able to find when drunk which does some of the best pease pudding and saveloys I've ever tasted - and I normally can't stand that kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Halitosis Romantic Posted July 13, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 There's a nice (although slightly inauthentic) place just off of Oxford Street that does deli food. I miss the Nosherie in Farringdon - 24 hour kosher place. Also, there is a petition to save Gaby's on Charing Cross Road, it's probably going to be a victim of the rape of that area. Â Yeah, corned beef is salt beef. It's named for the "corns" of salt. Â Sephardic food is much more spiced, less bland and comfort foodie than East European. Basically, it's every else, so it could be Indian, Ethopian, or anything really. One of my favorite things is the couscous, but that's more just kosher north African. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted July 13, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 13, 2012 There's a nice (although slightly inauthentic) place just off of Oxford Street that does deli food. I miss the Nosherie in Farringdon - 24 hour kosher place. Also, there is a petition to save Gaby's on Charing Cross Road, it's probably going to be a victim of the rape of that area. Yeah, corned beef is salt beef. It's named for the "corns" of salt.  Sephardic food is much more spiced, less bland and comfort foodie than East European. Basically, it's every else, so it could be Indian, Ethopian, or anything really. One of my favorite things is the couscous, but that's more just kosher north African.  Gaby's is really good, but if it's a victim of anything, it's of itself - they've been ridiculously over-priced for years. My dad, back when he was working at a book distributor company, used to take me on trips around Charing Cross Road while he was dropping off stock, and we'd often stop off at Gaby's for a salt beef in pitta, but a few years later, he stopped going because it was expensive. I didn't know just how expensive until I started at uni and had money of my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Some steak from a barbie me and 2 friends had the other week. There Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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