Speaking of James Bond......

[HUGH]

They eat stuff like this:

1 tablespoon beef drippings or 1 tablespoon cooking oil
1 1/2 lbs chuck steaks, cut into 1 inch dice
1/2 lb ox kidney (or lamb's, trimmed and diced)
12 ounces puff pastry
2 onions, chopped
3 carrots, peeled and cut into rough dice (5/8 inch)
butter
4 large flat mushrooms, cut into thick slices
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon tomato puree
1 bay leaf
1 pint veal stock (or water and stock cube or granules) or 1 pint beef stock (or water and stock cube or granules)
Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
1 egg, beaten, for glazing



It's a pie with kidneys in it......... Kidneys I tell ya

Excellent, I've perplexed a few Americans by suggesting our best recipes. By the way, I would have this with short-crust pastry, anything else is too greasy. Forget the eel pie which appears later, that's a Cockney speciality, cor blimey!

[G0TEZ]

Why are the Brits so much smarter than us?

You mean you REALLY don't know ?

[kb2vxa]

Crikey, the classic beef and kidney pie!

"It's a pie with kidneys in it......... Kidneys I tell ya"
Of course it's got kidneys, if it didn't have kidneys it'd be all p and no ie. Silly Yank.

[KG4CGC]

Right, because we're so fusking brilliant.

[NA4BH]

Right, because we're so fusking brilliant.

They eat this:

1.4kg eel, cleaned and cut into 5cm lengths 1 small onion, quartered 75g onion, thinly sliced 4 small bayleaves 4 sprigs parsley 1 tbsp parsley, finely chopped 4 tbsp butter 240ml pale, dry, sherry 1/4 tsp freshly-grated nutmeg 1/2 tsp sea salt 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper 3 tbsp plain flour 4 tbsp fresh lemon juice 3 hard-boiled eggs, quartered 1 batch rough puff pastry 1 egg yolk whisked with 1 tbsp double cream



It's pie with eel.... Eel I tell ya....

[NQ6U]

It's pie with eel.... Eel I tell ya....

My hovercraft is full of them.

[kb2vxa]

Mum made the Pennsylvania Dutch version, kidney pie with bacon... YUM! Another tasty dish was liver, onion and bacon. Mmmm bacon, bacon, num num num BACON!!! I won't touch eels in any form, no octopus and squid is FISH BAIT!

[N2NH]

I've had eel and squid as one of 32 courses at my first wedding. Excellent when done Cantonese style. Octopus a/k/a calimari Italian style, Yum! A big surprise was shark and jellyfish. Both were unexpectedly good. I'll try almost anything once. But I won't do THAT! (Prarie oysters).

[kb2vxa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42MD9FW1v8

[kb2vxa]

Come in here, dear Ian, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, you're gonna fly high,
You're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try; they're gonna love you.

Better teachers, better worms, better walls.