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Title: River cottage new series
Post by: manicscousers on October 11, 2011, 10:47:14
Channel 4 sunday 8pm  :)
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: grannyjanny on October 11, 2011, 11:11:56
Thanks Mal. I must let eldest know, she has a thing for HFW ;) ;D.
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Mr Smith on October 16, 2011, 11:55:13
I have always enjoyed River Cottage but I think Hugh is starting to turn in to one of the TV luvvy brigade, :)
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Post by: macmac on October 16, 2011, 13:02:57
I'll be watching,I bought the veg only book a couple of weeks ago and I have to say it's lovely.
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Hi_Hoe on October 16, 2011, 14:19:30
Reminder been set all week!
Who doesn't like Hugh Fearn? TBH  I think he may be the one who nudged me and the Trouble & Strife into putting our name down for an allotment.

Come on Hugh- Educate us!!!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: louise stella on October 16, 2011, 16:12:32
I have always enjoyed River Cottage but I think Hugh is starting to turn in to one of the TV luvvy brigade, :)

Nah - I think he plows his own furrow!  He is passionate about food and growing things - that'll do for me!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: louise stella on October 16, 2011, 16:13:42
Reminder been set all week!
Who doesn't like Hugh Fearn? TBH  I think he may be the one who nudged me and the Trouble & Strife into putting our name down for an allotment.

Come on Hugh- Educate us!!!

Well that's got to be a good thing then!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: gordonsveg on October 17, 2011, 11:09:20
Not starting to turn into one of the luvvie brigade,he has always been one. Do you really believe all these "friends" he suddenly makes would want to know him if he wasnt a "TELLY CELEB"?
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: pumkinlover on October 17, 2011, 13:16:49
I agree on that aspect Gordonsveg, although  I like his shows , the bit where a tribe of friends suddenly come down the lane always seems a tad manufactured ::)
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: caroline7758 on October 17, 2011, 17:57:30
I'd always assumed the friends were mainly staff from his shop and restaurant(s)/
I enjoyed the programme, there were some really nice recipes, although some rather obscure ingredients!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Mr Smith on October 17, 2011, 18:08:42
I have always enjoyed River Cottage but I think Hugh is starting to turn in to one of the TV luvvy brigade, :)

Nah - I think he plows his own furrow!  He is passionate about food and growing things - that'll do for me!


             What with two Gardeners tending his veg and half a dozen Chefs in his Canteen, ;D but I do like the bloke, :)
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Mr Smith on November 06, 2011, 21:54:20
In the canteen they serve some of their dishes on lumps of wood, would you say this is hygienic, :)
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Post by: bazzysbarn on November 06, 2011, 22:39:04
At the turnpike in northamptonshire they serve the steaks on wooden boards and chips in metal buckets!
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Post by: caroline7758 on November 07, 2011, 17:51:39
Darn, I missed it last night- will have to 4OD it. ::)
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Post by: Robert_Brenchley on November 08, 2011, 19:50:33
I don't know how easy it is to clean wooden platters, but they're entirely traditional. A square meal was originally one which filled a square wooden platter to the corners.
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: BarriedaleNick on November 08, 2011, 20:21:12
Wood is fine for cutting boards and for serving as it is naturally antibiotic..though I do believe that not all wood has this property - beech for example..

http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/docliver/Research/cuttingboard.htm

"Our research was first intended to develop means of disinfecting wooden cutting surfaces, so that they would be almost as safe as plastics. Our safety concern was that bacteria such as Escherichia coli O157:H7 (commonly known as E-coli) and Salmonella, which might contaminate a work surface when raw meat was being prepared, ought not remain on the surface to contaminate other foods that might be eaten without further cooking. We soon found that disease bacteria such as these were not recoverable from wooden surfaces in a short time after they were applied, unless very large numbers were used. New plastic surfaces allowed the bacteria to persist, but were easily cleaned and disinfected. However, wooden boards that had been used and had many knife cuts acted almost the same as new wood, whereas plastic surfaces that were knife-scarred were impossible to clean and disinfect manually, especially when food residues such as chicken fat were present."
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Mr Smith on November 08, 2011, 21:22:28
Down our local they serve 'Sizzlers' on wooden plates, 
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: Ruth Rocket on November 12, 2011, 21:54:23
I love this new series, loved last week's with the Buddhist lady, her salad leaves were as holly as mine! Ha!
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Post by: pumkinlover on November 12, 2011, 22:03:26
I thought the food looked nice except that watery sauce  :-\ the food was swimming in- uugh I thought it would make the food soggy ???
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: louise stella on November 16, 2011, 16:40:01
I love this new series, loved last week's with the Buddhist lady, her salad leaves were as holly as mine! Ha!


Wouldn't you just love to be invited round to tea?  I would!  I loved her ethos!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: louise stella on November 16, 2011, 16:43:00
I don't know how easy it is to clean wooden platters, but they're entirely traditional. A square meal was originally one which filled a square wooden platter to the corners.

.......A Square MEal was indeed a wooden plate used on board ships - and they had a wooden rim around the edge about 1cm high called a fiddle - if the food touched or was over this - you were said to be "on the fiddle" - ie: taking more than you should and you could be punished!  We have one at work!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: louise stella on November 16, 2011, 16:44:30
I thought the food looked nice except that watery sauce  the food was swimming in- uugh I thought it would make the food soggy

......That is actually a very tasty soup - very common in Japanese cooking!  You always get a course served like that!  It is lovely!
Title: Re: River cottage new series
Post by: pumkinlover on November 16, 2011, 17:45:58
I thought the food looked nice except that watery sauce  the food was swimming in- uugh I thought it would make the food soggy

......That is actually a very tasty soup - very common in Japanese cooking!  You always get a course served like that!  It is lovely!

thanks for that Louise Stella- I can be a bit parochial at times, love me thick gravy! ;D
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