I can't be the only one to have noticed how chilly it's got over the last week! So here is a quick stew recipe we at chez Belly Kids have knocked up. Enjoy:
Ingredients:-
1 onion (chopped)
3 cloves garlic
1 stick celery (chopped)
lots of mushrooms (flat or chestnut)
dried porcini mushrooms
1 pint stock
tomato puree
400g tin tomatoes
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika or 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
(CHILLI POWDER IF YOU FANCY IT)
1/2tsp cinnamon
2tsp thyme (dried)
Soak the dried porcini mushrooms in boiling water for 30 mins,
meanwhile fry off the onions with a pinch of sugar till transparent
Then add the celery and garlic,
though becareful that you don burn.
Add half the mushrooms along with all of the herbs and spices.
Add the tin of tomatoes, tomato puree and stock.
Bring to the boil and simmer for approximately 20 mins.
Add the dried porcini mushrooms with the liquid they came in.
Let the sauce thicken a bit,
add more puree or drain off excess liquid if necessary.
Add the rest of the mushrooms and put into a casserole dish
with a knob of butter and some salt and pepper.
Cook for between 2 and 3 hours.
Add dumplings if you fancy.
Finish with fresh thyme and sour cream!
Showing posts with label fast food. Show all posts
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Sunday, 7 November 2010
Thursday, 9 September 2010
Weekend Nachos food interview
We at Belly Kids are planning on releasing a totally yummy cookery book in the future. All the recipes will be collected from bands, producers, promoters and labels who we think are awesome. In total there should be around 20 artsists involved (we hope). We asked Chicago punx 'Weekend Nachos' to get involved but sadly they had nothing recipe based to contribute! That's cool though because here is a short Q and A session we had with them about the food which we love!
http://www.myspace.com/weekendnachos
I think the most obvious question has to be 'Weekend Nachos' how did you come up with the name and how often does it get related to the tasty snack?
The band name gets related to food all the time, people make jokes about "Weekday Tacos" and what not, like a play on our band name...those people are morons and they think they're being funny but they aren't at all, it's just like a bad joke that a Dad tells his kids or something. A friend of mine helped me come up with that band name...but it really does not have any meaning whatsoever! Just goofy nonsense.
What would your dream meal to share as a band be? Or do you all have particular tastes that don't easily match?
I'd say we all generally enjoy pizza, that's something we can agree on. Other than that, we all have different tastes. My dream meal would probably be a slab of ribs with french fries, corn on the cob, and an ice cold bottle of Mexican Coca Cola. Can't really top that in my eyes!
Are promoters in the States good at laying on food at shows? Whats the best thing that you've been given?
Honestly, it's hit or miss. Sometimes the person doing the show will buy food for the bands, but i'm going to go ahead and say that most of the time it does not happen that way. There have been a few shows i've played where the promoter bought a bunch of pizzas for all of the bands. That is always amazing! In San Jose, our friends there made us like, a billion tacos and we were feasting on those for hours and hours after the show. It was almost like they never ran out of food and just kept making more of it. We ate a lot that night.
Would you say there was any good fast food out there? (I used to have an urge to buy the Burger King bean burger! until recently, thanks to a friend, i figured out it is so bland and dry)
Well, this is America so yes, fast food is pretty much what puts us on the map! McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and the more region-specific ones: White Castle, Jack In The Box, In N Out, etc....they are all wonderful. I love fast food especially on tour. When i'm home, i try to stay away from it as much as possible but when we are on tour i eat it non-stop! Feels great.
Im giving you 4/5 toppings on a pizza, what would they be? and if vegan, gimme an alternative because i would miss pizza to much!
Hmm, for me personally...grilled chicken, mushrooms, bacon, pepperoni and tomatoes would make for an excellent 5 topping pizza!
Are you guys vegan, veggie? How easy a choice is that to nail down in the States? Im not sure how many times youve been to Europe but is the selection of food greater or lesser?
I am not vegan or vegetarian, no...but Drew is vegan and Andy is vegetarian. Brian and I love to eat meat! I'd say that eating vegan is getting easier and easier over the years in the United States...because it's growing in popularity to a lot of places are making more options available. I have never been to Europe so I have no idea what it's like there!!! We're coming in about a month so we'll see!
Is cooking/baking something you try and do, and how good are you? Or just something you leave to others?
I am personally a very terrible cook...however, i am pretty good at making breakfast. My scrambled eggs and home fries always turn out really good, so whenever i cook, i just make breakfast no matter what time of day it is, haha! Otherwise, i either eat out at a restaurant or i have my girlfriend make me something.
http://www.myspace.com/weekendnachos
I think the most obvious question has to be 'Weekend Nachos' how did you come up with the name and how often does it get related to the tasty snack?
The band name gets related to food all the time, people make jokes about "Weekday Tacos" and what not, like a play on our band name...those people are morons and they think they're being funny but they aren't at all, it's just like a bad joke that a Dad tells his kids or something. A friend of mine helped me come up with that band name...but it really does not have any meaning whatsoever! Just goofy nonsense.
What would your dream meal to share as a band be? Or do you all have particular tastes that don't easily match?
I'd say we all generally enjoy pizza, that's something we can agree on. Other than that, we all have different tastes. My dream meal would probably be a slab of ribs with french fries, corn on the cob, and an ice cold bottle of Mexican Coca Cola. Can't really top that in my eyes!
Are promoters in the States good at laying on food at shows? Whats the best thing that you've been given?
Honestly, it's hit or miss. Sometimes the person doing the show will buy food for the bands, but i'm going to go ahead and say that most of the time it does not happen that way. There have been a few shows i've played where the promoter bought a bunch of pizzas for all of the bands. That is always amazing! In San Jose, our friends there made us like, a billion tacos and we were feasting on those for hours and hours after the show. It was almost like they never ran out of food and just kept making more of it. We ate a lot that night.
Would you say there was any good fast food out there? (I used to have an urge to buy the Burger King bean burger! until recently, thanks to a friend, i figured out it is so bland and dry)
Well, this is America so yes, fast food is pretty much what puts us on the map! McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Taco Bell, and the more region-specific ones: White Castle, Jack In The Box, In N Out, etc....they are all wonderful. I love fast food especially on tour. When i'm home, i try to stay away from it as much as possible but when we are on tour i eat it non-stop! Feels great.
Im giving you 4/5 toppings on a pizza, what would they be? and if vegan, gimme an alternative because i would miss pizza to much!
Hmm, for me personally...grilled chicken, mushrooms, bacon, pepperoni and tomatoes would make for an excellent 5 topping pizza!
Are you guys vegan, veggie? How easy a choice is that to nail down in the States? Im not sure how many times youve been to Europe but is the selection of food greater or lesser?
I am not vegan or vegetarian, no...but Drew is vegan and Andy is vegetarian. Brian and I love to eat meat! I'd say that eating vegan is getting easier and easier over the years in the United States...because it's growing in popularity to a lot of places are making more options available. I have never been to Europe so I have no idea what it's like there!!! We're coming in about a month so we'll see!
Is cooking/baking something you try and do, and how good are you? Or just something you leave to others?
I am personally a very terrible cook...however, i am pretty good at making breakfast. My scrambled eggs and home fries always turn out really good, so whenever i cook, i just make breakfast no matter what time of day it is, haha! Otherwise, i either eat out at a restaurant or i have my girlfriend make me something.
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
a guide to take-out pizza in Selly Park
Before I get unfairly judged, hissed at and spat upon I would like to say in my defence that I am really a true lover of high quality dining and have had the fortune to frequent many exquisite, rather expensive establishments. Please sleep safe in the knowledge that I would very easily sell my soul to any single corporation in exchange for the capital that would allow me eat out at these places on a regular occasion. I can't be sure how long I will be staying in the Selly Park region of Birmingham so I thought now would be the best time for me to unload my knowledge of Pizza take-outs in the nearby delivery area.
Pizza 2gether
I think my love for this take-out restraunt is best punctuated with the fact that when I first ordered pizza and asked for fresh tomatoes as one of my extra toppings the delivery man apologised on arriving at my door. Apparently the kitchen hadn't got any in stock so he had went and bought some from a local grocery store but couldn't guarantee quality. I was left standing at my step beeming with a smile, no other than Pizza 2gether would be so eager to please. Its sometimes hard to escape the grease which bangs off of these takeout pizzas though unlike many of its competitors the slices of pizza 2gether look radiant in a considered sheen. Though healthily applied the cheese is dealt on with an air of restraint and lies deliciously over the well cooked, thin base. The jalapeños are hot enough for those of us who are into the spicy taste but aren't layered unnecessarily thick so the more mild customer can also enjoy. There is a consistency in taste that runs through the meal. Each component of the pizza manages to entwine to create a flavour which neither leaves you bloated or desperate for the toilet on finishing.
Mama Mia/Wia
in a late night binge fuelled by the over doings of a nights alcoholic feast it can be impossibly hard to locate a menu with a definite contact number scribed down. Why Mama Mia/Wia persist on referring to themselves with ridiculously similar yet clearly different names I do not know. They have an incredibly short manner on the phone and refuse to apologise for the difficulty their absurd marketing tactics are causing. When the pizza does finally arrive it is obviously on the small size, hardly finding the sides of the tiny case. The base is heavy and damp, the meat is always microwaved so that it seems overly chewy and the cheese is still steaming, bubbling, looking rather disgusting. It definitely falls short of the absolute representation of pizza that i hold in my head. Though after you eat the pizza down in record pace, complain to yourself about all its discrepancies and write a review of it up on your blog you still crave yet another slice, another crack at that cheese filled crust.
Chaps
Given the name of the restraunt and the over the top wild west themed menu it is only right that I speculate that Chaps is a take-out which specialises in American cuisine. I am almost tempted to ring them now begging them to deliver a plate of rancid burgers or bulbous, fatty ribs. When I do order pizza it is always tough and my teeth really have to work when I try and tear through the dank strands of flat, often uncooked dough. The cheese is not a prize worth waiting for, the now synthetic grease sheet no longer tastes like cheddar as it has had the last 20 minutes of its life powered through an industrial microwave. Each taste in your mouth stands separate from one an other, an artificial smack thuds through your mouth as you ask yourself why it is so hard to cook a pizza correctly and not to little or ever too much.
Pizza Land
I feel like maybe I didn't give this place a good enough chance. I was far to busy trying to convince two of my closest friends that Pizza 2gether was in-fact the supreme force in Pizza cookery that I feel that I unfairly skimped over their choice, Pizza Land. The sauce was seasoned well and instead of tasting sickly sweet it actually tasted of real tomato with a licking of oregano. Though of course it was a greasy monster of a thing the cheese didn't slip off of the base in a pasteurised sheet and It in fact looked real, or at least resembled something which looked like the actual gratings of cheese. The mushrooms were cooked well and tasted fresh, the peppers were as slimy as I asked them to be but the only thing that let me down was the base. The base and the over garlic taste. The base was handmade and fluffy but it was just so bready and I found it difficult to get into the middle. I always feel hard done by if I have to leave the crusts of my slices, a pizza is something which should be enjoyed as a whole. Pizza Land left me leaving the crusts, sad to say.
Lucianos
Silence falls as I hold the receiver to my ear, desperately waiting on the answer to my request that I cheekily phoned in just 30minutes ago. Affirmative, even though the shop was meant to close nearly an hour ago it turns put that Lucianos are more than happy heap my pizza full of prawns. When I bite into my seafood treat I am dismayed to taste an overpowering valour of tangy tomato sauce. After ordering over three times now I can say that the taste of the sauce only gets more rancid in time. It is an awful shame because if you are a greasy pizza fan then Lucianos is definitely your place. The cheese is layered on thick and each bite enters you into a cheddar heaven. I imagine that the restraunt has a nice oven because the flavours seem to compact together, the base is slightly doughy but bearable as you half expect a dense slice of dairy. If you get pepperoni then you are forever surprised by discs of meat which hide themselves underneath the pocket of toppings. The sizes are always fair and they have such a pleasant phone manner.
Pizza 2gether
I think my love for this take-out restraunt is best punctuated with the fact that when I first ordered pizza and asked for fresh tomatoes as one of my extra toppings the delivery man apologised on arriving at my door. Apparently the kitchen hadn't got any in stock so he had went and bought some from a local grocery store but couldn't guarantee quality. I was left standing at my step beeming with a smile, no other than Pizza 2gether would be so eager to please. Its sometimes hard to escape the grease which bangs off of these takeout pizzas though unlike many of its competitors the slices of pizza 2gether look radiant in a considered sheen. Though healthily applied the cheese is dealt on with an air of restraint and lies deliciously over the well cooked, thin base. The jalapeños are hot enough for those of us who are into the spicy taste but aren't layered unnecessarily thick so the more mild customer can also enjoy. There is a consistency in taste that runs through the meal. Each component of the pizza manages to entwine to create a flavour which neither leaves you bloated or desperate for the toilet on finishing.
Mama Mia/Wia
in a late night binge fuelled by the over doings of a nights alcoholic feast it can be impossibly hard to locate a menu with a definite contact number scribed down. Why Mama Mia/Wia persist on referring to themselves with ridiculously similar yet clearly different names I do not know. They have an incredibly short manner on the phone and refuse to apologise for the difficulty their absurd marketing tactics are causing. When the pizza does finally arrive it is obviously on the small size, hardly finding the sides of the tiny case. The base is heavy and damp, the meat is always microwaved so that it seems overly chewy and the cheese is still steaming, bubbling, looking rather disgusting. It definitely falls short of the absolute representation of pizza that i hold in my head. Though after you eat the pizza down in record pace, complain to yourself about all its discrepancies and write a review of it up on your blog you still crave yet another slice, another crack at that cheese filled crust.
Chaps
Given the name of the restraunt and the over the top wild west themed menu it is only right that I speculate that Chaps is a take-out which specialises in American cuisine. I am almost tempted to ring them now begging them to deliver a plate of rancid burgers or bulbous, fatty ribs. When I do order pizza it is always tough and my teeth really have to work when I try and tear through the dank strands of flat, often uncooked dough. The cheese is not a prize worth waiting for, the now synthetic grease sheet no longer tastes like cheddar as it has had the last 20 minutes of its life powered through an industrial microwave. Each taste in your mouth stands separate from one an other, an artificial smack thuds through your mouth as you ask yourself why it is so hard to cook a pizza correctly and not to little or ever too much.
Pizza Land
I feel like maybe I didn't give this place a good enough chance. I was far to busy trying to convince two of my closest friends that Pizza 2gether was in-fact the supreme force in Pizza cookery that I feel that I unfairly skimped over their choice, Pizza Land. The sauce was seasoned well and instead of tasting sickly sweet it actually tasted of real tomato with a licking of oregano. Though of course it was a greasy monster of a thing the cheese didn't slip off of the base in a pasteurised sheet and It in fact looked real, or at least resembled something which looked like the actual gratings of cheese. The mushrooms were cooked well and tasted fresh, the peppers were as slimy as I asked them to be but the only thing that let me down was the base. The base and the over garlic taste. The base was handmade and fluffy but it was just so bready and I found it difficult to get into the middle. I always feel hard done by if I have to leave the crusts of my slices, a pizza is something which should be enjoyed as a whole. Pizza Land left me leaving the crusts, sad to say.
Lucianos
Silence falls as I hold the receiver to my ear, desperately waiting on the answer to my request that I cheekily phoned in just 30minutes ago. Affirmative, even though the shop was meant to close nearly an hour ago it turns put that Lucianos are more than happy heap my pizza full of prawns. When I bite into my seafood treat I am dismayed to taste an overpowering valour of tangy tomato sauce. After ordering over three times now I can say that the taste of the sauce only gets more rancid in time. It is an awful shame because if you are a greasy pizza fan then Lucianos is definitely your place. The cheese is layered on thick and each bite enters you into a cheddar heaven. I imagine that the restraunt has a nice oven because the flavours seem to compact together, the base is slightly doughy but bearable as you half expect a dense slice of dairy. If you get pepperoni then you are forever surprised by discs of meat which hide themselves underneath the pocket of toppings. The sizes are always fair and they have such a pleasant phone manner.
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