2013: Jack’s year of Prostitution, stealing food to survive, weekly Guardian slop column, no fridge for TWO years, and yet batch-freezing her crappy “fish tagine”.And yet again, the entire recipe is a hot sloppy mess from end to end.
(Serves 4) 78p a portion
300g rice, 12p
1 tbsp oil, 3p
1 onion, diced, 11p
1 tsp cumin, 5p
1 tsp paprika, 5p
1 vegetable or chicken stock cube, crumbled 2p
4 white fish fillets, £1.68
200g tinned mandarin segments, 27p
400g chopped tomatoes, 35p
Handful of sultanas, 6p
Few sprigs of mint or coriander, 8p
150g spinach, 23p
Put the rice on to cook. HELPFUL. Any instructions as to how to do this? How long to cook for?
Warm the oil over a medium heat and saute the onions in the spices and stock for a few minutes. Stock? What stock? I only see a stock cube in the ingredients. Do you make up the stock cube in water? If so, how much. And if you're adding stock, you're not sauteeing the onions, are you? "What does sauté mean? The word is culinary-speak for browning or cooking a food quickly over fairly high heat, using a small amount of large in a wide, shallow pan"
When the onions start to soften, add the fish and pour the mandarins, their juice and the chopped tomatoes over the top. Add the sultanas, chopped herbs and spinach, and bring to the boil for a minute. Why put the spinach and fresh herbs in at this stage? It only needs a minute or two to wilt. And why put the fish on the bottom??? Why boil it for a minute?
Reduce to a vigorous simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally to stop the sauce from sticking to the pan. duck sake. Boiling white fish and spinach for 15 minutes? Vile.
Meanwhile, check the rice is cooked and remove from the heat. HELPFUL. At least it's a decent sized portion per person.
Break the fish into chunks and stir through before serving over the rice. Not a tagine. Not even close. Just fishy slop.
It claims to be spicy. It contains only cumin and paprika. Does guest actually know what spicy means?Happy 10th anniversary to Fish and Tinned Mandarin Tagine!
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I think their definition of “packed with vegetables” is a tad different from mine
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And over on her blog Jack’s pasting and posting evidence that everyone clapped and cheered.
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Fish tagine.
This week’s Guardian recipe was one o my home favourites, fish tagine. I make this in a big batch and freeze it in portions, the flavours develop beautifully when frozen. For the full recipe,…cookingonabootstrap.com
Still think I’d eat the “tagine” before this dried up cat sick on mushy looking green pasta worms served on her tiny pov plate from the week before tho. Sorry, “creamy” spaghetti and “crunchy” breadcrumbs.View attachment 2554923
She's got such an Aunty Pat attitude to spice. I bet a korma is too racy for her.It claims to be spicy. It contains only cumin and paprika. Does guest actually know what spicy means?
There’s a food group where they laugh at people like this and joke that even mayo is “too spicy”.She's got such an Aunty Pat attitude to spice. I bet a korma is too racy for her.
‘Where can I buy 8ps worth of coriander?’ For THREAD TITLE please (pretty please)Happy 10th anniversary to Fish and Tinned Mandarin Tagine!
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I think their definition of “packed with vegetables” is a tad different from mine
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And over on her blog Jack’s pasting and posting evidence that everyone clapped and cheered.
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Fish tagine.
This week’s Guardian recipe was one o my home favourites, fish tagine. I make this in a big batch and freeze it in portions, the flavours develop beautifully when frozen. For the full recipe,…cookingonabootstrap.com
Still think I’d eat the “tagine” before this dried up cat sick on mushy looking green pasta worms served on her tiny pov plate from the week before tho. Sorry, “creamy” spaghetti and “crunchy” breadcrumbs.View attachment 2554923
Just leaving this here:How the frig do flavours develop when food is frozen?!
She’s the type to order a chicken Maryland at the local Indian restaurant.She's got such an Aunty Pat attitude to spice. I bet a korma is too racy for her.
Let’s ask the literal food expert. What say you, Jack?How the frig do flavours develop when food is frozen?!
Oh Mavis, how could you?! Don’t you know Jack was HORRIBLY LAUGHED AT for mispronouncing that word!Warm the oil over a medium heat and saute the onions in the spices and stock for a few minutes. Stock? What stock? I only see a stock cube in the ingredients. Do you make up the stock cube in water? If so, how much. And if you're adding stock, you're not sauteeing the onions, are you? "What does sauté mean? The word is culinary-speak for browning or cooking a food quickly over fairly high heat, using a small amount of large in a wide, shallow pan"
Had a rainbow day while destroying the environment, oppressing human rights in other countries, squashing trade unions, trading permanent jobs for zero-hours contracts with no benefits, etc etc etc. But hey! They're diverse so Big Lin is going to give them an awardNot exactly diverse either, when the award winners are always a lesbian who sung a song a decade ago, a retired athlete, and someone like MegaBankCorp whoponied up thousands for a tablehad a rainbow day for the gays in the accounts dept or whatever.