Comments on: Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Boil in the Bag’ Restaurants http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants Food - Photography & More Fri, 18 May 2012 02:28:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14891 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:42:31 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14891 GDave, Any man who can make that tagliatelle dish will not be single for long me thinks :) Enjoy your football thingy, hope your lot win (I'm not into football, more of a tennis fan myself). When normal service resumes I'll tell you about the garlic sauce I made today. Cid GDave,

Any man who can make that tagliatelle dish will not be single for long me thinks :)

Enjoy your football thingy, hope your lot win (I’m not into football, more of a tennis fan myself). When normal service resumes I’ll tell you about the garlic sauce I made today.

Cid

]]> by: greedydave http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14877 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:56:38 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14877 Cid, Yeah I've read that about semolina too. In fact, I'm sure I read somewhere that you can use 100% semolina for pasta. I might have dreamed that one. A very savvy car boot sale purchase I must say. I got my pasta machine from Argos so you can imagine the quality! :) Easily the best thing I've made with mine is tagliatelle with mussels, using shallots, white wine and the mussel liquor (and tonnes of butter) for the sauce. I spent the whole time eating it making, "Mmmmm," noises! Right, I'm going to get scrubbed up and head on into Glasgow. Meeting up with a fellow Manc to watch the FA Cup semi-final, drink inordinate quantities of beer and shout abuse at a television screen. I pray to God I stay away from Miles's blog when I get home tonight!! :) GDave Cid,
Yeah I’ve read that about semolina too. In fact, I’m sure I read somewhere that you can use 100% semolina for pasta. I might have dreamed that one. A very savvy car boot sale purchase I must say. I got my pasta machine from Argos so you can imagine the quality! :)
Easily the best thing I’ve made with mine is tagliatelle with mussels, using shallots, white wine and the mussel liquor (and tonnes of butter) for the sauce. I spent the whole time eating it making, “Mmmmm,” noises!

Right, I’m going to get scrubbed up and head on into Glasgow. Meeting up with a fellow Manc to watch the FA Cup semi-final, drink inordinate quantities of beer and shout abuse at a television screen. I pray to God I stay away from Miles’s blog when I get home tonight!! :)

GDave

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14856 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:20:33 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14856 Melissa, I have total faith in your ability to make perfect pasta. After all, if our soup business hits the fan, we'll need to move swiftly in this direction :) Cid Melissa,

I have total faith in your ability to make perfect pasta. After all, if our soup business hits the fan, we’ll need to move swiftly in this direction :)

Cid

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14854 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:13:45 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14854 GDave, I looked at the fridge, the kitchen cupboard and the freezer this afternoon and soon came to the conclusion there wasn't much inside.... but I had eggs and flour and semolina and my old pasta rolling machine. I sieved the flour and bunged in some semolina (and I do mean bunged :) ) then poured in as much egg yolk as the mixture took to hold together as a pasta dough. Mix by hand so you know the consistency. I never know whether I should kneed it well or not so moving on to the fun bit I just shove it through the machine a few times (bought at a car boot sale years ago) with the odd sprinkling of flour to stop it sticking. One large pan of boiling water and a pinch of salt, in goes the pasta, timed to three minutes exactly because it's angel hair thickness. I read somewhere that the addition of fine semolina helps the pasta to hold it's shape rather than become a glutenous mass... don't know if that's true but it sounded plausible. Your Bol avec Spag sounds great... no need to ask if garlic is involved :) Cid p.s. I always get lots of flour and pasta on the kitchen floor when I make it... some got stuck to the bottom of my all terrain faux leopard slippers :) ... don't tell Miles will you. GDave,

I looked at the fridge, the kitchen cupboard and the freezer this afternoon and soon came to the conclusion there wasn’t much inside…. but I had eggs and flour and semolina and my old pasta rolling machine. I sieved the flour and bunged in some semolina (and I do mean bunged :) ) then poured in as much egg yolk as the mixture took to hold together as a pasta dough. Mix by hand so you know the consistency. I never know whether I should kneed it well or not so moving on to the fun bit I just shove it through the machine a few times (bought at a car boot sale years ago) with the odd sprinkling of flour to stop it sticking. One large pan of boiling water and a pinch of salt, in goes the pasta, timed to three minutes exactly because it’s angel hair thickness. I read somewhere that the addition of fine semolina helps the pasta to hold it’s shape rather than become a glutenous mass… don’t know if that’s true but it sounded plausible.

Your Bol avec Spag sounds great… no need to ask if garlic is involved :)

Cid

p.s. I always get lots of flour and pasta on the kitchen floor when I make it… some got stuck to the bottom of my all terrain faux leopard slippers :) … don’t tell Miles will you.

]]> by: Melissa http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14851 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:12:50 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14851 This Gordon Ramsay guy screams and yells on commercials for "Hell's Kitchen" which is apparently a big hit over here. I haven't seen it because I don't need to spend my relaxation time watching someone throwing hissy fits! Way to go on the pasta, Cid! I've never made pasta before but have thought I should try an amaranth version. I've tasted amaranth pasta and it was wonderful -- making it myself is another story. Melissa This Gordon Ramsay guy screams and yells on commercials for “Hell’s Kitchen” which is apparently a big hit over here. I haven’t seen it because I don’t need to spend my relaxation time watching someone throwing hissy fits!

Way to go on the pasta, Cid! I’ve never made pasta before but have thought I should try an amaranth version. I’ve tasted amaranth pasta and it was wonderful — making it myself is another story.

Melissa

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14849 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:47:51 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14849 GDave, Naughty Gordie indeed-he'll write a book on it next, or his wife will. "Tana Ramsay's 100 Boil in the Bag Recipes for all the Family" Miles GDave,
Naughty Gordie indeed-he’ll write a book on it next, or his wife will. “Tana Ramsay’s 100 Boil in the Bag Recipes for all the Family”

Miles

]]> by: greedydave http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14848 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:35:17 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14848 Miles, Isn't 'sous vide' the new name for boil-in-the-bag these days? Naughty Gordie! GDave PS. Go Cid! I like to dabble with pasta too. I probably only have a 50% success rate but that'll improve. Actually today, inspired by a thread on a homebrew forum of all places, I was inspired to cook up a batch of Bol, which I'll be serving tomorrow teatime on a bed of Spag. :) Miles,
Isn’t ’sous vide’ the new name for boil-in-the-bag these days? Naughty Gordie!

GDave

PS. Go Cid! I like to dabble with pasta too. I probably only have a 50% success rate but that’ll improve. Actually today, inspired by a thread on a homebrew forum of all places, I was inspired to cook up a batch of Bol, which I’ll be serving tomorrow teatime on a bed of Spag. :)

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14843 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:53:58 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14843 Cid, Well done to you! How many people bother to do that? I think you should be really proud of what you do. I mean that sincerly. Miles Cid,
Well done to you! How many people bother to do that? I think you should be really proud of what you do. I mean that sincerly.

Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14842 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:52:47 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14842 Rod, Thought you'd like it-thanks for leaving it for me :mrgreen: Miles Rod,
Thought you’d like it-thanks for leaving it for me :mrgreen:

Miles

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14841 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:51:59 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/gordon-ramsays-boil-in-the-bag-restaurants#comment-14841 Annie, It isn't :) Miles Annie,
It isn’t :)

Miles

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