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Old 28-11-2014, 20:43
goldberry1
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The best meal I ever made was (when I still ate meat) a roast dinner and all the trimmings with rib of beef on the bone and delicious gravy. The worst - I had an old French recipe book and a cabbage - so I made a stuffed whole cabbage - it was vile!

The best meal I had out was served up by a surly lady who looked like the cleaner in a Bedfordshire pub, the room looking like someone's front room - T bone steak and veg followed by cherry sponge and cream - best I ever tasted home or abroad.
The worst - a fish restaurant in an unnamed coastal town in the north east - old fish in thick greasy batter - urgh!

What are your stories?
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Old 28-11-2014, 20:50
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I went on a trip to France when in college and we went to a small restaurant that only had two mains options. One was steak and the other was chicken.

About half of us ordered steak, and at that time I was young and was used to well done steak and it seems that many of the others were also.

We ordered the steak and asked for well done and the waiter said they wouldn't do it only medium rare or rare. So we all went for medium rare.



It was the best steak i've ever had



The tutor made a joke saying it was horse and not beef. I'm still not sure if he was joking.
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Old 28-11-2014, 21:15
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I went on a trip to France when in college and we went to a small restaurant that only had two mains options. One was steak and the other was chicken.

About half of us ordered steak, and at that time I was young and was used to well done steak and it seems that many of the others were also.

We ordered the steak and asked for well done and the waiter said they wouldn't do it only medium rare or rare. So we all went for medium rare.



It was the best steak i've ever had



The tutor made a joke saying it was horse and not beef. I'm still not sure if he was joking.
Definitely - if you over cook steak it ruins it - I used to love it medium rare with a glass of good red wine.

It was because of the horse meat scare that I eat minimum meat now - would rather have a big pot of homemade chilli beans.
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Old 28-11-2014, 22:22
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Best was sushi in Singapore, the fish are still alive in tanks so it's very fresh, also love the chilli crab there. My worst is also in Singapore which is pig organ soup...bloody disgusting.
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Old 01-12-2014, 09:30
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Best I've cooked was probably a lovely rare venison steak with smoked cheese and garlic mash, roasted beetroot and red wine and chocolate sauce. Or cod loin wrapped in prosciutto with triple cooked chips, pea puree and samphire.

The worst thing I've made was a red cabbage gazpacho with mustard ice cream. It was a Heston Blumenthal recipe (he serves it at The Fat Duck), I followed the recipe exactly and it was a bit nasty. The mustard ice cream was actually lovely but the soup wasn't. It was a shame as it looked amazing, a wonderful vivid bright purple.

The best out was either a surf and turf with steak and lobster that I had in America or one of the taster menus I had at my favourite local restaurant. Every course was amazing, the scallops with textures of pea and ham was stunning.

Worst out was probably a curry I had. It was greasy and cold and had hard boiled eggs in in (which weren't mentioned on the menu).
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