Poll: Yorkshire pudding

[alias_sqbr]

[Poll #1164560]

Inspired by someone at work talking about how much she hated them, followed by me and another workmate trying to convince her of their awesomeness and me realising I hadn't had any since I left home. So I made some (with chicken and peas and gravy) and they were tasty. And Cam had never seen them before outside of "Ramsey's kitchen nightmares"! He thought they were a kind of dessert!

I am having to stop myself cooking Cam "Toad in the Hole", since while I'm pretty sure he would really enjoy it it's like the ultimate anti-diet-food (sausages cooked in (crunchy tasty) fatty batter, served with tomato sauce)

Mmm... now I'm hungry again :)

Comments

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

You need a "delicious +++ with gravy" option. ;)

[alias_sqbr]

The gravy is implied :)

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

I haven't had good yorkshire pudding since my Grandfather died.

[alias_sqbr]

:(

*makes you virtual yorkshire pudding with extra gravy*

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Drowned in gravy. Oh yes.

In some class I did at TAFE once we had to do menu plans or something using dishes from certain countries.

On my English menu I had Yorkshire Pudding. Another girl in my class was quite obviously copying my work, which the lecturer also noticed. When the lecturer went through this girl's work she just asked, "So, what do you have with Yorkshire Pudding?" and she just shrugged and said, "Custard?" That was priceless.

[alias_sqbr]

MMm, pudding and custard, what could be tastier? :)

[callistra.livejournal.com]

Tomato sauce???
Ack!

A good onion gravy here thanks with toad in the hole!!
:-)

[alias_sqbr]

That does sound pretty tasty. Blame my mum for bringing me up wrong then :)

(Dammit, now I'm hungry AGAIN)

[anxiolytic.livejournal.com]

*looks at his bowl of vegetables*
THANKS A LOT!

mmmm Yorkshire pudding is divine, especially covered in gravy.

[alias_sqbr]

You're welcome :D

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

I would very much like your recipe please. My mum makes them, and they make me sad :(

[alias_sqbr]

I just got it off the internet. And they weren't THAT good, it was the seven year wait that made them extra tasty :)

But it was this one,:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1850,137183-236204,00.html

Only with less oil, no refrigeration, hand whipped, done in muffin pans for about 15 mins, at 225C. Basically I combined a bunch together to fit my circumstances :)

[infamyanonymous.livejournal.com]

*lies on the floor stuffed to the gills*

Oh man... too much food in my belly now! But want more puddings!

[thanners.livejournal.com]

I [i]just[/i] ate dinner and just from reading this post I'm suddenly vaguely hungry again.

[alias_sqbr]

*bwahaha!*

Also, you clearly use forums too much :)

[thanners.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Forgot where I was. (c:

[flyingblogspot.livejournal.com]

My darling grandmother made the most wonderful Yorkshire puddings. *wistful*

[alias_sqbr]

*gives you virtual pudding also*

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

I was born and raised in Idaho, but my mother made Yorkshire pudding alla da time (her grandparents came from Wales!).

I love the stuff (not so much Entwife, alas).

The recipe looks well worth a try! *prints out and saves to take home*

*NOM NOM NOM*

[ithiliana.livejournal.com]

Damn, I am now hungry!

[alias_sqbr]

Well, make some yorkshire pudding then! :)

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Never had it. I'm generally wary of any british food that isn't curry or smoked salmon.

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. I never thought of curry as a british food :)

Look at all the happy yorkshire pudding eaters! *exerts peer pressure to make you similarly addicted to crunchy tasty gravy receptacles*

[seaya.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry#British_cuisine

There is a British bent on curry, anyhow. The British tried to make it fit in an easy "box" as it were and invented that yucky substance called "curry powder" when it tastes better when made with Indian masalas or fresh ground spices and so forth.

It's kind of like Chinese food in the states. Adapted by immigrants to the local environment in order to sell to local tastes.

"Although the names may be similar to traditional dishes, the recipes generally are not." According to Wikipedia anyhow.

In my experience UK curry house curry is it's own specific thing, even if it was still invented by desis.

Then there's this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindaloo

Things are not cut and dry, in other words.

[alias_sqbr]

Huh, you learn something new every day, I knew english people liked curry but didn't realise it was so central to the culture. I wonder how it compares to australian curry. Will have to ask my anglo-indian father in law.

An australian malaysian friend of mine went on an organised europe tour with her parents and a bunch of other malaysians. She got to sample malaysian food from all over the world, apparently it does differ quite a bit :) I also noticed that the italian food in singapore tasted a bit different to the stuff here, and then there are the australian asian-style "european" bakeries.

Which I guess just goes to show that the national/ethnic identity of food is as fluid and complex as the national/ethnic identity of the people who cook and eat it :)

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Central? Not sure I'd use that word, but it is part of every day. Tea is central though. ;)

Which I guess just goes to show that the national/ethnic identity of food is as fluid and complex as the national/ethnic identity of the people who cook and eat it :)

Well curry still is of desi origin, but there is a UK curry. So yeah it's a bit fluid :). My friend Hieu is of Viet descent, and she said that the way certain dishes are made in different parts of the U.S. because people from different parts of Vietnam settled in different places. Haha. But people adapted in different ways too. :)

Curry in the uk is like pizza and spicy tuna rolls (etc., etc.,) in the U.S. :).

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. Yes, I know all about tea, my grandma is english (And, being over 80 and having left in the 40s, doesn't eat curry. Which may have skewed my perceptions a bit)

I have seen Chicago pizza, and I feel pretty sure nothing like that is made in Italy :)