Your Very Last Meal
- Thread starter Diamond Geezer
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Ardross
Guest
Really :blink:
trudij
Senior Jockey
Has to be crunchy peanut butter though - none of that smooth rubbish....
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Ardross
Guest
Where did that barf emoticon go ?
BrianH
At the Start
Starter : Marinated Foie Gras (Not the time to worry about your conscience - or maybe it is? OK I'll feel guilty then while I'm eating, and have my confession heard before the next course)
Soup : Dublin Bay Prawn Bisque
Main : Scallops (In the mushroom and wine sauce with piped potatoes)
Dessert : Cheese Plate - Roquefort and Gooey Brie. (I usually try like to experiment with a couple of new ones, but there wouldn't be much point)
Soup : Dublin Bay Prawn Bisque
Main : Scallops (In the mushroom and wine sauce with piped potatoes)
Dessert : Cheese Plate - Roquefort and Gooey Brie. (I usually try like to experiment with a couple of new ones, but there wouldn't be much point)
So many choices, so little time.....
Starter: toss up between whitebait or a warm goat's cheese and bacon tartlet drizzled in a good extra virgin olive oil and some wild rocket - heck, I'm gonna die, so I'll have both..
Followed by my grandmother's steak and kidney pudding (only made with Newpole Beef, of course), spinach, broccoli and proper mashed pots...
Have to be my own home-made pavlova with own home-made honeycomb or malteser icecream (or both) with fresh raspberries
Proper coffee and a chunk of good quality milk choccy
All accompanied by a bottle of Krug or Bolly
Hicc... hicc....
B)
Starter: toss up between whitebait or a warm goat's cheese and bacon tartlet drizzled in a good extra virgin olive oil and some wild rocket - heck, I'm gonna die, so I'll have both..
Followed by my grandmother's steak and kidney pudding (only made with Newpole Beef, of course), spinach, broccoli and proper mashed pots...
Have to be my own home-made pavlova with own home-made honeycomb or malteser icecream (or both) with fresh raspberries
Proper coffee and a chunk of good quality milk choccy
All accompanied by a bottle of Krug or Bolly
Hicc... hicc....
B)
MerlinOriginally posted by Merlin the Magician@Oct 17 2004, 07:37 PM
Suny I had my last paella in Majorca (palma nova) with a lobster too.. it was absolutely brilliant and moorish.......and a bottle of their best wine to help it down...........
bet your mothers is really tasty can I order? and can you deliver....... :lol:
If you come to Madrid
phone and I will invite you to a great paella for sure.
K
Kathy
Guest
Last meal in the Winter would be:-
A nice homemade leek and potato soup to start with with a large hunk of granary bread
followed by:-
Thick (real meaty) Lincolnshire sausages with real mashed pots (with lumps in as only I can make) with loads of butter, peas and onion gravy with a cup of hot black tea
followed by:-
A big spotty dick and lashings of custard!
Well, it was my last meal..... so forget the custard !
A nice homemade leek and potato soup to start with with a large hunk of granary bread
followed by:-
Thick (real meaty) Lincolnshire sausages with real mashed pots (with lumps in as only I can make) with loads of butter, peas and onion gravy with a cup of hot black tea
followed by:-
A big spotty dick and lashings of custard!
Well, it was my last meal..... so forget the custard !
I've had Paella a few times in "Spanish" restaurants (never in Spain though). They have always been lousy, leaving the impression they contain those ugly mixed frozen fish packets and a few leftovers that they can't get rid of in anything else.
I'll have to take the plunge and figure out how to make it properly myself.
I'll have to take the plunge and figure out how to make it properly myself.
K
Kathy
Guest
Stew and Dumplings would be choice number two An! 
BrianH
At the Start
After a great deal of thought it was a close run thing - Le Gavroche, Gordon Ramsay at Claridges, The Mirabelle all made the finals but in a close run thing The Waterside at Bray was shortheaded by The Gravetye Manor.
BrianH
At the Start
Nah - that would be a Welsh stew, surely?
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Ardross
Guest
The Gravetye Manor - where's that ? Have you been to Winteringham Fields Brian ?
I wonder how popular this dish is on Winteringham Fields menu...
All those places Brian mentioned look fantastic but I think many of these places go so far in their levels of fussiness that it detrimentally impacts your enjoyment of the meal.
All those places Brian mentioned look fantastic but I think many of these places go so far in their levels of fussiness that it detrimentally impacts your enjoyment of the meal.
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Ardross
Guest
No idea but WF is fantastic even if in rather a strange and remote location
BrianH
At the Start
The Gravetye manor is in West Sussex, not a million miles from East Grinstead. I could probably fill a few threads with tales of nights - an the odd day - there (but don't worry, I won't).
http://www.gravetyemanor.co.uk/
No, I haven't been to Winteringham Fields, which, as I understand it, is not near anywhere, apart from, perhaps, Scunthorpe? I do remember the Observer magazine's restaurant reviewer visiting it though and have found his piece on the internet;
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/restaurants/s...1002845,00.html
http://www.gravetyemanor.co.uk/
No, I haven't been to Winteringham Fields, which, as I understand it, is not near anywhere, apart from, perhaps, Scunthorpe? I do remember the Observer magazine's restaurant reviewer visiting it though and have found his piece on the internet;
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/restaurants/s...1002845,00.html
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Ardross
Guest
Gravetye Manor looks tremendous value over the winter for lunch . The Le Gavroche set lunch including wine is tremendous value too and I recommend to anyone in the Peak District - Fischers at Baslow Hall
As for WF I have been once - it was wonderful -, sent my parents there for their Ruby Wedding and some friends of mine have been and they have all waxed lyrical about it
As for WF I have been once - it was wonderful -, sent my parents there for their Ruby Wedding and some friends of mine have been and they have all waxed lyrical about it