Black Pudding- Food of the Gods
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Topic: Black Pudding- Food of the Gods
Posted By: yellowwelly
Subject: Black Pudding- Food of the Gods
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 3:38pm
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A few of you know I love Black Pudding- in fact, coupled with it's nutritional excellence, it is simply one of the most flavoursome savoury dishes in existence. Well last week my black pudding meter was topped and the world famous Morcilla de Burgos black pudding from Spain has been surpassed by this alpine delicacy seved with poached apples and lashings of local Savoyard red wine...  Yum! So what's your opinions on Black Pudding?
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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 3:51pm
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You eat that? Or is that what happened in the toilet bowl afterwards?
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Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 4:01pm
| I quite like the stuff but that particular example looks like a fly blown turd. |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 4:23pm
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I must admit, it's a bit 'Devoti One' - but underneath that repugnant exterior lies some flavours to savour... pulled pork, pigs blood, oatmeal and I think, some chopped up aorta for added 'bite'. A delicacy... ------------- |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 4:41pm
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One day we'll see sense, and build a wall rather than a high speed link across the country about Watford area and keep all these 'Northern Savages' penned in with their filthy culinary habits.. Food of the Dogs is more appropriate, I've often had to have words with waitresses for even uttering the words... ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: transient
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 5:30pm
| Who pulled the pork? |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 6:33pm
| Vile filthy thing to eat and worse when it looks less appetising than the stuff I pick up from my dog every morning in the park. Was it still warm? They are when I pick them up.... |
Posted By: Daniel Holman
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 7:39pm
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Black pudding is superb.
Unlikely that pigs blood, back fat and oatmeal boiled in an skin could be so good but it is. Fabulous fried, and can be great with a number of more delicately flavoured accompaniments. I think I once made scallops, black pudding, fried apple matchsticks and a sabayon of some sort. It was good. I am not well cultural innit like Jimbo so don't have many international stories of blood sausage consumption  but even the lower quality stuff in the uk is good.
Home made scotch egg made with black pudding and quails egg also stands out. Good nose to tail eating too. |
Posted By: Mister Nick
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 7:42pm
| That genuinely looks like what falls out of my backside the morning after a few too many rums. |
Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 8:51pm
I knew there was something not quite right about you, I couldn't help thinking, watching you struggling to be economical with the truth at the dinghy show, about the way they'd screwed up the sheeting system on your boat, it was probably because you were abused as a kid. So it turns out even worse... They made you eat that s...t. (as well as abusing you), Didn't you ever learn about childline? ------------- https://www.corekite.co.uk/snow-accessories-11-c.asp" rel="nofollow - Snow Equipment Deals https://www.corekite.co.uk" rel="nofollow - New Core Kite website |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 8:59pm
| Is this food of the gods in the same sense as mushrooms and the emperor Claudius? |
Posted By: Daniel Holman
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 9:04pm
Nothing wrong with offal - nobody made me eat black pudding, I arrived at it in an informed adult way a bit like the mainsheet system. |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 9:15pm
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I looked at the first picture and drooled ------------- -_ Al |
Posted By: sargesail
Date Posted: 20 Mar 14 at 10:54pm
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James, Well it must have been good to beat Morcilla which is simply one of the finest foods out there. How much do you think you were swayed by the delightful apples alongside, and the wine? I only ask because have you had your Morcilla alongside some good quality cooking chorizo, with the oily, paprikary run-off merging with the black pudding earthiness. That might sway you back. My approach to menus is so different to racing.....you will generally find me in the corners with the interesting stuff. On the subject of porkiness, one of the finest menu corner moments came when returning from Spi_ouest and stopping in Concarneau: a gallette (buckwheat savoury pancake) with a filling of lard and porridge. Sounds odd....tastes marvellous. My kids love black pudding......and our favourite post sailing (quick to cook, easy to eat) meal is camping mash (aka smash (dyed blue if I can sneak the food colouring past Clare) with beans and haggis. All enlivened by my cod scottish 'Ode to a Haggis', the repitition of the story of the haggis hunt, and then the explanation of what we're really eating! |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 21 Mar 14 at 6:09am
| A proper British breakfast in my family has to include black pudding and white pudding, eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms and tomato all sitting on top of Staffordshire oatcakes. |
Posted By: Ruscoe
Date Posted: 21 Mar 14 at 7:19am
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Blackpudding is one of my absolute favourite treats! That looks lovely james. Graeme, I beg you were the type of child who didn't eat their greens. Probably what stunted your growth. ------------- |
Posted By: yellowwelly
Date Posted: 21 Mar 14 at 10:27am
You description of morcilla is perfect- and yes, one of the finest foods, especially with a lightly chilled Rioja (I know, I know... heresy... but when in Rome, or at least Valencia, go with things the way locals do things... they wouldn't give a f**k for what Robert Parker thinks, assuming of course, he'd scorn such practices- he might not for all I know.) Food tantalises the senses, but it's rarely in isolation. You could eat the finest chateaubriand but if the waiter is surly, the rest of the guest ill-tempered (or inherently ugly) or the restaurant is generally lacking in convivial ambience, then frankly, it was a waste of money- and good steak. That Black Pudding dish was served at a http://www.lafoliedouce.com/meribel/en" rel="nofollow - mountain side restaurant in Meribel, in nigh on 20 degree alfresco conditions surrounded by a crowd that then blew lid off the party jar for the rest of the afternoon- we almost missed our last chairlift getting back to Courchevel, btw snowboarding completely launched is a good reminder of why it's a bad idea to drink and drive... Dancing on tables after several bottles of wine with a gut-load of that black pudding... yep it will be a memory I will savour as much as the dish itself.
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