Hey! Good lookin’!

[Derek Nimmo]

Not exactly cooking, but I was so excited to find this is Lidl! Before and 20 mins of hard labour later -

[Marth]

Lovely. I remember picking those on the kibbutz. Very heavy! We used to cut them up and put them in buckets of punch.

[Derek Nimmo]

Must be all the pith making them so weighty! They grow in my sister's garden and she's perfected the art of getting each segment out in one piece. I absolutely have not :))

[Disco]

I saw them in my Lidl the last few weeks. They are lovely. I might get one.

The must look mad growing on trees!

[ParisGal]

Oh, I bought one of those last year and was all excited but it wasn't very tasty at all. It was Chinese too so that can't be the reason.

[Derek Nimmo]

They're best in season (like all citrus) so probably best now til the end of Feb. You may have just got unlucky though.

[ParisGal]

It was around Christmas IIRC. It was fine just less flavour than any European citrus and a bit dry. It was nice and plump and shiny so I don't think it'd gone over.

[Derek Nimmo]

Yeah, unfortunately there's no way of telling how it's going to be from the outside!

[Disco]

On the subject of Lidl citrus fruit, I haven't seen a grapefruit for months.

[ParisGal]

Here we only have what they also call pomelos, but are like blood grapefruit. No normal grapefruit at all

[Disco]

Is a blood grapefruit the same as a ruby grapefruit?

[ParisGal]

Is a blood grapefruit the same as a ruby grapefruit?

Probably - yellow with pink tinged peel, dark pink inside

[wendy james]

P recently made pea dhal with coconut chutney, which was bloody lovely.
https://peas.org/pea-dal-and-coconut-chutney/

The first night we had it with homemade chapatis, then we had it alongside broad bean stuffed puris and finally with a parsnip dhal with roasted parsnips and pickled pink onions (that we now have tonnes off to work through next :lol: ).

[Pippedydeadeye]

That looks really good Wendy.

[Disco]

It looks really delicious. The pea dal sounds amazing too.

I recently made a mushroom dal thing with a chutney and that was so good. The chutney really zinged it all up.

[baargain]

I'm ridiculously proud of this! An ottolenghi BNS and feta pie. It has several looong slowwww steps, but isn't complicated.

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I had fried Polenta and broccoli with it.

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/rec ... runch-pie/

[wendy james]

I recently made a mushroom dal thing with a chutney and that was so good. The chutney really zinged it all up.

Do you have a recipe you could share?

That looks like an achievement baa!

[Disco]

Do you have a recipe you could share?

It was this Gusto one. https://www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/vegan ... er-chutney

[wendy james]

Fab thank you!

[Estrella]

Not cooked by me, but had the nicest lunch catch up with my fave teamies today, and ate some delicious pork bibimbap.