Baked beans
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Baked beans
Another thread - about UK food in France - reminds me that I have occasionally made proper "Boston baked beans". They are a revelation if you have only had the Heinz sort, and there are a million recipes on the web. You do need one ingredient that I've not seen here, ie molasses (aka treacle) but one tin goes a long way. Against that, the necessary salt pork is much easier here than in the UK. They really are worth a try, and apparently freeze better than you might think, though I've never tried.
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Re: Baked beans
Interesting, i spent a sizeable part of the winter at a hotel in Thailand where the chef made it a point to provide anything that anybody wanted. He lovingly crafted baked beans but guess what, nobody wanted them.martyn94 wrote:Another thread - about UK food in France - reminds me that I have occasionally made proper "Boston baked beans". They are a revelation if you have only had the Heinz sort, and there are a million recipes on the web. You do need one ingredient that I've not seen here, ie molasses (aka treacle) but one tin goes a long way. Against that, the necessary salt pork is much easier here than in the UK. They really are worth a try, and apparently freeze better than you might think, though I've never tried.
At my suggestion he switched to Heinz and loads of people wanted them.
It isn't always a case of what's best, but more a case of what you are used to.
I don't enjoy cooking that much that I would be bothered to try and create an improvement on something I already enjoy.
I have seen lots of burger bars open that have strived for the perfect burger - better quality meat, superior relishes and accompaniments. They all end up being slaughtered by the local McDonalds.
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Re: Baked beans
There's a whole thread to be written about weird food in Thailand. I was caught up there a few years ago after the Icelandic volcano business shut down long haul flights. Qantas put us up at a hotel which was objectively comfortable, but useless (you have to wonder about hotels that can take 300 new guests at midnight).Allan wrote:Interesting, i spent a sizeable part of the winter at a hotel in Thailand where the chef made it a point to provide anything that anybody wanted. He lovingly crafted baked beans but guess what, nobody wanted them.martyn94 wrote:Another thread - about UK food in France - reminds me that I have occasionally made proper "Boston baked beans". They are a revelation if you have only had the Heinz sort, and there are a million recipes on the web. You do need one ingredient that I've not seen here, ie molasses (aka treacle) but one tin goes a long way. Against that, the necessary salt pork is much easier here than in the UK. They really are worth a try, and apparently freeze better than you might think, though I've never tried.
At my suggestion he switched to Heinz and loads of people wanted them.
It isn't always a case of what's best, but more a case of what you are used to.
I don't enjoy cooking that much that I would be bothered to try and create an improvement on something I already enjoy.
I have seen lots of burger bars open that have strived for the perfect burger - better quality meat, superior relishes and accompaniments. They all end up being slaughtered by the local McDonalds.
Their international lunch buffet included choucroute garnie, in Bangkok, in mid-April, with the aircon on the blink. The Thai food was worse, if that's possible. I did a runner, even at the cost of paying for my own hotel.