February menus. I will update the photo guides as well.
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Thanks, got all the photos now |
Was hoping for a more tempting meat option I must say.
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made... :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by orbitmic
(Post 30732178)
Was hoping for a more tempting meat option I must say.
PS: I'll pretend pass on the fact that BA manages the extraordinary record of offering a "classic Nicoise salad" which does not happen to include a single element of an actual Nicoise salad (black olives would have qualified but I know that they are using the wrong ones). You sort of wonder what's the point of flying up to 15 flights a day between the UK and Nice in each direction in peak summer if they haven't noticed how the most iconic of local dishes is made... :rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by nancypants
(Post 30732491)
i’m very grateful you pointed this out. I’ve always hated Niçoise salads as i’m not a great eater of fish. So am intrigued to discover the actual ingredients which i’m hopeful will come in handy for a trivia one day �� The first of them is: the whole concept of a Nicoise salad is to use raw vegetables only - no cooked vegetable has or should ever make its way into one. There are no exceptions to this rule. Green beans should be enough to get you a few months' jail sentence, potatoes, new or otherwise, should probably result in the amputation of 3 or 4 hands, and should anyone ever feel like asking about rice, quinoa, sweetcorn, or I don't know what, those would probably be the only arguments that would make one reconsider whether we should reinstate death penalty after all. Raw tomatoes are by any standard the star ingredient. In fact, historians of the Nicoise salad (yes there are such things, very seriously), suggest that after tomatoes were introduced to Europe, the salade nicoise was undoubtedly a very simple combination of ripe tomatoes, olives, and pissala (baby anchovies crushed into a paste) served with salt, olive oil, and pepper if you were rich enough for it. The concept of introducing dried/semi-dried ("sun blushed") etc tomatoes as opposed to fresh ones is a bit like suggesting athletes should run 100 metre sprints in high heels. Nicoise salade is a poor salad that would normally only be prepared in the spring (and tolerated in summer) when vegetables are ripe and babyish. You'd normally put in (all raw) baby broad beans, baby artichokes, radishes, salad peppers (more akin to the Hungarian or Turkish mild pointed peppers than the Spanish big ones), nascent celery hearts, Spring onion ('cebettes' which are actually different from the spring onions we find in the UK), and nicoises olives ('picholines'which are tiny, very sweet, and only preserved in salt without a need to remove bitterness at first as with all other olive types). No lettuce and certainly no red onions. Because it's a poor salad and for warm months, the one key protein is either pissala (good luck finding that even in the Nice area except sometimes from a few elderly people at the fish market in the Old Town) or salted anchovies. With the county becoming richer, in the 20th century it became acceptable to ad hard boiled eggs (but certainly not soft boiled) and/or canned tuna. I'm one of the people who think that ultimately seared albacore will join the list, but other 'tuna' are effectively entirely different species so it's not as though one could use Alaskan keta in Scottish smoked salmon. And of course, asking for vinaigrette with your salade nicoise would immediately out you as a 'Parisian', the only category of foreigners that Nicois are known to despise with a passion. It's really just olive oil, salt and pepper bar the question of garlic rubbing (but no garlic in the salad) I raised earlier. Some people have been known to add a splash of vinegar when trying to do the salad in early March when the tomatoes are still not flavoursome enough, but the risk if you get caught will remind you of that time you were 13 and got caught doing something you were not supposed to be it with a cigarette, a girl, or anything/anyone else that was not quite supposed to be in your company. One version here: Recette de la véritable salade niçoise - you should read the recipe, then look at the photo and look for two scandalous mistakes... Answer below. See? While the recipe on the left side is fine, the photo on the right includes shameless lettuce leaves that would shock even the most lenient of inspectors. pfff…Second, the olives are all wrog, they are not nicoise olives but look like Greek olives, completely different, larger, blacker, wrinkled. tss tss... Apologies for the ot but nancypants asked, and there are things that are hard to resist and far more important than TPs , plane cleanliness and Champagne... |
Well that probably was the most detailed OT response I’ve seen on here @orbitmic :)
Perhaps all CCR dishes could do with a history lesson? What do you know about korma? |
Originally Posted by orbitmic
(Post 30732178)
Was hoping for a more tempting meat option I must say ...
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK
(Post 30733551)
You won’t have to wait too long, the bacon belly is being replaced by the ribeye steak on the next ‘meat’ rotation ^ |
Originally Posted by orbitmic
(Post 30733514)
One version here: Recette de la véritable salade niçoise - you should read the recipe, then look at the photo and look for two scandalous mistakes... Answer below.
See? While the recipe on the left side is fine, the photo on the right includes shameless lettuce leaves that would shock even the most lenient of inspectors. pfff…Second, the olives are all wrog, they are not nicoise olives but look like Greek olives, completely different, larger, blacker, wrinkled. tss tss... |
Originally Posted by MarkedMan
(Post 30734520)
I spy sliced red onion too :D
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There has been a change to the February menu due to supplier issue. The bacon belly has been replaced by Beef Bourguignon with buttered mashed potato and creamed savoury cabbage. |
Originally Posted by madfish
(Post 30757251)
There has been a change to the February menu due to supplier issue. The bacon belly has been replaced by Beef Bourguignon with buttered mashed potato and creamed savoury cabbage. |
Originally Posted by madfish
(Post 30757251)
There has been a change to the February menu due to supplier issue. The bacon belly has been replaced by Beef Bourguignon with buttered mashed potato and creamed savoury cabbage. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...924/Y5PcQK.jpg |
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 30797882)
And here is a photo
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Originally Posted by Ldnn1
(Post 30797898)
That one is (would you believe it) better presented than the one I got. It tasted fine, but it certainly doesn’t look like a first class dish.
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