The Full Circle 'Eat the Cupboard Tour' 2014

Shared a Tin of the aldi petit sale with my nephew last night..... Did you know there are 500 calories in a half tin?

I feel ill just thinking about it.... How Jim managed potato dauphenoise and a desert as well...
 
FullCircle said:
S'funny, I like andouillette, and rillettes.
You can keep the scandifish and the chinese crows toenails in ants balls batter.
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Now those of you who know me will realise at once that I didn't get where I am today by being a fussy eater, but even I draw the line at Andouillette. I tried some (in Gravelines actually) and they tasted like s**t. When I googled this delicacy I found a recipe that pointed out the need, when preparing, to ensure you'd cleaned all the faeces off the ingredients (look it up if you need more graphic detail). So the reason they tasted like s**t was simple. It's made from bowels and intestines. 'Nuff said.

Out of interest we also have occasional "clear the cupboard" weekends; but we end up in dispute over use by dates with me (it's a rough guide for most things and completely ridiculous for anything canned) wanting to use it all up, and Susanna wanting to chuck out anything that's even an hour past the date on the packet.
 
Marmalade said:
Out of interest we also have occasional "clear the cupboard" weekends; but we end up in dispute over use by dates with me (it's a rough guide for most things and completely ridiculous for anything canned) wanting to use it all up, and Susanna wanting to chuck out anything that's even an hour past the date on the packet.
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Pah, we are having discussions about how long we can leave something before eating it. Fact is we are out of space.

Anyway, we also managed to woof down the spicy chilli choccy bar with some calvados. Hic.
 
FullCircle said:
Pah, we are having discussions about how long we can leave something before eating it. Fact is we are out of space.

Anyway, we also managed to woof down the spicy chilli choccy bar with some calvados. Hic.
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I'm starting to think that this 'Eat The Cupboard Tour' is nothing but an excuse to 'drink the drinks locker'.

Having surveyed your drinks locker the other day, I have only this to say: you haven't got enough food. ;):p
 
Erbas said:
OK, I just looked up Andouillette and it may be some time before I get out of the khasi
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Bought these years ago on a camping trip as highly recommended by a lady in a small shop outside Paris, at the time we didn't suspect she had an evil sense of humour. We popped them on the bbq, ten minutes later were overcome by this appalling smell, 15 minutes later we were on our way to a restaurant and they were in the bin a long way from our caravan.

Nothing that smells like that can possibly be edible.
 
many years ago I was talking to some young lads who had just bought a boat and we were discussing the winter lay-up jobs. A short while after I left them I got a message that they had started the lay-up process and the start point was the drinks locker, would I like to join them in this essential part of the lay-up process, the rest is a bit of a blur.
 
We live off the boat on our summer cruise. Six weeks of nosh are bought from Lidls the day before we leave and it's a lottery what's left. When we got back we had two salamis, 23 tins of baked beans, a ridiculous amount of pasta and rice and a can of soup.

We got a takeaway curry.
 
OR4751 said:
I'm starting to think that this 'Eat The Cupboard Tour' is nothing but an excuse to 'drink the drinks locker'.

Having surveyed your drinks locker the other day, I have only this to say: you haven't got enough food. ;):p
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We have reclassified the drinks locker as the liquid food store, thanks for pointing out the obvious error.

I can report that although we had fresh Merguez, they were supplemented with the Tinned Crosse & Blackwell beans and the last of the bacon.

We had a milk fail yesterday, because Mr FC picked up buttermilk - we can assure the Dear Readers that this does not go well in tea. Back to the laast carton of Asda Long Life Skimmed UHT, only marginally less yucky.
 
Lazy Kipper said:
We live off the boat on our summer cruise. Six weeks of nosh are bought from Lidls the day before we leave and it's a lottery what's left. When we got back we had two salamis, 23 tins of baked beans, a ridiculous amount of pasta and rice and a can of soup.

We got a takeaway curry.
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See, we would have had a baked bean curry with the soup sloshed in for a bit of body - also known as a Dahl.
 
I would not advise preparing andouillettes on board. The smell will overpower the strongest loo fresheners. However they are not just a joke on foreigners thought up by the French. In the UK when pigs were eaten "all but the squeak" many tucked into what were called chitterlings, made from the same parts of the pig as andouillettes. They are an acquired taste but the supermarket shelves out here groan with all the different varieties. They are far more popular, based on the amount of shelf space occupied by them, than sausages. What intrigues me are the chicken andouillettes. Who can have the patience to stuff the small bowel of the chicken into the large bowel? Indeed do chicken bowels come in two sizes? I think we should be told.
 
Master_under_Dog said:
I would not advise preparing andouillettes on board. The smell will overpower the strongest loo fresheners. However they are not just a joke on foreigners thought up by the French. In the UK when pigs were eaten "all but the squeak" many tucked into what were called chitterlings, made from the same parts of the pig as andouillettes. They are an acquired taste but the supermarket shelves out here groan with all the different varieties. They are far more popular, based on the amount of shelf space occupied by them, than sausages. What intrigues me are the chicken andouillettes. Who can have the patience to stuff the small bowel of the chicken into the large bowel? Indeed do chicken bowels come in two sizes? I think we should be told.
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Good info Michael. How is retirement suiting you?
 
Master_under_Dog said:
I would not advise preparing andouillettes on board. The smell will overpower the strongest loo fresheners. However they are not just a joke on foreigners thought up by the French. In the UK when pigs were eaten "all but the squeak" many tucked into what were called chitterlings ...
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Happy though we are to try most things, we haven't eaten andouillettes AFAIK (or chitterlings for that matter, though we do like haggis occasionally). However, kayaking in the Vendée years ago, we did our usual thing of buying bread, cheese and a local pâté for lunch. Mrs H’s excellent French did not, however, run to Ragondin, so she enquired and was told “It’s a little animal that lives in the marsh’. Content with that, we went off like children telling each other that it was “rat pâté for lunch’. And very good it was too.

We later discovered that it was coypu - I understand this was eradicated from East Anglia by 1989, but wondered if it was eaten here in its heyday?
 
What a brilliant and amusing thread this is!

I use a lot of tinned and dried food as I don't have a fridge on board.

my favourites are heinz ravioli, mattesons smoked sausage, dried egg noodles & Lloyd grossmans pasta sauces.

A few years ago we were moored alongside another boat in Burham Yacht Harbour which had its table set with wine glasses, serviettes etc., all very posh. During conversation, I asked what the big occasion was. They explained that this was their last sail of the season and they were having friends over to enjoy the traditional North Sea casserole. Of course I fell for it, and enquired what North Sea casserole was. They explained that it was all remaining tinned meats & vegetables in the food locker thrown in a saucepan & heated thoroughly! The meal was rounded off with tinned fruit & carnation milk.
 
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