 Poster: A snowHead
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@Masque, I don't have a closed mind when it comes to flavours (apart from inbuilt hates like coriander leaf) but when it comes to food that is excessively rich/fatty or excessively sweet or, as you sometimes advocate, both at once  , I prefer a degree of restraint.
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@Hurtle, Fer someone who makes a delightful smoked mackeral pate to complain about rich/fatty/sweet food . . . ?
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Anybody had Flammekueche? It’s a bit like Belgian(?) / Northern French pizza.
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From the Alsace region, plus the bordering bits of Germany. Quite common even around this bit of Germany too (near Frankfurt).
Lardons, onions and creme fraiche cooked on a kind of pizza style base. Delicious, just like most things with bacon.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handk%C3%A4se is our local speciality cheese dish. Looks rank. The cheese in the supermarket looks like a bar of natural soap. Can't see it catching on in a ski resort like all the other dishes comprised mostly of cheese.
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| Masque wrote: |
| @Hurtle, Fer someone who makes a delightful smoked mackeral pate to complain about rich/fatty/sweet food . . . ? |
What are you talking about? The ingredients of my pâté are: smoked, peppered mackerel, a very little creamed horseradish, lemon juice and 0% unsweetened fromage frais. Natural fish oils are of course healthy.
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| andy wrote: |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handk%C3%A4se is our local speciality cheese dish. Looks rank. The cheese in the supermarket looks like a bar of natural soap. Can't see it catching on in a ski resort like all the other dishes comprised mostly of cheese. |
As my Dad used to say, I've had that twice - for the first and for the last time.
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| crosbie wrote: |
| For the really serious suasage eater, there are Andouillettes, which should only be attempted by lovers of offal and tripe (and in a well ventilated or unpopulated area). |
Before during and after . . . much after . . . consumtion 
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| Masque wrote: |
| @Hurtle, Fer someone who makes a delightful smoked mackeral pate to complain about rich/fatty/sweet food . . . ? |
What are you talking about? The ingredients of my pâté are: smoked, peppered mackerel, a very little creamed horseradish, lemon juice and 0% unsweetened fromage frais. Natural fish oils are of course healthy. |
I didn’t understand that either, being one who’s had the pleasure of eating your smoked mackerel pate.
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@geepee, the point being that as delightful as it is and I'm 100% with you on that (though I forgo the horseradish for fine diced or crushed onion and I have tried it with Quark or Tzatziki for a slightly lighter texture and taste) It is still Rich Fatty and Sweet. (see below, but I find fish to taste very sweet and the lemon juice gives a lovely balance to the mackerel)
Sadly we can no longer claim any benefit from fish oils as AFAIC recall, latest research shows no positive effect . . . all things in moderation as it were.
All taste is subjective and the Corriander thing is again a genetic characteristic (like bitter sprouts) I love it but for some it tastes like chlorinated washing up soap.
Hurtle and I just have differing palates and I think the World (in a small way) is all the better for that 
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@Masque, it is the taking of omega-3 fish oil supplements that has been debunked as having no effect. Eating of oily fish as part of a healthy diet is still encouraged. I would certainly not describe the aforementioned paté as rich or sweet, although the sweetness might differ depending on the smoked mackerel cure.
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A bit French this thread?
Grostl
Rosti
Goulashsuppe
My top 3
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Perhaps some fresh vegetables, save me from melted cheese.
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You know it makes sense.
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As long as no one puts polenta on my plate, I’m happy.
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@dode, +1
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Hurtle, love calves liver, especially in Italy, but work very hard to avoid polenta. Perhaps I have been unlucky but it is either as shown here, (tasteless) or formed solidly and grilled, (tasteless) horrible texture in both cases. I assume it depends on the flavouring, but having tried it a number of times, I would not go past a potato to get to polenta, or rice, or pasta, or bread, or even Kale god forbid.
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Cheese fondue anyone?
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@twoodwar, I can understand you not liking the texture, I don't mind it, it's slippery things I tend not to like. I used to love semolina pudding as a kid, you wouldn't have liked that either!
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@twoodwar, hubby feels equally disgusted by polenta. We've even asked to have pasta instead at a couple of places in Italy, one point blank refused as apparently they didn't have any suitable. The wild boar ragu was delicious though, so no need for the carbs.
Me, I'm ambivalent, the first couple of mouthfuls are OK, if there's a a shed load of butter in it, but then it starts to congeal.....
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like music, its all about taste 
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| twoodwar wrote: |
A bit French this thread?
Grostl
Rosti
Goulashsuppe
My top 3 |
Have lived on the three of them this week, and my daughters on nuddlesouppe. I think I test the goulashsuppe in each mountain hut to see which is best,
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I don't advise adding white wine - makes it too runny.
I also am not sure that 'whipping cream' is going to be quite the same as 'creme fraiche'.
What I have not yet attempted is to sauté the potato slices in butter prior to incorporation. Apparently, this is a super-luxurious tweak (added labour).
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Guardian recipe an ambomination - cube spuds? Whatever next. - Not spreading out an entire level of cheese - guarantee of argy bargy among the racing spoons.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| Guardian recipe an ambomination - cube spuds? Whatever next. - Not spreading out an entire level of cheese - guarantee of argy bargy among the racing spoons. |
I quite agree, having now looked a little more closely. It's what a newbie chef would do having had Tartiflette explained to them over the phone by a five year old.
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Unusual for Felicity Cloake to produce something so unsatisfactory. 
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You know it makes sense.
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@Hurtle, she went out of her way to eat one in Morzine in her book One More Croissant for the Road. Cubed and fried it is a Pella rather than a tartiflette.
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@Hells Bells, ok, a Pela Savoyarde, is a fry up of diced spuds, bacon bits, & diced onions, into which is melted a chunk of Reblochon - a sort of Tartiflette-in-a-hurry. Probably tastes fine.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Hells Bells, @crosbie, never heard of it.
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@Hurtle, first time for me too.
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| Unusual for Felicity Cloake to produce something so unsatisfactory. |
Very.
Though it has to be noted this is the "how to" series rather than one of her "how to cook the perfect.." magnum opuses (opii?)
In those she tries up to 6 or 7 different variations on a recipe and comes up with an optimum combination. i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/dec/05/how-cook-perfect-christmas-ham
vaguely linked; I've used the ham from that recipe very satisfactorily in a raclette
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@SBP, magna opera 
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| crosbie wrote: |
| For the really serious suasage eater, there are Andouillettes, which should only be attempted by lovers of offal and tripe (and in a well ventilated or unpopulated area). |
...love Andouillette but my favourite sausage at the moment is cotechino ideally served in a Bollito Misto for the full eyelashes, assseholes and elbows feast perfect on a cold wet white out with nothing better to do other than a long lunch in front of a fire, a nice light polenta concia for non meat days!.
The one comfort food I haven't been able to fathom is Canadian "poutine" ? putain merde more like.
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Berthoud Abondance or a Croute Berthoud for a variation.
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| 0% unsweetened fromage frais. Natural fish oils are of course healthy. |
0% fat creme fraiche is an abomination not a food stuff
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