RosieH

I might stop posting as Mockney though - I think it makes me come across like I've never read a book in my life. Don't tell anyone (although anyone who's seen my posts on the subject of dealing with devil cats will know that I have a crossbow in the attic and may have already deduced this). I am of course, also Scribe.

Just out of interest john, what would be a compelling reason to stop on LL? I'm just wondering what it is that you'd want from Waitrose or M&S that you can't currently get locally.

My problem pk, is that I really really don't want ANOTHER supermarket in East Dulwich. If it were to cannibalise one that's already here that's a different matter. If people want a Waitrose, fine, they're entitled to their opinion. But the comment that there's nothing to buy in East Dulwich at 8.30pm, or that working in the city means that you can't buy food for dinner, is patently nonsense, and my post was responding to that.

Witty? Not lately Narnia.

Ann, I too have known work! And in the city! I know that working around St Paul's, I can buy food on the way home from Tesco or M&S. At the Barbican there is a Waitrose. Liverpool Street offers all the riches of Spitalfields (including Carluccio's) as well as the obvious supermarket options. If none of these will suffice and you still find you're caught short, but can't be arsed with the slight detour to any of the multiples (9 minute walk from Co-op to Tesco East Dulwich Road), nip into the Turkish supermarket on Lordship Lane - it's mere doors up from the rubbish Co-op. In there you will find all manner of fresh foods, and yes, even dried pasta. Or a couple of doors down in Green & Blue, you could pick something up from their deli counter. Or there's a surfeit of inexpensive restaurants: a Gourmet burger, or, oh my god, the lamb chops at Hisar which I defy anyone not to feel happy about, or a curry at Thai Corner Cafe. Or you could order a takeaway - even Firezza is offering meal deals these days (and they do proper salad). Or there's beans on toast. Are you really telling me that in amongst all that lot, there's nothing for city types to eat at 8.30pm?

According to the OED, 'prehistoric' has 2 definitions, neither of which are yours, Scribe. 1. Of, pertaining to, or dating from the time before written historical accounts (my bold) 2. Extremely old or out of date. So Pearson's correct.

mollieo, where do you live? presumably nowhere close to Sainsbury's DKH, Sainsbury's Lordship Lane, Tesco East Dulwich Road, the Turkish supermarket on Lordship Lane. And there are no shops in the city??? You have jobs in the city but lack the organisational skills to buy dinner before you get on the train home (or, you know, at weekends)?

Scribe, you "illiterate cretin", are you an Annette actually two sides of a split personality?

Not that I've noticed. But I have noticed people in East Dulwich block paths more than they need to, so perhaps a bit of consideration on all sides is what's called for.

Newspaper delivery = dressing gown joy.

Are you two kidding me? A great book, and a nicer man you'll not meet. Pah. Narnia, I'm quite envious of your recipe book: my mum used to have an excellent collection of 1970s Good Housekeeping recipe magazines and Robert Carriers, whence came the inspiration for many a black forest coupe, coronation chicken or tournedo rossini. But alas they are no more. And Quids, the Nigella thing is simple, surely - she looks filthy.

Ooh, what's the signed first edition? Nice.

Recipe book poker? Ok. Are you in the credits for any of them Annette? ;-) One of mine contains a recipe for risotto that requires the still-warm blood of a freshly slaughtered pig.

Maman

Oirish. I gave you foxy Aikens, he of many a lady's wet dreams. Edited to add, not that I'm saying... oh bugger it.

I did think Corrigan, but Corrigan's a bit portly these days, which is why I went for the foxier Aikens. And DJ, one word, frigid.

Ok then Sean, Tom Aikens.

Food is a sybaritic pleasure. I don't think you can enjoy the pleasures of the flesh if you're too squeamish to touch the flesh.

I'm happy with Fanny. Quids = Valentine Warner Sean = Rick Stein acumenman = Nathan Outlaw

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- My > favourite atm is Rachel Allen's home cooking > though. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, DJKQ, no. Rachel Allen doesn't touch her meat. I've seen it on the telly. She prods it with 3 foot long tongs. If you don't like food woman, don't fucking tell me how to cook it (that's Rachel Allen incidentally, not you DJKQ).

Just counted. I have 32 (and I'm namechecked in one of them, hurrah). But if anyone bought me the Masterchef cookbook, I'd be cross.

What a cunt.

Thanks Brendan. I had to asterisk myself, as the forum allows it. Look: motherfucking. Admin...

Mick, three motherf***ing football threads on here. I'm sure at least as many people enjoy foodstuffs. Stupid football. Marvellous foodstuffs. Except that grumpy old food programme last night that kept showing champagne in a martini glass and is therefore retarded.

Harrr