MKR Thread

[i-need-a-martini]

Thought I'd start one...

[i-need-a-martini]

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@cq_tech wrote:
Mugssy, I can only comment on Qld & NSW as I've never eaten Tassie Scallops anywhere else, but I can't even recall an occasion where they weren't served without their roe, and if that had happened I'd have complained bitterly. Like me, most people I know actually consider the roe to be a delicacy.

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I love scallops and will always order them if I see them on a menu. But I have never, ever been served the roe at a restaurant regardless of the quality of the restaurant. Even in a seafood restaurant. I have had it served as a sauce on the side (with ginger to take away the saltiness) in an Asian restaurant.

Cook it by all means at home but it is near impossible to cook in a restaurant.

• Firstly it will most likely have grit in it that is really hard to remove.
• Secondly it cooks much quicker than a scallop so unless it is removed and cooked separately it just turns to mush.
• Thirdly, it tastes very salty so leaving it on means the scallop comes out very salty - a good way to ruin your delicately flavoured scallop me thinks.

[i-need-a-martini]

Well that was a good one tonight.

[bumps-bargains]

I have never had scallops served with the roe on and I remove it at home.

It used to be called the collar or something along those lines, can anyone remeber what the orange bit used to be called?

 I'd say almost anything to get a free lobster and mud crab dinner

buzz that is why I love my sister so much come the 1st December every year and I keep telling her how great she is until Boxing Day.

I prefer Spanner crabs and have chosen to only eat then for about 10 years now, I won't touch mud crabs anymore unless I accidently catch one on the very odd occasion I go fishing.

[ambercat16]

can anyone remeber what the orange bit used to be called?

I think it was called the coral

[bumps-bargains]

I thought tonights food was really unusual, I would never have ordered anything like that if it was on the menu of a restaurant.

I don't know anything about cooking duck or comfit of duck but that was a very big booboo apparently doing the breasts instead of the leg.

I would have wolfed down that dessert in a flash, it looked lovely and the flavour sounded perfect.

BTW I have been posting with this ID but I do hope everyone knows who I am. I used to have the same avatar for this ID as my usual ID but it has disappeared but shall try to get it back soon but just in case I really am i once was bump.

[grandmoon]

It has been obvious that Jess could talk the talk But she failed dismally when she tries to walk the walk.

Fancy making a puree from apples and onions that have been cooked under the pork belly with the fat dripping on them and then add peas.  To anyone who loves pork belly it was obvious by looking at it that the meat wasn't cook properly.  The duck looked over cooked before she wrapped it in the pastry.    

I am glad she gone.

[bluecat*dancing]

I thought that the gate-crashers did well last night.

[i-once-was-bump]

there is nothing more irritating than someone opening the oven door when I am cooking and if Manu ever walked into my kitchen and opened my oven door I would slam it shut with his hand stuck in it.

What a rude and horrible thing to do to anyone, what if they had a sponge or souffle in the oven at the time?

No one ever touches my oven door.

And did the guy (with dark haired wife) put the blade of his knife in his mouth when tasting part of the entree??

I would make sure I honed his knife to razor sharp if he sat my my table.

[cq_tech]

I've just about had a gutful of that ignorant and totally obnoxious bore, David, and his equally ignorant girlfriend, and they actually make me feel embarrassed to be a Queenslander.

The idiot has next to no knowledge of fine food and he doesn't have a complimentary thing to say about anybody else's offerings.

Both Pete and Manu gave the WA girls 10 points for their entrees yet David compounds his complete ignorance by complaining that the pasta was overcooked and that it was such a simple entree that he could do much better.

I guess maths isn't one of his strong points either, as how do you possibly improve upon a pair of 10s? 🙂

I won't be the least bit sorry to see the backs of them and I really hope they fail miserably this time around.

[bluecat*dancing]

LOL. When he did that, I said ,"Shut the door." Surely, he knows better than to do that?