Pan-fried / oven-roasted rant

[ClaireFromWork]

How the bloody hell else are you supposed to pan or roast something! Winds me up.

Sea bass is just sea bass surely?
Can't stand mains and sides. Just because starter is one word doesn't mean all other courses have to be

Home cooked. Yes get it out of the packet and shove it in the microwave. Voila.

my mum used to say egg omelette too and i do to

this was because we would all freak out if there was ham or cheese in it.

Hens egg was mentioned on a very poncey menu for a very ordinary pub.

Our local hotel just got refurbished and 're-launched' their restaurant. Sample menu is here, it includes "Seared Cannon of Norfolk Lamb, Aubergine Caviar, Braised Shoulder and Dauphinoise Potatoes sauté turnip and shallot ju"

Think I'll stick to the steak house down the road...

Hen's egg! :)

The supermarkets in Singapore sell "air-flown pork".

How else will it fly?

So are they selling cooked flying pig?

How can you oven fry???? Missed that one totally, I always assumed my MIL was doing a Hyacinth Bucket when she talked of "pan fried" as opposed to a common as muck fry-up!

"Home made" stuff in a restaurant - always tempted to ask whose home. Or does "home" have another meaning that eludes me?

i love it when they go on about the chef's own famous parsley sauce (or whatever). i always want to say "well I'm 32 and never heard of it"

Home made means they have cooked it rather than it being a ready meal they have bought in. Hate most poncey restaurant terms, but this one makes sense actually. Lots of restaurants basically serve up ready meals.

Home cooked just means it is probably a ready meal cooked in the premises, but trying to deceive you into thinking they made it themselves.

Jacket potatoes are not always cooked in an oven. What do you call them when done in a microwave?

Gopping.

My mum always calls them 'Baked Potatoes in their Jackets', which is comprehensive, if not exactly snappy!

Absolutely luff "air-flown pork" = flying pigs.

DP and I always laugh at free range sausages. Always picture sausages happily playing out in the fields.

Lesley, point of order, you can actually get free-range haggis. We saw them playing on the mountains in Scotch-land, they are a bugger to catch but taste much nicer than battery haggis, so I dont think that free-range sausages are totally out of the question!

We have a battery haggis farm near us. If you saw the conditions these poor animals are reared in you'd never touch the stuff again

Bogey - I am from Scotland. Tales of haggis running round the countryside don't fool me you know
But have seen free range haggis for sale as well . I know what they mean of course, it just seems such a silly way to put it.

Its heart breaking isnt it Stealth?

Did you know that they all have to walk with a limp because they arent even provided with sloping surfaces to allow for their different leg lengths? :(

Yes they do! I SEEN 'em!

Thank you Lesley.

I did once see on telly (hence must be true) about how you could buy salmon fillets with painted on grill lines to pretend you cooked them yourself in a fancy griddle.

I thought there was also a story ages ago about gullible tourists sold shooting holidays in Scotland to shoot haggis?

Lord Cooper, I saw some frozen salmon like that in the restaurant where I worked. I assumed that they must have been pre-seared but actually your story makes more sense, so I believe it!

snort LC! Where the americans tourists ever asked whether they bagged anything?!