Desert Island Dishes

[Crusoe]

Not a reference to the delightful ladies of the Desert Island, rather I was wondering, after Nigel Slater’s tea and cake*, what meals would be favourites for a desert island. Roast pork and dauphinoise potatoes, anyone? (That should give us a clue as to whether Sue Lawley is lurking).

I think first choice would be cheese and potato pie.



* actually a fine choice and one that I have given careful consideration to: perhaps it’ll be second choice.

[sportyscouse]

Sayers cheese pastie for me please.

[Tiger Lil']

Fillet Steak, medium rare.
Crisp, well cooked, proper chips.
An interesting fresh green salad....maybe some mushrooms too....a grilled tomato...

A choice of mustards, bearnaise sause....




...well, I'd soon be fed up with fish!

[Nurse Duckett]

Eggs Benedict

or

Kedgeree

or

a decent curry.

or

Spanokopitta that thing with filo pastry and spinach+feta cheese stuffing

or kebabs. I love home-made kebabs with rice and salad.

or home made meatballs with a good robust sauce and tagliatelle.
or watercress soup
home-made sausage-rolls
dry roasted peanuts
dry cured bacon and scrambled egg
smoked salmon and scrambled egg
toast with poached egg and tomatoes
marmite soldiers with boiled egg
mushroom soup and ham sandwich

I'M HUNGRY NOW.

[Captain Nudnick]

Any chillies on this island? How's about a Pork Green Chilli?

[Tiger Lil']

Nurse Duckett has exceeded the Desert Island Dish remit and has made me feel exterrreeeeeeeemely peckish.

[Pooka]

Perhaps I'll add this set to my Gift Registry.

It is rather pretty though...

[Tiger Lil']

ummm It's going against the grain isn't it Pooka?

Banana leaves are so much more dish washer friendly when you don't have one!

[Pooka]

Tiger said:

ummm It's going against the grain isn't it Pooka?

It would probably be going against the grain if they were made from bamboo.

Banana leaves are so much more dish washer friendly when you don't have one!

When you don't have a banana or a dish washer?





Eh, I think I'll leaf that question alone.

[Tiger Lil']

I was kind of taking it as a given that we had banana growing on the island. Likewise, that we wouldn't have a dishwasher.....

but then there's always Man Friday!

[Pookita]

Tiger said:

... but then there's always Man Friday!

If "Man Friday" cleans dishes, is Friday his day off, or is Friday the only day he works about the house?




If it's the latter of the two, I'll bet there's quite a rancid aroma emitted from the wash basin by the end of the week!

[Tiger Lil']

Guest-Pookita said:

If "Man Friday" cleans dishes, is Friday his day off, or is Friday the only day he works about the house?




If it's the latter of the two, I'll bet there's quite a rancid aroma emitted from the wash basin by the end of the week!

You think he should have a day off?

[Luxury Yacht]

I had a delicious meal in a Thai restaurant the other week, and forgot to make a note of the name of it.

It involved:
chicken
coconut cream
pineapple
tomatoes

and something hot.

Anybody have any idea what it might have been, and how to make it? I could happily eat it every day for the rest of my life.

I seem to remember that one of the Gardener's Question Time team chose tomato seeds as his desert island luxury; sportyscouse might well bring chickens; and on any island of my choosing coconuts, chillis and pineapples would be a given, so I think this could be achieved.

[Hermann Toothrot]

I'd go to the foot of our stairs for a piece o' cheese.

(or was that Ben Gunn) ?

[Crusoe]

aj said:

(or was that Ben Gunn) ?

I thought it was Wallace and Grommet