Fuck the photos here’s a food video

Beef or Sheep tripe…..lekker. Curry Version also not bad.

Tripe is the one thing I don't do. Well, no, I also don't like smoked fish like haddock or kippers . . . or liquorish.

Brains, heart, tripe, buffalo, elephant, puff adder, crocodile and mopani worms are all things that I've tried once and wouldn't try again.I do like haggis though. And skilpadjies . . . and chicken gizzards.

When I was a young kid growing up in Plumstead in Cape Town, the tripe sellers used to carry it in basins on their head and my dad would buy his body weight in tripe and cook it for days. The smell of that tripe cooking still disturbs me to this day and I just can't get beyond that.

I'm an adventurous cooker and eater.

Never tasted a single thing out the sea I didn't like . . . except maybe hugely overpriced oysters.

Best linefish has to be sea bass . . . but snapper is right up there as is our South African kingklip.

You’re a ‘cooker’….a pressure cooker or a rice cooker. My guess a glutinous ‘cooker’….do you weigh 120kgs ‘cooker’. The word is cook….you manage the food and clean the kitchen.

I do clean my kitchen. I'm a very tidy cook who tidies-as-I-go. Always.

I'm also very punctual. If food has to be ready at a certain time I'm all over it.

Call me whatever names you like and make fun of one of my passions . . . you're just showing yourself up to be a complete twat of a human being . . . yet again.

I remember my Dad enjoying his pan-fried sheep brains on toast.

Lambs fry (liver) & bacon, mash potato, onion & gravy's my lekker specialty .

Let’s face it food forms a substantial part of our existence so being able to create a dish that puts a smile on people’s faces is pretty special

I like cooking, don’t nearly do enough of it. My son who opened the restaurant loves to cook and is pretty handy at it - he got that from his late grandmother (not my mother) who was the most remarkable cook I have ever come across. She was just a natural, never followed a recipe she just relied on taste, instinct and experience.

I recall her turning left over roast into the best meatballs I’ve ever tasted

Needless to say my sons restaurant is named after her - Marjorie’s - a lovely touch and a fitting tribute the a gifted amateur chef - we lost her less than a year ago

Please don’t cry cooker….just a little joke.

Joe Cooker ;)

While in a restaurant hub in Barcelona I noticed strips of beef in a glass display window. Each one had a different age, driven by curiosity I asked a staff member what it was about and she explained that the idea is to pick the age you want and they would cook it for you. Not sure if anyone else has come across the experience and sampled the said meat, I might just add that it didn't look appetizing being very dark in colour. Oh the age range.......from memory it could have varied between 1 and 10 years.

Like biltong ?

What kind of biltong do you get in OZ blob?

Recipe for sweet potato pie? Or just the normal soet patat ?

Like biltong ?

Yep.

My three favorite winter dishes to die for......Irish and cabbage stew and Ox Tail soup. The soup must be cooked in a slow cooker and finished off in a blender. The meat remains tender and just holds the bone.

Lekker!

Still don't get the fuss about prawns and oysters although I don't mind Oyster Kilpatrick, they're a plenty and incredibly expensive....about $A40/k

A summer fav is a 30 minute Jamie Oliver chicken breast dish which everyone seems to enjoy.

Nobody has mentioned chorizo...

Probably one of my favourites.

I like making a chorizo sauce to put over a steak and roast potatoes.

Anyway, this isn't doing my waistline much good.

I'll look like Dave soon because I keep coming here and getting hungry.

I use chorizo often, slightly less often than bacon though.

I make a Spanish omelette with chorizo and red peppers.

And paella isn't paella without chorizo. You don't want to get me going on paella. My favourite dish to cook and eat.

What's next? a knitting/crochet thread?....

;-)

Hold your horses, I enjoy cooking too...

Chorizo is great - I’m a big fan

What about polarising foods?

Licquorice is one.

I have 4 children, each one is married. In every single one of our 5 combined marriages, there's a lover and hater of licquorice.

Coriander is another. The people who hate coriander really hate it!

Incredibly, seafood seems to be a polarising food on this board.

Yep. Seafood is something I could never eat even if I wasn’t Vegan !

Can’t stomach liquorice, marmite, dark chocolate, Turkish delight, rhubarb, raw onion, raw celery and seafood of course