[LM24 Race] Le Mans at home - What are you Cooking/Drinking?

[GT6]

We always take plenty of bacon and british sausages down to le mans, we freeze them so they keep the cool box cold for a few days and usually last until friday or saturday, plenty of baked beans from uk and mushrooms and eggs purchased in france. Mustard is cheap in france but HP sauce has to be taken down as very expensive in france

[Truckosaurus]

Originally Posted by GT6

We always take plenty of bacon and british sausages down to le mans...

I wonder if there is a cash reward for dobbing people in to the French Customs?

#SunlitUplands

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Truckosaurus

I wonder if there is a cash reward for dobbing people in to the French Customs?

#SunlitUplands

No, they just confiscate their camping pitch......

[GT6]

do the french have a policy on ice blocks in your cooler box?

Suspect more bacon heads to france in le mans week than the rest of the year put together, france is the only place in the world that has resisted the delights of bacon, and no lardons do not count.

[Aysedasi]

I need a bacon sarnie now...... I blame you Simon......

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

I need a bacon sarnie now...... I blame you Simon......

And guess what Mrs Ayse has just brought me....

[GT6]

Bacon is without doubt a wonder food, i just can never understand why the french have never embraced it.

[CTD]

Originally Posted by GT6

Bacon is without doubt a wonder food, i just can never understand why the french have never embraced it.

Because the brits import all the “bacon” from EU

[GT6]

If there was demand in france for bacon someone would sell it there but the french have strange food tastes. Well different to the rest of europe anyway

[CTD]

Originally Posted by GT6

If there was demand in france for bacon someone would sell it there but the french have strange food tastes. Well different to the rest of europe anyway

The danes do not want to pay the prices for the british bacon, that the brits want to - that is why we export it to you guys . Ordinary bacon (ei. what is called bacon in the rest of the world) is good enough for us, and I guess the french as well .

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by CTD

The danes do not want to pay the prices for the british bacon, that the brits want to - that is why we export it to you guys . Ordinary bacon (ei. what is called bacon in the rest of the world) is good enough for us, and I guess the french as well .

I'm perfectly happy if we have all the 'real' bacon.

[broadrun96]

Actually made some last weekend for the in-laws who spent time in the UK, although I did smoke cook the belly and loins. Not bad and now I wish I had some at the office. Had a nice bacon sammich Sat and yes, HP sauce was applied

I will have to remember to keep a pack in the freezer for that Sunday morning (EDT) late race breakfast

[GT6]

I wondered why so many danes left there home country to come to the uk, even though they had to row those long ships all the way and were rather nasty to the local inhabitants when they arrived. Now we know the answer Bacon

[broadrun96]

Seems like a good justification to most people, I don't trust those who don't understand the need for bacon

[Aysedasi]

A very sound philosophy indeed!

[S griffin]

I’m not sure what I will have come June. I struggle to decide what to et most days! I think it will depend how much of the race is shown on the telly

[Le Vieux]

There's only one place to buy bacon in the UK. This goes on my Christmas present list every year.

https://www.emmettsham.co.uk/product...n-starter-pack

[broadrun96]

I may have to save that place for the next time I go to London, no officer I am not at all imported meat I just always smell like bacon

[Noel Brahimi]

For the first time in my life I will try cooking "French silk cake recipe" which I find quite complicated.

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 4 oz unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 Tbsp powdered sugar
• Whipped cream and chocolate shavings for garnish (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C) and grease a 9-inch round cake pan.
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
3. Slowly mix in the melted chocolate.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Stir in the vanilla and salt.
6. Gradually mix in the flour until just combined.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
8. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
9. Whip the cream and powdered sugar together until stiff peaks form.
10. Spread the whipped cream on top of the cooled cake and garnish with chocolate shavings, if desired.

[crmalcolm]

Surely eating Century eggs would be fitting for the occasion?

[Aysedasi]

I'll pass.....

[GT6]

yep i would rather drink a bottle of 100 year old port.

[Adam43]

I put some bread in and forgot to set a timer. How long has this SC been? About 25 minutes, OK I'll leave it a bit more.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by Adam43

I put some bread in and forgot to set a timer. How long has this SC been? About 25 minutes, OK I'll leave it a bit more.

Food? Isn't that a different thread?

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by joeb

Food? Isn't that a different thread?

Well there isn't a race to talk about so.....