I have a Polish couple coming over for afew days and would like to cook for them.

roast lamb, it's not cooked over here ever, so it'd be a nice surprise

Just grill it, treat it just like you would bacon because thats all it is. It's okayish from a supermarket but much nicer from the butchers.

britishbacon.com/gammon.htm

As to the OP, cook what ever you feel most comfortable with and more so your best dish...Tried and tested is sometimes the best when expecting company, you dont want to spend half you time in the kitchen when you could be enjoying their company...

It's from the leg. It would be unusual to stew it. Roasting is nice - just treat as you would a ham. Otherwise, as you say, treat as you would a steak.

Beware though - gammon quality is hugely variable in my experience - it can be nice, but it can be an awful piece of cheap, rubbery nastiness too if you're unlucky. Occasionally supermarket stuff can be OK - but usually not.

I think it's best to try and show them some of your favourite dishes. Nothing crazy like seafood, a lot of Polish people seem to be afraid of prawns and little squids lol. Try not to make it too spicy either. No point cooking Polish dishes for them, that's what they can have at home. If all else fails, just take them out for a meal ;D.

Thanks for the info! I'll try the steak thingy and, as it's not smoked, I will also experimentally stew a bit of it - just for LOLs ;-)

Dunno. A bit risky.

I've tried it on Polish friends - none of whom had had lamb before. Extreme reactions all round: half of them loved it half of them hated it. It's easy to forget that lamb has quite a strong distinctive tase and if you've never had it can be a bit much.

Personally, don't know how any could dislike lamb though ;)

Oh yeah, this time of year it will no longer be lamb anyway - unless you get NZ or something.

my personal opinion? HATE it, even the smell! i just don't dig that taste, same with venison. it's all smelly tangy meat to me :/

If you went to Poland, you would have to have Polish food - so tell them they can have pie and chips with gravy, and treacle tart and custard for pudding, and if they don't like it... tough! haha :D

Get a smoked bacon joint and make a ham and pea soup..Its lovely in winter :D

Just grill the gammon steak... :D


There's more to English food than pie and chips...lol..and it would be more a treacle sponge pudding - tarts are French ;0)

broccoli and stilton soup! bubble and squeak! pork belly with cider gravy! :)~~

As if they would know any different anyway :D

sausage rolls and scotch eggs, oh and pickled eggs

Paella

Shepherds pie ?

Cottage pie...

We've already had the dicussion that they might not like lamb...

But that would be a very easy dish...(cottage not shepherds)


True :D


Sounds like a chavs wedding buffet ;0)


Yummy :D

I make mine with minced pork and seasoning, there,s different recipes that you don,t have to follow out a cookery book. ( that,s if you,re good in the kitchen ) lol

Just try this culinary favourite then : " Beans on toast ", washed down with a cup of charlie.

Whats wrong that even after youve been randomed you came back a few hours later?


But on the next page your asking us how to cook gammon, so how would you know?

Cottage pie would be nice.


Yeh but a shepherd doesn't watch over pigs hey?

Anything lamb is very risky.


Perhaps you could recommend some specific dishes.

I sometimes also eat things I haven't cooked myself.
Imagine the unthinkable - I had gammon steak several times at the pub. Shock horror!

The dinner was for wednesday night b4 the match, so it is end of...

Wrong again - im afraid.


If somebody puts a plateful of chips in front of me and i eat them, i can tell 100% how they were cooked.


Boil in water with a bay leaf and a few pepper corns for about 1 1/2 hours (assuming its around a KG), then place on a baking tray and smother with honey and finish in the oven till honey turns golden brown usually about 1 hour. Add 1/2 an hour to boil and bake for every 1/2 KG.

The last Polish couple I had staying with me liked the things they might not usually eat at home: shrimp scampi, crawfish etouffee, broiled fresh fish, cuban stews. As long as it was not spicy, they loved it.

They did not like just a salad for dinner, which we sometimes do.

You might have realised by now that I was not asking about how to cook gammon steaks - I was asking about other possibilities. Like for example:


That's very helpful, thanks :-)

For the specific dishes

Green chicken curry

videojug.com/film/how-to-make-thai-green-chicken-curry

Pad Thai Jay

videojug.com/film/how-to-make-pad-thai-jay

Nigiri Sushi

videojug.com/film/how-to-make-nigiri-sushi


Don't worry Magdalena, it is all one way traffic with WB, but he is getting better, although he has the occasional outburst. But its just all handbags.

If you want to find some decent recipes, search videojug.com it makes cooking easy and fun.

Not always.

Back in the 80s, we had a club up here which revolutionised the club scene and became one of the most famous clubs in the world. While we were dancing to house music, Londoners were laughing at it and calling it "gay hi-energy", while still clubbing to boring, dated "rare groove" instead. They caught on eventually, though :D

To avoid the predictable red-text edited response, I'll get back on topic ( :p @ mods) to add that Balti cooking is from Birmingham, not London, and that was the first huge change in British Indian cooking since the tandoori oven. The Southerners also caught on eventually. ;)

So maybe the OP should make another type of "English" food for the visitors - a Balti :D

The Hacienda that is another story...

After someone mentioned shepherds pie, I realized it was so long since I have eaten it. So it is on the menu for tomorrow evening.

Where will you be buying the lamb mince? Its not easy to find here.


Beatles?

We never buy mince, only the meat and then the mother in law puts it through the mincer. The mince is not the problem its the bisto gravy, but luckily enough I have some left over from Christmas.

To the OP,

Lancashire hot pot. followed by Eccles cakes and washed down by vimto or a pint of boddingtons. Now how Manchester is that.

Eccles is in the City of Salford, and Boddingtons isn't made here any more. We still have the chimney, though :D

You should have said Holts, really ;)

That said, my favourite brand of Eccles cakes are made in Manchester, so I'll let you off this time ;) hehe

You will have to explain WB?

Hey - a classic!

What about roast potatoes? I don't think that's a big thing in Poland (is it?)

Proper roast potatoes (carefully selected spuds, boiled correctly first, roasted at correct temperature etc and with goose fat, seasoning etc) are absolutely unbeatable.

With that in mind, maybe a full-on bog standard roast is on the cards - beef, roasties, yorkshire pud etc?

Sticky toffee pudding for dessert.