tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23906809590508521512024-02-06T21:49:22.802-08:00Fun Fine Family RecipesAlihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440965536443250007noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-20854473717294977112020-12-31T05:09:00.000-08:002020-12-31T05:09:16.405-08:00French Onion Soup<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxMbsA6rFiZEA-1P8S52WjVD3wm7Ezw0qpDO4z8BobZ4EKFi2hEMhyppW0JmLJ9pN1T9knIY4sUe0ge95l4atd2FJpAjrKdvaxA72JRy4Ke33MMJN7sLmxGJQsyEWMe_7UB-zn0qxnXA/s4160/IMG_20201231_123832.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtxMbsA6rFiZEA-1P8S52WjVD3wm7Ezw0qpDO4z8BobZ4EKFi2hEMhyppW0JmLJ9pN1T9knIY4sUe0ge95l4atd2FJpAjrKdvaxA72JRy4Ke33MMJN7sLmxGJQsyEWMe_7UB-zn0qxnXA/w465-h349/IMG_20201231_123832.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Basic ingredients: </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Approx 1Kg of onions. I used about 6 regular onions, 2 reds and 2 shallots - so you can mix it up a bit with whatever you have. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">2 cloves of garlic crushed, knob of butter, 2 table spoons of olive oil, teaspoon of sugar, seasoning, a glurg of white wine/brandy, 2 pints of dark stock.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Method:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Chop the onions and fry them (hot) in the oil and butter until they start to caramelize, add the garlic, sugar, wine and seasoning. Stir it all in and cook until it's a sticky mess (don't allow it to burn). Then add the stock and let it simmer for an hour. Serve with cheese, garlic bread, croutons etc.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhry51QrXr54E37zvxY5ecJnJ2pN7h2FHsiT02HkCMhvu4bV9TFNgKYTnXQbOjHZpg909knli3JgP5sF7jDbjUZnOk3XdVyDzXNBzhu6SqV_gVdz10SDiRkKUVxPdX0I1B2DLpTjsWKFMU/s4020/IMG_20201231_123532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2310" data-original-width="4020" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhry51QrXr54E37zvxY5ecJnJ2pN7h2FHsiT02HkCMhvu4bV9TFNgKYTnXQbOjHZpg909knli3JgP5sF7jDbjUZnOk3XdVyDzXNBzhu6SqV_gVdz10SDiRkKUVxPdX0I1B2DLpTjsWKFMU/w463-h266/IMG_20201231_123532.jpg" width="463" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-61193943755877232372019-01-27T13:34:00.002-08:002019-01-27T13:37:33.996-08:00Mediocre Meringue<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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4 egg whites<br />
240g sugar (being 120g caster sugar & 120g icing sugar)<br />
1 teaspoon cornflour<br />
1 teaspoon vinegar (if you dare - I didn't - maybe that's why it didn't look like a mountain range?)<br />
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Beat the egg whites for a long long time until they are so stiff you can turn the bowl upside down above your head without worrying if they will fall out or not.<br />
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Spoon over whatever it is that you are baking - for us it was baked apples but it could be a lemon pie or anything else.<br />
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Serve and enjoy.Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440965536443250007noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-52950820248727852222019-01-02T06:25:00.002-08:002019-01-03T09:42:13.255-08:00Easy Peasy Soda Bread<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not two words that normally go together, rice and dam. A new (?) Japanese designer food trend. A rice dam that once breached by the hungry user floods the other food in the dish with a tasty sauce. Whatever will they think of next and why is it that we never quite get there first? Served cold from the rear of the fridge after two long days it may well be a high quality, highly effective hangover cure.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-41172542872804030732014-04-21T01:32:00.004-07:002014-04-21T01:32:59.395-07:00Fictitious Dishes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll recognise these two. In my teenage years I did become a bit obsessed with the nutritious value of ice cream and apple pie using it as some kind of culinary reference point. Strangely I hardy ever partook of this treat until in my later years...the influence remains however. I was pretty much on the road in the wrong country. All you got here in the glorious non-glam post pretentious 70s was chips, pieces and filed rolls. As for Holden Caulfield's pedestrian snack cheese sandwich, well it's OK if unspectacular. I need to see what Gatsby had for a snack, just to make a meaningful comparison. Next: I'm sure there's a few questionable or bizarre lunchtime treats yet to be explored in Game of Thrones. That's for another day.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-45536897481652158482014-02-06T13:05:00.002-08:002014-02-06T13:06:58.239-08:00Steak Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't understand the significance of steak night then you've clearly a) not been in the navy or b) watched many episodes of Scrubs. Everybody needs a steak night now and then, so here we have:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 x Sirloin steaks, mushrooms, tomato, (the pepper sauce and fat chips didn't make the pic).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heat the cast iron frying pan (with a little oil) until hot, add the steaks and sear them, let it all hiss and turn frequently. 5 minutes = medium any more is well done so add the tomatoes and the mushrooms at about 2 minutes. The fat chips should be in the oven, they'll take 20 mins from frozen (don't judge me) so work backwards from that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pepper sauce: Double cream, peppercorns, beef stock, brandy (or whisky), butter and seasoning; all sensible amounts. Melt everything in a pan and then add the cream last, mix and simmer thoroughly until smooth and you're away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Serve on warm plates with room temp French Beaujolais. Nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall cost inc wine; £21.55.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-90544265888315622042014-01-25T03:19:00.004-08:002014-01-25T03:20:43.499-08:00Other burger recipes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following on from the Earnest Hemingway burger recipe here are two slightly less sophisticated but still appealing options you might want to try.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-64840634019425984232014-01-24T13:17:00.003-08:002014-01-24T13:17:52.862-08:00Believing the hype<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tenuous linkages.</b> Strictly speaking this is not a recipe but it does exist way over to the left on the food and drink awareness spectrum. It's about the way that once you reach about half way with any jar of coffee the flavour tends to turn a little sour or flat or ceases to be as good as when the jar started. I've noticed this with all the major brands and derivatives; I've been robbed of coffee joy. A sad state of affairs. This phenomenon also applies to some extent to the sludge that Costa, Starbucks and the like serve up. So coffee pleasure has slipped away from my taste bud's top ten and been replaced with tea and milk bombs, strange but still refreshing days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So in a bid to restart a coffee revival and as a result of some intense marketing and TV advertising I became aware of new Gold Blend Barista Style - it promised a lot (rich and full bodied) and I believed and...two cups later and it's ok. We'll see how well it's doing once I get to halfway down the jar.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-3898758838226416752014-01-10T11:13:00.000-08:002014-01-10T11:13:10.987-08:00How to cook<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>All of this is stolen by the way - Dangerous Minds strikes again:</b> A favourite Hemingway anecdotes always revolve around him being absurdly macho—like when he mocked F. Scott Fitzgerald for his monogamy, or when, in an attempt to prevent sharks from eating the tuna he had just caught, he opened fire with a Thompson submachine-gun directly into the water. This, of course, was pretty counterproductive, since it only produced more blood, attracting more sharks and exacerbating the feeding frenzy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It only makes sense that Hemingway would tire of shooting fish at some point, and settle himself down for a nice, slow-moving animal like a cow, and it turns out that he had very interesting (and totally delicious-sounding) specifications for his burgers. Below is his recipe for an ultra-manly, super-robust burger. Apparently, Mei Yen Powder is no longer on the market, but you can approximate the rich, umami flavor with nine parts salt, nine parts sugar and two parts MSG. For 1 teaspoon of Mei Yen Powder, use 2/3 of a teaspoon of the mix, plus 1/3 of a teaspoon of soy sauce. (And don’t believe the hype about MSG—it’s harmless and delicious.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 lb. ground lean beef</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 heaping teaspoon, Spice Islands sage</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spice Islands Beau Monde Seasoning — 1/2 teaspoon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spice Islands Mei Yen Powder — 1/2 teaspoon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 egg, beaten in a cup with a fork</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About 1/3 cup dry red or white wine</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Break up the meat with a fork and scatter the garlic, onion and dry seasonings over it, then mix them into the meat with a fork or your fingers. Let the bowl of meat sit out of the icebox for ten or fifteen minutes while you set the table and make the salad. Add the relish, capers, everything else including wine and let the meat sit, quietly marinating, for another ten minutes if possible. Now make your fat, juicy patties with your hands. The patties should be an inch thick, and soft in texture but not runny. Have the oil in your frying pan hot but not smoking when you drop in the patties and then turn the heat down and fry the burgers about four minutes. Take the pan off the burner and turn the heat high again. Flip the burgers over, put the pan back on the hot fire, then after one minute, turn the heat down again and cook another three minutes. Both sides of the burgers should be crispy brown and the middle pink and juicy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is one hell of a specific hamburger is it not? If you've no time for all this try a Tony Macaroni burger when you're next out on the town.</span><br />
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This is really scrummy and didn't survive very long after Christmas dinner. Fruit Pavlova. Home made meringue loaded with fresh fruit and cream. Complicated and messy but simple and very tasty. As a presentation it has a high Wow! factor.</div>
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Viewed on one level it's like a torture chamber for cooking apples (as in Fig. 1) in the style of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN5PoW7_kdA" target="_blank">Annoying Orange.</a>..but if you can forget possible plots for Aggrieved Apples or Apples in Angst it all works out fine. So this tasty and filling desert requires 4 cooking apples, mincemeat, shortcrust pastry and brown sugar. Firstly peel and core the apples (and torture them if you must), stuff the newly revealed core-void with mincemeat, roll them in the pastry and sprinkle with brown sugar. Bake them in a hot oven for half and hour until golden delicious brown and serve them with cream or creme fraiche. "Yummy!"was what we all said afterwards. P.S. the pictures are of course not quite in the correct order. Just the right meal to discuss your prospective <a href="http://cruisetotheedge.com/" target="_blank">Progressive Rock Cruise</a> venture over.<br />
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(PS - Don't forget to inject, at various stages known to only you, secret sloshes of honey mixed with cinnamon and nutmeg. ) impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-47032657553421601142013-11-05T12:50:00.000-08:002013-11-05T12:50:11.721-08:00Fish & Finger Baps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using local buffalo mince produces a nice pot of tasty stovies, here's how:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grab a pound or so of buffalo mince from <a href="http://www.puddledubbuffalo.co.uk/" target="_blank">Puddledub Farms</a> , brown it in a pot (skim away any fat, there won't be much) and add two chopped onions, seasoning and a couple of spoons of browning and hot water to lubricate the pot. While the mince is cooking chop up about 8 - 10 potatoes and boil them till they are still a bit solid. Drain them and add them to the mince once it's had about 30 mins of simmering. Mix up the mixture and bake it in the oven at 200C for a further 20 mins just to "crust" the top of the stovies. Serve with fresh bread cut in chunks and brown sauce. This amount serves 3, ramp it up for more.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-59993002631963795932013-10-27T03:16:00.003-07:002013-10-27T03:16:46.180-07:00Bit of an experiment<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Gather together the usual suspects in a deep caserole dish - chopped chicken breasts (4), sweet potato and chopped and diced onion, turnip and carrot. Add in a stock cube, white wine, ginger, paprika, West Country sauce and seasoning and bake for about an hour in a hot oven. Serve with chutney and fresh bread. Verdict: an easy-peasy, labour saving, wholesome if not particularly inspiring chicken stew...we both went for second helpings and there's enough left over to form the basis of a decent leftover curry.impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-76522059575600206322013-10-14T10:13:00.003-07:002013-10-14T10:13:20.693-07:00Milk Bomb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A lot of people don't really get this, I wonder why? It's a simple recipe for a quick and tasty pick me up drink that's good anytime. No drugs, no potions, no excuses just lots of processed muck rubbing their atoms together to form a creamy and addictive soup of esoteric and misunderstood mass produced dairy products. So if you get protein cravings but are too far away from a tender steak or a deep fried cod to hold your weak flesh together then this is a good fixation busting alternative.<br />
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The raw materials are best mixed 50 / 50 and do it in your favourite glass, accept no substitute. OK, half a glass of blue (fat) milk and a pot of Actimel or Vitality (as illustrated) or whatever cheap stuff you've got in a BOGOF offer. Add the yogurt to the milk to get the full bomb effect - the yogurt descends down through the chemical make up of the milk like a none too polite bomb travelling through the clouds heading downwards to hit it's allotted target. Then glug it over and don't hold back. Cheers! If I do nothing else in life at least I'll be remembered as the inventor and architect of the MILK BOMB. I'll go happy on that one thought - if you're listening humanity.impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-61553905072489819992013-01-20T10:58:00.001-08:002013-01-20T10:58:15.932-08:00Fife diet revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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By now you all (presumably) get the Fife Diet concept, it's a bit long in the tooth but every so often we have a relapse and go local. So this meal mainly utilises produce bought at the local farm shop which is conveniently situated in the local farm next door; Bankhead Farm. So ladies and gentlemen I give you:<br />
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<b>Cockletrees Sausage & Sweet Potato with Cauliflower Cheese.</b><br />
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Boil and mash sweet potato ( 3 good sized ones will do), add a bit of butter for lubrication.<br />
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Cook (beef) sausage in onion (add a shot of Bisto) and lay it in an ashet with the sweet potato.<br />
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Boil cauliflower, add a cheese sauce, add grated cheese. Bake in the oven until burny burny.<br />
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Serve as per the photo above.<br />
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For two lost souls you need: 3 sweet potatoes boiled and mashed in butter, 6 beef sausages, 1 onion, Bisto, 1 cauliflower, cheese sauce (?), grated cheese, seasonings.<br />
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Ali's verdict - tasty & filling. Yum.<br />
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<br />impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-91656078796427214332012-12-30T06:09:00.003-08:002013-01-19T14:23:52.156-08:00Lessons Learned<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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What foodie related things did we learn in 2012? Here's the top ones in no particular order:<br />
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<i>Roasted ham with honey and mustard applied is fantastic.</i><br />
<i>A good turkey sandwich needs to be toasted.</i><br />
<i>Whisky burns very well on a Christmas pudding.</i><br />
<i>We need to buy more locally produced meat and vegetables.</i><br />
<i>Olive bread is great.</i><br />
<i>Coca-Cola still is the best drink in the world and should really be considered a health drink.</i><br />
<i>Garlic roasted spuds do the trick.</i><br />
<i>Salt and sauce or salt and vinegar? We can't quite decide.</i><br />
<i>French wine every time.</i><br />
<i>Breakfast biscuits are made by Elves and have magical properties.</i><br />
<i>Proactive yogurt and fruit smoothie mix well as an invigorating drink.</i><br />
<i>Dirty carrots are good for you.</i><br />
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impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-50403100709221045932012-08-31T13:17:00.000-07:002012-08-31T13:25:04.036-07:00Weekend Curry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Adapted from the More with Less Cookbook's "Garden Vegetable Curry"<br />Serves 7 - 8</span></td></tr>
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Fry lightly for 5 minutes and then add 2 tablespoons of curry powder, 1 teaspoon of turmeric and a teaspoon of cumin seeds and fry for another 3 minutes.</div>
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Add a packet of sliced cabbage or cabbage and leeks or greens; 3 diced carrots and 5 small chopped potatoes. Stir until all coated in the sauce and then add a teaspoon of salt. </div>
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A quick and tasty veg stir fry.<br />
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You need: A chopped onion, 6 small dirty carrots, 12 chopped mushrooms, a half cup of frozen peas, 6 small plum tomatoes, cooked rice, balsamic vinegar, garlic (as you like it), dried chillies, salt and pepper and oil. Use a well oiled wok or better still something non-stick with a lid and chop the veg to suit.<br />
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Fry in the usual stir fry order on a hot hob, that's onions oil and all the additives first, don't be mean. Then add the vegetables finishing with the cooked rice (pre-prepared elsewhere or even leftover). Take away from the heat after about 7 minutes and leave with a lid on for another 5 just to let it all come together. Serve immediately.<br />
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You can of course add (cooked) meat or whatever things you like towards the end of the process.impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-68000644007182119692012-06-09T12:16:00.003-07:002012-06-09T12:16:50.654-07:00Bruschetta<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was a rare and unexpected triumph, my first attempt at Bruschetta. Something I presume everybody else knows about etc. and has made up oodles of times. Anyway this works:<br />
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Ingredients - 4 big tomatoes, fresh basil leaves, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic, seasoning and of course a nice crusty bread of your choice.<br />
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Method - Skin the tommys in boiling water (hold in the pot for a minute, extract with a fork and the skins peel away very easily in an extremely satisfying manner). Scoop out all the gunge and seeds (discard) and chop the bits up. Add a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar and a tablespoon of the oil. Chop up about 8 basil leaves and add with the seasoning and some crushed garlic (to taste). Mix.<br />
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Toast or bake the bread (cut into 1/2 inch thick slices), scoop on the tomato filling and serve on a warm platter. If you're lazy get some ready sliced garlic bread, heat it up and pop the mix on. Garnish with a few olives, splash around a cheap Chianti and you're motoring like an Alfa 166. Yummytastic.<br />
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Prep time - 10 minutes.<br />
Cook time - 5 minutes.<br />
Scoff time - 7 minutes (may vary according to conversation and other hygiene factors).impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-83348265065507925122012-05-24T12:23:00.000-07:002012-05-24T12:24:06.264-07:00Pastramirami<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Pastrami</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">: </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past%C4%B1rma" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pastırma">pastırma</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Romanian language">Romanian</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">: </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastram%C4%83" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pastramă">pastramă</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Yiddish">Yiddish</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">: פּאַסטראָמע </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">pastróme</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">), is a popular</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Delicatessen">delicatessen</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> meat usually made from beef and, traditionally in Romania, also from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pork">pork</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutton" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Mutton">mutton</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. In Israel, "Pastrama" is the term used for sliced chicken and turkey. Like </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Corned beef">corned beef</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, pastrami was originally created as a way to preserve meat before modern </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigeration" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Refrigeration">refrigeration</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">. For pastrami, the raw meat is </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Brine">brined</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, partly dried, seasoned with various herbs and spices, then </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoked" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Smoked">smoked</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> and steamed. In the United States, although beef </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Navel">navels</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> are the traditional cut of meat for making pastrami, it is now common to see pastrami made from beef </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisket" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Brisket">brisket</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, beef round and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Turkey (bird)">turkey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>PASTRAMIRAMI</b>: It's almost summer, the air temperature is almost in double figures so time for weekday salads. Why not brighten and protein up a salad bowl by adding pastrami rolls to it? Salad is a mix of iceberg (not trendy but crunchy), spinach, rocket, peppers, plum tomatoes and French dressing. Simple and tasty.</span>impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-16077272841374728852012-04-22T13:33:00.000-07:002012-04-22T13:33:00.760-07:00Alabama Shakes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Got the <b>Alabama Shakes</b>? (Not to be confused with the rattlesnake shake or the crap over hyped soul/funk band). Suffering from a red wine/peanut oil and Gin hangover c/w a lack of sleep and a throbbing temple spot? You need some of the early morning <b>Shakes</b>, a simple, quick and not too colourful but easy on the eye feast of carbs and protein to get you back into orbit and onto the M90 once more. The Shakes are on the left here, the other items are French toast and scrambled eggs - you know fine well how to do them so I'll concentrate on the big Ss.<br />
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<b>You need:</b> <i>Olive Oil, boiled garlic new potatoes, cold ham, a few cocktail sausages, Worcester Sauce, seasoning.</i><br />
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Heat the oil and frizzle the sausages in a non-stick sauce pan, add the spuds and ham, let it all get hot and sweaty. Add the Big W sauce (carefully and according to your taste). Serve sizzling from the pot with breakfast normals as above or with toast or muffins. Head(s) cleared in 5!impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-37293194142126530632012-02-28T11:53:00.001-08:002012-02-28T11:57:37.096-08:00Sweetie Sweet Chicken<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dished up with a little Basmati Rice.</td></tr>
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<b>Ingredients:</b><br />
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<b>Main part </b>- 4 chicken breasts chopped, 2 sweet potatoes sliced, 1 onion sliced, 1 red pepper sliced, seasoning (also garlic if you like that sort of thing) and a little water.<br />
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Place it all in a casserole, layer the sweet potatoes on top. Cook in the oven in the casserole (with a lid on to keep it moist) at 200 for about an *hour till the chicken is hot hot hot and sweet potatoes are nicely mushy.<br />
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<b>Sauce</b> - one tablespoon of olive oil and one of vinegar, 1.99 teaspoons of sugar, big squirt of tomato puree, a little water. Boil and simmer to a nice saucy consistency and add the cornflour to thicken.<br />
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Add the sauce to the chicken mix at the end of the *hour in the oven and cook for a further half hour or so.<br />
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Serve with rice on a warm platter.<br />
<br />impossible songshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06220130689715302729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390680959050852151.post-89685976849312034812012-02-27T11:49:00.000-08:002012-02-27T11:49:19.657-08:00Top Ten Foods - eat healthy<br />
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1. Sweet Potatoes</h2>
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A nutritional All-Star — one of the best vegetables you can eat. They're loaded with carotenoids, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber. Bake and then mix in some unsweetened applesauce or crushed pineapple for extra moisture and sweetness.</div>
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2. Mangoes</h2>
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Just one cup of mango supplies 100% of a day’s vitamin C, one-third of a day’s vitamin A, a decent dose of blood-pressure-lowering potassium, and 3 grams of fiber. Bonus: mango is one of the fruits least likely to have pesticide residues.</div>
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3. Unsweetened Greek Yogurt</h2>
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Non-fat, plain Greek yogurt has a pleasant tartness that’s a perfect foil for the natural sweetness of berries, bananas, or your favorite breakfast cereal. It’s strained, so even the fat-free versions are thick and creamy. And the lost liquid means that the yogurt that’s left has twice the protein of ordinary yogurt – about 17 grams in 6 ounces of plain Greek yogurt.</div>
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4. Broccoli</h2>
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It has lots of vitamin C, carotenoids, vitamin K and folic acid. Steam it just enough so that it's still firm and add a sprinkle of red pepper flakes and a spritz of lemon juice.</div>
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5. Wild Salmon</h2>
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The omega-3 fats in fatty fish like salmon can help reduce the risk of sudden-death heart attacks. And wild-caught salmon has less PCB contaminants than farmed salmon.</div>
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6. Crispbreads</h2>
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7. Garbanzo Beans</h2>
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All beans are good beans. They’re rich in protein, fiber, iron, magnesium, potassium, and zinc. But garbanzos stand out because they’re so versatile. Just drain, rinse, and toss a handful on your green salad; throw them into vegetable stews, curries, and soups; mix them with brown rice, whole wheat couscous, bulgur, or other whole grains.</div>
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8. Watermelon</h2>
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Watermelon is a heavyweight in the nutrient department. A standard serving (about 2 cups) has one-third of a day’s vitamins A and C, a nice shot of potassium, and a healthy dose of lycopene for only 80 fat-free, salt-free calories. And when they’re in season, watermelons are often locally grown, which means they may have a smaller carbon footprint than some other fruits.</div>
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9. Butternut Squash</h2>
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10. Leafy Greens</h2>
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Don’t miss out on powerhouse greens like kale, collards, spinach, turnip greens, mustard greens, and Swiss chard. These stand-out leafy greens are jam-packed with vitamins A, C, and K, folate, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, lutein, and fiber. Serve with a splash of lemon juice or red wine vinegar.</div>
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