Category: Cooking

There is some random news about this weekend. A football match between Fleetwood Town and Burton Albion was stopped due to apples being thrown over the stand onto the pitch!

And then there a growing numbers of reports of attacks by a pod of Orca Whales on yachts. They have disabled a couple. Come on you orca’s!! I read once about an incident in New Zealand. Geese mate for life. A guy went out shooting and shot one, the other of the pair flew straight at him and killed him! Geese fly very fast – 50+kmph.

Pizza in oven,Siri is doing the timing. I KNOW she is not real, but she has such a positive voice, and I love the Irishness! She tells some fairly bad jokes and her weather forecast is not that great, but she is nice to Alexa!

Hull the strawberries – best done with nice music as it is boring! Liquidise – stew with lemon juice, an apple or two and some desiccated coconut or coconut flour (to thicken up the liquid). Heat to reduce liquid content and then heat for 6/8 hours at about 130C. 2kg of strawberries, 1 lemon, 4 apples = 6 leathers 30cm x 30cm.

This recipe is dedicated to Ellie and Aaron due to the qppreciation they have shown for it.

The secret is quality ingredients and a really hot oven.

Recipe below

For xmas I was given a pasta machine/maker/thing!

OH WHAT FUN! Easy to use, not too messy and the outcome is amazing!

So easy – why did no one tell me about this recipe before I reached retirement age – or tell me how important it was to heat the oven as per the recipe!!

So oven at 180C

Lamb pitta

This is bit of a JamJam homemade recipe!

Marinade diced lamb in rose harissa paste overnight. Roll in garam flour and cook for a while to brown. Recipe follows!

My children got me a pasta maker for last xmas. It is so cool. I am still amazed at how the billiard ball sized dough becomes metres long! And it tastes amazing. I usually play around with menu’s but I do not even want to try to deviate from perfection!

Well, when I open a jar of this, I gorge! I have also been told that others do the same! It is nice. So I have some doing now, just as long as I don’t forget and let it boil away! When it is sticky it is done. Recipe follows:-

I am not sure if I am just a bit stupid, or totally stupid?  Probably the latter!

Well I am about half way through a 5kg sack of pickling onions – and although they are small, they are still too big for my 350ml jam jars (I only get 6/7 in a jar).  I have started to jar them, basalmic vinegar,  red wine vinegar, malt vinegar, some with chilli flakes (just a few), and I just got 5ltr of white wine vinegar for when my bigger jam jars arrive.