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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2981 Post by Karearea » Thu Apr 14, 2022 1:23 am

Lunch: lettuce, chives, a few cashew nuts, half a tomato, and alfalfa & broccoli sprouts, with cold chicken from the supermarket delicatessen; a spoonful of quince jelly on the chicken, and one of Heinz Salad Cream on the salad.

Strawberries and cream to follow.
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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2982 Post by Karearea » Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:33 am

Silverbeet/Swiss chard chopped, lightly cooked, then mixed with sautéed onion, pine nuts, and currants, and all cooked a little longer.
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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2983 Post by bob2s » Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:53 am

Grilled Whiting fillets and a simple garden salad of lettuce,tomato,red onion and capsicum with a honey/mustard dressing.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2984 Post by Wodrick » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:38 pm

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#2985 Post by EA01 » Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:42 am

Very finely diced raw vegetables & Salad with Vietnamese dressing, roasted seasoned chicken pieces...

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2986 Post by Undried Plum » Fri May 06, 2022 7:22 pm

Trout.

Numbah One son is visiting with his two kids. He's teaching them how to fish and to trap game. He's a retired (Gawd, that makes me feel old!) Royal Marine, so is a bit expert at living off the land. They've collectively caught four good sized trout and have snared a brace of rabbit and a hare. Not bad for half an afternoon's work.

Cooked on/in the Abu Röken, smoked with oak grindings from a tree which fell victim to a storm a decade or so ago. Fuel in the burner is hooch made by the local piss-heads in the nearby village during lockdown a couple of years ago.

Our grandkids will never starve! They're of a generation which thinks that food comes out of cardboard and plastic packets, but they both know what proppa food is and how to fetch it and cook it.

As I speak, they're being taught by their Granma how cakes are made. I've been tellt that I should plant a wee plot of sugar beet for next year. I've got a neep grinder which is decoratively situated next to the small pond, so I'm expected to use that to make sugar with that thing somehow. Dunno how that's gonna work next year.

For breakfast tomorrah they'll be having oats stone-rolled by themselves from a sack of grain harvested from a field in line of sight of the house, with raw milk. Sugar, if they want it, will be that peelywally white granular packet stuff from Tate & Lyle.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2987 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri May 06, 2022 7:53 pm

Undried Plum wrote:
Fri May 06, 2022 7:22 pm
Trout.
Not the watery gruel beloved of Mr Balfour in the misery of the House of Shaws then!

Trout!

Only papists eat trout on a Friday man! =))

Said by a Jewish/Papist/Agnostic...

Where are your staunch Protestant credentials midst all this fish oil?

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#2988 Post by ribrash » Fri May 06, 2022 9:49 pm

Home made luxury fish pie with green stuff.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2989 Post by Undried Plum » Fri May 06, 2022 10:10 pm

I have no religious credentials.

Oor ain meenister here, Jim, who's often late for Church nowadays, knows and respects and understands that stuff, can do the finger rectangular thing.

It works all kinds of wonders, aparrently.

The smell of fish oil is something which would require some explaining, I'll grant you that.


Here in Scotland, oor ain Furst Meenister needs only to stare in to her ain knickers to see what she is is.

I'm not allowed to say.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2990 Post by EA01 » Sat May 07, 2022 8:38 am

A chunky steak one from here...iconic pies...a side of peas, gravy & tomato sauce... :)

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2991 Post by Magnus » Sat May 07, 2022 10:42 am

bob2s wrote:
Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:53 am
Grilled Whiting fillets and a simple garden salad of lettuce,tomato,red onion and capsicum with a honey/mustard dressing.
Whiting is hard to find here, as it's seen as inferior. I much prefer it to haddock as I like the finer flakes. My local fishmonger says he likes it too, but there's not enough demand for him to stock it. Pity.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2992 Post by ribrash » Sat May 07, 2022 10:58 am

Magnus wrote:
Sat May 07, 2022 10:42 am
bob2s wrote:
Fri Apr 15, 2022 6:53 am
Grilled Whiting fillets and a simple garden salad of lettuce,tomato,red onion and capsicum with a honey/mustard dressing.
Whiting is hard to find here, as it's seen as inferior. I much prefer it to haddock as I like the finer flakes. My local fishmonger says he likes it too, but there's not enough demand for him to stock it. Pity.
I catch my own.The Mersey is full of Whiting. :-bd

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2993 Post by EA01 » Sat May 07, 2022 11:02 am

I wonder if Mersey Whiting is anything at all like our whiting,...given fish species have so many names and different types....

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#2994 Post by EA01 » Sat May 07, 2022 11:22 am

This is our whiting....mostly, some others as well, Trumpeter, King George etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_whiting

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2995 Post by ribrash » Sat May 07, 2022 1:16 pm

EA01 wrote:
Sat May 07, 2022 11:02 am
I wonder if Mersey Whiting is anything at all like our whiting,...given fish species have so many names and different types....
These are the Whiting we catch in the Mersey.
https://www.talkseafishing.co.uk/how-to-catch-whiting/

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2996 Post by Opsboi » Sun May 08, 2022 12:03 am

When I lived in GCI as a teenager, I would regularly catch pollack which we called 'Guernsey Whiting' - absolutely delicious

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2997 Post by Karearea » Sun May 08, 2022 7:26 pm

Last evening, out with my DDs: Spinach Ricotta Tortellini with a basil-tomato sauce and more spinach.
Was A1, tasty and just the right serving-size.
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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2998 Post by Magnus » Thu May 12, 2022 2:43 pm

Tonight is beef mezzaluna; tomorrow is eat out, but Saturday is beef short ribs - 6 hrs in the slow cooker with red wine, beef stock and herbs. Looking forward to that.

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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#2999 Post by Karearea » Sat May 14, 2022 1:20 am

For lunch: gurnard fillet baked with chopped tomatoes, onion, mushrooms, and red pepper; mashed cauliflower; with Maldon salt, black pepper, honey-mustard, butter.
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Re: Wot's for Tea, Ma?

#3000 Post by Hydromet » Sat May 14, 2022 6:45 am

All this talk of trout, whiting & gurnard is making me hungry for seafood. I'll have to visit our fish shop for some of their renowned crumbed flathead. Normally, I'd only eat fish I'd cooked myself, but they do two large fillets of lizard, chips & salad for $12, and it's always beautiful & fresh.
Mind you, if you happen to need fish at a busy time, you're likely to have a wait of over an hour. Not a problem if you phone your order in well in advance.

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