Wednesday, 14 October 2015

Today:
Leg of pork chops with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, roasted onions, brussel sprouts, gravy and apple sauce.
Ice cream to follow.

Yesterday's tea was very good...Lentil bolognaise, grated cheddar to scatter, garlic bread made with homemade malted bread. And for sweet (very sweet) my own take on bread and butter pudding...
White bread, crusts cut orf,, buttered and spread with damson jam cut into triangles. Then laid in buttered dish with dessicated coconut and white sugar in between.
A simple eggy custard is then strained over.

It puffed up brilliantly, all golden and the coconut toasted to perfection.
Such an amazing tasting pud made from store cupboard standbys. We over indulged by pouring over a little evaporated milk.

I'm getting excited at the thought of Christmas baking. Already decided on the cake, already have a small to-do list. I'll be making all my presents this year.
More on that on that on my other blog.

Now I must fly...




Monday, 12 October 2015

On my path a small table holds a few small aloe vera plants for sale at an amazing price of 50p. They were put out early this morning, I haven't checked how they're going because I've been cooking.

A seeded tin loaf is on its second proving while a chicken and corn flan cools down after a long slow bake.

For dessert some canned pineapple and evaporated milk.

All good stuff but I'm wondering if Bake Off winner Nadiya would approve...
I have to admit I wanted Ian to win but hats off to Nadiya for her almost faultless efforts. Her lemon drizzle wedding cake took the biscuit. And although it looked madly pretty I preferred Ian's wild multi-story carrot cake.

For tea yesterday we had cold roast chicken with curried pasta salad and chappatis. Cool lettuce and mango chutney added more yumyum.

Saturday's offering was sweet and sour chicken, fried rice and pancake rolls.As you can clearly see I've been overdoing it on the poultry front.

For lunch today: chicken sandwich.

Already thinking about christmas.