we get ours from the Thames; thats why Vegetarians avoid it.
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Rofl, you've tasted our tap water then? Either lovely or like chlorine atm!
Garden tomato soup
A selection of tomatoes mostly red but can be a bit wrinkled. About six to eight large ones
Put the tomatoes in a roasting tin and roast with a little olive oil for about 20 mins until squishy
Take a large 4pt saucepan. Roughly chop 2 large onions, carrots, a stick of celery and two potatoes. Add several cloves of garlic peeled but not chopped. Add two bay leaves. Sweat in some olive oil until softened a bit.
Add the tomatoes and juices from the pan. Add enough stock to cover the vegetables. Season with black pepper and a little sea salt but not too much.
Bring to the boil and simmer on a low heat for about 1hr
Remove the bay leaves. Liquidise
I also sieve this soup and thin with a little warm water. Add a couple of tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and abut four cubes of sugar to taste.
Reheat over a low heat
It makes loads so there is always some to freeze. Will keep covered for a few days in the fridge.
That sounds delicious!
I am looking for a nice recipe to go with chcken.
Something different.
That soup would be nice with some hot crusty bread just break it off and dunk.
I tried the garden soup. very tasty with a crusty roll.
As autum is now here. And talk of rice pudding was being discussed on the forum.
I thought i'd give you my rice pudding recipe.
40z 110g of pudding rice.
141/2 oz 110g 570ml tin of evaporated milk.
1 pint of full whole milk.
11/2 oz golden caster sugar.
1 whole nutmeg. You can use the ground stuff. but i use the real nutmeg.
1oz 25g butter.
mix the evaporated milk and whole milk in a jug.
Then place he rice and sugar in an oven proof dish pour in the liquid and give it a good stir.
grate the nut meg all over. Then dot the butter on the top in little fllecks.
put the dish in the center oven gas mark 2 300 0F or 150c for half an hour.
Take it out and give it a bot of a stir. you can add raisins this point. and put it back in for a further half hour.
without stirring. This time the rice grains will have all swollen and with lovely creamy milk all round them and of course
skin.
I like to pour a little single cream in mine. but you can just eat it and enjoy it on a clod winters night.
Feeling in need of a hug - anyone like to join me?? (bear) (bear) (bear)
Oh geezo I've put this in the wrong thread! I give up, only wanted a hug :(
Well I'll give you one (bear)
Have a hug from me to Dolly hun x
I've just made a vegetable soup for tea.
1x can baked beans. 2x cans chopped tomatoes. 1 x can mixed bean salad.
1x can green lentil. Handful of lentils. 2 large leeks
2x medium onions. 2 x medium carrots. 1 x sweet potato
2 x veg/beef/chicken stock cubes. Enough stock to cover the veg's. Mixed herbs. Salt and pepper.
2 x parsnips.
1. Prepare vegetables by peeling and cut into chunks.
2. Make up your stock and put it to boil and put all the ingredients in pan/ large stew pot, I had to use a lge pan and huge stew pot. Add enough water to cover the ingredients and boil, then simmer for about 25-30 mins or until the vegetables are soft.
3. Either blend or leave chunky.
This soup can be put in soup freezer bags and frozen.
I did put in a swede as well. Hope you enjoy.
Thanks for adding!
Does that actually work?? - I found myself checking the calendar just to make sure it wasn't April 1st ;)
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(rofl) you paranoid sceptic you. Have you tried it?? I haven't got any garlic..
Have patience, a DwD'er will try it sooner or later.
how's things Amaeru, do you have to work this weekend?
take care
luv Sxx
Not yet (giggle)
Though K suggested trying it with two steamer pans over a bin. (think).....
The theory being that the garlic would peel and the 'paper' would fall through the holes in the steamer into the bin - he hasn't tried it yet.
I might just have to try the original method though - just to see if it works.
As for the weekend - got tomorrow off :) - but gotta work sunday ^);)
xx
wow, that's brilliant!!
This dish is popular at BBQs!
Ingredients: Olive oil or vegetable oil, 1 reasonable size aubergine, spinach leaves, tin of chopped tomatoes, tin of tomato puree, basil pesto, mozarella (or really any cheese that melts) optional: cream cheese, fresh basil, dried basil, cumin, chilli
You will need: a deep dish about 30cm long suitable for oven cooking, and a wok or large nonstick saucepan.
Preheat the oven to 180.
Slice the aubergine quite thinly and add to the wok/saucepan, fry off with plenty of olive oil/vegetable oil, salt and pepper and sprinkle optional spices or herbs (basil, cumin and chilli, or all three) and fresh basil.
Add a couple of spoons of basil pesto and about 4 spoons of tomato puree and mix well so the aubergine is covered in the mixture. Add the chopped tomatoes, a few handfuls of spinach leaves and mix well, adding approx half a pint of water. Optional: stir in two large spoonfuls of cream cheese.
Let them mixture simmer for about 5-10 mins while your prepare your cheese for the topping.
Pour the mixture into the dish and add the cheese to the top. Add some fresh basil to the top.
Bake in the oven for 10-20mins until the cheese is brown.
You can also do this with pasta... add dried pasta at the same time as the spinach and be sure that the pasta is soft before putting into the oven.
Sounds really yummy :)
Wow that sounds delicious! :) Thank you!
I will share other recipes as and when I remember them. As I am intolerant to garlic and onion I have to make almost everything from scratch at home.
I sympathise as I'm a dairy allergic veggie ;)
Perfect breakfast for a single person who only wants to get out of bed midmorning to make a coffee to take back to bed.. who also has no forks or bread cos someone else has taken them.
Ingredients: one medium sized potato, butter, tuna & sweetcorn sandwich filler, apple juice, vitamins, milk, coffee & small chocolate bar.
Instructions: rinse & spike potato, place in microwave in small bowl for 3m high. Put kettle on, swallow vitamin tablet with swing of apple juice from carton. Put milk and coffee in mug. Turn potato over and microwave another three minutes. Using spoon, chop up potato, cover with butter then sandwich filler. Pour hot water on coffee. Carry back to bed not forgetting chocolate bar for breakfast pudding. Sucess.
:)
Lie in bed eating with spoon.. joy.
Highlander biscuits. They're lovely and buttery. I add lemon extract as well but you could add anything you wanted
http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec32.html
Also Nigella's recipe for Devil's Food Cake. Oh my god!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/de...ood_cake_49392
Does anybody have a good trifle recipe? I want to make one for christmas for 10 people. Any help would be great :)
The trifle that is made in our house is
1. Get a trifle sponge and place into a bowl
2. Spread some sherry over the sponge
3. Spread some fruit onto of the sponge
4. Make custard and pour over the fruit. You can use quite a bit.
5. Cover with cream to fill the bowl.
That's it. Warning, depending how many of your guests are driving you can change the sherry with red jelly. Leave the jeĺly to set before putting the custard on.
Thanks!
Ingredients
150g/5½oz plain flour
150g/5½oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
150g/5½oz butter
150g/5½oz mixed dried fruit
100g/3½oz caster sugar
1 tsp cinnamon powder
½ tsp grated nutmeg
1 orange, zest only
1 lemon, zest only
1 free-range egg yolk
about 50ml/2fl oz milk
For the glaze
1 free-range egg, yolk only
pinch of salt
1 tbsp water
flaked almonds and glacé cherries, to decorate
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas6.
Grease a baking tray.
Sieve the flours and baking powder into a large bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
Add the mixed dried fruit, sugar, spices, orange and lemon zests.
Lightly beat the egg yolk and add it to the mixture with enough milk to make a stiff dough (you may not need all the milk).
Divide the dough into 12, shape into mounds and place onto the baking tray.
For the glaze, mix the egg yolk, salt and water together and brush the mixture over each rascal.
Decorate with the almonds and glacé cherries and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.