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NOMNOMNOM +++++ I bought the first peas of the year today and wonderfully plump, sweet little beauties they are. They won't make it to the saucepan, they will be devoured straight from the pod (actually quite a few already have been  ). I'm not sure what tickles my taste buds most, the first pea of the year (stoppit Tommo and Martle!) or tasting the first strawberry. A close run thing. We had our third lot of peas yesterday. This early in the season they are all the same small size, and they don't go bullet like on cooking. And so sweet! No need to add sugar. With a copped spring onion in olive oil, scruched by hand, then left to absorb water over low heat, they are wonderful. Winter veg and all those giant carrots are gone for another six months. june is bustin' out all over, as a kind board member reminded me recently. The baked salmon trout with the peas was wonderful too - we didn't have any last year. |
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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I finally replenished my tamarind concentrate stocks today (two pots this time) so that's tonight sorted. Mrs Jaffrey's 'pickled' mackerel with a crunchy green salad. Much nomness will ensue  |
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« Reply #2297 on: 18:22:47, 16-06-2008 » |
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I finally replenished my tamarind concentrate stocks today (two pots this time)
Agh! I knew there was something missed out on my to-do list! But I have to wait for the rind on our tama tree to grow back first. Till then I'll let my mind wander. |
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« Reply #2298 on: 18:32:49, 16-06-2008 » |
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I'm a bit like Mort, start shelling peas and for every one that goes into the saucepan three go straight into the mouth. I see there are lots of interesting broad bean recipes about at the moment.
Fish here tonight as well, poached fillet of salmon with home made potato salad and baby leaf salad. A healthy meal if you discount the mayonnaise!!
I see the yoghurt debate rumbles on. This is what Nigel Slater says about it "I cannot remember a day when I didn't eat yoghurt. It is as much of part of my life as mineral water and coffee. Sometimes I buy a Lebanese variety, so white and dense you could spread it with a knife. Other times it has to be the delicate French sheep's yoghurt. Mostly it is British Goat's yoghurt from the healthfood shop. It is not the thickness that matters so much as the sharpeness, the clean taste. The only yoghurt I will not eat is the mild, bland, sweet stuff the supermarkets sell. Yoghurts disguised as a pudding" Ower Nige is definitely not a low-fat yoghurt man!
I was first introduced to the delights of plain yoghurt when I was 14 by my first boyfriend, David Jones, his mother was Greek and his father was Welsh. His mum used to make her own yoghurt. I still remember eating bowls of this - wonderful, thick and sharp, the like of which I have not tasted since. Has anyone made their own yoghurt?
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« Reply #2299 on: 18:40:31, 16-06-2008 » |
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Has anyone made their own yoghurt?
I have, yes, I used to carry with me on my travels a cauliflower-like mass of bacteria which would convert milk into yoghurt (and then would need to be rinsed in a sieve and given another load of milk to work on). I was given this by a friend, and kept it alive for over a year before someone staying with me threw it away thinking it was some horrible rotten thing. I've never come across anything like it since. |
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I have, yes, I used to carry with me on my travels a cauliflower-like mass of bacteria which would convert milk into yoghurt Blimey. Can you be more specific, Richard? What is that, and where would you get one? |
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« Reply #2301 on: 18:43:17, 16-06-2008 » |
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It is as much of part of my life as mineral water I must say that's the bit in his screed that lost me. Antheil, we have something in common, my first girlfriend used to make her own yoghurt...  |
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« Reply #2302 on: 18:45:23, 16-06-2008 » |
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I was given this by a friend, and kept it alive for over a year before someone staying with me threw it away thinking it was some horrible rotten thing. I've never come across anything like it since.
So you must have been very fond of it, this cauliflower-like object? |
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« Reply #2303 on: 18:45:54, 16-06-2008 » |
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Has anyone made their own yoghurt?
I have, yes, I used to carry with me on my travels a cauliflower-like mass of bacteria Well, Duw, Duw, Lord Richard of Abertawe the mind boggles. Was this not simply the interior of the Ford Transit van to and from gigs? |
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« Reply #2304 on: 19:16:46, 16-06-2008 » |
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Has anyone made their own yoghurt?
 Oh yes indeed, in an earlier and tackier version of one of these things. We survived the whole of the 1980s and brought up two children on little else. Home made yoghurt and communally mixed muesli (every two months) from the Ramsbury Road Wholefood Collective. Yum, yum. I've no idea why the children kept asking if they could stay for tea with their friends after school. |
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« Reply #2305 on: 19:25:43, 16-06-2008 » |
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I've no idea why the children kept asking if they could stay for tea with their friends after school.
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« Reply #2306 on: 19:33:35, 16-06-2008 » |
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Has anyone made their own yoghurt?
Oh yes indeed, in an earlier and tackier version of one of these things. We survived the whole of the 1980s and brought up two children on little else. Home made yoghurt and communally mixed muesli (every two months) from the Ramsbury Road Wholefood Collective. Yum, yum. Oh Dear. I just cannot see George as a Hippy and as a Flower Power advocate in Snorbans. My image of him as a suave civil servant and Alan Bennett look alike in Admiralty Arch is forever shattered into a thousand shards! |
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« Reply #2307 on: 19:36:52, 16-06-2008 » |
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Can you be more specific, Richard? What is that, and where would you get one?
No I don't know I don't know ... many years have passed since then. |
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« Reply #2308 on: 19:37:35, 16-06-2008 » |
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I just cannot see George as a Hippy and as a Flower Power advocate in Snorbans Maybe this was during his Llandrindod Wells period. |
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« Reply #2309 on: 19:39:26, 16-06-2008 » |
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I've no idea why the children kept asking if they could stay for tea with their friends after school.
George, the answer to that is probably Shippam's Bloater Paste sandwiches Edit.Oh Lord, suddenly I have recovered a long buried memory of going to tea at a friend's house and being given sugar sandwiches. Even as a child I preferred savoury to sweet. Can't remember what I did with the sarnies. Probably stuffed them in my gymslip pockets. Always a favourite strategy for dubious food |
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