Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Grub notes
New recipe for supper dish yesterday. Take a cup of left over tomato sauce (a confection made of butter, garlic, onions, peppers and tomatoes, used to flavour basic pork chops from Sainsbury's). Add six small potatoes, peeled and chopped into something like 1cm cubes. Add a bit of body in the form of a slice of basic back bacon, chopped into something like 1cm squares. Simmer for ten minutes. Add seven mushrooms, sliced. Simmer for a further 3 minutes. Serve. Not bad at all for a quickie.
And a second go at the brussel sprouts this lunchtime. Much improved by reducing the cooking time. They lost the taint of boiled cabbage. Served with ox kidneys (stewed with butter, caraway seeds, onions and tomatoes) and mashed potatoes.
Meal rounded off by a freshly picked eating apple, maybe 2.5 inches across and 2 inches high. Green with a red cheek and well streaked. Crisp, sharp and sweet all at the same time. Having given up the allotment one forgets what eating apples should taste like, mostly being reduced to supermarket fare from the atmosphere controlled, all year round warehouse.
# posted by Jim @ 6:01 AM 
