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Four years ago

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According to Facebook memories four years ago I was feeling rough so my dear hubby went out and got me a cheese and bacon oatcake. It doest look appetising but with cooked bacon and mature cheddar with a hint of brown sauce, the Oatcake was folded in half, hot and tasty.

We used to have the occasional oatcake over the months, it’s a local delicacy. As the artist, author and poet Arthur Berry wrote :

Ode to the Oatcake: 1980

  1. Let us pay homage to the Oatcake.
  2. Or Otcake or woodcake as the old men called them.
  3. The Oatcake is not a cake at all really.
  4. Not like the fairy cake or the Eccles cake.
  5. Not a cake in that way.
  6. More of a Potteries Popadum [sic]
  7. A sort of Tunstall Tortilla.
  8. A Clay Suzzette.

Japanese for tea

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Sushi.. Library picture

Miso soup and a duck teriyaki bento box for my tea tonight from the Miso Japanese restaurant in Stoke on Trent! It was a treat as I’ve had some slightly better news about my health. Not a clean bill of health, but slightly less worrying. The food was delicious and plentiful.

I’ve still got to have some more tests, but with luck there will be a reasonable treatment and nothing to drastic. Maybe I’ll treat myself again if things work out.

Anyway after a few weeks of worrying I feel a little less stressed, I have lots of other things to deal with so things were really getting me down. Crying with relief seems to be the thing to do. X

Knickerbocker glory

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What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?

A knickerbocker glory in the cafe at the top of the Great Orme mountain in Llandudno in Wales.

Why? It’s the only one I ever ate, I was a child, and I was amazed by it.

A tall cold glass with a long spoon, a fan shaped wafer in the top. Vanilla ice cream, fruit (I think cherries and peaches), chocolate and raspberry sauces, and fresh cream…. Well that’s how I remember it! We had gone up on the cable car and it was a real adventure. I think we were staying in Rhyl and had a day trip down the Coast to Llandudno.

I remember deep blue sea and bright blue sky, tall houses and wide, quiet roads. The cable car was scary but fun and the cafe had cool drinks and ice-cream for sale.

I don’t know if I ate the whole knickerbocker glory or if I shared with one of my sisters? It seemed to be huge. I think we chose it because of the picture on the menu? It certainly cooled us down on that hot sunny day. Fifty years later.. I still remember…. Delicious!

Cream

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Time for cream to celebrate, on mince pies, trifle and pud. With brandy added or sugar, it’s got to make it good.

On chocolate hot, or a steaming pot of coffee with some whisky. Cream is such a delightful treat, when it’s single, double of whisk-ed.

Add a bit to soups and sauces, give a drop to fruit and berries, savour its flavour in cocktails too. It all depends what you do!

Memory of an afternoon tea.

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A year ago, we visited the Rabbit Hole tearoom with a friend who was visiting from Yorkshire. We had to book in advance. The food duly arrived in this cake stand with beautiful pots of tea.

Sadly, like so many other places, the Rabbit Hole is closed at the moment. Such a shame for a quaint and magical cafe in the centre of Stoke-upon-Trent, the town which the city of Stoke-on-Trent is named after.