Christmas adverts!

Posted on November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged christianity, Christmas, Community, consumerism, cop26, Food, Spirits, Thinking, Toys, World4 Comments

Buy this now! You know you want it! Eau de Parfum! Jewellery! Food! A new colour for a hair dryer, a new electric car, toys toys toys.

Everything the consumer wants. Chocolates, biscuits, turkey, wine, spirits with edible gold. Lots of lovely stuff… That most people in the world can’t afford. That they will never have.

Meanwhile at Cop26 deligates have not been able to agree on reducing carbon emissions. Rich countries are not helping poor countries with funding…

This world is selfish. The Christian idea of peace and loving one another doesn’t seem very evident. Will we ever care enough to think of others?

Thai again

Posted on November 9, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cooking, Food, Lunch, Noodles, Restaurant, Sawadee Thai taste, Stoke, Stoke-on trent, TastyLeave a comment

The trouble with having food at Sawadee Thai taste in Stoke is that I eat the food before I think of taking a photo of it. Today I had some noodles with king prawns and pak choi for lunch. Very tasty. The owner is a lady called Apple who is very friendly and helpful. It’s worth a visit if you want to taste Thai food, and it’s not expensive.

A blob smiling?

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baked, Bread, Butter, Cooking, crusty, Flour, Food, Honey, Hot, Loaf, Tasty2 Comments

My loaf has a smile ! It’s crusty on the outside, soft and springy on the inside. I had a slice with a bit of butter and honey. I’m really pleased as my loaves usually turn out a bit dry and heavy. I tried to balance the liquid content and the stickiness and this time I tried to knead it a bit more.

Tasty!

Best bread and butter pud

Posted on October 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baking, Banana, Blueberry, Brown bread, Cherry, Cooking, Dried fruit, egg, Food, Hot, Milk, RhymeLeave a comment

Tasty..

Followed the recipe

Milk and egg

Brown bread

Dried fruit

And fresh topped

With banana, chopped

Cherry and

Blueberry land

In layers through

This tasty chew.

Avoiding sugar

So sprinkled sweetner

To make it taste?

Ace!

Bread and butter pudding, again!

Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baking, Bread and butter pudding, Cooking, Dessert, Food, Pudding, recipes, TastyLeave a comment

A friend posted two recipes on making bread and butter pudding. Here they are :

I used to make this 2 different ways:
1: buttered leftover bread cut into triangles and put overlapping into a dish with sides.
Sprinkle with raisins and sugar/sweetener.
Beat an egg into about 3/4 of a pint of milk and a pinch of salt, and pour over the bread.
Make sure it’s properly soaked.
Dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven until golden and crispy on top- probably about 30mins.

2: The posh version:
Use a brioche loaf.
Slice but don’t butter
Place overlapping slices in a dish with sides.
Sprinkle with chocolate chips or raisins and a little sugar or sweetener
Beat an egg into a mixture of single cream and milk with a pinch of salt.
Leave to soak. Dot with butter.
Bake in a moderate oven until golden and crispy on top- probably about 30mins

Cooked!

Posted on October 17, 2021December 15, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Banana, Bread and butter pudding, Cooking, Food, Moist, Pears, Poem, Poetry, Sweet, tasty cookedLeave a comment

A tasty morsel

A solid lump?

No soft and sweet

Moist and crunchy

It was a treat

It turned out good

Now I’m stuffed

With bread, butter and banana pud!

Bread and butter pudding?

Posted on October 17, 2021October 18, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Baking, Bread, Butter, Cinnamon, Cooking, do you know how to?, Eggs, Food, Life, medium heat, Milk, Sugar substituteLeave a comment

How do you make it? Raisins and currents between slices of bread with a mixture of egg and milk and nutmeg and sugar somehow added to it? The outcome is a sticky, stiff, yummy lump of slightly crispy pudding.

Problem 1, I have no currents or raisins or even sultanas..

2, I have no sliced bread

3, I don’t eat sugar because of diabetes.

4. I have no recipe to work from and don’t know what temperature to cook it on.

Solution…just make it up as I go. So I sliced some slightly stale brown bread. Buttered it and placed it butter side down into a pyrex glass shallow oblong tray. Added a layer of sliced banana and some sliced pear. Then a few more bits of bread and dots of butter. Finally more banana and pear and a bit of a crust of bread on top. I then whisked up six eggs?! With milk, sugar substitute and a bit of cinnamon (I don’t have nutmeg).

Poured the liquid over the bread slowly so it soaked in.

What heat? I chose gas mark 5 (medium heat) and set the oven for forty minutes. It might be horrible. It might be OK. For future reference does anyone know a recipe?

Broccoli

Posted on October 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Broccoli, Cooking, Drawing, Food, fractals, romanesco broccoli, Shape, Tasty, Wikipedia2 Comments

What is broccoli, a green equivalent to cauliflower?

According to Wikipedia Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family whose large flowering head, stalk and small associated leaves are eaten as a vegetable. Broccoli is classified in the Italica cultivar group of the species Brassica oleracea. WikipediaOrigin: Italy, more than 2,000 years ago. Scientific name: Brassica oleracea var. italicaHigher classification: Wild cabbage Rank: VarietyCultivar group: Italica.

I like it, I like the Romaesco version I think it’s called. The version with sculptural spiral swirls that are like a version of fibonnacci number patterns. The spirals have a fractal look about them. If you’ve never seen it look it up online. It’s a fascinating shape.

Feed the birds

Posted on September 29, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Autumn, Birds, Collage, Design, Feeding, Flight, Food, Fun, grain, Paper, sunflowers, Weather1 Comment

As the autumn approaches the northern hemisphere the weather gets colder. Local bird populations are looking for food. Some of them need to stock up so they can migrate others so they can overwinter in the UK.

You can get bird foods from local shops and pet stores. Grain, peanuts, sunflower seeds, fat balls, together with a fresh supply of water is what they need. If you feed them bread make sure it has been soaked in water, otherwise it can swell up in their crops and cause harm to them.

See your local nature charities for more information about feeding specific birds.

Non diabetic food?

Posted on September 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged biscuits, Cake, cheesecake, Food, fruit flavours, Fun, gherkins, Humour, kefir, stollen, sugars, yoghurtLeave a comment

What part of this food is safe to eat if you are diabetic?

A large size pizza ( carbs)

Two packets of mini butter stollen cakes (dusted with icing sugar)

Four large potato’s (carbs)

Three tubs of butter

Cheese

A box of mini blueberry muffins,

Two large tubs of fruit flavoured kefir fermented yoghurt,

Two bottles of mayonnaise (garlic and chilli flavours)

Two cheesecakes (one strawberry, the other lemon and marscepone)

A packet of rich tea biscuits.

A box of eggs

Shampoo with honey added!

Why?

The only vegetables were a jar of gherkins….

I don’t normally ask him to go shopping!

Mallaband-Brown

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