Out for food.

Posted on May 28, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Balti, Chicken, Curry, dupiaza, Fish, Food, king prawns, Lamb, Mushroom, Restaurant, Sangam, Tasty2 Comments

Just back from a delicious meal at Sangams balti House in Stoke-upon-trent, the town Stoke-on-Trent City is named after.

I had a King Prawn and Lamb balti, and a garlic nan. My friends had a fish dupiaza and a Chicken and mushroom dupiaza. There are two Sangam Balti restaurants here. I think because they needed more space they were so popular.

There is no alcohol served on the premises but you can take your own. The portion sizes are good and the food is hot and tasty.

Worth a visit if you are in town.

Kissing cat

Posted on May 4, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Food, Life, Poem, Poetry, Purring, Staring, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

Nudged

Head butted

By a cat

Soft cheeks

Half closed eyes.

That stare under lids

At you.

Rapt

With love

Purring

‘bring me food’

He seems to say….

Home made trifle

Posted on April 16, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Glass dish, sherry, sherry trifle, sugar free, Trifle, Whipped cream, yummy2 Comments

Blackcurrant jelly with blueberries, strawberry blancmange and whipped cream. A little sherry in the jelly.

It’s my favourite dessert. I use sweetner instead of sugar to sweeten the blancmange and the jelly is sugar free.

All I can say is that it doesn’t last long!

Yummy #bandofsketchers

Posted on April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Cake, Cherries, Colours, Drawing, Food, Fun, glacè, Poem, Poetry, SketchingLeave a comment

Oh, #band of sketchers

it meant I had to eat

Cherry cake!

The prompt was yummy.

This was very

Tasty and sweet

Glace Cherries

In a madiera

Cake base!

#bandofsketchers today

Posted on April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white drawing, Chilli, Drawing, easy Chilli, Food, Hot, jar, Sketching, today's promptLeave a comment

Jar of easy Chilli, had it about a year. Hardly used any of it! I could have coloured it in but decided just to try different marks to create light and shade. The shadow is from a felt pen that’s running out. Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was ‘Jar’.

Fruit

Posted on April 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Banana, Food, Fruit, Fun, Layout app, Pareidolia, Photo, Playing, satsumasLeave a comment

Playing with a photo of fruit. Somehow a face appeared. Pareidolia again! I can’t help myself, I see faces everywhere. Must be the way my brain is wired!

A cornucopia of satsumas and apples with an added banana. Tasty. Silly, fun.

Thai birthday takeaway

Posted on April 2, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged curries, Food, green curry, Papaya salad, Sawadee Thai taste, Stoke-on trent, Thai food, yellow curryLeave a comment

We had a takeaway meal for my hubby’s birthday. Thai green curry with beef and I had a yellow curry with seafood.

We also had a papaya salad and some egg fried rice and Thai fishcakes for starters.

Sawadee Thai taste in Stoke has a friendly host who ensures lovely food. I can’t wait for the restaurant to open up again

Pears poached in port..

Posted on March 14, 2021March 20, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cooking, Food, gas mark five, Ingredients, Life, Oven, pastry, Pears, poached pear, Port, shop bought pastry, simmered, TastyLeave a comment

Cooked this tonight…

Ingredients :

3 small or 2 large pears

Shop bought pastry, ready rolled

1/4 bottle of port

Double cream

1 egg yolk

Method:

Core the pears as necessary, slice into small pieces.

Simmer the pears in a pan with the port until the pears have softened and the port has reduced and almost dried up.

Place the pastry on baking parchment or grease proof paper on a baking tray.

Cut the pastry into four squares, place the diced pears in the centre of each square and then fold the pastry up around them. Brush with egg yolk to glaze.

Put in a medium to hot oven (I used gas mark 6) for twenty or twenty five minutes or until they are golden brown. I found mine had a bit of a soggy bottom.

Serve when cooled with a dollop of whipped cream.

Serves four (unless you are feeling greedy!).

Rat-a-tat-cat!

Posted on March 1, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Cat flap, cat milk, Food, Indoor cats, Knocker, Life, Noise, Outdoor cat, rattling door, treats, Tuxedo catLeave a comment

I’m convinced our outdoor cat thinks the cat flap is a door knocker! When he wants to come in he rattles it (it’s locked to keep our indoor cats in and other cats, that roam the garden, out).

Tonight I was washing up and rattle – bang-rattle-tap, tap, tap! I didn’t open the door straight away so the cat flap did another bang and crash…

Then, outdoor cat scoots in, eats two pouches of food, some cat milk, some cat treats, then the emploring look ‘can I go out again?’ no doubt he will be back later….

Cat drawings

Posted on February 23, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Black and white cat, Cat, Drawings, Food, Illustration, Life, Tuxedo cat, what's for tea? Cat teapot3 Comments

Learning to illustrate means playing with different techniques. Both of these are black ink. One is just using a black calligraphy pen and the other a fine liner pen and a calligraphy pen. The top is called ‘what’s for tea?’ and the second is a tiny ‘cat teapot’.

Mallaband-Brown

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