Who’s coming to dinner?

Posted on July 12, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1997, dinner party, Food, Funny, guests, Humour, Life, Meal, Physics, Science2 Comments

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

I’d like to invite Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman.

I don’t know if I would be able to understand any conversation between them. But I have noticed that the three men seemed to have funny senses of humour. The two I know most about were Feynman (one of his books is Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman) and Sagan (who wrote Cosmos and Contact among other books).

All of them were interesting people and I hope they would take pity on my lack of knowledge of Physics and the other sciences. Maybe it would be a difficult meal to host. I would research the food they liked and try and replicate it, but I would have to be careful not to cause them stomach problems!

Anyway it’s never going to happen. Fun imagining the guest list though.

Tonic with Rosemary

Posted on June 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Cold, crystal cut glass, Drink, Driving, gin, Ice, Life, Meal, Photo, refreshing, rosemary, tonicLeave a comment

I wasn’t driving last night so I had a small gin and lots of tonic. But when the drink came it had a sprig of rosemary in it along with the ice. It was delicious, tasty, refreshing. I had the glass topped up with more tonic water. It was very delicious.

I liked the look of the crystal cut glass so took a photo of it. I don’t take many photos of food and drink but I just liked the image. I might play around with it in photodirector.

Pizza with leftovers

Posted on September 2, 2023September 2, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cheese, Cooking, Food, Fridge, gas mark, Leftovers, margherita pizza, Meal, Pizza, Quick meal, Recipe4 Comments

A Marghereta pizza for tea was a bit boring, so I got some leftovers out of the fridge…

1 large sliced mushroom

1/8 of a large onion

A couple of pieces of garlic sausage

2 slices of ham

A 1/4 of a red chilli (deseeded)

A few green olives sliced up

Some leftover hard cheese

Chop it up, add it to the top.

Cook on gas mark 7 for 15 minutes instead of 11 which was the time for the normal pizza so that everything was piping hot.

Added gherkins which were left in a jar to add a bit of sour taste (umami?) to the meal.

Cheese oatcakes

Posted on July 29, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breakfast, Cheese, Food, Life, Lunch, Meal, Oatcakes, Oats, Poem, Poetry, Tasty, Tea2 Comments

Lunch today

Cheese on oatcakes

Yummy tubes

Of oaty goodness.

Made of batter

Made with oats

On a griddle

Served sizzling hot

Melted cheese

And hp sauce

Make a snack

Or a meal.

Delicious with jam too

Staffordshire oatcakes

For me or you!

Using courgette in curry

Posted on August 19, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cooking, Courgette, Curry, Food, grated, katsu curry, Meal, Recipe, Tasty, zucchiniLeave a comment

I decided to use courgette (zucchini) in a curry, but hubby doesn’t like it sliced. So I decided to grate it up. I put the meat (I could have used quorn) in first. Sealing diced pieces over a hot heat. Then I added the courgette and lowered the heat. I added stir fry vegetables a couple of minutes later. I also added half a tin of baked beans because I’d decided not to use any noodles. Finally I added a sachet of katsu curry sauce. It might not be the right recipe, it might not taste exactly right but it was OK.

Green Papaya and seafood salad

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, green papaya, lucky, Meal, papaya, Seafood, Thai food, ThinkingLeave a comment

We had a Thai meal tonight. Look away if you don’t like prawns. Very tasty, low carbohydrates. With mussels, squid and scallops.

Sometimes it’s good to try something new, rather than having the same food every day. But then I am lucky to have that opportunity. Its difficult to know how the first world can do so much when so many other people in the world have nothing or next to nothing….

I give you the Staffordshire Pikelet.

Posted on February 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged afternoon tea, Citrus peel, Currants, Dried fruit, Food, Grilled, Lemon juice, Meal, Raisins, Staffordshire, Staffordshire oatcakes, Staffordshire Pikelets, Stoke-on trent, Tasty1 Comment

Staffordshire Pikelets, cousin to the Staffordshire Oatcakes. Made with the same oat batter, but smaller and thicker. With added dried fruit (currants, raisins, citrus peel).

Toasted under the grill then added butter and as it was shrove Tuesday yesterday I added some lemon juice from the lemons I got for my pancakes. All hot and tasty.

Different parts of the country have different special foods. This one is very tasty and filling!

Trying to make Beetroot Hummus

Posted on August 11, 2019August 11, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beetroot, Beetroot hummus, Bread, Cooking, Food, Garlic, Lime juice, Meal, Olive oil, Potato, Recipe, Tasty, Walnut halvesLeave a comment

Tried to make this from just a list of ingredients.

Beetroot, potato or brown bread, garlic, a little olive oil, walnuts, cider vinegar (I only had malt vinegar). You can substitute bread for potato.

Method.

I peeled the five Beetroot and two Potatoes , chopped them, put them in a pan to boil for half an hour.

Then I took four cloves of Garlic and crushed them in a pestle and mortar. Then crushed the Walnuts and mixed them with the garlic. I added a little olive oil to help.

Watch the Beetroot and Potato and when you can push a knife into them and they are soft, drain off the water.

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Allow the Beetroot and Potato to cool, then add the crushed Walnuts with the garlic. I had to add a bit more to improve the consistency. I also added the juice of half a lime to give it a kick. _20190811_224230

I mashed the Walnut and Garlic into the Beetroot mix.

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The final result, in a covered bowl in the fridge. _20190811_231423

Meal, jacket potato with coleslaw, chopped tomato, Beetroot hummus and sausages (apologies to vegetarians and vegans). I could have used a food blender, but decided its easier not to have to clean it and waste electricity.

Carrot and ginger soup

Posted on February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Carrot, Carrot soup, Cooking, Food, Garlic, Ginger, Life, Meal, Olive oil, Onion, Vegetable, Vegetarian?Leave a comment

Ingredients
We used..a lot of carrots, half an onion, 3 large cloves of garlic, some garlic olive oil and plain olive oil. A knob of butter, a bit of flour, a bit of ginger powder, a couple of pinches of salt, some crushed black pepper, luck….
Mix the chopped up carrot onion and garlic in a blender with water and oil. When its blended cook for 20 mins….

Added black pepper, ginger and salt to taste. We tasted as we cooked and gradually added more flavouring as it was a bit bland to start. My blender does not completely pulp vegetables so it’s a bit chewy.

No chick peas, fish food or UFOs were used in the soup. My hubby was wearing a tweed but you dont need that either for flavour!

Downside…I took over a bit, should have let him do it all…

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Meal