Cake

Posted on September 16, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cake, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2061, Food, marble cake, Prompt, Sugar, Sweetner, Tasty, Victoria sponge6 Comments

What are your favorite types of foods?

I am not allowed much of this delectable delicacy. But it has to be my favourite. I usually say trifle but that’s like a squidgy layered cake. I like individual cakes, chocolate éclairs, apple turnovers, Eccles cakes.

I could list more. I can make a good Victoria sponge, but I would use sweetener instead of sugar to try and make it healthier. I sometimes make marbled cake, that’s where you make the cake batter up then add cocoa or chocolate to half of it. You then gently stir the two halves together so that the colours mingle but don’t mix. When it’s cooked you can see a pattern of marbling in it.

To be honest I didn’t know I knew so much about cake, but it’s not an obsession. I just enjoy it as a treat.

Hot toast and tea

Posted on September 13, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bread, Breakfast, Butter, Drink, melted, Poem, Poetry, Rhyme, Snack, Supper, Tasty, Tea, Toast2 Comments

Lashings of toast

Slurping of tea

Having a snack

Just for me

Butter on bread

Melted and soft

Strong cuppa to go

With hot toast you see.

Teatime rummage

Posted on September 11, 2023September 11, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cherries, combination, Food, Fridge, Leftovers, quiche, Salad, Tasty, Tea, Vegetables2 Comments

Tea, what’s in the fridge? Vegetable quiche, tomatoes, gherkin, silver skin pickled onion, yellow pepper, light mayonnaise and….. Left over black cherries. Finger painting using the Sketchbook app on my phone.

Plum side salad

Posted on September 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cucumber, Food, gherkin, plum, Recipe, Salad, side salad, silver skin onion, Tasty, Tomato4 Comments

I just wanted to make something for tea and I had a small pork pie to use up. I decided to put a small salad together.

We had a couple of very ripe plums in the fruit bowl so I chopped them up. To this I added a large tomato and some cucumber also chopped.

I have new jars of silvers skin pickled onions and baby gherkins. I really struggle to get the lids off. I saw online a way of releasing them. You tap the side edge of the lid with a wooden spoon. Tap and turn the jar until you hear air suck into the jar with a pop! It actually works, just don’t bash to hard!

So I added sliced gherkin and little pickled onions. Then I drizzled light mayonnaise over the top.

It was nice to eat a slightly sweet salad with natural fruit instead of sweetened pickled onions which I really don’t like.

Sherry Trifle

Posted on August 27, 2023 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #100daywalkingchallenge, Blancmange, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2040, Food, Jelly, Port, Recipe, sherry, sugar free, Tasty, Trifle, Whipped cream6 Comments

What’s your favorite recipe?

Trifle, my favourite treat.

A layer of jelly, a layer of blancmange or custard and a layer of whipped cream.

I make up a sachet of sugar free jelly with three quarters of a pint of boiling water and a quarter of a pint of port or sherry. I add that to large bowl and add chopped strawberries or raspberries or blueberries to make the jelly stronger when it sets (I don’t use trifle sponges as they are full of sugar) once cooled I put it in the fridge to set.

When the jelly is set I mix up a pint of blancmange with boiling milk (you can use custard) this comes in a variety of flavours. I use a sweetner instead of sugar in the mixture, one that doesn’t have an aftertaste. Once the liquid has been boiled and thickened I put the saucepan in a larger one filled with cold water. The blancmange cools enough so that it doesn’t melt the jelly when you add it to the top.

Once the middle layer is set I take a large tub of double cream and whisk it till it is stiff and makes peaks. This is spooned onto the trifle.

You can add decorations such as sprinkles (hundreds and thousands) or glacé cherries, grated chocolate or chopped strawberries etc.

I make it as sugar free as I can, but it is high in fat. You could use skimmed milk for the middle layer.

This is a Christmas or Easter treat in our house. And sometimes I make it for birthdays instead of cake.

About £60 each for three of us

Posted on August 8, 2023 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bento boxes, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2022, Expensive, Food, Life, Miso japanese restaurant, Miso soup, sake, Stoke-on trent, Tasty3 Comments

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?

We went out for a lovely meal at a Japanese Restaurant called Miso in Stoke on Trent. There were three of us so we agreed to share the cost between us as it was a family outing. It’s actually mentioned in a Novel by a Richard Osman, one of his Thursday Murder club series.

We had sushi for starters, with Miso soup, then each of us had a different Bento box, including Duck with teriyaki sauce, and mackeral with black pepper sauce, salad, rice, and guyozo.

Finally we has pistachio ice cream with sesami seeds.

Drinks included iced tea, sake, and cold japanese lager. I think the cost crept up because we kept ordering sake and I also had a glass of peach wine. Very tasty.

We love the place, but they were being refurbished recently, I know it’s reopened but we haven’t had the chance to go back and I will have to be more careful about what I spend!

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!

English breakfast

Posted on July 21, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Breakfast, Food, full English breakfast, Penkhull, penkhull sandwich shop, Tasty2 Comments

We had to go out early this morning so we popped in a cafe at Penkhull for breakfast. It was nice to sit down and eat in although there was only one table inside, (there are more outside but it was raining).

I don’t normally take photos of food, but this struck me as an image that explains what a full English breakfast is. Hiding under the tomatoes were two slices of bacon. It also came with toast and a cup of tea. Additionally you could have mushrooms and black pudding, but this was too much! I was defeated and left some toast and beans.

I’ve never been sure about hash browns though? Are they part of a traditional full English breakfast? I don’t know.

Chomped cherries!

Posted on July 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cherries, Food, Fruit, Life, pecked, Red, Tasty, Time, Tree, Umbrella, Water, WindLeave a comment

We just gathered some cherries off the ground because the rain and wind has knocked a lot off the tree. This is about a third of them that were too bruised, damaged or pecked. The rest have just been washed thoroughly in salty water and I’ve put them in the fridge to eat tomorrow. I will thoroughly rinse them again first.

The plan is to get a broom or a stick to try and pull some more down and collect them in an upturned umbrella. I hope the weather doesn’t intervene in the meantime! Praying the wind doesn’t whip up and blow them off. There’s still plenty left for the birds…

Waiting for cherries

Posted on June 26, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cherries, Cherry tree, Food, Fruit, Gardening, Life, not ready yet, Red, Ripening, Sweet, Tasty8 Comments

Three years ago our cherry crop was already picked. The tree came from the old Woolworths shop in Stoke about twenty five years ago. It must have been happy because now it’s about thirty feet high.

The cherries are starting to ripen, but they are not ready yet. Maybe next week we can reach the lower ones. The rest we donate to the birds. One thing I need to do is buy a big umbrella, it really helps to stop the cherries we pick from rolling off into the undergrowth!

Mallaband-Brown

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