Recipes
British waterfalls and beaches
Last weekend we went up to Durham to visit Rob … to update him on our latest tomato experiments. While we were there we went on two awesome walks. The first one was through some nice hill country. Rob guided…
Leek and Potato
Farmer Ira Ingredients: 4 Medium sized leeks chopped and rinsed. A biggish bit of butter for frying 3 cloves garlic 3 medium potatoes black pepper Spash of white wine 500ml-1L premade stock. 150ml cream. Fry the leeks and garlic gently…
Jan’s Pea and Ham Soup
Ingredients: 1 small leek A few small carrots About 300g chunky bacon offcuts 200g yellow split peas salt and pepper 2 bay leaves 1 clove garlic Rinse peas and boil on their own … and then remove scum from top…
Chocolate Womble Cake
After making custard we had quite a few egg-whites left over. Jan is such a womble that she could not bear to see this go to waste. After discovering that a blender doesn’t make such great meringue, the original plan…
Pakhoras
To celebrate the coming of summer we had a bit of a cook up and invited over a few mates .. well actually this was ages ago but I just wanted an excuse to put up these pics of Jan…
Asparagus & Salmon entree
Smoked salmon sheets Asparagus spears Philadelphia cheese Chives 1 lemon Boil asparagus for a few minutes, drain and cool. Chop chives and mix with philadelphia cheese. Place a dob of cheese and chives mix on a piece of salmon sheet…
Pea & Ham Soup
1 cup green split peas (or yellow peas if Tesco’s doesn’t have green ones!) 8 cups boiling water 1 large bacon bone 1 medium chopped onion 1 medium chopped carrot 2 sticks celery 2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 bay leaf…
Anzac Biscuits
1 cup rolled oats 1 cup plain flour 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup coconut 4 oz (125 g) butter 2 tablespoons golden syrup 2 tablespoons boiling water 1/2 heaped teaspoon bicarbonate of soda Mix oats, flour, sugar & coconut in…
Sticky Date Pudding
Yum!
Blackberry Cobbler
Today we discovered a part of Ely where the blackberries are big and fat and juicy and plentiful. Of course there were dangers to collecting them, we had to walk through a field and even quite close to some cows.The…