Want to know how to make Iced Tuna Mousse, Monday Risotto or Coffee Hedgehog? Need to know how to crisp up a limp lettuce using a lump of coal, or remove tar from your clothes/children after a day out at the seaside? Perhaps you need to convert fl.oz. to decilitres? Then look no further than […]
Entries from January 2012
Hyde Heath Afternoon & Evening Women’s Institutes, Selected Recipes, 1972
January 31st, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Book
ChocChip™ Cookies
January 28th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Needing as we did to both satisfy a craving for something sweet and shift some particularly average Christmas chocolate balls from Lidl, these ChocChip™ Cookies perfectly fulfilled both requirements. Obviously you don’t need to rush to Lidl and rummage through the ‘end of line’ slop bucket in search of the last remaining net of stale […]
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate
Sweetcorn fritters
January 27th, 2012 · 2 Comments
A while back we bought a bumper pack of frozen sweetcorn for Yumblog Junior hoping this might make a healthy addition to her somewhat restricted and monotonous diet. As is invariably the case she gave our offering a glance of contempt, shook her head and returned to her preferred menu of bananas, Marmite and toothpaste. […]
Tags: Brunch · Eggs · Main Course · Snack · Sweetcorn · Vegetarian
Colcannon soup (deconstructed)
January 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments
“You know me and my weakness for a juicy pear” – Gregg Wallace, MasterChef, 2012. “I just love the big flavours of Dick” – Gregg Wallace, Celebrity MasterChef, 2010. Looks like Gregg butters his toast on both sides. Our constructed Colcannon soup can be found here.
Tags: Soup · Vegetarian
Dave’s Mam’s killer fishcakes (with cheese sauce)
January 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment
If any of you dodgy lot were to break into Yumblog Cottage, you would probably notice (apart from how bloody cold it is) that despite several shelf loads of cookbooks, there was virtually nothing ‘written’ by TV chefs. No matter how frantically you rummaged, you’d find no Jamie, Nigella, Gordon, Heston, Sophie, Ainsley, Gino, Levi, […]
Tags: cheese · Fish · Main Course · Sauce
Seed & grain white bread
January 23rd, 2012 · 3 Comments
Well I never, I’ve just discovered our local Morrisons now sells packets of fresh yeast for breadmaking… and at the very reasonable price of 50p for 126g. This was unexpected because a) as far as I know you can’t even get it at Waitrose, and b) Morrisons is very much at the (Sp)Asda end of […]
Tags: Baking · Bread · Vegetarian
Gravalax the 3rd way – Beetroot
January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments
It’s taken a while to write up this, the third of our festive gravali because to be honest I got a little over excited at the fishmonger’s (Paul, Todmorden Market) where I bought the salmon and ended up with 1.5kg of the stuff. Delicious as it was (and this beetroot version was the tastiest of […]
Tags: Christmas · Fish · Seafood
Crêpe au fromage de chèvre
January 22nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
…or goat’s cheese pancakes.
Tags: cheese · Eggs · Main Course · Vegetarian(ish)
Tartiflette* with Brie
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments
Although the fridge has now all but emptied of Christmas goodies the cheese compartment is still heavy with half-eaten lumps, wheels and wedges of every variety of soft, hard, blue, holey, mature and goat. It has become clear that the occasional lunchtime snack is never going to make much headway into this cheesey surplus and […]
Tags: Baking · cheese · Side Dish · Vegetarian
Gravalax the 2nd way – Ginger spiced
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments
Obviously our enjoyment of Christmas was seriously curtailed by the devastating news of Prince Philip’s hospitalisation – thank God the BBC ran half-hourly news bulletins to keep us up to date with every nuance of this never-changing national cataclysm. Here at Yumblog Cottage we tried to keep our subjective peckers up by preparing and scoffing […]
Tags: Christmas · Fish · Seafood
Antony Worrall Thompson goes shopping
January 9th, 2012 · No Comments
Every little helps
Tags: Stuff