Readers would be forgiven for assuming a salad favoured by weather worn salty old seadogs would more than likely contain something fishy, seafoody or otherwise scaly/tenticaly/crustacean(y), but they would be wrong … very wrong in fact, as this dish could be enjoyed by even the most devout and fervent hessian-clad vegan. I could go as […]
Entries from April 2020
(Gazan) Sailors’ salad
April 27th, 2020 · No Comments
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(WW2) Chocolate Oatcakes
April 10th, 2020 · No Comments
The study topic for Yumblog Junior this term is The Great Patriotic War (aka WW2) and one of her assignments was to prepare and cook something authentic circa homefront 1939–1945. Eschewing the Mock Fish Cakes, Potato Floddies and Reconstituted Egg on Toast, she opted for something which, at least at first glance, promised contemporary chocolatey […]
Tags: Baking · Biscuits · Chocolate · Kids
Leek Carbonara
April 9th, 2020 · 4 Comments
As I had to line up outside the greengrocers in a long socially-spaced covid queue for over twenty minutes to buy, among other things, these three handsome leeks, I thought they should (in true Masterchef style) be made the ‘star of the dish’. This is a modified, and in my ‘umble opinion, much improved Jme […]
Tags: Eggs · Main Course · pasta · Vegetarian
Marmite spirals
April 6th, 2020 · No Comments
Yumblog Junior rarely gets involved in the cooking process, preferring instead to be the slightly ungrateful and generally underwhelmed recipient of a parent-prepared meal. However pandemics, close proximity, home education and a lot of time to kill, means times are a changing and she’ll be sharing her parents’ enthusiasm for the kitchen whether she likes […]
Tags: Biscuits · Kids · Snack · Vegetarian