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wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 08 9:18 pm Post subject: Week Three, One local Summer Challenge
Tonights effort was very tasty: Globe artichokes (why do people bother?!) 5 Mile lamb, Stoke Mandeville (4 miles) New potatoes (garden) lettuce, carrot, herb and courgette salad (garden, and neighbours garden) Cheaty salad dressing - made with UK vinegar, but can't find anything within 50 miles, yet. Wonder how you make vinegar, then?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sat Jun 28, 08 10:10 pm Post subject:
Got bread rising as I type. Picked up half a lamb yesterday so it's leg tomorrow with broad beans, spinach and mash. Got some smoked mackerel out of the freezer to make a pate for tomorrow night.

Spruengli

Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 537
Location: Dorking(ish)

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 08 7:33 am Post subject: Re: Week Three, One local Summer Challenge

wellington womble wrote:

Wonder how you make vinegar, then?

With a vinegar mother - a clump of the *right* bugs which floats on your pre-vinegar (cider / wine) and ferments it from alcohol to vinegar (should know chemical name - ethanoic acid?? O level chemistry was a very long time ago). The trick is finding someone with an existing 'mother' who can give you a small amount (it grows quite well once happy)

No idea about malt vinegar though

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 08 7:40 am Post subject: Re: Week Three, One local Summer Challenge

Spruengli wrote:

wellington womble wrote:

Wonder how you make vinegar, then?

I make it by mixing some existing vinegar with red wine and leaving it for a few months (about 1:2). Although some would argue that some of my red wine tastes like vinegar anyway

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sun Jun 29, 08 9:17 am Post subject:
Not likely to be ready for week 4, then? Oh well - I think I'm going to declare vinegar an official exception in this house. It's a small part of the meal, and I consider it a luxury product. So there!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:40 am Post subject:

Shopping at the weekend failed to come up with much inspiration, so this week's effort largely came from very close to home.
I fancied a burger, but couldn't find any beef in the freezer, but I did find some turkey thigh pieces from last year's spare turkey. The meat is so dark, I think it makes a fair passable minced beef substitute, although you do have to cook it a little longer - not so keen on rare turkey! No onions, so I had to make do with one of my bolting leeks, but I was very fortunate to find a small handful of chanterelles while walking the dog.

Then take one not-so-soft-n-floury roll made from Bacheldre Mill flour, some salad from the garden, a dab of home-made mayo, a few of last year's pickled gherkins and some melted Merlin herb-and-garlic goat cheese and voilà -
The mushroom single Welsh cheeseburger!

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 8:53 pm Post subject:
Tonight we had pan fried chicken breast with black pudding. on a bed of spinach mash with broad beans and deglazed cider gravy. Chicken & broad beans - 8 miles. black pudding - 7 miles cider - 20 miles (I think, haven't checked) spuds - 4 miles spinach - 30 feet.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 8:55 pm Post subject:
Very good, sounds like a fine meal. Unfortunately you lose 2000 points for using the expression 'pan fried'.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:09 pm Post subject:
It still had the skin on it, that's got to be worth a rebate. Anyway, fried sounds so.....KFC.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:09 pm Post subject:
And its minus 500 for 'on a bed of'. The committee has decided to let you off with a warning for 'deglazed'.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:10 pm Post subject:
How many people on this committee, exactly?

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:12 pm Post subject:
Hundreds, you should see my PM in box.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:15 pm Post subject:
The chicken and black pudding were interleaved, the mash was shaped into a ring and the sauce, nay jus, was napped over. I accept my disqualification.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:16 pm Post subject:
Napped? Wot's that mean then?

sean
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 9:17 pm Post subject:
Poured over.

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