I made a 100 mince pies for the Dorset County Museum meeting on Wednesday. I had hoped to bring a few home but no, they all got eaten. Today I supplied a buffet lunch for 35 members of the geology group, starting with tomato soup and finishing with Christmas cake. There's about enough left for lunch tomorrow.
I mash swede with butter and black pepper (neeps) and sometimes with either carrot or potato added. Sometimes use all three as a crust on a cottage pie
Would you like to get un- stuffed Dove and tell me how you combine Potato and turnip, please, .........
As Dorset Uk has said, peel and cut up potato and swede into chunks and simmer until tender. Drain and mash with lots of butter and black pepper - seemples!
I'm a southerner (with some Scottish connections/ancestry) so although I know that they're turnips (neeps) when they're north of the border, I also know that they're swedes when they're down here and those tender little white and purple things are something else and do not go in Clapshot.
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
No, I'm afraid they will be on someone's dinner plate pretty soon. The police asked us yesterday to check our roadside CCTV to see if there was any evidence but, of course, at night a car is just a couple of bright lights. We sat for ages going through the recording but saw nothing during the daytime and at night nothing except the occasional fox.
They were lovely animals. As you say, full of charcter, very friendly, very intelligent. I knew that they would be going to their maker pretty soon, but the idea of them being maltreated is just awful.
Just to ask people not to buy meat from someone offering a bargain.
Apophthegm - a big word for a small thought. If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
B*****ds!!! And actually not a lot of meat on a Herdwick anyway - quite a small carcase.
We only ever buy meat from the farm shop where OH works, or from reputable local butchers - I'd never ever buy meat from the back of a van or a car boot sale or someone who goes door to door I'd rather be vegetarian - and that's saying something!!!
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
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What a lovely clean cooker you have, Tootles.
I made 112 mince pies today, 100 are for Carol Service. Can't buy mince pies or mincemeat in France.
I made a 100 mince pies for the Dorset County Museum meeting on Wednesday. I had hoped to bring a few home but no, they all got eaten. Today I supplied a buffet lunch for 35 members of the geology group, starting with tomato soup and finishing with Christmas cake. There's about enough left for lunch tomorrow.
I mash swede with butter and black pepper (neeps) and sometimes with either carrot or potato added. Sometimes use all three as a crust on a cottage pie
As Dorset Uk has said, peel and cut up potato and swede into chunks and simmer until tender. Drain and mash with lots of butter and black pepper - seemples!
I'm a southerner (with some Scottish connections/ancestry) so although I know that they're turnips (neeps) when they're north of the border, I also know that they're swedes when they're down here and those tender little white and purple things are something else and do not go in Clapshot.
To all of you who are looking forward to some lamb - do you know where it came from originally?
20 Herdwick sheep have disappeared from the field by our house overnight. Nothing seen, nothing heard (herd?)
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
Do you mean they've been rustled??? If so that's awful Pansyface - are you sure they're not eating someone's garden or allotment?
Apart from the fact that sheepstealing is wrong (used to carry the death penalty didn't it?) Herdwicks are a rare breed!
Also, in my experience a rather independently-minded variety not easily 'herded' by the inexperienced!!!
I hope there's a sensible explanation for their disappearance and that they've not been rustled and destined for the black market
No, I'm afraid they will be on someone's dinner plate pretty soon. The police asked us yesterday to check our roadside CCTV to see if there was any evidence but, of course, at night a car is just a couple of bright lights. We sat for ages going through the recording but saw nothing during the daytime and at night nothing except the occasional fox.
They were lovely animals. As you say, full of charcter, very friendly, very intelligent. I knew that they would be going to their maker pretty soon, but the idea of them being maltreated is just awful.
Just to ask people not to buy meat from someone offering a bargain.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
B*****ds!!! And actually not a lot of meat on a Herdwick anyway - quite a small carcase.
We only ever buy meat from the farm shop where OH works, or from reputable local butchers - I'd never ever buy meat from the back of a van or a car boot sale or someone who goes door to door
I'd rather be vegetarian - and that's saying something!!!
Made a chocolate and banana cake Friday. Half has gone to my father in law and the rest will be gone by tomorrow.
Dove is that butchers out on the fens? I remember my inlaws taking me to one when I was expecting my first. And the meat was good.
B*****ds is not strong enough, words never are.