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Not sevruga but lumpfish roe on some buckwheat blinis with crème fraiche.

A cheap but no less delightful snack for the Christmas season.

 

The spoon is made from horn. Metal tends to add a taste to the delicate fish eggs.

For J

Mayo made with immersion blender.

 

How

Get a jar slightly wider than the head of your blender

Load in eggs

Add same volume of olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Your fave mustard. It helps with holding the emulation together

Some balsamic vinegar

Lemon juice maybe

Garlic. Lots.

Insert blender and whizz for 3 or4 minutes

Store in fridge

Eat often!

Blew my socks off.

These hydrangeas are called 'limelight' because of their initial color (similar to the original calcium oxide light discovered by Goldsworthy Gurney) and used in theaters for ages. Theater lights are still often called 'limes' for that reason.

Eventually these flowers will fade to cream, before turning pink in the autumn. Quite a spectacle.

Today's mandatory food shot. Pizza Toscana with Tuscan sausage and birdseye chilies.

Totally different from last year's goulash at home. Good food, company, and fun.

I first had Glühwein at the bottom of a particularly challenging ski slope.

Here is some mulled wine that was a welcome end to an afternoon of hobbling to the shops.

"New Zealand's most modern brewery" it says on the side; apologies, I don't know yet how to selectively highlight that bit.

This was built in 1935 and operated as a brewery until 1955, when it was bought by the New Zealand Musicians' Club.

As a brewery it was operated by the Coutts family, who came from Germany originally. During WW1, the Kuhtze family changed their name to Coutts, having already naturalized. The family's know-how later became a cornerstone of later NZ brewing, by big forms such as DB.

The marketing slogan for Cascade Brewery was "Putting the Happy in Taihape".

with the grandchildren

 

I have been playing Skyrim recently. Walking about is aggravating an injury and I've been told to stay off my feet. It's enormously frustrating.

 

Skyrim is about fighting dragons, bandits, mages and any creature that moves, it seems. You have to develop skills, and one is cooking. There are many options from which to choose. Apple cabbage stew restores health, apparently, so I am making some IRL as they say. Or for real, as I might.

Slightly old milk produce this mad foam. Tasted nice though

Glasgow is not stuck in the past and there are many modern buildings, clinging like limpets to the steep streets.

Making coffee is a great rabbit hole down which to disappear when there's time. Start with some scales to help with consistency.

 

There are 20g of beans in the grinder, ready to provide a light workout for arms and shoulders when I turn the handle.

I picked up this Bialetti Musa coffee maker this week for the price of two flat whites; bargain. I fancied exploring an alternative to my alloy-bodied moka pot and indeed the coffee is different. Slightly less punchy but still a smooth hit of coffee taste. A good start to my day.

 

I read some online reviews that slated this for not making good espresso: moka pots don't make espresso; they extract coffee between 1 and 2 bars of pressure whereas an espresso machine uses a pump to extract at about 9 bar. A completely different result.

 

Online reviews and blogs are only as useful and trustworthy as the knowledge of the people writing them.

 

... of Paulton Hall. Demolished in the 1930s. A park for the local people is infinitely more useful.

I thought I'd give the top a light brush with milk during the end of baking. It's added a bit of shine and glow. I'll reserve the process for special breads for visitors or gifts.

As the water is added I stir the liquor to ensure all the grounds are covered. The CO2 in the grounds is released, forming that nice scummy surface. I set a timer for 5 minutes and leave everything alone.

 

The timer has finished and the croissants are now warm and golden. It's time to stir some more, gently, and plunge the coffee.

First, mash a banana in a bowl.

 

Most people are horrified by how long I keep bananas. But I think they improve with age, up to a point! The one on the left has definitely reached that point; soft, very sweet, at the apogee of its deliciousness. Ready to be mashed.

Tofu, chick peas, in a Jalfrezi sauce. Add pickles and serve on couscous. Nice 👍

Handelsbanken plc is a UK-based bank that appears to be a subsidiary of the better-known Swedish bank. It was interesting to see a branch here in Lancaster. It has the air of a 'private bank' similar to Coutts, but I believe that is not so.

They have a nice building.

The shocking state of the paving slabs is common across the rest of the city, regretably. Here, being on a hill, rainwater tends to run under the slabs, washing away the supporting sand. This leads to general weakening of the pavement/sidewalk and breakage.

I call it lunch. But maybe it has a name.

Sausages

Black eyed beans

Onions

Butternut squash

Tomatoes

Garlic

Herb mix

Baked in the new rubbery baking mold.

Glazed with strawberry jam, coz I could.

45 minutes at 160 deg C

More moist than heretofore.

It'll do.

Soaking new whetstones.

Time to shut the window.

Mister Lincoln, hybrid tea rose.

Just wandering about and this caught my eye.

Sometimes only tea will do.

21 July 1990 - Berlin - where the Wall stood, Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was performed. Cyndi Lauper opened the concert. It was electrifying.

I don't have any pictures from those days, so here's a wall near me now. I'd love to meet the artist.

Today's cooking for 40

What's on special offer today?

Red capsicum

Red onion

Spinach

Garlic

Stir fry veg mix

to which I added

Canned tomatoes

Passata

Veg stock

Cannelini beans

Red kidney beans

Yoghurt, Greek

Farfalle pasta

Balsamic vinegar

 

cook and simmer for 90 minutes

80 pence per serving.

 

only one return..."too many bits".

can't please everyone 👍

Morecambe Bay is a crucial habitat for birds. Clean water supports the shellfish and invertebrates that live in the sand and support bird life.

I think this will make a good marmalade spoon.

It looks suitably grand to celebrate the morning.

The former Williamson Power station, now abandoned and unloved. Too dangerous to demolish safely, apparently. It's been there since 1949. Built to power the industrial estate. Now best known as SupaSkips, the bankrupt recycling company that bought the site.

 

This is a diary picture rather than a 'photograph' but I had fun developing the Raw image, having shot into bright sunshine. Also, shot on the ultra wide setting to get it all into frame. I like the distortion.

Seen today on the window of a local bank. Lynette's window paintings stay for a while, but are not permanent additions, sadly.

 

Today is also the 80th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter. That's worth thinking about for a moment, I'd suggest.

 

www.un.org/en/

 

And a short film, here:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOkMWv5TB0

   

The bees love these. Seen growing over a canal bridge in town.

What's on offer today?

 

Broccoli

Tenderstem broccoli

Onions

Beetroots

Mushrooms

Chick peas

Red lentils

Sweet cabbage

Garlic

 

Sweat each layer

Starting with onions and building up

Add veggie stock

Boil briefly then simmer for 40 minutes

Finish with a cup of balsamic vinegar

Serve

Garnish with mixed cheddar and mozzarella

Seen are the pilae that supported the floor of the Roman bath house. Hot air would be forced through the space.

Lancaster War Memorial. The memorial was designed by Thomas Mawson and Sons and was unveiled on December 3, 1924.

 

I still mourn for my friends killed in Iraq and other places. I've processed the survivor's guilt, but it pops up unexpectedly still.

 

The Garden of Remembrance is a peaceful and well-maintained oasis.

At low tide the sands just go on and on. Birds feed on the creatures living just below the surface. All is well. Until the tide sweeps back in at a surprisingly fast rate. There's even a bore that, when the wind and moon are in the right alignment, can be several meters high.

The danger really is extreme.

I love this handsome tree. you can see that it was cut down once but had regrown from the remaining stump. A real survivor.

My neighbor's cat sometimes goes walkabout but comes back to guard the front door. Here he is today.

Jameson's whiskey is aged for at least 7 years: "Not a drop sold till it's seven years old."

This soup has been in the fridge for almost a week; it's been a busy day so I was hungry (again!). The last portion of tomato soup looked a bit dull, so I dropped a handful of spinach leaves in with the soup when I heated it up. Finished with a good grating of old 'mousetrap' cheese, a hefty dollop of homemade yogurt, lemon juice, and a few twists of black pepper.

It was 'proper reet good' as we say here!

The new student accommodations - studio apartments - are built on the site of where sails for ships were made.

 

Rents are at full commercial rates, contributing to the big student loans that most students take out. Higher education is a big business.

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