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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!
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And a short film, here:
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!