not the best of starts

[brokenblossom]

Well, October's been rubbish so far.

Last Sunday I cooked a proper Sunday dinner - roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, roast potatoes and parsnips, with broccoli, cauliflower, leeks and carrots. And gravy.1 It was pretty darn good, even if I do say so myself.

Today I've eaten a Scotch egg and a bowl of peas.

1 Though unfortunately it was fake

Comments

[shepline]

Eeek! I seem to be a week behind you! Does this not bode well?

Yesterday I had roast beef, honey roasted parsnips and carrots, potatoes, and beans and sprouts with gravy (and yes I went for the granule sort too so don't feel too bad - but I did put it in a jug and passed it to myself!) ;-)

Today I had the (now once more traditional) Sunday Night Pizza (homemade naturally)...

[brokenblossom]

Yum, you're making me hungry now - yay for sprouts coming back into season! I do love winter vegetables. Perhaps my gravy would have seemed more valid if I'd made it in a jug instead of a mug... (the jug had already been requisitioned by the Yorkshire pud batter)

Does the Sunday Night Pizza have a traditional topping as standard, or does it vary according to Sunday night?

[shepline]

Sunday Night Pizza is traditionally ham, mushroom and pineapple with fresh oregano from the garden sprinkled over the top. Recently though I have take to layering fresh rocquet on top of the tomato base.

Yum! :-)

[brokenblossom]

Sunday Night Pizza is traditionally ham, mushroom and pineapple

Ooooohhh, verily my favouritest pizza topping of them all!! Remind me to pop round one Sunday night, won't you? ;-)

[beingjdc]

Granule gravy is fine, I think (but then as a veggie I'd better be used to it by now). Making it with the water from the vegetable pan was the tasty trick I learnt from my grandmother.

[brokenblossom]

Yes, always with the water from the vegetable pan. Yum yum. The veggie gravy on which I was brought up tended to be a product of cornflour and stock (and/or a stock cube), and with the addition of the vegetable cooking water could result in such delights as purple gravy, when red cabbage was on the menu.

That reminds me

[bloodflowerbill]

I once went to a Yorkshire pudding restaraunt in York, many moons ago. You could even get Yorkshire pudding and ice cream which sounds weird:/

I hope October improves for you soon! It hasn't started very well for me either, rain, and family troubles, a great Sunday do not make.

We should do that outing sometime, whenever you feel like it really?! xx

[brokenblossom]

I've heard tell (from derekthelamb, I think) of Yorkshire folks eating their puddings with jam or golden syrup. It doesn't seem so odd if you remember that the batter for Yorkshire pud is pretty much the same as that for pancakes, but still... I don't think it'd be my preferred way of eating them 0_o

Thanks, you too. It's sunny at the moment - fingers crossed...

Yes, indeed. Any ideas? xxx

Yep

[bloodflowerbill]

Pictures if you fancy it, sometime this week?I can't next week as I'm away visiting my new baby cousin and promoting!Take care x x

[brokenblossom]

Would you fancy doing an Orange Wednesday tomorrow afternoon? I've got the text message ticket for it anyway!

Could only really be tomorrow afternoon I think - I might be busy in the evening (might be starting a yoga class, still undecided tho), and have a counselling appt Thursday afternoon and dressmaking class on Thursday evening! Oh my hectic schedule... Then I'm probably going to visit my Mum on the weekend which rules that out. Sorry to be so specific! :-/

Is there anything you fancy seeing particularly? I know I'd like to see Little Miss Sunshine, and also Clerks 2 - but I should probably give the original Clerks a rewatch first, as I've only seen it once, many moons ago, and probably either drunk or half asleep... Any other ideas? xxx

[bluebellrock]

I got such a shock the first time I ate Yorkshire pudding. I sort of don't get it. "Ooh, extra carbohydrates with a puff of air in it!" :D

I make myself real gravy 'cos I love it so much, but I don't bother with a gravy boat. I just ladel (ladle?) it onto my plate from the pan I cooked it in. Stays hotter!

I hope October improves for you too. You deserve a break already.

xxx

[brokenblossom]

I was 17 before I first tried Yorkshire pudding (in Yorkshire, happily enough), and I'm still not sure I get it to be honest. I wouldn't bother making it just for me, I don't think, but its fans tend to be so possessed of so great an ardour for it, that it's a pleasure in itself to make it for 'em.

I don't have a gravy boat, but I'd like one. I do have a ladle, and I like it. Even though I always instinctively try to spell it ladel.

Thank you - how's your October been so far?

xxx

[bluebellrock]

Y'know, I knew 'ladle' looked better as soon as I typed it, but I really wanted it to be 'ladel'. Wassupwiddat? It sounds European, like 'yodel', is all I can think... Drives me nuts when people write 'sandle' for 'sandal', however. :0

My October has been thus far uneventful, but otherwise OK. This is how I wish my whole life was. Boring. But not bad. :D

[ersatz_life]

wow!

i've only had yorkshire pudding once (at a friend's family's christmas dinner where they said they were serving "roast beast" which was cute.)

anyway, it was damn good.

did you make that all for yourself, or did you share it with your boy?

personally, i think gravy is one of the best things ever invented and i make it and just put it on everything. i know, not healthy, but hey. gravy makes me do the homer simpson drool.

what's a scotch egg? (pardon my ignorance)

[brokenblossom]

Roast beast!!

I made the gravy just for myself, the rest I shared with the boy (a gravy hater). It's so much more satisfying cooking for more than just yourself.

I have gravy at every possible opportunity, healthy be damned. So many ways to love gravy. Dunking bread in left over gravy - mmmm...

A Scotch egg is a shelled hard boiled egg, wrapped inside a ball of sausage meat, with an outer coating of breadcrumbs. Though they're cooked by being deep fried, they tend to be eaten cold, and aren't greasy or anything like chips/fries can be. They'd usually be eaten as part of a picnic or a buffet, and kind of belong to the sausage roll/Cornish pasty family of cold, self-contained savouries. Can be bought pretty cheaply from supermarkets here, individually wrapped, alongside the sausage rolls, pasties and pre-packed sandwiches, as was mine yesterday - I'm sure they're much nicer cooked fresh, though. Here's a handy recipe!