Wot's for Tea, Ma?

[Karearea]

Who or What is RB and YP

Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddin'

[Wodrick]

Simple when you know, thanks.

[Hydromet]

Sunny with a bit of cloud here, currently 10c, forecast max 19c. A little rain forecast tonight.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Who or What is RB and YP

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is one of the few things I actually miss about the UK....

[G-CPTN]

Yesterday's lunch was RB & YP.

Meat was extremely tender, (like lamb) and the Yorkshires were huge and crispy on the outside and just a little chewy in the middle.

Will that do for nostalgia, Mrs Ex-Ascot?

[Karearea]

For lunch: living off the land, or at least bought at supermarket delicatessen - a baked potato stuffed with cheese, chopped ham, and pineapple, and served with some smoked salmon pâté for a treat.
To be followed by a fresh Satsuma mandarin and some black grapes.

[Hydromet]

On Saturday Mrs. Hydro cooked a meal of pasta with onions, potato, sweet potato (home grown), various herbs & mushrooms with cream & topped with salmon slices and camembert. Had more for dinner yesterday, and am having more for lunch today. Enough has been frozen for another meal for the two of us.

[Karearea]

A pork steak, casseroled tenderly for an hour with a sliced Granny Smith apple, a sliced onion, a pinch of dried sage and a tablespoon of water to start the steam; served with peas/corn/baby beans mix.
Smelled most sentimental on a cold foggy evening.

[Karearea]

Lunch: just returned from some errands.
Haven't had takeaways for some time, and "Friday's fish", so ordered a piece of fish and a couple of mussels.
The fish fillet was on the large side, I et only half of it, and the man gave me three mussels, not two, so that may be tomorrow's rations sorted as well.
Very tasty.

[Hydromet]

You can't beat having a good fish shop locally. Now you have me trying to decide whether to get a burger with the lo, as planned, or drive a little further for fish + salad + chips.

Think I'll go for the burger, but I'm tempted by the fish.

[Karearea]

Lunch: chicken livers again, devilled this time on a chilly day, ingredients from 1930s Cassells Modern Practical Cookery: a teaspoonful of curry powder, a dessertspoonful each of tomato sauce, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, American mustard, and ground almonds to thicken.
Lemon fresh-picked from own tree.
Added a little chopped onion. A few flakes of Maldon salt but it really didn't need any.

A Satsuma mandarin to follow, consumed while staring out the south-facing kitchen window at the weather as I waited for the electric jug to boil;

a cup of coffee made from a Robert Timms Mocha Kenya coffee-bag, with milk and cream.

[Rossian]

Mornin' K. Is there a difference between an "electric jug" and a kettle? Only because I'm curious and it is a dank wet morning in this neck of the woods. And I haven't my breakfast yet.

The Ancient Mariner

[Karearea]

Mornin' K. Is there a difference between an "electric jug" and a kettle? Only because I'm curious and it is a dank wet morning in this neck of the woods. And I haven't my breakfast yet.

The Ancient Mariner

Good morning to you

Jugs is jug-shaped, thus: 'Zip' Electric Jug - Museum of NZ

Upright, with a handle at the side. These days available in plastic and glass and probably other shapes as well.

I see this company calls 'em all kettles though!

Briscoes: Kitchen appliances/kettles [and jugs]

I've never used a "kettle". Don't even think I've seen one in anyone's home.

[G-CPTN]

I've never used a "kettle". Don't even think I've seen one in anyone's home.

You obviously didn't grow up in a home with a coal-fired 'range' where a kettle was a kettle without electric power. The kettle went straight on top of the coals or on a metal grid to hold it square and steady.
Mainland Britain 1955 . . . (thereafter we moved to a new-build house with a gas cooker and hob - the old enamel kettle was replaced by a stainless steel one, but still the same principle as before).

[EA01]

In light of my recent blood tests.....salad & Salmon are the order of the day.....

[Rossian]

....looking at the Briscoes site, that's what we call a kettle. When we lived in Italy with a gas stove we had a whistling kettle on top. The house had only 3KW electric power total and that's what my current kettle uses on it's own. We learned to live with it.

The Ancient Mariner

[Hydromet]

When I was a kid my aunt & uncle had a farm with a primitive (hessian walls lined with newspaper) house on it. There was always a fire going in the kitchen with a large iron kettle hanging over it.

[EA01]

Tonight's dinner is another glass of 'Cholera' in preparation for tomorrows endoscopy......colonoscopy....

[Karearea]

For lunch on this cold grey day: Red Lentil Soup, from Kitchen Pharmacy: A Book of Healing Remedies for Everyone, by Rose Elliot and Carlo De Paoli.

original recipe:
Heat 1Tbs. olive oil in large saucepan, fry 2 chopped onions for 5 minutes.
Add 2 peeled sliced carrots, cook for a few seconds, then add 8oz red lentils and 1 litre water.
Cover, bring to boil, and simmer 20 minutes.
Add 2 peeled garlic cloves (optional), liquidise, re-heat, season with salt and pepper.

- I have been known to take an onion, a carrot, and the lentils with me to Auckland and prepare this soup in the motel which has cooking facilities: means I have a tasty and familiar meal ready within half an hour of arrival without going out to buy provisions. I grate the carrot, and the lentils cook down to mush anyway so don't need to liquidise.

[Karearea]

Lunched on some tepid coffee, and scorching-hot pumpkin soup with ground pepper not optional but obligatory. Declined toast but it came anyway so I added the butter to the soup. $19.40.

Now having "tortellini filled with spinach & ricotta, served with creamy pesto & semi dried tomatoes". Thank you, microwave