Good morning from a cold Jersey. Leaving shortly for the airport to go and visit jerzeypie for the weekend.
What do your French friends think of toad in the hole? I can imagine it could be met with bewilderment!
One of our son in laws had never experienced toad in the hole but it is now a favourite of his. As we are on recipies though how about this one that is something my mum used to cook. We called it Beans in Meat (inventive title eh?) It was simply a casserole of minced steak, onions, carrot sliced into circles and a small tin of baked beans. Does not sound much but it was very tasty. However this was going back to the 50s and 60s so Rick Stein etc had not been invented !!
Now don't pretend you do not understand Mister Super Horns - you are two months older than me. Dripping was far nicer on toast and beef dripping much better than pork. Oh dear the youngsters are going to be left floundering by this
My mother used to have a ceramic jar where she would put the beef fat to solidify so that we could toast a slice of bread in front of the fire, then spread dripping and even some Marmite on it. When I was at school we had a metal work project to make a toasting fork. Mine didn't look too bad and still hangs up in the fireplace. We had a better one at home though that would extend to double the closed length so that you didn't scorch your hand.
i was rather shocked to see this week that both Marmite and now Bovril are owned by the same company . A bit like Pepsi and Coke.....
Especially as marmite is disgusting veggie nonsense and bovril is an elixir of the Gods I didn't know pepsi and coke were owned by the same company
As I am taking things nice and easy after yesterdays work, I have been catching up with some of the things that were of interest when I lived in England. In Banbury another shopping centre has opened and the car park is not large enough for everyone who wants to go there. Part of the problem seems to be that people who work in town park their cars there and catch the shuttle bus to and back from their places of work, so avoiding parking charges. Similar problems exist around the station where people block up side streets to avoid the charges in the official car park. Parking charges are rare here, but where they do exist they are very reasonable. Is it time for the parking tax in the UK to be abolished?
The Marmite in NZ is awful compared to the British stuff. It has sugar in it! There was panic buying of the stuff after the Christchurch earthquake, as the factory that produces it collapsed. Vegemite is better than NZ marmite but the original British version is better than either of them. It's a shame BB has left us. I would be interested to hear his comments.
