Winter is here folks.. yes.. indeedy.. and when she saw a photograph of Frittenden, a pretty village in Kent, which experienced one night last week with the frosty temperature of -5 degrees centigrade, she thought to herself and said to me "that's a bit chilly-billy, isn't it?
We hope that you are well prepared with a good stock of 'proper' food in your store cupboard and frosty-cabinet, aka freezer, with plenty of winter vegetables being stored properly in a cool but dry dark place.
She noticed recently, to her dismay, that the 50 bag box of Lapsang Souchong, our most favourite tea bag tea has disappeared.. gulp.. and in its' place is a little 20 bag box of individually wrapped bags, however, the bags are smaller and the taste is different.
She patrolled all the usual suspects to try to find any of the larger old style boxes.. nope.. none to be had. Yesterday she telephoned Twinings and spoke to a charming woman who said "yes, we have discontinued that box size but there are a few left for sale on our online shop, they are closed now but I will get someone to call you tomorrow morning".
But she wouldn't wait for that to happen and so this morning, as she slurped her first cup of the day, she redialled the Twinings number pressing Option 2 for their Online Shop.
And spoke to a charming man who verified that there were, indeed, some of the original style boxes still available, how many would she like?
The deal was done.. yippee.. no, I am not about to tell you how many boxes she bought but it should keep us both happy for several years!
With that detail taken care of, I thought I should tell you about an extremely fine stew we had for supper last night.
It has its' origins from one of the BBC channels, we were being snug as bugs in our cosy bed one night waiting for another programme when she saw that Mary Berry was going to be doing winter food not cakes.
Yum.. she thought.. she has a dear friend called Gretchen Misick who is an old friend of Mrs. Berry and swears by her winter food recipes.
I think she demonstrated five dishes but the one that grabbed her attention was the Beef and Horseradish Stew.
Go to www.bbc.co.uk and look for Mary Berry's recipes for Christmas.
She made it yesterday having bought from Messrs Dickinsons a kilo of their excellent stewing steak, everything else she had at home, hot horseradish, worcester sauce, onions, garlic she used fino sherry instead of white wine.
And cooked it on top of the stove for about three hours, we had it with mashed potato and broccoli and,
So as far as we are concerned in this house.. Twinings make very fine tea and Mary Berry may make very fine cakes but her stew was absolutely.. yes.. you most certainly know that I am a bird of habit and so you can say it with me now..
Scrummydumptious..
And I know that a not-so-small bowl of it is going in the thermos to work with her today.
Now it is the time to eat buttered eggs and rye bread and to flap a wing and start our day.. pippip Dear Readers.
GeeGee Parrot.
December 17th, 2014.
We hope that you are well prepared with a good stock of 'proper' food in your store cupboard and frosty-cabinet, aka freezer, with plenty of winter vegetables being stored properly in a cool but dry dark place.
She noticed recently, to her dismay, that the 50 bag box of Lapsang Souchong, our most favourite tea bag tea has disappeared.. gulp.. and in its' place is a little 20 bag box of individually wrapped bags, however, the bags are smaller and the taste is different.
She patrolled all the usual suspects to try to find any of the larger old style boxes.. nope.. none to be had. Yesterday she telephoned Twinings and spoke to a charming woman who said "yes, we have discontinued that box size but there are a few left for sale on our online shop, they are closed now but I will get someone to call you tomorrow morning".
But she wouldn't wait for that to happen and so this morning, as she slurped her first cup of the day, she redialled the Twinings number pressing Option 2 for their Online Shop.
And spoke to a charming man who verified that there were, indeed, some of the original style boxes still available, how many would she like?
The deal was done.. yippee.. no, I am not about to tell you how many boxes she bought but it should keep us both happy for several years!
With that detail taken care of, I thought I should tell you about an extremely fine stew we had for supper last night.
It has its' origins from one of the BBC channels, we were being snug as bugs in our cosy bed one night waiting for another programme when she saw that Mary Berry was going to be doing winter food not cakes.
Yum.. she thought.. she has a dear friend called Gretchen Misick who is an old friend of Mrs. Berry and swears by her winter food recipes.
I think she demonstrated five dishes but the one that grabbed her attention was the Beef and Horseradish Stew.
Go to www.bbc.co.uk and look for Mary Berry's recipes for Christmas.
She made it yesterday having bought from Messrs Dickinsons a kilo of their excellent stewing steak, everything else she had at home, hot horseradish, worcester sauce, onions, garlic she used fino sherry instead of white wine.
And cooked it on top of the stove for about three hours, we had it with mashed potato and broccoli and,
So as far as we are concerned in this house.. Twinings make very fine tea and Mary Berry may make very fine cakes but her stew was absolutely.. yes.. you most certainly know that I am a bird of habit and so you can say it with me now..
Scrummydumptious..
And I know that a not-so-small bowl of it is going in the thermos to work with her today.
Now it is the time to eat buttered eggs and rye bread and to flap a wing and start our day.. pippip Dear Readers.
GeeGee Parrot.
December 17th, 2014.
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