We went out to lunch yesterday and took a spiced orange cake with us. We ate potted shrimp, have you ever made them? They were brought by one of the other guests and were delicious. Next came roast pork, yes, there was crackling, with delicious vegetables, roast potatoes for the other guests and mashed sweet potatoes for us. Then our cake with Mackie's vanilla ice cream.
Two guests said "no, thank you" until our host said "Yes you can eat this, I asked her to make this especially because it's both dairy and gluten free", well, that was the end of that cake, it disappeared in a flash for everyone had a second slice! And two of the guests asked her for the recipe of the cake so she directed them to my blog as she said "you'll find it there".
It was a happy meal and not a strain on our host, have you ever thought of doing a lunch like this, it makes sense for the host to do the heavier or hot dish so it doesn't have to travel but actually, if it was a casserole done in a slow cooker for instance it could travel quite happily but it would be quite heavy.
The potted shrimps were scrummydumptious! Little brown shrimps, traditionally caught from the coast of Lancashire, they are also called Morecombe Bay Shrimp. There's a company called Baxters who have been potting them, in clarified butter, for a very long time and very good they are too! Ask your fishmonger if he can get you some as we will be posting the recipe, they're easy to make.
It was a bright sunny day but chilly. A clear sky meant no cloud cover and Jack Frost had visited in the early hours of the morning but after lunch, they went out into the garden to look at the camellias and a crazy, absolutely daft narcissi that has decided to bloom and then we walked home after staying for a cup of tea and wanted for nothing.
But our host had slipped a little surprise in to her basket, for when she went to put her cake box away, she found a package of roast pork together with a jam jar of his excellent home made apple sauce!
We watched television and had an early night.. and one the television programmes we watched 'Who do you think you are?' was extraordinary, the subject of the programme, Frank Gardiner, had always been told by his mother, whose side of the family tree he was tracing, that they had come over to England with William the Conqueror.
And through very exact records, he found that she was correct but it was a bit 'more' than that, for, yes, the ancestor had come over with the Norman invasion of 1066, because it was William himself who was his ancestor! What a turn-up for the research teams!
I don't know the names of my ancestors, it doesn't bother me in the slightest for I care about things of today, like a warm place to perch, a thermos of LapySang tea and her.. aka my mum. Chirp.. she plans to go the allotment today, I'm not going, we have already ascertained that it's veryvery cold out there.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 25th, 2017.
Two guests said "no, thank you" until our host said "Yes you can eat this, I asked her to make this especially because it's both dairy and gluten free", well, that was the end of that cake, it disappeared in a flash for everyone had a second slice! And two of the guests asked her for the recipe of the cake so she directed them to my blog as she said "you'll find it there".
It was a happy meal and not a strain on our host, have you ever thought of doing a lunch like this, it makes sense for the host to do the heavier or hot dish so it doesn't have to travel but actually, if it was a casserole done in a slow cooker for instance it could travel quite happily but it would be quite heavy.
The potted shrimps were scrummydumptious! Little brown shrimps, traditionally caught from the coast of Lancashire, they are also called Morecombe Bay Shrimp. There's a company called Baxters who have been potting them, in clarified butter, for a very long time and very good they are too! Ask your fishmonger if he can get you some as we will be posting the recipe, they're easy to make.
It was a bright sunny day but chilly. A clear sky meant no cloud cover and Jack Frost had visited in the early hours of the morning but after lunch, they went out into the garden to look at the camellias and a crazy, absolutely daft narcissi that has decided to bloom and then we walked home after staying for a cup of tea and wanted for nothing.
But our host had slipped a little surprise in to her basket, for when she went to put her cake box away, she found a package of roast pork together with a jam jar of his excellent home made apple sauce!
We watched television and had an early night.. and one the television programmes we watched 'Who do you think you are?' was extraordinary, the subject of the programme, Frank Gardiner, had always been told by his mother, whose side of the family tree he was tracing, that they had come over to England with William the Conqueror.
And through very exact records, he found that she was correct but it was a bit 'more' than that, for, yes, the ancestor had come over with the Norman invasion of 1066, because it was William himself who was his ancestor! What a turn-up for the research teams!
I don't know the names of my ancestors, it doesn't bother me in the slightest for I care about things of today, like a warm place to perch, a thermos of LapySang tea and her.. aka my mum. Chirp.. she plans to go the allotment today, I'm not going, we have already ascertained that it's veryvery cold out there.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 25th, 2017.
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