Whey is a by-product of cheese making and it's not to be thrown away unless you're a very silly-billy! She makes Labneh (aka Lebanese cheese) every week and as there are times when she hasn't got that fresh raw goaty milk, she uses a shop bought yoghurt called 'Lancashire Yoghurt - Greek style'.
This particular yoghurt is extremely good value for two tubs of 500g (1000g) makes about 980g of labneh and it's quicker to drain because the yoghurt is denser than the one in the paler blue pot, there's much less whey in Greek style yoghurt.
We have a secret passion.. roasted gammon hock! After eating the meat you have the skinny bones which she puts into one of her big stock pots (with other hock bones that she has kept in the freezer) with lots of root vegetables, onions, garlic and herbs and seasoning.
Hubble-Bubbled for several hours over a medium heat it produces a wonderful liquid, which you could use as stock but we prefer as a thick soup with the softened vegetables mashed up and just before she ladles it out, in goes the whey!
So if you make labneh.. keep your whey and use it for : making Bread, Soup and Stock.
Waste not.. Want not.
Rain is tipping down here in deepest Knightsbridge! We're at home, she food shopped on Thursday, so we want for nothing. There's a slice of Skirt aka Flank or Bavette steak sitting on the work surface with herbs rubbed on to it for an early supper, which we will eat with together pumpkin with garlic, ginger and nutmeg which she made yesterday, Beaky had many slurps of that last night. Yum! Delicious!
The weather forecast for tomorrow is for cloud with sunshine and a bright, clear and sunny day on Monday with rain due on Tuesday, that suits her well, as does this rain. For it will help rot down the copious amounts of horse manure she spread over the beds last weekend and Mr. & Mrs. Worm will be extremely happy to have such a snuggly bed for the winter!
Tomorrow and Monday she'll: finish loading manure onto the beds, plant copious amounts of garlic, complete the apple and pear tree pruning and plant lots of different varieties of tulips in the back bed, she's planning to have delphiniums and hollyhocks at the back of this bed which is the back border of the terrace.
Our Lebanese friend has called, she, too, is having an at home day, yes, it's really miserably cold and wet but they've made plans to meet on Friday. We're sorry for Corinne having to be out in the rain, she's on duty at her youngest son's rugby training, we're also sorry for her husband, whose new motor bike was stolen from outside Waitrose in Chiswick last night at 7pm! Sadly, he didn't have a tracking device on it. Corinne has immediately booked an appointment with her garage to have a tracker fitted to her scooter!
That's our news.. all is well and we hope that it us with you too.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 4th, 2017.
PostScript: We have just had a call from a happy Corinne, her husband told his Honda garage about his bike being stolen and they said "walk the streets to look for it, it's a very heavy bike to push, they will have broken the steering as it was locked and they'll have left it locally until they get a trailer for it.
So he got up reallyreally early this morning and well.. LookieLookie what he found! There was his
motor bike, tucked away down a quiet cul-de-sac and only five streets away from his home! Needless to say it's now at Honda being repaired and with a tracker being fitted.
This particular yoghurt is extremely good value for two tubs of 500g (1000g) makes about 980g of labneh and it's quicker to drain because the yoghurt is denser than the one in the paler blue pot, there's much less whey in Greek style yoghurt.
We have a secret passion.. roasted gammon hock! After eating the meat you have the skinny bones which she puts into one of her big stock pots (with other hock bones that she has kept in the freezer) with lots of root vegetables, onions, garlic and herbs and seasoning.
Hubble-Bubbled for several hours over a medium heat it produces a wonderful liquid, which you could use as stock but we prefer as a thick soup with the softened vegetables mashed up and just before she ladles it out, in goes the whey!
So if you make labneh.. keep your whey and use it for : making Bread, Soup and Stock.
Waste not.. Want not.
Rain is tipping down here in deepest Knightsbridge! We're at home, she food shopped on Thursday, so we want for nothing. There's a slice of Skirt aka Flank or Bavette steak sitting on the work surface with herbs rubbed on to it for an early supper, which we will eat with together pumpkin with garlic, ginger and nutmeg which she made yesterday, Beaky had many slurps of that last night. Yum! Delicious!
The weather forecast for tomorrow is for cloud with sunshine and a bright, clear and sunny day on Monday with rain due on Tuesday, that suits her well, as does this rain. For it will help rot down the copious amounts of horse manure she spread over the beds last weekend and Mr. & Mrs. Worm will be extremely happy to have such a snuggly bed for the winter!
Tomorrow and Monday she'll: finish loading manure onto the beds, plant copious amounts of garlic, complete the apple and pear tree pruning and plant lots of different varieties of tulips in the back bed, she's planning to have delphiniums and hollyhocks at the back of this bed which is the back border of the terrace.
Our Lebanese friend has called, she, too, is having an at home day, yes, it's really miserably cold and wet but they've made plans to meet on Friday. We're sorry for Corinne having to be out in the rain, she's on duty at her youngest son's rugby training, we're also sorry for her husband, whose new motor bike was stolen from outside Waitrose in Chiswick last night at 7pm! Sadly, he didn't have a tracking device on it. Corinne has immediately booked an appointment with her garage to have a tracker fitted to her scooter!
That's our news.. all is well and we hope that it us with you too.
GeeGee Parrot.
November 4th, 2017.
PostScript: We have just had a call from a happy Corinne, her husband told his Honda garage about his bike being stolen and they said "walk the streets to look for it, it's a very heavy bike to push, they will have broken the steering as it was locked and they'll have left it locally until they get a trailer for it.
So he got up reallyreally early this morning and well.. LookieLookie what he found! There was his
motor bike, tucked away down a quiet cul-de-sac and only five streets away from his home! Needless to say it's now at Honda being repaired and with a tracker being fitted.
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