Food, glorious Food

[Leftwinger]

LEFTY'S HOT CUCUMBER AND YOGHURT SOUP
*was originally Stephanie Alexander's cold cucumber soup but didn't have a couple of ingredients and had to improvise

1 small onion, finely copped
2 tblsp EVOO
2 long cucumbers
1 cup chopped fresh dill
800 ml chicken stock
1 cup Greek yoghurt
3 egg yolks
grated zest of 1 lemon
salt and cracked black pepper to taste

Gently saute' onion in EVOO. Peel, seed and grate* cucumbers. Add cucuumber and dill to onion and simmer for 5 minutes. Add stock, bring to the boil then reduce heat to very low simmer after adding salt and pepper. Then blend in a food processor until smooth.

Whisk yoghurt with egg yolks. Stir 1 cup of hot soup into yoghurt-egg mixture (to make it earier to pour out) and return it to the main quantity. Add lemon zest and adjust seasoning.


A different, slightly tangy flavour but a pleasant hot soup nonetheless. If it had garlic, you could almost call it tzatziki soup. I'll be making this again

*grate the cucumber over a bowl, not on a chopping board like I did at first. Cucumber is extremely water-rich. Grating it on a flat board = a small quantity of pulp and a large pool of juice running over the bench and onto the kitchen floor.

[Jovial Monk]

Nice!

I lot of that pesto is in icecube trays in my chest freezer!

In the scullery the apple puree is cooking down to the right consistency and the water bath with jars in it is coming to a boil, one batch apple butter nearly done! The grannies were so sweet I didn’t need to add sugar—must have been the long slow ripening in this cool summer. The flavor is really nice, tangy apples with the spices in the background.

Rest of basil bushes I will pull out and hang up to dry and get a punnet of leek planted in their place before taking off to Mt Gambier on Friday! Home grown rules!

[Leftwinger]

Gonna have to make some of your apple butter! We never go more than a fortnight without a roast pork, sounds ideal for that. Got addicted to it in Canada. Came home and found the shop bought stuff wasn't as good, though i have to say that as far as shop bought stuff goes it seems better than a lot of pale supermarket imitations.

[Sangster]

Gonna have to make some of your apple butter! We never go more than a fortnight without a roast pork, sounds ideal for that. Got addicted to it in Canada. Came home and found the shop bought stuff wasn't as good, though i have to say that as far as shop bought stuff goes it seems better than a lot of pale supermarket imitations.

Can we see pictures of you BEFORE and AFTER you got to eat so much so often?

[Leftwinger]

IQ is in charge of threads for stupid and pointless comments, go and talk to him.

[Jovial Monk]

Anyone have a great recipe for chocolate mousse?

Have good quality Belgian dark chocolate buttons.

[Jovial Monk]

Spotted Dick will be made and eaten this weekend.

Bought the suet at the market just now—anyone here (without Googling/wiki-ing) know what suet is? Fucking vegenazis have turned everyone on to {gack} tofu.

[Jovial Monk]

Gawd, no one knows suet is the hard fat around a beef or veal kidney???? Really?

anyone know how to clarify it to get rid of the bloody bits?

Wow, don’t they teach home ec in HS anymore??

[Jovial Monk]

This pizza is great!

[lisa jones]

Gawd, no one knows suet is the hard fat around a beef or veal kidney???? Really?

anyone know how to clarify it to get rid of the bloody bits?

Wow, don’t they teach home ec in HS anymore??

Home Economics aka Cooking?

Sheesh .. I was too busy studying advanced maths, physics, chemistry, advanced English, advanced modern history and economics. Good times

Back to the topic .. we enjoyed a scrumptious roast chicken and vegetable dinner this evening. It was soooo tasty!

As a rule .. I always SLOW roast using plenty of European herbs/spices and I cover my deep oven pans/dishes with alfoil so as to seal in all the flavours and juices.

We're having slow roasted lamb shanks and vegetables tomorrow night (cooked the same way). I enjoy cooking easy to prepare Winter dinner roasts. My family love eating them also. So .. it's a win - win situation.