Food, glorious Food

[lisa jones]

I cooked up an awesome roast chook and veges for the family this evening. Again .. something easy to prepare and of course yummy.

[lisa jones]

I've got a roast lamb and vege dinner lined up for the family for tomorrow night. Again .. something easy, tasty, warm and yummy for a typical cold winter's night.

[Aussie]

I hate, detest and despise with an unimaginable and unbridled passion, carving lamb. Greasy mess. I love eating roast lamb. There is a dilemma.

[lisa jones]

I hate, detest and despise with an unimaginable and unbridled passion, carving lamb. Greasy mess. I love eating roast lamb. There is a dilemma.

There is nothing more tasty than a slow roasted, well marinaded Greek style lamb roast.

The lamb gently falls off the bone because it's so tender. I never bring the lamb roast to the dinner table to be cut. I gently cut the meat up as it's sitting on a large platter on my kitchen preparation bench and I serve the lamb roast already cut up into large chunks on the platter. There's no mess .. and no left overs either.

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Poor little lambs. How can people not think of them gambolling innocently in the fields when they eat lamb?

[Jovial Monk]

I think that if it wasn’t for people eating mutton there would be no lambs gambolling anywhere.

[lisa jones]

We had dinner over at Mum's this evening. I was just too tired after a very busy end of month/end of financial yr accounting period at the office.

Thank heavens for Mums. Tis such a pity I live so far away from her these days.

[Jovial Monk]

I want to make an apple pie this weekend, making the pastry myself.

Anyone have a recipe? Never made apple pie before!

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Well, i've done it several times. Must be a recipe on the net- i haven't got one at the moment. You stew lightly the apples with cinnamon and mixed spice and maybe a couple fo cloves. You make a wholemeal shortcrust pastry. You bake the pie and serve it with whipped cream.

You can also make a delicious apple pie/cake which i believe is dutch which has a kind of shortbread base and middle and top and sliced apples sprinkled with spices and sugar in a couple of thick layers. Recipes for dutch apple cake on th enet seem to have quite a wide range of cake sin mind- btu the one i describe is very tasty

[Jovial Monk]

Yup, have found a recipe for apple pie and one for shortcrust pastry on the net. Mrs Beeton also has several. Will spice the applemass more than you describe tho, lover the spice I do!

Mum makes that appeltaart, ele, for when we have a big extended-family gathering.

I am sitting here coring and cutting up grannies ( ) for another batch applebutter.