Lockdown cauliflower cheese
This is a simple recipe that you can adapt as much as you like. Winter-warming and good for lockdown days.
Category: Food & Drink
Our mam’s recipe: when it’s scone it’s scone
After a hike through a biting north wind, eat your scone hot and soaked in butter and topped with raspberry jam. Wash it down with a few cups of your favourite tea, as you watch a winter afternoon fade into dark.
Spanish grapes and Big Ben bongs
The North East is a melting pot and no amount of British nationalism can erase that. The Big Ben Bongs at 11 pm on December 31 to herald Britain’s freedom from the EU signify nothing other than blatant English nationalism. This will be a date in which I lose part of me, detached without will; it’s not a new year heralding something new, it’s a death. The death of the future I had planned for myself, right up to retirement. It’s out of my control, a sort of prison without visible bars.
Our mam’s recipes
It was a huge steaming rectangle, not the small buns of the Godless South, that she’d cut into wedges and we’d smother in thick gravy. Only after we’d polished off the pud would come the roast.
Getting into the community spirit in Byker
This is a truly community effort and the team hopes to bring some light and love in this difficult year and really make a difference in Christmas 2020.
Christmas biscotti
Once, in a fit of Christmas enthusiasm, we experimented with three days of exclusive holiday dining on red and green meals. Lobster, an obvious choice, was behind an unassailable paywall but good fun was had with popcorn and red and green food dye. Of all the new combinations of ingredients we tried, this for red […]
An isolated Christmas
t’s going to be seven-ish at the earliest before I’m ready to eat again. I always find Christmas Pudding too heavy, so perhaps a classic Panettone (dried fruit rather than the chocolate variety) would make a good replacement. I had considered making a Panettone bread and butter pudding but I think I’ll have it with custard. Not very Italian, I know, but I love custard and as I’m cooking for me and me alone, custard it shall be!
How bad recipes are deflecting attention from truthful debate
All in all, I would imagine you might just about be able to cover the full cost of this for ten pounds, if Aldi does sell a small chicken for £2 at all. Not being near enough to Aldi myself to just pop in, I rely on memory, which suggests that £3-4 is more likely. There are utensils to factor in. Do you have roasting tins, a stock pot, a reasonably good knife? Come to think of it, do you even have an oven and a hob?
Afternoon tea and fragrances at the local virtual xmas market: Part 4
You, me and Afternoon Tea is part of the local virtual xmas market, which has helped the business to reach a wider audience through facebook.
Add some sunshine to your breakfast.
Plum jam is not just easy to make and deliciously fragrant, it looks so vibrant it’s just what’s needed to brighten up your breakfast table.
Easy tuna and vegetable lasagne
This is not an exact kind of recipe; it’s more just some ideas to try out. I kind of started this dish as a way to use up some vegetables and then kept on adding…You can substitute as much as you want. If you want it to be veggie then leave out the tuna and […]
Buttermilk scones for Bilbo’s birthday
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” (The Hobbit, JR Tolkein)
Elderberry Jam: wild and wonderful!
Be patient and confident if you can. It does take practice. However, the good news is that it can’t really go wrong. Thick jam and runny jam are both lovely!
A simple sourdough loaf
Sourdough produces the most fantastic bread and once started you’ll love the results so much you won’t want to stop. (Recipe)
Dough for Maggie’s
It started in March. As lockdown started and panic began to take hold, I could not get flour anywhere. Every supermarket had been stripped clean, no wholemeal, no rye, no plain white, nothing. I have always made bread for my family in a bread machine (which, by the way, is awesome and nothing to be ashamed of […]