Hallo all! Happy New Week. (Sorry no picture.)
Quick look in, folks - been busy getting ready for my brother and sis in law's visit. I'm very annoyed with myself, cooked a gammon joint and instead of following my own method, baked in oven. Far too salty. Yuk.
HEATHER: Suggest you ply visitors with lots of wine before serving the gammon (but how frustrating for you!).
Good idea, ANNETTE! I have nice Speyside malt warming as we speak - for my brother only as sis in law and I don't partake!
BTW,it wasn't my brother who started up a business, he works ad hoc but is 69. You may have been thinking about my son who opened a whisky shop in 2016.
HEATHER - sorry about the gammon. I know modern hams don't need the hours of soaking and skimming that we used to give them but I think I would still cook a large one half boiled and then finished off in the oven. I still find Scottish food very salty anyway - was reducing salt before we moved here (15 years now!), and still find certain things too salty for my taste! and people-watching in restaurants, I wonder that folk can ever taste the food under all the salt they shake over the plate - before they have even tested it for flavour!
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Yes, OG, I usually cook mine the same way as you describe. Why didn't I? No idea but won't make same mistake again. Agree about salt, I like good sausages but often find them too salty for my taste.
HEATHER: Now I'm thinking that it was your nephew who went to France to start some kind of tech support business...
Food shop this morn, followed by dash to hardware/nursery store for 2 tomato plants; I am weeks late this year, no hope of tomatoes ripening before C-mas. No nanny duty this week (school holidays). Instead Dau & Trio are coming tomorrow for lunch and play. A quick “lick & a promise” cleanup of house before they come. Lunch will be salad & cold meat. Yesterday it reached 30 C with a very loud & long thunderstorm in evening. Despite all the carry-on, only 4.2 mm of rain <sigh>
Annette - My last bus trip for the year is this Sat/Sun, staying overnight in Swan Hill, Victoria.
Hi folks. Dry day and sun is just burning through a layer of thin cloud here. I think we have an indoors morning and then finish cleaning the greenhouse later. All very underwhelming!
We have RAIN! :-)
AQ: Suggest cat's lick and promise wait until after the Fab Four have gone.
FB: Yes, it was a long lunch yesterday (but I have been back some time!)
Friend and I were too busy catching up with news of other mutual friends and family, to make much progress with sorting the world.
Her OH has just had a pacemaker fitted, after some scary episodes.
Hope the Fab Four's visit was not too taxing, AQ.
Looks like a good weekend visit to look forward to. We all enjoy reading about your visits!
A useful amount of rain, Annette?
Not much here for several days. Just cloudy. I keep thinking I can stop watering the containers, but am nurturing the box plants.
Hello to OG, Heather and all.