Day 4 (and Day 5 morning to some extent)
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xenophaneanI think it can be fairly accepted that I eat oatcakes with Venison Paté for lunch, as I've discovered that I actually like them, so I won't go into to much detail except to say that I fear the day I run out of Venison Paté.
For my evening meal, I decided make a change from my normal meals and actually attempt cookery...
Gammon Steaks (dry fried)
1. Put Gammon steaks into a hot, and very non-stick frying pan
2. Fry for a bit, until the meat has changed to a kinda whitish shade
3. Smear on some Rowan Jelly as an attempt at flavour
3. Consume
These were very salty, but the rowan offset it somewhat. All in all pretty nice.
Plain Vegetable Soup
1. Cut up the following: Carrots, Swede, Potatoes, Turnips
2. Bring to the boil
3. Simmer for a further 25 minutes
4. Add some ripped up cabbage and spinach
5. Add salt and pepper
6. Simmer (lower the heat so that it's nearly, but not quite, boiling) for another 10 minutes
6. Mash up with one of those big metal spoons with holes in
7. Consume
On my first try of this soup, it was pretty much my nightmare of vegetarian fayre, it had some flavour, but not much, and I longed for some meat, herbs or sauces. However, after leaving half of it in a sealed pan overnight then re-heating it, the carrots and swede had added considerably more of their flavour, and the soup tasted much better.
As such, I'm amending the recipe to:
7. Leave overnight
8. Reheat, and consume in the morning, whilst under the effect of a mild hangover.
The mild hangover, or Cairn o' Mohr Bramble wine
My friend Suzi invited me over to the pub that evening to do a pub quiz. Now, as you may be aware, we're only allowed to drink two types of alcoholic drink, Fraoch, and Cairn o' Mohr fruit wine. So far I'd found it completely impossible to source the wine, despite many outings to local beer and wine stores. I'd heard that the Auld Hoose did both drinks, but I decided to actually do some research so that I didn't end up on water all night.
The pub confirmed that they did have the wine, but not the beer, so I got out £10 and headed for the pub.
What can I say about the wine? My decidedly novice wine tasting skills told me that it had a very rich fruity flavour with distinct hints of blackberries, and a slightly overstrong bitter edge to it. I quite liked it, although I must admit that I prefer normal red wine.
I've always found that fruit wine has the strange tendency to make you think you're drinking fruit juice, so you drink it too fast. As a result of this, halfway through the pub quiz I was already swaying slightly, and I came up with "Jakarta" and "Jamaica" as countries with the vowel 'a' and no other vowels in their name. I had a mild hangover this morning.
Ah, how I long for Carlsberg.
For my evening meal, I decided make a change from my normal meals and actually attempt cookery...
Gammon Steaks (dry fried)
1. Put Gammon steaks into a hot, and very non-stick frying pan
2. Fry for a bit, until the meat has changed to a kinda whitish shade
3. Smear on some Rowan Jelly as an attempt at flavour
3. Consume
These were very salty, but the rowan offset it somewhat. All in all pretty nice.
Plain Vegetable Soup
1. Cut up the following: Carrots, Swede, Potatoes, Turnips
2. Bring to the boil
3. Simmer for a further 25 minutes
4. Add some ripped up cabbage and spinach
5. Add salt and pepper
6. Simmer (lower the heat so that it's nearly, but not quite, boiling) for another 10 minutes
6. Mash up with one of those big metal spoons with holes in
7. Consume
On my first try of this soup, it was pretty much my nightmare of vegetarian fayre, it had some flavour, but not much, and I longed for some meat, herbs or sauces. However, after leaving half of it in a sealed pan overnight then re-heating it, the carrots and swede had added considerably more of their flavour, and the soup tasted much better.
As such, I'm amending the recipe to:
7. Leave overnight
8. Reheat, and consume in the morning, whilst under the effect of a mild hangover.
The mild hangover, or Cairn o' Mohr Bramble wine
My friend Suzi invited me over to the pub that evening to do a pub quiz. Now, as you may be aware, we're only allowed to drink two types of alcoholic drink, Fraoch, and Cairn o' Mohr fruit wine. So far I'd found it completely impossible to source the wine, despite many outings to local beer and wine stores. I'd heard that the Auld Hoose did both drinks, but I decided to actually do some research so that I didn't end up on water all night.
The pub confirmed that they did have the wine, but not the beer, so I got out £10 and headed for the pub.
What can I say about the wine? My decidedly novice wine tasting skills told me that it had a very rich fruity flavour with distinct hints of blackberries, and a slightly overstrong bitter edge to it. I quite liked it, although I must admit that I prefer normal red wine.
I've always found that fruit wine has the strange tendency to make you think you're drinking fruit juice, so you drink it too fast. As a result of this, halfway through the pub quiz I was already swaying slightly, and I came up with "Jakarta" and "Jamaica" as countries with the vowel 'a' and no other vowels in their name. I had a mild hangover this morning.
Ah, how I long for Carlsberg.
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Date: 2008-04-02 01:23 pm (UTC)Fraoch's not made in Fife, it's from Clackmannanshire (Alloa, to be precise, and fairly close to where it was first brewed). There's the Fyfe Breweing company, mind. And if it turns out that Alloa was indeed once part of Grösses Fife, then you can have Carlsberg, as it's made in Alloa, too.
((Also, not sure if this was answered elsewhere, but is stuff from closer to home than Fife permitted? It seems sort of oddish to pick a region - presumably on grounds of green footprint/food miles - if it's not the one you're in))
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Date: 2008-04-02 02:31 pm (UTC)> is stuff from closer to home than Fife permitted?
We're testing the Fife Diet.
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Date: 2008-04-02 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-02 09:03 pm (UTC)There was a big debate about 'why do the Fife diet when you're not in Fife?' - I think in one of
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Date: 2008-04-02 11:10 pm (UTC)