Do you ever slow cook @RosemaryJackson it's not only a good way to get cooking done before going out but it's also a brilliant way to get gravy. For example today I'm slow cooking a beef casserole. I soaked some dried woodland mushrooms (Waitrose cooks ingredients not foraging - I don't know enough) overnight and then use this as a simple but tasty stock. Put mushrooms and resultant liquid stock into slow cooker with a few veggies, the meat and lots of onion powder, and herbs and spices to taste I use some paprika, garlic and celery salt. I often just use the gravy as it is from the slow cooker as it's so tasty but if you like your gravy thicker you can put some of the resulting stock into a small pan and reduce down. If making a strogannoff type meal - add a dash of cream to the gravy as it thickens it. You can keep remaining liquid from casserole in fridge for a few days and warm in a pan for gravy to go with other meals or freeze. Ideally too you'll have made more than one portion for leftover meals and in leftovers the gravy thickens too.Morning all. Two days running I've stuck to my guns and been really good and today I have had eggs and bacon for bf, will have a pork chop and veg for lunch and perhaps a cheese sandwich for tea. But ohhh, I do miss real gravy. Especially onion gravy. Even more especially, liver and bacon with onion gravy. I'm not as inventive as I used to be, I stick with the tried and tested, it's easier. Coming back to reality from nostalgia, have a great day all.
When I was still cooking desserts for Alistair and Tom, I did make banana omelettes once in a while. Just sliced banana with lemon juice and some sugar, inside a folded over omelette and a dusting of icing sugar on top. They went down well but haven't made them in years.
As you must all be aware of by now, I'm a very docile type of person and I didn't want to keep you waiting.
looks amazing how did it taste ?
I mainly use the Waitrose essential blue antibacterial one - a lot of the moisturizing ones could be suspect as they have things like cocoa butter and honey in. I had a wonderful one as a pressie with christmasy smells but it shot my numbers up so I don't use very often!
I'm with you on eggy sweet things so not joining in with the sweet omelette trial they do look amazing though..It looked better than it tasted
All in all, unless I add something in to transform the "eggyness" of it, not to my tastes at all, I prefer my omelettes plain/savory.
Though I did eat it.
Frozen strawberries always go mushy so yours must have been jam! Very impressed by you not wasting food Im not convinced I'd be brave enough to eat something five years after use by date. Mind you you are particularly daring - with your impressive cold water swimming too.As you must all be aware of by now, I'm a very docile type of person and I didn't want to keep you waiting.
The bag of fruit turned out to be strawberries with a use by date of april 2019, not even 5 years ago so all fine.
I whipped the cream, cut the strawberries, mixed half of the straberries with the cream, and made a thin omelette of two very small eggs and a pinch of salt.
My advice is that you all do the same, it's heavenly!
edit: I don't think it's necessary to wait 5 years, I expect it works just as well with strawberries that aren't out of date.
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