shelley262
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I'm going to freeze this beforehand as my sister is cooking the turkey at her house and bringing it over! So no juices.How did you make the gravy? Ive been thinking about how to do this for Christmas too. I was wondering whether just whisking a bit of xanthan gum into the turkey juices would work.
I'm going to freeze this beforehand as my sister is cooking the turkey at her house and bringing it over! So no juices.
It's a Good Housekeeping recipe;
2 onions, 2 Carrots, 2 Celery sticks (I cheated and used Morrisons frozen soup base which has all three and is already chopped)
A packet of diced smoked pancetta
3 sprigs of thyme
3 garlic cloves in their skins
1 tbsp of olive oil (I used a tiny bit as there was a lot of fat from pancetta)
splash of white wine, 500ml chicken stock
Put all above - except wine and stock - in roasting tin, and put in oven 180 degrees fan. Roast until veg lightly caramelised. If hob proof put roasting tin on stove, mash veg down into pulp. Add wine and stock bring to boil and then simmer for ten minutes. Strain through a fine sieve.
So the thing missing is a thickener as I missed out the flour element. I had a tiny bit of cornflour on standby but just kept simmering it until it 'beefed' up a bit. I then added my own 'elements' for taste like a bit of worcester sauce and pepper. I would have used a bit of cornflour as I'm not following a super low carb diet but I realise not everyone can do this. It was super tasty!
Hi all hope you’ve had a good day at least the sun came out for a bit! Just another days work tomorrow then hoping that I can focus more on family, caring and Christmas stuff! Maybe even shopping for a Christmas jumper @DJC3 ?
Brunch - no time for breakfast up a bit late so got straight down to work - mid morning had one slice of bacon, egg and half slice of Hi-lo toast
Mid afternoon some nuts
Dinner bolognese on bed of mushrooms( had planned to serve on re heated bare naked noodles - half a pack that I’d frozen - but they had turned rubbery so wouldn’t advice freezing them @DJC3 )- with glass of claret followed by raspberry clafoutis and fage yoghurt.
Breakfast: - Water; Mini HIIT session; tea
Dockey : Dog walk; cleaning chickens and running repairs to their roof
Lunch : Coffee with cream
Mid Afternoon: Tea; 30 mins Exercise bike (Left it too late for Nordic walking)
Evening meal: Large salad with avocado and stilton; Large Salmon fillet fried in avocado oil; water
Not really, just doing other things today. At least 1 mug was the 1.5 pints one. (Hoping the random high readings are due to the batteries needing replacing)Not much tea today Ian. Are you trying to cut down after that frustrating 7.4?
I would assume you didn't go on the Star Flyer? The big tall skinny swirly thingy bearing in mind it's been a flaming awful day.today, in the land of the @maglil55 , I think the weather was like everywhere else. This morning, on my way to my conference, I turned on my heel at the front door to go back to my room for my hat. Thankfully, by the time I went for a stroll at lunchtime, the rainmaker had largely stoppe, leaving just a bracing wind.
Today's menu was largely focused on fish.
Breakers was coffee with cream. Lunch was a couple of portions of poached salmon, beautifully cooked, as the remainder of the menu was neither LC nor GF. Dinner was a mahoooosive portion of GF Bouillabaisse. It was lovely.
The conference content was very good, and I learned a lot. The following drinks reception and viewing of some current research work in progress was superb. I had a go at a couple of pieces of interactive "stuff". I made a model of myself, I watched my tongue on ultrasound, during speech, and learned how to make stuff from recycledantics.
More workshops tomorrow .
Tomorrow evening, I will go on the big tall thing with twirly chairs,...... probably!
Not really, just doing other things today. At least 1 mug was the 1.5 pints one. (Hoping the random high readings are due to the batteries needing replacing)
Going back to my barmaid days , Pink Gin was indeed with angostura bitters. The way I was taught was to put a little of the bitters in the glass , swirl it around and tip the excess out. Then add the gin. Going back a bit mind.No mention of angostura on the bottle. Raspberries, strawberries so a bit fruity. And pink Love it!
Hubby is not keen, and I have no plans to convert him
Not really, just doing other things today. At least 1 mug was the 1.5 pints one. (Hoping the random high readings are due to the batteries needing replacing)
I would assume you didn't go on the Star Flyer? The big tall skinny swirly thingy bearing in mind it's been a flaming awful day.
Very frustrating. I have replaced the batteries and now have a slight cold but readings are more normal Thanks.It really must be the batteries or something similar. Based on what you eat, it's hard to see how you would see random high readings. Must be quite frustrating.
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