ianpspurs
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Just ditch the sausage meat - maybe need the bacon but it shouldn't spoil things too muchOr maybe pre-cook the sausage meat?
Just ditch the sausage meat - maybe need the bacon but it shouldn't spoil things too muchOr maybe pre-cook the sausage meat?
What kinda person thinks cooked avocado is wrong but like cats - sheesh. Pull yourself together@DCUKMod I can’t get past cooked avocado. It’s just wrong lol! But the concept and presentation appear brilliant! HOWever... the avocado is peeled or not? Can you imagine trying to make bacon stick to a teeny tiny greased pig?
@Goonergal sometimes I’m paying attention! Isn’t what you just described a scotch egg?
@BibaBee oh lordy I have a perfect(ly bad) record with cats any color but white or black. Teeth and claws. One now, 15 soon, is morbidly obese and has horribly painful arthritis. I’ve had to make him a custom carrier out of two rectangular laundry baskets sewn together with rope at the “hinge”. He still can spread-eagle his legs so that he won’t fit in.... and forget towels. They are just too fast for us, and Mr ZF is rarely there to help. He got blood all over his dress Oxford shirt this morning and it was one of the newer ones! Oxyclean will rescue us. Once in the car they mostly go stiller. Mr B’s lunch looks very elegant!! All those choices. Like I imagine tapas to be.
Or maybe pre-cook the sausage meat?
Hmmmm I'd eat them all separately - raw sliced avo, cold (or warm) sausages and a slightly soft yolk cool boiled egg.
Yes!
I’m afraid my Phaffometer was registering off the scale with all the complicated recipes mentioned above.
And goodness, your Mum’s recipe sounds delish.
Has anyone made their own kefir and/or kimchi?
After reading about the health benefits of having a diverse gut biome (and promising Mr C to increase my carbs a little bit) I've ordered some kefir grains and some kimchi spice mix - and I'm hoping that someone here will have nice (but very simple) recipes for them that doesn't include daikon radish. I'm also wondering how the finished products affects BG?
Also (sorry, lots of questions) does adding any flavour to the kefir reduce/stop it being good for the gut biome? And... how do you keep the grains when they aren't in use (and for how long maximum)?
I think @Brunneria has been known to knit kefir too.
Yes, I make both kefir and kimchi.
I have milk kefir grains sat in milk in the fridge while I am away so will need to warm them up on my return and get them back into production.
I recently bought water kefir grains but they are for when I return from holiday.
A good place to start is this website: https://happykombucha.co.uk/collections/live-kefir
Lots of information and you can buy grains from them.
For kimchi, I just use a quick recipe:
https://www.copymethat.com/r/gGKa6sQ/quick-kimchi/
Yup
Have some kefir grains in cryogenic suspension in the freezer depths, as we type.
There are some fantastically detailed kefir sites out there, and some excellent kefir you tube vids.
We got a bit kefired out, and the wee grains just got bigger and bigger and more muscular, and I couldn’t give them away to compensate for the humungous population growth. And they all needed feeding with more milk. And Tesco’s ran out of organic full fat milk, and I didn’t want to hurt them with non-.org milk. And I felt like a murderer when I put any in the bin. And Mr B went on kefir strike, the wimp. Some nonsense about 2 glasses a day being enough, but he didn’t want to live on the stuff.
It all got a bit stressful.
So I put them into hibernation to ease my guilt.
And now you have reminded me of it all...
Just so long as you didn't give them names...
So, they need organic full fat milk. I don't mind organic - its the full fat bit I have problems with. So what does kefir taste like?
No kefir as yet. Did make a lacto fermented version of kimchi using up vegetables from our garden. Dill and garlic flavour suited me best. I really like vinegar of almost any kind but Julie is an oddity she no likey vinegar.@Listlad piccolo is also called “flauto piccolo”, little flute, but in Italian the instrument is an ottavina, as it sounds an octave higher than the C flute. I’m glad the small gelato cone isn’t called “grande”, as they seem to do at Starbux!
@ianpspurs I can always count on you to perk up my morning with a good laugh! Thanks!!!
My mom used to serve raw, nicely ripe, avocado slices as a treat salad. We didn’t like them and she never made us eat them, unlike Any Other vegetable. “All the more for me!”, she’d say. I don’t remember when I came to love them.
@Chook I know @ianpspurs makes kefir. Hope he’ll give a tutorial! Speaking to flavoring of probiotics in general, what I know is from personal experience. I have to take a giant one-time dose of antibx before teeth cleaning or other dental procedures. I eat it with yogurt, having loaded up on yogurt the day before as well. It can be sugar and flavor loaded or plain - they all have the same effect of keeping the drug from trying to drill its way out of my stomach. Ditto if on a longer course for infection.
I've seen that too. You can also egg dip and crumb it although it's more difficult to keep the avocado halves together.Just whilst it crossed my mind a moment ago, an interesting recipe video cropped up on my Facebook feed the other day.
Soft/medium boil and egg and pop into a bowl of iced water to cool quickly. Whilst the egg is cooling, halve an avocado, lengthwise, and remove the stone. Enlarge the stone "dent" a bit, to make it egg shaped.
Carefully peel the boiled egg and put the peeled egg into the avocado indentation. Close the two avo halves together again.
Wrap avo in streaky bacon, to hold it together and cover the avo flesh.
Fry the bacon until it is to your preferred level of crisp.
According to the vid, when the avo is cut again, the egg should ooze it's yolk.
It'd be rather too much avo for me, and it wouldn't be a preferred option for MrB, but I thought it might suit somebody on here.
Is that the Wheat Belly author?Dr Davis’ all purpose baking mix - excellent, just found in on the inter web.