Mrs McB's countdown to adventures with chooks (and Rock Gods)

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, looks super tasty! :j

EssexHebridean

Stripes that looks FAB! Nice one! Also full of admiration for your grocery spends - considering you have DD's pasta habit and two wee small hairy fellas to feed too! :T

rtandon27

Yum Yum - your dinner looks a treat! What an adventure to make your own flat breads - mine always come out of a package, bought from @sd@ during one of our rare trips into town!

Low & Slow roast goose breast with orange glaze & cranberries would be my suggestion - Orange juice can come from a small mixer can & rosehips or goji berries are a good substitute for crans - have even done it with raisins in a pinch!

A while back we were gifted some goose breast of the across the pond type by a *cough cough* ?friend? with a nasty sense of humour! - it's funny now, but at the time I was horrified by the thought of eating it! Didn't realize anyone would actually shoot them!

Oh and don't forget the magical shot of something potent in the glaze - brandy or rum work well!

Pippilongstocking

Hey up chaps cheers for the good thoughts :-)

Tonight's mantra is 'you do not need a flat bread press' repeat several times, I have a decent rolling pin after all. :-)

RT thanks for the idea it's breasts with no skin etc I guess they'll have enough fat in them? Recipe sounds lovely. Thank you for the share :-) I will defrost them later in the week. We grow cranberries t work will see if I can blag some.....They do shoot them here, but it all the time I don't think.

Cheery you always made flat breads didn't you? On that there pancake thing you had....?

EH - I've shoddily gone over budget but £110 for the month with hounds and hungry teenagers isn't bad I suppose.
You and starnac did brilliantly.

Tea for tomorrow is made (reduced) pork mince bolognese which will turn into a few different teas and I must freeze up some of that soup in the fridge.

And I even managed to boil a few eggs for tomorrows pieces. Expensed miles and training tomorrow with free tea/coffee but will need lunch.

Don't need any spends as far as I remember.

Spent £1.20 today on a coffee at the airport with wik, which I could have had fro free half hour later in office bit needs must and all that! So whilst not a NSD a LSD. I've about £5 left in my purse, should last us the rest of the month.

Concert and tea out at a chums on thurs

All good things

Have a great one tomorrow

Karmacat

That looks great, Pippi, very tasty! And oh my RT, orange and cranberries ... lovely! I'm not really surprised goose breasts arrived from over the pond - most Canadians seem to *hate* Canada geese? Have you been over this side too long, or have you always been a city bod? :kisses3: I've deffo been a city bod - the town I live in now is my smallest ever by a couple of hundred thousand people

Pipster - of course you had coffee at the airport! Its only human! And a concert sounds lovely.

troglodyte

That curry looks lush! And the aubergine whatsits sound delish too. Can you grow aubergines successfully as well? In a polytunnel I take it? I tried once, got a couple that were quite small and really bitter. A shame as I like grilled aubergines as a side dish, or moussaka, or best of all is baba ganoush.

rtandon27

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

RT thanks for the idea it's breasts with no skin etc I guess they'll have enough fat in them? Recipe sounds lovely. Thank you for the share :-) I will defrost them later in the week. We grow cranberries t work will see if I can blag some.....They do shoot them here, but it all the time I don't think.

Pips - I'll see if I can dig up the actual recipe & PM or FB it to you - it was quite a lovely flavour with the gamey meat! If I remember correctly, it was done in a covered pot in the oven - slow and low so did not dry out!

Karmacat wrote: »

...I'm not really surprised goose breasts arrived from over the pond - most Canadians seem to *hate* Canada geese? Have you been over this side too long, or have you always been a city bod?...

I must have been really sleepy last night KC - am suprised you made any sense out of my drivel! - while the actually goose was one of the Canadian variety - the so called friend was a British bloke who hunts here - her thought it was mightly funny that I got excited about goose meat until the *connection* was made know! TBH I almost dissolved into tears as I *love* those majestic birds! But then again - free food trumps all so wiped those tears away and got my mind round cooking it!

...and yes my dear I'm a displaced city girl with eclectic food tastes, who hasn't quite adjusted (after many years) to living in the middle of nowhere, where a yellow pepper is considered exotic & no one has heard of tahini, let alone pimenton!...

troglodyte wrote: »

...baba ganoush...

Oh Trog you have my mouth watering now, baba ganoush is one of the yummiest things I've ever had made with an aubergine/eggplant - must be lunch time!!!

Cheery_Daff

Sadly pippi the pancake maker has gone to the great kitchen appliance dumping ground in the sky... just too much of the non stick coating was coming off in every pancake!

but yes, we used to make them all the time although it wasn't as posh as yours looks - more just mixing flour and water and salt, rolling (or prodding, more like) out and cooking for a bit miss the lovely pancake maker, have barely had pancakes for months! (probably no bad thing for the waistline though... :rotfl: )

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Pipster - of course you had coffee at the airport! Its only human! And a concert sounds lovely.

You know how MSE makes us feel about peedie spends we get all shameful sometimes when its the logical thing to be doing sitting and having a wee cuppa rather than dashing off - thankfully our airport isn't pricey

troglodyte wrote: »

That curry looks lush! And the aubergine whatsits sound delish too. Can you grow aubergines successfully as well? In a polytunnel I take it? I tried once, got a couple that were quite small and really bitter. A shame as I like grilled aubergines as a side dish, or moussaka, or best of all is baba ganoush.

Now i've never had this and love aubergine so I must at some point have/make some.

I have grown them in a glass house at work - again bitter - must read up about that................

When I move to the Scottish riviera later this year, I'll probably be able to grow them out doors in the garden :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

rtandon27 wrote: »

Pips - I'll see if I can dig up the actual recipe & PM or FB it to you - it was quite a lovely flavour with the gamey meat! If I remember correctly, it was done in a covered pot in the oven - slow and low so did not dry out!

...and yes my dear I'm a displaced city girl with eclectic food tastes, who hasn't quite adjusted (after many years) to living in the middle of nowhere, where a yellow pepper is considered exotic & no one has heard of tahini, let alone pimenton!...


Oh Trog you have my mouth watering now, baba ganoush is one of the yummiest things I've ever had made with an aubergine/eggplant - must be lunch time!!!

Thank you and we might even be sisters! As I am equally displaced.:rotfl:

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Sadly pippi the pancake maker has gone to the great kitchen appliance dumping ground in the sky... just too much of the non stick coating was coming off in every pancake!

but yes, we used to make them all the time although it wasn't as posh as yours looks - more just mixing flour and water and salt, rolling (or prodding, more like) out and cooking for a bit miss the lovely pancake maker, have barely had pancakes for months! (probably no bad thing for the waistline though... :rotfl: )

Poor pancake maker and yes the recipe for our breads was the same - my 'soft focus' must have made it look a bit posher

We had the great pancake/crepe/drop scone/crumpet debate again this weekend, the subject is almost as contentious as the old neep one.

Why folks can't get their food nomenclature right is always a source of hot debate!