Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

rtandon27

Ha ha it is so cold today that ski jackets are mandatory - they are dependent on the weather rather than the BBQ!;)

The BBQ is free-standing & run on gas - has a burner on the side - and can be closed and used as an oven!

We started using it last year when we moved in as all our boxes were stored in the (large) kitchen but buy the time we'd emptied the kitchen it was mid-winter and we could not do the 5 hour burn off the new oven needs with open windows and doors! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: We do use the stovetop and toaster & microwave so it's not as if the whole kitchen is outside...

Still waiting for the warm weather this year & also have to find the instruction booklet for the oven!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So the BBQ is now habit as much as convenience!:D

Oh - and did I ever mention that across the pond we BBQ in snowstorms? Fingerless gloves are a great invention!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

starnac

RT sorry to be dumb but is "across the pond" here or there? I'm trying to work out where the BBQ weather is :rotfl:

Another possible dumb question - Pippi those sausage and egg muffins. Are you talking real muffins or bread muffins? If real muffins could I have a recipe please?

rtandon27

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Hi Star - here's the joke - I'm here (south Englandshire) & the BBQ weather does not exist (by here standards)...

I'm originally from across the pond - north of the 49th - and though BBQ weather does exist for several months of the year, we are know for BBQing through snow storms...

...old habits die hard...
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pips - another vote for the recipe please!

milasavesmoney

And here I am, way below the 49th, thankful it has been clouded over for the last week so we don't have to turn on our air conditioner! I'm trying to make it until June. Once it's turned on, it will stay on 24/7 until the end of Oct/early Nov. So expensive even though we keep ours turned up an average of 6-8 degrees higher than most people. We cool the entire house with big units on our roof that are vented into every room through the ceiling. We have bill averaging for electricity which spreads that cost through the year.

Pippilongstocking

starnac wrote: »

RT sorry to be dumb but is "across the pond" here or there? I'm trying to work out where the BBQ weather is :rotfl:

Another possible dumb question - Pippi those sausage and egg muffins. Are you talking real muffins or bread muffins? If real muffins could I have a recipe please?

The BBQ weather in the UK seems to be grand for RT - we did last night in her honour have our second. and we burnt a lot less than the first one we had the week before. Bows to RT's die hard BBQing - we almost had jackets on last night!! I'll never be as diligent as you.

Mila - I hope the house stays cool. I bought up some preformed sawdust logs yesterday for half price as they're great fir the fire, we're still lighting the fire in our sitting room most nights, its an old cottage with really thick walls, that room never warms up.

I'm using the french system of 'using up all the old wood and pallets too' I've seen them use on the slopes of the alps when they do bbq's as the cafe's are shut. Its a tried a tested method.

Worked better last night. Although as OH saw the stack of burning wood, he said, (?WT FLIP) I just replied 'its the french way' :rotfl:

I did add some charcoal after. We don't have gas I'm afraid.

The muffins are not very exciting I'm' afraid a rip off of the golden arch establishment, sausage and egg filling. They're pre-bought bread type although there is a grand recipe he.re I've made them a few times and they're good, but if I'm honest not so different to shop bought. I tend to buy shop bought reduced when I see them and bung them in the freezer for the odd time when we think, sausage muffins today methinks.

The filling is similar to that large arched establishment.

A poached egg - we do ours in the mircowave means I can do them without watching them - watched a life hack about it here.

Poached eggs are 1.53 min in - but whole video is pretty fun. And, I did learn some new things.



The sausage is HM.

Pork mince, sage, salt, pepper generous with the sage and the condiments.

Make into large 'golf balls' and squish on a board when you need them around muffin diameter.

Heat pan with butter (or dry fry) and cook til firm.

Once these are in the pan I toast my muffins and also I do my eggs, boiling water into a microwave jug (around half full) and I'll do 2 eggs for 2 mins at 70% power.

Its a sausagey delight.

We do the 'flat sausages' with various spices too DS loves cajun with pork (or turkey mince) but I do prefer sage.

We used some 30p muffins, half a packet of £1 reduced pork mince (you often see it reduced) and sage from the garden/eggs from the hens.

Half a pack of mince made 6 generous sausages, he ate two, I ate one and the other 3 are wrapped and ready for lunches with sliced boiled eggs on them.

I don't know what the golden arches ones cost, but these are lovely and so much nicer.

Probably not the recipe you wanted but hopefully its making more sense now.

Sorry its not more exciting. Just realised it was the 'real muffin' recipe you wanted DOH!!

Twinks may have her delish hobnobs, I have rip off muffins

PS if you're veggie they work amazingly with pan fried mushrooms. Or halloumi

Greying_Pilgrim

Pips - you have without doubt carried orf me mantle of 'domestic doyenne' with great aplomb, and this is now the 'Cook-a-long with Pippi-long-stocking' web show without a doubt Plus you do 'fly-lady too, so a far more comprehensive domestic programme that that available at Greying Towers :T

All this talk of BBQ is interesting, but I'll admit that it is not a style of cooking that has ever piqued my interest - a bit like the slow cooker/crock pot. Whilst I love the outdoors (and *enjoyed* cooking on the gas stove when camping) I never got into BBQing - maybe because it does lend itself more to meat and fish cookery? You can do some veggie bits on the grill bars, but its not quite the same as chargrilling a steak or doing a sea-bass en papillote..........

Keep up the good work, any talk about food and cooking is interesting

Greying x

milasavesmoney

We BBQ about once or twice a month all year round. We have a propane tank that, when empty, can be exchanged at the grocery store. My sweet OH makes amazing steak, chicken, ribs, hot dogs and hamburgers etc on the grill.

I like the idea of using wood Pips. Such a wonderful flavor!!
Your knockoff muffins some really good. My husband loves to get those when we travel. We have frozen brands in the store that aren't bad. I'll bet yours are better that MickyDs.

I'm getting frustrated with my DS2 (lives with us>>Aspergers) over his garden project. He has his own way of going about things that drive my OH and I crazy. We are very patient with him...years of practice...but when it's almost June and the seedlings desperately need to be planted and he's lollygagging around and we can see what needs to be done...frustration!

On a happier note, the new Japanese restaurant was really reasonable and good!

Pippilongstocking

Unceremoniously slides in to say hello - free rhubarb haul from work.

Dogs poorly - long hideous night and a tail of festering snarfed {free}
Crab claws. YEUCH.

Three Walks later and half a bleeding chicken breast, rice
And boiled water he's fine.

Pesky mutts

Catch up
After
Sleep and reset my human.

Xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

free rhubarb haul from work.

Ooooo, you did well. When we went out and about gallivanting to an NT property t'other week, we passed a roadside stall (not NT) and they were asking £3.50 a bunch (prob 8 or 10 or so thin stalks). When did rhubarb get so expensive? Another NT garden had so much growing - it was like a weed -their problem was clearly that there was noone to cut it and pop it in the shop to sell. It was over running the garden, but not a stick of it in the shop ...... Even if they were saving it for the caff, there was enough to make crumble to feed the 5000, twice over ......*sigh*

Hope today sees you feeling mucho more human and able to seize the day

Greying XX

milasavesmoney

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Oh Mila I'm so sorry. I hope that gets fixed soon, that's really hard to wait to hear about.

My friend decided the city police were not going to do anything about the drug pusher next door, so she went to the county sheriff. She was told drugs are everywhere and if she didn't like it she should move.::mad:

I can't find your Tom Yum link. I must be blind and should have bookmarked it.:(