Friday night started with the always excellent Phil Beer and Miranda Sykes at the compact and bijou Nailsea Folk Club. A stonking set, enjoyable as always.
Saturday I nipped (or popped) up to the farm shop, and bought 1 orange, pork, dried apricots to make supper for self and frends. I wanted leg of pork, but they didn’t have any; the butcher asked what I was going to do with it, and when I said “casserole” he produced masses of offcuts and charged me 6 quid. We got 9 generous servings out of it, so that was pretty good! I did pork with apricots and pears, followed by molten chocolate puddings. Spent the afternoon cooking that lot, plus a banana bread, as we had some bananas going over.
Nice evening with Pat’n’Dave WANOLJ.
Sunday I steamcleaned the bathroom and most of the tiles, especially the grouting. Then I put a market stall’s worth of veg through the food processor for later cooking, and constructed an excellent fry up of chipolatas, black pudding, field mushrooms, fried potato, bacon from a friend in Moray, fried egg and baked beans. Then we watched the first 4 episode of West Wing, while consuming tea and banana cake, and groaning due to overindulgence. After that, we turned some of the veg, together with 4lbs of Dexter mince, into bolognese sauce. The plan to make soup from the rest, and some duck stock from last weekend, had to wait, as the soup pan had been pressed into service for the bol.
Supper consisted of crispbread with Port Salut, and another chocolate pudding (there was some left over, you see, and it would have been criminal to waste it), and another 2 episodes of WW. Which is just as good as I remember it.
Nice weekend, feel better now.
Oooooh, hungry now!
Where do you get your vanilla extract?
I seem to have terrible trouble getting hold of any nowadays. I did an ASDA home delivery shop yesterday and they didn’t have the kind I like; they don’t have it in Morrisons, either.
I don’t really want to buy it from Lakeland because of the postal charges.