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In America there is something called Robert Redford Cake.....much as I love him ...........why ?


Here there is Fidget Pie

Rumbledee Thumps

Bubble and Squeak

Lancashire Foot

Neeps and tatties

I'll leave it to you now

p.s. I've got a rather tatty now book that was printed by the Daily Mirros during the rationing times in WW2 that was my Mums. It was originally a cartoon like food thread

I do happen to love oysters and when we lived not far from Colchester in Essex I always looked forward to the Oyster Festival.

OK so I do eat them here when in season but OH does not like them.

And yesi do also like Mortadella but not every week!

I like the challenge of the most bizarre cake or dish name so going to put my thinking cap on.

Still waiting for an answer about the oldest cookbook. Will post mine later today.

14.58 hrs Spain

Ha Ha Ha Persie.....perhaps we should see which one of us on this thread can come up with the most bizzare cake or dish name ?

Greenfingers

You will have us cooking rocky mountain oysters next...

Bridget probably has them on a regular basis but just remember sometimes " the Bull,,, he wins"

Persie

Hope evverybody enjoys the Corned Beef Hash as much as we did. Yes my Mum used to do Bubble and Squeak with Corned Beef. We had a Dutch friend years ago who use to call it Cornered Beef, and someone else who called it Mexican Donkey.............talking of that do any of you know Mortadella sausage, very Italian but nice, apparently tha used to be made of donkey UGH.........

Sorry for posting so often today. A silly but hopefully fun thought went into my head a moment or two ago...I wonder who has the oldest Cook Book? I will check mine and be back later11.01 hrs Spain

Persephone, CONGRATULATIONS on being the first person to write on page 24!

I never believed we would still be placing new recipes for so long, well done everyone, and I feel very proud of each person who shares their tips and recipies.

I must discover how to print them all and put into a book form, so any advice on this will be most welcome. I need to have a title so please post your suggestions,

10 .58 hrs Spain ;-) :D

When my husband was driving a truck in the north west of West Aust some years ago he picked up a German lad hitch-hiking and this young lad cooked a corned beef hash over a camp fire on the side of the road for him one night. German style.
He just chopped up a tin of bully beef (known as tinned dog over here ) and fried it up in oil with a chopped onion and then had a couple of eggs stirred through it so that it was coated with egg. It is quite nice and quick to do.
It was a very long way between roadhouses that sell food, drink,ice,showers , petrol and diesel then and hardly any towns so it was necessary to be self contained while on the road..

I have found a recipe that you might like if you can buy smoked fish.

Kedgeree.

I found this recipe in a Woman's Illustrated sometime in the early fifties. It was given by a columnist who used to write uplifting little articles about people he interviewed and this is what Mrs. Somerset Maughan used to serve at her Wednesday afternoons At Home .

1 cup of cooked haddock, 1 cup of cooked rice, 4 tabsps butter
l med. onion sliced and chopped, 1 tabsp sultanas, washed in water and drained or just soak them tnen pour the water off.
2 hardboiled eggs with the whites chopped roughly and the egg yolks sieved.
Method.
Cook and flake the fish removing skin and bones.
Cook onion till transparent in butter in a large saucepan.
Add the cooked rice and drained sultanas in the rest of the butter till it is all absorbed and nice and hot.
Stir in the flaked fish and chopped egg whites and cover closely.
When it is all nice and hot put on the serving dish and spread the sieved egg yolk on top. Serve at once.
It can be frozen if you leave the eggs out and add them just before serving.
Adjust the quantities to suit yourself. The butter gives it all a nice taste and it looks very pretty in the serving bowl.

I have not done corned beef hash using tinned corned beef. Tinned corned beef sells well here in NZ amongst the Polynesian people - they call it : The Hellabys" because that is who makes it. I find it a bit salty my dad used to often do it with left over cooked cabbage and stir in tomato sauce and put a mashed potato on top.... so instead of bubble and squeak leftovers he would add the tin of corned beef. I think the way you have done yours Greenfingers and having the potatoes in it along with the onions etc they would absorb that saltiness.
We will have ago at it... I generally use left over corned beef and make two versions I cube the ordinary corned beef and chuck in whatever veg I feel like but mine has cubed pumpkin and he doesn't eat that. I poach the egg to put on the top and I have the fried tomatoes in halves done separately as well. It is how I have had it in a restaurant that I liked and have used their ideas.

And Bridget I often make a paella to take to parties - it is easy and goes down well. The other thing I take his cubed potatoes roasted with bacon and garlic and herbs in oil. Last time I took this to a street party and it was the first thing to disappear, and it was the most popular at a timeshare place we stayed at once and we had a meet the other guests by the pool BBQ. That was such a cheap holiday at a resort place - the people who owned the timeshare could not go and asked at my daughter's work if anyone would like to buy it for very little money and when none of them did we jumped at it and had a fantastic week.

Persie who will try the lemon sausages and that Braytoisse looks really good.... I am going to have to go back through this thread and do some copying and pasting. Will use the other PC though this one has a tizzy fit trying to copy, though I found it will copy to e-mail page quickly and then to a word document but won't travel direct the downloading swirls and whirls and then says can't do and needs to restore etc. I don't have microsoft word on here it is some other thing which can be quite daunting at times.

Green fingers your message has arrived just in time as the people we went to tonight are coming for a BBQ tomorrow afternoon, good idea about looking back ,

Had a great evening with a Spanish chap cooking a great paella, with seafood and rice, yum yum, I am never going to loose weight !!

I will also make the 7 layer salad

Will be back tomorrow

23.40 hrs Spain

Yes we had the pork again on Saturday it is a good recipe..glad you have all liked the receipes

7 layer salad

shredded lettuce,
4oz peas forzen but defrosted
bunch shallots chopped finely
4 sticks celery chopped fine
7 slices bacon cooked well and then cut up
4 oz cheese grated
4 boiled eggs just the yolk
1 medium carton sour cream and put in chopped mixed herbs or a small jar or bottle of Ranch dressing.

Arrange all the above in this order, lettuce,celery,onions,peas.bacon, crumbled egg yolks and then pour over the dressing.

Lovely with a BBQ

Spanish eyes if you want an all round BBQ sauce, look back thru this thread and find my Barbados Chicken, the marinade for that is great with spare ribs,pork slices and sausages. Tho for the ribs you might want to do more.

3.58 pm Norfolk UK

Green fingers,I forgot to say how delicious your recipe on the first of May, the pork was divine.,

Mustard & Lemon sausage was delicious, definitely a new delight in my house so thanks to Greenfingers.

I now have a new request. It is BBQ time here and this is not my strength in cooking...black saugages are what I am most known for! , we have a charcoal BBQ for cooking sooo please can we have some recipes. Thank you.
09.17hrs Spain

The Corned Beef Hash was great so I will share

1 x 340g tin Corned Beef cut into cubes, 1 large onion peeled and chopped,200g frozen peas,200g frozen sweetcorn, 300g cherry tomatoes cut in half, 4 TBsps semi skimmed milk , 4 TBsps fresh chopped parsley, 500g Small new potatoes cooked and then cut in 1/4s. SERVES 4 so also 4 eggs fried when serving and optional

Heat small amount of oil in a wok and cook onion for about 10 mins until lightly golden., then add potatoes and cook until they are slightly golden, then stir in corned beef and cook for furthe few mins. Stir in peas, sweetcorn and tomatoes moisten with milk and add the parsley. Serve at once top each portion with a fried egg. YUMMMMMMMMMMMm

Glad your blessing went OK. I finally made the Lumberjack Cake at the weekend, its very nice but as I used desicated coconut on the top, it probably wasn't quite the same. However I plan to use less butter for the top next time and leave the coconut in the milk for a while until it soaks it up a bit and then melt the butter with it. Am trying a new corned beef hash recipe tonight so wil post what happens

Byeeeeeeeeeee :D

Hello everyone

Well we are home now and very tired but it was a wonderful trip and the setting for Ar,my son and his wife, having there Blessing was truly amazing . I not that there have not been many messages so hope that you are all well.
I am now doing the washing whilst OH has gone to get Jet and Joe from the kennels. I will be back later as I think they have just arrived.
10.30 hrs Spain

Thank you for adding to this.we are in the UK not far from where I used to work, we set off tomorrow for Winchester or rather just out side.

Just learnt about the earthquake in Spain, how terrible for not only the people who live(ed) in this ancient place but also for the destruction of a very every old area.

I have heard on the radio tha other parts of mainland Europe may also have Quakes...how frightening.

Well just unpacking for the night, then going for a showere and then to the dining room for a premier Inn meal,

I will try to add something each day but not making a promise!

Prayers and thoughts for those in the quake and their loved ones

Bridget

Made a no bake chocolate crunch cake this week

12oz Chocolate
4oz butter
14oz condensed milk
8oz digestive biscuits (I used the whole packet)

melt chocolate and butter together ..I used a bowl in boiling water but you can nuke it
Add condensed milk and beat until creamy then add broken biscuits and mix

line cake tin or as I did a loaf tin spoon mixture in and leave to cool. then fridge for approx 2 hrs until set.

It wasn't what I remembered as a child but I shall be making it again (very soon) as OH adored it <3

Braytoisse

4 Baking Potatoes cooked at 180oc for about 50 mins or until tender. ut potatos in half and gently scoop out the flesh leaving the skins intact. Maash the flesh with 2 ooz butter. Remove rind from 250g size Camembert cut into small chunks and mix in with the mashed potato along with 3 TBsp creme fraiche,2 tsp Dijon mustard and a chunky piec of cooked hame cut into cubes (can use cooked pancetta)plus one beaten egg. Put the baked skins on a tray and fill the skins with the flesh filling; Bake in the oven at 160oc for 10 mins then finiished off under the grill, after grating gruyere over the top (about 3 oz). don't have to use gruyere if you do not like it, any cheese would do. Makes a lovely supper dish for 4 or cut down for 2, or half a spud plus other bits from a BBQ etc.

I was looking for a quick recipe this morning because I want to use my meat before we leave to go to UK next week.

Ingredients
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 bunch green onions
2 cloves garlic, minced
6 pork butt steaks
Directions
1.Melt butter in a skillet, and mix in the soy sauce. Saute the green onions and garlic until lightly browned.
2.Place the pork steaks in the skillet, cover, and cook 8 to 10 minutes on each side, Remove cover, and continue cooking 10 minutes, or to an internal temperature of 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).


Hope you enjoy it

Please remembner that I will be away from early on the 10th to around the 18th. please look after this thread for me. The marinated Courgettes sound delicious, we eat lots of courgettes so will definetly using this recipe when we come home.
Will be looking for BBQ food soon so you have all been warned!!! please can we have some good outside food or picnic style food.....
Take care of yourselves,

:D :-)

12.57 hrs Spain