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Wow,
Not sure whether I should blush after that epithet.
I’m pleased my stories amuse but wish to point out they are not funny, just a statement of how things are on my planet :)Many thanks for your tale of woe and domestic discord, I hope we can hear more ‘Highland Tales and that this is not “That’s yer Lot” from the Lady of Shallot .
Well you egged me on there Food pun intended.
A Romantic Diner No.1 c1968
I remember the first time I prepared a romantic meal for my girlfriend, we were both eighteen and my parents were away for the weekend. We were alone at last.
I went to Birmingham’s Rackham’s Store to get us something special, something romantic and under a fiver. I intended to prepare a three course meal for the love of my life. I decided to do Avocado Prawn cocktail which was to define the 60’s and for the entree Pheasant in red wine. The sweet would be something I had seen on Television but had not yet tried, it looked delicious; Bird’s Angel Delight. She would be impressed.
I bought the largest Avocado and a tin of Prince’s Prawns and a tin of Baxter’s Whole Pheasant in red wine. The tin was almost as big as the cylinder on a Goblin vacuum cleaner.
I looked through Mom’s Bero cook book for recipe for the avocado and was disappointed not to find it mentioned but considering how new it was to Britain I decided to use my initiative and to kill two birds at the same time; I boiled it as if it were a goose egg. I placed the tin of pheasant and the avocado into our largest saucepan filled it to the brim with water (omitting salt) and brought it up to the simmer. I made a light piquant sauce for the prawns with some salad cream and a dash of tomato sauce. When I removed the avocado from the boiling water I realised I had made a mistake obliviously in my inexperience I had over cooked it, an easy mistake to make, it had turned to mush and gone a very, very dark. Even when the prawns were arrange and covered in pink sauce it failed to look appetising. Oh well, we would do without and go straight to the main. I had turned the Baxter’s tin over a few times to heat through the parts which were too big to be immersed and after an hour felt confident that it was ready. Mom had taught me that to make sure the contents of a tin were cooked you should always boil until the label comes off. I had another half an hour before my girlfriend was due so placed a tin of new potatoes and a tin a Morton processed peas in the water. I prepared the Angel delight and poured it into two wine glasses, opened a bottle of Asti Spumanti to release the gas and stop the bubbles from tickling our noses. I turned the gas fire on in the back room and found two part candles which we kept for power cuts, lit them and placed them on matching saucers. Suave eh?
The moment arrived and she came in wearing her favourite paisley Mary Quant look a like, a bit like Cathy McGowan, but accessible. I ushered her to her seat sweeping the newspapers to the floor (mom kept a tidy home and all rubbish was either under the table on chairs or under the sofa’s cushions)
I server the first course, neither of us liked the avocado and thought its reputation was greatly exaggerated the prawns were okay though. The pheasant was cooked to perfection the meat so tender it fell off the bone unfortunately whilst it was still in the tin. As it slid out onto the plates it pushed the tinned potatoes to one side artistically and mixed well with the processed peas. We both eat in silence. I’ve never seen this combination since, not even Ramsey has tried this combination maybe I should suggest it. I’m sure she was well impressed.
We enjoyed the Asti but the Angel Delight was best. I always thought of my girl as Angel Delight after that day ;)Thank goodness you choose that number PB are aware that 11 is the most unlucky number there is; so 111,111 crickey watch out Sir my prayers are with you
sharongooner,
You may find this of interest, (have your sound on)
The devil made me do it.
No problem Bunny
Bunny I hope you don’t mind me calling you Jessica (for oblivious reasons) thank you for the welcome.
Cath,
If the suggested links are a little arduous to navigate try this one”
http://www.christianaid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/031111p.htm
Morning Cath,
I have a couple options for you to consider:
http://www.practicalaction.org
This helps to provide a family with a ‘Donkey Plough’ suitable for a donkey to pull it efficiently.http://www.christianaid.org.uk
‘How to recycle a Goat’ an interesting project which provides a family with loan for a goat, they have to milk from the goat. One of the offspring is used to repay the laon in full leaving the other kids to continue support the family .
Cath
I’ll come back to you tomorrow with the details we do that sort of thing at work instead of giving corporate gifts to people who don’t need then
