Just to get Vernon in a froth - it's supper time

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Some rather dried out pork loin chops from a few days ago in the fridge together with some apple slices that collapsed. Hey, ho - one has to make do with what we've got.

Potatoes are sprouting - so they're going in. Potatoes Boulangere - dead easy if you don't go easy on the onion and ignore the crap about using a mandolin. How the hell you can play a musical instrument while cooking defeats me. Thin slices of onion and potato in alternate layers in a smallish dish. Vegetable stock (chicken is fine) and some thyme, pour over and in the oven.

Fry up a little remaining onion and mash the apple remainder into it. Add plain flour and gently cook for a minute. Add cider (White Lightning is good for park benches, but poor for cooking. Add loin chops and gently bring to a simmer. Transfer to casserole dish and put in oven with potatoes.

Prepare green vegetable - I'm just getting the florets off some calabreese. There's a bit of sage and onion stuffing left over, so I'll cut it into very thin strips and fry them into crisps for a garnish. There's a many apple in the rack, so I'll caramellise it in slices at the same time.

Pudding - Co-Op profiteroles, strawberries and cream.
 
OP
OP
Cycling Naturalist
Location
Llangollen
Sorry Patrick, but @vernon has deliberately gone on tour to avoid just this sort of post. He's somewhere near Flamborough and I'm told that the internet hasn't arrived there yet.

So boil away, he won't be offended.

Blast! I deliberately omitted the fact that the sauce with the pork can be refined considerably by using a hand blender.
 

TVC

Guest
Today we had duck. A crown was on offer at the supermarket, so I purchased the item then butchered the breasts off it. The carcass was then roasted with onion, leek and carrot. Once nicely caramelised I bunged it all in a pot with some chicken stock and boiled it for 20 minutes. After straining it was heavily reduced and red wine added before further simmering down until it was thick and glossy. I cooked the breasts pink snd served with Jersey Roysls and sprouts sauteed with black cured bacon.

No photos were taken, so like all of Patrick's attempts you will just have to take my word for it.
 

snorri

Legendary Member
Tonight for a main course I had a reheated portion of steak mince cooked and frozen earlier from a kilo I'd bought from my local butcher who is supplied from a nearby notable Highland abattoir.. Along with the mince there were Maris Pipers from an Angus farm, Red Tractor assured and purchased from Lidl. Also some sliced carrots from the Co-op of unknown origin. just to bring out the flavours I squeezed a sparing quantity from a bottle of Batts Brown Sauce. A fine meal, mince an' tatties, ye cannae whack it. Do you think people read this **** Patrick?
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
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Some rather dried out pork loin chops from a few days ago in the fridge together with some apple slices that collapsed. Hey, ho - one has to make do with what we've got.

Potatoes are sprouting - so they're going in. Potatoes Boulangere - dead easy if you don't go easy on the onion and ignore the crap about using a mandolin. How the hell you can play a musical instrument while cooking defeats me. Thin slices of onion and potato in alternate layers in a smallish dish. Vegetable stock (chicken is fine) and some thyme, pour over and in the oven.

Fry up a little remaining onion and mash the apple remainder into it. Add plain flour and gently cook for a minute. Add cider (White Lightning is good for park benches, but poor for cooking. Add loin chops and gently bring to a simmer. Transfer to casserole dish and put in oven with potatoes.

Prepare green vegetable - I'm just getting the florets off some calabreese. There's a bit of sage and onion stuffing left over, so I'll cut it into very thin strips and fry them into crisps for a garnish. There's a many apple in the rack, so I'll caramellise it in slices at the same time.

Pudding - Co-Op profiteroles, strawberries and cream.

I'll see your posh shite and I'll raise you a Jaffa cake.

Simplicity beats complexity every time.
 

Scotchlovingcylist

Formerly known as Speedfreak
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The remains of burger and chips.
Not posh or pretty but photographic proof that it exists!
 

Mad Doug Biker

Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
Location
Craggy Island
Stop it! You are making me hungry!!
 
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