Tea? (Part 1)

[Milo]

Tea?

 

[tdr1nka]

Don't let him throw a lumpy rolled-up carpet into the whole when you're not looking!

When I dug over my garden I discovered 6 buried bags of builders rubbish!
Once I'd removed it all my garden was 2" lower!

*now fearing buried carpet*

 

[wafflycat]

I've been busy in the kitchen today. Boiled large ham. From the stock I've got some pease pudding underway and a large cauldron of soup using up loads of veggies & lentils. The ham will be partially devoured later once I've roasted it off with a honey & mustard glaze and do lots of hot veggies to go with it. Once everything is done, it's cooled and goes into the fridge to be used over the next week.

 

[longers]

Ooh, maybe you can answer this question for me then please?

What's pease pudding? Does it have peas in it?

Will you be having cauliflower cheese with the ham?

 

[wafflycat]

Pease pudding is a puree traditionally made in Geordieland from the stock produced from boiling a ham and yellow split peas. After that, the details of other ingredients vary from household to household. Some use vegetable stock, garlic, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, butter, onions...

I make mine in the oven - low heat - long, slow cook. Some folk like a quite sloppy mix like a thick soup, others a stiffer miz, some a solid one you can slice. Some like it entirely smooth, some prefer to have some unbroken split peas still visible in it.

It's traditionally had in a ham & pease pudding sandwich, using white stottie cake as the bread. I like it hot, as an accompaniment to hot roast ham.

It is very filling.

Oh, and no cauliflower cheese today.

 

[wafflycat]

Had some of the soup for lunch. Very flavoursome. MrWC & I had seconds!

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Does that mean digging in the air above the ground? Sorry my sense of humour is VERY warped today.

Mornin' all, just a quick cuppa before I go and help a friend dig over their allotment!

 

[Baggy]

When I dug over my garden I discovered 6 buried bags of builders rubbish!
Once I'd removed it all my garden was 2" lower!

*now fearing buried carpet*

We found some wraps of smack under the floorboards in my old flat
I didn't get round to digging the garden over...probably just as well!

 

[Speicher]

Does that mean digging in the air above the ground? Sorry my sense of humour is VERY warped today.

I wondered about that, but I resisted the strong temptation to make that comment. (My sense of humour is usually very warped - factor three).

 

[Milo]

A mate of mine was squatting this place in Shoreditch. When they were doing some work to make the fireplace work they found a bag with 300 tabs of acid in it.

 

[Night Train]

I was working as a project worker for a housing association hostel and had to check on a leaky bath in a void flat. On removing the bath panel I found a huge bag of wraps, tabs and injection paraphanalia. Had to call the police to have it removed.

 

[wafflycat]

The day's cooking of pease pudding, lentil & veggie soup...

plays havoc on the *musicality* of the nether regions. Then in the evening meal one of the veggies was brussels sprouts.

Oh dear.

Still, it cuts down on the need for central heating.

*parp*
*parp*

 

[wafflycat]

Morning all! Just finishing a mug of tea & slice of bananananananananana topped toast.

 

[Landslide]

Morning campers!

Waffles, you're sounding much better - the lurg all cleared up?

 

[wafflycat]

Morning Landslide. Lurgy *almost* gone. Temperature back to normal, less coughing but still plenty of nasty gunge in the sinuses & throat.