50 Things To Do With Fresh Sorrel

I have these leaves growing in the garden and on the allotment. They survive all weathers, you get crop after crop, but what to do with them? Look for the Woody Allen reference in the article.

50 Things To Do With Fresh Sorrel | Chocolate & Zucchini.

Barrel Aged Cocktails taste the oak notes

 

There you are thinking your cocktails quickly and freshly delivered from the bar to the lips. This time they’ve sat in a wooden barrel for at least six weeks, or longer.

Aged Cocktails Gain in Popularity – NYTimes.com.

The Kids Are Home, Hide the Veggies

 

 

The Kids Are Home, Hide the Veggies! « Eclectic Edibles.

Worth reading, see link above. I liked the phrase “Here’s a radical thought: don’t hide children’s vegetables. Instead, let’s serve them well-cooked, healthy vegetables and then, like adults, make sure they eat them.”

Here is a top tip from someone I know we runs a successful day nursery for kids whilst there parents go out to work. Kids will eat anything if it cut up small enough. Having seen his shopping those kids are getting lots of fresh organic veg & fruit.

 

Tasty tofu & tempeh

 
Outsource your blogging to someone else, especially if you don’t feel up to typing thoughts for reasons of tiredness, laziness and forgetfullness. Did a bit of teaching of “Tofu and Tempeh” – those versatitle soya products that orginated in the East.

It’s reported here Cracking Cooks: GUEST BLOG: Tasty tofu & tempeh. Two top tips about tofu…One, there is no tradition of tofu in the West so you can create and flavour it how you want. You are never going to shock anyone. Two, it’s about water content in the tofu. You either want it in – soft cheesecake or cold with grated ginger and scallions, or you want it out – crispy, chewy and chunky.

 

 

 

 

Sensible snacking

Always enjoy these sessions with the seniors. They are a lively bunch and always ask good questions. Then off I ramble with some story about the food. The last event was blogged by Avril who did most of the cooking whilst I did the spiel. See the link below

Cracking Cooks: GUEST BLOG: Sensible snacking.

Who’s been eating all the pies?

An online survey of 25,000 supporters by NHS Choices has revealed who really has been tucking into the pies.

The top 10 teams with a percentage of overweight fans are:

1 Stockport County 61.3%
2 Rotherham United 58.3%
3 Hereford United 57.9%
4 Macclesfield Town 57.8%
5 Cheltenham Town 57.5%
6 Plymouth Argyle 56.8%
7 Southend United 56.7%
8 Hull City 55.4 %
9 Millwall 54.5%
10 Coventry City 53.5%

via Millwall – Who’s been eating all the pies?.

The healthiest in the survey, and it is only a survey is fans of QPR.

Disappearing Damsons

Damsons spotted in New Mills

In conversation t’other day and bemoaning that we never see white blanched celery anymore. The list grew into where are the damsons? What happened to fresh yellow flesh grapefruit everything is pink these days? When did you last see bilberries, or iceberg lettuce?

Next day I was in New Mills, Derbyshire. A pretty little stone built town in the hills. There on a market stall outside the local Spar shop amidst the peppers and potatoes were damsons, and yellow grapefruit. Possibly my shop local policy has me thinking that varieties don’t exist commercially anymore when actually they are still on sale.

Patrick Moore’s Space Snacks

Basically the food is bobbins and you wouldn’t want it on your 5 year round trip to Mars. But, hey ho the sandwiches ran out after 36 hours and there are no service station breaks.

Video from Unicorn Co-operative Grocers

Couldn’t think of a snappy headline. Anyway the story is Co-operatives Fortnight is on the UK (19th June – 3rd July) and the local co-operative grocers have made a fun video. That means no dialogue, speeches but dancing and messing to show how fun grocery and co-operatives can be. I think they get their message across in the two minutes. Enjoy.

Links
Co-operative Fortnight
Unicorn Grocery

Vegetarian Butcher

The orange colour is a clue to where this is. Website is useless apart from this picture.
De vegetarische slager.