Cooking
Christmas Cake – Part II
Back in October (before Goldman Sachs Sunk became PM), part 1 of the 2022 Christmas Cake creation was published, see here. Since then our new leader has shown himself to be nothing more than another [more…]
Cooking
Cooking
Cream of Lettuce Soup – Cooking for numpties and the terminally depressed
Cream of Lettuce Velouté de Laitue Nota Bene: all translations into French are intended for you to impress your guests and make them believe they are dining at a posh restaurant. You will be henceforth [more…]
Cooking
The Christmas Cake
It’s a somewhat inclement Sunday morning approaching the end of October, the lawn which just a few short weeks ago was dead and brown is now lush and green but under an inch of water [more…]
Conservatives
A View From The Greenhouse; Tha..Tha…That’s All Folks!!!
It’s that time of year again, the strawberry beds offer up the odd lusciously red but sad, sour, berry. The courgettes are having a final spurt. The tomatoes, apart from the odd couple of plants [more…]
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21st Century
A View From The Greenhouse; Murder Most Foul
It’s that time again; when we get so far into the season it’s hard to think of “interesting” things to write about where vegetables are concerned, that I haven’t already mentioned at least half a [more…]
Cooking
Plum Bread and Butter Pudding
Fisherman’s luscious lardy cake recipe reminded me of this one William posted a few years ago which some of the many newbies to GP might like to try. Plum Bread and Butter Pudding (Not for [more…]
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New Adventures in Low Carb – Part 3
As most Puffins will know (based on my incessant posting of food photos), I have been on a keto/low-carb journey. The 24th of July marked the first anniversary of my adventure, so I thought I’d [more…]
Cooking
Lardy Cake
Ingredients 1lb / 450g of Strong Bread Flour 1 tablespoon of Lard 3 teaspoons of Dried Active Yeast 1 teaspoon Salt 1/2 a cup of Superfine / Castor Sugar 11 fl oz / 300ml of [more…]