She-who-loves-tea is working all the hours that she can (as always) but at least she managed to do her work at home over the weekend which was pleasant for me, having her company, taking time off for the occasional cup of tea and crossword.
Both of us can work with the television on in the background so we had a few cookery programmes on and the occasional football match. I love cookery programmes. Quite often a recipe that one would never dream of trying throws up a tip or piece of information that helps one’s technique for other recipes.
I have often wondered which steak to buy and at last learned a bit about it. It seems that fillet steak is the more tender but rump has the greater flavour. The best therefore is a piece of the best quality rump steak, cooked medium rare. (Make sure you oil the meat not the pan). That way you get the flavour and a relatively tender piece of meat.
If cooking with sea-bass you should ask the fishmonger for line-caught sea bass. Supermarket sea bass is farmed and is much smaller.
Bourbon vanilla pods are the best.
One of the best potatoes for baked potatoes is Red Desirée.
And finally, when cooking meats like bacon leave the fat on and remove it after the meat has been cooked. There is a lot of flavour in the fat and by leaving it on until the meat is cooked the flavour is transferred to the lean part of the meat.
(Apologies to Daughter-who-takes-photos and Friend-who loves-otters. Being vegetarians the meat tips are a waste of time for them!)
To change the subject completely, some of the British football clubs have gone back to wearing striped socks which were originally popular about a hundred years ago. I wonder why that is? And did you know that the reason rugby shirts had horizontal stripes was so as to make the men seem bigger and heavier while soccer shirts had vertical stripes to make the players look lean and swift. Just one of the many useless facts I’ve picked up over the last few days.
That’s about all for now – hope you have a good day,
Your back in true Rambling form. Hurrah.
ReplyDeleteI still prefer fillet steak. It's tender succulence is the perfect vehicle for my bearnaise sauce.
Your "useless facts" (which I consider more interesting than useless, by the way) might come in helpful at one pub quiz or other - one of these days, my team and I are going to come first and not dimple about on 2nd and 3rd places...
ReplyDeleteRegarding the line-cauhgt sea bass; well, I think in the age of serious overfishing and our oceans being in danger of becoming so polluted and with so many species on the endangered list and while the whole idea of eating animals becomes more and more disputable, eating farmed fish seems a sensible thing to do.
Glad to have you back in the 21st century. No problem about the meat tips - the others were interesting. I wonder if the sea bass population would be in trouble if we all bought line-caught fish. Not that I've ever bought sea bass, but I'm trying to be more conscious about where things come from these days.
ReplyDeleteScriptor, I LOVE useless facts -- they're my favourite kind!
ReplyDeleteSo good to see you back in print again. As I said, yesterday, we've missed you!
Good luck to Jo, and tell her not to work too hard. It's good to be busy, but she needs some down time to recover too.
Sending hugs to all three of youa nd to Meek the kitty, Canadian Chickadee
PS - the word verification today is "wenderi" -- my definition: word, noun, meaning a jaunt without real purpose, unlike a safari which has a goal.
Have a great day!