OneGuyFromBarlick

Yes Liz, you'll find that after the first boiling there is a lot of froth on the water. That's the salt and nitrates. Pour it off, wash the joint and start again. You'll find you need to inject a bit of flavour in the second boiling. I used vinegar and pepper. Cider and honey with spices would be good.....

Hock ham and beetroot butty for dinner. Sausage butty for tea.... Too busy with visitors for any cooking....

Defrosted the turkey leg I froze at Christmas, will be made into a curry tonight.

The hock ham is lasting well. Ham and beetroot butty for dinner and Ham and St Augur cheese butty for tea.

Have not decided yet - we have been shopping this morning and got well stocked up in case the snow does come - so plenty to choose from.

Beef casserole with suet and mature cheddar dumplings, I always use new potatoes for this as they do not disintegrate before the beef is tender. Also steeped marrowfat peas, these are steeped 3 times as opposed to cooked and finish up whole, not mushy.

Cut a frozen blade of two shear in two and popped it in with onions etc and cooked slowly on stove. I had a bacon and egg butty for dinner and put some spuds carrots and cabbage on the stove as well. By teatime I had cabbage and two shear stew and the carrots and spuds so that was what I had for tea....

Had liver and onions last night, tonight will be something with sausages - hubby chose cumberland ones and I chose choritzo ones - should be tasty.

We had bubble & squeak with crispy bacon and a fried egg.

It will chill you to the marrow to hear this, but we had Salad.
Just can't face all that hot food with our weather.
Had a good old laugh tonight watching "The Great British Bakeoff" and the contestants were having no end of problem making Baked Alaska during "heat wave conditions" of 25C.
Ha Ha...try cooking Christmas Dinner when it is 40C+ !
Try sleeping in that temperature too...

We visited the UK during the 'heatwave' in 2013. Our tour guide nearly melted when it got to 28 and said if it got to 30 the next day as was predicted he wouldn't be able to work in that heat. We loved it. I even bought a new pair of thongs in Edinburgh of all places.

We were there same time, Liz.
And it WAS hot. We were in Kent at the time and it reached 28 degrees. Hubby never slows down and is determined to be out all day and see everything he can possibly fit in. He got sunburn, but I didnt.
Different kind of heat over there...very heavy and moist...and it does feel warmer than our 28 degrees doesn't it?

Having experienced both I'd say Maz is right. I've been in almost 50C in Oz and Death Valley and I survived but I doubt if I could stand it here at home.



Two shear stew with cabbage and peas with spuds and carrots X to for dinner and tea. One helping left.... Might not go to butcher's this morning, too slippy underfoot....

Fish, chips & mushy peas from the chip shop tonight.

I had the last of the two shear and veggies for dinner and two small pork pies for tea. Nuts and fruit for pudding and fillers....

Sirloin steak with onion rings & oven chips tonight.

I boiled spuds, carrots and peas and had it X two with steak pudding for dinner and tea....

Shoulder of lamb, new potatoes, carrots & swede mash, broccoli & gravy tonight.

I grilled three burgers yesterday to colour them and then cut them up and popped them in with a tin of chopped tomatoes, beans, peas and added vinegar and olive oil in addition to the seasoning the let the magic happen with the tomatoes as it simmered on the stove until dinnertime. Just before dinner I added the remains of the carrots and spuds and let it come to the boil. Burger and tomato stew X two for dinner and tea and there's one helping left in a bowl in the fridge....

Grilled six pork sausage to give them colour, cut them up and dropped them in a mixture of onions fried in olive oil, vinegar, beans, tomato concentrate and the usual seasonings and the whole simmered slowly on the stove for a couple of hours to let the olive oil, vinegar and tomato magic happen. Had the last bowl of yesterdays burger stew for dinner and used the cold sausage and tomato as a sandwich filler for tea. I have bread that needs to be eaten! Waste not want not! The sausage and tomato is superb......

The remains of my old loaf were too far gone even for me. It went on the shed roof for the birds so technically not wasted. Will bake another loaf today. Last of Kath's loaf with sausage on for dinner butties. I had some clean red potatoes about my person so made wedges and had them with the sausage and tomato for tea. One helping left for today.

Home made hamburgers, with beetroot relish, for us tonight

Snap! I have beetroot in my sights for later today.....

White hake, new potatoes & parsley sauce tonight

The last of the wedgies and sausage and tomato for dinner. A St Augur and beetroot butty on fresh bread for tea with an Eccles cake for a treat. Fruit as usual....