After failing a couple of roast lamb legs in recent times I went for a rack of pork today with a recipe that I found on Taste.com.au. Looking for as many healthy options as possible (without going OTT) Richard and I rode the 6km round trip to Komorovski Market hoping that the little old ladies in the free section (home grown produce) still had some good veggies and also to lessen the chances of eating at midnight which has happened more than once before. We found the market a lot busier than usual with most isles making you feel like you are in a flooded river full of black coats jostling you for no apparent reason. Unusually on this trip we didn’t run into any really super rude sellers and got what we needed in pretty good time. With back packs full I snapped this quick photo of an old lady making garlic chains to pedal to the rivers of people.
The preparation for this meal was surprisingly simple and not at all messy. Finally dinner was up around 5.30pm with an hours help from Daylight Savings which we hadn’t noticed had kicked in until timing the roast. Probably the last time I’ll be at the market at 9am on a Sunday morning!
The roast pork turned out pretty good. The crackling wasn’t that crackly but then we didn’t eat it anyway as we were going for the healthy option. The 2.4kg rack was turned into a small slither of one rack with a little stuffing and no roast apples. Yummy!
Hi-ho all,
Well apart from the remnants of Hurricane Alex causing havoc in and around Monterrey we are also out of just about anything to make a decent meal from. So as we often do in that situation we chuck anything that has any life left in it into a curry. The coriander seeds were just about to go in when Tatiana noticed a small black bug in the top of the container. On closer inspection there were dozens of them looking for the exit and on closer inspection again there were even more meandering around amongst their incubators!
I Googled them but unfortunately coriander seeds have turned out to be good at warding off many garden bugs so I quickly got sick of filtering through over 18,000 results for black bugs in coriander seeds.
Tatiana questioned if we could just put them out in the sun for a while and let the bugs scatter from the harsh heat but while Alex is with us we are a little short on sun and besides, I still don’t think I’d be all that keen to consume the habitat of quite so many unwelcome little critters. I think I’ll stick to the ground coriander for now and safely dispose of the evacuated seeds and the bugs.
Bon appetit.
Pastry
6 oz flour (168 gm)
3oz butter or margarine (not low fat)
pinch salt
cold water
Add salt to flour
Rub butter into flour (rub with finger tips, keep mixture as cool as possible) until it looks a bit like bread crumbs.
Mix in a small amount of cold water, enough to make a stiff paste.
Roll out on a floured board, using a floured roller (milk bottle OK)
Grease the dish with butter wrapper.
Line dish with pastry
Trim edges.
Filling
10 fl oz cooked, mashed pumpkin, cold or warm, not hot
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
pinch cinnamon
3 eggs
5 fl oz milk approx
4 oz sugar
10 fl oz is about 300ml
Put pumpkin in a bowl, mix in spices, eggs, sugar and enough milk to make it like a thick batter. Pour it into the pastry case. Bake at 190C for about 40 minutes. Stick a knife in it - it should come out clean.
Ingredients
500g of lean minced beef
1 medium onion, peeled
1 medium potato, peeled
2 eggs
1/2-1 cup breadcrumbs or 2-3 slices bread, cut or torn into small pieces (may need more or less)
salt and pepper
Directions
Grate the potato and then the onion in a large bowl.
Add 1 of the eggs and mix with spoon or hands addming the salt and pepper.
Add the mince and the other egg, mix until well blended.
Add the breadcrumbs until the mixture sticks together but is not too dry.
Shape mixture into 4 patties each about 3/4-inch thick.
BBQ or fry the burgers for 10-15 minutes.
I lifted this one from the web and added and changed a few things.
They say it serves four but really it is so yummy that it usually only serves 2! 
Ingredients
6 slices well buttered Bread (actually it takes about 9 or 10.
50g/2oz Sultanas
4 Eggs
25g/1oz Sugar
600ml. Milk
A little extra Sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 170C, 325F, Gas mark 3. Grease a 7.5cm/3 inch deep ovenproof dish.
2. Remove the crusts from the buttered bread and cut into quarters (triangles or squares). Reserve 4 quarters for the top and arrange the rest in layers in the dish, sprinkling the sultanas between each layer. Top with the reserved quarters.
3. In a saucepan, heat the milk to hot but not boiling. In a large bowl, mix together the eggs and sugar then add the hot milk, stirring well.
4. Slowly strain over the bread and fruit, being careful not to dislodge the top layer of bread. Leave the bread and butter pudding to stand for 10 minutes.
5. Sprinkle the bread and butter pudding with a little sugar and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes until the top is browned and crispy.
Serves 3-5 people depending on how good it turns out!
Butter – 3 spoons
Sugar – 3 spoons
OJ – 3 Oz (1/2 a glass)
Vanilla – 1 Tea spoon
Cinamon – 1 Tea Spoon
Combine everything in a frying pan and cook to a marmalade.
Put bananas in until black.
Add Rum 1/4 Glass
Set on fire.
Serve.
Very funny situation yesterday evening for dinner. Tatiana almost finished the washing up complaining that she is glad it’s over, what a terrible job, bla, bla, bla… Then. . . BAM! More work!
After failing a couple of roast lamb legs in recent times I went for a rack of pork today with a recipe that I found on Taste.com.au. Looking for as many healthy options as possible (without going OTT) Richard and I rode the 6km round trip to Komorovski Market hoping that the little old ladies in the free section (home grown produce) still had some good veggies and also to lessen the chances of eating at midnight which has happened more than once before. We found the market a lot busier than usual with most isles making you feel like you are in a flooded river full of black coats jostling you for no apparent reason. Unusually on this trip we didn’t run into any really super rude sellers and got what we needed in pretty good time. With back packs full I snapped this quick photo of an old lady making garlic chains to pedal to the rivers of people.
