Brainwashed by lunchtime telly…and internet searching… ‘FreeFrom’ Sun-dried Tomato & Lamb’s Kidney Risotto

Poorly with cold and watching Alan Titchmarsh’s lunchtime programme: there was a cooking spot about the less popular meat offerings that used to be part of everyones diet…the long and short of it was a trip to the local butcher and half a pound of lambs kidney (sorry vegans) …cost a staggering £1.78!! so of course some bacon and sausage and mushrooms and green beans next door….the end result a couple of awsome breakfasts and this super risotto…for the squemish take the kidney bits out….the taste is awsome…recipie amended with adding cut green beans and substituting red wine.

It’s so awsome to have so much meat for just over a fiver!! Kids would probably love it with salad and garlic bread…kidney copped up small with no white hard bits…adults a sophisticated lunch or supper…

I’m not sure about liver…over to you…

FreeFrom Sun-dried Tomato & Lamb’s Kidney Risotto

http://www.freefromrecipesmatter.com/recipes/fm_meat/lambkidney_tom_risotto.html

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In the News….

Fedup of hearing about how Greece is a sinking ship…and found this article from 2000.

Greek shipbuilding industry in crisis

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2000/02/feature/gr0002164f.htm

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In the News….

Fedup of hearing about how Greece is a sinking ship…and found this article from 2000.

Greek shipbuilding industry in crisis

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2000/02/feature/gr0002164f.htm

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Own attempt…Bright Food!!

For salad people…if u like stew and dumplings or cottage pie or pastry pies or cumberland sausage this weather, thats yum too…but for le crunchy food bunch…

A warm pineapple apricot cauliflower and brie yummy salad

One pineapple
Hazel nuts
Dried Apricots
Oregano
Cumin
Proper butter
Green French, bobby beans
Brie Cheese
1 Cauliflower

Cut the cauli into small florets and fry…yes fry in butter till golden with a little oregano, cumin and salt.
Chop the beans in half and cook till al dente…
Add chopped pineapple and chopped apricots to a dish with a handful of hazelnuts
Add the drained beans and fried cauli
Mix it all up
Top with chunks of brie, no skin…
Put in the microwave for 1 min..
Munch on its own or with baked potato’s…or anything u fancy ..

Use the rest of the pineapple for a sweet or a snack…

Awsome…and the apricots, pineapple and hazlenuts go well with museli and yog…
Thanks Aldi…

send your fav’s…

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Looking for the best salad recipies

This link is a New Zealand store, so we can’t shop there from the UK, but check their salad recipies to cheer up some dreary winter days…

http://shop.countdown.co.nz/#url=/Shop/RecipeCategory/42%3Fname%3Dsalads http://shop.countdown.co.nz/#url=/Shop/RecipeCategory/42%3Fname%3Dsalads

The page for their salad recipies should look like this….mmm yum…

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Does anyone like Space info anymore….Astronomy

http://www.astronomy.com/Mobile.aspx?view=MobileArticle&id={20B1B1DB-BFF5-49AE-9A67-78ACDA346358}

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Wine does of course come in boxes…

But at Festie’s that takes the wheelbarrow crew to transport…

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Festie Food is traditionally washed down with Lager or Cider

Not necessarily at breakfast of course…but thats because left over can dregs aren’t cool…

It’s not washed down with wine, because you can’t take anything in glass bottles to a festie, and wine doesn’t come in cans…
Coffee is a similar dilema, but tea is not.

Fresh fruit is strange unless you take it with you (tinned isn’t) and veg is available cooked in trays or pots with noodles or rice or spuds with delicious sauces at exorbitant prices…but us worth it for the taste especially if you have been raised on McDonalds and various other types of shredded cooked cardboard.

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Still below zero temp…we all love Festie Food…

So balancing budgets means heating first…
Sunday morning…posh breakfast?? Try a ‘festival favourite’ an alternative to the very posh Eggs Benedict thats expensive as it uses two eggs to poach and more for the sauce for each person….this is a german breakfast adaptation and could let you ski all day.
1 potato diced into 1/2 cm cubes
Two handfuls cooked macaroni
1/2 pt Strong flavoured cheese sauce
Anything else you want to add..
Veggie…smokey tofu, nuts
Carniv…cooked bacon, ham, smoked salmon
Quartered tomatoes
small slice onion v finely chooped
Herbs
Fry the potato’s till crisp and golden, add the cookd macaroni, onion, herbs, tomato, ham or tofu
warm through…put on a plate with kitchen paper to drain…place in an ovenproof dish, add hot cheese sauce…top with parmesan salt pepper…place under a hot grill till the top is crisp
Serve on hot muffins or toast
…whats the german for ‘voila’

Cheese sauce…microwave dessert sp cornflour (not flour its too heavy) with dessert sp butter…mix to a paste, add third pint milk stir bring to boil in microwave, add 2-3 oz v strong cheese back in the microwave to melt it to a sauce…

Cheap and cheerful lots calories very good bfast or lunch with salad for cold winter days…

Festie food because it makes a little go a long way….

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Just right for this blog…

Diamond Jubilee Year…twitter link on the bbc programme

https://mobile.twitter.com/search/#TheDiamondQueen

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