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Week six, One Local Summer challenge

 
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judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 08 9:30 am    Post subject: Week six, One Local Summer challenge Reply with quote
    

This week's supper comes to you largely courtesy of Chez and Arvo!



After all my wingeing on the pasta-making thread, they took pity on me and lent me their magic pasta machine. Flour (Bacheldre Mill) and eggs (our chooks) go in one end, several minutes of churning go by and then something that looks and tastes pretty much like fettucine comes out the other! Great fun and my poor little rolling pin doesn't have to feel inadequate.

Add to this a rich sauce made with chicken livers (Chez & Arvo's late cockerels), onion, garlic and thyme from the garden, crispy fried lardons (our pigs, etc), a goodly splash of damson gin (friend down the road) and a bit of butter (as usual) for added richness. Serve with broccoli (garden) and it is all rather tasty if I say so myself.



Pud was a mix of strawberries, raspberries and blackcurrants (garden) with a teaspoon of warmed honey (Chez) mixed in, which really brings out the flavour of the berries. Nothing else needed with them.

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 08 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That dish sounds really hearty, yum!

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 08 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I had salad for lunch, honest

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Thu Jul 24, 08 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Looks gorgeous . I love chicken livers, but haven't had any for ages.

woodsprite



Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire
PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 08 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Whilst pottering in town this afters I discovered that I can now add wine to the list of food stuffs that I can buy from within a 50 mile radius! In fact its within 8 miles, so adding this to the 6 micro breweries, cider/perry and applejuice produced on the doorstep, I've pretty much got all the beverages covered too.
I LOVE living here!
https://www.ludlowvineyard.co.uk/

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 03, 08 12:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We just had a lovely ratatouille type dish for lunch, tomatoes, courgettes (of course) and onion all fried gently in loads of olive oil and then finished together with some torn basil leaves

EDIT: For got to say that there was plenty of garlic in there and a splash of white wine vinegar bubbled in at the end.

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